ML20097K091

FOIA Request for Documents Re GE Work on Oyster Creek NPP Between 1963-1975

ML20097K091
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	06/06/1995
From:	Dekok D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
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FOIA-95-258 NUDOCS 9509180040
Download: ML20097K091 (3)

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David Dekok 113 Conoy St.

Harrisbury.Pa 17104 June 6.19- e BSDOM OF iR.;u. . .

Utvision of Freedom of Irdormation hdACT R:QUEsr and Publications Services Office of Administration and Resources Management

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t g , 4_ g _g.5 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Freedom of Information request Dear Sir or Madam- l 1

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I would like copies of the I following. 1

-All correspondence in your files between the former Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric pertaining to GE s work on the m' ster l Creek nuclear plant between the years 1963 and 1975, 1

--Any documents in your files such as memos. reports. etc.. directiv I relating to the above correspondence during the same time period Neither of these requests pertains to documents that are alread) in the Public Document Room in the Ovster Creek i file or released in previous FOI A requests. I am looking for documents pertaining to GE s work as the Ovster Creek reactor / plant builder. especially those pertaining to GE s efforts to resolve AEC concerns about problems discovered in the Os ster Creek plant around 1969.

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I also request Representative of the News Media ' status. which entitles me to a waiver of search fees and 100 pages of free copying. These documents will be used in preparation of a book I am writing on the history of General Public Utilities Corp . owner of the Ovster Creek nuclear plant I l

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I am the author of one previous book, Unseen Danger A TrageJV of People, Government and the Centralia Mine Fire. It was published in >

1986 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A copy of a revie'v o!

my first book in the New York Times is enclosed.

Thank you for your attention to this request.

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- esed what these angry tunes demonstrate anew tha' is as great as ever " coats vi paeavis the buck and of cynwat indifferenice to in the 1960's, when Centraha's houses tegen filhng the people of t'entratta Former Secretary of the In-Governmens still imas ways to overham - es that the with lethat fumes, the intersor Department supphed terkw James G Watt is quoted as sayms in 1981, the perds of the sutnerrancase bettw for ctual between man momtors that detected them The underground mme and nature estand upward to the surface 19th year of the Centraks mine fire, "There is mit a The Usuted Staten Burosu of Mmes reported in 1979 fire spread Some residems were kamlied unrunarsous theest to health and safety lThe firel gues down deep.

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fill a Dickens novel Mr DeKok descrees RKhard L Thornbutth. the former Republican Governor of Penn-l eased underground cast mares and sudace culm froel waste) banks. a numtwr of which have been burmns for #

%. 7 sylvema, es bemt evasive etssut the Cemrahe fire De l years "Partrularly during the first half of this cen- Governor's predecessors. Wahem Scrsman and Msitan tury," tfw bureau said men, cual msnmg was "arcom- . ,, ,,j _ Shepp. share the blame. the author says, along with a ,

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