YORK COM. FOR A SAFE ENVIR. v. U. S. NUCLEAR REG. COMMISSION

No. 74-1923.

527 F.2d 812 (1975)

YORK COMMITTEE FOR A SAFE ENVIRONMENT et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Philadelphia Electric Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Hovis, York, Pa., for petitioners.

Herbert J. Martin, Atty., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, with whom Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raymond M. Zimmet, Acting Sol., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, and Edmund B. Clark and Larry G. Gutteridge, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for respondents. James A. Glasgow, Atty., U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, and Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, also entered appearances for respondents.

Troy B. Conner, Jr., with whom J. Michael McGarry, III, Mark J. Wetterhahn, Washington, D. C., and Eugene J. Bradley, Philadelphia, Pa., were on the brief, for intervenor.

Before WRIGHT, TAMM and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners seek review of a final decision of the Atomic Energy Commission1 to grant a license to the Philadelphia Electric Company, intervenor here, for operation of a light-water-cooled nuclear reactor to be used for generating electricity.2 The licensed reactor, which is now in operation, has a rated...

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