NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE CO. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 92-1165, 92-1261 to 92-1264, 92-1316, 92-1328, 92-1336, 92-1340 and 92-1510.

993 F.2d 937 (1993)

NORTHEAST UTILITIES SERVICE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL WHOLESALE ELECTRIC COMPANY, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. TOWNS OF CONCORD, NORWOOD AND WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. CENTRAL MAINE POWER CO., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. CITY OF HOLYOKE GAS & ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. CANAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. The AMERICAN PAPER INSTITUTE, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. BOSTON EDISON COMPANY, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents. VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, et al., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Amero, with whom Catherine R. Connors, Portland, ME, and Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster and Arthur W. Adelberg, and Anne M. Pare, Augusta, ME, were on brief, for petitioner Cent. Maine Power Co.

Harvey L. Reiter, with whom William I. Harkaway, Kathleen L. Mazure, and McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, Washington, DC, were on brief, for petitioners VT Dept. of Public Service, VT Public Service Bd., RI Atty. Gen., RI Div. of Public Utilities and Carriers, ME Public Utilities Com'n and MA Dept. of Public Utilities.

George H. Williams, Jr., with whom Morley Caskin, Washington, DC, was on brief, for petitioners Canal Elec. Co., Com. Elec. Co. and Cambridge Elec. Light Co.

J.A. Bouknight, Jr., with whom David B. Raskin, David L. Schwartz, and Newman & Holtzinger, P.C., Washington, DC, and Robert P. Wax, Gen. Counsel, Hartford, CT, were on brief, for petitioner Northeast Utilities Service Co.

Randolph Elliott, with whom William S. Scherman, Gen. Counsel, Jerome M. Feit, Sol., Katherine Waldbauer, and Eric Christensen, Washington, DC, were on brief, for respondent F.E.R.C.

Alan J. Roth, Scott H. Strauss, William S. Huang, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC, Nicholas J. Scobbo, Ferriter, Scobbo, Sikora, Caruso & Rodophele, Boston, MA, Wallace L. Duncan and Duncan, Weinberg, Miller & Pembroke, Washington, DC, on brief, for petitioner MA Mun. Wholesale Elec. Co.

Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Peter A. Goldsmith and Wheatley & Ranquist, Annapolis, MD, on brief, for petitioners Towns of Concord, Norwood & Wellesley, MA.

David J. Bardin, Noreen M. Lavan, Eugene J. Meigher, Steven R. Miles, and Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, on brief, for petitioner City of Holyoke Gas & Elec. Dept.

James T. McManus, Michael E. Small, Wright & Talisman, P.C., Washington, DC, and Frederick S. Samp, General Counsel, Hampden, on brief, for petitioner Bangor Hydro-Electric Co.

Steven Halpern, Boston, MA, on brief, for petitioner MA Dept. of Public Utilities.

Alan H. Richardson, Alexandria, VA, on brief, for petitioner American Public Power Ass'n.

Mitchell Tennenbaum, Sr. Staff Atty., Augusta, ME, on brief, for petitioner ME Public Utilities Com'n.

Edward G. Bohlen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, MA, and Scott Harshbarger, Atty. Gen., Cambridge, MA, on brief, for petitioner MA Atty. Gen.

Julio Mazzoli, Sp. Asst., and James E. O'Neil, Atty. Gen., Providence, RI, on brief, for petitioner R.I. Div. of Public Utilities and Carriers and Rhode Island Office of Atty. Gen.

Robert F. Shapiro, Lynn N. Hargis and Chadbourne & Parke, Washington, DC, on brief, for petitioner The American Paper Institute, Inc.

Wayne R. Frigard, Boston, MA, on brief, for petitioner Boston Edison Co.

George M. Knapp, Roger B. Wagner, Washington, DC, David A. Fazzone, John F. Smitka, and McDermott, Will & Emery, Boston, MA, on brief, for petitioner Montaup Elec. Co.

Robert S. Golden, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard Blumenthal, Atty. Gen., Hartford, CT, and Howard E. Shapiro, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Van Ness, Feldman & Curtis, Washington, DC, on brief, for intervenor CT Dept. of Public Utility Control.

Kenneth M. Simon, Larry F. Eisenstat, and Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, DC, on brief, for intervenor Masspower.

Harold T. Judd, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Concord, NH, John P. Arnold, Atty. Gen., Francestown, NH, Glen L. Ortman, John S. Moot, and Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chrtd., Washington, DC, on brief, for intervenors State of NH and NH Public Utilities Com'n.

Kenneth D. Brown, Newark, NJ, on brief, for intervenor Public Service Elec. and Gas Co.

Edward Berlin, Kenneth G. Jaffe, Martin W. Gitlin, and Swidler & Berlin, Washington, DC, and Cynthia A. Arcate, Westborough, MA, on brief, for intervenor New England Power Co.


BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

These petitions for review challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC" or "the Commission") decision to conditionally approve the merger of Northeast Utilities ("NU") and the Public Service Company of New Hampshire ("PSNH"). Certain joint petitioners and intervenors1 contend that FERC erred when it: (1) held that the benefits of the merger outweighed its costs; and (2) failed to condition...

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