ML20202C161
| ML20202C161 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/02/1986 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Balogh B BROOKINGS INSTITUTE |
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| ML20202C166 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-85-646 ACRS-GENERAL, NUDOCS 8607110123 | |
| Download: ML20202C161 (2) | |
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- y WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 July 2, 1986 Mr. Brian Balogh Governmental Studies Program The Brookings Institute 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 638C IN RESPONSE REFER Washington, DC 20036 TO F01A-85-646
Dear Mr. Balogh:
This is in final response to your letter dated September 17, 1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), copies of minutes dated before September 1957 of discussions by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) of five civilian reactor projects, its site approval criteria, its internal operating procedures, and its relationship to the Commission, the Hazards Evaluation Branch, and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
In my letter dated October 23, 1985, I informed you that the review of the remaining documents that are subject to your request was continuing. The review has now been completed, and the documents identified on enclosed Appendix B are being placed in the NRC Public Document Room located at 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555, in file folder F01A-85-646 in your name.
This completes NRC action on your request.
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Donnie H. Grimsley, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration
Enclosure:
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F01A-85-646 Appendix B Documents Being Placed in the PDR Full Comittee 1) 5th ACRS Meeting, April 21-23, 1954 pp. 4,18 PWR/ Site 2) lith ACRS Meeting, April 11-12, 1955
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- p. 8 PWR
- p. 10 Consolidated Ed
- p. 11 HEB 3) 12th ACRS Meeting, May 6-7, 1955
- p. 20 PWR 1955
- p. 21 Consolidated Ed 5) 16th ACRS Meeting, January 3-4, 1956
- p. 1 Procedures pp. 2-4,17 PWR pp. 14-16 Consolidated Ed 6) 18th ACRS Meeting, June 3-5, 1956 pp. 2-5 PRDC-APDA App. A, pp.1-4 7) 21st ACRS Meeting, June 3-5, 1957 p.2 HEB Shippingport = PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor)
Indian Point = Consolidated Edison Hazards Evaluation Branch HEB
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Dear Director:
I am requesting, under the Freedom of Information Act, copies of, or permission to review, minutes of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards pertaining to the Committee's discussion of civilian reactor projects from the inception of such minutes until September 1957 As of September 1957 the minutes are availabit: in the NRC public document room.
The specific reactors I am interested in are: Shippingport, Indian Point (I) Dresden (I) Fermi (I) and Yanxee.
I would also like to review ACRS discussion -- for the above period -- of its site approval criteria, its internal operating procedures, and its relationship to the Commission, the Hazards Evaluation Branch, and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
I do not wish to review any material pertaining to the military use of nuclear power.
I am requesting this material in connection with research I am currently conducting for my dissertation on the role of experts in policymaking in post-World War II America.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at Johns Hopkins University and for the current academic year, also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution.
When published, I hope this study will reach a broad audience and centribute to the public's understanding of how complex technical issues were resolved in a democratic society.
I hope that my dis'cussion t of the early years of the ACRS will add to the pioneering work of NRC historians Mazuzan and Walker -- in Controlling the Atom -- and ACRS member David Okrent-- in Nuclear Reactor Safety. Understanding the origins and development of the ACRS will contribute substantially to the public debate on important regulatory policy questions and aid current policymakers in benefitting from the lessons of the past. This, I hope, will enhance the public's health and safety.
For these reasons I am requesting that fees for search and reproduction of records be waived.
Thank you for your assistance.
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