ML18230A486

Transmitting Info-brief of Carolina Power & Light Co., Corporate Communications, Letter Advising CP&L Announced Organizational Changes Effective 6/1/1979, Which Relate to Personnel & Positions Discussed in Testimony

ML18230A486
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	05/18/1979
From:	Rosalyn Jones NRC/OGC
To:	Bright G, Leeds J, Smith I - No Known Affiliation, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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~1'CZ Carolina Poivcr 6- Light Company POST OFFICE EOZ 16aI Raleigh, North Car lin 276 02 LEGAL DEPAEtT51ENT May 18, 1979 Ivan W. Smith, Esq. Mr. Glenn 0. Bright Chairman Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Atomic Safety & Licensing Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Washington, D. C. 20555 Dr. J. V. Leeds, Jr.

10807 Atwell c Houston, Texas 77096 0 Xn the Matter of CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY (Shearon Harris Nuclear Power a~+~ lZ Plant, Units 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Docket No. 50-400 50-401 50-402 50-403 Gentlemen:

Following a meeting of the Carolina Power & Light Company Board of Directors'on Wednesday, May 15, 1979, the Company announced several organizational changes effective June 1, 1979. Since several of these changes relate to personnel and positions discussed in testimony received at the February and March hearings on CP&L's management capability, I am enclosing a copy of an internal Company news release which fully describes the changes.

The net effect of these organizational changes is to enhance the Company's overall management capability. Creation of a new Department of Nuclear Safety & Research will also provide added strength to the corporate nuclear program.

Very truly yours, Richard E. Jones REJ/gmc Associate General Counsel Enclosure cc: All Parties

CC: Alan S. Rosenthal, Esq.

Chairman Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington; D.C. 20555 Dr. John H. Buck Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Michael C. Farrar, Esq.

Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Charles A. Barth, Esq.

Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Thomas S. Erwin, Esq.

P. 0. Box 928 115 West Morgan Street Raleigh, N.C. 27602 Dennis P. Myers, Esq.

Associate Attorney General State of North Carolina P. 0. Box 629 Raeigh, N. C. 27602 Mr. Wells Eddleman Route 1, Box 183 Durham, North Carolina 27705 Kudzu Alliance Box 3036 Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555

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Hay 16, 1979 ORSANIZATIONAI CHANGES ANNOUNCED Group and Customer & Operating Services Group. The former Bulk Power Supply TO BE EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 1979, AND Group will be divided into two new NEW OFFICERS ELECTED groups. Darrell V. Henscer, Senior Vice President, will be group executive for The present organizational arrange- the Power Supply Group consisting of ments have functioned extremely well. How- the Generation Department and the System ever, as our work continues to expand and Operations & Maintenance Department.

new developments occur and in view of the Mr. Jerry Kirk is promoted to Manager anticipated retirements of Mr. Shearon of the System Operations & Maintenance Harris, Mr. J. A. Jones, and Mr. W. J. Department. Mr. James M. Davis, Jr., is Ridout, Jr., within the next four years, promoted to Vice President and will be it is appropriate to make certain revisions group executive for the Fuel & Materials in our organization. These changes are Management Group consisting of those two being made in order to continue to attain named departments, with the Materials greater functional alignment of work re- Management Department being transferred sponsibilities, to increase efficiency, to this group from the Customer &

to expand opportunities for management Operating Services Group.

developraent, and to increase se..ior m nage- The Department of Nuclear Safety ment strength. & Research will include the functions All administrative functions will of health physics and corporate nuclear continue to be combined under the direc- safety and quality assurance, which are tion of Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., President transferred from System Planning &

& Chief Administrative Officer. In addi- Coordination, and the function of Re-tion, System Planning & Coordination Search, which is transferred from the Department is transferred to the Corporate Technical Services Department.

-Services Group. All operating functions, Mr. Wilson W. Morgan is promoted to including a new department of Nuclear Senior Vice President and group executive Safety & Research, will continue to be for Corporate Services. The System combined under the direction of J. A. Planning & Coordination Department is Jones, who will become Senior Executive transferred to this group and will be Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. managed by Mr. Lynn W. Eury who is Both Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith will report promoted to Vice President.

to Mr. Shearon Harris, Chairman/Chief Mr. Sheldon D. Smith is promoted to Executive Officer. Vice President and will continue to There will now be 'four operating manage the Power Plant Construction groups and three administrative groups Department.

containing a total of 27 departments. Mr. Norris Edge is promoted to The additional rtew department of Nuclear Manager of the Rates & Service Practices Safety & Research is to be headed by Department succeeding Hr. James H.

Dr. Thomas S. Elleman, currently Chairman Davis, Jr.

of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University, and The nine-member Senior Management I ~will report directly to Mr. Jones. Committee consisting of Messrs. Harris, E. E. Utley is promoted to Executive Jones, Smith, Graham, Lilly, Menscer, Vice President and will have responsi- Ridout, HcDuffie, and Utley will be ex-bility for both the Hulk Power Supply (over)

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panded to a larger eleven-member Committee investigating high-temperature gas consisting of the seven'roup executives cooled reactors. Since 1974 he has (Messrs. Davis, Graham, Lilly, McDuffie, served as Professor and head of the Menscer, Morgan, and Ridout) together with NCSU Nuclear Engineering department.

Messrs. Harris, Smith, Jones, and Utley. He has twice received the outstanding All officer designations are ef- teacher award a t the school, and is the fective May 16, 1979. The realignment author or co-author of more than sixty of functions and responsibilities is to research papers, including reviews and be effective June 1, 1979. chapters in books.

A member of many national organiza-ELLENAN MILL HEAD NUCLEAR SAFETY tions, including the American Nuclear Society and 'the American Society for AND RESEARCH DEPARTNENT Engineering Education, Dr. Elleman was chairman of the committee which organized Thomas S. Elleman, professor and the Eastern Carolinas Section of ANS.

chairman of the nuclear engineering de- Prom 1976-78, Dr. Elleman was partment at North Carolina State Univer- chairman of the North Carolina Radiation sity, will join Carolina Power & Light Protection Council. He has served as Company about July 1 to become a vice a consultant to national and president of the Company and head of a including the Department state'rganizations newly-formed Department of Nuclear Safety of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Com-and Research.

Elleman's appointment was approved mission, the North Carolina Utilities Commission and the Energy Research and by the Company's board of directors Development Administration.

meeting today in Raleigh and announced by Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., CP&L president.

Smith'said the appointment of Dr.

Elleman as head of the new department allows the Company to coordinate nuclear safety and electric research activities under one individual.

"We are pleased that a person of Dr. Elleman's stature in the nuclear industry will head these important functions," Smith said.

In his new position, Elleman 'will report directly to J. A. Jones, senior executive vice president and chief operating officer for CP&L.

The directors of Corporate Health Physics, Research, and the Corporate Nuclear Safety and Quality Assurance Audit will report to Elleman.

A native of Ohio, Dr. Elleman re-ceived the PhD. in Physical Chemistry from Iowa State University in 1957. He served as a nuclear materials scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute until 1964, where he rose to the position of Assistant Chief of the Chemical Physics Division. In 1964 he joined NCSU as Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineer-ing, and in 1967 w'as promoted to full professor.

During 1972-73, Dr. Elleman took a year's 1eave of absence and worked at General Atomic Company as head of the Advanced Puels Development department,