ML20206A908
| ML20206A908 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/07/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Taylor J DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20206A913 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-335 NUDOCS 8704080221 | |
| Download: ML20206A908 (2) | |
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PAAT 1.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked boned No agency records subject to the request have been located.
No additional agency records subject to the request have been located.
Agency records subject to the request that are identified in Appendix are already available for public 'nspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, e
1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records subject to the request that are identified in Appendix
_ O are being rnade availaNe for puNic inspection and copying in the NRC P' crec Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC. In a folder under this FOIA nurnber and requester name.p The nonproprietary version of the proposal (s) that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is now being made eva3able for pWic inspection and coying at the NRC Putic Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC. in a folder under this FOIA number and requnter name.
Enclosed is information on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Strost, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records subject to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.
Records subject to the request have been referred to another Federal agency (ies) for review and direct response to you.
In view of NRC's response to this request, no further action is being taken on appeal letter dated
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PART ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certain informaton in the requested records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described in and for the reasons stated in Part it, sec-tions 8, C. and D. Any released portions of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made available for public inspecten and copying in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Strset, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.
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> a ia May 6, 1986 Harold R.
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation m REQUEST Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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re FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
Dear Mr. Denton:
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Your attention is invited to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552], as amended, and to implementing Nuclear Regulatory Commission instructions and regulations.
Under provisions of the above cited authority and in connection with your responsibilities involving nuclear power plants, operators and materials, it is requested that we he provided with copies of the following documents:
1.
Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations, recommendations or similar written documents in the possession of your office or any office under your jurisdiction pertaining to safety issues, actual or hypothetical, at any of the nine nuclear reactors at Aiken, S.C.,
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Platteville, Colo., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Hanford, Wash., which include similar design characteristics to the Chernobyl nuclear power reactors in northwestern Ukrainian S.S.R.
2.
Any summary listing of accidents which have occurred at the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above.
This is not a request for documents pertaining to each accident, but simply any single doc-unent, or computer printout, which lists all accidents in summary form which may be in your possession.
3.
Any assessment of potential contamination, up to and including worst-case scenario, of radiation leakage from one or more of the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above which may be in your poss-ession.
4.
Any assessment prepared wholly or partly by you or in the poss-ession of your of fice of the potential contamination or hazardous effects, whether biological or ecological, national or international in scope, of the Chernobyl accident.
This includes tentative or pre-liminary evaluations and assessments.
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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-en documents in your possession, regardless of source, foreign or do-mestic, pertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential safety hazards of the Soviet Union's nuclear industry in general.
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Harold R. Danton Director Of fice of Nuclear. Reactor Regulation Nuclear Regulatory. Commission I
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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-
.en-documents in your possession, regardless of source, foreign or.do-mestic, pertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential safe -
ty hazards of Soviet nuclear reactors marketed, constructed or planned in other countries,. including but not limited to'the Jaragua I and-II reactors at Cienfuegos, Cuba, with respect to the Chernobyl accident, this request includes all doc-uments from the time of the accident until the date of. processing this request.
'It also includes NRC-generated documents and documents from other domestic or foreign sources, including but not limited to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Swedish Institute for the
. Protection Against Radiation.
It also includes do'cuments you may have acquired in connection with your responsibilities as an of ficial
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of the NRC as1well as those you may have acquired by virtue of your role as a member of the interagency task force established to monitor the Chernobyl accident.
If any of the requested documents are classified in the interest of national security or foreign policy, it is requested that they be considered for release through a declassification review but that such process not delay release of other unclassified documents en-bodied'in this request, j
Because of the public interest in the subject, it is requested that this request be given expedited handling.
We are willing to provide reimbursement for reproduction costs or other reasonable fees, but request waiver of all fees, under NRC guidelines, since the documents are requested in connection with re-4 l
search for articles for the Dallas Times Herald, a general circulat-ion daily newspaper and their release will primarily benefit the gen-l eral public.
If a fee waiver is not granted and fees exceed $25, please first notify the undersigned at 214/760-9152 (office) or 214/
991-5345 (residence).
If any documents or portions of documents are withheld, it is further requested that an itemised index be prepared correlating enhh with,
l held document or portion of a document with a specific FOIA exemption i
and the relevant part of NRC's nondisclosure justification, as requir-ed by Vauchn v Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D. C. Cir. 1973)l cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 C1974).
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