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TRAMSCRIPT OF P.EETING BETWEEN COMMISSIONER ASSELSTINE AND REPRESENTATIVES OF LOUISIANA POWER &

LIGHT On July 16, 1984, Cc missioner Asselstine rret with Gerald Charnoff, an attorney with Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge and James Cain, Chief Executive of Louisiana Power.and Light. The LP&L representatives suggested to Comissioner Asselstine a plan for responding to the allegations which had been made about problems at the Waterford plant. There was no discussion of substantive matters at issue in the proceeding. However, a copy of the transcript is being placed in the public Document Room in Washington, D.C. and in the local Public Document Room for your inspection.

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TRANSCRIPT BRIEFING WITH CHARNOFF AND s KANE RE: WATERFORD This responds to your July 23, 1984 request that OGC review the attached transcript to determine the advisability of serving it on the parties in the Waterford proceeding.

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substantive matter at issue in a proceeding on the record .

! . . pending before the NRC for the issuance . . . of a

-license . . . ." 10 CFR S 2.780. The discussion contained no ex parte communication and would not be required under the7aw to be served on the parties. Therefore, whether or not the transcript ought to be served on.the parties is a f.. matter of discretion and, in this case, is a close question.

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1 P,R g g g g g I N_ g S 2 MR. ASSEL3 TINE: I figure tjiven the posture 3 of the case and the pending investigation business, 4 that for all parties concerned it would be best to ,

5 go ahead and have the meeting transcribed and served 6 on the parties.

7 First, I think we need to identify ourselves 8 so the recorder can do it. I'm Jim Asselstine.

9 MR. CHARNOFF: Okay, and I'm Jerry Charnoff.

10 MR. KANE: And I'm Jim Kane.

MR. ASSELSTINE: Great. That way they can 11 12 match the voices to the names.

13 MR. CHARNOFF: And I'm with Shaw, Pitman T

and we're counsel for Louisiana Power and Light, and 14 We're 15 we ' re here to talk about the Waterford case.

issue 16 not going to talk about anything that's at 17 before a licensing board or review board, and indeed

' 18 we're not even going to talk about the details of the 19 investigation, most of which we don't know anything 20 about anyway.

MR. ASSELSTINE: Good.

21 Fe did want to talk to you MR. CH ARNOFF :

22 because last week we had a meeting with Darryl Eisenhut 23 24 and Ben Hayes on Friday. The situation at the moment, 25 as we understand it, is that the Waterford Plant, first FREE STATE REPORTING INC.

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' of all, is really racdy for fueling. It's being held 2 up waiting for disposition f rom, well, it 's waiting 3 for a license which is waiting for a disposition of 4

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5 to reopen. We're not here to talk about that.

6 It is also waiting the outcome of the NRC's 7 efforts and investigation at Waterford into a number 8 of allegations. And, indeed, the. NRC 1as done a yeoman's job 9 in some respects down there, I think, Jim.

10 There were a lot of ' allegations published 11 in a newspaper called Gambit.. ..

12 MR. ASSELSTINE: Yeah, right.

13 . MR. CHARNOFF: s . . months, back, and the NRC 14 proceeded to send down a CAT team down there. The CAT 15 team came up with a report which indicated some .

16 problems, but not too many, i 17 Actually, it was a very f avorable, in the 18 overall, a very f avorable report. We felt pretty

! 19 cheered by that. Simultaneously, some combination of l 20 the NRR and OI and OIE, they put together a team of 21 about 30 or 40 or 50 people who went down there and 22 we really appreciated the effort to do it on a team 23 effort and do it all at once.

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all but about 20. Maybe loss than 20 but they resulted 2 in about 20 some odd questions.

3 There was a public meeting that we had with 4 the Staff with a lot of television cameras about three ,

5 - weeks ago and wh'ere the Staff told us the results of 6 that meeting and said that it would be, of the 7 investigation, and said that they would follow up 8 with some questions.

9 And a couple of days later we got some 23 .

10 questions from the Staff. As'a result of that p lic 11 meeting and the questions, Jim Kane is president of 12 LP&L, put together a team of people within LP&L to 13 look at the matters and engaged some senior people 14 from NUS and UNC, that's Sol Levine from NUS and Bob Ferguson and Larry Humphries of UNC, as a 15 =

16 three-man task force which is reporting directly to 17 Jim on the whole program to resolve these 23 matters 18 and what they mean.

