ML20056A243
| ML20056A243 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/24/1990 |
| From: | Philips J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Riccio J NUCLEAR INFORMATION & RESOURCE SERVICE |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20056A244 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-90-220 NUDOCS 9008060219 | |
| Download: ML20056A243 (2) | |
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Ret POIA-90-220 APPENDIX H RECORDS BEING PLACED INTO THE PDR UNDER THE ABOVE REQUEST. NUMBER NUMBER DATE DESCRI.PTION 1.
Undated Safeguards for LES Enrichment Facility (2 pages) 2.
6/29/89 Memo to R. M.
Bernero from R.
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Facility with enclosure (2 pages) j 3.
1/10/90 Expected Application for License by J
Louisiana Energy Services, Inc. for the Construction and Operation of a Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Facility -- Safeguards Issues (5 pages) 4.
1/11/90 Letter to R.
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Fonner from J. M.
McGarry, et. al., re LES Enrichment Plant Licensing (4 pages)
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4/3/90 Memo to R. M. Bernero from R.
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service 142416th Street, N.W., Suite 601, Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 328 0002 TREED 3M Of ti!F0%.1 Ail 0N May 7, 1990 A0i REQUEST h
W' Mr. Donnie H. Grimaley Division of Rules and Records g /g g [ %'
office of Administration and Resources Management U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST Dear Mr. Grimsley
- Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.
522, as amended and 10 C.F.R. 9.8 of the Commission's regulations, the Nuclear Information & Resource Service requests the following documents regarding the uranium enrichment facility proposed by Urenco in Homer, Louisiana.
Pursuant to this
- request, please provide all documents prepared or utilized by, in the possession of, or routed through the NRC related to the environmental impact of the proposed facility; the licensing of the facility and the ownership and-corporate structure of Louisiana Energy Services.
Please consider " documents" to include reports, studies, test results, correspondence, memoranda, meeting notes, meeting minutes, working papers, graphs, chartr,, diagrams, notes and summaries of conversations and interviews, computer records and any other form of written communicatjons including internal NRC memoranda.
Pursuant to and in compliance with 10 C.F.R. 9.41 of the Commission's regulations governing requests for waiver of fees, the Nuclear Information and Resource Sery;,ce, herein after referred to as NIRS, puts forth the following information.
NIRS seeks the requested information solely to contribute to and help shape the public debate on nuclear issues.
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NIRS-intends to use the information to help the citizens of I
Homer Louisiana and the surrounding county better understand the 1
impact of the proposed facility on their community.
NIRS will also use the requested information for an article in one of our I
publications.
NIRS is qualified to make use of the requested information.
The staff has demonstrated the ability to interpret i
information and communicate that information in a
form comprehensible to the general public.
Members of the NIRS staff have published articles in such national journals as The pypgteggiy.a, Raglear Times, Newsday and The Bulletin __ _of Atomic Scientis13 NIRS has a working relationship with physicists, i
engineers, medical doctors and other respected professionals who contribute to the full understanding of technical records, i
The information sought by HIR3, is not, to the best of our knowledge, in the public domain.
The general public has displayed great interest in the circumstances surrounding the licensing of this proposed facility.
It has been the topic of discussion in the House Interior Sub-Committee on Energy and the Environment and has been the subject of several network news stories in Shreiveport and New Orleans, Louisiana as well as several local and regional newspaper stories. Concerned citizens have formed an organization to look at the imact of the proposed plant on their community.
The t
requested information will certannly increase the public's understanding of the government's licensing of nuclear facilities and the impact that a facility may have on their community.
The i
information NIRS hopes to receive will be made available to the citizens of the proposed site and will be the subject of an article in the Euclear Monitor.
The proposed Urenco racility has already been the subject of an article in the Monitor and will also be covered in the up coming issue of Groundswell.
NIRS has demonstrated its ability and commitment to inform the public on all important nuclear issues.
NIRS regularly publishes two journnis for which this information will be of use, the Nuclear __ Monitor and Groundswell.
Since
- 1978, NIRS has been providing information on nuclear issues to the public, the press, members of Congress, state and local government officials as well as hundreds of citizens groups across the country.
NIRS provides this information free of charge and has neither a commercial nor a private interest in the agency records sought.
Under the amended fee waiver standard, NIRS is clearly entitled to a full waiver of all search, review and duplication fees.
This standard calls for such a waiver, "if disclosure of the information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to the public understanding of the operation or activities of the government and is not primarily in the commercial interest of the requester." 5 U.S.C. 552 (a) (4)
(A) (iii).
In light of the foregoing, NIRS8 request meets this standard on its face.
NIRS has no commercial interest in this matter, but rather seeks this information to help the general public better understand the role of government in regulating the nuclear industry.
j For all the reasons cited above, NIRS' request falls squarely within the congressional intent in enacting the Freedom of Information Act and the fee waiver provision.
We, therefore, ask that the commission grant a full waiver for this FOIA request.
i Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
If you have any questions in regards to this request, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
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