ML20214E764
| ML20214E764 | |
| 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 |
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| REF-QA-99900403 NUDOCS 8705220241 | |
| Download: ML20214E764 (2) | |
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j December 22, 1986 Ms. Billie Garde. Director, Environmental Whistleblower Project Government Accountability Project 1555 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.
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Dear Ms. Garde:
Your letter of October 24, 1986, addressed to Mr. Harold Denton, requested specific information 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 inspaction 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 infomation concerning the inspection findings and items reviewed during the inspection. Since the infomation 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 j
i was so informed on October 8, 1986. However, it is appropriate to infom 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 rt.ised in the report prepared for GAP by Mr. Charles Stokes, based upon his review of Mr. M11am's work record. As ex plained to Mr. Jackson on October 8,1986, the effort necessary to address tie issues raised is substan-tial, and the inspections performed to date have not addressed all of these 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 i
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 and the next step in resolving the issues raised by Mr. Milam and Mr. Stokes.
With respect to the suggestion in your letter that you have " specific followup infomation," it is our understanding that all applicable information concerning Mr. Milam's allegations has teen provided to the NRC. However, if you have additional information related to these issues, please contact us so we can obtain this information.
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-gations are being conducted in accordance with the NRC's draft Manual Chapter 0517 Management of Allegations. While Mr. Milan was not contacted between June 1, 1986 (the date Mr. Milam returned a corrected copy of the transcript 4
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and number of allegations which were the subject of HRC review and should have known by virtue of the number of contacts NRC made with GAP in obtainina the documents and in interviewing Mr. Milam, that Mr. Milam'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 awareness that the t.llegation is not being ignored were met.
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L J N s'~M. Tayle Director ffice of Inspection and Enforcewnt ec:
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