ML20028H687

Complete Listing of Escalated Enforcement Actions & Partial List of non-escalated Enforcement Actions

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Essential Information P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 August 30, 1990

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FREEDOM 0F INFORMATl0N Mr. Donnie Grimsley ACT REQUEST Freedom of Information Office p g.

g Nuclear Regulatory Commission pg g.gg Washington, D.C.

20555 RE: Freedom of Information Act Request

Dear Mr. Grimsley:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.

552, I hereby request a list of 'll completed enforcement actions taken between January 1,19'n and May 1,

1990 against the corporations on the eo:losed list.

The EOI \\ct prevides for the saiver of search and duplication fees where disclosure is considered as "primarily bene fiting the ge neral public intere st. " 5 U.S.C.

552 (a) (4)

(A). Disclosure of this information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to the public understanding of government operations. In nddition, the U.S.

Sentencing Commission is currently developiN organizational guidelines; the compilation of this information could prove useful to the commission in its deliberations.

I am a researcher for Essential Information, a non-profit organization, e::empt from taxation under 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code and the disclosure of this information is not of commercial interest to me or the organization, Essential Information will report the information in a study of organizational sanctions that will be available to the public.

The findings of the study will also be available in the Multinational Monitor, a monthly news magazine with several thousand individual subscribers and over 200 library subscribers in the United States. Multinational Monitor is published by Essential Information and its articles are often reprinted or generate news stories in other publications (see attached examples).

i Telephone:(202) 3874030 + Fat (22 2343176 ca+

9101200113 900927 PDR FOIA DONAHUE90-393 PDR 1

As I am making this request in my capacity as a researcher / journalist and this information is of timely value, I would-appreciate your contacting me by telephone rather than by mail if you have any~ questions regarding this request.

I look forward to receiving your written response within ten working days as required by law. Thank you for expediting this request.

Sine rely, 9l Jim Donahue Staff Researcher

i Corporations i

1. General Motors, Detroit, M2

2. Ford Motor,

Dearborn,

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3. Exxon, New York, NY 4.

International Business Machines (IBM), Armonk, NY

5. Ger.eral Electric, Fairfield, CT

6. Mobil, Now York, NY

7. Philip Morris, New York, NY

8. Chrysler, Highland Park, MI 9.

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Du Pont De Nemours (Dupont), Wilmington, DE

10. Texaco, White Plains, NY

11. Chevron, San Francisco, CA

12. Amoc,o, Chicago, IL

13. Shall Oil, Houston, TX

14. Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH

15. Boeing, Seattle, WA

16. Occidental Petroleum, Los Ar7eles, CA

17. United Technologies, Hartfm CT

18. Eastman Kodak, Rochester, n.

19. USX, Pittsburgh, PA

20. Dow Chemical, Midland, MI

21. Xerox, Stamford, CT

22. Atlantic Richfield (ARCO), Los Angeles, CA

23. Pepsico, Purchase, NY

24. RJR Nabisco, New York, NY

25. McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, MO

26. Tenneco, Houston, TX

27. Digital Equipment, Maynard, MA

28. Westinghouse Electric, Pittsburgh, PA

29. Rockwell International, El Segundo, CA

30. Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, OK

31. Allied-Signal, Morristown, NJ

32. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN

33. Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA

34. Sara Lee, Chicago, IL 4

35. International Paper, Purchase, NY

36. Conagra, Omaha, NE

37. Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), Pittsburgh, PA

38. Caterpillar, Peoria, IL

39. Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Ahron, OH

40. Unocal (Union 011 of California), Los Angeles, CA q

41. Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, GA

42. Weyerhaeuser, Tacoma, WA

43. Unisys, Blue Bell, PA

44. General Dynamics, St. Louis, MO

45. Lockheed, Calabasas, CA l

46. Sun, Radnor, PA

47. Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ

48. Motorola, Schaumburg, IL

49. Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO S0. Bristol-Myers Squibb, New York, NY i

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f selected by Project Ceruoted's panel Q media expens a concerruthralarmmgextmctton rateamongplant and ' when he wrote an article for the media publication ammalspecies. nuh an Utne Readet in Bru.'fby Jere.. Extra. the numbet was down to 26. Some Wall Street maah Creedon ened as a scurce //angeb.19SS. p.1.4 media analysts predict that by the 1990s six giant 50 other in Bne6 researched and reported by regidar fitms w1ll control most of our media.

