ML20215B064
| ML20215B064 | |
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| Site: | Surry  |
| Issue date: | 06/11/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Zwelling J CITIZENS ACTION FOR SAFE ENVIRONMENT |
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| FOIA-87-20 NUDOCS 8706170209 | |
| Download: ML20215B064 (6) | |
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Agency socords subject to the request that are identsfied in Appendix h
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017 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
twicy records subrect to the requera it are identif;ed in Appendix 5
J, ire being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document u Saom,1717 H Street, N W., WstnLyon, DC, in a folder under this FOlA numbos aid requester name
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E'iclosed is r.4cfAttS#hhow you kty ob%n access to and the charges for copying recordtp pr ad ri the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street N.W., Washmgton, DC.
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Agency records sutywt 13 the requot are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provideo and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.
Focords subjer;t to the' request have been refenel hu sther Federal agencyties) for review and direct response to you.
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Jn Erw of 64 rernv4 to this request, no further action is bemg taken on appeal letter dated F ArtT ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Ccetaws bdirrnat i sn the requmf twords is being withheld from public declosure pursuant to the FOIA enemptions described in and for the taasoris stated in Part it, sec-tung 9, C, e W D Arr,etileased ped <.rs of 'hJ documents for which only part of the ruo-d is being withheld are being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Dc,c.uir.eiri Room,1717 h !N4ct, N.W., Washington, DC. in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.
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' FTEEDOM fV 1NFORMATIOA ACT RESPONSE FOlA NUMBER Sr h14 - hl-M C DATh@ f1 mm PART 118-APPLICAPLE FOIA EXEMPTIONS
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- Rrcords subject to the request that are described in the enclosed Appendices F a,e being withheid in ine,, enti,ety o, in part under FOIA Eximptions and for the reasons set forth below pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552tb) and 10 CFR 9.5(a) of NRC Regulations.
1, The withheld informatson is properly classified pursuant to Executive Order 12356 (EXEMPTION 11
- 2. The withheld mformation reistes solely to the internal personnel rules and procedures of NRC IEXEMPTION 2) 1 The withheld Information is specificahy exempted from public disclosure by statute mdicated-IEXEMPTION 3)
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l Gection 141145 of the Atomic Energy Act which prohibits the disclosure of Restnctet Data or Formerly Restncted Data (42 U.S.C 21612165L
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Section 147 of the Atomic Energy Act which prohibits the disclosure of Unclassified Safeguards information (42 U.S C. 2167).
- 4. The withheld information is a trade secret or commercial or finaocial information thJt is bemg withheld for the reason (s) indicated: (EXEMPTION di The information is considered to be confidential buss, ess (proprietary) information.
The irdormation se considered to be proprietary information pursuant to 10 CPR 2.790(G)(1L Q'
The information was submetted and received in confidence from a foreign source pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(d)(21.
- 5. The withheld information conssts of interogency or intraagency records that are not available through discovery during litigation. Declosure of predecisional informaton woaild tend to inhibit the open and frank exchanoe of ideas essential to the delibeiative process. Where records are withheld in their entirety, the facts are inextncably intertwined with the predecisenalinformaton. There also are no reasonably segregable factual portions because the telease of the facts would permst an g
indirect mquiry mto the predecisional process of the agency. (EXEMPTION 5)
- 6. The withheld information is exempted from public disclosure because its disclosure would result in a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. (EXEMPTION 61
- 7. The withheld information conssts of investigatory records compiled for law enforcernent purposes and is being withheld for 'the reason (s) indicated. (EXEMPTION 71 Disclosure would mterfere with an enforcement proceeding because it could reveal the scope, directon, and focus of enforcement efforts. and thus could possibly allow triam to tan. Jon to shield potentsal wrongdsng or a violation of NRC requirements from in.ostigators. IEXEMPTION 7(AH S
Discicoure would constitute an unwarranted invosen of personal privacy (EXEMPTION 7(Cil s
The information consists of names of mdividuals and other information the disclosure of which would reveal identities of confidential sources. IEXEMPTION 7(DI)
PART ll C-DENYING OFFICIALS
- Pursuant to 10 CFR 9.9 and 'or 9.15 of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commisson regulatons, it has been determined tnat the information withheld o exempt from production or disclosure.
