ML20197F928
| ML20197F928 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/30/1983 |
| From: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Jamarl Cummings NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTOR & AUDITOR (OIA) |
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| FOIA-86-234 NUDOCS 8304120740 | |
| Download: ML20197F928 (3) | |
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MAR 3 01983 fl R' l5 MEMORANDUM FOR:
James J. Cummings, Director Offite of Inspector and Auditor FROM:
Victor Stello, Jr., Deputy Executive Director Regional Operations and Generic Requirements w
SUBJECT:
HARTMAN ALLEGATI0,NS As noted in the enclosed Meeting Summary, a meeting was held on March 21-,
1983 between Mr. R. Arnold, GPU, and the ' members of the team reviewing the B&W-GPU trial court record. The purpose of.this memorandum is to draw your attention to certain inf'ormation presented by Mr. Arnold during the meeting.
They are: GPU conducted an initial inquiry into the Hartman allegations and wrote a repoJ.t-of this incsiry; 20 of the depositions taken and in prepara-tion for the lawsuit touched upon the Hartman allegations; a copy of the Hartman deposition preparation for the lawsuit was provided to the review team after the meeting. A copy of this deposition is enclosed.
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If you ~ choose to provide this information to 00J, you should first detennine if such an action would be improper in that certain of this information wcs developed in a civil proceeding.
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SUMMARY
On March 21, 1983, R. Arnold of General Public Utilities.(GPU) telephoned V.
Stello and requested a meeting with Mr. Stello to discuss information Mr.
Arnold cons ~idered related-to the review team's examination of the B&W-GPU trial court record. Mr. Stello agreed to a meeting which was held later in the day and attended by R. Arnold, V. Stello, J. Craig, T. Harpster and R.
Hoefling.
At the beginning 'of the meeting, Mr. Stello informed Mr. Arnbid that the review team's draft report would not te discussed at.the meeting and that a meeting summary would be prepared. Mr. Arnold indicated agreement with this approach. Neither the draft report nor any team activities were discussed during this meeting.
Mr. Arnold then related at the meeting GPU's concern that thb trial court record may not include all the information germane to the' review currently being conducted by the.NRC staff. Mr. Arnold stated that a number of documents which may be of interest were not a part of the trial court record.
Specifically, the B&W-GPU trial preparation has resulted in 1767 exhibits and 81 depositions. While a number of exhibits and excerpts from depositions were included in the trial court record, Mr. Arnold stated that much of this material was not a part of the trial court record. GPU has co'nducted a preliminary sorting of this material removing from consideration such do.cuments as were publicly available, which had already been provided 'to the NRC or those judged to have rio potential significance. As a result of this sorting, GPU concluded that about 580 documents remain which may contain something of interest.
Mr. Arnold stated that all of the documents were
. indexed and'available for NRC inspection and copfing at GPU's Parsippany offices.
Mr. Stello asked Mr. Arnold whether h'e felt the documents contained important information which the NRC did not now have. Mr. Arnold stated that he believed that the NRC had previously reviewed all of the significant information and that no sign,ificant new information was contained in the documents.
i Mr. Stello stated that he would consider GPU's offer and would contact Mr. Arnold if the NRC staff wished to review the documents.
Also discussed during the meeting was the Hartman matter regarding leak rate calculations.
Mr Stello indicated that he had attempted to obtain the Hartman deposition taken in the lawsuit by B&W. Mr. Arnold offered to provide the document expeditiously. Mr. Arnold also commented that some 20 depositions taken in the lawsuit touched upon the Hartman matter.
- Further, he stated that, when the Hartman matter first surfaced, GPU conducted an initial inquiry into the matter and prepared a confidential e
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report on the matter. Mr. Arnold noted that GPU wa's considering providing this document to the U.S. Attorney conducting the grand jury investigation.
Also discussed was B&W Exhibit No. 843 (Internal Audit Report of TMI Management.. performed in early 1978). Mr. Stello expressed an interest in learning when that docume'rit was first made publicly available. Mr. Arnold offered to pursue that matter and to provide Mr. Stello with a response.
- Finally, the issue of natural circulation procedures, which had been the subject of a Board Notification, was briefly discussed.
Mr.. Arnold noted that this issue had been resolved some time ago for TMI-1 through procedure
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- Mr. Stello was informed on March 22, 1983 that GPU was not aware of any review of this internal GPU document by any external organiza-tion prior to the initiation of the B&W-GPU lawsuit.
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