ML20195C362

Affirms NRC Initial Action on FOIA Request FOIA-88-88 & Denies 880413 Appeal for Documents for Listed Reasons

ML20195C362
Person / Time
Issue date:	06/15/1988
From:	Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
To:	Jordan B INSIDE N.R.C. (MCGRAW-HILL PUBLICATION)
References
FOIA-88-88, FOIA-88-A-25 NUDOCS 8806220189
Download: ML20195C362 (2)

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onicE or THE June 15, 1900 SECRETARY Re: FOIA-88-88 (88-A-25 C)

Mr. Brian Jordan Assistant Editor, Inside N.R.C.

McGraw-Hill Publications Co.

1120 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Mr. Jordan:

On April 13, 1988 you appealed the NRC's April 5, 1988 decision to deny release of a January 28, 1988 memorandum from Victor Stello to Chairman Zech. A draft memorandum of agreement (MOA) between NRC and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) is attached to the 1/28/88 memorandum.

In response to your appeal, the documents were reviewed again. Based on that review I af firm the Agency's initial action, as outlined below.

The denied documents were withheld under Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. S 552(b) (5) and the Commission's regulations at 10 C.F.R. 9.5 (a) (5) , as they contain the analyses. opinions and recommendations of the staff to the Commission and are part of the agency's predecisional process. The purpose of the deliberative process privilege is to "prevent injury to the quality of agency decisions." NLRB v. Sears, Roebuck & Company, 421 U.S. 132, 151 (1975). Disclosure of these predecisional documents would be likely to "stifle honest and frank communication within the agency." coastal States Gas Corp. v. Department of Energy, 617 F.2d 854, 866 (D.C.

Cir. 1980).

Also, any factual information in the denied documents is so inextricably connected to the deliberative material that it is impossible to reasonably segregate meaningful portions of that factual information from the deliberative information.

See Lead Indus. Ass'n v. OSHA, 610 F.2d 70, 86 (2d Cir.

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This letter represents final agency action on your April-13, 1988 FOIA Appeal. Judicial review of the denial of these documents is available in Federal district court in the district in which you reside or have your principal place of business, or in the District of Columbia.

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Re: FOIA-88-88

[7PENDIX A DOCUMENTS BEING PLACED IN THE PDR

1. 12/5/86 Letter from William F. Conway to Victor Stello. (4 pages)

2. 1/9/87 Letter from Victor Stello to William F. Conway. (6pages)

3. 2/24/87 Letter from William F. Conway to Victor Stello. (2 pages)

4. 4/7/87 Handwritten draft: NRC/INP0memo Use offrom Zack Pate Performance to Vic Stello, Indicators. attaching)

(3 pages

5. 4/14/87 Letter from Zack Pate to Victor Stello, attaching an appendix to NRC/INPO MOA. (4 pages)

6. 7/23/87 Letter from William F. Conway to James M. Taylor, enclosing proposed revisions to the Memorandum of Agreement between INPO and NRC and the appendices to that agreement.

(18pages)

7. 9/4/87 Letter from Zack T. Pate to Victor Stello. (11pages)

8. 12/30/87 Letter from William F. Conway to Victor Stello. (3pages) ,

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Re: F01A-88-88 APPENDIX B DOCUMENTS BEING WITHHEL D PURSUANT TO EXEMPTION 5

1. 1/28/88 Memo from Victor Stello to Chairman Zech, subject:

Proposed Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Between NRC and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) (34pages)

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