ML20095D592

Transcript of G Bennetzen 840816 & 18 Prefiled Testimony Re Qa/Qc of Piping

ML20095D592
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	08/18/1984
From:	Bennetzen G BROWN & ROOT, INC. (SUBS. OF HALLIBURTON CO.)
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1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 2 BEFORE Tile ATOMIC SAFETY &, LICENSING, BOARD. .

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3 IN THE MATTER OF: ) 3 _. yg gg 4 TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC ) DOCKET NOS.

-COMPANY, ET AL ) 50-445 5 ) 50-446 (COMANCIIE PEAK STEAM )

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11 GREGORY DENNETZEN .1f' AUGUST 16 & 18, 1984 12 O '

14 15 16 PREFILED TESTIMONY OF GREGORY BENNETZEN, taken 17 on the 16th and 18th days of August, 1984, in the 18 above-styled and numbered cause, at Glen Rose Motor 19 Inn located at liighway 67 L FM Road 201, in the City 20 of. Glen Rose, County of Somervell and State of.

21 Texas, before Marigay Black, a Certified Shorthand 22 Reporter in and for the State of Texas.

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2 1 APPEARANCES:

(]I 2 BISHOP, LIBERMAN, COOK, PURCELL L REYNOLDS Attorneys at Law 3 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 4

BY: McNeill Watkins II, Esq.

5 APPEARING FOR APPLICANTS 6

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3 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MR. WATKINS: This is a profiled 3 direct testimony of Greg Benitson. Mr. Bennetzen is 4 a Brown & Root employee at Comanche Peak. He is 5 appearing as a witness in this proceeding 6 voluntarily and has not been subpoenaed by any party.

7 My name is McNeill Watkins with the law 8 firm of Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds.

9 Ue represent the Applicants in this licensing 10 proceeding.

11 GREGORY BEUNETZEN, 12 the witness'hereinbefore named, being first duly 13 cautioned and sworn to testify the truth the whole 14 truth and nothing but the truth, testified on his 15 oath as follows:

16 EXAMINATION 17 BY HR. WATKINS:

.18 0 Mr. Bennetzen, would you state your full 19 name, please.

20 A. Gregory H. Bennetzen.

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21 Q. By whom'are you employed, Mr. Dennetzen?

.22 A. BrownJ&' Root, Incorporated.

23 O. Where are you employed?

24 A. At the Comanche Peak project.

• 25 Q. What is your job title?

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9 When the document reviewer has checked all 10 the attributes, he prepares the N-5 Code Data Report.

11 The report goes through several reviews by my leads 12 and by myself. If the report is acceptable, .I have 13 it transmitted to ANI for review and approval.

14 Q. What happens when the N-5. process is 15 complete?

16 A. Then Brown & Root turns.the system over to 17 the owner, TUGCO.

18 Q. During your tenure as OA/QC H-5 supervisor, 19 did you supervise Meddie Gregory?

20 A. Yes, sir.

21 Q. Did you, during that time, supervise Linda 22 Barnes?

23 A. Yes, sir.

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2 A. Yes, sir.

3 O. What is a job shopper?

4 A. It's a company that hires or subcontracts 5 personnel to come in and do a specific job for your G company.

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11 Q. Did you ever make any remarks to the 12 document review group about the possibility of. job 13 shoppers being added to the ~ document review group?

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15 O. On how many occasions did you refer to the 16 possibility of job shoppers being brought into the 17 document review group? ,

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19 Q. Where did you make these remarks?

20 A. In a meeting with my U-5 personnel.

21 Q. What was the substance of youriremarks?

22 A. I told my' personnel that our. management had 23 told me that the owner was concerned with the amount 24 of N-5's that we were completing, and asked if we 25 -would need additional help such as job shoppers.

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3 A. Yes, sir.

4 Q. Did you express that opinion to the 5 document reviewers at this meeting?

6 A. Yes, sir.

7 0 What opinion did you express?

8 A. I told my personnel that we could do the 9 job ourselves. .All we needed to do is work'as a 10 team. And that as all of them knew, we did not need 11 job shoppers coming in making more money than all of 12 us, and thus having to train them on how to -- how 13 to make up an U-5.

14 O. Now, you testified that your management has 15 been told by the client about the possibility of 16 bringing in job shoppers. Who in your management 17 conveyed this concept to you?

18 A. My immediate supervisor, Bob Siever, and s 19 the QA manager, Gordon Purdy.

' 2 0' O. As he related the idea to you, did it 21 involve replacing your document reviewers with job 22 shoppers?

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4 Q .' Did you exprecs an opinion to them, anyway?

5 A. Y e s ,- sir.

6 Q. What was that opinion?

7 A. I told them that I thought we could handle 8 it.on our own and we did not need a bunch of job

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10 Q. Mr. Bennetzen, did you make the statement 19 that is quoted on page 54,525 of Ms. Gregory's 20 testimony, and I quote: "Those that are loyal to the 21 company will stay, and those who are not will hit 22 the gate"?

23 A. No, I never said that.

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