Supreme Court Restricts Standing to Challenge Federal Energy Facility Licenses in NRC v. Texas

The Supreme Court held that Texas and a private company lacked standing as "parties aggrieved" under the Hobbs Act to challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's grant of a license for an off-site spent nuclear fuel storage facility, because neither obtained formal intervenor status in the administrative proceeding. The decision establishes that submission of comments on a draft environmental impact statement, without successful intervention under the Atomic Energy Act, does not confer party status sufficient to seek judicial review of the Commission's final licensing order.