ML20206C113
| ML20206C113 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/15/1983 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| To: | Dircks W, Hayes B, Messenger G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTOR & AUDITOR (OIA), NRC OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS (OI), NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| ML20204G557 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-183, FOIA-87-A-3 NUDOCS 8704130002 | |
| Download: ML20206C113 (4) | |
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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Dircks, Executive Director for Operations George Messenger, Acting Director, OIA Ben Hayes, Director, OI FROM:
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Chilk, Secretar
SUBJECT:
SECY-83-218 - NRC FRAUD "E
.LINE" This is to advise you that the Commission (with all agreeing) has agreed that the NRC should continue to use the GAO hotline system for identifying fraud and waste by NRC NRCemploye)eswhichidentifiestheGAOhotlinenumberand employees. fan NRC announcement should be distributed to all explains the process to be used a the Commission agreed that the EDO in consultatio)In addition, n with the Director, OI, should review, and where desirable, upgrade the existing procedures for receiving, recording, and tracking allegations.
The system should permit trend analysis of the allegations and their disposition.
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1983
SUBJECT:
BOARD NOTIFICATION OF ALLEGATIONS OBJECTIVE:
To provide the appropriate NRC office with information regarding alle-gations received by 01 from sources outside NRC which may be subject to a Beard Notification (BN).
BACKGROUND There is a Commission-approved agency-wide policy regarding notification of Licensing Boards, Appeal Boards or the Comission of new and poten-tially important information which the technical staff believes to be relevant to one or more proceedings pending before the Boards or the Comission.
The policy calls for all NRC personnel to be alert to the emergence of information from outside sources or within the NRC which is potentially relevant to a pending adjudication.
This information must be channeled, together with the recommendation that it go to the Board (s) and the rationale for that recommendation, to the Director of Licensing, NRR, or NMSS's Board Notification Coordinator for further assessment and recommendation.
GENERAL POLICY The policy on board notification requires that Boards be provided new information developed or received within 30 days prior to the start of the evidentiary hearings.
Thereupon, the board notification period extends until the adjudication becomes final within the Commission (i.e., until completion of Comission review or Commission election not to review it).
Information received prior to the board notification period is simply factored into staff documentation (e.g., Safety Eval-uation Report), which goes to the Boards in the normal course of events.
It applies to all construction permit and operating license proceedings regardless of the specific issues which are in controversy.
For operat-ing license amendment hearings, however, board notification is limited to information on issues under consideration in the hearing.
If an allegation (information) ultimately results in a beard notification tion, all parties to the adjudicatory proceeding, as well as the Board (s),
will be provided with the notification.
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PROCEDURES 01 Investigators All allegations received directly by 01 investigators from a source outside NRC which may be subject to board notification should be pro.mptly transmitted to the appropriate office (NRR or NMSS) when received by
IP-016 1983 P. 2 headquarters investigators or regional office when received by field investigators.
The transmission will be made through the cognizant 01 manager within 2 working days.
In the case of a Field Office, 01 Headquarters should be promptly informed concurrent with the transmittal of the information to the cognizant regional office.*/ This applies to
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allegations which relate to a facility that is the s bject of an adju-dication which has reached the board notification stage, as explained above,"/ regardless of whether the allegations will be handled through inspection or investigatory effort.
It is incumbent upon all 01 investigative personnel to always view any allegation information they may directly receive, not only from the perspective of its potential investigative merit, but also whether or not it may require a board notification.
Field Office Director / Director, Division of Field Operations (DFO) 1.
The Field Office Director and the Director, DF0, reviews alle-gations identified or received directly by investigators supervised by them.
They transmit the allegations within 2 working days to the appropriate region or, in the case of Director, DF0, to the appropriate office (NRR or NM55).
The priority given to such an investigation will be determined through discussion between the appropriate Field Office Director and 01 Headquarters.
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'It is the responsibility of the DF0 to transmit to the appropriate office any update information affecting a previously issued board notification.
The Field Office Directors will ensure that such updated information, when identified by the Field Office, is transmitted to the DF0 within 2 working days after its receipt.
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The Director, DFO, in consultation with the cognizant Field Office Director reviews and concurs in board notifications initiated by the office regarding allegations which are the subject of an 01 investigation to ensure that the board notification is sufficiently informative but does not provide information which, if released, would compromise the investigation.
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The information is in turn provided to NRR or NMSS by the Region for further assessment to determine whether the information is a subject for board notification.
If the inforcation is a subject for bcard notification and it relates te an 01 investigation, 01 Headquarters reviews the board nctification to ensure that the information will not compromise the investigation.
-**/ Allegations received from an outside source that are not subject to this procedure shall also be promptly transmitted to the appro-priate region or office either by the Field Office Director or Director, Division of Field Operations.
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- p. 3 REFERENCES For additional bacnground information refer to Inspection and Enforce-ment Manual Chapter 1530, NRR Office Letter 19 (revision 1), NRR Office Letter 37, SECY-82-122, and SECY-8~-340.
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