Silsbee Oaks Health Care, L.L.P. v. Patricia Smart, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Bonnie Smart

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• holding that as a threshold matter, NEPA is concerned with actions that cause a primary impact on the physical environment
• holding that NEPA does not require NRC to address psychological damage to residents caused by risk of a nuclear accident in EIS considering reopening of Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
• holding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission properly considered the risk and effect of a possible nuclear accident, though it did not need to consider the effect of such risk on the psychological well-being of residents
• holding that NEPA “does not create a remedial scheme for past federal actions,” instead “[i]t was enacted to require agencies to assess the future effects of future actions.”
• concluding that NEPA “does not create a remedial scheme for past federal actions”
• holding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission properly considered the risk and effect of a possible nuclear accident, though it did not need to consider the effect of such risk on the psychological well-being of residents

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).