ML20151C050

Confirms 871104 Telcon Re Agreement to Set Up Meeting in Order to Provide NRC W/Info About Safety Allegations at Plant.Meeting Scheduled for 871112

ML20151C050
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Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	11/09/1987
From:	Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	Garde B GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
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Ms. Billie Pirner Garde Government Accountability Project Midwest Office 3424 Marcos Lane Appleton, Wisconsin 54911

Dear Ms. Garde:

This will confim our telephone conversation of November 4,1987. In that conversation we agreed to set up a meeting between you and the NRC in order for you to provide the NRC with infomation about safety allegations at the South Texas facility.

i You indicated that you intend to table a sumary of allegations sufficient for  !

NRC to detemine their safety significance and whether investigation by NRC is )

warranted. You do not propose to leave a copy with us after the meeting. You l expect us to review this data and advise you of how and with whom we will j pursue investigation of the allegations, since your main concern is that you l mistrust some people who might investigate these matters. If you do not l object to our investigative scheme, you have indicated that you will provide i the necessary further contact with allegers either directly or thru GAP as an i ntemedia ry.

While we are ready and willing to meet with you on this matter, we believe our discussions would be most productive if the sumary of allegations which you provide is written and in sufficient detail for NRC to detemine their safety I

- significance and whether investigation by NRC is warranted. We could review l that data and proceed to investigate those allegations which appear to warrant ,

investigation on the basis of the information you provide. If there is suffi- l cient information presented for NRC to detemine that a significant safety '

issue is likely involved, we could then ask you for additional information.

If there are issues which do not appear to be significant safety issues on the basis of the infomation presented we could then so advise you. We understand that you will make no references to the names of allegers. If however, you

- chose to provide nanas, we are prepared to grant confidentiality as prescribed by our Manual Chapter on this subject.

I understand you will attend with a knowledgeable investigator, and I will have present people knowledgeable of Mechanical and Structural, QA and electrical areas, since those are the areas you indicated are most involved.

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l 1 understand a member of your immediate family has a medical problein you must deal with, and the earliest you can meet will be Thursday, November 12, 1987 l at 10:00 a.m. We will use my office in the Maryland National Bank Building or a nearby conference room. .

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! ' J l l Ms. Billie Pirner Garde Government Accountability Project Midwest Office 3424 Marcos Lane l Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 i

Dear Ms. Garde:

This is to confim your phone call of November 11, 1987 in cancelling our previously arranged meeting of November 12, 1987 and arranging for a later date of November 19, 1987 at 8:30 a.m., in room 6507, 7735 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland. We are prepared to meet on that date. As I indicated in my letter to you of November 8,1987 we believe our meeting I will be most productive if you provide information in written form. If however, you choose not to, or intend to amplify extensively in discussion, it might be advisable to transcribe the meeting in order to make sure we do not lose any details. If this appears reasonable to you, please advise me and I will make the arrangements. Sincerely, T. A. Rehm Assistant for Operations  ; Office of the Executive Director for Operations l i Pos.A-BB Mi

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Ms. Billie P. Garde Government Accountability Project 3424 N. Marcos Lane Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 Dear Ms. Garde We have received your letter to Mr. Jose Calvo of December 4,1987, on December 7,1987. Whatever you may have felt suggested by discussions between members of our team who were reviewing STNP allegations at GAP last week, it is NRC's intentions, and the teams instructions, to fully and properly review the allegations you have on file. There is no imposed deadline, although we intend to move as quickly as a quality review will allow. In that regard GAP at the November 19, 1987 meeting did indeed state that some addi.!onal allegations would follow. We were under the impression that all the allegations would be available when the NRC review began on November 30, 1987, but the 50 additional allegations provided by GAP will be reviewed as part of this initial effort. NRC intends that the initial review at GAP will include examination of all parts of your files that the NRC deems necessary in order to conclude which allegations need further follow up. When that review is complete we will advise you of the need to contact allegers and or obtain additional information that may be required to further clarify the allegations so that we can pursue our review to completion, including inspections as necessary. In regard to the Houston Chronicle article, I believe the discussions between you and I, and you and Jose Calvo appear to have resolved that issue for the moment. The NRC person who was contacted by the author of that article ' believes he was misquoted. Our agreements as stated in my November 24, 1987 article to you stand. , l T. A. Rehm Assistant for Operations s Office of the Executive l Director for Operations I l 0FC :A0/0E00  :  :  :  :  :  : NAME :TARehm  :  :  :  :  :  : DATE :12/8/87  :  :  :  :  :  : OFFICIAL RECORD COPY l}}