No. 20-717

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-11-24
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: article-iii article-iii-standing clean-water-act environmental-protection-agency environmental-standing epa-permitting hazardous-waste procedural-standing resource-conservation-and-recovery-act resource-conservation-recovery-act standing
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Latest Conference: 2021-02-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Members of petitioner, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS), live in and have visited the Rio Grande and its riparian areas near, and downgradient from, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility (RLWTF). They previously used and enjoyed this area for recreation and farming. The RLWTF isa hazardous waste facility, but it has no Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq. (RCRA), hazardous waste permit. In violation of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seg. (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a CWA permit for the RLWTF, and that permit confers exemption from RCRA regulation. The CCNS members are now deterred from visiting the area, and their experience is diminished, by the risks presented by the unlicensed RLWTF. CCNS members would participate in RCRA permitting proceedings, were they conducted. Questions presented are: 1. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III substantive standing to challenge the CWA permit? 2. Does petitioner CCNS have Article III procedural standing to challenge the CWA permit, where EPA’s action violated CWA and blocked the entire RCRA permitting process? ii STATEMENT OF

Docket Entries

2021-03-01
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/26/2021.
2021-02-09
Reply of petitioner Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
2021-01-29
Amended corporate disclosure statement regarding brief in opposition of Triad National Security, LLC filed.
2021-01-27
Brief of respondent Triad National Security, LLC in opposition filed.
2020-12-22
Waiver of right of respondents United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al. to respond filed.
2020-12-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 27, 2021, for all resondents.
2020-12-08
Motion of respondent Triad National Security, LLC to extend the time to file a response from December 28, 2020 to January 27, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-11-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 28, 2020)

Attorneys

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Inc.
Lindsay Alexander Lovejoy Jr.Law Office of Lindsay A. Lovejoy, Jr., Petitioner
Lindsay Alexander Lovejoy Jr.Law Office of Lindsay A. Lovejoy, Jr., Petitioner
Triad National Security, LLC
James Taylor BanksHogan Lovells US LLP, Respondent
James Taylor BanksHogan Lovells US LLP, Respondent
United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent