ML20203Q048
| ML20203Q048 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/22/1986 |
| From: | Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Judith Weaver HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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| Download: ML20203Q048 (2) | |
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April 22, 1986 CHAIRMAN The Honorable James Weaver, Chairman Subcormittee on General Oversight, Northwest Power, and Forestry Management Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to your letter, dated March 28, 1986, requesting information related to the Philippines reactor export case. Enclosed are responses to the four specific questions raised in your letter.
With regard to your recuest for Comission records, in view of NRC's lack of direct involvement in issues related to alleged finarcial improprieties concerning the Philippines case, the Commission has only limited records in this area. We are reviewing our files to identify such documents and will forward them to yt,u in the next few days.
Please let me know if the Commission can be of further assistance.
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Enclosure:
Responses to Questions cc: Rep. Charles Pashayan, Jr.
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RESPONSES TO CONGRESSMAN WEAVER 1.
Describe any investigation the NRC may have conducted on possibly improper Westinghouse payments to Mr. Marcos or his associates.
RESPONSE: NRC has never conducted any investigation (s) on possibly improper Westinghouse payments to Mr. Marcos or his associates.
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Inform the Subcommittee of the present status of any NRC investigations that may still be underway.
RESPONSE: No investigations are underway.
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Describe the NRC's responsibilities for ensuring that applicants for nuclear export licenses obey the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Other federal laws that may have been violated by payments to Marcos or his associates and how the NRC is carrying out these responsibilities.
RESPONSE: As an independent regulatory agency charged with protecting the common defense and security and the public health and safety in rendering its licensing decisions, this Commission focuses on those 1
particular areas in its pre-licensing reviews. The criteria for issuance of export licenses are set out in Sections 127 and 128 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. Section 103d. of the Atomic ~
Energy Act additionally provides that no license may be issued to any person within the United States if, in the opinion of the Coninission, 1
the issuance of a license to such person would be inimicable to the.
common defense and security or to the health and safety of the U.S.
public. NRC has no' responsibilities for ensuring that an applicant for an export license obey the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (P.L.95-213, 91 Stat. 1494) and other federal laws that may have been violated. The enforcement of Section 104 of the Foreign Corrupt j
Practices Act ap pers to be the responsibility of the Department of Justice.
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Report the NRC's response to these recent allegations involving Westinghouse.
i RESPONSE: The NRC has not prepared an agency " response" to those recent allegations. However, at the Chairman's request, the NRC staff prepared the attached memorandum, dated April 11, 1986, entitled 4
" Background on NRC Review of the Philippine Reactor Export", for use in responding to inquiries.
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