ML062000708
| ML062000708 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Salem, Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 06/10/2004 |
| From: | NRC/OI |
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| References | |
| 1-2003-045, FOIA/PA-2005-0194 | |
| Download: ML062000708 (17) | |
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1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3 . . . . .
4 OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS 5 INTERVIEW 6- ------------------------------ x 7 IN THE MATTER OF:
8 INTERVIEW OF I Docket No.
9 . 1-2003-045 10 (CLOSED) 11 ---------------- ---------------x 12 13 Thursday, June 10, 2004 14 Human Resources Dept 15 Building TB2 16 Salem Hope Creek Nuclear 17 Station 18 Hancock's Bridge, NJ 19 20 The above-entitled interview was 21 conducted at 11:30 a.m.
22 23 BEFORE:
Inforn*hon1 this record was delete~enior Special Agent JEFF TEATOR Inaccordanci with the Freedom of Information Act, exa pti $"C IFIIAI I7~
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2 1 APPEARANCES:
2 On Behalf of the Witness and PSEG Nuclear:
3 JEFFRIE KEENAN, Esquire 4 Assistant General Solicitor 5 PSEG 6
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3 1 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 2 (11:30 a.m.)
3 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Today's date is 4 June 10th. The year is 2004. My name is Jeffrey 5 Teator. I am a senior special agent with the United 6 States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of 7 Investigations. It is approximately -- it is almost 8 11:30 in the morning, a little bit before then.
9 This morning I am interviewing Ms.
10 wi-mlo 11 Uh-huh.
12 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: This interview 13 is taking place in an office in the HR Department in 14 building TB2 at Salem Hope Creek nuclear generating 15 station.
16 And, I'm-- can I call you 17 Ys 18 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. You are 19 being interviewed today as a witness in an 20 investigation I'm conducting into potential violations 21 of NRC regulations, specifically the employee 22 protection regulation, which is 10 CFR 50.7.
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4 1 up because she raised nuclear safety concerns to her 2 management. Again, you are being interviewed as a 3 witness in that investigation.
4 I didn't show you my credentials, but here 5 they are. And this is a voluntary interview. Do you 6 understand that?
7 Yes.
8 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Knowing it is 9 voluntary, do you wish to go forward?
10 Yes.
11 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. And do 12 you have any objection this morning to providing sworn 13 testimony?
.14No 15 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Raise your 16 right hand for me, please. do you 17 swear that the information that you are about to 18 provide to me is the truth, the whole truth, and 19 nothing but the truth?
20 Yes.
21 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Thank you.
22 And you are being represented by counsel 23 today. If counsel could identify himself for the 24 record, please, and explain representation?
25 MR. KEENAN: Yes. My name is Jeff Keenan.
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5 1 I am Assistant General Solicitor with PSEG Services.
2 I am representing and PSEG Nuclear in a joint 3 capacity. I have reviewed the file relative to this 4 issue, and I do not believe there is a conflict of 5 interest. If a conflict arises, we will take a break 6 from the record and figure out how to best handle 7 that.
8 We appreciate the opportunity to provide 9 the testimony. And we would like the ability to 10 review our transcript when it is available.
11 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. All 12 right. . I have a few follow-up questions for 13 you regarding your representation today. Okay?
- Okay.
14 15 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Does your 16 employer require you to have an attorney represent you 17 when you are interviewed by the Office of Investigations?
19 M No.
20 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Were you in any 21 way threatened with any type of adverse action by your 22 employer if you chose to not have counsel represent 23 you today?
24 No.
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b 1 understand that you have a right to a private 2 interview by me if you wanted one?
3 Ys 4 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Knowing all of 5 this, do you wish to go forward with counsel present?
6 Yes.
7 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. I'd like 8 to get some background information about you first.
9 ij*hý Okay.
10 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: your date and 11 place of birth, please?
12 N . X 13 14 1 15 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Your Social 16 Security number, please?
17 18 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Your home 19 address?
