ML17293A233

FOIA/PA-2018-0023 - Resp 1 - Final. Agency Records Subject to the Request Are Already Available on the Public NRC Website, in Public ADAMS or on Microfiche in the NRC Public Document Room

ML17293A233
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	10/19/2017
From:	Stephanie Blaney Information Services Branch
To:	Shetty D Columbia Univ
References
FOIA/PA-2018-0023
Download: ML17293A233 (6)

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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULA TORY COMMISSION FOIA RESPONSE NUMBER (03-2017)

RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST I

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RESPONSE

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INTERIM [Z] FINAL REQUESTER:

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I Dis ha Shetty 11 I 0/1 9/2017 DESCRIPTION OF REQUESTED RECORDS:

All correspondences and public comments made that relate to medical issues of individuals living near the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant since the year 2015 to present (details of the nature of complaint, date, who it was made by and where the individuals who made the complaints live)

PART I. -- INFORMATION RELEASED You have the right to seek assistance from the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison. Contact information for the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison is available at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/foia/contact-foia.html 0

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II Agency records subject to the request are already available on the Public NRC Website, in Public ADAMS or on microfiche in the NRC Public Document Room.

Agency records subject to the request are enclosed.

Records subject to the request that contain information originated by or of interest to another Federal agency have been referred to that agency (see comments section) for a disclosure determination and direct response to you.

We are continuing to process your request.

See Comments.

PART I.A -- FEES NO FEES AMOUNT" D You will be billed by NRC for the amount listed.

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Minimum fee threshold not met.

$0.00 D You will receive a refund for the amount listed.

Due to our delayed response, you will

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D PART 1.8 -- INFORMATION NOT LOCATED OR WITHHELD FROM DISCLOSURE We did not locate any agency records responsive to your request. Note: Agencies may treat three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records as not subject to the FOIA ("exclusions"). 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This is a standard notification given to all requesters; it should not be taken to mean that any excluded records do, or do not, exist.

We have withheld certain information pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described, and for the reasons stated, in Part II.

Because this is an interim response to your request, you may not appeal at this time. We will notify you of your right to appeal any of the responses we have issued in response to your request when we issue our final determination.

You may appeal this final determination within 90 calendar days of the date of this response by sending a letter or e-mail to the FOIA Officer, at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, or FOIA.Resource@nrc.gov. Please be sure to include on your letter or email that it is a "FOIA Appeal." You have the right to seek dispute resolution services from the NRC's Public Liaison, or the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS). Contact information for OGIS is available at https://ogis.archives.gov/about-ogis/contact-information.htm PART l.C COMMENTS ( Use attached Comments continuation page if required)

Please see comments continued on next page:

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• Freedom of Information Act Officer or Desi!lnee Stephanie A. Blaney NRC Form 464 Part I (03-2017)

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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULA TORY COMMISSION (03-2017)

REQUESTER:

joisha Shetty RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST Continued PART l.C COMMENTS (Continued)

Please note:

The following responsive records are already publicly avaialable:

ML I 6202A375 135 pages MLl6 182A 177 21 pages ML I 5295A342 80 pages ML I 5243A4 I 5 127 pages ML I 7254A645 113 pages MLI 71 71Al98 4 pages FOIA I

2018-0023

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TYPE D RESPONSE NUMBER 11 I

I INTERIM I.t I FINAL DATE:

11 10119120 11 Records with a ML Accession Number are publicly available in the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room at http:www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. If you need assistance in obtaining these records, please contact the NRC's Public Documents Room (PDR) at 301-415-4737 or 1-800-397-4209, or by Email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov.

Additional responsive records are enclosed, withheld in part (exemption (b)(6)

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NRC FORM 464 Part II U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FOIA/PA (08-2013)

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• lt' RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) I PRIVACY ACT (PA) REQUEST PART II.A -- APPLICABLE EXEMPTIONS DATE OCT 1 9 2017 I

GXROUP I Records subject to the request that are contained in the specified group are being withheld in their entirety or in part under the Exemption No.(s) of the PA and/or the FOIA as indicated below (5 U.S.C. 552a and/or 5 U.S.C. 552(b)).

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Exemption 1: The withheld information is properly classified pursuant to Executive Order 12958.

Exemption 2: The withheld information relates solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of NRC.

D DExemption 3: The withheld information is specifically exempted from public disclosure by statute indicated.

Sections 141-145 of the Atomic Energy Act, which prohibits the disclosure of Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data (42 U.S.C.

