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UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS v. U.S. N.R.C.

No. 85-6227.

824 F.2d 1219 (1987)

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS v. U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Appellants, General Electric Company.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Dodell, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth, R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., William H. Briggs, Jr., Sol., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, E. Leo Slaggie, Deputy Sol., Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, and Karla D. Smith, Atty., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, Washington, D.C., were on brief for appellants.

Diane Curran, with whom Andrea C. Ferster and Ellyn R. Weiss, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before WALD, Chief Judge, STARR, Circuit Judge, and McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The appellants, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC" or "Commission") and the United States of America, challenge an attorney's fees award of $18,876.04 to the appellee, Union of Concerned Scientists ("UCS"). The District Court awarded these fees in a case brought under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1982 & Supp. III 1985) ("FOIA"), in which UCS sought a "probabilistic risk assessment" ("PRA") prepared by...

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