Utne Reader coninbutors-Karm li'megar's updatc on Bagdtk:an notes that of the 1.700 daily papers.

food tiradiatwn f.\\lar/ June 198% p.29) and Chrn Gun.

98 percent are local monopolics and (twer than 15 derson'. repon on CS mdnary acutnics in Puerto Rico corporations control most of the country's circula.

I flan //eb 1988. p.13;-also nere among the 2.5 stones tion. A handful of firms control most of the magazine singled out for mnon by Project Censored. IlVre business unh Time. Inc. alone accountmg for about proud to be pan y :,:h an tmportantjournahstic enter.

40 percent of that industry's revenues. The three

prue, j broadcasting networks-Capital Cities /ABC. CBS, and NBC-still hase majority access to the television The information monopolv i audience. and mesi of the book busineisis controited i by fewer than a dozen companies with major catego-ihe rapidly increasing concentration of me. ; rieslike paperback and trade books dominated by still r

dia ownership in the U.S. raises critical l fewer firmt questions about whether the public has ac-The situation is exacerbated by the conflict of cess to diverse opinion And not surpris.

interest caused by interlocking boardsofdirectors. An indy, the impact of this information monopoly con.

earlier study. by Peter Dreier and Steven Weinberg.

tinues to be ignored by the mass media.

found this phenomenon in major newspaper chains in 1982, when media espert Ben Bagdikian like Gannett. which shared directors with hierrill com pleted rest er ch for his book The.\\/edia.\\/onopol.n Lyrich, Standard Otl of Ohio. 20th Century Fox, Kerr.

he found that 50 corporations controlled halfor more McGee. hkDonnell Doupas. SicGraw. Hill. Eastern of the media business. By December 1986. when he I Airlines. Philhps Petroleum, Kellogg Company and finished a revision for a second edition, that figure i New York Telephone.

-had shrmik to 29 corporations. Six months later. !

The most influential new spaper in America.

i Urne Reader tact es sin an w The Nea Erk Times. shared directors with Merck, porting esidence, the mejor U.S. media did not com-Morgan Guaranty Trust. Bristol Myers. Charter Otl.

mit the resources necessary to explore those charges Johns Manville. American Dprest Bethlehem Steel, and their validity. Few media even made significant IBM. Scott Paper. Sun Oil. and Ftrst Boston Corpo.

note of Attorney General Edwin Meese's efforis to

ration, stop the Miami based contra CIA drug connection Bagdikian's warning is ominous:"A shrinking investigation, j number oflarge media corporations now regard mo-s, 3 nopol) and historie lesels of profit as not only not. '

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owrership and ideas-hase disappeared."

Sources Extra!. June 1981"The 26 corporations that own our media." and Slultinational 51onitor.Septem.

ber 1987. "The Media Brokers." both by Ben Bagdi.

i klan; Utne Reader Jan /Feb.1968. " Censorship in publishing" by L>neite tamb.

The U.S. and the contra-drug connection l

Ithough mounting evidence points to a !

large scale contra CLA drug smuggling net '

work. the major U.S. media largely underre-ported this story in 196*

Testimony by convicted drug smugglers and private citizens on CBS's liest.Uth Strcer program.

Sources:The Christic Institute Special Report. No-and the Christie Institute's insestigations and testi.

vember 1987. "The Contra Drug Connection." by the mon) before congressional committees au proside a i Christic Institute; Newsds). June 28.1981" Witness:

startling portrait oflarge scale drug traffick ng under Contras Got Drug Cash." by Knut Royce; The Na-the auspices of the contras and the U.S. gosernment.

tion. September 5.1987. "How the Drug Czar Got According to the Christic Institute, a Washing.

Away." by Martm A. Lee,in These Times, April 15, ton. D C. based interfaith legal foundation. " contra ! 1987. "CLA. contras hooked on drug money." by Virce narcotics smugsling stretches from cocaine planta l Bielski and Denttis Bernstem.

tions in Colomba. to dttt airstrips in Costa Rica, to i pseudo seafood companies in Miami, and finauy, to ' Secret documents reveal the drug ridden streets of our society." The Christic

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ast March 11. NBC broadcast a documentary ers: that some contra leaders were directly involved in called " Nuclear Power. In France it Works,"

drug trafficking; that U.S. governrr.ent funds for the which could have passed for a lengthy nu.

