ML20236C247
| ML20236C247 | |
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| Site: | Hatch, Oconee, Catawba, Surry, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 10/22/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Gordon J Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20236C250 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-87-377, RTR-NUREG-0090, RTR-NUREG-90 NUDOCS 8710270073 | |
| Download: ML20236C247 (2) | |
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PART L-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked boxest Na agency recorde subrect to the request have been bested.
N> additional egency recorde subsect to the request how been located.
A0ency records sub ect to the request that are identifud ei Appendu are already avadable for public inopoetxus and coppng in the NRC Public Document Room, t
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Agency records subject to the request that are identined in Appendix I.
are being made avedable for public rapacton and copying in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N,W,, Washington, DC. In a taaser under this FOtA number and requester name.
l The nonproprietary version of the proposel(s) that vos aqpued to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff a now being made availeoie for public irupsetion snd coying at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street N W., Washirigton, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and movester name.
Enclosed is information on how you may obtain access to aM the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Documeat noom,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records subject to the request are enclosed Arv applicable charge for copies of the records provded and payment procedunts are noted in the comments section.
& cords subject to the request have been referred to anoaher Federel agencybest for review and direct response to you.
In view of NRC's respones to this request, no further acman is bemg taken on appeal letter dated PART ll_A-IN80RMATION WITHHELD FROM PUOLIC OISCLOSURE Certain Information in the requessed records is beirg usedused from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described in and for the reasono stated in Part it, sec.
tions 8, C, and D. Any reisesed portions of the docwnere for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made avalable for public inspection and copymg in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester rww Comments l
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PUBLIC CITIZEN Buym Up a Congress Watch D Critxul Mase o Health Research Group D Litigation Group o Tax Group June 15, 1987 Don Grimsley Director, Division of Rules & Records EREEDOW 0F INFORMATION Nuclear Regulatory Commission ACT W Washington, DC 20555 4pg MNBB 4210
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/J Attn. Freedom of Information Act Request Mr. Grimsley:
Pursuant to the Freedce of Information Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. g 552, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project hereby requests copies of the following records.
Please provide all records used for determining what accidents, mishaps, reactor events, conditions, component or human failures, or any other situations which were accorded
" Abnormal Occurrence" status and were thereby included in the i
1986 Reports to Conc ress on Abnormal Occurrences (Nureg-0090, I
Vol. 9, Nos. T~ 2, 0,
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" Abnormal Occurrences" which l
occurred in 1986 but will be included in Vol. 10 of the Reports are included in this request as well.
This request also seeks records on such events or situations that were considered for inclusion in the NRC's listing of
" Abnormal occurrences," but were ultimately not labeled as
" Abnormal occurrences."
This includes, but is not limited to, those events or situations included in Appendix C ("Other. Events of Interest") of all the Vol. 9 (and Vol. 10 if applicable as noted above) " Abnormal Occurrence" reports.
In particular, this request seeks those records which explain how the NRC made its decisions to include or not include particular events, segments of events, or conditions, in its list of Abnormal Occurrences.
This request pertains to all records in the posession of the Nuclear Regulatory Conunission (NRC), its licensees, or in the possession of contractors or subcontractors of the NRC or its licensees.
In this request, " record" includes, but is not limited to, any memoranda, formal or informal correspondence, reports, studies, reviews, letters, computer memories and printouts, j
information transfer systems, audio and video tapes, movies and any other form of communication, in the possession of any individual or office in the NRC, whether generated by the NRC, its contractors, the nuclear industry or any other source.
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Public-Citizen's' Critical Mass Energy Project is a nationally.known non-profit public interest organization founded
.in 1974.
We will use these documents in our studies of nuclear power safety, and we will disseminate and distribute the information contained ~ therein to the press and public.
Public Citizen's annual Nuclear Power Safety Report, and its numerous other publications,-attract wide attention in the national, local, and trade media.
Thousands of copies of Public Citizen's reports have been sold or distributed to members of the public, industry, government and citizen groups.
