ML12234A730
| ML12234A730 | |
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| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 08/15/2012 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Saba F | |
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| NRC-1810 | |
| Download: ML12234A730 (22) | |
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Official Transcript of Proceedings NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title:
10 CFR 2.206 RE Brunswick Units 1and 2 Docket Number: (n/a)
Location: (teleconference)
Date: VVednesday,August15,2012 VVork Order No.: NRC-1810 Pages 1-22 NEAL R. GROSS AND CO., INC.
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1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3 + + + + +
4 10 CFR 2.206 PETITION REVIEW BOARD (PRB) 5 CONFERENCE CALL 6 RE 7 BRUNSWICK UNITS 1 AND 2 8 + + + + +
9 WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST 15, 2012 1 +++++
12 The conference call was held, Samson S. Lee, 13 Chairperson of the Petition Review Board, presiding.
14 PETITIONERS: DAVID LOCHBAUM 15 MARY OLSON 16 JIM WARREN 17 PETITION REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS 18 SAMSON S. LEE, Deputy Division Director, 19 Division of Risk Assessment, Office 20 of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 21 Chairperson of the Petition Review Board 22 FARIDEH SABA, Petition Manager for 2.206 23 petition 24 MERRILEE J. BANIC, Petition Coordinator 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., NW.
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2 NRC HEADQUARTERS STAFF 2 MOLLY L. MARSH, Attorney, Office of General 3 Counsel 4 ROSSNYEV D. ALVARADO, Instrumentation and Control Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 6 Nuclear Reactor Regulation 7 KENT A.L. WOOD, Team Leader, Spent Fuel Team, 8 Reactor Systems Branch, Division of 9 Safety Systems, Office of Nuclear 1 Reactor Regulation 11 EVAN J. DAVIDSON, Balance of Plant Branch, Division of 12 Safety Systems, Office of Nuclear Reactor 13 Regulation 14 HAROLD WALKER, Containment and Ventilation 1 Branch, Division of Safety Systems, 16 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 17 LAUREN R. CASEY, Enforcement Specialist, 18 Office of Enforcement 19 GERALD M. WAIG, Senior Reactor Systems 2 Engineer, Technical Specifications 21 Branch, Office of Nuclear Reactor 22 Regulation 23 KRISTY A. BUCHOLZ, Technical Reviewer, 24 Technical Specifications Branch, Office of Nuclear 2 Reactor Regulation NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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3 1 RANDALL A. MUSSER, Branch Chief, Division of 2 Reactor Projects, Region II 3 MICHELLE P. CATTS, Senior Resident Inspector DAVID L. PELTON, Chief of the Generic Communications Branch, Office of Nuclear 6 Reactor Regulation 7
8 ALSO PRESENT 9 CHARLIE DONALDSON, Assistant Attorney General, 1 New York State Attorney General's Office 11 MARK TURKAL, Lead Engineer, Brunswick 12 Licensing at Progress Energy 13 ANNETTE POPE, Manager, Organizational 1 Effectiveness, Brunswick Nuclear 1 Generating Station 16 KATE BARBER NOLAN, Associate General Counsel, 17 Duke Energy Corporation 18 19 2
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4 PRO C E E DIN G S 2 (9:02 a.m.)
3 MS. SABA: Good morning. My name is Farideh 4 Saba. I'd like to thank everybody for attending this 5 meeting. Again, my name is Farideh Saba, and I am the 6 Brunswick Project Manager.
7 We are here today to allow the Petitioners, 8 Mr. David Lochbaum, Mr. Jim Warren l and Ms. Mary Olson 9 to address the Peti tion Review Board, PRB 1 regarding the 10 2206 Petition dated July 10~, 2012.
11 I am the Petition Manager for this petition.
12 The PRB Chairman is Dr. Samson Lee.
13 AS part of the PRB's review of this 14 petition l Mr. David Lochbaum has requested this 15 opportunity to address the PRB.
16 This meeting is scheduled from 9: 00 to 11: 00 17 a.m. Eastern time. The meeting is being recorded by the 18 NRC Operations Center, and will be transcribed by a court 19 reporter. The transcript will become a supplement to the 2 peti tion. The transcript will also be made publicly 21 available.
22 I'd like to open the meeting with 23 introductions. As we go around the room please be sure 24 to clearly state your name your position, and the office I
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5 1 start off. My name is Farideh Saba. I'm a Senior project 2 Manager in Division of Operating Reactors Licensing, 3 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRR.
DR. LEE: Samson Lee. I'm the Deputy Division 5 Director, Division of Risk Assessment, NRR, and I'm the 6 PRE Chair.
