D.C. Circuit· 7/1/2011

In Re Aiken County

Citations

645 F.3d 428
396 U.S. App. D.C. 107
41 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20222
72 ERC (BNA) 2089
2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 13384
2011 WL 2600685

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affirming district court’s dismissal of the case because it was not ripe for judicial review
considering a challenge to the Department of Energy’s attempt to withdraw its application for a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel
“The ripeness doctrine, even in its prudential aspect, is a threshold inquiry that does not involve adjudication on the merits”
“The ripeness doctrine, even in its prudential aspect, is a threshold inquiry that does not involve adjudication on the merits”
“At least to this date, the [agency] has not failed to take any discrete agency action that Congress ordered it to take.”
“At least to this date, the DOE has not failed to take any discrete agency action that Congress ordered it to take. Petitioners’ general complaints about the DOE’s new policy . . . are simply not justiciable.”

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Judges: Sentelle, Brown, Kavanaugh

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