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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
2.206 Petition Review Board RE Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Docket Number:
(n/a)
Location:
(telephone conference)
Date:
Thuffiday, August 26, 2010 Work Order No.:
NRC-403 Pages 1-25 Transcript edited by Douglas Pickett, NRC NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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10 CFR 2.206 PETITION REVIEW BOARD (PRB)
CONFERENCE CALL RE VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION
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THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 2010
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conference call was held, Ted Quay, Chairperson of Petition Review Board, presiding.
PETITIONER: MICHAEL MULLIGAN PETITION REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS:
TED
- QUAY, Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DOUGLAS V. PICKETT, Petition Manager DOUGLAS DODSON, Region I, Division of Reactor Projects TANYA MENSAH, Petition Coordinator, NRR KENN MILLER, NRR, ectrical Engineering Branch DUC NGUYEN, NRR, Aging Management Structures Electrical and terns Branch NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., NW, (202) 2344433 WASHINGTON, D,C. 20005-3701 www,nealrgross.com
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NANCY SALGADO, NRR, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I-I OTHER NRC PERSONNEL PRESENT:
JAMES KIM, Project Manager, Division of Operating Reactor censing ALICIA CALERO, General Engineer, Division of icy and Rulemaking HEATHER JONES, NRC Region I, Vermont Yankee Resident Inspector ALSO PRESENT:
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25 T-A-B-L-E O-F C-O-N-T-E-N-T-S Welcome and Introductions.......................... 4 Doug cket, Petition Manager PRE Chairman's Introduction........................ 8 Ted Quay, Chairman Petitioner's Presentation......................... 13 Michael Mulligan, Petitioner PRE Chairman's Closing Remarks Ted Quay, Chairman
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3 BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
Thanks, everybody, 4
for attending this meeting.
My name is Doug Pickett.
6 We are here today to allow Petitioner, 7
Mr.
Michael
- Mulligan, his second opportunity to 8
address the Petition Review Board, who we'll refer to 9
as the PRB regarding bis 2.206 petition, dated June 1
15, 2010, on the adequacy of the Vernon Hydroelectric 11 Station Tie-In to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power 12 Station located in Vernon, Vermont.
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am the Petition Manager for the 14 petition.
15 The PRB Chairman is Ted Quay.
16 As part of the PRB's review of this 17 petition, Mr. Mulligan has requested this opportunity 18 to address the PRB.
19 This meeting is scheduled to conclude by 20 approximately 11:00 a.m.
The meeting being 21 recorded by the NRC Operations Center and will be 22 transcribed by a court reporter.
The transcript will 23 become a supplement to the petition.
The transcript 2
will also be made publicly available.
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As we go around the room, please be 2
sure to clearly state your name, your position, and 3
the office that you work for wi thin the NRC for the record.
I! 11 start 0 I'm Doug Pickett.
I'm 6
from NRC. I'm the Petition Manager for the petition.
7 BOARD MEMBER SALGADO:
I'm 8
the Branch Chief from Division of Operator and Reactor 9
Licensing.
1 BOARD MEMBER KIM:
James
- Kim, Project 1
Manager from the Division of Operating and Reactor 12 Licensing, NRR.
13 COURT REPORTER:
ks, I'm sorry, but 14 is the Court Reporter.
The folks on the staff 15 who I think are on a speakerphone are not making it 1
onto the record.
17 BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
This is Doug 18 Pickett.
19 I can s end you an email wi th everybody's 2
name on it so we have if you want to go over it 21 again.
22 BOARD MEMBER MILLER:
On the line Kenn 23 Mil
, NRR, Electrical Engineering Branch.
24 CHAIRMAN QUAY:
Okay.
You got Ted Quay, 25 the PRB Chairman in Headquarters, NRR.
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BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
And from Region I.
2 BOARD MEMBER DODSON:
Doug Dodson, Region 3
1, Project Engineer.
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The Residence 5
Office.
6 BOARD MEMBER JONES:
7 BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
And the licensee?
8 MR. DeVINCENTIS:
Jim DeVincentis.
