ML20235W707

Partial Response to FOIA Request.Forwards App AA Document Re Whole Body Count at Plant on 860509.Document Also Available in PDR

ML20235W707
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	07/21/1987
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Taylor J DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX
Shared Package
ML20235W710	List: ML20235W707 ML20235W716
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FOIA-86-335 NUDOCS 8707230667
Download: ML20235W707 (2)

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I D PART 3.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked bones!

No agency records subject to the request have been located.

No additonal agency remeds subpect to the request have been located.

Agency records nabrect to the request that are identified in Appendia are already evelab6e for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Agency records subject to the request that are identifeed in Appendiu are being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Goom,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOlA number and requester name The nonpropnetary verseon of the proposal (s) that you a0 reed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is now being made eve 8eble for public irupsenon and coying at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W , Washington, DC, in a fo6 der unoer the FOIA number and requester name.

Enclosed is information 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.

l Agency records subt set to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provioed and payment procedures are noted in the comments secton.

i Records subsect to the request have been referred to another federal agencybes) for review and direct response to you. i l j in view of NRC's response to the request, no further action is being taken on appealletter dated l

PART li.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE  ;

Cerwin Informaton in the requested records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described in and for the reasons stated in Part it, sec-tions B. C and D. Any released portions of the documents for which only part of the record is being wrthheld are being made available for public inspection and coppg ei the N9C Public Document Room.1717 H Street N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.

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1. 5/13/86 10:45 Memo, subject: Whole-body count at Oyster Creek on 5/9/86 (1 page).

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r o U Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation A T REQUEST Nuclear Regulatory Commission b I Washington, D.C. 20555 / ,  ;

1 re FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT REQUEST Dear Mr. Dentons 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 4 your responsibilities involving nuclear power plants, operators and j 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 j 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 Hanlord, 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 I 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 in the poss- l essics of your office of the potential contamination or hazardous I e f f ec. .s , whether biological or ecological, national or international I in scope, of 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 l safety hazards of the Soviet Union's nuclear industry in general. l l

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. Harold R. Denton Director

. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Nuclear Refulatory Commission May 6, 1986

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

With respect to the Chernobyl accident, 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 land documents from other domestic or foreign sources, including but not limited to the International Atomic Energy Agency It also and the Swedish includes do'cuments Institute you for the may Protection Against Radiation.

have ecquired 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 but request waiver of all fees, under NRC other reasonable fees, guidelines, since the documents are requested in connection with re-search for articles for the Dallas Times Herald, a general circulat- the gen-ion daily newspaper and their release will primarily benefit 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 Cresidence).

it is further If any documents or portions of documents are withheld, requested that an itemized index be prepared correlating each with-held document or portion of a document with a specific FOIA exemption of NRC's nondisclosure justification, as requir-484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, and the relevant part ed by Vauchn v Rosen, 415 U.S. 977 C1974).

Sincerely, d f DL, JACK H. T OR JR7 \

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