ML20151G292
| ML20151G292 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 05000000, Browns Ferry |
| Issue date: | 01/12/1981 |
| From: | Thompson D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20151C214 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-88-353 EGM-81-03, EGM-81-3, NUDOCS 8104300429 | |
| Download: ML20151G292 (1) | |
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pH 121981 E6 M-S 1-03 E ORNIDUM FDR:. J. P. O'Reilly, Df rector, Reg 1on It' FROM:
Dudley Thompson, Director Enforcerant and Investigations. IE SU3 JECT:
SELECTION OF SEVERITf LEVEL c'g pp I
Tour rar4randa on this subject dated December 24 and 29.198D have been dfscussed with cogntrant staff in headquarters and the results communicated
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to Mr. Uprf ght, of your staff.
The results are sumartzed below.
wro.vi Because the successor user'was' determined to be technically competent and the leak tests had been conducted, we concur in your severf ty Level Y fn the caribbean Culf P.affntng case. proposed assignment of We do not concur with downgrading the Severity Level for the Browns Ferry security case, because essentially all of the crucial elements of access control failed to detect entry of the indivfdual involved ' The fact that this case was benign was fortunatt.
I The question of whether a malevolent intruder might have gained entry under these conditions is, of course.
conjectural.
However, we agree that there appears to be sufficient uitigation j
to warrant not proposing a civil penalty, even though the violatten is properly a Severity Level !!!.
DSRSI and ELD concur in this view.
In the Browns Ferry case we agree that regional action is appropriate.
i rather than a headquarters Motice of Violation.
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The cover letter should note that in spite of the severity level assigned, you have deterntned that impositten of a civil penalty is inappropriate and that It headquarters agreesi i
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