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Office of the Wilkam A. Spratley, Consumers' Counsel (614) 466 8574 137 East State Street Columbus. Ohio 43215 September 13, 1979 Mr. William Loyolaco liuclear Regulatory Cowaission 1717 11 Stroot, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20555 Dear Mr. Loyolacos please accept my thanks for taking the time to moot with no and answering my inquirlos regarding the in-servico dato of the W. II. Zimmer Nuclear plant.
The information you provided me with will greatly assist our of fico's preparation in up-coming utility rato canos.
If you receive any further correspondence from the cin:innati Gas & I:loctric Company regarding the in-servico date of the Zimmer facility, I would be most appreciativo if you would forward it to our offico.
Again, thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter.
Sincoroly, J' 48m aol A.
Dyors Ass ociato Consumers' Counsol MABisha 41gG040606 KILLEFEU4-367 PDR Ray Ross, Chairman / Charlie Nash, Vice Chairman / Michele Brockert / Illene Cessna /
Richard Rogovin / Joseph Knight / Johnson Pannoll / Frank Sollars / Ira Thompson
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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION 111 799 Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Jan Strasma 312/932-2674 NRC TEAM REVIEWING EMERGENCY PLANNING FOR ZIMMER NUCLEAR PLANT IN OHIO A Nuclear Regulatory Commission emergency planning review team will visit the Zimmer Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow, Ohio November 6-8 to evaluate upgrading of the plant's emergency plan since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania last March.
The Zimmer plant is nearing construction completion and che application for an operating license is under review by the NRC.
The review team is one of six in an NRC Emergency Planning Task Force which will visit all operating reactor sites and those nearing completion.
After visiting the site on November 6. the Task Force Team will hold a technical review meeting, open to the public, with officials of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Wednesday November 7, in Room 805, U.S. District Court, United States Post Office and Courthouse, 5th and Walnut Streets, Cincinnati.
The meeting will recess at close of business and resume at 9 a.m. on November 8 for discussiot with State and Local officials with emergency planning responsibil-ities.
From 11 a.m. to noon on November 8, there will be a period -
for comments from interested members of the public only on the subject of emergency planning.
Should time not permit, additional comments may be submitted in writing to Mr. James R. Miller, Acting Assistant Diructor for Site and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555.
The NRC review team includes Tom McKenna and I.A. Peltier, of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; A.E. Desrosiers of Battelle Northwest Laboratory in Washington; and Dr. Mary Jane Oestmann of the NRC's Region III office.
The Task Force Team began visiting sites the week of Septembet 17.
Visits to the nation's 70 licensed operating nuclear power plants are expected to be completed by mid-1980.
October 30, 1979
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NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT:
79-99
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Jan Strasma 312/932-2674 NRC HEARING ON ZIMMER NUCLEAR PLANT TO RESUME NOVEMBER 14 IN CINCINNATI The presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has scheduled a hearing to be held November 14-16 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing proceeding on the application of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company for a license to operate the Wm. H. Zimmer Nuclear Plant being built near Moscow, Ohio.
The hearing will be held in the U.S. District Court, Room 805, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, 5th and Walnut Streets, Cincinnati.
On Wednesday, November 14, the Licensing Board will receive limited appearance statements from members of the public from 9:30 a.m. to noon, if necessary.
The evidentiary hearing will begin at 2:00 p.m. and continue until 9:00 7.m. (with a break for dinner).
On both November 15 and 16 tae starting time will be 9:00 a.m.
This session of the hearing is for the purpose of consider-ing the contention of Intervenor Miami Valley Power Project concerning the adequacy of fire insulation material planned for use in cable trays.
NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS DIRECTORS:
U.S. Courthouse rules 7rohibit the use of cameras and recording devices in the Court-aouse.
Therefore, the use of cameras and recording devices will not be permitted during the session.
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OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. REGION lil 799 Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Jan Strasma 312/932-2674 Russ Marabito 312/932-2667
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NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS DIRECTORS:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a news briefing November 25 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to discuss the findings of its investigation into allegations of construction problems at the Zimmer Nuclear Power Station.
The briefing will be held at 9:30 a.m.
in Parlors A & B at the Netherland Hilton, 35 W. Fifth Street, Cincinnati.
Copies of the investigaticn report will be available for review 30 minutes prior to the briefing.
Conducting the news briefing will be James G. Keppler, Regional Administrator, NRC Region III, and others of the Region III staff.
The irivestigation was conducted from January through October 1981.
It covered allegations supplied to the NFC hy Thomas Applegate, through the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.
C. public interest group; allegations from a former quality control inspector at the Zimmer site; allegations received during the course of the investigation from present and former site employees; and information developed by NRC personnel during the investigation.
November 19, 1981
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NRC STAFF PROPOSES $200,000 FINE AGAINST CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC CO. FOR ALLEGED QUALITY ASSURANCE VIOLATIONS The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Inspection and Enforce-ment has proposed a $200,000 fine against Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company for a,lleged violations of NRC quality assurance requirements in the construction of the Zimmer Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow, Ohio.
The fine is proposed for three alleged violations: (1) false quality assurance documents; (2) harassment and intimidation of quality control personnel; and (3) numerous examples of failure to implement an adequate quality assurance program.
The alleged violations were identified in an extensive investigation conducted between January and October 1981.
The investigation covered allegations made to the NRC by a former contractor quality control in-spector at Zimmer; allegations provided to the NRC by Mr. Thomas Applegate through the Government Accountability Project, a Washington, D.C.,
public interest group; information supplied by other present and former site contractor employees during the investigation; and items identified by NRC personnel during the course of the investigation.
The investigation, which is still continuing, identified a widespread breakdown in the utility's quality assurance program for construction of the Zimmer facility.
The breakdown resulted from the company's failure to exercise adequate oversight and control of its principal contractors in the area of quality assurance.
On April 8, 1981, the NRC's Region III (Chicago) office required Cincinnati Gas and Electric to substantially upgrade its quality assurance program in order for construction work to continue.
The improvements included hiring of additional staff, upgrading of inspection procedures, retraining of quality control personnel and a 100 percent duplication by CG&E personnel of all subsequent safety related quality control inspections performed by site contractors.
(Construction of the Zimmer facility is about 95 percent complete; the utility estimates construction will be completed in mid 19.82.
The NRC is currently reviewing the utility's request for an operating lic'ense; a hearing on the request has begun and further sessions are pending.)
As part of the investigation effort, the NRC staff independently tested and analyzed a sampling of completed work at the plant.
Some problems requiring corrective work were found, but the majority of these tests and measurements did not disclose hardware problems.
Additional independent NRC staff evaluations are planned.
In addition, because of the widespread breakdown in the quality assurance program, the NRC is requiring the utility to undertake a comprehensive quality confirmation program to determine the quality of plant systems important to nuclear safety.
The NRC staff will closely monitor this testing program.
Identified deficiencies will require
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