19 That's on the way and working pretty well.

In addition, a number of NUS people are working with 20 21 the LP&L team to try to resolve these 23 matters and 22 find out what the facts are and report them both to Jim and to NRC. And that's on the way.

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by Danny Crutchfield who works for Darryl Eisenhut, 1

2 and I think they have a pretty good sense of an approach 3 to the 23 questions.

4 By and large, since your task group, the _

5 Crutchfield task group, thinks that we're on the right s path in terms of approach $ I think they appreciate the 7

task force concept that Jim Kane has set up because I 8

think that gives us acgood measure of a fresh look at 9 things from very competenf. pr ople.

10 We ran into a little bit of a prchlem and that we had on Friday if that resulted in a meeting on, 12 with Ben Hayes of OI and his fellow Dick Kerr from 13 .

Arlington and Denny Crutchfield and Darryl .

14 Eisenhut.

~ ~ That meeting grew out of some phone calls 15 is that I had with some of them with regard to the f act 17 that here we have a comprehensive look being taken at 18 the 23 questions.

We have assigned key people to look at these 19 matters in a responsible way or a responsible reviewer 20 way. It is apparent to us f rom statements made by either 21 ,

Ben Hayes or Eisenhut or Crutchfield that the NRC OI 22 investigation of many of the allegations, which we 23 were told are in two categories, one was harrasment 24 25 and intimidation and the other was f alsification of FREE STATE REPORTING INC.

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documents, may not be over for several months. Now, 2

it turns out and we don't know who they are that there 3

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4 over some of the people that we are using in our principal 5

reviewer role to handle these 23 questions.

6 And I suggested that it would be well if we 7

were told who these people were, not for purposes of a

our taking any retaliatory measures toward them and

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don't want to do either, but for purposes of allowing to Jim Kane as Chief Executive Officer to, in effect, take 33

12 any pe ple who may have a cloud over them and maybe some j othe_s and just for the moment remove them from the 33 exercise in responding to the 23 questions because it 14 may. turn out that all of these people have very clean 15 hands and that the allegations were without substance, 16 37 and we certainly don't want to do anything that's 18 unfair to them.

i Many of them may be very good people. At l ig the same' time, we are concerned, and I think Eisenhut

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Eisenhut to, in effect, accept those answers, the integrity 3 of the answers.

4 So we've suggested that if you would at least tell Jim Kane and Mike Ledig, who is the Senior VP for 5

Nuclear down there, against whom there is no cloud and...

6 MR. ASSELSTINE: Right.

7 MR. CHARNOFF: ...there is no suggestion of 8

a cloud. If you would tell us who the people are, 9 .

then management has the responsibility to either decide to y

that there's no basis for the cloud and we ought to just fight the NRC and let the project wait, or manage-ment can decide, and it won't, to fire these people right 7

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away without waiting for the results, and it's not about to do that. That wouldn't be fair. .

15 Or it could find some way to not remove 16 them from their work, but remove them from this task which is very important. And we did talk to Eisenhut 18 Y

19 fr m the task of being principally involved in resolving 20 the questions, that obviously some of these people are imp rtant to the corporate memory of what happened, 22 could we have access to them. -

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issue is, at the moment, that we don't know against 2 whom or over hwom there's some cloud.

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w rk hard, as they are doing already, over the next 6

two to six weeks to get you information, and we're 7

crippled in that we can't, we have no options that manage-ment has to deal with the problems.

8 So we asked Ben if he would tell us who those 9

People were. Ben appreciated the quandary that we're 10 in and the quandary that he's in. He doesn't want to 33 affect adversely the investigation, and nor do we, and 12 he doesn't want to hold the plant hostage, which is 13 3,

really what may happen.

And that could be several months the plant 15 16 have to talk to the Commissioners about this, and we 37 said to him, " Good."

18 39 "Would you please see the Chairman next week and the other Commissioners," and he said he was going 20 to be on vacation today, he and Ben Hayes, and he would 21 22 talk to the Chairman at the end of the week.

He was due back then, I gather. But he said I 23 that he would be with you during the middle of the week.

24 25 You're going on a trip to Grand Gulf.

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MR. ASSELSTINE: Grand Gulf, right.

MR. CHARNOFF: So, I said to him, do you mind 2

3 if.we talk to you and any of the other Commissioners ,

4 ind, in effect, they encouraged us to do that. Now, I did not have with me on Friday the NRC's policy state-5 6

ments on OI policies, but I did get it for this morning.

