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Provides Observations Re Connelly 880926 Memo Transmitting Facility Rept.Util Mgt Developed Real Time Tracking Technique Listing Each Insp Procedure & Subelement W/ Matching Guidance & Plan Refs
ML20055G805
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Site: South Texas  STP Nuclear Operating Company icon.png
Issue date: 10/19/1988
From: Joseph Kelly
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To: Martin R
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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stage is absence Troiift 'the CIA report. A casual ire e7 impression that this was a routine vis$t that had g_on.e, awry. e been inspecting security programs at power reactors'for ten re .

Prior to that I spent ten years work 3ng with and managing defunct or indicted police departments, both i.a the United States and Central America, as an Assistant Director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The decade pr'.or to that I served as a State Police Detective for the Attorney General of the State of Florida. The mission there was to arrest corrupt sheriffn and county commissioners and run those agencies until the Governor could appoint new of ficers.

The purpose of that historical review is provide credence to my assertion that the South Texas Project security operation placed third on my list of most difficult assignments. The first being the integration of the State of Florida and opposing the threats of the Klu Klux Klan during the sixties. Then the second was trying to do something with the El Salvador Federal Treasury Police during the seventies. South Texas Project was my horror for the eighties. Much of that trauma was related to the persistent feeling that my management beyond Division Director did not really comprehend the depth of the disaster in which we found ourselves. We were instructed to stay on site, against my recommendation and plea, even though it was clear that the program was in trouble and the utility did not know the fix. I informed my management that to safely licensee the South Texas facility's security program we would have to depart from the standard sit back and watch approach. We developed a real time tracking technique that listed each inspection procedure and it's sub-clements with the matching guidance and plan references. I should point out that the security department did not have viable procedures in place. Each deficiency was serialized and listed on a large action board. The utility personnel were permitted to enter into this security classroom / inspection control center were they could witness the open items listed on the board. Every afternoon we had a exit meeting for the utility management and their staff. Mr. Vaughn usually attended with the Manager of Licensing. Everyone know exactly

' where we were in the inspection process by referring to serial a numbered open items. Theories of corrective action were freel 3 exchanged. Some were accepted, others rejected. It was dec~i by i our management to continue to operate that way instead of ge T ting a

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Just such a meeting ge.,neratM the division of labdr' flow bha at l was alleged to have been a personnel manning chart that I iirlpo Oon i the utility. On the occasion of another exit meeting, Mr. Vf6E W, i then the new Vice President supervising operations, said theit'Whad l no talent on board to selve the problems and that he would hav' e' to get outside consultants. That was not fair to those competent security l professionals on his staff that were working hard to correct the l program. He was new and did not know them. I recommended that he i look inside at the cu rentirMMbnin tEOecordh3W.Sep rational man.

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! organization and the individuals in it.by personal physicai l intimidation. As an accomplished invas r I was amazed when it l was reported by Investigator Rowe that as unavall at.J o. Where is he? Is he institutionalized or emo ona y incommunicable? For l Investigator Rowe to miss the main focus of this entire problem sugges a preconceived directed conclusion, incompetence, or i both. as the Mr. Rex Moore, l was not i rviewed either. No mention is I made of the NRC's Offi of Investigations activities that verified I those violations. No mention is made of the State of Texas's investigation where thousands of dollars of fines were levied for hundreds of violations. No menti Mr. Hill of his efforts'; '

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l meersonne, . cal workup on the management errectiveness inspecti et that surfaced during yl did nothing. In my l

opinion. Mr. Hill, lacked the technical expertise to understand the l 1 depth of the problem. I also believe he was an innocent victim who ind no way out of the disruptive and devious behavior of Concerning -

he had good cause to be alarmed and ,

l defensive. e was the H P compliance inspector who had done the I

pre-NRC inspection evaluations of the systems and given them a clean I bill of health. His compliance acceptance reports were firmly i discredited.

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.had worked with Mr. Hill in the Alanta office of NRC.

fnformed and thus ble to hat he got the Quality Concerns investigator w olden to him (Bill). Therefore,\it would conduct a' ation I

l 1s not rem t l campaign for when i ame* apparent th&t was'in i trouble. In muc as OIA Investiga' tor Rowe'us'e'd main t na and~ F 1

conduit for access to internal HL&P ~"documents, all information, it would have'4nhanc ibility if she developed round information 'about integrity and credibility. l background can not stan a e os scrutiny. l l

l I have previously provided firm denials that I applied to South Texas l for a job. I stand behind that assertion. "here was a conversation l l between Larry George and I. No one else was present. George and I l 1 l l

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Qg no la_c 1 k k N d < d j $'t VaughnthehiringauthoritynordidgjakGedrg'eff6,'ap __ 6 t t. simply did n.t make sny sense for mectbfapply forLtf Daa t.h M I convoyed tn Caldwell about his owW' application'.

