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FOIA Request for Documents Re Briefing Papers on Various Issues,Ranging from Plant License Renewals,To Resident Inspector Program
ML20126L250
Person / Time
Site: Crane  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 06/22/1992
From: Williams O
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To: Grimsley D
NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
References
FOIA-92-321 OGW-92-069, OGW-92-69, NUDOCS 9301070378
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_ Rsgulatory Infornction & Support Systoma 1407 Marco Drive-Mitchellv111e,-MD 20721 301/249-9672' June 22, 1992 OGW-92-069 TREEDOM'0F INFORMATION Mr. Donnie H. Grimsley, Director ACI A QUEST

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Division of Freedom of Information and Publications Services U.S.

NUCLEA9 REGULATORY COMMISSION Washington, D.C.

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SUBJECT:

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST Dear Mr. Grimsley Pursuant to the Freedom of Information -Act, 5 U.S.C.

Paragraph:

552 and NRC's regulations, please make available documents that; provide the information as outlined in the section below.

I would appreciate your promptfresponse within ten working. days of the receipt of this letter, as provided by the Code.- -If you-have any questions regarding this request, please' contact.me at 301/249-9672.

Thank you.

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Op(llaG[ Williams DOCUMENT (S) REQUESTED:

" Briefing papers,"

as-ordered by James 1 Taylor

EDO, on various i ssues, ranging from. plant license
renewals, to-the resident inspector program,, emergency preparedness:and response,

-and the current status of Chernobyl and :-Three Mile Island.

These are referred to in the enclosed article from-the' June

- 15, 1992 edition of Inside N.R.C.

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ery n:q s. The DO2, ne Dush administration ger.erally, and the ne:ltat industry regud the lower EPA at eJ tbo thordul an: cesdy, ht datirO thirecent House hhte en ce er. rgy bill (INRC,1 June,1), Reps. Miller and John Dingell(D-M::!Q, tha! rtan of the Energy & Commer:e Commhtte, utged the EPA to"Immediately proceed to promul-ga:e lut.hrdf ar.d "advind" th l StC to pstpone hs action, defernng instead to the EPA. The u as en May 21, ' I Re NRC wasn't !!stening. When the commissioners met en June. for ene of thelt now f: : pent staff briefit.2s en the tjen:y's attem; to tahage something from BRC,,9,C General Counsel Willica Puler u UT.t f $e mhet fit may w' ell b: thn. If the House sersi:n of the legi:lation is enacted into law, we wdl havu satuto,t gulhn:o en the point."lBut the ettnmissioners disre;rded that, Rey commended the pud:iptory enhah:{rs am tolf thom to moqahead "at (6,11 spe ed,"

Prd:Is " Chip" Cameron, the'egen:y's er hancement guru, told thL commissioners that, for abest 5110,000, centti,; hrs etpedenced at modekung publi: rnayhem we t<ing hired to plan, re:ruit parJ:lpants in,boek hotalt, cer se se, and conduet hah a dozen er more regional ban tessions on a substhuts for BRC, ne sessions ce to tt heldbet a cen Septemt4 and Februar) in rented conference rooms c:ross the country, and Cencien repotte$ that seul!s aircady je!!e w cald p:::e 15 pjmelists at ea:h session around a U. shaped head table, hs open!cdd fa:bg tc audien;e of thpredi:tatte site and antipathy, da?cton Id;the same hlte "fscilia: r"-a chairman trained to "aehiese effe:Lis e intera: don among w er W p p 1:Ipe.nts" by "k cyng the discussion moving" esen if seme of them become "very vcsiferous"-

wout;l had a seven or e4ht dishssion sessiont Sele:t:d parti:lgnts whose skept!crJ or husti!: si:w s anNor la:k bf Unds4 night keep them fram joining in moald 14 cn:ouraged t y effers of NRC reimbarsement for travel and 10$!ng o pe6se s, esumated to cost $50,000 to $70,W overWI, The resalt mtf be thatjast u3t er immedaa'.ely aher, the ' energy 1illlecumes li -quite prob 3bly Mlowing the tny " safe en0Jgh" th4DTULni adon let el de NRC Cou'.d oder%ise impole on dem-2: agen:y will s2tedt.3seto f

basesitnt$N,000 wcrth of er&n:,J nenegraphie uansaints of a p.ui:ipatory pn.i.ess it cannet t.se.

It e,e law says NRC nust d: r ta e e sa::s--or to ruleming by E ?A-the carefally or:Les;;a'.eJ workshops c0ud tteemd worbless. But opta list:C y, Selin told Carn:10n dat he hcMs de pai:iptory pr:i:ess will"ghe O !(n.

  • my ponible et :e of su;;ess."

i d prx s rnay have o1er ntlemt At th June 1 bri:Ib;;,Se!in >!cmed less word:4 dat I:gisladse pt:ct;Rn n$ghtina).'e c.: pd s oflith sah;e the that NRC eapense paymen'.s to some-but not albparJ:i.

pc.d rr,ight gae the prcepdon c a/conferen: elnouges."You know ' Selin remarked,"Wnceri:y is esxndel thc54 p'ca Al'.,0;gh, ameron called esyn>c pe ments to ame "a net." Sch i ud h: was "sery un:oinfcnab'e aboat the idea bfleimb$rstrg people." Re tha mwt's w eining wea dis lo d 4id r; not only who shodd ;:.tG:ipate but whe wnoeg thern (.ould te reimbarse, SRC codd appear to le saying "tha is im;W. ant. so w e py." nt "indi:enon" Lodd den be'that60 vic*'s of th k* riClrdmburstd were det*ned "not 4*:1por@t."-S en d ha W.r,. Wa;/.lr.ggn -

N AC REMONS,HAVE BEEN dONVENING A SERIES OF LOC AL PRESS BRIEFINGS around the cot.htty ubder Chairman !vad Schn's stra:egy to improsc pubhc e id rneas p:re:putns of the egen:y and the ndcar p{wer induwy.

I 81 u$uing, ella's pliu of" h:r acu." crders ta the NRC's te;io.al admmistrators to sage 1e periodic pt:54 bii:fini's went out last fi'i To nein prepare the regions for thes; Standars, Execudve Dire: tor fer opera.

ticr;s Jines Taylar ordered heagua ters daiens to gp,ae atensi)e briefingapers"of handNt qualhv"M them ch van {;s tssues.rangmg (rou p:st h: ens: renewals, to th: r: ident mspector progrem, em:rgency prepuMnefandicsponse, an@hemter una D:temoer m Arbngtun, TeiUTDMlas s,. ba t.rr:m nates of ChemcGaE Wee Md Island.

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seat cf NRC Kegbn IV, and i_n f.ia nt. So le dus y ear there hau be.'n bn:ftngs in C!cseland, Philah!;hia, Wilt hjgton}'.C., San Luis Ob!)pc. Cahf., and Cambridge, Mass. C! at:anooga, Tenn. has on; s:h:duled for June 26, to b) followed by Chiet;c an July 6 and then, at dates yet ts. be set in the fall, by Sy ra:ase and by BaP gra.

' tis ha never been done ch:tly this way," said Dnector of Pullic Affairs Joe Fout.hard. "It's a cut out of the chajrman, s overall effort to Iferrase v;enness and pubtle underse.nding cnd a:cep'.ance,It's to help get bette,r dablicbnderstanding of oct activ! ties,it was the chairman's w sh to hus e the regional administrators meat th moda add have the meMa meet them."

Folchat.1des:ribed the locafmedia rea: tion c.s " basi: ally good,".w hh attendance S w "m 3 tmm INSIDE NAC, ~ ju p 18, ltts