20 21 23 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And your zip 24 code?
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1 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TgATOR: And your home 2 phone number, please?
3 Area code'-
4 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: At some point 5 were you hired to work here at PSEG Nuclear?
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7 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And what 8 was your first job here?
9 10 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Have you 11 remained continuously employed here at PSEG Nuclear 12 since 13 1 have.
14 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: What is your 15 current job title?
16 17 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Who do you 18 currently report to?
19 Corporate.
20 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And prior to 21 reporting to who did you report to?
22 23 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Excuse me?
24 1M 25 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: When was that? / (
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8 1 He left here just a few 2 months ago, January, January of 2004.
3 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: It's not a 4 trick question.
5 Okay. At any point did you report to a 6
... iYes.
7 8 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right.
9 That was prior to 10 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Can you give me 11 the dates on when you would have reported toi -
12 -Approximate is fine. I .guess it's more 13 important on the back side than the beginning side.
14 Oh, it's probably around 2000 15 until January of '04 or -- June of 2003. I think 16 that's whenicame in, June of 2003.
17 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. All 18 right. The time period I'm going to be really talking 19 to you about, that I'm going to be focusing on, if it 20 goes beyond that, that's fine, but I'm going to be 21 really focusing on the March 2003 time period.
22 , Okay.
23 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: You've got some 24 calendars of people and schedules of people out. Is 25 that correct?
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9 iYes.
1 2 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Now, 3 & you know who- is?
- 1: Yes.
4 5 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. At any 6 point do you recall him informing you that Kim 7 Harvin's last day here at the site was going to be 8 moved up?
9 I don't remember him 10 specifically telling me. I was in a meeting between 11 .Now, we were actually 12 eating lunch. And the subject came up. We were in 13 the back room eating lunch. And that's when they were 14 they basically tol hat they -- she needed 15 to go immediately.
16 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Looking at the 17 calendar you have in front of you, can you tell me 18 when you believe that lunch meeting was where you 19 heard that?
20 On the 24th.
21 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: March 24th?
22 ( March 24th.
23 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Would that have 24 been the first time you would have heard that?
25 Yes.
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10 1 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Are you 2 positive of that?
3 Yes.
4 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Think back to 5 the week before then.
6 r" .-l Okay.\
7 SR. SPECIA AGENT TEATOR: Okay? Friday 8 would have been the 21st. Do you recall ifIL 9 had called you to ask you to set up an appointment 10 with Kim Harvin for the next week?
11 Yes, he did. He called me on 12 the 21st. He was in arbitration. He called me from 13 the arbitration to say that he needed to set up a 14 meeting with Kim Harvin.
15 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Did he tell you 16 why he needed to set the meeting up?
17 C No, I don't believe so. No.
18 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Did you set up 19 that meeting with Kim?
20 Yes, I did.
21 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: How did you do 22 that?
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11 1 while.
2 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
3 I don't think I ever talked 4 to her.
5 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you remember 6 when the meeting was scheduled for? Was it Mnoday, 7 Tuesday, Wednesdsay?
8 I think I scheduled it for 9 this Monday, the 11:00 o'clock, between* °lw-10 11 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Are you looking 12 at J ~calendar now, calendar?
13 WAD Yes, yes.
14 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Monday, the 15 24th does show an 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 meeting.
16 : Yes.
17 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: and 18.
19 Yes.
20 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Think back to 21 that lunch meeting.
22 Uh-huh.
23 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right?
24 Were you there for the whole --
25 No. No, I was not.
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-LZ 1 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Tell me what 2 was said and who said it again surrounding Kim's last 3 day needing to be moved up. Can you tell me as best 4 you can who said what and what they said?
5 I think it was mostlyC 6 ho may have gave the direction that they wanted 7 -- they felt that Kim's date should be moved up, that 8 she should be gone immediately.
9 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you recall 10 them saying during -- or them saying anything 11 that -- about P hould have made that occur the 12 week before, anything to that effect? Did that give 13 you an indication that that direction had been given 14 the week before to get her out even then?