9 BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
And Mr. Mulligan.
10 PETITIONER MULLIGAN:
Yes.
This is Mike 11 Mulligan. I'm the petitioner.
12 BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
And there anyone 13 who has not introduced themselves on the phone.
Okay.
14 Then we'll move on.
15 We've completed our introductions and 16 we've got the representative from the licensee on the 17 phone.
And Mr. Mulligan has introduced himself. And 18 no one else.
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speak clearly and loudly to make sure that the Court 21 Reporter can accurately transcribe this meeting.
If 22 you do have something that you would like to say, 23 please state your name for the record.
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If you do not have 2
a mute button, this can be done by pressing key 3
star 6.
To unmute, you press star 6 again.
At this time I'll turn it over to the PRB Chairman, Ted Quay.
6 CHAIRMAN QUAY:
Welcome to this meeting 7
regarding 2.206 petition submi t ted by Mr.
8 Mulligan.
9 I'd like to first share some background 10 information on our process.
11 Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of 12 Federal Regulations describes the petition process; 13 the primary mechanism for the public to request 1
enforcement action by the NRC in a public process.
This process permits anyone to petition the NRC to 1
1 take enforcement-type action related to NRC licensees 17 or licensed activities.
Depending on the resul ts of 18 its evaluation, the NRC could modify, suspend or 19 revoke an NRC-issued license or take any other 2
appropriate enforcement action to resolve a problem.
21 The NRC's staff's guidance for the 22 disposition of 2.206 petition requests in its 23 Management Directive 8.11 which is publicly available.
24 The purpose of today's meeting is to give 2
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21 22 23 24 25 additional explanation or support of the petition before the Petition Review Board makes its final recommendation on whether or not to accept this petition for review.
This meeting is not a hearing, nor is it an opportunity for the petition to question or examine the PRB on the merits or the issues presented in the petition request.
No decisions regarding the merits of this petition will be made at this meeting.
Following the meeting, the Petition Review Board will conduct its internal deliberations.
The outcome this internal meeting will be discussed with the petitioner.
The Petition Review Board typically consists a
- Chairman, usually a manager at the senior executive service level at the NRC.
It has a Petition Manager and a PRB Coordinator.
Other members of the Board are determined by the NRC staff based on the content the information in the petition request.
At this time, I would like to introduce the Board.
I am Ted Quay, the Petition Review Board Chairman.
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9 Doug Pickett is the Petition Manager for the petition under discussion today.
Tanya Mens is the office's PRB Coordinator.
Our technical staff includes:
Duc Nguyen from Of ce of Nuclear Reactor Regulations' Aging Management of Structures, Electrical, and Systems Branch; Kenn Miller from Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation's ectrical Engineering Branch; Nancy Salgado from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation's Plant censing Branch 1-1, and; Doug Dodson from NRC's Region I, Division Reactor Projects.
As described in our process, the NRC staff may ask clarifying questions in order to better understand the petitioner's presentation and to reach a reasoned decision whether to accept or reject the petitioner's requests for review under the 2.206 process.
I would like to summarize the scope of the petition under consideration and the NRC activities to date.
On June 15, 2010, Mr. Mulligan submitted to the NRC a peti tion, under 10 CFR 2.206 regarding NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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the Vernon Hydroelectric Station's power supply to the 2
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station.
3 In this petition request, Mr.
Mulligan 4
reques the following:
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The immediate shutdown the Vermont 6
Yankee facility; 7
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An independent investigation, outside 8
of NRC and Entergy, to determine whether fraud and/or 9
falsi cation of issues were involved in the license 1
renewal forts Vermont Yankee; 11 (3)
An investigation on what petition 12 describes as a subtle shift from reliance on dies 13 generators to the Vernon Hydroelectric Station by the 14 Vermont Yankee licensee without the appropr 15 quali ty of a nuclear grade electrical power supply, 16 andi 17
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An inspection by the NRC or other 18 respons organization of the Vernon Hydroelectric 19 Station dam and switchyard.
20 On June 21 f PRE met and 21 considered the petitioner's request for the NRC to 22 immediately order shutdown of the Vermont Yankee 23 Nuclear Power Station.