7 MS. BANIC: Merrilee Banic, NRR, 2.206 8 Petition Coordinator.
9 MS. MARSH: I'm Molly Marsh. I'm an attorney 10 in the Office of General Counsel.
11 MS. ALVARADO: Rossnyev Alvardo. I'm with 12 NRR, Division of Engineering, I&C Branch.
13 MR. WOOD: My name is Kent Wood. I'm the team 14 leader for technical team in the Reactor Systems Branch, 15 Division of Safety System in the Office of Nuclear 16 Reactor Regulation.
17 MR. PELTON: David Pelton, Chief of the 18 Generic Communications Branch. I'm responsible for the 19 2.206 process implementation, the Office of NRR.
20 MR. DAVIDSON: Evan Davidson, Balance of 21 plant Branch, NRR.
22 MR. WALKER: I'm Harold Walker from 23 Containment and Ventilation Branch in the Division of 24 Safety Systems, NRR.
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6 1 specialist in the Office of Enforcement.
2 MS. SABA: Okay. We've completed 3 introductions at the NRC Headquarters. At this time, are there any NRC participants from Headquarters on the 5 phone? Please introduce yourself.
6 MR. WAIG: This is Gerald Waig, Senior 7 Reactor Systems Engineer. I'm with the Technical 8 Speci cations Branch, the Office of NRR.
9 MS. BUCHOLZ: This is Kristy Bucholz. I am 1 in NRR, Technical Specifications Branch, a technical 1 reviewer.
12 MS. SABA: Okay. It looks like we don't have 13 anybody else from Headquarters. Are there any NRC 14 participants from the regional offices on the phone?
15 MR. MUSSER: Good morning. This is Randy 16 Musser, Division of Reactor Projects Branch Chief in 17 Region II.
18 MS. CATTS: Hello, this is Michelle Catts.
19 I'm the NRC Senior Resident Inspector at Brunswick.
2 MS. SABA: Okay, it looks like we are done 21 with the Headquarters and Region. Mr. Lochbaum, Mr.
22 Warren, and Ms. Olson, would you please introduce 23 yourselves for the record.
24 MR. LOCHBAUM: Go ahead, Mary.
2 MS. OLSON: I'm sorry, I had my phone on mute.
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7 1 I'm Mary Olson. I'm the Southeast Regional Coordinator 2 for Nuclear Information and Resource Service. We are a 3 national educational and advocacy organization with 4 members in all 50 states including North Carolina.
5 MR. LOCHBAUM: This is David Lochbaum, 6 Director of the Nuclear Safety Proj ect with the Union of 7 Concerned Scientists.
8 MS. SABA: It appears that Mr. Warren has not 9 joined us yet. It is not required for the members of the 1 public to introduce themselves for this call. However, 1 if there are any members of the public on the phone that 12 wish to do so at this time, please state your name for 13 the record.
14 MR. DONALDSON: Charlie Donaldson, New York 15 State Attorney General's Office. That's Charlie with an 16 I-E, it's not Charles.
17 MS. SABA: Are there anybody else from the 18 member of public or the licensee on the phone? Please 19 introduce yourself.
2 MR. TURKAL: This is Mark Turkal. I'm Lead 21 Licensing Engineer at the Brunswick plant.
22 MS. POPE: Annette Pope, Brunswick Nuclear 23 Plant, Manager of Organizational Effectiveness.
24 MS. SABA: Okay.
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8 1 Legal.
2 MS. SABA: Are there any other member of 3 public on the phone? Is the court reporter on the line?
4 COURT REPORTER: Yes, the court reporter is on the line.
6 MS. SABA: Okay. I'd like to emphasize that 7 we each need to speak clearly and loudly to make sure that 8 the court reporter can accurately transcribe this 9 meeting. If you do have something that you would like to 1 say, please first state your name for the record. For 1 those dialing into the meeting, please remember to mute 12 your phone to minimize any background noise or 13 distractions. If you do not have a mute button, this can 1 be done by pressing the keys *6. To unmute please press 15 the *6 keys again. Thank you.
16 At this time I'll turn it over to the PRB 17 Chairman, Dr. Samson Lee.
18 DR. LEE: Good morning. Welcome to this 19 meeting regarding the 2.206 petition submitted by Mr.
20 Lochbaum, Ms. Olson, and Mr. Warren.
21 I would like to first share some background 22 on our process. Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of 23 Federal Regulations describes the peti tion process, the 24 primary mechanism for the public to request enforcement 25 action by the NRC in a public process.
