Legal Opinion
Rockford League of Women Voters v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Commonwealth Edison Company, Intervenor-Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 3, 1982No. 81-1772PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition to review administrative agency inaction: the refusal of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation to institute a proceeding to revoke Commonwealth Edison Company’s permit to construct a nuclear electrical generating plant at Byron, Illinois.
The permit was granted in 1975 after the NRC staff had reviewed, and a hearing had been conducted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2239(a) on, Commonwealth Edison’s plans for the Byron plant, in order to make sure that “the proposed facility can be constructed and operated at the proposed…
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