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Discusses Disclosure Determination Re FOIA 82-206,per 820526 Request.No Objection to Release of Author 810810 Memo to Keppler.Cummings 811111 Memo to Davis Should Not Be Released.Related Info Encl
ML20128E836
Person / Time
Issue date: 06/03/1982
From: Jamarl Cummings
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTOR & AUDITOR (OIA)
To: Felton J
NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
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.NEMORANDUM FOR: J. M. Felton, Director -

Division,of' Rules and Records, ADM b1 FROM: James J.'Cummings, Director h*#42 sj#

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SUBJECT:

, DISCLOSURE DETERMINATION FOIA 82-206 .

As requested in your memorandum of May 26, 1982 on the above subject, the two documents in question have been reviewed.

I have determined that there is no objection to the release of the August 10, 1981, memo from me to Keppler. However, the second document, with~ enclosures, i.e. Memo, Cummings to Davis re: Zimmer Intervie'ws and Corporate Correspondence, dated November' 11, 1981,'should not be released pursuant to \

5 U.S.C. 552(b)(5) and (7), 10 CFR 9.5(a)(5)(1) and (7)

'because the document constitutes an internal mem;,randum for use within the flRC and it's release could interfere with enforcement proceedings i'n that it is part of an ongoing investigation. ',

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  • k!AS/ftN& 7DAt, *W.C. 2oSSC Defendant To the above named Defendant : NVCLERM. RE6-ULA7 DAY ComrnrCtrbb Tou are hereby summoned and required to serve upon LYNNE 'E E D 'A B E/ , E 3 9 plaintiff's attorney , whose address /3 i GovenNontNy* hvN7NB/ LIT"Y %.TEC7' ef 7Mr /Ns7s7ver /b#. 7ete c Y STDP/E3 19 O/ Q StAttr1~e N.ld.

WAS/ItaficA! 3.c. .1 ecol an answer to the cumplaint which is herewith served upon you, withinh days after servlee of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fall to do so Judgment by default will be .

taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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NOTICE OF RICHT TO CONSENT TO TRIAL BEFORE A UNIlt.u 5TATES MAGIdinATE The Federal h gistrates Act of 1968, 28 U.S.C. $636(c),

  • as amended c,a October 10, 1979, requires the Clerk of Court r

to notify all parties in each civil action, that they may voluntarily consent to have the case tried with a jury or without a jury befofe a United States hgistrate. If all parties so consent, and the Court concurs, the matter will be referred to a h gistrate for disposition.

The plaintiff (or counsel) has received a consent form.

If the parties agree to trial before a h gistrate, plaintiff (or counsel) shall have all the parties (or counsel) jointly execute the consent form and file it in duplicate with the Clark at any time prior to the pretrial Order.

In accordance with 28 U.S.C. $636(c), any aggrieved party may appeal from the judgment directly to the. United States Court of Appeals for the circuit.in the same manner as an appeal from any other judgment of the District Court.

The parties may further stipulate, at the time of the re-ference to the h gistrate, that the appeal shall be taken instead to a District Court Judge.

The consent form is not required to be executed or re-turned to the Clerk of the Court unless all parties volun-tarily consent to this procedure. If an executed consent form is not received by the Clark pritr to the pretrial Order, the case will proceed to disposition before a United Statps District Court Judge in .the normal fashion.

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COMPLAINT FOR ACCESS TO RECORDS AND

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l, 1. This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act

>("FOIA") , 5 U.S.C. S 552, as amended, to order the production of I. agency records. .

. 2. "This Court has juri,sdiction overt this action pursuant 6

. to 5 U.S.C. 5 552(a) (4) (s) . /,. ,* .

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3. . ' Plaintiff Thomas Applegate is the requestor of the 5l.
, agency records which have been improperly withheld.

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. lgency of the United-_States and has possessien of the records.. to '

'which plai tiff seeks access.

e 5. hp November 23, 1981, plaintif* made a written request to the NRC for all notesi, memoranda, telephone logs, tapes,

. diaries and/or other records prepsred by g'evern=c . cmployees in connection with an August 7,1981 Report of the Office of Inspector and Auditor ("OIA") entitled "Special Inquiiy' re Adequacy of IE Investigation, 50-358/80-9 at the N1115c:n H. Oi=ce Nuclear Power Station." ~

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6. Un, der. cover letter of December 31, 1981;. defendant

! responded by releasing sixteen' document's,in their entirety,

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' . withheld two documents iin part, and Vithheld four documents in their entirety. . ,

7. On January 29, 1982, within the time limits allowed

- '( by the Act, plaintiff appealed this initial NBC decision.,-

8) By letter of March 22, 1982, the NRC affirmed its

' initial decision to withhold four. documents in their entirety. a

  • Defendant also stated in unequivocal language that the NRC did

'. not possess any' informal racords, drafts, or notes relating to.