contras went to known narcotics dealers; and that the i clear power commercial. Missing from an-CIA helped Miami based drug traffickers smuggle I chorman Tom Brokaw'sintroduction was the fact that cocaine into the U.S. in exchange for the drug traffick I NBC's owner. General Electric, is America's second Resclations of this U.S. contra drug network l largest nuclear power company and th ers' help in arming the contras.

ducer of nuclear weapons systems.

first surfaced in 1986 when the Christic Institute filed One month after the documentary. accidents oc.

suit against the U.S. government alleging complicity curred at two French nuclear installations, injuring in the 1984 La Penca bombing. in which eight jour.

seven workers. The Christian Sciencc Monitor wrote of nalists were killed and dozens of others wounded, a "potentially explosive debate" in France, with new Among those charged with complicity in the La Penca polls showing a third of the French public opposing bombing were such ex CIA and military officers as nuclear power. That story was not reported on NBC Oliver North. Richard Secord. Albert Hakim. Theo.

news. The NBC policy that produced the pro nuclear dore Shackley, Thomas Clines, and Rob Owens.

power documentary while censoring the news about Despite the extraordinary allegations and sup.

two nuclear accidents is typical of the international si-itLL TT4 af EW MCat 1% THtSt f1Mf3 1

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pS4 Million Gallons of Fuel ESpilled in 4 Years, Data Show h

U.S. oil companies reported spdling some

'; 84 million gallons of oil and gas in U.S. waters

• between 1984 and 1938, according to Coast Guard documents obtaned by a watchdog group.

Chevron Corp. was the biggest culprit, ac.

cording to consumer activist P.alph Nader's

yntial Informnion. Center for Study of Restonsive Law and L; Chevron facilities re-ported spilling 2.8 million gallons, followed by I' Amoco Corp. with 1.3 milhon gallons and Tex-I' aco with 926.000 gallons. the center's report said.

The other eight top spicers were Euon, Mobil, Shell. Occidental, Tenneco and ARCO (At!;ntic Richfield Co.), according to the cen-ter. The report did not cover the 11 million-

gallon spill by the Euon Valde:in March.

' Spills ranged in size, according to center T researcher Jim Sugarman, from pinhcle leaks

~in pi;.elines to an 11 mt! ben gallon leak over 10 years from a storage tank in El Segundo,

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Nearly half of the spills occuned in the Gulf

{of Mexico and in Louisiana bayous.

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Teenry.mree $ensias, encimheg rnany aes u soare $st IBM Nad Jcahngs in

.ho suppet uncuans against $mm Af.

Save Afnct rs a. ha n in'sairns nu in e ornpen.as ihai do "s6s a.Lue seg si tru issus of ek meese.

buAftse Gem thm Chufttry,eCCtrdirig to a menu [ (Jetdrehan's press seEfflary jufi regal rtjessed lau mans.

Keiredi said,hd has tot yet me te a deci.

The study, by itse ms$11rie Muluna-tion e se:1 or kerp me ucc kJ.

taral %ruur. esarmined the 19R9 5ensie The cros of hentten end Hothast enH finasic1alillei,lueure tcpuru thailiet inesaia Roil ( es Wai the iou benaits e sold all theit menu made by each Senamr in 1988.

sitxt.: s scenpanw: tied to Soum Ainca Together, Uw 12 Republzans and 11 afirs ilu MuJonauonaj Momia teleAwd a Dcmacrau hold a minimum of $4 2 mdhon 6maar retsruan ycar. Thes ycar's report, in mock m cernmnies eta ties to Soue thry sa 4. showed snacts held by trw sens.

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m far :md y a tmrt of IMs. bereit ihr, had N 23 named in tha study llnad tn order of largeit otal evea rnent to b=tst, wert:

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$cas. John DeAfers (R.Mo), Majcolm cortpercs nbsouth Afncanoes."heloid Waucp (R.Wyo), John Giere (D. Oho), tres e L.mp hem.'said Helbngs' pe.ss Narry KAtir toum (R-KAn),HoweU H

<Dai,t el.aw,rie r.n co.n n. Hou" fun wcem John Psiteren.

n,a Jaa wn,e, f,eo.ureiar, for Deftert taaj HefH ecu's sita t 4 hahl Irgn Tranklj1, there is no rur ^*=<f brashi"bhadirai ri,,ia,en ogned ?r Irmt 14,8 August just alter hn way I can keep up tn.. e.

