Marilyn MORRIS, Grace Sam, Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining "ENDAUM," Southwest Research and Information Center "SRIC", Petitioners,
v.
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION, United States of America, Respondents,
Hydro Resources, Inc., Intervenor-Respondent.
Navajo Nation, Amicus curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 8, 2010.
March 8, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eric Jantz, New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Santa Fe, NM, (Diane Curran, Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., Zackeree Kelin, DNA-People's Legal Services, Inc., Window Rock, AZ, with him on the briefs) for Petitioners.
Charles E. Mullins, Senior Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Ronald J. Tenpas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, John E. Arbab, Appellate Section, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Karen D. Cyr, General Counsel, John F. Cordes, Jr., Solicitor, E. Leo Slaggie, Deputy Solicitor, Steven C. Hamrick, Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with him on the brief) Washington, D.C., for Respondents.
Anthony J. Thompson (Christopher S. Pugsley, with him on the brief) Thompson & Simmons, PLLC, Washington, D.C. for Intervenor-Respondent.
Louis Denetsosie, Attorney General and David A. Taylor, Senior Attorney, Natural Resource Unit, Navajo Nation Department of Justice, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Navajo Nation.
Before LUCERO, EBEL and FRIZZELL, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") issued Hydro Resources, Inc. ("HRI") a license to conduct in situ leach mining for uranium on four sites in northwest New Mexico. In this case, Petitioners—Eastern Diné Against Uranium Mining, a Navajo community organization, Southwest Research and Information Center, a non-profit environmental education organization, and two local ranchers, Grace Sam and Marilyn Morris—seek review...
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