United States Second Circuit

In a petition for review of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's denial of rulemaking petitions filed by Massachusetts and California, the petition is denied where the Commission gave due consideration to the relevant studies, and thus the court was required to defer to their expertise in determining the proper risk level associated with the storage of nuclear material in spent fuel pools.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2009
• Published 12/21/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, KEARSE, Circuit Judge, and GARDEPHE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John J. Sipos (Monica Wagner, Andrew M. Cuomo, Barbara D. Underwood, Benjamin N. Gutman, Katherine Kennedy, Janice A. Dean on the brief), State of New York, Albany, NY;  Matthew Brock, Martha Coakley, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA;  Richard Blumenthal, Robert D. Snook, State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Petitioners., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Ken Alex, Gordon Burns, Susan Durbin, Brian W. Hembacher, Attorneys for State of California, Los Angeles, CA, for Amicus Curiae State of California, ex rel. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, in support of Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Adler (Stephen G. Burns, John F. Cordes, Jr., Sean D. Croston on the brief), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC;  John E. Arbab, John C. Cruden, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents., David R. Lewis, Pillsbury Winthrop, Washington, DC;  Catherine E. Stetson (Jessica L. Ellsworth on the brief), Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC;  William C. Dennis, Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc., White Plains, NY, for Intervenor-Respondents., Jerry Bonanno, Ellen C. Ginsberg, Michael A. Bauser, Anne W. Cottingham, Counsel for Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc. in support of Federal Respondents, Intervenor-Respondents, and Affirmance.