' W(a t%'it-lid .ont vt me. In tact headhunters contact.ed every secur'ity p r.:. t e s s i . .n n t ,t nach .=ite in the entire region. Nobody wanted the .iob wnd I hat i rra luded me . Mr. Vaughn finally prevailed upon a former m M o y o. , trnm Horth Carolina to take the iob. I know the process to

.entie r outsido +mployment and I have used it. There have been times when uomething came siong that looked interesting to me and I took the '

proper steps. That is a matter of record. In this cas> simply was not interested. Larry Kern may have been present wher r explained to George that Caldwell had been the person applied to Vaughn. I talked with Kern on numerous occasions > . role of temporary recurity manager and did the best I could to co ve -,e with him in that role. He was a good coordinator and a stabili 13ctor.

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depositions concerning charges were taken f rom George and Kern ci she was telephonically leading these two security supervisors to i predetermined conclusion based on a line of questions provided by E.

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Apparentiv t he allegations that I was racially and sexually biased relate to my insistence that the certified armed security officers be nble to reso inst ruct ions . This discussion was an aftermath of the discevere et th+ ralsification or

  • he security officers' spplicutions and traininc records. As a reminder, we uncovered this problem wnen interviewing cecurity officer and discovered that the students had been certitied as tasked to follow procedures. There were three things wrong. First there were no procedures written and issued.

Secondly, the training records had been falsified. Then lastly, some of the security officers could not read at any level while others were barely l it.e ral . It is necessary for the security officers to read the procedures and then to have the literal skills to write a report should they ever witness a security event. These are specific attributes required by the regulations. Mr. Hill said he could hire anybody he wanted to. I agreed but with the proviso that before anybody was armed and certified they had to meet the regulations. The strange twist of fate that places me under charge of being a racial bigot, would give the imprisoned Grand Wacko of the KKK a great belly laugh. The unjustly accused black prisoners that I have helped gain release from the county jail, through my work with the Catholib.g/?O Justice Ministry, would probably cry. I believe that this l's "fdrther I

indication that Investigator Rowe didn't bother with asy indep#dEdint #0 l

background reviews.

My conclusive impressions are that this process is so outrageous'that there must be something else behind it. I wonder if this is not snother example of Mr. Mulley's, of OIA, Region IV bashing that we have witnessed in the past. I never have been able to verify it but I l have long suspected that Mr. Mulley was the instigator behind the call  !

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i 89 UNITED STATES-

^ ( NUCLEAR REGULATORY 1 COMMISSION-

. .s Office of Governmental and Public Affairs, REGION IV

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811 Ryan Plaza Drive,8uite 1000, Arlington, Texas 70011, 1

I NBQ BEGIQN IE Region.IV of the' Nuclear Regulatory Commission carries'out the J

asency's program in a 14-state area ---Arkansas, Colorado Idaho,<

Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota,.

_ Oklahoma,; South' Dakota, Texas, Utah and-Wyoming.

h Its main regional office is in Arlington, Texas, in the

, D Dallas-Fort Worth area. Also part of Region IV is'the NRC' Uranium Recovery Field-Office in Golden, Colorado (Denver area)., which is responsible for regulation of uranium milling and related activities.

Like other NRC major; field offices, Region IV conducts inspections and coordinates investigations.as necessary to; assure compliance with the agency's requirements. It also is responsible for reactor operator and materials licensing, and for review and approval of reactor operating-license amendments.

BE9IQHak B19BLI9 BIS Administrator- Robert D. Martin LDeputy Administrator. John Montgomery

--Counsel- Willian-L.1 Brown State.& Govt. Affairs Officer Robert J'. Doda

. State' Liaison officer -. Charles A. Hackney Public Affairs Officer Joe T. Gilliland-1 Telephone: 817/860-8100 (main number) 817/860-8128 (public affairs)

Divin19D UaDassra Reactor Projects Q vt b b s.

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T. Pat Gwynn, deputy-Reactor Safety L. J. Callan, director Johns Jaudon, deputy Radiation Safety & Safeguards A. Bill Beach, director Uranium Recovery' Field Office Ramon E. Hall, director (Located.at 730 Simms St., Suite 100A, Golden, Colorado.80401; Telephone: 303/236-2805)

Resource Mgat. & Administration Greg Benoit, director-NuGl9AE EQHRE ElAD1 M011R Licensed to operate 10 c C('6ff6 Under construction or undergoing operating license review 2 l

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!NFORMATION FOR 8081%RT!N, REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR, R IV SUBJECT Range of disciplinary actions taken for "similar" offenses

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3/85 R!'t g;., . 1". 9 ; ... i.1;.1 l $olicited employment while serving in official capac ty. v'o's e CFR 0.735 22 (a) proposed: 30 day suspension action takens reprimand

.. 7/81 RIV Accepted Mardi Gras tickets from licensee.

propose : ded in summary) 7 action taken: 30 day suspension

, 4/81 IE supervisor, recommended to Itcenses that he back.date licens ng papers.

proposed: (notrecorded) action taken: 7-day suspension RIII Licensee reported 3/88 -

contacted them to discuss o s pen ng awsu and discussed potential falsification of records regarding safety issue not heretofore known to Region !!!.

' proposed: removal action taken: removal prepared by Huel Meadows from sungnary of cases (19791988)

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