ML20043E597
| ML20043E597 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/18/1987 |
| From: | Martin R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| ML20043E518 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-89-540 NUDOCS 9006130181 | |
| Download: ML20043E597 (2) | |
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' MEMORANDUM FOR: Ytetor Stello, Jr.
Executive Director fur Operations FROM:
Robert D. Martin Regional Administrator
SUBJECT:
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY OF JAMES A. F. KELLY
-CONCERNING FITNESS FOR DUTY The testimony of James A. F. Kelly before the Subcomittee on General Oversight and Investigation may have created the impression that Region IV management is indifferent to fitness-for-duty problems alleged to exist at power plants in the-region. Not only is this not the case, it is not what l
l-Mr. Kelly intended to convey.
The' investigators for the Subcomittee rightly perceived that Mr. Kelly is personally convinced that the current policy of MRC toward fitness for duty, which emphasizes self-policing by the industry, is inadequate for today's j
challenge to nuclear plant safety from societal problems including those steming from the use of drugs and alcohol. At the same time, however, Mr. Kelly realizes that the management of Region IV is bound to implement the l-i current' policy of tha Comission; and that in doing so regional management must
' operate within the limits imposed on its authority to deel with drug and alcohol issues.
Unfortunately, the Subcomittee investigators who were assisting Mr. Kelly in l
the preparation of his testimony were not especially careful to distinguish and implementation of policy and may have inadvertently promoted i
between the impress on that Region IV was uninterested in vigorous pursuit of these Further, the investigators failed to perceive (and prevented types of issues.
the Subcommittee from learning, because they directed Mr. Kelly not to discuss t
his testimony with his management) that Mr. Kelly did not know, in a number of cases, how certain allegations or issues were resolved..
The manner in which Region IV has dealt with fitness-for-duty issues, or allegations generally, has been entirely consistent with Cosmission policy and, in fact, has been comended to the other regions, as Enclosures I and 2 attest.
In addition, whenever allegations of misbehavior of licensee employees bore on plant safety Region IV r.oved promptly and directly to resolve the concern.
The appropriateness of Region IV's performance would be apparent from any Enclosures 3
' careful study of-the issues raised in Mr. Kelly's testimony.
through 9 describe more fully the examples that Mr. Kelly identified in his testimony, and how they were handled by Region IV management and their ultimate disposition.
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Region IV continues to endorse, and w.~11 implement referringallegationstolicenseeswhei.everpossibleandappropriate.
No one should infer from this that we have any hesitation to address safety.
significant matters that come to our attention, making'use of the full extent of our authority and influence.
CRIGINAL 9GNED ST ROBERT D. MARTN Robert D. Martin Regional Administrator
Enclosures:
As stated cc:
J. Taylor, DEDRO-d 1
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