ML20202H956
| ML20202H956 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 04/03/1986 |
| From: | Powers D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Herr R NRC OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS (OI) |
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| ML20202H944 | List: |
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| FOIA-86-378 NUDOCS 8607160471 | |
| Download: ML20202H956 (4) | |
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ARLINGTON TEXAS 76011 APR 3 1936 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Richard K. Herr, Director, 01 THRU:
Robert D. Martin, Regional Adminis
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FROM:
Dale A. Powers, Enforcement Officer
SUBJECT:
RELEASE OF ROI SYN 0PSIS TO THE PDR c\\f T v g attf-Attached ;; ; draf t inspcctic report th;t =,prcpared i vidci iu
.4-r release the synopsis from 01 Report No. 4-89 -O So to the Public Document Room. We will hold this report pending your approval for release in accordance with Section 8.2.3. of the Investigative Procedures Manual.
Dale A. Powers Enforcement Officer The release of the above described synopsis is authorized.
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SYN 0PSIS In early 1983, a confrontation occurred at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station (CPSES) site Quality Assurance (QA) audit office between the site Quality Control (QC) supervisor and members of two corporate QA audit groups.
The site QC supervisor mistakenly believed that one of the QA auditors with whom he had a continuing personality conflict had directed craft personnel to remove a weld on a support in contravention to an existing agreement between QA and QC management.
l Another QA auditor, the one actually involved in identifying the suspect weld, explained to the QC supervisor that craft personnel had initiated
-the issuance of an item removal notice for the weld of their own volition.
Subsequent to the auditor's explanation, the site QC supervisor made a statement to the auditors in which he referenced potential physical or political harm to the auditors as related to their audit activities.
The circumstances of the incident were investigated by utility staff
~ personnel. A report was issued in which the staff concluded that although the QC supervisor's behavior was improper, none of the auditors had been intimidated.
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In November 1984, one of the QA auditors, who had been present during the 1983 confrontation in the audit office, made an allegation to the NRC that the site QC supervisor had threatened and attempted to intimidate the QA auditors. A copy of the utility's investigative report on the incident was reviewed by a representative of the NRC Office of Investiga-tions (01). The utility staff investigators were also interviewed, and they reported that the notes from their interviews with the witnesses had been destroyed following the issuance of the report in consideration of the confidentiality they had granted the employees. An 01 investigation was initiated.
In addition to the interview of the site QC supervisor accused of intimi-dation, five employees who were present in the QA audit office when the incident occurred were interviewed. None of the QA auditors reported evidence of discrimination or any adverse change in their work conditions as a result of this incident. One witness did not recall the site QC supervisor making a statement related to physical or political harm. The remaining four witnesses recalled that the QC supervisor had made the statement. Two of the four said they did not believe the QC supervisor had intended to intimidate the auditors, nor did they believe any of the auditors had been intimidated. The remaining two witnesses concluded the the site QC supervisor's statement regarding " political" harm constituted a threat which was intended to adversely influence the auditors' freedom to conduct audits and report findings.
The site QC supervisor declined to be interviewed citing the fact that his testimony had already been taken in a deposition for the CPSES Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. A review of the deposition confirmed that the site QC supervisor had made the statement regarding physical and political hann. The site QC supervisor said that his remarks had been addressed to one auditor only. The site QC supervisor said his reference to physical harm was an unfortunate statement and was unintentional. The Case No. 4-84-050 1
o site QC supervisor said he intended to convey in his reference to political harm that he was prepared to report the auditor's performance (invalid findings) to his QA supervisors if necessary.
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Case No. 4-84-050 2
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REPORT No.
SUBJECT Q4-82-005 Welding Q4-82-011 Improper QC Practices and Discrimination Q4-82-025 Improper Radiograph j
4-82-012 Alleged Electrical Deficiencies j
Q4-83-009 Inadequate "As Built" Inspections Q4-83-011 Alleged Poor Construction Practices Q4-83-021 Intimidation Q4-33-022 Improper Procedures (Coatings) l Q4-83-023 Alleged Poor Management Practices
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Q4-83-025 Discouraging the Use of NCR's Q4-83-026 Deficiencies in Coatings A4-83-001 Defective Pipe Hangers A4-83-005 Alleged Improper Construction Practices 4-83-006 Alleged Falsification of Civil QC Recorcs 4-83-011 Alleged Falsification of QC Records 4-83-016 Alleged Improper Termination Q4-84-001. Improper Construction Practices Q4-84-007 Improper Construction Practices i <'
4-84-008 Alleged Intimidation and Harassment Q4-84-011 Intimidation Q4-84-014 Prenotification Q4-84-016 Improper Construction Practices 4-83-001 Intimidation of Coatings Personnel 4-83-013 Intimidation (76 interviews) 4-84-006 Alleged Intimidation of QC Personnel Q:-84-037 Alleged Harassment of OC Inspector 04-84-046 Suspected Harassment of OC Inspector 4-84-012 Alleged Intimidati:n of CPSES Craftsman 4-84-040 Alleged Falsification of Startup Occument 04-85-002 Potential Harassment of Quality Assurance kc' tor 4-84-013 Alleged Falsification of Data Cards and Intimidation of Pipe Fitters 4-84-025 Alleged Improprieties in Brown and Root Q4-84-027 Alleged Discriminatory Actions by TUGC0 and Brown and Root Q4-84-029 Alleged Use of Non-Conforming Materials 4-84-030 Alleged Improper Upgrading of Material Q4-84-038 Alleged Intimidation QC Inspector O
4-84-039 Alleged Intimidation QC Inspector I "Q Q4-84-041 Alleged Falsification of Fabrication Shop Paper Work Q4-84-045 Alleged Falsification Coating QC Training Records 4-84-050 Alleged Intimidation of TUGC0 QA Auditors by QC Management
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Q4-85-003 Alleged Intimidation of Pipe Crew by a Foreman A4-85-020 Assessment of SAFETEAM Program
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT 1555 Connecticut Awnue, N.W., Suite 202 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202)232-8550 1
May 16, 1986 CF UdRNusAim REQUEST Director Office of Administration M Y[o c$ ")[
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission jj Washington, D.C.
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FOIA Request To whom it may concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.
552, as amended, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of any and all agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calendars, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, any other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records releyant to and/or generated in connection with OI Investigation 4-84-050, " Alleged Intimidation of TUGCO auditors by QC
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Management," noticed in BN 86-14, April 4, 1986.
This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8, 1980), whether they currently exist in the NRC official, " working", investigative, or other files, or at any other location, including private residences.
If any records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, supra, and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed, or are destroyed and/or removed after receipt of this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated in connection with, and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information can be considered as primarily benefitting the gene-ral public." 5 U.S.C. 552(a) (4) (A).
GAP is a non-profit, nonpartisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government.
Through its Citizens Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens groups seeking
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FOIA Request May 16, 1986 Page Two GAP is requesting the above information as part of an ongoing monitoring project on the adequacy of the NRC's efforts to protecta public safety and health at nuclear power plants.
j For any documents or portions of documents that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld.
The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld.
This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen III, 484 F.
2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).
We look forward to your response to this request within ten days.
Respectfully,
\\W Billie Pirner Garde Citizens Clinic Director 42116
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