The PRE did not identify any 24 25 immediate safety concerns. Therefore, the request (202) 234-4433 immediate shutdown.
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On June 29th, a teleconference was held wi th you, the Peti tioner, and the PRE in which you provided further explanation and support for your petition.
A transcript of that phone call has been provided to you and is publicly available in ADAMS.
On July 13th, the PRB met internally to discuss your petition concerning the adequacy the Vernon Tie to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station and make its initial recommendation in accordance with Management Directive 8.11.
The initial recommendation of the PRB is that the issues raised in your petition have already been reviewed, evaluated and resolved by the NRC.
Therefore, your petition meets the teria for rejection.
In summary, the PRB concluded that the NRC staff has extensively reviewed power supply provided by the Vernon Hydroelectric Station and the iance placed on this power supply by the Vermont Yankee facility.
During the Station Blackout review of Vermont Yankee, the staff concluded that the Vernon Hydroelectric Station power station supply provides an acceptable alternate AC power source.
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By email dated July 23,
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On July 3D, 2010, you requested a second opportunity to address the PRE for the purpose of providing additional supporting information for your petition.
Following today's discussion, PRB will meet internally to discuss additional information provided today and make its final recommendation in accordance with Management Direct 8.11 As a reminder for the phone participants, please identify yourself if you make any remarks as this will help in the preparation of the meeting transcript that will be made publicly available.
Thank you.
And at this point, Mr. Mulligan, I'd like to turn it over to you.
And you have approximately 35 minutes, as Mr. Pickett previously informed you.
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type of thing.
And I just -- you know, I feel very fortunate to be a citizen of the United States and be able to talk to you guys, real
,when it gets down to it.
Basically I attest that all of what was talked about as far as petition, you didn't -- the NRC didn't talk --
the NRC and Entergy didn't talk about rusting conditions of the elec c towers.
They didn't do a detailed inspection.
I
't know what codes.
I mean, this whole is there's a lack of information.
You know, you go into this thing and you kind of want the information, you want to your ducks in and everything. But when you ly get down it, very litt information is provi for a peti to--
to be to fight back you guys according to your rules and stuff.
And so, SER and I
- Entergy, real hasn't I
't found any place in here that talked about the rusting towers.
This is what happened with rusting towers, this is the condi on of the rusting towers and explained it thoroughly in engineering terms.
1 you guys are
, you know what I'm talking about.
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This is the question is essentially is licensing relicensing adequate, it thorough?
What's missing in this thing, and stuff like that.
And what was. missing is an evaluation of what rust -- rusting towers mean.
And if you guys were competent, you would have covered that. You would have known how to protect yourselves and Entergy.
You would have covered it thoroughly, exposed everything and then I wouldn I t have had a leg to stand on, and stuff like that.
I can't find anything in the written trail here of anybody discussing the rusty towers, or -- and that, of course, questions, you know.
Is that switchyard going to be taken care of appropriately for the next 20 years of relicensing?
So essenti ly!
maybe this isn't necessari all about whether the running dam is adequate for Vermont Yankee.
This is a kind of language thing! you know.
Help in communication type of thing.
Is the Agency and Entergy capable of communicating! identifying problems and solving them!
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bureaucracy more that concerns me.
The symptoms are the switchyard.
The disease is, essentially, the twisted language that's being used here.
And r you know r and you don't have any idea of the quality behind a lot of these terms, and stuff 1 that.
You don't have any I can't see it in the documents.
It's an issue with the way you document everything, or don't document everything, or the rules of the documenting -
and documenting stuff.
And so I don't have -- as an outsider, I don't have the information.
I really don't have the information, very much information. Just bits and piece of stuff like that.
And so, I
mean that's essentially where the big problem is:
- Language, the ability of everybody to talk and communicate, and the essence to know that there's a quality behind this stuff instead of all this you know, an institutional failure like we've seen in the Gulf of Mexico, and all this sort stuff, it's about language.
It's about the garbage dumb of language and communication.
