ML20196E714

FOIA Request for Documents on Problems at Plant During 1987 Re Insp Item 322/82-30-03 or Safety Problems Prompting Review of E Brabazon to Wj Museler

ML20196E714
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	01/18/1988
From:	Palast G UNION ASSOCIATES
To:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
References
FOIA-88-55 NUDOCS 8803010257
Download: ML20196E714 (2)

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e' UNION A550CIATE5 64 Second Avenue, New York, New York 10003 CWaso and New Yo4 CW (212) 505-5566 Ja nua ry 18, 1988 Mr. Donnie H. Grimsley Director Division of Rules and Records DtEEDOM OF INFORMATION Office of Administration ACT REQUEST U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [87A * //~b washington, D.C. 20555 gg.y RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

Dear Mr. Grimsley:

This request is made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act th01A), 5 U.S. C. 522, as amended. UNION ASSOCIATES submits this request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to obtain documents regarding the following:

ON AUGUST 13, 1987, LINDA ROBINSON, CURTIS COWGILL AND PETER HABIGHORST OF THE NRC SPOKE TO LENORA STEWART IN REGARDS TO FOIA 87-479 FILED BY UNION ASSOCIATES. AT

( THAT TIME A DOCUMENT WAS IDENTIFIED AND SENT TO UNION ASSOCIATES AS THE DOCUMENT WHICH THE FOIA PAS SEEKING.

THAT DOCUMENT WAS A LETTER DATED JUNE 3, 1983 FROM EDWARD BRABAZON (STONE & WEBSTER ENGINEERING C0f.P . (" S & W" ) ) TO WILLIAM J. MUSELER (LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPA**Y (LILCO)). THE LETTER WAS HEADED "I&E INSPECTION ITEM 322/82-30-93 SEISMIC CATEGORY II -

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i WO80-48923." DURING THE COURSE OF THE AUGUST 13, 1987 I TELEPHONE CONVERSATION, MR. COWGILL REMARKED THAT ORDINARILY HE WOULD NOT HAVE THE DOCUMENT AT HAND, BUT

' THAT "THE MATER HAD COME UP A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO." THIS REQUEST SEEKS INFORMATION REGARDING WHY MR. COWGILL HAD THIS DOCUMENT "AT HAND," AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, ANY PROBLEMS AT THE SHOREHAM NUCLEAR PLANT DURING 1987 WHICH RELATED TO THE I&E INSPECTION ITEM 322/82-1 39-93 OR ANY OTHER ?AFETY PROBLEM (S) AT THE PLANT WHICH MAY HAVE PROMPTED REVIEW OF THE JUNE 3, 1983 LETTER DESCRIBED ABOVE.

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Please include all documents genrated by the above described situation or problem (s), including internal NRC 4

staff memoranda, records, transcripts and/or notes of I

telephone conversations between NRC personnel or between NRC personnel and Shoreham personnel or NRC personnel and S&W I

personnel and any documents reviewed by NRC personnel from LILCO or S&W on this matter. Your response should also include, but not be limited to, the following l

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reports, studies, plans, graphs, charts, diagrams, memoranda, correspondence, test results, working papers, meeting notes and minutes, computer records and print-outs, notes and summaries of conversations and interviews.

For any documents or portions of documents you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld.

Pursuant to Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 P.2d 280 (D.C. Cir. 1973),

cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974), the index is required to provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption and an explanation of why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document wittheld.

We look forward to your a. c within ten days. Thank you for your attention to this matte..

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Gregory A. Palast Senior Associate GAP /sl l

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