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FOIA-91-282 APPENDIX A
[lOCUMENTS BEJ NG PL AqEp_IN THE PJLFt
- 1. 04/30/64 Projecti Jersey Central (2 pages)
- 2. 06/11/64 Memorandum from Wilcox to Rogers and Newson (8 pages)
- 3. 06/18/64 Memorandum from Wilcox to Rogera and Kouts (2 p&gea) 4.. 08/06/64 Memorandum from Fraley to Rogers (1 page)
- 5. 08/21/64 Project: Jersey Cetstral Power and Light Company, Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Unit No. 1 (2 pages)
- 6. 09/03/64 Memorandum from F r a l e y t o ?'.o u t e (2 pages) 7.. 09/18/64 Memorandum from Wilcox t; Rogers and Kouts (2 pagen)
- 8. 10/13/64 Memorandum from Wilcow to Thompson (1 page)
- 9. 11/09/64 Memorandum from W i l.' o x to Rogers and Kouts (3 pages)
- 10. 01/08/65 Memorandum from Vticox to Rogers and Manly-(2 pages) 1.1 . 04/14/65 Memorandum fron.Fraley to All ACRS Membero (1 page)
< 12. 01/26/66 Memorandum from Gaske.to Silverman and Okrent (2 pages)
- 13. 05/08/67 Memorandum from Gaske to ACRS Members (1 page)
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- 14. 06/21/67 Project: Oysier Creek Unit No. l'(6 pages)
- 15. 07/05/67 Project: Oyster breek Unit No. 1 (3 pages)-
.16. 07/27/67 'Ptoject: Oyster Creek (2 pages)
- 17. 07/28/67 Tentative Agenda For Oyster Creek Subcommittee Site Visit (2 pages)
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_Hanauer, Palladino. -Stratton and Zabel (8-pages)
- 19. 10/19/67- Memorandum-from Gaske to McKee and=Palladino-(2 paces) 20.- 10/19/67' -Project: Oyster Creek Unit No. 1 (6_pages)'
.21. 10/31/67 Project: . Oyster Creek Unit No. 1-(2 pages)
- 22. 11/17/67 Project: . Oyster Creek Unit No. 11(1 pagoi 23, 11/16/67 Memorandum from Fraley'tofFile'(1_paga)
C 24.- 11/24/67 Project: Oyster Creek _ Unit No.-1 (2_pagen)-
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- 25. 11/27/67 Pocaible Topics for Clarification on Oyster i
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- Creek--(2 pages) 26- . 12/01/67 Memorandum from-Ganke to McKee and Palladino (1-page)
- 27. 12/06/67 Project: Oynter Creek _ Unit No. 1 (3 pages) 28'. - 12/23/67 Memorandum from Etherington to'Fralby (5 pages) 29.- Undated- Sumn.ary of Oyster Creek Discussion at 91st ACRS Meeting (1 page)'
-30. '01/04/68 Memorandum from Fraley to McKee (3 pages)
- 31. 01/19/68 1 Memorandum from Fraley to Stratton, Hanauer p (4 pages)-
- 32. .02/15/68 Memorandum from Gaske to ACRS members (12 ,
pages) 13 3. :-02/26/68 Memorandum from Gaske'to ACRS' members-(17 pages) 734. 06/05/68 Excerpt From_ Summary of 98th ACRS1heeting K June 5 8,- 1968 Meetinga With the Director of Regulation and the Regulatory Staff (5 pagest
, :35. 06/25/68 Memotandum from Gaske to Stratton and Zabel1
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- 36. .08/21/68 Memorandum from Gaske to ACRS members (8 pages)
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- 37. 10/10/68 From Etherington to Stratton (3 pages)
[38. _10/16/68 Project: Oyster Creek Unit No. 1 (2 pages) ,
- 39. 10/17/6B Memorandum' from Fraley to ACRS members (6
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- -40. 10/22/68 Memorandum to Gaske (2 pages)
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- 41. 10/29/68 Projects Oyster Creek Unit No. 1 (2 pages) ;
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- 42. - 10/30/68 Memorandum from Gaske to ACRS members (6 pages) 1