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9 1 This process permits anyone to petition NRC 2 to take enforcement-type action related to NRC licensees 3 or licensed activities. Depending on the results of this evaluation, NRC could modify, expand, or revoke an NRC 5 issued license or take any other appropriate enforcement 6 actions to resolve a problem.
7 The NRC Staff Guidance for the disposition 8 of 2.206 petition requests is in Management Directive 9 8.11 which is publicly available.
10 The purpose of today's meeting is to give 11 the petitioner an opportunity to provide any additional 12 explanation or support for the petition before the PRB' s 13 initial consideration and recommendation.
1 This meeting is not a hearing, nor is it an 1 opportuni ty for the peti tioner to ques tion or examine the 1 PRB on the meri ts of the issues presented in the peti tion 17 request. No decisions regarding the merits of this 18 petition will be made at this meeting.
19 Following this meeting, the PRE will 20 conduct its internal deliberations. The outcome of this 21 internal meeting will be discussed wi th the peti tioner.
22 The PRB typically consists of a Chairman, 23 usually a manager at the Senior Executive Service level 24 at the NRC, and a petition manager and a PRB coordinator.
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10 1 based on the content of the information in the peti tion 2 request.
3 At this time I would like to introduce the Board. I'm Samson Lee, the PRB Chairman. Farideh Saba is the Petition Manager for the petition under discussion 6 today. Merrilee Banic is the Office PRB Coordinator. Our 7 technical staff includes Randy Musser and Jim Dodson from 8 Region II, Kris Bucholz and Gerry Waig, Office of Nuclear 9 Reactor Regulations, NRR, Division of Safety Systems, 10 DSS, Technical Specifications Branch. Steven Jones and 11 Evan Davidson, NRR, DSS, Balance of Plant Branch, Harold 12 Walker, NRR, DSS, Containment and Ventilation Branch, 13 Kent Wood, NRR, DSS, Reactor System Branch, Rossnyev 14 Alvarado, NRR, Division of Engineering, Instrumentation 15 & Controls Branch. We also obtain advice from our Office 16 of General Counsel and Office of Enforcement represented 17 by Molly Marsh and Lauren Casey respectively.
18 As described in our process, the NRC staff 19 may ask clarifying questions in order to better 2 understand the petitioner's presentation, and to reach 21 a reasoned decision whether to accept or reject the 22 petitioner's request for review under the 2.206 process.
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11 1 the NRC a petition under 10 CFR 2.206 process regarding 2 irradiated fill at Brunswick Steam Electric Power Plant, 3 Brunswick on behalf of the North Carolina waste 4 Awareness and Reduction Network, NCWARN, the Nuclear 5 Information and Resource Services, NIRS, and the Union 6 of Concerned Scientists, UCS.
7 In this petition request, Mr. Lochbaum 8 requested that the NRC take enforcement action in the 9 form of an order either modifying the Brunswick operating 1 licenses, or obtain or require the licensee to submit 11 amendment request for these licenses.
12 In summary, Mr. Lochbaum requested that the 13 NRC revise the Brunswick Unit 1 and Unit 2 technical 14 specifications as speci ed in his petition request.
1 Allow me to discuss the NRC activities to 16 date. On July 12, 2012, the Petition Manager contacted 17 Mr. Lochbaum to acknowledge the receipt of his letter, 18 and discuss the 10 CFR 2.206 process and to offer him an 19 opportunity to address the PRB by phone or in person.
20 Mr. Lochbaum requested to address the PRB 21 by phone, or if possible in person on August 7th or 8 th ,
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- Subsequently, on July 21st, the Petition 2 Manager informed Mr. Lochbaum via email of the planned th 3 teleconference on August 15
- By an email dated July 26, 4 2012, Mr. Lochbaum accepted the date and time of planned teleconference.
6 As a reminder for the phone participants, 7 please identify yourself if you make any remarks as this 8 will help us in the preparation of the meeting transcript 9 that will be made publicly available. Thank you.
10 Mr. Lochbaum, I'll turn it over to you to 11 allow you to provide any information you believe the PRB 12 should consider as part of this peti tion. Mr. Lochbaum.
13 MR. LOCHBAUM: This is Dave Lochbaum. Thank 14 you and good morning.
15 On behalf of NCWARN, the Nuclear 16 Information and Resource Service, and the Union of 17 Concerned Scientists, I appreciate this opportunity to 18 speak to our recent petition seeking to correct 19 deficiencies in the technical specifications for the two 2 reactors at the Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant in North 21 Carolina.
22 As described in our petition, the technical 23 specifications contain many requirements intended to 24 protect workers and the public from the irradiated fuel 2 in the spent fuel pools. The table on page 3 of the NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., NW.