. and thzt its prodsction or disclosure e contrary to the public interest. The persons responsible for the denial are those officials identified below as denymg officials and the Director, Division of Rules and Records. Office of Admmistration, for any denials that may be appealed to the Executive Director for Operations (EDOI DENYING OFFICIAL TITLE r OFFICE RECORDS OtNIED APPELLATE OFFICIAL 3e NN4L4.A dM1oM/
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PART 11 D-APPEAL RIGHTS
_ The denial by each denying official identified in Part ll.C may be appealed to the Appellate Official identified in that section. Any such appeal must be in writing and must be made within 30 days of receipt of this rJsponse. Appeals must be addressed as appropriate to the Executive Director for Operations or to th3 Secretary of the Commissson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, and should clearly state on the envelope and in the letter that it is an " Appeal from an initial FOIA Decision."
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FOIA RESPONSh CONTINUATION J
Re: F01A-87-20 APPENDIX D (Continued) i RECORDS MAINTAINED AMONG PDR FILE 1
13.
12/29/86 Letter to NRC from R.F. Saunders, LER Report 86-019-000.
Accession No. 8701050158.
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12/22/86 Letter from Virgil L. Brownlee to W.L. Stewart, subject:
Environmental Monitoring Program Coordination with the Comonwealth of Virginia. Accession he. 8701030526.
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12/23/86 Letter from W.L.. Stewart to J. Nelson Grace, subject:
Surry Amendment to Emergency Plan Implementing Procedure.
Accession No. 8701080314.
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12/23/86 Letter from J. Nelson Grace to W.L. Stewart.;ubject:
f Incident Investigation and Performance Indicators Workshop. Accession No. 8701080226.
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12/30/86 Letter from Virgil Brownlee to Vepco w/ enclosures of inspection reports 50-280/86-38 and 50-281/86-38.
Accession No. 8701090658.
- 18. 12/30/86 Letter from Chandler Potel to W.L. Stewart subject:
Notice of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Import Related to Full Power Operation For Forty Years /Surry Power Station, Units 1 & 2.
Accession No. 8701020130.
- 19. 12/31/86 Letter from W.L. Stewart to Harold Denton subject: Surry 1 & 2 Updated Final Safety Analysis Report - Revision 4, 1
Accession No. 8701120237.
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12/31/86 Letter from Chandler Patel to W.L. Etewart reference amendment to license. Accession 8701120046 21, 1/29/87 Letter from Lando Zech to Honorable Edward Markey w/ enclosures. Accession 8703030866.
22, 2/25/87 Letter from Lando Zech to Edward Markey in response to Deceinber 18, 1986 letter concerning Surry. Accession No. 8703230179.
- 23. 2/13/87 Letter from Richard H. Vollmer to Thayer Cory and Judy Zwelling, in response to petition.
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Accession No. 8702270413.
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APPENDIX'E i
RECORDS MAINTAlhED IN THE PDR UNDER THE AB0VE REQUEST NUMBER 1.
-10/28/86 Surry. Power Station Administrative Peccedur (24 pages) 2.
Undated Photogr4ph. (4 pages) 3.
-Undated Draft. Control Room Habitability Issue!. Surry Unit 2 "A" Main Feedwater Pumps Pipe Rupture December 9,1986.
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' Undated Fire' Protection Issues ~ Main Feedwater Pump Suction Pipe Rupture Incident Surry~ Power Station. (3 pages) 5.
12/12/86' Surry Poer Station'Special Test Procedures. (16 pages) 1 6.
12/15/86 Morning Report.-(3 pages) 7.
12/15/86 Memo from.G.W. Mietus to John Lewis'w/ enclosure Engineering Report Halon & Co. System Actuation and Discharge Condensate Line Break Surry Power Station..(6 pages) 8.
12/15/86 Procedure Deviation Surry Power. (1 page) 9.
12/16/86 Procedure Deviation Surry Power. (1 page) 10.
12/17/86 Memo from H.L. Miller to Bill Hallsand, subject: Markey Subcomittee Staff Request. (1 page)
- 11. Undated. Activity Summary. (1 page) 12.
12/22/86 Morning Report. (2.pages)
- 13..12/29/86 Equipment Changes. (1 page) 14, 12/29/86-Memo from R.W. Calder to J.T. Rhodes, Independent Technical Investigation Committee Report. (25 pages) 15.
12/29/86 Memo from Vincent W. Panciera for Aupented Inspection
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- 16. Undated Factors which potentially complicated Response to the Incident. (3 pages) 17.
12/31/86 Mcmo from L.N. Hartz to Distribtion, North Anna Unit 1 Secondary Inspection Data Summary. (3 pages)
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-RECORDS MAINTAINED'IN THE PDR UNDER THE ABOVE REQUEST NUMBER l
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1/5/87 Inside NRC Concerning Surry Accident page 12 & 13.-(2 pages) l
- 19. 1/12/87 Virginia Power /NRC Meeting, subject: 12/9/86 React v Trip.
and Feedpump Secution Line Failure. (2 pages) 20.- 1/12/87 Surry, Unit 2 Reactor Trip and Feedwater Pipe Failure Report.(146pages) 21.
