ML20149L796

Partial Response to FOIA Request for Records Re Incidents Involving Licensed & Senior Reactor Operators in Violation of Fitness for Duty Guidelines.Forwards App B Documents

ML20149L796
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Issue date:	02/22/1988
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Boley K Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
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ML20149L797	List: ML20149L796 ML20149L818
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FOIA-88-25 NUDOCS 8802250042
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1. 01/26/87 Preliminary Notification re: Senior Reactor Operator Suspended (1 page)

2. 10/28/87 Morning Report (1 page)

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PUBLIC CITIZEN Buyers Up C Congnus Watch a Critical Mass O Health Research Group C Utistum Cup D Tax Croup January 7, 1988 Don Grimsley, Director Division of Rules and Records Nuclear Regulatory Commission FREDCM OF INFORMATKm MNBB 4210 ACT REQUEST Washington, DC 20555

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Dear Sir Pursuant to the federal Freedom of Information Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. S 552, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project hereby requests copies of any and all records that provide:

1) Accounts of incidents involving licensed reactor operators and senior reactor operators in violation or possible violation of Fitness for Duty guidelines. This includes, but is not limited to, any and all Licensee Event Reports and Preliminary Notices of Occurrence or of Safeguards about incidents of a licensed operator having used drugs or having been under the influence of alcohol while on duty.

2) Information about the steps taken by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or its licensees with regard to the licensed operators mentioned by Mr. J. Partlow of the Of fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulations at the "Briefing on Status of Implementation of Fitness for Duty Program" held in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, December 1, 1987, as recorded by Marilynn M. Nations of Ann Riley & Associates, Ltd. On page 72 of the briefing transcript, Mr. Partlow mentioned these licensed operators as being involved in the only five cases of licensed operators being involved "in some sort of Fitness for Duty matter." This request includes, but is not limited to, records containing information about the present status of their licenses and the nature of their Fitness for Duty involvement. This request does not seek any information about any specific individual or records otherwise covered by Exemptions 6 or 7 of the Freedom of Information Act.

This request pertains to all records in the possession of the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, its contractors or licensees. In this I request, "record" includes, but is not limited to, databases which cor.tain the requested information or any other memoranda, reports, studies, reviews, letters, computer memories and printouts, audio and video tapes, movies and other forms of connunication, in the possession of any individual or office in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, whether generated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission, its contractors, or any other source. c /-l

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Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project is a nationally known non-profit public interest organization founded in 1974. We will ase these documents in a ctudy we are presently researching and plan to issue on the adequacy of training programs presently in place for nuclear power plant workers. We plan to broadly disseminate the information contained therein to the press and the general public.

l Our past publications have attracted attention in the local, national and trade media. Thousands of copies of the reports have been sold or distributed to members of the public, industry, and citizen groups. Since furnishing these documents "will significantly contribute to public understanding of governr.ent opinions or ectivities" we request a complete waiver of any processing or duplicating costs you might incur in providing these records to us. If you rule otherwise, please notify us before filling the request.

Nothing in this request should be considered a request for the private records of any specific individual. Hence, no provisions of the Privacy Act should be deemed applicable.

If all or any parts of this request are denied, please cite the specific exemptions on which you rely in refusing to release the docu ment s .

Further, since the Freedom of Information Act provides that the remainder of a file must be released if only portions are exempt from disclosure, we roquest that we be provided with all non-exempt portions which are reasonably segregable. Of course, we reserve our right to appeal the withholding or deletion of any information.

As providad in the Freedom of Information Act, we will expect to receive the requested records or a final determination within ten working days. If your office is unable to fully respond to this request in that t bne , send us a written estimate of when the request will be compleced.

If you have any questions about this request, please telephone me at 202-546-4990.

Thank you for your attention to this request.

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This' preliminary rr.tification constitu*es E,'RLY r.otice of ever's of COSSIPlt sa'ety r iblic interest significarce. The information is as initially received without ication or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region 111 s wif on this date.

Facility: Detroit Edison Company Licensee Emergency Classification:

Fermi 2 Notification of an Unusual Event Newport, Mi aP166 Alert Site Area Emergency Occket No. 50-341 General Emergency X Not Applicable

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SENIOR REACTOR OPERATOP SVSPENDED On January 23, 1987, the licensee informed Pegion 111 (Chicago) that an NRC-licensed Nuclear Supervising Operator had been suspended on January 22, 1987, as a result of a positive test result in a random drug screen.ing conducted on January 15, 1987. The operator's site access has also been suspended. Both an initial test and a confirming test of the sample showed positive findings -- indicative of more than a passive inhalation of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The test results were received by the licensee on January 22, 1987.

The licensee conducted an innediate review of the operator's work assignments over the previous two weeks. He had perfortred instrument panel walkdewns while the plant was in cold shutdown. There was no evidence of error in his performance.

The individual was interviewed before being suspended and provided no conclusive information e'

• possible drug use. in a previous random drug screening in October 1986, the test tf for this individual were negative.

The licensee's actions are in full compliance with its Fitness for Duty Program.

The State of Michigan will be infont.ed of this infortration.

Region b! was notified of this incident at 5 p.m. (EST), January 23, 1987. This information is current as of 11a.m. (CST), January 26, 1987.

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