ML19305A728
| ML19305A728 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 01/29/1980 |
| From: | Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Power D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| FOIA-80-32 NUDOCS 8002130114 | |
| Download: ML19305A728 (2) | |
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Mr. David F. Power Box 202 IN RESPONSE REFER St. Peter's, PA 19470 TO F01A-80-32
Dear Mr. Power:
This is in response to your letter dated January 14, 1980 in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, records regarding a meeting between NRC Safeguards or Field Operations and Support Branch personnel and the Private Security Advisary Council.
Enclosed is a copy of an excerpt from a March 24, 1976 internal NRC publication entitled " Weekly Highlights".
This is the only reference on file regarding any such meeting.
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19470 January 14, 1980 J. M. Felton, Director Division of Bules and Records Office of Administration Nuclear Begulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Sir:
This is a request under the freedom of information act as amended (5 U.S.C. secti.n 552).
I write to request a sepy of each record of your agency (NRC) which contains information about, or states er reports facts concerning the occurrence er non-occurrence of, meetings between any member of the staff of NBC's Division of Safeguards or NBC's Field Operations & Support Branch and any member of the Private Seeurity Advisory Council (PSAC) or any member of PSAC's terrorism committee.
This request includes, but is broader in scope than, the information requested by me in FOIA-79-299 Consequently, this request includes, but is not limited to, any record confirming er denying the oscurrense of a meeting between Eugene Richard and Joseph Yarduaian, Contingency Planning Branah, Division of Safeguards, Hichard G. McCormick, Field Operations and Support Branch, and the Committee en Prevention of Terroristic Crimes, PSAC, held en one or more of the following dates:
March 15, 1976; Marsh 16, 1976; March 22, 1976; March 23, 1976.
The term " record" in the above requ est includes, but is not limited te, the following types of writings and documents:
memoranda, reports, briefing papers, reports to congressional entities, telephone conversation logs or transcripts, other stenographic transcripts (incl. shortnand), letters, telegrams, teler messages, cables, including such records obtained from other agencies or persons.
In responding to this request, be advised that the following memoranda obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation do, indeed, confirm the occurrence of a meeting between Richard, Yardumian, McCormick of NRC and the terrorisa com-mittee of LEAA's PSAC:
memo, April 6, 1976, Mooney to Jenkins, "WEAndra," Ha file 62-116338, serial 10, with attashed agenda, b
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3 J. M. Felton, NHC Page Two January 14, 1980 As you know, the amended act provides that if some or all of the requested records are exempt from release, you shall provide " reasonably segregable" portions.
If you decide that some or all of the requested records should be withheld, provide me immediately with copies of the remainder and inform me which exe.aption(s) applies to the material you withhold.
I, of course, reserve my right to appeal any such decisions.
I de research on' nuclear energy topics on a volunteer basis, and my research has contributed to published articles for which I received no pay.
My researah, and the articles, are intended to, and do, contribute to public knowledge and discussion in this field.
Disclosure of the requested records will primarily benefit the general public by informing the public of the accuracy and effectiveness of NRC policies designed to protest licensed facilities from terrorism.
The size of the public benefitted by such information will be in the tens of thousands of individuals, equivalent to the readership and circulation of a general circulation newspaper such as the Chicago Tribune (see 1d., Dec. 28, 1979, section 3, page 4) or the National Law Journal (see id., Dec. 17, 1979, pp. 19, 28).
I will receive absolutely no personal financial benefit from the records; I am an Pursuant to 10 C.F.H. g pay for search and with no resources t indigent student, m 9 14a(b) (3-23-79),
copying fees.
I hereby request you to waive the fees in the public interest because furnishing the inf ormation.will prinarily benefit the general public.
As provided in the act, I expect.to receive a reply within ten (10) working days.
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