And as I see it, Jim, there are two policy 7

numbers, 18 and 19, that may.be pertinent, Eighteen, 8

g both say don't disclose unnecessarily what's going on with an investigation.

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Now, we're not interested in the. substance at all here today. We are interested in encouraging g you to understand the problem and to back Ben up with g the authority he already has to give us that limited disclosure, which we will not disclose, and we've g

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11 t We'll do some way to mask it, at his directions, what-2 ever he would want. Jim would work with him.

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6 has the authority but appropriately he wants to know 7

that the members of the Commission will unNerstand what he's doing. And that's our mission. Jim.

a MR. KANE: Jim, you have my assurance, as 9

the chief Executive of Louisiana Power and Light, 3g that I would certainly deal with this matter in an 33 12 appropriate discretion and give it the necessary pri rity and overview that would confirm what Jerry 13 34 has just shared with you, that I would in no way do 15

""Ything that would prejudice or compromise the invest-gati n underway by Director Hayes.

16 I would do nothing that would in any way 37 3g reflect on the individuals to which I might be pro-vided access that in any way would be condemning 39 until there is the necessary conclusion to do so,.and 20 I w uld find that very uncomfortable, personally to 21 22 in any way deal with one's career unless I was satis-fied that ther was an adecuate basis for coming to a 23 conclusion. ,

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responsibilities to the corporate side of moving forward ,

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going about it in an orderly way, to reassure the Congressional delegation that there is the basis for 9

understanding between the' applicant and NRC, the 10 regulator, and that we can work together, and I think with all of those assurances on my part, and I stand a great deal to lose if I lose credibility.with you 13 . ,

and other members of the Commission. Perhaps.my own 14 corporate career is at stake if I don't have credi-15 bility with you because I'm being looked to bring the plant to the point that I've just described.

So, I would hope that you'and other members of the Commission would find it within the wisdon of 19 your judgement to not in.any way frown on Mr. Hayes' willingness to work ~with us to find a method that stands the scrutiny of the outside world, but, yet at the same time, recognized individuals and the integrity of individuals involved. And I in no way intend to compromise those integrities. .,

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i MR. ASSELSTINE: I take it your feeling was that 2 the 30 people that are involved in the task force from 3 within the organization were really a key element in -

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5 MR. CHARNOFF: Well, we brought in the 6 outside...

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9 these folks that we're talking about do have the ig corporate memor.y, do have the' background and have a 33 degreee of specialization to bring a particular response to the point that it would be reviewed by 12 8 1 L*VI"*', and it would be reviewed by Larry Humphries.

13 34 They bring the outside perspective; some of these people provide the inside perspective. We just 15 don't want to develop what we think is a good response

( 16 to one of the areas and then three weeks, four weeks 37 18 down the road say, "Well, you know, that's a good answer, 39 but so and so was involved in it and we're not so sure l

j becuase of his involvement that we necessarily agree 20 with the response and so on."

21 22 MR. CHARNOFF: I think we don't want to 23 ".nnecessarily remove anybody who knows the background because that will impede it. But I think if your .

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14 1 I think the answer is probably no. That is going to 2 take just one heck of a lot more learning to cover that.

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4 Hayes about it, they agreed that even the people with 5 cloud would have'to be sources of information.- .

6 They wouldn't be the guys who would determine what was 7 overall right or wrong.

8 But they, you know, if we, there are a lot 9 of people down at the plant. Hopefully, not 10 everybody's under a cloud. And the concept is that 33 within limits we could move some people out 'of the 12 direct responsibility for responses to some of these 13 -

questions, use them as resources, but- not have them .

34 determine the results, have somebody else go on the is line and-say that this is a correct, incorrect or s I 16 wise answer.

37 But it's not a circumstance, I think that la easily can be remedied by just saying let's take total ig outside organizations, you'know, So, that it is a 20 question of selection andiknowing, and, you know, your 21 fellows have been on this for abour three months so i

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15 I we'll hire some of the people out of OI and compete 2 with you for htose people and do our own internal 3 investigations and Ben said, "please don't do that." ,

4 In fact, there aren't that many people, and 5 I din't know that we want every utility to have a 6 bunch of house investigators to do this kind of thing.

7 I suspect that that's not appropriate for organizations a to have, everybody ahve their own. police department.

9 But we're really talking bout is the tax-10 payers, including'ourselves, have, in effect, invested n a lot into the ongoing investigation, and to deprive us 12 of the first cut of that information means we have to i3 operate in the dark and play with this for months 14 while Ben c ntinues his investigation'and it puts 15 Darryl Eisenhut in a difficult position.

