A lawsuit filed by the state of New Mexico against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its handling of a consolidated interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility application has ties to the decommissioning Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township. Its parent company, Camden-based Holtec International, is proposing the storage facility in southeast New Mexico.

On March 29, Hector Balderas, New Mexico’s attorney general, announced his state filed suit against the NRC and the…