ML17310B106
| ML17310B106 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 03/08/1994 |
| From: | Lieberman J NRC OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT (OE) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML17310B105 | List: |
| References | |
| 2.206, NUDOCS 9403170118 | |
| Download: ML17310B106 (6) | |
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U.S.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Docket Nos.
50-528, 50-529, 50-530 ARIZONA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY (Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station)
RECEIPT OF PETITION FOR DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CD F.R.
g 2.206 Notice is hereby given that by Petition dated February 1,
- 1994, Thomas J. Saporito, Jr.,
(Petitioner) has requested that the NRC:
(1) institute a show cause proceeding pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 2.202 to modify, suspend or revoke the licensee's operating licenses for Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (Palo Verde);
(2) initiate "appropriate actions" to cause the licensee to recognize the Buckeye, Arizona Regional Office of the National Whistleblower Center as an agency to which licensee employees may raise safety concerns about operations at Palo Verde without fear of retaliation by the licensee; (3) initiate "appropriate actions" to cause the licensee to encourage employees at Palo Verde to contact the Buckeye, Arizona Regional Office of the National Whistleblower Center to identify safety concerns about operations at the facility as part of its procedural requirements to ensure a working environment which is free of hostility and promotes the raising of safety concerns by employees without fear of retaliation; and (4) initiate "appropriate actions" to cause the licensee to encourage employees at Palo Verde to contact the NRC to identify safety concerns about operations at the facility as part of its procedural requirements to ensure a working environment which is free of hostility and promotes the raising of safety concerns by qOOS>7o1
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employees without fear of retaliation.
As grounds for this request, Mr. Saporito asserts that:
(1) the NRC has identified Palo Verde as the second highest source of whistleblower complaints in the nation, with 72 of the 621 harassment and intimidation allegations received by the NRC between October 1988 and April 1993 received from Palo Verde employees; (2) the licensee's "spokesman" for Palo Verde, Mark
- Fallon, made public comments to the Vest Valley View newspaper which increase the "chilling effect" at the facility by discouraging employees from raising safety concerns to the Buckeye, Arizona Regional Office of the National Whistleblower Center; and (3) Mr. Fallon's comments to the Vest Valley View newspaper increased the existing "chilling effect" at Palo Verde by clearly discouraging employees from raising safety concerns to the NRC.
The request is being treated pursuant to 10 C.F.R.
g 2.206 of the Commission's regulations.
The request has been referred to the Director of Enforcement.
A copy of the Petition is available for inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20555.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ames Lieberman, Director Office of Enforcement Dated at Rockville, Maryland this ~8, day of March 1994
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