- 43. 11/21/68 . Project: Oyster Creek Unit No. 1 (4 pages)
- 44. 11/25/68 Memorandum.from Fraley to ACRS members (6 pages)
- 45. 12/03/68 . Project: Oyster Creek Unit No. 1 (3 pages)
- 46. 12/05/68 . Summary of Significant Changes to the Oyster
- Creek Technical Specifications as Submitted ,
- in Amendment No. 44 (3 pages)
- 47. 12/30/68 Memorandum from Gaske to Stratton and hendrie (3 papea)'
48' , 01/02/69 Memorandum from Gaske to Stratton and Hendrie (2 pages)
~49. -Oi/31'/69' - Memorandum from Gaske to ACRS. members (1-page)
- 50. 04/02/09. -
Memorandum from,McKinley to Stratton-and
-t- Hendrie-(2 pages)
- 51. 04/02/69 Memorandum:from Mckinley to.Stratton and Hendrie (1-page)
- 52. - 04/04/69 - Memorandum from McKinley to'Stratton and Hendrie_.(4 pages) 353. 04/22/69 Memorandam-from McKinley to Stratton-and
"= ; Hendrie-.(3 pages)
- 54. 05/14/69 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (2 pages)
.<. RSS . 05/20/69 -Memorandum from McKinley to ACRS members (7 ,
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257;. 08/14/69= Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (3.pages) m
- 58. . 09/16/69 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (3 pages)
- 59. 09/23/69 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrde (3 pages) ,
60.- 10/21/69 Memorandum-from McKinley'to Stratton and-Hendrie (3 pages) 61.. 11/12/69 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Her.drie (5 pages)
- 62. 11/13/69 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (4 pages)
- 63. 11/.14/69. Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (3 pages) 64, 11/19/6o Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Hendrie (3 pages) 65- 12/16/69 Memorandum from'McKinley to Stratton and Buah (7-pages)
- 66. 12/31/69 Memorandum from PcKinley to Stratton and Bush-
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- 67. - 01/16/70- Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (3 pages) 168. 04/10/70 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and-Bush e (4 pages)
- 69. 04/21/70 Memorandum from McKinley_to Stratton anc-Bush =
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- 70. ' 04/23/70 _ Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Dush (3 pages)
L71; 05/.18/70 Memorandum'from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (9 pages)
- 72. 06/26/70 Memorandum:from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (4 pages)
? 73. 07/10/70, Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (3 pages) b q ~
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- 75. 07/31/70- Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (4_pages)
.. ; 76. . _08/26/70 Memorandum from Hard to ACRS members-(1 page) 177. 08/27/70- Meinorandum f rom McKinley to Stratton and Bush
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.7 8'. 09/01/70 Memorandum from McKinley to Siess, Etherington, Bush and Stratton (3 pages)
'7 9. 09/17/70 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush (5 pages)
- 80. 09/25/70 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush '
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S 1. - -10/01/70 Memorandum from McKinley to ACRS members 42 pages)
- 82. 10/02/70 -_Memorendum from McKinley to Stratton (1 page)
- 63. 10/08/70 Projects Oyster Creek (1 page)
- 8 4 .- '10/20/70 Memorandum from Fraley to Morris-<1 page)
I 8S, 10r30/70 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Bush.
