Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

The Snoqualmie Tribe petitions for review of a decision of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) granting Puget Sound Energy, Inc. (“PSE”) a license to operate for another forty years the Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Project. The Tribe argues that FERC’s reli-censing decision violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”) because FERC employed the wrong legal standard for reviewing claims under RFRA and because substantial evidence does not support FERC’s conclusion that the relicensing decision does not substantially burden the Tribe’s free…