ML20137C368
| ML20137C368 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 03/21/1985 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Noonan V NRC - COMANCHE PEAK PROJECT (TECHNICAL REVIEW TEAM) |
| Shared Package | |
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| References | |
| NUDOCS 8508220247 | |
| Download: ML20137C368 (1) | |
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Vincent S. Noonan, Director Comanche Peak Task Force FROM:
James M. Taylor, Director Office?of Inspection and Enforcement
SUBJECT:
POSSIBLE MATERIAL FALSE STATEMENT CONCERNING U-BOLT SUPPORTS AT COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION Your memorandum dated November 26, 1984 requested my consideration of whether Texas Utilities Electric Company (" Applicants") had made a " material false statement" warranting enforcement action in a statement Applicants made to
.the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board concerning U-bolt supports at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station. The staff has determined that although the question is a close one, the statement could be viewed as a material false statement. The statement in question is, "To determine the range of torques which exists in the ' field, applicants inspected the torque of a randomly selected representative sample of cinched down U-bolt supports." The statement
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could be viewed as false because the " field" refers to Comanche Peak Unit I and Unit 2, but the Applicants took the " randomly selected representative sample" only from Unit 2.
The statement could be viewed as material because if the.NRC had known that the " randomly selected representative sample" had been taken only from Unit 2, it would have required additional information to show why the sample was representative of U-bolt supports in Unit 1 as well.
An investigation by the Office of Investigations (01) is needed for the Office O
of Inspection and Enforcement (IE) to determine what enforcement action, if any, is appropriate.
In addition to verification of the circumstances surrounding the submission of the statement, IE needs OI's expert views on the issues of deliberateness, willfulness and intent. I have recommended that the Executive i
Director for Operations request OI to conduct such an investigation.
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B. Hayes, 01 H. Denton, NRR G. Cunningham, ELD J. Lieberman, ELD J. Axelrad IE l
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