MATTER OF FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION

Nos. C1-92-2314, C3-92-2315 and C9-92-2321.

501 N.W.2d 638 (1993)

In the Matter of an Application for a Certificate of Need for Construction of an INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied July 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Margie E. Hendriksen, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Katherine L. McGill, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent Minnesota Public Utilities Com'n.

Michael J. Bradley, Michael J. Ahern, Moss & Barnett, and Michael C. Connelly, Northern States Power Co., Minneapolis, for respondent Northern States Power Co.

Paul Zerby, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent Minnesota Dept. of Health.

Alan R. Mitchell, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent Minnesota Environmental Quality Bd.

Eric F. Swanson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent Minnesota Dept. of Public Service.

Eila E. Savela, Minneapolis, for relator Minnesota Public Interest Research Group.

Brian B. O'Neill, Richard A. Duncan, Michael A. Ponto, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, and Kurt V. Bluedog, William J. Hardacker, Bluedog Law Office, Bloomington, for relator Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community.

Kenneth Tilsen, Public Interest Project of Hamline University School of Law, G.P.C., St. Paul, for relator Prairie Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage.

James Schoessler, Jacobson, Buffalo, Schoessler, & Magnuson, Minneapolis, for amicus curiae Prairie Island Religious Task Force.

John Grzybek, St. Paul, and Mark S. Wernick, Minneapolis, for amicus curiae Certain Individual Members of the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate.

Considered and decided by ANDERSON, C.J., and CRIPPEN and AMUNDSON, JJ.


OPINION

AMUNDSON, Judge.

Relators appeal the order of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (the commission) granting respondent Northern States Power Company (NSP) a certificate of need to build a radioactive waste storage facility at its Prairie Island nuclear generating plant. The commission rejected the administrative law judge's recommendation that the petition be denied. Relators contend the commission's order is unsupported by substantial evidence...

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