ML20236N219

Partial Response to FOIA Request for Meteorological Data of Ussr & Polish Cities Between 860425-0504.App CC Documents Encl & Being Made Available in PDR

ML20236N219
Person / Time
Issue date:	08/07/1987
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Taylor J DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX
Shared Package
ML20236N223	List: IA-86-335, Package of Meteorological Data of Ussr & Polish Cities Between 860425-0504 ML20236N219 ML20236N237
References
FOIA-86-335 NUDOCS 8708110413
Download: ML20236N219 (2)

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PANT t.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked bonesi No agency records subject to the request have been located.

No addrtional spency records sub;ect to the request have been located.

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

Agency records subrect to the request that are identified in Appendix are being made available for public 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 nonproprietary version of the proposaRai that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a rnember of my staff a now being made avaisbie for public inspection cnd coying at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requeste name.

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

Agency records subpect to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.

Records subpect to the request have been referred to another Federal agency 6es) 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 li.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certsin information in the requested records a tmng withheld from pubhc disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions desenbod in and for the reasons stated in Part it, sec-tions 8. C, and D. Any released portions of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made available for public 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.

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Your attention is invited to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 5521, 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

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or similar written documents in the possession;of,your office or any i

office under your jurisdiction pertaining to safety issues, actual or i

hypothetical, at any of the nine nuclear. reactors at Aiken, S.C.,

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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 l

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.

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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 t.he poss-ession of your office of the potential contamination or hazardous effects, whether biological or ecological, national or international in scope, oL the Chernobyl' accident.

This includes tentative or pre-liminary evaluations and assessments.

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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-l 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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Any studies, reports documents in your posses,sion, assessments, evaluations or similar writt-regardless of source, foreign or do-

stic, hazards of Sovietpertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential nuclear reactors marketed,

. safe-other countries, including but constructed or planned not limited to the Jaragua I and II actors at Cienfuegos, Cuba, h respect to the Chernobyl accident, this request includes all doc-nts from the time of the accident until the includes NRC-generated documentsdate of processing this uest.

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ernational Atomic Energy Agency andincluding but not limited to the the Swedish Institute for the tection Against Radiation.

It also includes do'uments e acquired in connection with your responsibilities as c

you may the NRC as well as those you may have acquired by virtuean official e as a member of the of your Chernobyl accident. interagency task force established to monitor any of the requested documents are classified in the ional security or foreign policy, it is requested that they be interest of sidered for release through a declassification. review but h process not ied in this request. delay release of other unclassified documents em-that ause of the public interest in the subject, it is requested that s request be given expedited handling.

re villing to provide reimbursement for reproduction costs or r reasonable fees, but request waiver of all fees, under NRC elines, since the documents are ch for articles for the requested in connection with re-Dallas Times Herald, daily newspaper and their release will primarily benefit a general circulat-public.

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

5045 (residence).

ny documents or portions of documents are withheld, ested that an itemized index be prepared correlating each with it is further the relevant part of NRC'sdocument or porti.on of a document with a specific FOIA exem nondisclosure justification, as requir-on y Vauchn v Rosen, 404 F.2d 820 (D. C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, U.S. 977 (1974).

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