POWER AUTHORITY OF STATE OF N.Y. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 909, 968 to 981, Dockets 83-4051, 83-4061, 83-4063, 83-4065, 83-4067, 83-4069, 83-4103, 83-4105, 83-4109, 83-4111, 83-4113, 83-4115, 83-4131, 83-4139, 83-4141, 83-4163.

743 F.2d 93 (1984)

POWER AUTHORITY OF the STATE OF NEW YORK, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. NEW YORK STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Municipal Electric Utilities Association of New York, State of New York Public Service Commission, Expansion Power Industries, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company, Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Co-operative, Bethlehem Steel Corp., General Motors Corp., Occidental Chemical Corp., Hooker Industrial & Specialty Chemicals, Olin Corp. and Union Carbide Corp., Vermont Department of Public Service, Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry R. Fischer, New York City (Hall, Dickler, Lawler, Kent & Friedman, New York City, Stephen L. Baum, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Power Authority of the State of New York, New York City, of counsel), for Power Authority of the State of New York.

Thomas M. Lemberg, Washington, D.C. (Joseph C. Swidler, Swidler, Berlin & Strelow, Chartered, Washington, D.C., Frederic H. Lawrence, Kenneth M. Jasinski, Huber, Lawrence & Abell, New York City, of counsel), for New York State Electric & Gas Corporation.

J. Cathy Lichtenberg, Washington, D.C. (Wallace L. Duncan, Mark S. Laufman, Duncan, Weinberg & Miller, P.C., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Municipal Electric Utilities Association of New York State.

Joshua Z. Rokach, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. (Stephen R. Melton, Acting Gen. Counsel, Jerome M. Feit, Sol., Robert F. Shapiro, Atty., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, Buffalo, N.Y. (John Stenger, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Law Offices of Algird F. White, Jr., Albany, N.Y. (Algird F. White, Jr., Barbara S. Brenner, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for intervenors Bethlehem Steel Corp., General Motors Corp., Occidental Chemical Corp., Olin Corp. and Union Carbide Corp.

Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, Buffalo, N.Y. (Victor T. Fuzak, Richard F. Campbell, Jerrold S. Brown, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for intervenors Expansion Power Industries Airco, Inc., et al.

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, Washington, D.C., Gerald Tarrant, Vermont Dept. of Public Service, Montpelier, Vt., for intervenor Vermont Department of Public Service.

David E. Blabey, Timothy P. Sheehan, New York State Public Service Commission, Albany, N.Y., for New York State Public Service Commission.

Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Rochester, N.Y. (Richard N. George, Paula M. Connelly, Rochester, N.Y., of counsel), for Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.

Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, D.C. (David R. Straus, Scott H. Strauss, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for intervenors Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. and Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Petitions have been filed by various parties to this proceeding for review of a series of decisions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC", or "the Commission") concerning the allocation of inexpensive hydroelectric power from the Niagara Power Project.1 The project is administered by the Power Authority of the State of New York ("PASNY"), a New York State agency, under a license from FERC. The federal...

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