Since furnishing these documents "can' be considered as j
- primarily benefitting the pub 1'ic," we request a complete waiver of any costs you might incur in processing these records or making' copies for us under the provisions of 10 C.F.R. j 9 and 14(a).
If you rule otherwise, _please notify us before filling the request.
i Nothing in this request should be considered a request for the private records of any specific individual.
Hence, no provisions of the Privacy Act 'should be deemed applicable.
If all or any parts of this request are denied, please cite the specific exemptions (s) on which-you rely in refusing to f
release the documents.
Further, since the Freedom of Information Act provides that if only portions of.a file are exempt from release, the remainder must be released, we request that we be provided with all non-exempt portions which are reasonably segregable.
Of course, we i
reserve our right to appeal the withholding or deletion of any information.
As provided in the Freedom of Information Act, we will expect to receive the requested records or a final determination within ten working days.
If your office is unable to fully respond to this request in that time, please send us a written estimate of when the response will be completed.
telephone me at (202) questions about this request, please If you have any 546-4996.
Thank you for your help.
f Singerely k'O-Q Joshua Gordon J
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Clemens J. Heltames, Jr., Director Office for Analysis and Evaluation
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of Operational Data FROM:
Robert D. Martin, Regional Administrator
SUBJECT:
INPUT TO THE ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE REPORT TO CONGRESS In accordance with your January 30, 1987, memorandum on the Abnormal Occurrence Report to Congress for the fourth quarter of calendar year.1986, we have reviewed AE00 proposals and activities in this region for deportability.
Pursuant to the AE00 abnormal occurrence criteria, we have identified one issue for reporting. That issue is "Immediately Effective Order Modifying License and Order to Show Cause Issued to Industrial Radiography Company,* and a-draft input is enclosed. We understand that NMSS will provide input to update or close out, as appropriate, A0 86-3, " Rupture of a Uranium Hexafluoride Cylinder and Release of Gases."
Any questions in our input may be directed to Dale A. Powers at FTS: 728-8195.
Robert D. Martin Regional Administrator
Enclosure:
As stated-cc w/ enclosure:
P. Bobe, AE00 R. Bangart, RIV H. Powers, RIV
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Immediately Effective Order Modifying License and Order to Show Cause Issued to Industrial Radiography Company i
Date and Place On' December'30,1986, an Order was issued to Met-Chem Testing Laboratories of Utah, Inc. of Salt Lake City that in effect prohibits the company from j
involving an employee in the performance or supervision of any NRC licensed j
activities.
' Nature and Probable Consequences Met-Chen Testing Laboratories of Utah Inc. holds an NRC license for industrial radiography that was issued in July 1986. The Order was issued to remove the senior vice president from any assignment or position influenc.ing or involving the performance or supervision of any licensed activities. This action was taken following an NRC investigation initiated in 1985 as a result of inspector observations made during a routine inspection. The IWtC decided to issue the Order after an NRC investigator obtained a sworn statement on August 21, 1986, from the senior vice president in which he admitted that while employed as the office manager for the predecessor radiography company (Net-Chem Engineering Laboratories, Inc.), he had typed a letter and forged on it the signature of a radiographer for the purpose of explaining away an overexposure indicated on the radiographer's film badge.
The overexposure, while not clinically significant, was reportable according to ulations. The letter falsely stated that the radiographer's dosimeter NRC reg'm badge were left in a shirt pocket and the shirt was placed in an area and fi near a radiation source resulting in an overexposure reading, but not an overexposum to the radiographer himself.
Had the MRC been provided with correct infonaation, inspection actions regarding the overexposure would have been taken against Met-Chen Engineering Laboratory, the now defunct former com>any. Further, had the NRC known that a senior management employee of tte licensee had withheld reportable information concerning radiation exposures, the specific license for the present company would not have been issued. The false statements made by the senior vice president call.into question his candor in dealing with the NRC, and
- demonstrate that there was no longer reasonable assurance that the licensee would comply with NRC requirements while the individual was involved in licensed
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The NRC is evaluating the licensee's response to the Order. Unless new
-significant information becomes available, this item is considered closed for
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