UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS v. NUCLEAR REG. COM'N

No. 82-2000.

711 F.2d 370 (1983)

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS, Petitioner, v. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Nuclear Utility Group on Equipment Qualification, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellyn R. Weiss, Washington, D.C., with whom Lee L. Bishop, Williams S. Jordan, III and Diane Curran, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for petitioner.

Juan L. Rodriguez, Atty., Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, Washington, D.C., with whom E. Leo Slaggie, Acting Sol., Sheldon L. Trubatch, Acting Asst. Gen. Counsel, Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, and Martin Green, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for respondents.

McNeil Watkins, II, Washington, D.C., with whom Nicholas S. Reynolds, Washington, D.C., was on brief, for intervenor. Malcolm H. Philips, Jr., Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for intervenor.

Before WALD and MIKVA, Circuit Judges, and MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge:

This petition concerns the regulation of certain safety-related equipment that is needed to mitigate an accident or to shut down a reactor following an accident in a nuclear power plant. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) petitions this court for review of a June 30, 1982 rulemaking by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the NRC or the Commission), which amended...

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