1/14/87 Letter from W.L. Stewart to J. Nelson Grace subject:
Surry Reactor Trip and Feedwater Pipe Failure. (2 pages) l 22.
1/28/87-Telefacsimile to Sunao Kanda, agency of Natural Resources and Energy, NITI from Ronald Hauber, Re: Surry Accident.
(2 pages) 23.
1/30/87 Memo.from R. Bosnak to'T. Speis, subject: Report on the outcome of the NRR Technical Meeting held on 1/15/87 to consider the Generic Implications.of the Surry Feedwater i
Line Failure. (5 pages)
- 24. 2/4/87 Letter from Robert Bosnak to Themis Speis, Meeting minutes of 1/15/87 Technical Panel Discussion on Surry 2 Pipe Failure Implications (65 pages)
- 25. 2/11/87 Virginia Power Responds to NRC Report of Surry Accioent.
(2pages)
- 26. 2/11/87 NRC News Release on Inspection Report issued on Feedwater Line Break Accidnet at Surry Plant. (2 pages) f.
- 27. 2/19/87 Drawing from Region 11 to Roger Woodruff. (3 pages)
- 28. 3/6/87 Letter frm W.L. Stewart to J. Nelson Grace. (3 pages) 29, 4/8/87 Letter from W.L. Stewart to Jack Rosenthal, comments on IE Bulletin. (3 pages) 30, 4/20/87 Memo from G.R. Jenkins to L.A. Reyes subject: Surry Pipe Break.
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Re: F01A-87-20 APPENDIX F REC 09.DS TOTALLY hlTHHELD s.
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Undated-Draft letter to Citizen Action for a Safe Environment from Harold Denton, (5 pages) w/ enclosure of Draft hetice of Receipt of Petition for Director Decision under 10 CFR -82.206.
(2 pages) Exemption 5.
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Undated Personal handwritten notes. (2 pages) Exemption 5.
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Undated Draft letter to T. Cory and J. Zwelling from H. Denton.
(2 pages) Exemption 5.
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Undated Draft Report Nos. 50-280/86-42 and 50-281/86-42 (58 pages) Exemption 5.
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Undated Executive' Summary, Surry 2 Pipe Rupture Event. (18 pages) Exemption 5.
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12/29/86 Facsimile Tre %mittal from Caldwell to Panciera, subject:
Draft Outline of Pipe Rupture Report. (5 pages) Exemption 5.
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1/20/87 Memo from James Lieberman to Harold Denton, subject:
Request for Action Under 10 CFR 2.206 concerning The Surry Facility, w/ attachments (2 pages) a)
Draftresponseletter.(1page) b)
Director Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206. (4 pages)
Exemption 5.
8, 2/3/87 Memo from James Lieberman to Harold Denton, subject:
Supplemental iequest (or Action Concerning the Surry Facility w/ enclosure, copy of Petition (4 pages)
Exemption 5.
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4/21/87 Draft Enforcement Notes. (1 page)
Exemption 5.
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January 7, 1987
.Mr. Donnie Grimsley US NBC-Maryland National Bank Building 7735 Old Georgetown Road FRf1 DOM OF INFORMATION M REQU Fors ESTr 7-zo Bethesda, Maryland 20555
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Dear Mr. Grimsley,
Citizen Action for a Safe Environment (CASE) in Williamsburg, Virginiaj requests, under the Freedom of Information Act, that you send us any reports or documents of any kind that the NRC has prepared or received from any
. party, including Virginia Power, on the December 9th accident at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant,
' anis wouid include any information on the thinness of the pipes at the plant or on the welds.
Secondly, we would like any reports concerning the NRC investigation on allegations regarding the falsification of welders' certification papers or on the condition of the welds.
These allegations were made to Bruno Uryc of region 2 of the NRC on July 3, 1985.
We believe the subject number may be R ll-85-A-Oll2 We are a non-profit, public interest organization, and so request that any copying or researching fees be waived.
We would appreciate hearing from you as soon as possible or within 10 business days, as is stated by law.
Please send the information to:
Judith Zwelling Citizen Action for a Safe Environment (CASE) 121 Oak Road Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 Thank you.
Sincerely, 1
1 Judith Zwelling Citizen Action for a Safe Environmert i
121 Oak Road Williamsburg, Va. 23185 b-l L
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