2161-2165).

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Section 147 of the Atomic Energy Act, which prohibits the disclosure of Unclassified Safeguards Information (42 U.S.C. 2167).

41 U.S.C., Section 4702(b}, prohibits the disclosure of contractor proposals in the possession and control of an executive agency to any person under section 552 of Title 5, U.S.C. (the FOIA}, except when incorporated into the contract between the agency and the submitter of the proposal.

D Exemption 4: The withheld information is a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is being withheld for the reason(s) indicated.

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D The information is considered to be confidential business (proprietary) information.

The information is considered to be proprietary because it concerns a licensee's or applicant's physical protection or material control and accounting program for special nuclear material pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1 ).

The information was submitted by a foreign source and received in confidence pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(d)(2).

Disclosure will harm an identifiable private or governmental interest.

Exemption 5: The withheld information consists of interagency or intraagency records that are not available through discovery during litigation.

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D Applicable privileges:

Deliberative process: Disclosure of predecisional information would tend to inhibit the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to the deliberative process. Where records are withheld in their entirety, the facts are inextricably intertwined with the predecisional information.

There also are no reasonably segregable factual portions because the release of the facts would permit an indirect inquiry into the predecisional process of the agency.

Attorney work-product privilege. (Documents prepared by an attorney in contemplation of litigation)

Attorney-client privilege. (Confidential communications between an attorney and his/her client)

Exemption 6: The withheld information is exempted from public disclosure because its disclosure would result in a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Exemption 7: The withheld information consists of records compiled for law enforcement purposes and is being withheld for the reason(s) indicated.

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D (A) Disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with an enforcement proceeding (e.g., it would reveal the scope, direction, and focus of enforcement efforts, and thus could possibly allow recipients to take action to shield potential wrong doing or a violation of NRC requirements from investigators).

(C) Disclosure could constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

(D) The information consists of names of individuals and other information the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to reveal identities of confidential sources.

D (E) Disclosure would reveal techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or guidelines that could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.

D (F) Disclosure could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of an individual.

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I PART 11.B -- DENYING OFFICIALS Pursuant to 10 CFR 9.25(g), 9.25(h), and/or 9.65(b) of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations, it has been determined that the information withheld is exempt from production or disclosure, and that its production or disclosure is contrary to the public interest. The person responsible for the denial are those officials identified below as denying officials and the FOIA/PA Officer for any denials that may be appealed to the Executive Director for Operations (EDO).

APPELLATE OFFICIAL RECORDS DENIED TITLE/OFFICE DENYING OFFICIAL EDO SECY IG Stephanie Blaney FOIA/PA Officer x

000 DOD DOD Appeal must be made in writing within 30 days of receipt of this response. Appeals should be mailed to the FOIA/Privacy Act Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, for action by the appropriate appellate official(s). You should clearly state on the envelope and letter that it is a "FOIA/PA Appeal."

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All was apparently 'iss1oning along just fine until the early 1970s. when two serl<lus accidents occurred at the site. First. 1n 1971, a rubber stopper

{;anm off of n plutoniurn powccr l."01llair1cr. 0011la1ninat1ng a I.ab ruo rn with radioc.\\ctivc rnuteric.tl. Then. in 1972. a c l lCm tGi~ cxplosio 11 occurrcc in lhc building acjaccnt to the lake (pjctucc<l below in this NY Tjmcs article). causir'IQ an un"'nown amount ol plutonium p o~-d cr to spew out into ltlC Jir anc presumably onto the surro unaing grounas. Nudear Lake had earned 1ls name.

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Little seems to be known ubuul lhc accident. though local legend has it thul at least one person diL'll. nn:j thut there Weis c.t c:ovcr up. In the cu111rncnls lefl to this Nuclear Lake post. 011e lor.al recalls his mot11er, a llltrf.e. saying 1h.1t 0116 ot the vict1111s came Into the hor.pital with his watch melted cown to his bone; another rumor has 11 that the ambulance he was transported in is buried on the site {you can read about a horrifying accident al a similar facility here:)

II clcari*up comrnc11ccd at a cost ot 53.000.000. ario \\11c land was deemed sate for *unrcst1 icted use:* Tile company closed oo wri \\lie plant sho1tly after. and the land.,..as sold to the National Par< Service for inclusion into the Appalachian Trail. Though documents were founc that suggeslec the company may have also been dumping radioactive waste water 1nlo the lake. a Nuclear Regulatory Commission stucy gave 11 a clean bill of health in 1.9lM