ML20236D146

Partial Response to FOIA Request for Documents.App a Documents Available in Pdr.App B Documents Completely Withheld (Ref FOIA Exemption 5)

ML20236D146
Person / Time
Issue date:	10/22/1987
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
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FOIA-87-661 NUDOCS 8710280041
Download: ML20236D146 (5)

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INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST OCT 2 21987 seee DOCKET NUMSE* s # eppacew l

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PART 1.-RECORDS RFLEASED OR NOT LOCATfD (See checked boxes >

No egency records subject to the request have been located No additional agency records subrect to the request have been located.

N Agency records subpect to the request that are ident#ied in Appendix b

are already available for pubhc irspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Agency recorde subject to the request that are identified in Appendix are being made svariable for public inspecson and copying in the NRC Public Document Roorn,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under the FOIA number and requester name.

The nonproprietary version of the proposalls) that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is noa :eng made avalable for public inspection and coy 6ng at the NRC Pubhc Document Room,1717 H Street, N W, Washington, DC,in a folder under this FOIA number and <eamster name.

Enclosed is information on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Pubhc Document Rm 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

Agency records subject to the request are enclosed. Any appiacable charge for copies of the records povided and payment proceduw ao noted in the comments section.

Records subrect to the request have been referred to another Federal agen.ybest for review and direct response to you.

In view of NRC's response to this request, no further action is being taken on appeal letter dated PART ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certain information in the requested records is being wit heks from public $sclosure pursuant to the FOIA esemptions descobed in rd for the reasons stated in Part ti, sec-X tions B, C, and fl Any released poriions of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made avadmee for public inspection and copying in tne NRC Public document Room 1717 H Street, N.W., Washsngton, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name Cca w.its 8710200041 e71022 PDR FOIA pon DAUMANB7-661 SIGNA DIRECTOR. DMS10N O ES AN[ RDS sotmL

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. Records subject to the request that are described in the enclosed Appendices are being withheld in their entirety or in part unde CIA

- Exemptions and for the reasons set forth below pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552tb1 and 10 CFR S.Sta) of $8RC Regulations.

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1. The withheld information is property cleastfied pursuant to Executive Order 1235e <EXEVPTION 11 2[The withheld information relates solely to the intemal personnel rules and proce@res of Y IEXEMPTION 2)

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i 3/ The withheld information is specifically esempted from public disclosure by statute m&ated ' (EXEMPTION 3) t j

Section 141146 of the Atomic Energy Act which piohibits the disclosure of Restncted Date or Formerly Restricted Data 142 U.S.C. 21612166L My Gp Ms Section 147 of the Atomic Energy Act which prohibits the disclosure of Unciamorfied Sa'aguards information (42 U S.C. 2167).

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4; The withheld information is a trade secret or commercial of financial information that a beang withheld for the reason (s) indicated: (EXEMPTION 4) i The information as conssdersd to be confidential business (proprietary inforr*ation.

j The information is considered to be proprietary information pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(dn11.

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The informetson was submitted and received in confidence from a foreign source pr.rsuant to 10 CFR 2.790(d)(2L i di Si The withheld information consists of interagency or intraagency records that are not 4 tilable through discovery during litigation. Declosure of predecisional infomation would tend to inhent the open and frank exchange of ideas essential to '.e deliberst., process. Where records are withheld in their entirety, the facts are boxt?cably X

intertwined udth the credecisionalinformation. There also are nu reasore.olv segregable factual portions because the reisese of the facts would permit en indirect mquery mto the predecesonal process of the agency. (EXEMPilDN h

6. The w6thheld information is exempted from public disclosure because its disclosure woued result in a clearty unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. (EXEMPTION 6J j

-1 L The withheld information consists of investigatory records compiled for law enforceme-t pumoses and is being withheld for the reason (s) indicated. (EXEMPTIOf6 7) m Disclosure would interfere wtth en enforcement proceeding because it could reveal t*e scope. direction, and focus of enforcement efforts, and thus could

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Dieciosure wou6d constitute en unwarranted invasion of personal privacy (EXEMPfiON 7sCD i

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The information cons sts of names of individuals and other Pformation the dvsclosve of which would reveal identities of confidentel sources. (EXEMPflON 7CH PART ll C-DENYING OFF6CIALS -

, Fursuant to 10 CFR 9 9 and/or 9.15 of the U S. Nuclear Reguletory Commesion regulations. it has been determined that the information withheld is exempt from production or dsclosure,

- and that its producten or desclosure is contrary to the public Interest. The persons responsible for the denial are those officials identified below as denying officials and the > rector.

Drvision of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, for any denials that may be appea6ed to the Executive Director for OperationsIEDol

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Mr..-James P. Murray' for Hearings & Enforcenu nt Appendix B X

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PART 11 D-APPEAL RIGifTS Tha denial by sech denying official identified in Part II.C may be appealed to the Appellate Official identified in that section. Any such appeal mus be in

.j writing and must be made within 30 days of receipt of this response. Appeals must be addressed as appropriate to the Executive Director for Operatiors or to th) Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington. DC 20555, and should clearly state on the envelope and in thf letter tMt it is an " Appeal from an Inkial FOIA Decision "

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Re: F0!A-87-661 APPENDIX A RECORDS' MAINTAINED AMONG PDR FILES NUMBER DATE' DESCRIPTION 1.

8/15/87 Loring Mills, Letter.to Chilk, NRC (3pages)

Accession No. 8708200149 2.

8/5/87 Federal,kigister Notice, Fonnation of an Advisory Committee to Negotiate a Proposed l..

i Rule on the Submission and Management of Records and Documents Related to the Licensing of a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste, 52 FR 29024.

(7pages) i 3.

8/5/87 Background Pap (er on the Negotiated Rulemaking.

55pages) 4.

5/26/87 Conservation Foundation Feasibility Report.

(33pages)

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8/13/87 Conservation Foundation, Organizational Meeting.

(7 pages) 6.

9/16/87 NARUC, Opening Statement.

(7pages) 7.

9/30/87 F. X. Cameron, Summary or organizational meeting.

(3pages) 8.

9/18/87 Dixon Hoyle, Letter =to Howard Bellman, I

conservation Foundation.

(2pages) 9.

10/2/87 Conservation Foundation, October 15,16 Training Sessions.

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9/4/87 Ruth Ann Storey, Letter to Bellman l Conservation Foundation.

(2pages Draft Agenda, Meeting) held on September I

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Undated 16-17, 1987.

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Undated LSS--Framework For Negotiations.

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9/87 Project Participant List, "HLW Licensing i

Support System Advisory Committee."

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9/87 Project' Description, Negotiated Rulemaking 1

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9/18/87 Letter to Mr. Tim Mealey, The Conservation Foundation, From Lisa Sprui11,' Office of the Attorney General.

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16, 9/30/87-Federal. Register Notice; High-Level Waste 1

Licensing Support System Advisory Comittee

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Documents.11 through 16 aro maintained.in the PDR High-Level Waste Licensing Support System Advisory Comittee file.

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