ML12320A387
| ML12320A387 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 09/07/2011 |
| From: | NRC/OI/RGN-III/FO |
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| 4-2011-059, FOIA/PA-2012-0238 | |
| Download: ML12320A387 (28) | |
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EXHIBIT 5 Case No. 4-2011-059 EXHIBIT 5
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS INTERVIEW
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INTERVIEW OF 01 Case (b)(7)(¢)
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-x September 7, 2011 Meeting Room NRC Resident Inspector's Offi San Onofre Nuclear Generatinc San Clemente, California The above-entitled interview w at 9:05 a.m.
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APPEARANCES:
On Behalf of the Interviewee, Other Individuals Involved in the Investigation and Southern California Edison Company:
of:
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(b)(7)(C)
Iwe're on the record.
This is an interview of (b)(7)(C)
Today's date is September 7,
2011.
It is approximately 9:05 a.m.
The location of this interview is in a
Meeting Room at the NRC Resident Inspector's Office at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente, California.
Present at this interview are (b)(7)(C)
This investigation involves an allegation of discrimination against (b)(7)(C) for reporting nuclear safety concerns to the NRC, and it's reported under 01 Case Number 4-2011-059.
(b)(7)(C) is (b)(7)C representing you personally in regard to this investigation?
(b)(7)(C) es (b)(7)(C)
ýo you understand the purpose of her presence here today?
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that (b)(7)(¢)
also represents the Company, and 2
other individuals?
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Yes.
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require you to have an attorney present when you are 6
being interviewed by the NRC Office of Investigations?
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way threatened with an adverse action if you did not 10 request corporate counsel?
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Do you feel that 13 you would suffer any adverse consequences from your 14 employer if you would have elected not to have 15 personal representation here?
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INo.
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Were you offered 18 the choice of other attorney representation who did 19 not have the additional role as a representative of 20 Southern California Edison?
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Offered others?
I don't 22 understand.
What do you mean by that?
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IWere you offered 24 the choice of any other attorney other than*
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dual role of representing Southern California Edison?
(b)(7(C)
I'm sure if she wasn't available I could have had somebody else represent me.
I just called her, and asked her.
(b)(7)(C)
Would your testimony in this matter be in any way inhibited by the attorney's presence?
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I Would your testimony in this matter be in any way inhibited by--
(b)(7)(C) er being present?
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I -- by the fact that the attorney is here?
(b)(7)(C)
[No.
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Okay.
Do you understand that you have a
right to a
private interview with me at your convenience?
e(b)(7)(C)
Yes.
(b)(7)(C)
With that understanding, do you still want (7)(C) resent as your representative today?
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Yes (b)(7)(C)
Thank you.
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My name is (b)(7)(C)
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(b)(7)(C)
(b)(7)(C) and I 'm here representing Southern California Edison Company and witnesses to this matter.
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Do you anticipate a
conflict of interest with respect to your representation ofI (b)(7)(C) las an individual and your concurrent representation of Southern California Edison?
1(b)(7)(c)
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In the event a conflict were to arise during the course of this interview or this testimony, what action would you take?
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that I could no longer represent her, that I would continue to represent SCE and other witnesses in this matter. I would inform her that she has the right to continue the interview without representation, or request a postponement so she can get representation of her own choice.
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the swearing in of witnesses.
Do you have any objection to being sworn in this morning?
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I No.
(b)(7)(C)
[Can you raise your right hand, please.
Do you swear that the information that you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
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ýYes.
I(b)(7)(C)
T hank you.
Ma'am, can you give for the record your full name, please.
(b)(7)(C)
(b)(7)(C)
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What' s your current position?
(b)(7)(C)
I'm an (b)(7)(C)
(b)(7)(C)
And who are you employed by?
(b)(7)(C) louthern California Edison.
(b)(7)(C)
- Now, are you basically based out of SONGS or do you work at the corporate office in (b)(7) have an office in both locations, but a lot of work I do is down here.
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lOkay.
(C I'm sorry.
