ML12275A517
| ML12275A517 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 09/29/2011 |
| From: | NRC/OI |
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| FOIA/PA-2012-0185, 4-2011-024 | |
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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
4 OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS 5 INTERVIEW
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7 IN THE MATTER OF:
8 INTERVIEW OF : 01 Case No.
(b)(7)(C) I 9 : 4-2011-024 10 (CLOSED)
x 12 13 Thursday, September 29, 2011 14 15 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station 16 San Clemente, California 17 18 The above-entitled interview was conducted 19 at 9:05 a.m.
20 21 BEFORE:
22 &enior Special AgenMC) 23 bpecial Agent I1(7)(c) -
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1 APPEARANCES:
2 On Behalf of the Interviewee, Other Individuals 3 Involved in the Investigation and Southern California 4 Edison Company:
(b)(7)(C) 5 (b)(7)(C) 6 7 of: Law Department 8 Southern California Edison Company (SCE) 9 2244 Walnut Grove Avenue 10 Rosemead, California 91770 (626) 302-1212 12 FAX -4393 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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-7r, 3 1 P-R-OC-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 2 9:05 a.m.
3 1-R. SPEC. AGENT 111)(7)(C) m (b)(7)(C) 4 name is Ienior Special Agent I'm 5 with the NRC Office of Investigations.
It 6 Also present is[pecial Agent (b)(7)(C) 7 and also present, who is acting as 8 your attorney today.
9 This interview is being recorded and a 20 transcript will be produced from this recording. Do 11 you have any recording devices on you?
b(7)(C) 12 ffIjNo, I don't.
13 [SR. SPEC. AGENT 1(b)(T)c) Okay. And, the 14 purpose of this interview is to discuss allegations of 15 retaliation raised to the NRC by )77 16 Can you raise your right hand for me, 17 please?
18 Do you swear the information you are about 19 to provide will be the truth, the whole truth, and 20 nothing but the truth, so help you God?
21 (b)(7)(C) I do.
(b)(7)(C)-b (-)
22 ER. SPEC. AGENTEI IOkay. (c) 23 Z does your company require you to have an 24 attorney present during this interview?
25 [7j It doesn't require it.
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4 1 VAR. SPEC. AGENT (b)7)(C) Okay. And, is 2 Lb7Ceacting as your attorney today?
I She is.
3 4 [SR. SPEC. AGENTI (b)(7)C) Okay. Did you 5 select her or was she provided by the company?
_ S h he was provided by the 6
7 company.
8 R SPEC. AGENTI(7)(c) Okay. Were 9 you threatened with any type of adverse action if you 10 did not select an attorney to come with you today?
(b)(7)(C) 11 No.
12 IR. SPEC. AGENTEIc Okay. Do you 13 understand you have the right to have a private 14 interview with me without an attorney present?
15 ffij (bb(7)(C) Yes. Okays 16 TII a.I C
[SR. SPEC. AGEN (b)(7)(C) could you please identify yourself 17 for the 18 record?
19 (b)(7)(C)
L2 Y Yes._
,(b)(7)(c)
I 20 II)Cwith (b)(7)(C) the Southern California Edison 21 Company Law Department.
22 ER. SPEC. AGENTIIb)((c) Okay. Are you 23 represent ng (b)(7)(c) today?
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C, 5 1 representing Southern California Edison?
(b)(7)(C) 2 Yes, and other witnesses 3 in this matter.
4 [SR. SPEC. AGENT b)(7)(C) Okay. Do you S foresee a potential conflict of interest?
l(b)(7)(C)I INo, I do not.
6 7 SR. SPEC. AGENTI (b)(7)(c) What would 8 happen if one arises?
l(b)(7)(C) 9 If one would arise, I 10 would inform (b)(7)(C) Ihat I would not be able to 11 continue representing her, that she would have the 12 choice of continuing the interview, or terminating it, 13 or asking for a postponement to select another 14 representative, that I would continue representing SCE 15 for other witnesses.
16 tR. SPEC. AGENTLJ Okay. And, you understand that (b)(7)(c) 17 (b)(7)(C) 18 represents Southern California Edison as well as other 19 people in this investigation?
