ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND v. U.S. NRC

No. 88-1001.

902 F.2d 785 (1990)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, and the Southwest Research and Information Center, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, and the United States of America, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 25, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Yuhnke, Atty., Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colo. (Southwest Research and Information Center, Albuquerque, N.M., with him on the brief), for petitioners.

E. Neil Jensen, Atty., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n (William H. Briggs, Jr., Sol., and E. Leo Slaggie, Deputy Sol., with him on the brief), Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Before SEYMOUR and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, District Judge.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

In the present proceeding, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Southwest Research and Information Center have petitioned this court for review of final regulations promulgated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) modifying the requirements governing the licensing of uranium mills and the disposal of uranium mill tailings. The regulations were issued by order of the NRC on November 6, 1987, and were published in the Federal...

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