I go over the Edison territory.
(b)(7)(C) 1hat department do you work under as an[
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Would that Okay.
s recent I'm sorry.
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Low lonQ have you been an.
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[Full-time since 2006.
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IAnd how long have you worked with SCE?
(b)(7)(C)
Since Ed (b)(7)(C)
Do you have any other experience in the nuclear industry?
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and I've helped other -- they're not --
they don't come in through(37C they, re other kinds of I (b)(7)(
that they're asking help with, so I've helped out with that.
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(b)(7)(C) pretty narrow as far as (b)(7)(C)
And that includes just going out and (b)(7)(c)
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IOkay, thank you.
I was explaining off the record what the focus of my investigation is, and what I'm trying to accomplish with this interview today. And I told you also about the allegations tha (b)(7)(C) laised to the NRC.
How much interaction, if any, did you have wit (b)(7)(C) hen he was working here at the site?
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You want to narrow the time period?
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(b)(7)(C) jIhis would have been during the 2010 time frame.
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-- you're talking about when he (b)(7)(C) b(((b)(7)(C)e I *,. (b)7)(C
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Because I don't even know what dateF (b)(7)(C) on.
But I had no interaction except for a time frame where I needed to talk to a payroll supervisor, and I knew that (7) had been hired into the, (b)(7)(C)
E)7 so I sent him an email and asked him
((7(C) for who could I talk to to get this information.
He wrote a note back to me, letting me know what person to talk to, and then I got a phone call from him.
And he talked to me about his performance evaluation not being very good, and was just talking to me about that, and that was it.
I didn't even see him. I don't --
that's why I'm kind of--
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S (b)(7)(C) want to say in the summer, summertime of 2010.
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(b)(7)(C) e said worked in (b)(7)(C) but (b)(7)(C) j'At that time I did (b)(7)(C)Okay in (b)(7)(0 Riht.
The that you 2010?
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So, during that time you were still in your position as (b)(7)(C)
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But it sounds like you didn't have a lot of day-to-day interaction withl (b)(7)(C)
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Did you have a lot of interaction with him before he left SCE here at SONGS?
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That's how I met him.
And then when she left the company, he became the manager.
So, I worked with him a lot during that time frame.
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weren't a part of it.
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Were you 11 aware of it at all, if he would have gone through such 12 a process during that time?
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You 20 mentioned a few moments ago about looking into some 21 type of issue, you had to deal with (b)(7)(C) to 22 facilitate some information that you needed.
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But many times I have 10 to get information out of payroll, and I wasn't sure 11 who the (b)(7)(C) was, so I contacted him to 12 get that information.
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The only 14 reason I bring that up is
- because, I guess, he had 15 some discussions with his supervisor about his 16 performance appraisal, and I -- according tc q
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say it was after he was gone.
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I had gone to her for something else, and he 15 was gone, and she mentioned that 16 (b)(7)(C)
Was this soon 17 after he was gone?
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I cannot recall what time frame.
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Would this have 21 been during the 2010 calendar year?
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Do you 24 recall receiving any voicemails from (bc)(
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_ifyou would have received a voicemail message fromI (b)(7)(C) bout this issue, do you think you'd remember it?
e(b)(7)(C) es.
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And especially if he wanted me to look into an issue.
(b)(7)(C)
Okay. So, you have no recollection of any sort of voicemail?
(b)(7)(O)
No.
(b)(7)(C)
'You don' It have any recollection of any type of conversation withl (b)(7)(C) about his appraisal, and anything like that?
(b)(7)(C)
Just a conversation he --
about his appraisal. I remember that.
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When did that take place, do you remember?
I (b)(71)()
TIt was -- I would think that it was around the same time that I was asking him --
because I had made contact with him about getting the (b)(7)(C) name.
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don't remember a
long conversation with him at all.
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I don't know that he said he would or wouldn't.
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(b)(7)(c)
No.
(b)(7)(C) t that time, did you promise to talk to about the issue?
