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

No. 88-1561.

880 F.2d 552 (1989)

UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Nuclear Utility Backfitting and Reform Group, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane Curran, with whom Andrea C. Ferster, Anne Spielberg, and Dean Tousley, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for petitioner.

Steven F. Crockett, Attorney, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, with whom Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Chief, Appellate Section, Jacques B. Gelin and Sarah P. Robinson, Attys., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and William C. Parler, Gen. Counsel, Rockville, Md., William H. Briggs, Jr., Sol., E. Leo Slaggie, Deputy Sol., and Rochelle M. Gunner, Atty., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for respondents.

Nicholas S. Reynolds, with whom Daniel F. Stenger and James W. Moeller, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for intervenor. Barton Z. Cowan, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Robert W. Bishop, for amicus curiae Nuclear Management and Resources Council, Inc., were also on the brief for intervenor.

Before MIKVA, SILBERMAN, and D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

The Union of Concerned Scientists ("UCS") petitions for review of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's ("Commission") "backfit rule," 10 C.F.R. § 50.109, 53 Fed.Reg. 20,603 (1988), revised in response to this court's remand in Union of Concerned Scientists v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 824 F.2d 108 (D.C.Cir.1987) ("UCS I")...

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