15 Ma No. I don't remember any of 16 that.
17 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Any discussion 18 fromift or to-- wasý here, first 19 of all?
20 At the meeting or at the 21 lunch?
22 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: This lunch 23 meeting.
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13 1 there being any questions from or 2 as to why he hadn't scheduled Kim's last day to be 3 March 21st? Now you're at March 24th.
4 I don't remember.
5 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you recall 6 anything like that?
7 No, I don't. Nol.
8 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you recall 9 there being any discussion which gave you an 10 indication that Kim Harvin's last day was supposed to 11 have been March 21st?
12 No.
13 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right.
14 Like I said, I didn't stay 15 for the whole meeting after I heard -- you know, they 16 said that they wanted Kim out of here soon than, you 17 know, what her separation agreement was supposed to 18 be, that I kind of got up and left. I really didn't 19 want to hear any more of it.
20 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Why?
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1 get up and leave. I just didn't feel like I wanted to 2 hear what else they had to say.
3 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Did any of them 4 say why they wanted Kim's last day moved up?
5 I don't remember. If they 6 did, I don't remember.
7 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: At some point 8 after the 24th, did "ever say in your presence 9 that he had been directed to move up Kim's last day 10 and have her out of there by March 21st or no later 11 than March 21st, which would have been the previous 12 Friday?
13 I don't
- think so. Not that 14 I can remember. aoesn't usually discuss too 15 many things like that. He's pretty closed-mouth when 16 it comes to confidential things. So he doesn't 17 usually say too much. If he was directed to do 18 something, he doesn't usually say too much.
19 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: You mean to you 20 about that?
21 Right, to me. To me, yes.
22 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. Can 23 you speak to a little bit about trying the attempts by 24 HR to try and schedule Kim's out-processing?
25 I know that we --
1' her last
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15 1 day was actually the 28th, correct?
2 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: That's correct.
3 Okay. I know that we had her 4 set up for an exit interview. I don't know what time 5 it was, though. But I know that she called over here.
6 And I don't think -- I can't remember. I 7 can't remember who she talked to, whether it was 8 or I'm pretty sure she didn't leave it for my 9 -- a voice mail for me, but she kept putting it off.
10 And when I left here between 4:00 and 11 4:30, something like that, on the 28th, she still 12 wasn't over here. And they were still waiting for her 13 to come over and out-process.
14 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Who was waiting 15 for her?
16 17 And I believe as still here, 18 19 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Anything more 20 you can add about that, scheduling her out-processing 21 something?
22 No. It's usually done 23 between the client consultants, which isI or 24 L They usually do the exit interviews, and they 25 usually do the scheduling of the out-processing.
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16 1 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Switch back for 2 a minute. Her position was eliminated. Do you know 3 why her position was eliminated?
4 Well, in most cases, when 5 they're eliminated, it's because they don't need the 6 person around anymore. They just don't need the job.
7 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you know 8 specifically why her position was eliminated?
9 i;No. No, I don't.
10 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Jeff, I don't 11 have anything else to add. Have you got a passage or 12 something you want to review with her?
13 MR. KEENAN: I think we're good. Well, 14 let's take a quick break.
15 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. It's --
16 what time is it?
17 MR. KEENAN: 11:37.
18 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. That's 19 what I have there. All right. It's 11:37. We'll 20 take a short break.
21 (Whereupon, the foregoing matter went off 22 the record at 11:37 a.m. and went back on 23 the record at 11:40 a.m.)
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17 1 11:40 in the morning.
2 I don't have any other questions 3 for you. Is there some-thing you want to add for the 4 record?
5 ,,) No. I have nothing else.
6 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Jeff, is there 7 something you want to go over with your client?
8 MR. KEENAN: Nothing further. Thank you.
9 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. This 10 interview is concluded. Thank you.
11 (Whereupon, at 11:40 a.m., the foregoing 12 matter was adjourned.)
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