ML20083A535

Requests Stay of Further Administrative Proceedings Re Criminal Misconduct Resulting from Operation of Unit 2 Until Conclusion of Criminal Trial.Administrative Inquiry Re Operation of Unit 1 Need Not Be Stayed

ML20083A535
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	12/14/1983
From:	Jensen D PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONWEALTH OF
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
Shared Package
ML20083A527	List: ML20083A535 ML20083A543
References
NUDOCS 8312200314
Download: ML20083A535 (2)

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Dear Chairman Palladino:

As you are aware, a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recently returned an indictment charging the Metropolitan I:dison Company with criminal misconduct arising out of its operation of Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant. The resulting trial is presently ,

scheduled for January 3,*1984.

I am advised that your Cor mission is now conducting an n

administrative inquiry related to the Three Mile Island plant, .

- which focuses in part on the operation of Unit 2. While parallel.

criminal and administrative proceedings can often proceed in harmony, the potential for conflicts i. creases 1 as'the criminal trial grows near.

- Manv of the witnesses being subpoenaed. to testify in the NRC's inquiry are also scheduled to testify in the criminal case. -

As the trial. approaches, counsel involved in that ' case will be seeking the cooperation of those witnesses in making themselves available for extensive pretrial interviews. The additional i

' demands which will be placed on the witnesses, during this critical period, by the administrative inquiry have a potential for engendering frustration, confusion, and irritation which would be counterproductive to the fact-finding processes of botB the administrative and judicial proceedings. It is also possible that your administrative inquiry could withgenerate the def endants publicity that could inadvertently conflict

\right to a fa4--' "al.

t i The criminal trial mav erove to be of substantial benefit l

'to the NRC in the conduct of'its administrative proceedings.

I< The rules related to grand jury secrecy have precluded the w Department from sharing with the NRC information developed during~its investigation. However, much of that information l

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