Legal Opinion
Southwest Research & Information Center v. New Mexico Environment Department
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided July 11, 2014No. Docket 32,499PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTIN, Judge.
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
{1} This case was submitted to a panel of this Court in December 2013. As will be discussed in detail in this Opinion that follows this preface, the appeal raised legal, procedural questions related to the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) approval of a permit modification request to allow the WIPP site to accept waste in a newly developed shielded container. As this Court was working toward issuance of an opinion in this matter, news of the February 2014 fire and radiation leak at the WIPP site led the Court to determine that prudence…
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