ML20042A894

Requests Formal NRC Policy Statement on Employer,Contractor, Subcontractor or Licensee Ability to Restrict Reporting by Employees to NRC of QC Problems

ML20042A894
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Site:	Columbia
Issue date:	09/28/1981
From:	Humphrey J MILES, WAY & CALDART
To:	Bickwit L NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
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MILES, WAY & CALDART ATTORNEY 5 AT LAW DON MILES. J D. SUITE 10 STEPHEN C WAY. J D RAINIER NAflONAL BANK BUILDING CHARLES C CALDART J D. Ot.YMPtA. WASHINGTON 96501 JAMES ANEST. J D KRiSTAL wilTALA MNUTSON. J D TELEPHONE #4PF1J JAMES A HUMPMREY,J D AREA CO*E 338 September 28, 1981 Leonard Vickwit General Counsel's Office U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Vickwit:

We represent an employee of one of the subcontractors working on the nucicar construction project being carried out by the Washington Publ!c Power Supply System at Satsop, Washington. We are writing to solicit a formal statement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its policy or policies on the question set out below. While our client has recently experienced a problem related to that question, that problem has now been satisfactorily resolved, and we are therefore not posing the question with l any specific or current dispute in mind.

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Our question is as follows:

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l Under what circumstances and in what ways may an employer, contractor, subcontractor or licensee involved in the construction

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of a nuclear power plant, restrict the reporti_ng by. any of their l employees to agen,ts or inspectors of the NRC of quality control

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I ~p Foblems oliserved bisuc.h empioyees i[t'h'e30nstl[uc_tioriof~

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'the nuclear blant'?'

Sincerely, ,

OIM Ol} dM JAMES A. fiUMPflREY, Attorney At Law JAH: gmj l

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