(b)(7)(C) 20 Yes.
21 SR. SPEC. AGENTE (b)(7¢)
C And, with that 22 understanding, do you still want her here for this 23 interview?
(b)(7)(C) 24 Yes.
25 [SR. SPEC. AGENT I(b)(7)(¢) Okay.
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6 could you go over your background employment 1
2 history?
(b)(7)(C) 3 4
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9 10 11 12 [R. SPEC. AGENTI (b)(7)(C) And, you are a(b)(7)(c) is that correct?
13 currently 1 I Correct.
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ýR. SPEC. AGENT I(b)(7)(c) And, I'm 15 16 sorry, you 've been there since
[ J ToI yes.
17 18 [SR. SPEC. AGENTII(b)(7)(C) You've been a 19 I(b)(7)(C) is that correct?
(b)(7)(C) Yes.
20 21 PR. SPEC AGENT j Okay. And, (b)(7)(c) do you kno°I7j 22 b)(C)Yes.
23 24 PR. SPEC. AGENT I How do you 25 knob)c)
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(He's been here probably as 1
2 long as I have, throughout the years I've seen him.
to the (b)(7)(C) 3 He used to bring work 7)(C) 4 and we used to do thel(b)(
5 [S R. SPEC. AGN (b)(7)(C) Okay.
r-(7)(C)- throughout the years.
6 7 fR. SPEC. AGENT (b)(c) All right.
8 And, does he -- did he, or does he still work with 9 you?
L))c 7 Yes.
10 11 ISR. SPEC. AGENT[Zb)(7)(C) He still works 12 with you?
(b(7)(C)
Yes.
13 14 PR. SPEC. AGENT c(b)(7)(c) Okay.- And, i5 your level compared to his, you got to the same level, 16 or is senior to you, as far as for positioning in your 17 current position, is he equivalent to you?
( I Currently, he's my 18 19 equivalent. They just reclassified his title, and he I(b)(7)(C) IJ 20 was a I believe, but he wasn't
[(b)(7)(c) - -It was just left over from 21 J(b)(7)(C)I 22 previous years. He used to be a r 23 PR. SPEC. AGENT ' Okay. And, 24 you said recently, how recently did they equate you 25 guys' positions?
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8 1 l(b)(7)(C).I I think it was pretty recent, 2 in the last few months. I don't remember the exact 3 date, because it didn't affect me, I was already in 4 that position.
5 [SR. SPEC. AGENT NT(7(C Okay. And, 6 [)C were you aware that[ j had raised 7 a concern or an issue regarding7 (b)(7)(C) 8 1(bb)7)(C 11 [SR. SPEC. AGENT E Okay. He 12 produced a notification, which I'm not sure I have 13 here.
14 have it.
i)(7)(C) 15 [SR. SPEC. AGENT 1(b)(7)(c) Okay, great.
16 Explain what happened during that time 17 frame, and why you were placed in charge, if you 18 recall.
19 ]wanted to --
20 well, he walked by my cubicle and he told me he was 21 going to put my name in, he asked if I wanted to be in 22 charge.
23 I kind of thought he was kidding, because 24 it's the first time he'd asked me, and he said he 25 wanted to rotate that position.
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9 1 At first I said no, you know, because I 2 wasn't interested in it. Then I felt bad afterwards, 3 I go, all right, what would I have to do, then I would 4 determine whether I would take it or not.
5 And he said, just -- you don't have to do 6 anything, just if anybody calls in just relay the 7 message to and he'll be here to handle 8 anything, and (b)(7)(c) jis here for any supervisory 9 things.
10 And, I go, okay, I can handle that. It's 11 just phone calls, it's no big deal.
12 ýR. SPEC. AGENT T I Okay.
13 (b)(7)(C) So, then he went around and t(b)(7)(C)s 14 told everybody, and then when he got to that's 15 when he had this outburst of, I will not take I~)(7)(C) 16 direction from a and then he went 17 upstairs and wrote the notification.