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- 86. -11/02/70- Memorandum from McKinley to Skovholt (3 pagen)
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- 87. -11/09/70 Project: Oyster. Creek (1 page)
- 88. ~12/15/70 Memorandum from.McKinley-to-Stratton and Bush (6 pages)
- 89. 01/14/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratten-and' Siess (4 pages)
- 90. 01/15/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and
.Siess:(3 pages)
- 91. 04/09/71 -Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Siess (12 pagen):
'92. 05/19/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton (1-page) 1 93. 05/03/71- Project: Oyster Creek (2 pages)
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- 95. OG/15/71- Project: Oyster Creek (2 pages) h 96. - 06/15/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and-Siess (3 pages) 97.- 07/07/71 Memorandum from McKinley-to Stratton and
- Siess (8-pages)
- 93. 08/17/71 Memorandum from McKinley-to Stratton and
' Siess-(4 pages)
- 99. . 09/27/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Sless (6 pages)
'100. 09/27/71 - Memorandum from McKinley'to Stratton and-
- Siesa (3 pages) ,
101. 10/18/71 Memorandum from;McKinley to Stratton and-Sieus (7 pages)
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102.- '11/cl/71 Memorandum from McKinley to Stratton and Siesa (3 pages)
'103. .11/23/71 Supplement No. 147 CategoryfB_(2 pages) 1 104. I 12/03/71 Supplement No. 148 Category B (3 pages)
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-105.- - 01/21/72-- - Supplement No. 149 Category B (6 pages) l106. ' 01'/25/72 . Supplement No. 150 Category-B'(5 pages) 107. 01/26/72 List - of( Documentra Provided in ' response tco David-Dinsmore Comey Req 9est Letter from-Cherry to Schlesinger.(4 pages) 108. 02/23/72 Supplement No. 150 Category B-(7 pagas) 109; - 03/28/721 Supplement No. 152 Categcry B-(2 pages) 110. - 03/28/72- .SupplementfNo. 152 Category.B-(3 pages) l
- 111. 03/28/72
- - Supplement Jio. 152. Category B -(2 pages)
.112. 03/28/72 . Supplement No. 152. Category B-(2 pages)
[ 113.. 05/04/72: Supplement No. 153 Category B (2 pages) i-
{- 114. - 06/09/72- Supplement No. 154 Category B (3 pages) l- 115. 05/04/72 Supplement Ka. 153 Category B (8 pages)
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-116. [05/05/72 -Supplement No.-153. Category B'(B pages) t 4
117 05/08/72' Memorandum from Gaske-to Bush, Etherington, Mangeladorf, Palladino'and Squires (3 pages) 118. 05/19/72. Supplement No. 153 Category B (4 pagen) 119.-- 05/31/72 Supplement No.-154 Category B (2 pages) 120. ~06/19/72-- Supplement No. 154 Category B (4 pages)
'121. 06/26/72 Supplement No. 154 Category _E (2 pages) 122. 6/30/72 -Supplement No. ISS Category B (4 pages) +
.123. 08/28/72- Supplement"No. 156 Category B (13 pagesk
'124. 08/28/72- Supplement No. 150 Category B (3 pages) 125.- 09/01/72 Supplement No. 156 Category B~(4 pages) 126. 10/04/72 Supplement No. 158-Category-B.(3 pages)
.127, 10/05/72 Supplement No. 158 Category B-(2.pages) 128. 10/06/72 Supplement No. 158 Category B (3 pages) 129.' -11/24/72 . Supplement lio, 159 Category B (3 pagne) 130; _12/05/72 Supplement No. 160 Category B-(,2 pageo)-
131.- 12/07/72 Supplement No. 160 Category S (1=page) 132. 01/09/73 -Supplement No.'161 Category B-(1-page) 133. 01/23/73 Memorandum from McKinley to Wambach and Stolz (1 page)-
134. 02/06/73 -Supplement No. 162 Category B-(-1 page).
!, 135. 02/13/73 Supplement No. 162 Category B (i page)-
-136. 02/23/73_- Supplement No. 162 Category E (1 page)
.137. - 02/20/73 Supplement No. 162 Category B (3-pages) 138. 03/20/73 Supplement No.'163 Category B (1-page)
- 139. 04/02/73 Supplement No. 163 Category =B (2:pages) 140. 04/05/73. Memorandum from McKinley to Stello 11 page)
- 141. 04/30/73 Supplement No. 164 Category B (2 pages) c.
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142.- 05/03/73 Supplement No. 16S Category.B (1 ~ page) 143. 05/10/173 Supplement-No. -165; Category 0-(1'page) 144. 05/22/73- Supplement No. 165 Categcay is'(1 paGel !
145. 07/23/73- Supplement No, 147 C3f.Aat;ry E'(i pigoi
-146. 07/24/73 Supplement No.1167 Category B (1-page) .
