United States Fourth Circuit

The Department of Energy did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act, where it properly assessed the risks and environmental concerns in connection with the transfer and storage of surplus plutonium.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/10/2002
• Decided 08/06/2002
• Published 08/06/2002

Judges

• Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  William LeRoy Want, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Stephen P. Bates, Office of the Governor, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Gregory D. Page, Lisa E. Jones, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Robert F. Daley, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Christie Newman Barrett, Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina;  Lee L. Otis, General, Marc Johnston, Office of General, Department Of Energy, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.   Ruth Thomas, Pro Se, for Amicus Curiae.