18 But, he yelled it out. I man, I sit, 19 basically, this distance from the end of the room, two 20 cubicles away. So, I heard him.
21 [SR. SPEC. AGENT 1 okay. And, 22 when1 first said he was -- or, asked 23 you to be in charge, did he say you take the phone 24 calls, and that's just -- did anybody else advise you 25 what you were supposed to do?
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- 7c-. 10 ib)(7)(0) 1 No.
2 ýR. SPEC. AGENTI (b)(7)(C) Okay. Was 3 this the first time you had filled in as the 4 supervisor?
5 ~ ~(b)(7)(C) YYes. s 6 SR. SPEC. AGENT T I Okay.
7 . (C For the day-to-day 8 activities.
9 *R. SPEC. AGENT Ib7)(C) I Okay.
10 I didn't look at it as I was 11 filling in as supervisor, or giving direction to 12 anybody else, I was going to be the point of contact.
13 SR. SPEC. AGENT r Okay. All 14 right.
I(b)(7)(C) 15 Do you know,7 the one that 16 asked you to fill in, do you know how his -- what 17 process he used, or how he normally asked people --
18 what their responsibilities are, other than what he 19 told you?
I~,7)(C) 20 I believe if there's anything 21 specific he would put that -- he would tell us when 22 he's asking us to do the position, or in the email he 23 would clarify to everybody what -- who is doing what.
24 In fact, he did send out an email to everybody with 25 that.
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11 1 ýR. SPEC. AGENTL2)(I¢ If I could see 2 that, please.
3 And, normally when he puts somebody in the 4 position he put you in, would he sent out an email 5 describing what each person's responsibilities were, 6 like he did in this email? Was this a normal thing he 7 did?
(b)(7)(C) 8 [ I think so. I'm trying to 9 remember when -- he's put jin charge before, and 10 I don't have -- I mean, I don't recall the email. At 11 that time, could approve the r 12 (phonetic), so he could do both. Actually, I wasn't 13 on the signature authorization list to approve 14 (b)(7)(c) lwhereas, (b)(7)IC) l is.
IC) 15 At the time, [ was at the Mesa 16 (phonetic), he relocated over there, so he still had 17 him do that, because that's electronic, but I was in 18 the office, so it just made sense to have somebody 19 there.
20 ýR. SPEC. AGENT (b)(7E(c) Okay. As he 21 stated in his email, he put you in charge of, I guess, 22 day-to-day activities.
23 (b)(7)(C) 1 Yes.
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1 position?
2 b)(7,(C) No.
3 ýR. SPEC. AGENTE -7 Okay. Do you 4 have any management or any supervisory training?
5 (Not so much training, I have 6 experience with -- I was a back-up lead in the (b(7(C) 7 for many years. I mean, I have pretty much 8 supervised the whole group. I did that for many years.
9 R. SPEC. AGENT j Are you aware 10 of any required training, supervisor training, that's ii required by SONGS or Southern California Edison?
I()(7)(c) 12 Not that I'm aware of.
13 SR. SPEC. AGENT II Okay. Did you
)*(7)(C1 14 express an interest to to be put in 15 charge when he was not present?
I(b)(7)(C) 16 I did not, but he tried to 17 get me to come out of my shell, and so, but, no, I 18 didn't.
19 PR. SPEC. AGENT ( Okay. And, 20 you said earlier that he approached you and said you 21 would just do, basically, take phone calls for him, 22 and would handle any of the supervisory 23 responsibilities.
(b)(7)(C) 24 E Yes.
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13 1 what point -- what you were limited to and what 2 was supposed to take over after that point?
()(7)(C) 3 Yes. I wouldn't be doing 4 anything supervisory, as far as approvals that I'm not (b)(7)(C) 5 authorized before. And, like I said, I was 6 there as well, and he said, if you have any problems 7 or any questions I can always ask him, you know, 8 whenever I'm not sure.
rb(7)(C) 9 PR. SPEC. AGENT[ Okay. And, 10 you said that was the first time you've ever been 11 placed in charge?
12 [ In that group, yes.
