ML20040B013
| ML20040B013 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 10/30/1981 |
| From: | Hartley M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| References | |
| FOIA-81-438 NUDOCS 8201230061 | |
| Download: ML20040B013 (2) | |
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Kenwood Condominium--Apt. 412 5101 River Road Bethesda, Maryland 20816 October 30, 1981 EREEDOM OF INFORMATION J. M. Felton, Director ACT REQUEST Division of Rules and Records Office of Adminirtration
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U. S. Nuclear Rebulatory Commission h O ~e / " [ [
Washington, D. C.
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Freedom of Information Act Request
Dear Mr. Felton:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),
5 U.S.C. S 552, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regu-lations implementing FOIA, 10 C.F.R. Part 9, Subpart A, I hereby request that NRC furnish me a copy of the NRC report described in the attached Washington Post article of October 16, 1981.
l The NRC report concerns an office of Inspection and Enforcement investigation into allegations by Harold W. Hartman, Jr.,
a former Three Mile Island control room operator, that employees at TMI deliberately falsified the results of required test prior to the accident at TMI in March, 1979.
According to the Post article, the NRC report
" identified a number of apparent problems relating to procedure j
adherence", but "there appears to be no direct connection" to l
the accident at TMI.
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According to the regulations which implement the l
Act, if you do not respond to this request within ten business days, I will consider this request denied.
I agree to pay reproduction costs.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
l Sincerely, Ahd [-
Mark C. Hartley i
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myoonean wn" right."
l A federal grand jury in liarrisburg When he told his supervisors
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is investigating a!!egations that em.
about the problem he was told to l
playes of the Three Mile Island nu.
- get a good leak rate." Othe'rwise, the cIcar plant deliberately falsified the reactor might have to be shut down.
results of required tests for months A GPU spokesman said yesterday l
before the accident that crippled the that the company would have no P(nnsylvania reactor in March, comment on liartman's allegations because of the grand jury proceed.
1979.
a Sources familiar with the case said ing. Ile said GPU considered the federal prosecutors. presenting evi.
investigation "non-company" because dence to the grand jury recommend.
'it was looking only at liartman's ed seeking a perjury indictment charges about fellow operators.
against one TMI control room op.
The NRC staff said in a report crator in August because of conflicts that its preliminary investigation in his testimony on the test results.
into liartman's charges " identified a But D. lowell Jensen, head of the number of apparent problems relat-Justice Department's Criminal Dj.
ed to procedure adherence." But,-
vision, declined to approve it at the pending completion of the grand time because he felt there were lega; jury inquiry,NRC said that so far weaknesses in the case.
- there appears to be no direct con-The name of the operator facing nection" to the TMI accident.
possible prosecution could not be Some congressional TMI investi-learned, but sources aid the inves.
gators said they feel there is a con-tigation is continuing. It is possible nection, because the allegedly false that he will be allowed to return to test reports were describing part of the grand jury to clear up conflicts the same system tht failed when between his testimony there and TMI was crippled.
what he told Nuclear Regulatory Victor Stello Jr., director of the Commission investigators earlier.
NRC's office of inspection and en.
Carlon O'Malley, the U.S. attor-f reement, said he forwarded infor-ney in liarrisburg, declined to com-mation about liartman's allegations ment on the case. When asked about to the Justice Department in early Jensen's action, he said, "I'm not 1980 because of the possibility that aware of anAhing that could be con-plant rec rds had been falsified.
sidered sinister."
If the allegations are proved, they could have an adverse impact on Cencral Public Utilities Corp., the
$4 billion corporation that owns
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4-TMI and wants NRC permission to f#9 N 03I restart a companion reactor.
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The grand jury investigation has been going on for more than a year
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f with little public notice. It stems from allegations made by liarold W.
liartman Jr., a former TMI control room operator, to the NRC and a New York television station. -
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Ilartman told NRC investigators i1 May,1979, that safety valves at the plant were leaking for at least three months before the accident, according to a summary of a staff e
interview. }{e said the test results
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