ML20235S900
| ML20235S900 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/17/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Taylor J DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20235S903 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-335 NUDOCS 8707210828 | |
| Download: ML20235S900 (2) | |
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P' ART l.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked 60ses) l- Ni agency records subpoet to the request have been located.
l No addit:onal agency records subsect to the request havo been located.
l Agency records subsect to the request that are identifed e Appendia are already eveelable for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, l 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
l Agency records subsect to the request that are identifed in Appendix 2 ore being made available for pubhc inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.; Washington, DC, in a folder under the FOIA number and requester name.
The nonpropnetary version of the proposalts) that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is now being made ave 4eble for public inspection and coying at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, m a folder under the FOlA number and requester 'ema.
Enclosed is informaton on how you may obtam access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records sobrect to the request are enclosed Any applicable charge for copes of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments secten.
Records subrect to the request have been referred to another Federal agency 6es) for revew and direct response to you.
e in view of NRC's response to the request, no further action is bemg taken on appeal letter dated PART al.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Ccrtrin information in the requested records a being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described in and for the rossons stated in Part II, sec-tions B, C, and D. Any released portens of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being rnade available for public inspecten and copying in the NRC Public Documa,nt Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOlA number and requester name.
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Re: F01A-86-335 APPENDIX Z RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE PDR UNDER THE AB0VE REQLEST NUMBER-
- 1. 5/4/86 Teletype nesseage- to Hauber from Okazaki (Japan) (1 page).
- 2. Undated List of questions from Health Attache, Netherlands Embassy (1 page).
- 3. 5/7/86 Text and chronology from R. Hauber (2 pages).
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May 6, 1986 Harold R. Denton Director E EMM Office.of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ACT REQUES7 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 M "' M " k re FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT REQUEST Dear Mr. Denton 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:
- 1. 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.
- 2. Any summary listing of accidents which have occurred at the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above. This is not a request 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.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Any assessment prepared wholly or partly by you or jn the poss-ession of your office of the potential contamination or hazardous effects, whether biological or ecological, national or international in scope, oE.the Chernobyl accident. This includes tentative or pre-liminary evaluations and assessments.
- 5. 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 industry in general.
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.' Harold)R. Denton Diructor Office'.of-Nuclear Reactor Regylation N*uclear Regulatory Commission May 16, 1986.
- 6. 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 safe-ty hazards,of Soviet nuclear reactors marketed, constructed or planned in other countries, including but not limited to the Jaragua.I and II reactors at Cienfuegos, Cuba e with. respect to the Chernobyl accident, this request includes all doc-uments from the time offthe 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 do'cuments 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 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-bodied in this request.
Because of the public interest in the subject, it is requested that 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 at itemized index be prepared correlating each with-held document ce porti.on of a document with a specific FOIA exemption and the relevant part of NRC's nondisclosure justification, as requir-ed by Vauchn v Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D . C . Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415.U.S. 97/ C1974) .
Sincerely, l hnDL JACK H. T OR JR.
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