13 [SR. SPEC. AGENI Okay. And, 14 you were placed in charge in another group before with 15 the same responsibilities?
15 I~~(b)(7)(c) I Y s 16 7 Yes.
1? [SR. SPEC. AGEN TII Okay, and when 18 was that?
I(b)(7)(C)I 19 [ Throughout my 20 plus years 20 (b)(7XC) I was constantly being upgraded 21 as the back-up lead, because the lead was either out 22 sick or -- mainly out sick.
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14 1 Edison's standards, more qualified than you to fill in 2 for you? I mean, for him.
(b)(7)(C) 3 [ That assumes that SC has 4 qualifications?
5 SPEC. AGENT IR. I~Ibb((7)(C) I'm sorry?
1()7)C 6 (b)()(c) That assumes that SC has 7 qualifications. I'd ask you in follow up what you 8 mean.
9 ISR. SPEC. AGENT (b)(7)(C)es. mean, 10 were there people that were a higher grade or had 11 been a supervisor before that were equivalent toI I(b)(7)(C) 12 that could fill in for him, that were 13 present to fill in other than yourself?
(b)(7)(C]
14 1 There was other people 15 present. As far as what my responsibilities were, I 16 don't think they were more qualified. I think they 17 were equally qualified, as far as what I was required 18 to do.
19 *R. SPEC. AGENTE b)(7) C Okay. And, at 20 the time that you were placed in charged, that time we 21 are referring to, do you know if [j7 1requested 22 that he be put in charge at the same time that you 23 were?
24 (1X7XC) No. I'm not aware of him 25 requesting that.
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-7, 15 1 LR. SPEC. AGENTI Okay. And, do 2 you know if he was ever placed in charge when*
3 [ jcwas not present?
4 1(b)(7)(C)e s Yes.
5 R. SPEC. AGENT I Okay.
6 Approximately, how many times?
7 I think maybe there are two 8 times.
9 ýR. SPEC. AGENTI (b)(7)(C) Okay. For an 10 extended period of time, or just for a couple days, if 12 you recall?
12 I think it might have just 13 been for a couple of days. I don't recall the length.
14 R. SPEC. AGENT Okay. And, 15 training requirements, I mean, I know you said you are 16 not aware of any training requirements, but since 17 you've been in the position now are you aware of any 18 training requirements that you could of or should have 19 had back then?
(b)(7)(C) 20 No.
21 SR. SPEC. AGENTI(c)(7)(c) Okay. Do you 22 know of anything about (b)(7)(C) suspension?
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1 was suspended, but what details do you know about it?
(b)(7)(C) 2 I'm trying to think. I'm 3 assuming that it had to do with that, his outburst, 4 because I don't know details as far as why, but, I 5 mean, I just came to the assumption that it had to do 6 with that, because it was shortly after that outburst.
7 [SR. SPEC. AGENT Okay. Were 8 you ever interviewed as part of any investigation 9 leading up to his suspension or after his suspension?
(b)(7)(C) 10 [ I'm trying to remember. I 11 know I spoke to someone, but it had to do with the withZb()()
12 safety conscious work environment. I spoke I 13 (phonetic). I'm trying to remember, it 14 involved, I think it had to do more with the -- I'm 15 sorry, I can't remember exactly.
16 ýR. SPEC. AGENT[Lb)17)(c) That's okay.
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1 17 1 I didn't discuss any violations.
2 [SR. SPEC. AGENT II Okay. And, 3 what were you asked, specifically, about the 4 notification?
b)(7)(C) 5 j He didn't ask me.. I 6 mentioned it, and he asked if I could forward it to 7 him, the number.
8 R. SPEC. AGENT j So, you 9 weren't questioned about the details of the 10 notification?
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~~~~~(b)(7)(C) j No.
N b()C k y 12 SR. SPEC. AGENTb( Okay.
13 (b)(7)(C) No.
14 [SR. SPEC. AGENT I Okay. Do you 15 know of any other people in your group, I(b)(7)(c) -
16 group, that were suspended for outbursts or any other I(b)(7)(c)I 17 type of issues like may have been suspended 18 for?