147. 08/16/.74 Memorandum from McKinley.to Riesland and Lear (2 pages) 148. 09/19/73 Supplement No. 169 Category B (1 page)-
149. 03/14/75 Memorandum'from Burnett to ACRS members (2 pages) l'50. -05/27/75 Memorandum from Burnett to ACRS. members (4 pages) 151, 10/18/76 Letter from Paulson to Moe13er (44.pages) 152. 11/16/76 Letter from Moeller to Paulson (4 pages)
'153. 01/21/77 -Letter from.Russo tc McCreless (3-pages) 154. =02/23/77' Letter from Libarkin to Russo '6 pages)
~ 155. .04/4/77 Letter-from Paulson to Moeller (1 page)
^156. Undated Supplement No. 165 Category B Report (1 page) ,
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- Of Hi!0WATION Mr Donnie 11 Grimsley s gguisi Director Division of freedom of Information ff)'-
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Office of Administration and Resources Management Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washingien. D C. 20555 Re Freedon) of Informatian request Dear Mr Grimsley Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I would like copies of the following:
- All dMuments not already in the pubhc dxument rmm that pertain to the Ovster Creek Nuclear Plant operated by General Pubbc Utihues at Tums River N.j including any mmutes or reports of the plant s Genera! Office Review Board that may be c NEC file >
All documents not already in the public docLmen' rcom that pertain to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant 'Ur.its 1&2 8 operated by Gene al Public Utihties at Miodletorn. Pa . inc:uding any minutes or reports of the plant s General hffice Review Board that may be in NRC files
- Any documents not already in the public dwument room that pertain to a GPU plan to build a breeder reactor at Towanda, Pa.,in the mid-to late 1960s The plant was never built but any preliminary documents filed by the company would be helpful to my research ge#* p fr ~
(I Pursuant to the FreeJom of Information Act. I a!so request both representative of the news media status and'a public interest Taiver of all search and copying fees. A pubhc interest Waiver of search and copying fees has previously been provided by the NRC in connection with previous F01 A requests for this research project.
I will now provide the information requested of fee waiver applicants in 10 CFR 9.41 (b)(c) & Idl.
(1) Describe the purpose for which the requester intends to.use the requested informtion, the de:Uments will be used in preparation of a definitive history of General public Utihties iGPUI the Three Mile Island nuclear '
accident and its impact (2) Explain the ettent to which the requester will citract and analyze the substantive content of the agency record.
I will provide a great deal of analysis to the information in the documents I obtain from the SRC 1 will match it with information i obtain from other F urces such as personalinterviews. and draw on all that information to write a comprehensive and atjective bmL that will ili tell the history of GPU, t 21 tell s hat happened during the TMI accident in 1979. !31 tell what happened during the 10 years after TMI !such as the clean-up of TMl the financial problems of the nuclear industry, etc I. and t 4 ) look at the future of nuclear power in hght of concerns over global varming (3) Describe the nature of the specific activity or research in which tbc agency records vill be used and the specific qualifications the requester possesses to utilize information
.for the intended use in a way that it will contribute to public understanding.
I plan to_ use the NRC records to write a definitive history for the general public of GPU. the Three Mile Island nuclear accident of 1979 and its impact. The book will describe the events leading to the
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I have considerable eIperience in making comple! Scientif te or technical stories accessible and interesting to the general public. My first book, Unseen Ibnser A Trasede ofPeople, Government and die '
Centra //a.f/se/#v (University of Pennsylvania Press 1966) required me to make a compter geological problem understandable to people who were not,in most cases, geologisis or scientists. The reviews my beak received testtfy to my success in doing that.
I covered the nuclear energy beat for IhtPatric1 Au in Harrishurg for about two years (until GPU Nuclear regrettably succeeded in having me removed from the beat because 1 am writing this booki and acquired a working knowledge of nuclear terminolcsv and prc<edures if there was something i did not understand about scmething i had read, I would call an expert who could help me.1 would do the same tf there was something i did not understand in the documents I seek in this FOI A request.
(4) Describe the likely impact on the public's
-understanding 'of the subject as compared to the level of understanding existing prior to the disclosure.
