ML20207B847
| ML20207B847 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/22/1986 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Garde B GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8612290133 | |
| Download: ML20207B847 (4) | |
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December 22, 1986 Ms. Billie Garde, Director, Environmental Whistleblower Project Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.
Suite 202 Washington, D. C.
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Dear Ms. Garde:
Your letter of October 24, 1986, addressed to Mr. Harold Denton, requested specific infomation related to the NRC's inspection activities being conducted in response to allegations made by Mr. Sam A. Milam III. While a report of the inspections conducted to date is being completed, your characterization of the inspection effort as essentially complete is incorrect. The NRC inspection effort is still in progress.
In this regard, Mr. Arthur Jackson, of your staff, requested specific information concerning the inspection findings and items reviewed during the inspection. Since the information requested was the subject of an inspection report that has not yet been issued, it is inappropriate to discuss specific issues and related inspection findings and Mr. Arthur Jackson was so informed on October 8, 1986.
However, it is appropriate to inform you that based upon the NRC review to date, no issues have been identified which necessitate corrective actions be taken on any nuclear power plant with compo-nents supplied by GE.
As you are aware, in addition to the issues raised by Mr. Milam, a number of issues were raised in the report prepared for GAP by Mr. Charles Stokes, based upon his review of Mr. Milam's work record. As explained to Mr. Jackson on October 8, 1986, the effort necessary to address the issues raised is substan-tial, and the inspections performed to date have not addressed all of these
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issues. This effort is continuing. Copies of inspection reports related to these allegations will be forwarded to you, as well as Mr. Milam, as they are issued. The inspection report for the inspections conducted during the weeks of April 14 and July 14, 1986 is expected to be issued in a few weeks. This report will discuss the current status of the NRC's efforts ard the next step i
in resolving the issues raised by Mr. Milam and Mr. Stokes.
With respect to the suggestion in your letter that you have " specific followup i
information," it is our understanding that all applicable information concerning i
Mr. Milam's allegations has been provided to the NRC. However, if you have additional information related to these issues, please contact us so we can l
obtain this information.
l Your letter also raised questions concerning the conduct of the NRC review of Mr. Milam's allegations. The NRC efforts related to resolution of these alle-I gations are being conducted in accordance with the NRC's draft Manual Chaptar l
0517, Management of Allegations. While Mr. Milam was not contacted between June 1,1986 (the date Mr. Milam returned a corrected copy of the transcript I
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Ms. Billie Garde December 22, 1986 of his interview) and October 2,1986 (the date Mr. Jackson, GAP Staff Associate, spoke with Mr. McIntyre, NRC), there is no significance which can be attributed to this lack of contact. Both GAP and Mr. Milam knew of the extansive nature and number of allegations which were the subject of NRC review and should have known by virtua of the number of contacts NRC rade with GAP in obtainina the documents and in interviewing Mr. Milam, that Mr. Milan's allegations were under active consideration. Accordingly, the provisions of the draft manual chapter calling for an alleger to be informed so that there is an awaraness that the allegation is not being ignored were met.
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T. Devine, GAP A. Jackson, GAP S. Milam, III
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