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13 1 petition lists these requirements.
2 The hazard that these requirements seek to 3 protect against is the irradiated fuel. But as the table 4 illustrates, whi the hazard exists any time irradiated fuel is within the spent fuel pool the requirements only 6 apply sometimes.
7 Our peti tion seeks to remedy this 8 shortcoming by having these protective measures apply 9 any time irradiated fuel is within the spent fuel pool.
1 In other words, any time the hazard is present the 11 associated protective measures should be required to be 12 present, also.
13 I believe our petition is clear on this 14 point, but I would be glad to answer any questions you 1 have to supplement or clarify the information presented 16 in the petition.
17 My main purpose in asking to speak with you 18 this morning was to cover one point that was not clearly 19 made our petition; namely, the adverse consequences 20 from denying this petition and maintaining the status 21 quo.
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14 1 pools. rrhe specific order is in NRC I S ADAMS library under 2 Accession Number ML12054A679. Attachment 2 to the NRC 3 order defined nine design requirements required and 4 availability and reliability attributes for the 5 spent fuel pool instrumentation.
6 None of these 12 items explicitly or even 7 implicitly requires that this spent fuel pool water level 8 instrumentation be operable or functional at all times 9 when irradiated fuel is in the spent fuel pool.
10 Because availability is not specified 11 the order, the defau1 t requirement then becomes defined 12 by standard industry practice and regulatory convention.
13 When a system, structure, or component is required to be 14 operable all of its associated power supplies, 15 instrumentation, and alarms are also required to be 1 operable. Conversely, when a system, structure, or component is not required to be operable nei ther are its 1 power supplies, instruments, and alarms.
1 Currently, Brunswick Technical 20 Specification 3.7.7 only requires water level inside the 21 spent fuel pool during operating modes 4 and 5 when an 22 irradiated fuel assembly is being moved in the pool.
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15 1 instrumentation to be installed by the NRC's recent order 2 could be intentionally removed from service as long as 3 irradiated fuel is not being moved in the spent fuel pool, 4 or if this instrumentation broke there would be no legal requirement for Brunswick's owner to fix it before the 6 next movement of irradiated fuel inside the spent fuel 7 pool, which could be weeks or months into the future.
8 Once our petition is granted and the 9 deficiencies the Brunswick technical specifications 1 corrected, the water level instrumentation mandated by 11 the NRC's order would be legally required to be operable 12 and functional any time irradiated fuel was stored in the 13 spent fuel pool, not just when it was being moved. In 14 addition, all other attendant protective measures like 15 power supplies, containment, and ventilation systems 16 would also be legally required.
17 We're not required under 10 CFR 2.206 to 18 show that the requested actions do not place undue burden 19 on the licensee, but I would like to address that point 20 anyway.
2 The technical specifications for the 22 Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, which are available in the 23 NRC's ADAMS library under Accession Number ML052720275 24 already contain the requirements we seek in our peti tion 2 at Brunswi ck . For example, Pilgrim's Technical NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., NW.
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16 1 Specification 3.10.C requires adequate water level be 2 maintained in the spent fuel pool at all times when it 3 contains irradiated fuel.
Pilgrim is not operating at an economic disadvantage compared to Brunswick because of this 6 technical specification disparity. There is no undue 7 burden associated with 19rim's technical 8 specifications requiring protective measures to be 9 enforced more broadly than currently at Brunswick.
10 Hence, it will not be an undue burden for Brunswick owner 1 to implement the actions requested by our petition.
12 Instead, the actions requested in our 13 petition once implemented will provide reasonable 14 assurance that workers and members of the public are 15 adequately protected against the hazard associated with 16 irradiated fuel stored in the spent fuel pools at 17 Brunswick. For this reason, the NRC must grant our 18 peti tion and compel this licensee to rectify 19 deficiencies in the Brunswick technical specifications.
20 I appreciate this opportunity to address 21 you regarding our petition, and would be glad to answer 22 any questions that you have. Thank you. Mary, do you have 23 anything to add?
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17 1 anything technical to add, but I do want to point out that 2 part of the inspiration for this concern on our part and 3 catching it at this time is due to the design of this 4 reactor and its similari ty to the Fukushima reactors. And 5 while we appreciate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's 6 efforts to learn from that event, published reports and 7 meetings, and talking is one step. The next step is 8 implementation of actual regulatory diligence and 9 enforcement of those regulations to actually bring a 1 greater level safety.
