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Affidavit of Jj Lipinsky Instructing J Gallo to Assert Privilege in Connection W/Request for Production
ML20099K388
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Site: Comanche Peak  Luminant icon.png
Issue date: 11/05/1984
From: Lipinsky J
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Attachment A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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) (Application for (Comanche Peak Steam Electric ) Operating Licenses)

Station Units 1 and 2) )

Affidavit of Joseph J. Lioinsky I, Joseph J. Lipinsky, being firHL duly sworn, do hereby depose and say:

1. I as the Quality Assurance Director for Oliver B .' Cannon & Son, Inc. During the course of that employment, I' wrote a trip report, dated August 8, 1983, concerning my visit to the Comanche Peak nuclear plant on July 26-27, 1983.

That report, which was intended as an internal Cannon document, was surreptitiously obtained from me, and subsequently it was made available to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

i 2. The memorandum raised technical concerns about the protective coatings program at Comanche Peak and in this connection, the NRC sought to take my deposition. Cannon desired to coopecate with the NRC and I agreed to give the deposition. Messrs. Nicholas Reynolds and McNeill Watkins II of the firm of Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds 4

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were retained as my attorneys.

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3. I considered Messes. Reynolds and Watkins as my
attorneys in dealing with the NRC deposition matter. Mr.

.Reynolds provided me with advice regularly during November

! and December 1983 with respect to this matter. Mr. Watkins

e represented me on the day of the deposition, January 4, 1984.

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4. Subsequently, I learned from Mr. Roth, i President of Cannon, that he had retained Messrs. Reynolds and Watkins as my attorneys, ar.d that cannon had assumed _

responsibility for the payment of their fees.

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5. I conside.c ay consultations with my attorneys to be privileged, including the records I made of those consultations in the documents identified in Attachment D of Mr. Gallo's October 18, 1984 letter to the Licensing Board and the diary notes identified in Mr. Thornton's
letter of October 19, 1984 to the Board. I have instructed Mr. Gallo to assert that privilege in connection with the request for their production.

Further deponent sayeth not.

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Subscribed and sworn to before me this

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. November 14, 1984 Anthony _Roisman, Esquire Executive Director Trial Lawyers for Public Justice 2000 F Street, N.W.

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  • 3 Washington, D.C. 20036 Re: In the Matter of Texas Utilities et al. (Comanche Peak Electric Company, Steam Electric Sta EoK Units 1 and 2) i Docket Nos. 50-445-2 and 50-446-2

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Dear Tony:

i Our November 5, 1984 brief supports Mr. Lipinsky's

( right to claim attorney / client privilege with respect to

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several documents that werE withheld from the document productions made by O.B. Cannon & Son, Inc. on October 18 and

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clarification of the factual background that led to the attorney / client relationship between Mr. Lipinsky and Messrs.

Reynolds and Watkins. The purpose of this letter is to provide that information based on my conversation with Mr. .

Lipinsky this morning.

Mr. Lipinsky requested legal representation of Mr.

E neynolds and his firm on November 29, 1983. The representation was limited to the matter of NRC's request (Region IV) to take Mr. Lipinsky's deposition. The matter.of fees was discussed during a telephone conversation on November

30. Mr. Lipinsky was told that he would not be billed for the legal services. He was advised that either O.B. Cannon or Texas Utilities would assume responsibility for the costs.

Mr. Lipinsky later learned in early November 1984 that Cannon had assumed responsibility for the payment of legal fees resulting from Mr. Lipinsky's representation.

On-November 30, 1983, Mr. Lipinsky and Mr. Reynolds discussed the potential for a conflict of interest associated with Mr. Reynold's representation. Mr. Lipinsky was advised (a fact he already knew) that Mr. neynolds represented Texas Utilities in the Comanche Pee.k licensing case. Mr. Lipinsky

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1 was advised that a conflict could arise if during the NRC deposition, Mr. Lipinsky's testimony was detrimental to the interest of Texas Utilities. Mr. Lipinsky was advised that if .

this occurred, Mr. Reynolds wculd immediately interrupt the deposition and withdraw his representation. Mr. Lipinsky understood the situation as explained above, and he accepted the Reynolds , et al. , represen'.ation on that basis.

Mr. Watkins' only involvement was to represent Mr.

Lipinsky during the deposition on January 4, 1984. Since Region IV did not inquire of Mr. Lipinsky after January 4, 1984,-no further representation with respect to this matter by Reynolds and Watkins has occurred'since that time.

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On January 4, 1984, the writer traveled to Chicago, and net Mr. McNeill

' Watkins II (Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds) at approximately 0930 hours0.0108 days <br />0.258 hours <br />0.00154 weeks <br />3.53865e-4 months <br /> (CS,T). .

Mr. Watkins and the writer went to the coffee shop in the O' Hare Hilton and discussed the following:

-JJL to request, as soon as possible after being placed under oath, for a copy of the tr'anscript. -

-Mr. Watkins discussed "on the record" vs "off the record".

-Mr. Watkins discussed the four categories that questions would fit.

-Mr. Watkins and the yriter discussed other miscellaneous items.

I The writer and Mr. TIatkins arriv_ed in' Room 2076 at approximately 1045 At this hours (CST) and met Mr. F. Hawkins *and Mr. C. Johnson (both NRC).

time there was only small talk.

At approximately 1110 hours0.0128 days <br />0.308 hours <br />0.00184 weeks <br />4.22355e-4 months <br /> (CST) the writer was placed under cath and the neeting started. Both Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Johnson tock turns asking cuestions (based on 8/8/83 trip report with CAD number) centered on about nine areas of the tr,ip report. The writer's responses were in line with the draft testimony prepared by 't. Reynolds and the .vriter for the ASLB Hearings. The writer did not specul. ate on other arris not in the report. Also the ariter did not speculate or expand on areas covered in the report. The neeting ended at approximately 1240 hours0.0144 days <br />0.344 hours <br />0.00205 weeks <br />4.7182e-4 months <br /> (CST).

i After the meeting ended Mr. Hawkins indicated that a draft of the The transcript shoulti he in t.he cassession of the *nC by Canuary 9,1984 finish 2d transcript will ncpefully be ready by January 12, 1984 Mr. Watkins advised the writer (also af ter the meeting - and when alone l e

with t".e .vriter) that everything went well at the meetinq. Mr. Watkins  ;

cautiored that the ASLB Hearings wnuld be more aggressive in the cross examination.

The writer returnco to Phil1de'onia en Urua'ry 4, 1984, and advised RBR of the results of this meeting on knuary 5,1984 ,

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