(b)(7)(C)
And didn't go into any more detail as to how his appraisal was going, huh?
(b)(7)(C)
Just that it wasn't doing well.
He wasn't --
he didn't get a good one.
He felt that it wasn't a good appraisal.
He was not happy with it.
(b)(7)XC) fOkay. Let me ask you a general question. I don't know if somebody in your position deals with this a whole lot, but it involves a (b)(7)(C)
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To your knowledge, when people are given a 1(b)(7)(C) here at the plant, are they given a certain amount of time to resolve their shortcomings before any other action is taken?
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-,vell, she used to be part ofA (b)(C) and that's the only reason I bring it up.
(Z)(7)(C) es. There's an underlying assumption that when she was in (7) here, which was ab)(7)(C) ago to the present, that there hasn't been a change in the process.
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- Well, if she doesn't know the answer to the question, she doesn't have to answer it.
(b)(7)(C) lWell, I'm just asking that there be a time frame on what her knowledge is.
I (b)(7)(C)
This would have been during the 2010 calendar year.
We're talking about that type of time frame.
I understand that there might have been changes since then.
(b)(7)(C)
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What I'm saying is she was an (b)(7)(C) here at San Onofre for (b)(7)(C)
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What my knowledge is, is that there can be a time frame on a (b)(7)(C)
(b)(7)(C)
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IDoes there have to be?
1 (b)(7)(C) i think that HR recommended it, but I don't know that it has to be, because I've seen it both ways.
When I do my l (b)(7)(C)
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for the life of me I can't remember what they call it, 3
but there are certain meetings that managers attend 4
and they discuss employees, and what type of work 5
they're doing.
For instance, if I was working in 6
Human Resources, and I was a manager, and I didn't 7
have any type of authority or supervision, I wasn't 8
supervising another employee who worked for say 9
security, but I had something good to say about this 10 person that worked in the other division, or something 11 bad to say about that person, and during that meeting 12 I would raise it up.
I don't know what they call it 13 here, those type of meetings, but did you ever attend 14 any of those?
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16 (b)(7)(C) kay. During the 17 2010 time frame, were you privy to any conversations 18 that managers were having about (b)(7)(C) 19 (b)(7)(C) 20 (b)(7)(C)
,'Did you ever 21 conduct any (b)(7)(C) about a
chilled working 22 environment here at SONGS?
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24I (b)(7)(C) e're going to go 25 off the record for just a minute.
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We're back on the record.
The time is approximately 9:26 a.m.
Were you ever assigned anyl (b)(7)(C)
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Is there anything that you want to add for the record?
In other words, is there something I didn't ask you that you feel might be important that you want to add for the record?
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can't think of anything.
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Counselor, do you have any follow-up or clarification, any statements to make?
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In terms of the Focus on Resolution process, do you have any responsibility for intake of Focus on Resolutions?
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Okay. Would you need y your supervisor's approval to --
if an employee wanted you to engage in intake on a Focus on Resolution?
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And then it gets assigned to us by our supervisor.
(bj~)(7)jJ) Okay, (b)(7)(C) kO, I don't even deal with the employee until they've done their intake.
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Toward the end of September of 2010, were you aware thae b))C) -as going to be terminated at all?
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And that's the only reason I bring that up.
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(b)(7)(C) 1Okay. Thank you.
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There are avenues that employees can 15 go to to -- when they have concerns.
And then it's 16 determined there whether it becomes an (b)(7)(C) 17 or not, and then it's assigned.
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20 (b)(7)(C) ight.
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I'm just trying 23 to make sense of the testimony.
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That doesn't even make sense to 16 me.
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(b)(7 22 (b)()(C) 1have I or any other NRC representative 23 threatened you in any manner, or offered you any 24 rewards in return for this statement?
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Have you given this statement freely and voluntarily?
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(b)(7)(C) kot at this time, no.
(b)(7)(C) t this time, the interview will be concluded.
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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 (b)(7)(C)
Docket Number:
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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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OfficAi Transcriber Neal R.
Gross & Co.,
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