ML20135A360

Summarizes 850731 Meeting in Arlington,Tx Re Review of Util Vs Brown & Root Litigation Record.Agenda,Attendance List, Litigation Review Schedule,Manpower Estimates & Review Mechanics Chart Encl

ML20135A360
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	09/05/1985
From:	Martin R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To:	Goldberg J HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO.
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NUDOCS 8509100118
Download: ML20135A360 (7)

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t SEP 0 51985 In Reply Refer To:

Occkets: 50-498 50-499 Houston Lighting & Power Company ATTN: J. H. Goldberg, Group Vice President P. O. Box 1700 Houston, Texas 77001 Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

Houston Lighting & Power Company (HLAP) Review of Litigation Record On July 31, 1985, I met with you and members of your staff in an open meeting at the NRC, Region IV office. Your agenda and the attendance list for the meeting are attached (Attachments A and B, respectively).

The purpose of the meeting was to allow HL&P to provide the NRC with a conceptual overview of HL&P's program for review of the HL&P versus Brown and Root litigation record. This record was prepared for a lawsuit between HL&P and brown and Root and had been scaled by court order until recently released pursuant to an out-of-court settlement of the case.

I understand that your review plan is to be formally submitted to the NRC in the near future.

The plan, as I understand it, provides for screening the approximately 32 million pages of information looking for safety significant issues that may not have been previously reviewed by HLAP or the NRC. Certain records will not be reviewed if it is detennined that the record is not likely to contain safety-related information, such as financial records or the depositioning of nontechnical individuals on nontechnical matters.

It is expected that this formal review effort, which is to be conducted with coverage by the HL&P corporate QA department, is to be conducted by S. Levy, Inc., of Campbell, California, and is expected to involve approximately 6 rian-years effort.

Your schedule generally calls for the review of the documents between August and December of this year to identify assertions and project documents. A draf t report is expected to be available in february 1986 with the final report scheduled for April 1986.

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J. H. Goldberg, HL&P I feel that the goal of the meeting was met in that your presentation and answers to our questions was very informative. As I stated during the meeting, this was not a decision-making meeting and no concurrence or approval of your review program was given.

I understand that you intend to start the formal training of the records reviewers and begin your review in the near future. We look forward to receiving your review program and intend to monitor your activities in this area.

If your plans change significantly let me know.

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ATTACHMENT A HL&P/USNRC Meeting July 31, 1985 - Arlington, Texas Review of HL&P vs. B&R Litigation Record Agenda INTRODUCTION J.H. Goldberg, Group Vice President, Nuclear PROJECT OVERVIEW N.R. Wisenburg, Manager, Nuclear Licensing SCOPE OF REVIEW J.E.B. Ecker (Newman & Holtzinger, PC)

MECHANICS OF REVIEW C.B. Johnson (S. Levy Incorporated)

GENERAL DISCUSSION All Participants A

I HL&P VS B&R LITIGATION REVIEW SCHEDULE

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ACTIVITY HL&P INITIATED PLANNING MAY JUNE o

HL&P INSTRUCTED SLI TO T PREPARE INSTRUCTIONS, PRO-BEGIN DETAILED PLANNING JULY CEDURES, ASSOCIATED DATA BASE STRUCTURE TRAINING NRC & HL&P MEETING MATERIALS. ASSEMBLE DOCUMENTS.

HL&P AUTHORIZES FULL AUG IMPLEMENTATION o SEPT

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IDENTIFY ASSERTIONS AND OCT IDENTIFY PROJECT DOCUMENTS NOV DEC FINISH DEPOSITION & EXPERT REPORT ~~ ,,_ _

REVIEWS & IDENTIFICATION OF JAN PREPARE DRAFT REPORT.

PROJECT DOCUMENTS o o

COMPLETE DRAFT REPORT & -

OPEN ASSERTION LIST FEB HL&P REVIEW AND COMMENT.

CLOSE OPEN ASSERTION LIST ITEMS, FINALIZE REPORT.

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ISSUE REPORT WITH ALL_-

ASSERTIONS CLOSED APRIL NRC REVIEW.

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f HL&P VS B&R LITIGATION REVIEW MANPOWER RAW STATISTICS 145 DEP0NENTS 660 VOLUMES 99,000 PAGES 4 EXPERT REPORTS 1000 PAGES 14 --

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, HL&P vs. B&R LITIGATION REVIEW MECHANICS

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= CONDUCT FORMAL ORIENTATION AND TRAINING SESSION v v

REVIEW DEPOSITION OR REPORT SECTION (REVIEWER) 6 RECORD PREPARE ASSERTION DESCRIPTION (REVIEkER)

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. ASSERTIONS . DETERMINE ASSERTION IS NOT A (SPECIALIST)

SAFETY ISSUE ASSERTION . REFER TO STP PROJECT ENGINEER CLOSURES COMPUTER DATA BASE ENTER INTO DATA BASE (DATACLERK)

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COMPILE ASSERTIONS AND CLOSURES (DATACLERK) 1 t PREPARE REPORT (PROJECTTEAM)

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ATTACHMENT B July 31, 1985 MEETING ATTENDEES Name Title / Organization NRC E D. Martin Regional Administrator, NRC J. M. Taylor Director, Inspection & Enforcement, NRC P. S. Check Deputy Regional Administrator, NRC R. P. Denise Director, Division of Reactor _ Safety and Projects,NRC E. H. Johnson Chief, Reactor Project Branch, NRC R. F. Heishman Chief, Reactor Construction Program Branch, NRC G. W. Knighton Chief, Licensing Branch 3, NRC E. J. Reis Assistant Chief Hearing Counsel, NRC W. L. Brown Chief Counsel, RIV, NRC G. L. Constable Section Chief, NRC-N. P. Kadambi Project Manager, NRC D. A. Powers Acting Enforcement Officer, NRC HL&P J. H. Goldberg Group Vice President-Nuclear, HL&P J. E. Geiger Manager, Nuclear Assurance, HL&P M. Wisenburg Manager. Nuclear Licensing, HL&P J. Newman Newman & Holtzinger J. Ecker Newman & Holtringer C. Johnson Vice President, S. Levy, Inc.

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