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MENORANDUM FOR:
Stewart D. Ebneter, Regional Administrator Region II FRON:
James Y. Vorse, Directori A Office of InvestigatiorL4 Wield office, Region II i
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SUBJECT:
V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT:
IEC TECHNICIANS' WILLFUL VIOIATION OF PROCEDURE (CASE NO. 2-92-005, EA 92-041) l Pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding between the NRC and j
Department of Justice (DOJ), on April 24, 1992, Assistant U.S.
i Attorney Frank Digiammarino, U.S. DQ7, Southern District of l
Georgia, was telephonically contacted by J. Y. Vorse and advised l
of the merits of the above willful act by the two IAC technicians 1
at Plant Vogtle.
Mr. Digiammarino declined any criminal i
prosecution based on the availability of other punitive actions j
by the NRC.
OI plans no other activity regarding this matter.
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APR 2 91992 Docket Nos. 50-424 and 50-425 License Nos. NPF-68 and NPF-81 5
I Georgia Power Company ATTN:
Mr. W. G. Hairston, III l
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Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 j
Gentlemen:
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SUBJECT:
NRC OFFICE OF 'INVESTIGA'2 IONS REPORT NO. 2-91-003, 1
VOGTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT:
ALLEGED FAILURE BY GEORGIA POWER SENIOR MANAGERS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION TO THE NRC l
Enclosed for your information is the synopsis of the Nuclear l
Regulatory Commission's (NRC)- Office of Investigations (OI) completed report regarding the alleged withholding of information by Georgia Power Company (GPC) management during an enforcement conference on May 22, 1990, and the alleged attempts by GPC management to impede reporting requirements pertaining to safeguards events.
1 The investigation did not substantiate that pertinent information l
was withheld from the NRC at the time of the enforcement conference on May 22, 1990, or that GPC management impeded,the reporting of safeguards events.
Based on the results of the investigation and our sdbsequent review, we have found no violation of NRC requirements.
We plan no further action with regard to this-matter.
Should~you have any questions concerning--
4 this letter, please contact us.
l In accordance with section 2.790 of the NRC's " Rule of Practice,"
Part 2 Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this l
letter and its enclosure will be placed in the Public Document Room.
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Enclosure:
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Synopsis, OI Report No. 2-91-012 V
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Mr. R. P. Mcdonald Executive Vice President -
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Birmingham, AL 35201 Mr. C. K. McCoy Vice President - Nuclear i
Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 Mr. W. B. Shipman General Manager, Nuclear 1
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Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1600 Waynesboro, GA 30830 Mr. J. A. Bailey
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Manager - Licensing Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 Office of the County Commissioner Burke County Commission Waynesboro, Ga 30830 USNRC Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner P. O. Box 572
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' Power Production Oglethorpe Power Corporation 2100 E. Excbsnge Place Tucker, GA J0085-1349 Mr. R. P. Mcdonald Executive Vice President -
Nuclear Operations Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 cc w/enci con't:
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Mr. C. K. McCoy Vice President - Nuclear Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 Mr. W. B. Shipman General Manager, Nuclear-Operations J
Georgia Power Co:apany P. O. Box 1600 Waynesboro, GA 30830 Mr. J. A. Bailey Manager - Licensing Georgia Power Company i
P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, AL 35201 i
Office of the County Commissioner Burke County Commission j
Waynesboro, Ga 30830 USNRC Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner P. O. Box 572 1
Waynesboro, GA 30830 Mr. Dan Smith, Program Director Power Production Oglethorpe Power Corporation 2100 E. Exchange Place 5
Tucker, GA 30085-1349 State of Georgia
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On December 26, 1990, the Regional Administrator, U.S. Nuclear i
Regulatory Commission (NRC), Region II, requested the Office of Investigations (OI) to conduct an investigation to determine if 1
the management of Georgia Power company (GPC), the licensee for l
the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Naynesboro, Georgia, had j
withheld pertinent information from the NRC staff during an j
enforcement conference on May 22, 1990, and if GPC management j
i actively impeded reporting requirements pertaining to safeguards i
events.
I The OI investigative offorts focused on the knowledge, handling, and reporting of safeguards events or issues, some of which were 1
alleged, to include:
(1) the issue of an unsecured Southern l
Company Services (a contract firm) safeguards container in November 1989, (2) the issue of 14 uncontrolled safeguards documents at corporate headquarters, (3) the allegat;,on of l
Inadequate safeguards controls at Bechtel offices, a vendor, (4) the allegation of 150 boxes of uncontrolled safeguards i
documents at difforent locations, and (5) the allegation of 2 boxes of improperly controlled safeguards documents.
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the investigation, interviews of pert;,nent individuals were l
performed, and documents and procedures were reviewed.
The OI investigation did not substantiate that pertinent informa-l tion was withheld from the NRC at the time of the enforcement conference on May 22, 1990.
It was also concluded that although the reporting of safeguards events to the NRC was slow in some instances, GPC management did not actively impede the reporting j
process.
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