ML20054L639

Request for Clarification of Paragraph 7 of ASLB 820526 Memo & Order.Paragraph Can Be Interpreted as Suspending FOIA Applicability to Enumerated Westinghouse Proprietary Info. W/Certificate of Svc.Related Correspondence

ML20054L639
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	06/30/1982
From:	Shomaker E NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD)
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8207080319
Download: ML20054L639 (3)

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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD JUL l

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) 50-301 (Point Beach Nuclear Plant, )

Units 1 and 2) ) (Repair to Steam Generator Tubes)

NRC STAFF REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION On May 26, 1982, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Board) issued a Memorandum cnd Order (Concerning a Motion to Release to the Public Certain Safety Information Which Ts Part of the Record in this Case But is .

Proprietary to Westinghouse Electric Corporation). For the reasons

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' discussed below, the NRC Staff hereby seeks clarification of, Paragraph 7'of the Order contained in the Board's Memorandum and Order of May 26, 1982, because that paragraph could be interpreted as suspending the. application .if - .

.,, the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA) to enumerated Westinghouse proprietary information for a period of two years.

The disposition af F0IA requests by the NRC mi,'st be made in accordance with applicable statutory, judicial and regulatory precedent. The F0IA, itself, the judicial decisions reflecting proper agency administration of the Act and the NRC's regulations and procedures -- 10 C.F.P,. Part 9 and NRC Appendix 0211 -- do not have any provisions for the suspension of the disclosure requirements of the F0IA for a period of two years. These 8207080319 820630 PDR ADOCK 05000266 e p G PDR Oe J

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• authorities require that,the agency make a determitiation within 10 days whether the information subject to the request should be released to the requester or withheld pursuant to nine narrowly applied exemptions. Of course the agency is free during this determination period to. review, evaluate and apply any available administrative record vis-a-vis the subject determination, but we are required to make an independent judgment as to t

whether such information may be legally withheld.

i j The first two sentences of Paragraph 7 could be interpreted as suspending the i

Commission's obligations under the Freedom of Information Act for two years i as to the covered information, and the last two sentences as a limitation on the statutory requirements and judicial precedent that apply to F0IA requests. We do not believe this was the Board's intent. A'ccordingly, the

, NRC Staff requests the Board to clarify the meaning and effect that the' Board wishes tc achieve by Paragraph 7 of its Memorandum and Orde~r o'f May 26, 1982.

l Respectfully submitted, Original Signed by Edward C. Shomaker By:

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!;UCLEAR REGULATORY CCMMISS10tl BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY Arid LICEriSIriG BOARD Ir. the Matter of )

) Docket tios. 50-266

.. WISC0tiSIri ELECTRIC POWER COMPAtiY ) 50-301

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(Point Beach tiuclear Plant, ) (Repair to Steam Generator Tubes)

Units 1 and 2) ) -

1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE _

I hereby certify that copies of f4RC STAFF REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATI0ft in the above-captioned proceeding have been served on the following by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or, as indicated by an asterisk, through deposit in the fiuclear Regulatory Commission's internal mail system, this 30th day of Jur.e,1982.'

Peter B. Bloch, Chairman

• Bruce Churchill, Esq.

Administrative Judge .

Gerald Charnoff, Esq.

]; Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge U.S. Iluclear Regulatory Commission 1800 M Street, N.W. -

Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20036 Dr. Hugh C. Paxton Atomic Safety a,nd Licensing Board Administrative Judge Panel * -

1229 - 41st Street U.S. !!uclear Regulatory Commis'sion

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Los Alamos, !!ew Mexico 87544 Washington, DC 20555 .

Dr. Jerry R. rsline* Atomic-Safety and Licensing Appeal

+ Administrative Judge Panel (5)*

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Fluclear Regulatory Commission U.S. t!uclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 .

! Washington, DC 20555 Docketing and Service Section (1)* '

Kathleen M. Falk .

Office of the Secretary Wisconsin's Environmental Decade ' U.S. fluclear Regulatory Commission '

114 tiorth Carroll Street .. Washington, D.C. 20555

• Madison, WI 53703 Francis X. Davis, Esq.

P.O. Box 355 Pittsburg, PA 15230 .-

BartonZ.howan,Esq.  ;

John R. Kettrick, Esq. /

Eckert, Seixans, Cherin & Mellott . /t/* , '

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42nd Floor,' 600 Grant Street , ,

Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Edward C. Shomaker Counsel for t1RC Staff

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