ML20080G550
| ML20080G550 | |
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 09/16/1983 |
| From: | Boyer V PECO ENERGY CO., (FORMERLY PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC |
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| NUDOCS 8309200310 | |
| Download: ML20080G550 (5) | |
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AFFIDAVIT OF VINCENT S. BOYER hE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, NUCLEAR POWER i.
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My name is Vincent S. Scyer.
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On August 10, 1983, John S. Kemper, Vice President, p~y gv@,
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The Board's special Prehearing Conference 0:c,er,
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for informal discovery.
Pursuant to that Order, on September 3,
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1982 the Air and Water Pollution Patrol (AWPP) requestec certa:.n documents relating to NR; Inspection Report 75-06.
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this matter, the following documents were requested:
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"(7) Pr' ovide record of all welds accepted i f.%:
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by inspector who accepted welds at ele-i I.T vation 253, columns 23G and H, and provide recorp showing percentage of welds inspected i {f.'..j f 4
by inspector in (6) above that were rein-spected."
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By letter dated January 11, 1983, th9 documents which
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A letter from V S. Boyer to J. P. O'Reilly dated
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October 27, 1976.
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Additional welds which were the responsibility.of the
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The remaining 228 structural welds include 16 which M,
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reinspected with one minor deficiency fcund.
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