SOUTHWEST RESEARCH & INFO. CENTER v. NMED

No. 32,499.

336 P.3d 404 (2014)

2014-NMCA-098

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTER and Margaret Elizabeth Richards, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT, Defendant-Appellee. In the Matter of the Application for a Class 2 Modification for Shielded Containers for Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

July 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsay A. Lovejoy, Jr. Santa Fe, NM, for Appellants.

New Mexico Environment Department, Charles de Saillan , Special Assistant Attorney General Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee.

Kenneth J. Gonzales , United States Attorney, District of New Mexico Michael H. Hoses , Assistant United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, United States Department of Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General Eileen T. McDonough , Environmental Defense Section Washington, D.C., for Intervenor United States Department of Energy.


OPINION

SUTIN, Judge.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS

{1} This case was submitted to a panel of this Court in December 2013. As will be discussed in detail in this Opinion that follows this preface, the appeal raised legal, procedural questions related to the New Mexico Environment Department's (NMED) approval of a permit modification request to allow the WIPP site to accept waste in a newly developed shielded container. As this Court was working...

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