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of investrnents tnade Auwg to the tsrnet. honnt.

Ber.aer m.9 holds 4: leau ll$. Col in Co-by Cotnpattles in turnN Ps an s. : suMierr nt Coca rnia.

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which I own stock. M.u dces tri ?wfi stock m Columtna Pichus's i

record on South A tu rsu 0.ru *arranu.tuch alio. him speaks for :.Iseff., frica io em w. un m a riied nice.

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Sen. Howe!I HefIIn s~ "' ~u * *' e'"""" k '"'"

da! Wiress in $outh Afric&

IL4 Senuen and Hofhngs stre sup-(D.W sh Erneu Holless (D.$C), John grais :thhc 1986 s.tneuons ag amu $ouun i

Warner R.VsL John Chafte (R RI).

Alnct And: ftudy Bom hwitz (R.htrm),Lloyd Hef.:a. sho was listed fif:h on the lut Bentsen (D Tesu), Alan Simpson (R.

we a a tumum mustment of $113.006, Wyo) Jetw Helms (R.NC), $ lade Ocrton saa:, l Adn't trios that i o*n noch in 6t. Wash) Wyche Fowler (tkCs), Bob scra;er.cs mat han evestmenu in South Kasten (R.Wis), Frank Murtonski (R, Afrsa "% lua of companees in =tuch at u Alaska). Dalt Bumpers (D. Art), Alan slicged ll'as I ce stoc k is inc orrtet smce i Diaon (IMll), Joe !.iebermes (D. Corm), ar>id mi mx k m Wveral0f the comparuu m Mitch WContwH (R.Ky), and Tim Warm recent shruH sad yea #s *

(D Colo).

"Frar4.*y,* he ;onunued,"thert u no a sy Danform, who mts itsted as hol6ag I can nic; up u nh the thouunds of most.

investmenu wcr2 $1.4 rniUtm, said that meau n.it Dy comfumes in ehsh I own they telong lo his childitn,

" Th e report was in gross artor... egregiously misreponed.' said SIX of the Senators Stese thten. Dsnfonh's pesas wertury. _ fjgfgd in fhg yeNo7f $jf

' Deform did rn create the irvsu (men.

uoned in the studyl.he doss nce serve u a on Torelgn Neldlions, trunes, and he has no (nvtauners authanar

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In 1986 Denfore waad in fanr of sanc. stock. I thmk my tesord on South Afnca uons. declartag cri the Senasa floor,"This spuits kr itulf?

Senater hAs to hesitaten et allin toteg for Heflas hAs teen a supponer of sanctions sanc tions.*

asama South Afnca over the years.

$it of the $cnstort ilnad la the repart sat n'se Pell maintained the sesth.largett on the Foreign Relauens Commises: Ptit, tennsent e the group, wnh 5'92.f117,he Xanscheum. Heltne, Rnechwits, Murkow. had the tarsam dmininre of any knnair, all,andMcConnettTheycollectivelyhold ' In ihe lass few years, Pt1 redused by a muumum of $659.033 in uock m cornpe. $9dLOX his holding incompanesihm do nies *nh Sous Afncan ues, busteis e $cnem Afnca.

The commitwo will corumler emeume Pell sce the Multi #tautrul Moruter At aftet August receis a biU sponered by Sen. he enened his brokers"to wet toinsure Psui Simon (D.lil) calbrig for tougher that I have no inventnenu m comiunici econcens sarchens ogamu South Ainct tNu c5crsu in souih Afnca?

Already Hcimt, KAsubsum, Walbp, and He aMed, howevet, "In a few cases Danfore han indicated opposioon to the siacks tan not been sold tusuw of mart tougher sancuona.

Las scrisequen6et" A cesgemar of Simce's bdl, Lieber.

N a the Outd euch study conducted by man, appared on the list enh one of the the Memnauonal M.;rutor. $irce tu first 60.t st irnt sune nu. Hintact in !B M fe D ia regrt is 1956 the numter of Senators enh L?w cattawy g1.0n1 to g3.000.

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> Twenty three senators (12 Repubucans,11 Demo-cats) hold stock in companies with links to South Africa, says Midfinational Afonitor Afagazine. Topping the list:

Sens John Danforth, R Mo., with $1.4 million in stock, Mal-colm Wallop, R Wyo. with $861,011.

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