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the CIA Report, and indicated that those , documents the NRC aither released or' withheld were the only docume'nts responsive to plaintiff's request that ths NRC curr'ently. possessed.

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9. Plaintiff is entitled to access of all such records

.. ' responsive' to his request, includ'ing b'ut not limited to the following documents which plaintiff has reason to believe exist

. . . (a) The summary of a March 6,1981 interview conducted A

by OIA investigators with Mr. Terry Harpster, an NRC Reactor Preparations Specialist on detail to the House of Represen-

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tatives Government Operations . Committee, Subcommittee on

, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Consnittee. In the interview Mr. Harpster 511egedly stated that-- 1) another e

  • NRC inspector left the NBC aftier being', introduced to the over-sight program at Zimmer, because it was so inadequate
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  • ' licenlies, Cincinnati Gas and Electri,c ("CGEE"), was relying "on personnel inexperienced in nuclear power, to oversee construe.- .

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tion 3) he had raised these concerns with CG&E Vice Prt:si-

- dont Earl Borgmann, but without success: 4) in July 1978

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' the licensee promised to upgrade its program: 5) at the time *

  • of the Three Mile Island accident the licensee only had one
  • Quality Assurance staff person for ope 4ations at Zimmer 6) a plant management official was afraid tic 2 tour the.gjint bcesuse
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o'f all. the convicted fwlons working on site: 7) 11: s*.af4 .,,;-

,fi-s<ft:t cials.made untrue statements to the Advisory Committe.

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7.- informed of the inaccuracies;.8) Ch'a rles Barth of the NRC Office

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J- I Region III Administrator James Keppler about the inaccurate ACRS

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, testimony should be thrown aways and 9) the situation at the

..' . , . Eisener plant was "out of control" when he left the site at the

-time. of; the Mree Mile Island accident.

.(b) Any explanation in the text of the OIA final report, s or any prior draft, concerning Attachment 10 that describes a course and instructions to NRC investigators on conducting a

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.'non-criminal investigation.

This explanation is not included iri th'a publicly-released

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  • other documents released to plaintiff in response to plaintiff's

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. 10. There is no legal basis f,or defendant's denial of such access. *

. RdEREFORE, plaintiff prays that this Courts

. (1) Order defendant to make the information available as requested, including but not limited to all information listed

' in subsection (9) abover .

(2) Expedite the proceedings in this action as provided

,. in 5 U.S'.C. 5 552(a) (4) (B): [ ,

(3) Order defendant to provide plaintiff with an index of"all documents withheld in part'or in whole, as required by vaughn v. Rosen, 4 84 F.2d 820,(D.C. C'ir.1973) , cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974)r .

, (4) Award plalntiff costs and reasonable attorney fees ,

in this action, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5 552(a) (4) (E)

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,' (5) Issue a written finding, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5 552 (a) (4) (F), that the circumstances surrp,unding the withholding raise questions whether agency personnel acted arbitrarily or capricious 1y with respect to the withholding, and a.vritten

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waster S OsmECT OtAk NuMSER July 2, 1982 (202)~822-1032 q Mr. James A. Cummings i Director j

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Dear Mr. Cummings:

m I represent Kaiser Engineers, Incorporated with regard to -

, matters relating to the Zimmer Power Station.near Cincinnati, Ohio, and specifically with regard to the Notice of Violation issued by 3 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Cincinnati Gas & Electric  ;

Company in November 1981. H In the course of that representation, we reviewed Region j III's investigation report No. 50-358/81-13. Attachment A to that  :

Report reflects that Floyd Oltz, 6 Kaiser employee, was interviewed 2 on February 25, 1981, (p. 11), and on June 4, 1981, (pp. 3-5), and -

that at least the latter interviee was tape-recorded and a transcript

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produced. However, the transcript was not attached to the Report, nor was any statement by Mr. Oltz. -

n We, accordingly, requested from Region III a copy of the transcript of the June 4 interview, which was provided to us. We y subsequently asked to be allowed to listen to the tape from w'c..n i the transcript was prepared, and,Mr. , Robert Warnick of Region III _

agreed to make it available. However, he said it was in the custody 1 of your office, and when we reached Mr. Puglia of your staff he suggested that we put our request in writing to you.

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. SHAw. PITTMAN, PoTTs & TROWBRIDGE A PANTestmeeeep OF pmOFESS40feAL COmpOmATIO*e8 Mr. James A. Cummings .

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page two We would like to listen to the tape of the June 4 interview of Mr. Oltz to verify the accuracy of the transcript we have received. We would also like to listen to any other tape recordings of interviews of Mr. Oltz or other Kaiser personnel during the course of that investigation. If it is more convenienr, we can come to your office for this purpose, or we would borrow the tape and listen to it at our office if that if agreeable. Please call me at the above' number, or my partner Patrick Ilickey at 822-1103, and let us know a time when we could do this.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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