National Distillers & Chemical Corp. & National Hydrocarbons, Inc. v. Department of Energy

Plaintiffs-Appellants, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary National Hydrocarbons, Inc. (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Distillers”) appeal from the district court’s order dismissing their complaint and from the district court’s denial of their motion for relief from the prior order (498 F.Supp. 707 (1980)). The district court found that Distillers had not exhausted its administrative remedies and therefore the matter was not ripe for adjudication. We affirm.

Distillers operates a gas processing and petrochemical plant at Tuscola, Illinois…