.o comprehensive, definitive history has been written of the TMl accident that inc!uder all the important events that preceded it as well as what happened to GPU and the rest of the nuclear industry in the years that fo!! owed My boot will be more than just a siccple retelling.
of the TM! accident I will place the accident in the contett of the rise and iperhapsi f all of the commercial nuclear industry in the US-and the world.
I' intend for my book to be the one people pick up at the library in
-years to come when they want to know the who-what-why-when-where and how much of one of the more significant technical, business and historic events of the late 20th century, it will distill the important information from the tens of thousands of government t
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dwuments pertaining to TMI, technical papers written by scientists.
and the many other sources of infor mation into one good book (5) Describe the size and nature of the public to whose understanding a contribution vill be made.
This book is beang written for the general reading public--the average man or woman who does not work for the NRC. the Department of Energy or the nuclear industry and who typically would only receive information about TMI from a book equired at a hbrary or bookstore 1 would estimate this to be a large, civerse group.
(6) Describe the intended means of dissemination to the public.
A book (7) Indicate if public access to information will be provided free of charge or provided for an access fee or publica tion fee.
Feaders will be able to borror the book free of charge at pubhc lib t atie s.
(8) Describe any commercial or private interest the requester or any other party has in the agency records sought.
I have r.a com mercial or private interest in the NRC dccuments sought in this request They will be used esclusively for research for my book and will not be sold.-
(d)(1) How the subject of the requested agency records concern the operation < ar activities of the Government.
It has oeen tne duty of the NRC, and the Atomic Energy Commiss on before it, to regulate the U S nuc' ear industry cnd the
, m various nuclear plants. The requested agency records stem from that duty, (d)(2) Ilov the disclosure of the information is likely to contribute to an understanding of Government operations or activities.
The dceuments will be used in a book about General Public Utilities, the T.\ll accident, and its impact en the world. Readers of this book will come to understand the role of the .NRC, and the AEC before i it. in supervising the U S nuclear industry, and of the AEC in promoting the US nuclear industry. ,
1 (d)(3) If disclosure of the requested information is likely to contribute to public understanding.
To the best of my knowledge, no definitive history has been written of the T.\ll accident, and none of the books that have been l written fully describe the history of GPU s involvement in nuclear energy.
(d)(4) If disclosure is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of Government operations or activities.
The dteutents will contribute signifnantiv to a general pubhc I understanding of the role of the AEC in regulating and promoting nuclear power and of the .NRC in regulating it Relatively httle has been written by non-government tources about the early history of commercial nuclear energy, and to the best of my Lnwiedge nothing has been wroten for the general puhhc about GPU s early involvement with nuclear energy Thus the requested dccuments will make a significant contribution to public understanding in the same manner.
(d)(5) If, and the extent to which, the requester has a commercialinterest that would be furthered by the disclosure of the requested agency records.
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N I anticipate recejving royalties on the boek, perhaps in four years However, there is no guarantee I will make any provit on the bcot it is often said authors wocid make more money by working the same amount of time in a fast food restaurant: My first bcot. Ibscen
.Binger received favorable reviews, including one in The3E10ft Lmn was purchased for many librarjes, and earned me lesi than one month's rent payment I hope this bcok will do better, but one never
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=(d)(6) If the magnitude of the identified com mercial interest of the requester is sufficiently large, in comparison with the public interest in disclosure, that disclosure is primarily in the commercial interest of the requester.
As I have stated. the dr<uments vill be used in a definitive history of GPU the TM! accident. and its impact on the world_ ! anticipate receiving royalties, but 1 believe the public interest in disclosure of the dccuments clearly outweighs any minimal commercial benefit to
-In yself.
The public has an especiallv significant interest in this issue because of the ginbal warming problem Nue: ear parer productico emits only a tiny fraction of the carbon din 11de emitted by a c6n'ventional purer plant burning fossil fuels TMi and the safety issue remain roadbh<ks in the public mind to greater use of nucitar power however, and unless the public is given all the facts, about z
issues great and smallit cannot make an inicrmed decision c ~ Sinenely. .
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David DeLok
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