11 I don't think this is about popularity or 12 public opinion. I think it is about implementing legal 13 mandate under the Atomic Energy Act. However, I will tell 14 you that in my 22 years in this field I have not seen the 15 ground swell of concern about this federal regulator that 16 has happened since 2011, and this is a stellar 17 opportunity for each individual in this room where you 18 are and on the line in the virtual space to hear and 19 understand that the public is counting on you to actually 20 not only learn from Fukushima, but act on those lessons.
21 And I think that USC, Union of Concerned 22 Scientists, is doing a wonderful job of providing you 23 with a very simple opportunity to demonstrate your 24 capacity to not only pay attention, not only to learn and 25 discuss, but to actually act.
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18 DR. LEE: At this point, does the staff here 2 at Headquarters have any questions for Mr. Lochbaum or 3 Ms. Olson?
4 MR. WOOD: I have one. This is Kent Wood from 5 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. You requested this 6 tech specs being made applicable any time that there is 7 irradiated fuel in the spent fuel pool. And I was 8 wondering if you're considering that, you know, would 9 there be circumstances where these things would not be 10 required even if there is irradiated fuel in the spent 11 fuel pool?
12 MR. LOCHBAUM: This is David Lochbaum. I 13 guess at the moment I don't - when I prepared the 14 petition I didn't envision that, but I guess the licensee 15 in responding to the order, if an order is issued, could 16 always come up with scenarios where they wouldn't be 17 required based on a safety argument. If that's the case, 18 and a sufficient argument is made, then that would be a 19 suitable option.
2 I didn't envision that coming in, but if 21 that's presented and adequately justified, then that 22 would seem to be okay.
23 MR. WOOD: Okay.
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19 1 Instrumentation and Control Branch. In the item 3 that 2 you suggest modification to the technical spec, it was 3 3.3.7.1-1 regarding this high function for control 4 building air intake variations. In the specification that you provide for these you said that this function 6 has to be included in the table, so when the spent fuel 7 is in the pool there is no problem or issues with the 8 control building air intake.
9 The question that I have why do you 1 consider this required when we have radiation monitors 1 installed in the intake to detect if there is any 12 variation, and that would trigger the activation of the 13 control board.
14 MR. LOCHBAUM: I guess the reason I -- this 15 Dave Lochbaum. The reason I included it in the petition 16 is that that function is required currently in the 17 technical specifications only when irradiated fuel is 18 being moved. If the configuration as you stated was 19 correct, then it would seem like that requirement would 2 be unnecessary, so I'm assuming the current requirement 21 is necessary. And if so, then it needs to be applicable 22 more broadly than just when irradiated fuel is being 23 moved, so that's why I included it in the table, and in 24 the petition.
25 MS. ALVARADO: Okay, thank you.
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20 1 DR. LEE: Does the staff at the Regions have 2 any questions for Mr. Lochbaum or Ms. Olson?
3 MR. MUSSER: Randy Musser has no questions 4 for Mr. Lochbaum or Ms. Olson.
5 DR. LEE: Does the licensee have any 6 questions?
7 MR. TURKAL: This is Mark Turkal wi th 8 Brunswick Licensing. I have no questions.
9 DR. LEE: Before I conclude the meeting, 1 members of the public may provide comments regarding the 11 petition and ask questions about the 2.206 tion 12 process. However, as stated at the opening, the purpose 13 of this meeting is not to provide an opportunity for the 14 petit or the public to question or examine the PRB 1 regarding the merits of the petition request. Does any 16 public want to make any comments?
17 MR. DONALDSON: New York has no questions or 18 comments.
1 DR. LEE: Mr. Lochbaum and Ms. Olson, thank 2 you for your time to provide the NRC staff with clarifying 21 information on the petition you have submitted.
22 Before we close, does the court reporter 23 need any additional information for the meeting 24 transcript?
25 COURT REPORTER: This is the court reporter.
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21 1 It would be helpful if somebody could email me a list of 2 the participants from the NRC. If you 1 , I could give 3 you my email address.
MS. SABA: Yes. This is Farideh Saba. Please send me an email and I'll respond to you.
COURT REPORTER: Okay. What is your email 7 address?
8 MS. SABA: I'm the one who requested the 9 report. Farideh Saba.
1 COURT REPORTER: Can you spell that?
1 MS. SABA: F-A-R-I-D-E-H.S .gov.
12 COURT REPORTER: All right, thank you.
13 MS. SABA: Thanks.
1 DR. LEE: With that, the meeting is concluded 1 and we will be terminating the phone connection. Thank 16 you.
17 (Whereupon, the proceedings went off the 18 record at 9:29 a.m.)
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