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MEMORANDUM FOR: James Cuaunings Director Office of Inspector and Auditor FROM:
Darrell G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
DIABLO CANYON I recently received the enclosed copy of a letter from J. Schuyler, Pacific Gas & Electric Company addressed to me. The information in the letter and its enclosure relate to the subject of my request for an investigation (memorandum D. G. Eisenhut to J. Cununings, dated June 3,1983).
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June 9, 1983 Mr. Darryl G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regulatory Cormnission Washington DC 20555
Dear Mr. Eisenhut:
Enclosed is a copy of a letter from our Diablo Canyon Project Information Specialist.in which he gives the back-ground for the two articles in the San Luis obispo Telegram-Tribune forwarded to you by Joel Reynolds with his letter of May 25, 1983.
As you can see, there is no cause for Mr. Reynolds or anyone else to be alarmed as the whole thing arose out of a. misunderstanding between the reporter and our representative'. 'At no time did anyone at PGandE review any NRC drafts of its report on the matter in question.
Very truly'yours,
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Harold Denton Tohn B. Martin, NRC Region V
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Re LETTtst OF cuenct Response to Telegram-Tribune Articles Ta Onnesen er
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MR. P. CRANE:
on Monday, May 9 Carl Neiburger of the gan'Luis Obispo Telezram-Tribune contacted me regarding recently-released testimony of two former inspectors at Diablo Canyon. While doing the interview with the Tribune, I was asked what PG&E's impression was as to i
the seriousness of the allegations contained in the testimony.
Specifically, the reporter was referring to allegations concerning l
improprieties relating to the removal of red tags used to mark welding deficiencies.
, I contacted Rick Etzle% General Construction Project Manager at Diablo Canyon, and discussed the questions with him. From this i
discussion, I called the Tribune to tell them that "the red' tags were from areas where problems had been corrected but paperwork documenting the corrections hadn't been completed." *I told the Tribune that "while their removal was a ' technical violation," the problem was minor and clerical in nature.
I told the Tribune i
that this information was gathered from preliminary internal reports which identified no major problems. The story ran on May 10.
In conveying this information to the reporter, there was a misunder-standing regarding the source of the information.
The reporter thought I was referring to preliminary NRC documents when, in fact, I was referring to PG&E's own,repor,ts. We had not seen any preliminary NRC drafts. When tn.s heticle came out in the Trib:nc, f
I contacted the reporter the '. text day to make a correction.
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on May 13, a correction was printaa. The reporter told me that in order for a correction to be printed, someone had to be wrong.
j I attempted to re-explain my original answer, but saw that his j
response wasn't cisar.
So, in an attempt to expedite the formal correction, I told the reporter that even if ha had to attribute the correction to me, he should do ao to assute a prompt and clear correction.
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