Ib)(7)(C)I 19 [ I don't know of anybody, and 20 I haven't witnessed anybody outburst like he does.
21 PR. SPEC. AGENT Okay. And 22 again, nobody interviewed you regarding his 23 suspension, or told you why he was suspended?
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7G. 18 1 any follow-up questions?
(b)(7)(C) 2 You said you worked with (b)(7)(C) )( (C 3 since -- in the (b)(7)(C) since 4 Did you -- did you have work projects that you to the (b)(7)(C) 5 did with him prior to going (b)(7)(C) 6 Yes.
(b)(7)(C) 7 And, how did he treat you 8 when you were in that period when you were in 9 (b)(7)(C)
I (b)(7)(C) 10 [ He was very nice.
(b)(7)(C) 111i Did that change once you 12 came into the7 (b(7(C) 13 Yes.
14 And.--
(b)(7)(C) 15 Well, not right away. I just 16 kind of had this feeling like he didn't accept me as 17 one of the guys, and he looked at me as a 18 and I don't have the technical background 19 like they do, some of the do, as far as 20 expertise. But, I obtained that from subject matter 21 experts.
22 I don't know, I could just tell that he 23 treated me different, and just wasn't -- he wouldn't 24 talk to me the same, you know, like the other guys do, 25 friendly. He just wouldn't talk to me.
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C-19 1 ýR. SPEC. AGENT (b)(7)(C) And, that was 2 since his suspension, or since --
I(b)(7)(C, 3 [ No, it was since -- they were 4 trying to go to union, and they were trying to S convince me to sign cards, and I pretty much flat out 6 told them I'm not interested, and that I wasn't going 7 to do it.
8 ýR. SPEC. AGENT TI And, how long 9 ago was that?
10 [ j That was shortly after I came 11 into the group, and I probably was -- I probably put 12 a damper on their plans. I think they were already in 13 the works of trying to get to becoming union, and then 14 1 came into the group. So, I think that, right there, 15 caused problems.
I(b)(7)(C)I 16 ())) Was he polite to you when 17 he talked to you?
18 Yes, he's always been polite.
19 There's been one time in a meeting where I brought up 20 something, as far as who was going to be responsible 21 if something was to go wrong. And, i guess I could 22 explain a little better.
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C.- 20 1 mark-ups, and then they'd take it over from there.
2 And, my question was, okay, if somebody --
3 if they mess up a file, and it gets rejected by CDM, 4 is it going to be my responsibility, even though they 5 messed it up, or, you know, are they going to be 6 responsible and fix it. Whose responsibility is it 7 going to be? Because I just had to do a low level 8 warning light, because of something that I messed up, 9 and I thought, I don't want to be doing this when 10 somebody else messes up the file. I don't want to be 11 having to do this low level every time, and they make 12 a lot of mistakes. So, I didn't want to -- I just 13 wanted to clarify that for everybody, and I mentioned 14 it in a meeting.
15 He spoke up and said, well, I don't care, 16 I don't -- you know, I don't want to see it. And, I 17 was, basically, saying if I'm going to be responsible 18 I would like to see the final product before it goes 19 to CDM. And, he was just, oh, I don't want to see it.
20 Later on that morning, he apologized for 21 either sounding -- I don't remember his exact words, 22 but he did come up to me and say, hey, I didn't mean 23 to get down on you about that. I understand where you 24 are coming from.
25 (R. SPEC. AGENT)( Okay.
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21 1 Did he say it in a nasty 2 manner, or what was it about his statement?
(b)7)(c) 3 [ Well, his tone in the meeting 4 is just his tone. I'm sure you've heard it, if you 5 spoke to him before when he talks.
6 But, later he was normal again. But, it's 7 just very, I don't know how to explain it, it's just 8 a tone that he has.
9 SR. SPEC. AGENT What's your 10 relationship like with him today?
11 ffij He does not speak to me, 12 unless he has to ask me a question, or, you know, if 13 he has to -- you know, if he has to ask me a question.
