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METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. v. PEOPLE VS. NUCLEAR ENERGY

No. 81-2399.

460 U.S. 766 (1983)

METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. ET AL. v. PEOPLE AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 19, 1983

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deputy Solicitor General Bator argued the cause for petitioners in both cases. With him on the briefs in No. 82-358 were Solicitor General Lee, Assistant Attorney General Dinkins, Deputy Solicitor General Claiborne, Joshua I. Schwartz, James M. Spears, Jacques B. Gelin, Peter G. Crane, and Herzel Plaine. James B. Hamlin, George F. Trowbridge, John B. Rhinelander, Deborah B. Bauser, and James B. Liberman filed briefs for petitioners in No. 81-2399.

William S. Jordan III argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents in both cases.†

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Margaret Farrell Ewing and Bruce J. Ennis for the American Psychological Association; and by Ellyn R. Weiss for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Bruce J. Terris and Phillip G. Sunderland filed a brief for the American Sociological Association as amicus curiae.

JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue in these cases is whether petitioner Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) complied with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 83 Stat. 852, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq. (1976 ed. and Supp. V) (NEPA), when it considered whether to permit petitioner Metropolitan Edison Co. to resume operation of the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear powerplant (TMI-1). The Court of Appeals for...

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