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Affidavit Opposing Saginaw Intervenors 730107 Motion to Recall.Columbia Law Review Oct 1972 Issue Does Not Constitute Newly Discovered Evidence
ML19331A979
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Site: Midland
Issue date: 01/16/1973
From: Wessel M
KAYE, SCHOLER, FIERMAN, HAYS & HANDLER
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AFFIDAVIT MILTON R.

WESSEL, being duly sworn, deposes and I

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I am a member of Kaye, Scheler, Fierman, Hays j

& Handler, Hearing Attorneys for Intervenor The Dow Chemical 3

i Company (DOV) and submit this affidavit in opposition to the SAGINAW January 7, 1973 :totion to Recall.

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Chairman !!urphy's article "AtonTc Saf ety and -

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An Experi=ent in Administrative Decision

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Making on Safety Questions" (ASLB Experiment), 33 Law and t

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l Contemp. Prob. 366 (1968), and the Chairman's earlier ASLB i

opinions, including Calvert Cliffs, were referred to

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frequently during the Hearing in this matter.

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Experiment article was cited in Footnote 18 at page 16 of I

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1 Dov's December'15, 1970 Memorandum to the Hearing Board, l

i submitted in opposition to various Saginaw motions.

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The preliminary Report of the Association of j

the Bar of the City of New York's Special Committee on Electric Power and the Environment, of which Chairman i

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Murphy was a Member, was widely reported publicly in :tay, I

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1972.

Chairman !!u rphy 's paper "The National Environmental 4

l Policy Acc and the Licensia;; Proccas" subsitted to the

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Committco on_ Licenses and Authori:ations of the Adminis-trat,1ve Conference of the United States is several times i

cited and drawn upon (Chapter IV, Fn. 174 Chapter V, in s.'

2, 32, 41, 50, 54, 77, 85 and 185, Chapter VIII, Fns.

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Individual Views of !!essrs. Kennedy, 9

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et al.s Fn.3).

1 The SAGINAW motion indicates that I

l this paper is substantially g the same as the Columbia article of which they complain

!s A the Foreword to the bound and printed Final Report

states, the preliminary Report "was widely circulated I

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to government.

! industry, environmental interests and the general pubiic.

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f sources as well" (p. III).

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I to the views of counsel for Opposing Intervenors (Chapter V, ins. 108-9).

This Report was alsc referred to informally i

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as suggested in the SAGINAW

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4 The printed, bound final Report of the Bar i

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Association Committee is dat_ed August 1, 1972.

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The October, 1972 issue of the Columbia Law fR L

eview referred to in i

the SACINAW Motion, was l

received in

  • my office on Navember 6, 1972.

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- article, and (c) in any event, had long.known the-Chair-man's' views on these issues.

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