14 We sit right next to each other. There 15 was a time, too, when I was going to be sitting right 16 next to him, and I didn't really want to. I was 17 supposed to sit in the cubicle two cubicles away, but 18 Facilities and Telecom, it was more convenient for 19 them to just move me in the one next to him, and it's 20 still empty. I really didn't want to, because I knew 21 it was already weird, the relationship. And so, once 22 -- but Facilities was being told that I was going to 23 work there, sit there, and they were trying to set me 24 up, and once he heard he was -- he just kind of made 25 this face like, you know, great, you know.
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22 1 I saw him, and it was in front of the 2 other Facilities people, and a couple co-workers, and 3 I just said I can't sit by him like that. And, I went 4 upstairs and talked to and T said, I'll stay 5 where I'm at, I don't want to sit right next to him, 6 you know, and I told him what happened.
7 And, he goes, just call Facilities and 8 tell them that, you know, you get the cubicle two 9 cubicles away, just like we had planned.
10 So, I had to convince Facilities to do 11 that. They weren't happy with me about it, but I said 12 that there's a personality conflict, you know, 13 says I need to sit there.
14 FR. SPEC. AGENT TI(b)(7)(I) Okay.
15 [ So, that happened.
16 SR. SPEC. AGENTb)(;)(C) Did he know 17 you were coming to talk to me today?
(b)(7)(C) 18 I don't know if he knows or 19 not.
20 PR. SPEC. AGENT TIb)(7)(C) You didn't say 21 anything to him about it?
(b)(7)(C) 22 No.
23 fSR. SPEC. AGENTErb(7(¢) Okay.
24 do you have any questions for her?
25 [SPEC, AGENT7)C No.
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23 1 (b)(7)(C) When you were describing I(b)(7)(C) 2 what did when he heard you asked for 3 another cubicle, was that an eye roll that you were 4 trying to describe?
(b)(7)(C) 5 Yes.
(b)(7)(C) 6 That wouldn't be on the 7 record.
8 [ j Oh, yes, it was definite eye 9 roll.
I(b)(7)()c) 10 [bj)()How does he treat the 11 other women in the organization?
12 ffi J If they are in a position 13 where they support him, as far as he brings them work 14 and they do work for him, he's very nice, just like he 15 used to be to me.
16 But, someone in that position where they 17 are, basically, the same position as he is, it's not 18 that he treats them, he just ignores them, basically, 19 or just doesn't go out of his way to talk to them, 20 basically.
I(b)(7)(C)I 21 Does he do the same work 22 you do?
23 He does. He might do more 24 extensive work, only because he has more -- depending 25 on the (b)(7)(c) he's working on, he might have more NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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IL f 24 1 background. I don't know exactly what he does, but he 2 looks busy.
3 But, we do the same work, as far as 4_ proces.sing(b)(7)(c) from start to finish.
5 [(b)(jC) Is the work you do more (b)(7)(C) 6 thanI 7 Yes.
8 [R. SPEC. AGENT(b)(7)(C) IAnything else?
9 I just have a couple questions and then 10 we'll go off the record.
(b)(7)(C) ii [ have I or any other NRC 12 employee threatened you or promised you anything in 13 return for your testimony here today?
(b)(7)(C) 14 [ No.
15 ISR. SPEC. AGENT[ (b)(7)(C) Have you given 16 this statement freely and voluntarily?
(b)(7)(C) 17 Yes.
18i R. SPEC. AGENT Anything you 19 care to add (b)(7)(C) for the record before we go off?
20 [ No.
21 ISR. SPEC. AGENT Okay. This 22 interview is concluded at, approximately, 9:27 a.m.,
23 on September 29, 2011.
24 (Whereupon, the above-entitled matter was 25 concluded at 9:27 a.m.)
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CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the attached proceedings before the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the matter of:
Name of Proceeding: Interview of Ib)(7)(C)
Docket Number: 4-2011-024 Location: San Clemente, California were held as herein appears, and that this is the original transcript thereof for the file of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission taken by me and, thereafter reduced to typewriting by me or under the direction of the court reporting company, and that the transcript is a true and accurate record of the foregoing proceedings as recorded on tape(s) provided by the NRC.
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