ML20055F082

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Responds to Appeal Re Denial of FOIA Request.Document Protected by attorney-client Privilege of Exemption 5 & Therefore Withheld
ML20055F082
Person / Time
Issue date: 06/21/1990
From: Chilk S
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
To: Kator I
KATOR, SCOTT & HELLER
References
FOIA-89-528, FOIA-90-A-3 NUDOCS 9007130271
Download: ML20055F082 (1)


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Mr. Irving Kator Kator, Scott & Heller Suite'950 1275 K Street, N.W.

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FOIA' Appeal 90-A-3

Dear Mr. Kator:

i This letter responds to your January 19,. 1990 appeal of.the

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denial of documents listed on Appendix-A of our December 21; 1989-response to FOIA.89-528.

The documents, consisting of.the file of an NRC Office of Investigations' report, were denied pursuant to Exemption 7(A) of.-the Freedom'of Information Act (FOIA).

Because the documents are no: longer part of an ongoing investigation, and Exemption 7(A) is no longer applicable, the documents were further reviewed for other applicable FOIA J

exemptions.

On the; basis >of this' review, it has been determined that the document described below is protected:by the attorney-client privilege of Exemption.5 of'the FOIA:and will continue to be withheld.

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The denied document.is an inter-office memorandum dated May 26, 1989 from the Assistant General Counsel to the Director, Office of Investigations (OI)..This document wastprepared in response to a request by the Director of OI-for-legal advice regarding the applicability of certain federal statutes.: This document is 1

protected by the attorney-client' privilege'of Exemption 5'because it concerns the " confidential' communications between an' attorney and his client relating-to'a legal-matter for which the client has sought professional advice."~ ERA, Mead Data Cent.. Inc. v.

Department of the Air Force, 566'F.2d.242, 252 (D.C. Cir. 1977).

This letter represents final Agency action on the denial of the document described above.

Judicial-review of the denial of documents is available in Federal District. Court in the district in which you reside, or have your principal place of business, or

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