Essentially, it's like throwing your divan in -
you know, you have an old piece of furniture, a divan.
You throw it in the garbage the garbage dump.
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all you find is pieces of the arms and the legs, and 2
they're 1
disconnected and fragmentary, and you 3
can't make heads or tai 1 s.
You can't make heads or tails ly what the components are, and stuff.
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language and stuff.
7 I wish see, I'm on a different phone.
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- NSAC, N-S-A-C 108.
NSAC.
That I S derived from the 10 ectric Power Research Institute, and stuff.
And 11 basically the petition referenced that as a standard 12 for diesel generators, and stuff.
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I 14 wanted -
I don I t have my computer and I wanted to 1
quote what the Petition Board said about 95 16 percent or higher reliability of dies 17 generators.
But I don't have that.
lim not -
I 18 don't have access to my computer anymore.
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was referenced the 95 percent was referenced by 21 EPRI and NSAC-10B.
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reliabilities to be 95 percent or higher. 11 So, you know, way the petition quoted 3
2 it to me was the 95 percent standard comes from EPRI.
And then, you know, you gave me the reference number the reference number. And I looked it up.
And Doug gave me a copy, and stuff.
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doesn't really identi is a standard.
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logic business.
So, like I
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mean the only 1
thing that referenced 95 percent was what I
just 11 quoted, and stuff. And it really doesn't identify.
12 This is EPRI this this should be 13 EPRI standard that emergency diesel generator 1
reliability should be greater than 95 percent 1
reliable, and stuff like that.
16 You guys are all engineers and you know, 17 I'm going to talk about the grid out outside 18 Vermont Yankee.
I mean, you know basically I mean, 19 I was there when we lost a grid, and stuff.
So -- and 20 and all we had were diesel generators.
So, you 2
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troubles wi th the grid.
So we don't depend we 2
don't know that that is a high enough quality us 3
for ectri ty for a nuclear power plant. So that's why we have the dies generators and to power up all 5
your electricity and s f 1 that.
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higher quality of 7
electricity of electrici And so how you test 8
it?
You test it through the plant's two-way system.
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or whatever you guys do now.
And it runs for an hour, 11 or sometimes you do it for I
- mean, that's how 12 there's an assurance of high quality power to an 13 elec c
station is I
- mean, that's the gold 14 standard.
It's not - it's not that the grid is -
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that 16 is really nice to have. Everyone knows that, that we 17 don't want -
we want to use a diesel generator; we 18 want to use the grid.
But we know that the grid is 19 is not adequate, and stuff like that. So then we flip 20 to the we use dies generators in case of -
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that line is energized more than 95 percent of the 2
time, and stuff like that.
And, you know, it isn't 3
the same.
It is -
you know, you kind of say, well 4
the way you word it, it's not clear.
The way you word 5
it is, it's equivalent to a diesel generator, but it's 6
really not even close to being as reliable as a dies 7
generator.
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garbage dump of words and language really bothers me, 1
and stuff.
And this kind of circular stuff, and 11 you're referencing an EPRI document and then you start 12 looking into -
you know, more looking in the dump 13 trying to figure out what's going on, and stuff.
And 14 getting bits and pieces of information, and stuff like 15 that.
And the EPRI document doesn't even really 16 reference the quality of diesel generators.
It 17 doesn't it's not a
reference.
It doesn't 18 specifically state this is a reference.
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erring that 1 s what the iabili ty of the Vernon Tie is, and stuff like that. And we don't
- you know, it's not the same thing as it's not same standard as what we use for di generators.
It's
- it's kind of deceptive.
And -- and -- you know, you got an it's 1
I've talked before.
You've got an incidence on one side and then on the other si you've got five or six codes or rules and you throw them up in the air.
None of them really fit. And then what ls back down to the earth, you pick up five or s of these pieces the codes and stuff, and and you come out authoritative authoritatively talking that the code says that we're allowed to use -- we're allowed to use the Tie, it's equivalent.
I know that if I was to run around with my photograph and said "Okay, that Vermont Yankee is we're -- we're in dire emergency and we want to use and want to use the Vernon Tie, we want to use the Vernon Dam and its offshoots.
