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Final Response to FOIA Request for Records Re CE Norelius & JW Cook Concerning 850110 BNL Rept on Ee Kent Allegations.Documents in PDR Under FOIA Requests85-213 & 85-249 May Be Responsive to Request
ML20132E997
Person / Time
Issue date: 09/20/1985
From: Felton J
NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
To: Garde B
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
References
FOIA-85-342 NUDOCS 8510010218
Download: ML20132E997 (1)


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SEP 2 0 W Ms. Billie Pirner Garde, Director Citizens Clinic Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 202 IN RESPONSE REFER Washington, DC 20036 TO F01A-85-342

Dear Ms. Garde:

This is the final response to your letter dated May 8,1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), records related to the March 22, 1985, letter from Mr. C. E. Norelius, Region III, and Mr. James W. Cook, Consur,ers Power Company, regarding the January 10, 1985 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Report concerning the allegations of E. Earl Kent.

The Office of Investigations has advised this office that documents subject to

, F01As85-213 and 85-249 may be responsive to your request. These requests have not yet been completed. However, NRC interim responses are available for review at the NRC PDR in their respective file folders.

The NRC has completed its search and has located no further documents subject to your request.

Sincerely.

J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration 1

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Director Office of Administration FeA -M- M1 t Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Q[ 13 To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. i552, the Government Accountability Project (" GAP") '

requests copies of any and all agency records and information, I including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calendars, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering .

analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, I agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebook s, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, any other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records related to the March 22, 1985 letter from C.E. Norelius, Region III, NRC and Mr. James W. Cook, Consumer's Power Company regarding the January 10, 1985 Brookhaven National Laboratory report concerning the allegations of E. Earl Kent.

This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. i9.3a(b) and the 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, or at any other location, including private residences.

If any records as defined in 10 C.F.R. i9.3a(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 to implement the action (s).

GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information can be considered as primarily benefitting the general public," 5 U.S.C. $552(a)(4)(a). GAP is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability.

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Thro 0gh its Citizens Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens groups seeking to ensure the health and safety of their communities.

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 relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld.

This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 9 7 7 (1974).

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

Sincerely, kh Billie Pirner Garde Director, Citizens Clinic