ML20039C333
| ML20039C333 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 12/22/1981 |
| From: | Fleischaker D FLEISCHAKER, D.S. |
| To: | Ahearne J, Palladino N, Roberts T NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8112290238 | |
| Download: ML20039C333 (2) | |
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DAVID S. FLEISCHAKER
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In the Matter Of/P4cific Gas and Electric Company (Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and
- 2) Docket Nos. 50-275 0.L.
and 50-323 0.L.
Gentlemen:
This letter responds to the opportunity provided by the Commission to conment on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's selection of an independent auditor and design reverifi-cation progran.
PG&E's proposal is not unacceptable.
The Joint Intervenors cannot support a design reverification program if we cannot have confidence in the results.
That confidence rests on a demonstration that the auditor is ccrpetent and independent.
What has been demonstrated to date is that PG&E's proposed auditor enjoy too cozy a
relationship with the utility and its subcontrators to be
" independent," in any meaningful sense of that word.
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Cloud previously worked for PG&E on the Diablo Canyon project.
In the recent past, he has enjoyed a close working relationship with parties who at one time were high executives in URS-Blume, a
principle target of the reverification program.
Finally, he has allowed PG&E to surreptitiously edit his reports prior to submitting them to the NPC and in a manner that cast the information in a light more favorable to the utility.
As for the substance of the proposed reverification program, Governor Brown has submitted a detailed critique of the program.
We endorse Governor Brown's criticiam.
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The staff has notified us that it has initiated an investigation into the circumstances related to the distribution of the draft Cloud report and PG&E's input to and degree of control over the seismic reverification program.
He trust that all information developed in the course of that investigation will be made public and that parties to the proceeding will have an opportunity to comment.
Finally, we believe that the recent disclosure that PG&E misled the NRC, the U.S.
Congress and the public to believe that it was engaged in a hands-off, independent reverification program requires the Commission to rethink its approach to this matter.
We would be happy to meet with you at any time to express our views on how this matter could be approached.
Respectfully submitted, JOl!N R.
PIIILLIPS, ESQ.
JOEL R.
REYNOLDS, ESQ.
Center for Law in the Public Interest 10203 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90067 (213) 879-5580 DAVID S.
FLEISCliAKER, ESO.
Post Office Box 1178 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101 (405)235-8444 By:
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Fleischaker Attorneys for Intervenors DSF:jm cc:
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