ML20129B681

Further Response to FOIA Request for Documents Re Addendum to Review of Waterford 3 Basemat Analysis. All Pertinent Documents Not Otherwise Exempt Made Available in PDR Under FOIA 84-455

ML20129B681
Person / Time
Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	03/13/1985
From:	Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
To:	Bernabei L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
References
FOIA-84-681 NUDOCS 8506050297
Download: ML20129B681 (1)

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1. Aii13115 Lynne Bernabei, Esquire Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 202 IN RESPONSE REFER Washington, DC 20036 TO F0IA-85-681

Dear Ms. Bernabei:

This is in further response to your letter dated August 15, 1984, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), all records relevant to and/or generated in connection with the report entitled " Addendum to Review of Waterford III Basemat Analysis" issued August 3, 1984, including all documents related to this report, as well as all drafts of this report.

As we noted in a letter to you dated August 31, 1984, the NRC has already made a document subject to your request available at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) in-response to F01A-84-455 (see Appendix B, Number 28). We also noted that the NRC staff-had undertaken an intensive review to resolve issues in order to reach a l'icensing decision on Waterford Unit 3. This review is now complete and all pertinent documents subject to FOIA-84-681 not otherwise exempt under the F0IA .have been made publicly available. These documents are

.in the PDR in PDR file FOIA-84-455.

This completes NRC's action on your FOIA request.

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- J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration i

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1-GCVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT Institute for Policy Studies 1901 Que Street. N.W.. Washington. D.C. 20009 (202)234-9382 August 15, 1984 Freedom of Information Act Request ,

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Washington, D.C. 20555 To Whom It May Concern:

! Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), 5 U.S.C. 5552, the Government Accountability Project (GAP), requests copies of any and all agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calendars, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview L

reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs,

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charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer run-offs, any other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records relevent to and/or generated in connection with the report entitled " Addendum to Review of Waterford III Basemat Analysis",

issued August 3,1984, including all documents related to this report, as well as all drafts of the report.

? Thisrequestincludesallagencyrecordsasdefinedin10C.F.R.59.3a(b)andthe NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1. A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8,1980), whether they currently exist in the NRC official, " working," investigative or other files, jl or at a.1y other location, including private residences.

l If any records as defined in 10'C.F.R'. 59.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, supra, and

! covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not limited to a list of

all records which have been or are destroyed and/or removed, a description of the

, action (s) taken relevant to, generated in connection with, and/or issued in order i to implement the action (s).

l GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information can be con-sidered as primarily benefitting the general public," 5 U.S.C.}552(a)(4)(a). GAP is a non-profit, nonpartisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through its Citizens Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens groups seeking to ensure the

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Directer Office of Administration Page Two health and safety of their communities. The Citizens Clinic is currently assisting citizens groups, local governments and intervenors in Louisiana concerning the construction of the Waterford III Steam Electric Station.

We are requesting the above information as part of an ongoing monitoring project on the adequacy of the NRC's efforts to protect public safety and health at nuclear power plants.

For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemption is rel-evant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is re-quired under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 820 (D.C.Cir.1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).

We look forward to your response to this request within ten days.

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