...to pursue methods of inquiry capable of permitting them to discharge their multitudinous duties'." Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 543 (1978). Plaintiff, however, cites a number of cases which it claims supports its contention that...

...the latter are neither "proposals for legislation" nor "proposals for ... major Federal actions." 1n Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 551 (1978), the Court noted that "[t]o make an impact statement something more than an exercise in...

...they have been explained with sufficient clarity to require reasonable minds to inquire further. Cf. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 554 (1978). Although that standard could support admissibility under the earlier rules, it has never...

...at least represents a "showing * * * sufficient to require reasonable minds to inquire further" (cf. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 554(1978)). In particular, we note that Bechtel Forecast 6, presented to CPC in January 1980, calculated...

...850 MW of lost 26See also Nash testimony on contention 6, following Tr. 2124. 21See US Supreme Court in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., el at., 46 LW 4301, 4310 (April 3, 1978). power with fossil units within its system or by purchased...

...Council, Inc. v. United states Nuclear Regulatory Com'n, 547 F.2d 633 (DC Cir. 1976), rev'd sub nom. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519 (1978). The Court of Appeals had set aside on procedural grounds a decision of Che Atomic Energy Commission...

...proposal in historical perspective. The impetus foe the proposal appears, to be the Supreme Court' s decision in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 435 US 519 (1978). For several years prior to Vermont Yankee, a significant line of court decisions...

...toward requiring "hybrid rulemaking," however, was emphatically reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519 (1978). The court ruled that: Agencies are free to grant additional procedural rights in the exercise of their...

...their own notions of proper procedures upon agencies entrusted with substantive functions by Congress." Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 525 (1978). The Court further recognized the APA as "a legislative enactment which settled 'long-continued...

...F.2d 705 (8th Cir. 1926). See also. Carter v. Carter Coal Co . , 29S [VJS I. 283 , 291 (1936); and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense' Council, Inc., 435 519 (1978). Profits Tax legislation. This issue will be discussed in conjunction 83/ with Congressional...