16 So it is a question of getting access to that 17 in a credible, legitimate way, limited disclosure, and, ,

is as they say, not even interested in kno.iing what the 19 nature of the allegations are, just tell us who we 20 shouldn't use temporarily for this role.

21 MR. KANE: Well, I. guess it goes to further basics,of trust. Do you truse.me? I have 22 23 to trust you in doing the right thing in issuing a 24 license to assure the safety of the plant. __ ,

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Do you truse me, that I will do what is right-2 in handling this matter to bring it to what I hope to 3 be an orderly conclusion?

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5 In the regulated interprise system the Government has ,

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7 others are all right unless there's a basis for dis-8 chediting them and worrying about'it.

9 In this case nobody's suggesting any; and it 10 doesn't exist, therefore, the question is how do you 11 take them into your confidence to a limited extent so 12 that they can go about their business in an intelligent 13 .

and an efficient way.

14 My sense d.s that Hayes' appreciate this 15 quandary ~and I think he just needs to kn'ow that you 16 fellows on the Commission see it the same way.

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19 jroblem that you have, and I do think that given the 20 fact that you've set up an organization to go forward, 21 we ought to look at every possibility to make sure that,

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. more, I talked to him briefly this morning, once more

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g -wouldn't be readily apparent that there were one, two l or three people who were re~ ally the focus of allegations ,

7 and the focus of any further NRC investigations and 8 that they have been removed so that everyone would 9 then clearly know who they were, or importantly, they .

10 would know who they were.

11 So I'd like to talk to Ben before I reach 12 a conclusion on the matter. My concern is not to impede 13 you all and let you go forward with an approach that 14 will be credible and get your work completed on the 15 ~23 open items, but at the same time, not do something '

16 that's going to open ourselves up to challenge or 17 criticism, our investigation. I don't think that 18 benefits either of us as well.

19 MR. CHARNOFF: It doesn't. The only point 20 I'm concerned about is the masking. I cqn appreciate 21 the masking anomaly for purposes of protecting the 22 investigation, but frankly, for protecting the 23 individuals. That's just as important to me.

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6 if you will, how we're going to do it.

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there really is a way to work it, and I'm really g' lad to 11 say I think when you look at your policies, it really, it 12 opens the door to exactly this kind of plan. There's 13 certainly nothing in the policies that precludes this.

14 Yeah, I think that's right.

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15 f think that's right. And I would agree with you that 16 Ben has that authroity, although I also think that he's 17 smart in asking for whatever guidance we 18 want to give him to make sure that he doesn't get cross-19 wise of what the Commission wants. ,

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21 problem with that. The only thing we'd like to urge is time. MR. ASSELSTINE: Expeditious.

23 MR.'CHARNOFF: Because we really are already 24 waiting. So if.that could be worked on this week, somehow 25 or other.

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' MR. ASSELSTINE: All right. .

2 It would be very helpful.

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3 MR. ASSELSTINE: At least for myself, why-don't I give'you a reaction tomorrow?

5 MR. CHARNOFF: Great.

6 MR. ASSELSTINE: That'll give me a chance 7 to talk to Ben first and then get back to you and

, '8 if:, I'll just give ... Jerry, are.you going to be around 9 tomorrow? ,

10 MR. CHARNOFF: I'm going to be in a trial 11 in St. Louis but I can call you in the afternoen.

12 MR. KANE: Or he can call me.

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16 do that. Yeah, I'm leaving for Grand Gulf I guess 17 about one or so, so if I could call in the morning.

18 MR. CHARNOFF: Okay. I'm in trial I know 19 until one. So'if you'd call Jim Kane, that would be 20 fine. Okay, I appreciate it very much. Sorry to get 21 you at the last minute.

22 MR. ASSELSTINE: No, that's, that's fine.

23 MR. KANE: Somewhere I carry some cards.

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25 MR. ASSELSTINE: Okay, thanks, Jim. _

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3 MR. ASSELSTINE: No, we have to call ,

4 somebody to come turn it off. Okay. Thank you. Jim, 5 it's good to see you.

6 MR. KANE: Hope you have a nice trip to 7 Grand Gulf.

8 MR. CHARNOFF: How long are you going to 9 be down there? .

10 MR.' ASSELSTINE: Two days.

11 MR. CHARNOFF: Is this a tour of the plant?

12 MR. ASSELSTINE: Combination. The first 13 thing I wanted to do is Wednesday...

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