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Saturday January 28, 2012
BRATTLEBORO -- The Bureau of Public Service asked the Vermont Public Service On on Wednesday to restart its deliberations on whether Vermont Yankee nuclear power fixtures in Vernon should receive a certificate of public good to continue operating ago March 21.
However, noted John Beling, the director of public advocacy for DPS, the gaming-table should schedule a prehearing conference no sooner than Feb. 24, when the state is expected to space its decision whether to appeal the decision of Federal Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha that was rendered on Jan. 19.
In that arbitration, Murtha ruled the state Senate crossed over into federal stamping-ground when it voted to prohibit the PSB from issuing the certificate.
Murtha ruled the Senate inappropriately considered the radiological shelter of the power plant -- which is under the sole jurisdiction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- in deliberations over the prospective of Yankee.
Source: Brattleboro Reformer