COURT DISMISSES CASE CHALLENGING EXEMPTIONS FOR COMPANY TO RESTART NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN MICHIGAN

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Environment & Natural Resources Division issued the following news release:

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan dismissed a lawsuit challenging an exemption decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) concerning the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan. The court found that the Atomic Energy Act and the Hobbs Act channel review of an exemption decision related to a licensing proceeding to the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Congress created the NRC to license and regulate commercial nuclear power plants and other uses of nuclear material.Consistent with Congress's broad grant of authority under the Atomic Energy Act, the NRC ha...