ELR Citation: ELR 21353
No(s). 88-1561 (D.C. Cir. Jul 25, 1989)

The court holds that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) revised backfit rule, which governs new or modified safety requirements on previously licensed nuclear power plants, is facially valid. NRC has specifically responded to the weaknesses of the 1985 rule by clarifying the ambiguities ide...