ML062560162
| ML062560162 | |
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| Site: | Salem, Hope Creek  (DPR-070, NPF-057) |
| Issue date: | 06/10/2004 |
| From: | NRC/OI |
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| FOIA/PA-2005-0194 | |
| Download: ML062560162 (8) | |
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OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS INTERVIEW
x IN THE MATTER OF:
INTERVIEW OF CONNIE CARTER (CLOSED)
Docket No.
1-2003-045 x
Thursday, June 10, 2004 Human Resources Dept Building TB2 Salem Hope Creek Nuclear Station Hancock's Bridge, NJ The above-entitled interview was conducted at 10:48 a.m.
BEFORE:
Senior Special Agent JEFF TEATOR 2003- 0451 I
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On Behalf of the Witness and PSEG Nuclear:
JEFFRIE KEENAN, Esquire Assistant General Solicitor PSEG NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 2
(10:48 a.m.)
3 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
It's 10:48 in 4
the morning.
And this morning I am doing a
5 reinterview of Mr. Connie Carter.
This interview is 6
taking place in the Human Resources Department in 7
building TB2 at Salem Hope Creek nuclear generating 8
station.
9 Mr.
Carter, you're being reinterviewed 10 again as just a fact witness, but after our last 11 interview, you reviewed some additional records, which 12 we kind of talked about during the interview.
And 13 you're going to provide testimony today as to what 14 those documents mean.
15 You are still represented by counsel 16 today.
Counsel, is the representation the same as it 17 was previously?
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KEENAN:
- Yes, it is.
19 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Is that your 20 understanding, Mr. Carter?
21 MR.
CARTER:
Yes, that's correct.
22 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Do you want to 23 go forward with counsel present?
24 MR.
CARTER:
Right.
- Yes, I do.
25 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
All right.
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This is voluntary again.
Knowing it is voluntary, do 2
you wish to go forward?
3 MR.
CARTER:
- Yes, I do.
4 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Do you have any 5
objection this morning to providing sworn testimony?
6 MR.
CARTER:
No, I do not.
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SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Raise your 8
right hand for me, please?
Mr. Carter, do you swear 9
that the information that you are about to provide to 10 me is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 11 truth?
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CARTER:
- Yes, I do.
13 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Thank you.
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- Jeff, why don't you go ahead and begin 15 your discussion about these accounting documents with 16 your client, please?
17 MR.
KEENAN:
Yes.
18 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Then I'll have 19 some questions.
20 MR.
KEENAN:
Again, Jeff, we appreciate 21 the opportunity to provide some clarity.
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- Connie, in the last interview, you 23 provided some testimony relative to what you thought 24 had occurrence with Mike Friedlander's organization 25 and specifically how his personnel were going to be NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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treated from an accounting perspective.
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research and provided me some documents, which I
4 provided to Mr. Teator, which I think has changed your 5
recollection.
And I wanted you to explain that --
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CARTER:
Right.
7 MR.
KEENAN:
on the record.
8 MR.
CARTER:
Okay.
9 MR.
KEENAN:
If you could do so, that 10 would be appreciated.
11 MR.
CARTER:
We had had the discussion 12 last time as to the head count reduction issue at 13 nuclear and specifically in Mike Friedlander's cost 14 centers.
15 I had thought or I testified last time 16 that the head count reduction was taken into 17 consideration and was part of Mike Friedlander's 2003 18 budget.
In other words, the head count reduction 19 reduced the budget by X amount of bodies.
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found out after further 21 investigation is that the head count was not reduced, 22 that the people that were eventually let go were, in 23 fact, included in his budget and at that time had not 24 been identified as being part of the workforce 25 reduction.
So I wanted to clarify that.
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SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Okay.
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appreciate that.
Jeff?
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KEENAN:
That was just the very narrow 4
aspect we wanted to clarify.
One more area.
Connie 5
was also requested to get some information on dollars 6
spent per GAAP.
7 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Okay.
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CARTER:
I had provided some
.9 information that I had received from our procurement 10 folks on GAAP.
And I had provided that to you, Jeff, 11 yesterday.
12 But Connie also just provided me this 13 morning some orders which show how much we had spent 14 per GAAP in 2002.
So I would just ask if Connie also 15 could explain that document.
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CARTER:
Right.
What I did, Jeff, is 17 I went back and looked at --
ran some accounting 18 reports to look at the expenses for 2002 to the GAAP 19 purchase order.
What I found out is that in 2002, we 20 had planned to spend $375,000 for the GAAP initiative.
21 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Right.
22 MR.
CARTER:
We ended up spending 23
$985,000, which picked up -- you know, as initiatives 24 were identified during the year, we, of course, added 25 those as change orders to the original order.
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SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Okay.
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CARTER:
The 375,000, as I
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previously, that was actually planned back in late 4
2002 -- or 2001.
I'm sorry.
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SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Right.
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CARTER:
So somewhere in between, of 7
course, that time and the end of the year 2002, there 8
were a lot of additional initiatives added to the 9
original scope.
10 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Were there any 11 purchase orders for GAAP for the year 2003?
12 MR.
CARTER:
No, there was not.
The work 13 was essentially over, completed in the year 2002.
14 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Okay.
15 MR.
CARTER:
There was no expenses.
16 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
All right.
17 Jeff, anything else?
18 MR.
KEENAN:
No, nothing further.
19 SR. SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Connie, I don't 20 have anything else, but I do appreciate you coming 21 back and bringing the documents and clarifying some 22 things for me.
23 MR.
CARTER:
You're quite welcome.
24 SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Is there 25 anything you want to add?
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CARTER:
No.
SR.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
Okay.
It's 10:54.
This interview is concluded.
Thanks.
(Whereupon, at 10:54 a.m.,
the foregoing matter was adjourned.)
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