ML19282B198

Finds Petition Re Class 9 Accidents to Be W/O Merit & Petition Claiming NRC Failed to Give Adequate Consideration to Incremental Effect of Facility Re Nuclear Fuel Cycle to Have Merit.Remands Case to NRC for Further Consideration

ML19282B198
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	11/09/1976
From:	Fisher G U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
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O No. 73-22cc Septe:11ber Ter::1 19 7.

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Intervenor Before:

McGowan and BlacI'innon, Circuit Judges: Van Pelt *, U.S.. Senior District Judge for the District of Nebraska.

.O.R.D _E _R This cause came on to be heard on a petition for review of orders of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board of the Atomic Energy Commission (now the Nuclear Re:.;ulatery Co mission) and were argued by counsel.

The orders appealed from granted a construction petrait for a nuclear power plant known as the "Shoreham Plant."

The petition challenges the orders on two grounds: (1) that the Comission failed to give adequate consideration to the environmental impact of " Class 9" accidents, and (2) that the Commission failed to give adequate consideration to the incremental effect of the Shoreham Plant in terms of the environmental impact of the nuclear fuel cycle.

W11CREAS the first of these challenges is without cerit, see Carolina rnvironmental Study Groun v. United States, 510 F.2d 796, 798-800 (D.C.

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1975), and Wi!CREAS the second of these challenges is meritorious, sr Natu ra l Resources ih fen :e Council. Inc. v. I!nited S tates Nuc3 co r Re~"l a rnr C r.: i esion. Nos. 72-1385, 74-1~8h (D.C. Cir. July 21, 1976): Aeschliman -

Uni'cc Sta tes Nuclear Remla torv Cwmi.<:: ion, No s. 73-1776, 73-1867 (D.C. Cir. July 21, 1970), it is UlWl: RED by the court that the case is remanded t., the Cor aission for further consideration in light of the decisions in Natural t::cu rce:= Def ensc Counc il. Inc.

v. I!nited S tates t:uelear Rcmla torv Ccmmicsien, s."' ra, and neschliman.. United States Mucicar Recuir tory Corrainsion, suora.

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