ML20234F021

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Partial Response to FOIA Request for Documents Re Reactor Incident in Russia.Forwards App X Documents.Documents Also Available in PDR
ML20234F021
Person / Time
Issue date: 07/01/1987
From: Grimsley D
NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To: Taylor J
DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX
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ML20234F024 List:
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FOIA-86-335 NUDOCS 8707080073
Download: ML20234F021 (3)


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U.S. NUCLEASI REGULATORY COMMISSION NRC FOle REQUEST NUM3f RcS6

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INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST JUL 1 jgg7 DOCA.ET NUMBERisi ett app 6ceae.

REQUISTfR Jack H. Taylor, Jr.

PART 1.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked bones)

No agency records subsect to the request have been locate J

No additonal agency records subject to the request have been located.

Agency records subsect to the request that are idanufed in Appendia are already available for pubhc arspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC.

Agency records subsect to the request that are identifed in Appendix X*

are bemg made available for pubhc mspection and copying m the NRC Pubhc Document yy Room.1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name The nonpropnetary version of the proposal (s) that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversaten with a member of my staff a now being made available for public inspection snd coving at the NRC Pubhc Document Room,1717 H Street, N W., Washmgton, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name, Enclosed e informaton on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room 1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC.

y yX Agency records sublect to the request are enclosed. Any apphcable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.

4 Records subsect to the request have been referred to another Federal agencyhes) for review and direct response to you.

in vow of NRC's response to the request, no further action a bemg taken on appeal letter dated PART li.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certain informaton ir the requested records e being withheld from pubhc disclosure pursuant to the FOtA enemptions described m and for the reasons stated in Part li, sec.

tions B. C, and D. Any released portions of the documents for which only part of the recdrd is being withheld are bemg made available for pubhc mspection and copying m the NRC Pubhc Document Room.1717 H Street, N W.. Washington. DC, m a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.

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Re: F01A-86-335 APPENDIX X RECORDS MAINTAlhED IN THE PDR Uh0ER THE AB0VE REQUEST NUMBER 1.

Uncated Composite tabulation of Cepostition of 1-131, Cs-134, and Cs-137 cn Ground (C/m2) for various European countries from April 28, 1986 to hay 5, 1986 (7 pages).

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Undated Handwritten notes "Cheryl-Action"- (etc.) (1 page).

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5/7/86 Hanowritten note " Prepare summary...." (1 page).

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5/6/86 Cover page to Perkins from Calley w/ attachment:

" Suggested Approach for a reply" (2 pages).

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Undated Memo to Rehm from OCA-Questions for Record-May 6, (1986)

Hearing (2 pages).

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Undated Handwritten note " Joe-Action: Sweden... (etc)" (1 page).

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tJndated Typed-threequestions(1page).

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5/2/86 10:04, Handprinted note to file from R. Capra, re:

returned telephone call to an individual, (telephone number deleted)

(1 page).

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5/1/86 15:32, Action Request to Jordan from Speis w/ response attached (3 pages)

10. 5/1/86 15:34, Action Request to Kendrick from Speis (1 page).
11. 5/1/86 09:01, Action Request to Wigginton from Speis (1 page).
12. 5/1/86 13:40, Action Request to RCT/AST from EDO (1 page) w/ attachments:

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5/1/86 Note to Speis from Capra, subject:

Reactor Inci-dent In Russia (1 page).

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4/30/86 NRC Public Announcement No. 56 to All Employees from Stello (1page).

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5/1/86 12:17, Action Request to Weiss and Nussbaum (1 page) w/ attachment:

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5/1/86 Note for Denton from Gorn (1page).

14. 5/1/86 11:55, Action Request to Kendrick from Speis (1 page).

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F01A-86-335 APPENDIX X (Cont'a) 15, 5/1/86 11:50, Action Request to Weiss from Speis (1 page).

16. 5/1/86 11:45, Action Request to Weiss from Speis.(1 page).

17, 5/2/86 Statement developed by NRC staff.for inclusion in EPA press release (1 page).

18. 5/6/86 Statement of Palladino to Committee on Appropriations, Subcomittee on Energy and Water Development (2 pages).
19. Undated Typewritten PM question and answer (1 page).

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Dear Mr. Denton:

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Your attention is invited to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552), as amended, and to implementing Nuclear, Regulatory Commission instructions and regulations.

Under provisions of the above cited authority and in connection with your responsibilities involving nuclear power plants, operators and materials, it is requested that we be provided with copies of the following documents:

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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations, recommendations or similar written documents in the possession of your office or any office under your jurisdiction pertaining to safety issues, actual or hypothetical, at any of the nine nuclear reactors at Aiken, S.C.,

Oak Ridge, Tenn., Platteville, Colo., Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Hanford, wash., which include similar design characteristics to the Chernobyl nuclear power reactors in northwestern Ukrainian S.S.R.

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Any summary listing of accidents which have occurred at the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above.

This is not a request I

for documents pertaining to each accident, but simply any single doc-ument, or computer printout, which lists all accidents in summary form which may be in your possession.

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Any assessment of potential contamination, up to and including worst-case scenario, of radiation leakage from one or more of the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above which may be in your poss-ession.

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Any assessment prepared wholly or partly by you or in the poss-ession of your office of the potential contamination or hazardous effects, whether biological or ecological, national or international in scope, of the Chernobyl accident.

This includes tentative or pre-liminary evaluations and assessments.

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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-en documents in your possession, regardless of source, foreign or do-mestic, pertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential safety hazards of the Soviet Union's nuclear in6dstry in general.

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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-en documents in your possession, regardless of source, foreign or do-mestic, pertaining to nuclear reacter capabilities and potential safe-ty hazards of Soviet nuclear r e a c t o:: s marketed, constructed or planned in other countries, including but not limited to the Jaragua I and II reactors at Cienfuegos, Cuba.

With respect to the Chernobyl acci3ent, this request includes all doc-uments from the time of the accident until the date of processing this request.

It also includes NRC-generated documents and documents from other domestic or foreign sources, including but not limited to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Swedish Institute for the Protection Against Radiation.

It also includes documents you may have acquired in connection with your responsibilities as an official of the NRC as well as those you may have acquired by virtue of your j

role as a member of the interagency task force established to monitor the Chernobyl accident.

If any of the requested documents are classified in the interest of national security or foreign policy, it is requested that they be considered for release through a declassification review but that such process not delay release of other unclassified documents em-i bodied in this request.

Because of the public interest in the subject, it is requested that j

this request be given expedited handling.

We are willing to provide reimbursement for reproduction costs or other reasonable fees, but request waiver of all fees, under NRC guidelines, since the documents are requested in connection with re-search for articles for the Dallas Times Herald, a general circulat-ion daily newspaper and their release will primarily benefit the gen-eral public.

If a fee waiver is not granted and fees exceed $25, please first notify the undersigned at 214/760-9152 (office) or 214/

991-5045 (residence).

If any documents or portions of documents are withheld, it is further requested that an itemized index be prepared correlating each with-held document or portion of a document with a specific FOIA exemption and the relevant part of NRC's nondisclosure justification, as requir-v Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D. C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, ed by Vaughn 415 U.S.

977 (1974).

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