ML20214E747
| ML20214E747 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/24/1986 |
| From: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Eckart D HOUSE OF REP. |
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| ML20214E398 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99900403 NUDOCS 8705220228 | |
| Download: ML20214E747 (3) | |
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Dear Congressman Eckart:
I am responding to your letter of November 20, 1986 concerning allegations made by Mr. Sam A. Milam. III.
I am enclosing a summary of NRC staff actions in regard to Mr. Milam's concerns along with the related documents. A copy of ~'
the response from Mr. James Taylor, Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, to the October 24, 1986 letter from the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is also enclosed.
The NRC staff is carefully evaluating the safety siani'licance of Mr. Milam's allegations and is systematically developing informat' ion to allow proper disposition of these allegations. A copy of the final inspection report will be forwarded when it is issued.
Sincerely, i
Lando W. Ze
, Jr.
Enclosures:
- 1. Summary of Staff's Actions Concerning Allegations, with related documents
- 2. Letter from J. Taylor, NRC to GAP dated December 22, 1986
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HISTORY &' STATUS OF ISSUES RAISED BY S. A. MILAM, III AND C. ST0KES 1
The NRC first reviewed Mr.'Milam's primary concern, the issue of deferred verification, following receipt of his allegations in 1983. A copy of the NRC Inspection Report and General Electric's (GE) response for the NRC Government Accountability Project inspection perfomed in 1983 are enclosed.
(GAP) notified the NRC in October 1985 that it had additional infomation Following extensive discussions among GE, GAP and concerning GE activities.
-NRC, GAP finally agreed to provide the NRC access to the documents in GAP's Subsequently NRC was provided copies of these
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documents in March 1986. These documents included a copy of Mr. Milam's work V"
record and a draft report prepared by Mr. Charles Stokes, a consultant for GAP, J
based principally upon his review of Mr. Milam's work record. Cnpies of related memoranda and a chronology of staff activities related to this issue p 1are enclosed.
The NRC review of the issues raised by Mr. Milam and Mr. Stokes has been in the form of an inspection effort and not an investigation. That process is An interview with Mr. Milam was conducted in April 1986 and two continuing.
inspections were perfomed at the GE San Jose facility during the weeks of April 14 and July 14, 1986. Mr. Milam was the only individual fomally A
interviewed in connection with the staff's review of these allegations.
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copy of the transcript of this interview is enclosed as well as copies ofNRC drafts of the inspection report.
-Mr.'Milam's allegations were consistent with draft manual chapter 0517.
Thist.aff understood that GE helieved that Mr. Milam's work record This understanding was the i
contained infomation which was proprietary.
result of the proprietary infomation agreement executed by GE and GAP on February 6, 1986, concerning Mr. Milam's work record (enclosed) and GE's GE has stated desire to conduct a proprietary review of these documents.
thus requested an opportunity to review the final inspection re the Public Document Room.
7 The NRC staff intends to afford GE the opportunity to review the documents i
This is consistent with the discussed above and the inspection report.
standards contained in 10 CFR 2.790 and with the Office of Inspectinn and Enforcement Manual Chapter 0611. " Review and Distribution of Inspection Manual Chapter 0611 contains the procedures for reviewing inspec-Reports."
tion reports to guard against inappropriate release of exempt infomation.
For example, the Manual Chapter states that "... [Ilf there is a significant doubt as to whether or not the material is proprietary, then a copy of the suspected final report will be sent to the licensee / vendor for proprietary i
review purposes only." The Manual Chapter also indicates.that, to the extent possible,. ell final inspection reports will be made available to the public after reviews to identify proprietary infomation have been completed.
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u The documents related to Mr. Milam's allegations, including his work record, the transcript of the NRC's interview with Mr. Milam, and Mr. Stokes draft report will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room following a proprit'try review by GE. While the staff originally intended to allow this review by G6 following. issuance of the inspection report for the initial NRC inspections of these allegations, Congressional requests for the documents accelerated the NRC's schedule in this matter. When providing documents which potentially contain proprietary information to outside parties including mes6ers of Congress, it is the staff's experience that a prompt proprietary review to make as many documents as possible available to the public is the best course of action.
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Enclosures:
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GE Proprietary Information Agreement 2.
Chronology of Activities 3.
- Documents provided to NRC by GAP 4.
- 0ocuments prepared or obtained by the Staff 5.
- Transcripts of Interview with Sam A. Milam. III 6.
List of plants mentioned in Mr. Milan's work record 7.
NRC Inspection Report No. 99900403/83,03,10/21/83 and GE's response,1/13/84
- Portion of documents potentially contain Proprietary Information and should not be made available to the public.
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