Legal Opinion
The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v. Glenn T. Seaborg
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 3, 1971No. 71-1854PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal presents a new chapter in the litigation concerning the proposed underground nuclear test, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island, Alaska. In Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. v. Seaborg, 149 U.S.App.D. C. -, 463 F.2d 783, No. 71-1732, 1971, we held that plaintiffs — conservation groups — had presented a cognizable claim, which the courts were obligated to determine, that the Atomic Energy Commission had failed to carry out the mandate of Congress in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4331 et seq. (1970), to set forth all pertinent environmental…
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