NATURAL RESOURCES DEF. COUNCIL v. U.S. NUCLEAR REG. COM'N

Nos. 963, 1051, Dockets 75-4276, 75-4278.

539 F.2d 824 (1976)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. The UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and the United States of America, Respondents, Allied General Nuclear Services, et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1976.

As Amended August 12, 1976.

Petition for Rehearing with Suggestion for Rehearing Denied September 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Z. Roisman, Washington, D.C. (Roisman, Kessler & Cashdan, Washington, D.C., of counsel), and J. Gustave Speth, Washington, D.C., for petitioners Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and others.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City (Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Philip Weinberg, John F. Shea, III, and Richard G. Berger, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for petitioner the State of New York.

Peter L. Strauss, Gen. Counsel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. (Stephen F. Eilperin, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Steven P. Goldberg, Atty., Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edmund B. Clark, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.), for respondents.

Bennett Boskey, Volpe, Boskey & Lyons, Washington, D.C., for intervenors Allied-General Nuclear Services, and others.

George C. Freeman, Jr., Donald P. Irwin, and James N. Christman, Richmond, Va. (Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson, Richmond, Va., and Alvin G. Kalmanson, New York City, of counsel), Henry V. Nickel, Michael B. Barr, Washington, D.C. (LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, and Arvin E. Upton, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenors Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., and others, Commonwealth Edison Co., and others, and The Babcock and Wilcox Co.

Robert Lowenstein, Washington, D.C. (Lowenstein, Newman, Reis & Axelrad, Maurice Axelrad, Michael A. Bauser and Linda L. Hodge, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenor Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.

Milton Waxenfeld, New York City (Weisman, Celler, Spett, Modlin, Wertheimer & Schlesinger, New York City, and Elliot S. Katz, Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for intervenor Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, and PIERCE and OWEN, District Judges.


Petition for Rehearing with Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied September 8, 1976.

PIERCE, District Judge:

Petitioners Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., five other environmental groups, and the State of New York seek review of an order of the respondent, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, dated November 11, 1975 and published at 40 Fed.Reg. 53056 on November 14, 1975. The order below sets forth procedures and schedules which the Commission...

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