We want to use that for emergency power."
And if I showed them that picture, you know 95 percent of the people in my community would say "Oh, no. That's not right. You can't use."
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21 22 23 24 25 21 depending upon that grid, visual ef I think that's you know, you got this goggledygook technical stuff and it doesn't make sense.
And I
think impression of people looking at the grid and saying what you --
I
- mean, looking at the Tie or looking at the dam excuse me.
I think, you know that --
that impression that you want in a dire emergency you're going to depend upon that swi tchyard to power up Vermont Yankee and prevent a core melt, I think if you showed them, if you said that "Do you want to depend on this --
the swi tchyard, "
I think 95 percent of the people would say the NRC's nuts.
Having overly complex and numerous sets of codes and is wors e than having no codes and es at all, you know.
That's what I think.
I think you can pick up these bits and fragments and pieces of these codes, nobody understands them.
And I don't even think the Agency half the time really understands them the way they talk and stuff.
you open start opening up the curtains, you know you start walking past the Vernon Swi tchyard and you say "How about thi s rusthere? "
"Oh, they had a relicensing."
I wonder what I
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And then you go in
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And then you start then you go through a petition process and they -
they they they reference NSAC-108 bus and you start looking into that.
And, you know, fragments of information, that's all.
It's no clear-cut --
no clear-cut --
at least what I can see reference to a iabili rate, and l
stuff.
- And, you know reliability rate of dies generators across the board, you know it's been noted through all the years that everybody plays games wi figuring out, you know, identifying whether it's a
failure or not a failure.
I mean games everybody games
- that, the diesel generator reliabilities things, you know, to make it -- want to make look better, and stuff.
You know, I -- so that's so that's --
I wish I had you know, Mr. pickett, I wanted to read that 1
I sent you into the record today, but I don't have my computer next to me.
And, you know, I
don't know if you could read it the record for me, because I don't have it because of my phone BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
Doug Pickett here.
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We have the email you sent to us and the write-up in it.
And we will include that as a
supplement to your petition, and we'll put it in ADAMS.
PETITIONER MULLIGAN:
Okay.
I'm just trying to think of anything I want to say anything else I want to say.
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much covered it.
Oh.
And I
made I
made a spell ing mistake.
lessons from Forsmark in my letter to you initially about the petition.
And that's F-O-R-S M-A-R-K.
That's the lessons from Forsmark electrical event.
That's an NRC document.
And I just wanted to correct the spelling that.
Would that letter is that letter going to be entered into ADAMS?
BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
Are you talking about your email from this morning?
PETITIONER MULLIGAN:
The email I
sent
- you, I
don't know, a
week ago, two weeks ago, or whatever, in response to the BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
Oh, yes. That's in ADAMS.
And we're making it publicly available.
That was at your request.
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- Yes, I think I
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think that I -- I'm done.
CHAIRMAN QUAY:
Okay.
At this time, does the staff at Headquarters have any questions for Mr. Mulligan?
Okay.
Seeing none, does license have any questions?
MR. DeVINCENTIS:
Entergy has no ques ons or comments.
CHAIRMAN QUAY:
Okay.
Does the Region have any questions?
BOARD MEMBER DODSON:
The Region has no questions or comments.
CHAIRMAN QUAY:
Okay.
I believe there were no members of the public identified.
So, Mr. Mulligan, I want to thank you for taking time to provide the NRC staff with clarifying information on petition you've submitted.
Before we close, does the Court Reporter need any additional information for meeting transcript?
We did agree to provide you with the names of individuals here.
Is there anything else that's needed?
COURT REPORTER:
No. And Mr. Pickett can ther email me or can call me.
Does he want my number right now.
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That would be COURT REPORTER:
It's 202-234-4433 ask for only one in the office, the only one BOARD MEMBER PICKETT:
Okay.
Thank you.
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And I'm want -- and thank you for this opportunity to speak CHAIRMAN QUAY:
You're welcome.
And I
guess with
- that, I
guess this concluded.
And thank you
- again, Mr.
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