Opinion ID: 1232885
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Heading: Party Status of the Petitioners

Text: Adirondack became a party to the relicensing proceedings when FERC granted its motion to intervene in 1997 and thus satisfies this element of § 825 l (b). See November 16 Order Denying Rehearing, 117 F.E.R.C. ¶ 61,189, at 61,935 n. 42. It is undisputed that Green Island never was permitted to intervene in the proceedings below. Consequently, Green Island was not a party to the relicensing proceedings and therefore lacks the statutory authority to petition for review of orders resulting directly from those proceedings. See Scenic Hudson, 354 F.2d at 617. Green Island, however, was a party to the order denying its motion to intervene out-of-time and the order denying rehearing of that order, a point conceded by FERC. It therefore satisfies the first element of § 825 l (b) with respect to those two orders. See N. Colo. Water Conservancy Dist. v. FERC, 730 F.2d 1509, 1515 (D.C.Cir.1984) (It would be grossly unfair to deny judicial review to a petitioner objecting to an agency's refusal to grant party status on the basis that the petitioner lacks party status. Such a petitioner must obviously be considered a party for the limited purpose of reviewing the agency's basis for denying party status.); see also City of Orrville, 147 F.3d at 989-90 n. 12; Covelo Indian Cmty. v. FERC, 895 F.2d 581, 585-86 (9th Cir.1990).