ML20236P412

Responds to 870625 Appeal Re Denial of FOIA Request for Documents Concerning 860825-29 Insp at S&W.Appeal Denied

ML20236P412
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	08/11/1987
From:	Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
References
FOIA-87-94, FOIA-87-A-44 NUDOCS 8708120343
Download: ML20236P412 (2)

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,#o g UNITED STATES appog 1, o NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION wash:NGTON, D. C. 20555 k .. ... [(I AUG 111987 Ms. Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Government Accountability Project Midwest Office IN RESPONSE REFER 104 E. Wisconsin Avenue TO F01A-87-A-44 Appleton, WI 54911-4897 (F01A-87-94)

Dear Ms. Bauman:

This-is in response to your letter dated June 25, 1987, in which you appealed Mr. Donnie H. Grimsley's form response dated June 12, 1987. Mr. Grimsley's form response denied four documents in their entirety which were subject to your Freedom of Information Act (F0IA) request for docements concerning an inspection on August 25-29, 1986, at Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation (SWEC).

Acting on your apwal, I have carefully reviewed the record in this case and have detennined tiat the previously withheld infonnation will continue to be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to Exemption (4) of the FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)) and 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4) of the Commission's regulations.

Your appeal is, therefore, denied..

The three Engineering Assurance Procedures listed on the enclosed apperidix describe the methods and systems by which SWEC accomplishes its engineering work. SWEC provided these procedures to the NRC in confidence for our use in. overseeing SWEC's engineering activities and to enhance the effectiveness of the NRC inspection program of the Comanche Peak project. The Project Procedure listed on the enclosed appendix provides personnel information about many members of SWEC's staff. This information would enable a competitor to identify employees, detennine whether the employees had desirable skills, and potentially allow competitors to hire employees away from SWEC. This information would also reveal the type and mix of employees utilized' by SWEC on the Comanche Peak project, which would assist competitors by showing those disciplines on which SWEC placed emphasis in bidding and being awarded the work.

This is a final agency action. As set forth in the FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(B)),

judicial review of this decisica is available in a district court of the United States in the district in which you reside or have your principal place of business or in the District of Columbia.

Sincerely,

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PDR FOIA PDg ictor BAUMANP7-A-44 "

Executive Director for Operations

Enclosure:

As stated

. Re: F01A-87-A-44(F01A-87-94)

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1. 6/23/82 Stone and Webster Engineering Assurance Procedure EAP 2.4 i (8 pages) 2, 4/2/36 Stone and Webster Engineering Assurance Procedure EAP 4.1 i (19pages)

. 3. 10/15/82 Stone and Webster Engineering Assurance Procedure EAP 4.15 (37pages) 4, 8/27/86 TUGC0 Project Procedure CPPP-2 Project Organization Charts (11pages) s i

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Re: r; . 87 - 94 APPENDlX D RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE PDR UNDER THE ABOVE DEQUEST NUMBER NUMBER DATE DESCRIPTION

1. 04/25/86 TOGC0 Project Procedure CPPP-1 Management Plan for Project Quality (9 pages)

2. Uncated Project Procedure CPPP-6 Rev. 2 (5 pages) l I

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1. 06/23/82 Stone & Webster Engineering Assurar.ce Procedure EAP 2.4 (8pages) Exemption 4 l

2. 04/02/84 Stone & Webster Engineering Assurance Procedure EAP 4.1 Exemption 4 (19 pages)

3. 10/15/82 Stone & Webster Engineering Assurance Procedure CAP 4.15 Exemption 4 (37pages)

4. 08/27/86 TUGC0 Project Procedure CPPP-2 Project Organintion Exemption 4 Charts (11pages)

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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABluTY PROJECT j

1555 Connecticut Awnue. N.W.,5uite 202 Wo'Angton, D.C. 20036 (202)232-8550 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT MIDWEST' OFFICE i 3424 MARCOS LANE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911 January 29, 1987 FREEDOM O_F -INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 0 IDV ACT REQUEST Director Of fice of' Administration

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Pursuant to ' the Freedom of Inf ormation Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of any and all: agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, lotters, . memoranda, draf ts, minutes, diaries, logs, calanders, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs; charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books,

. telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runof f s, any other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and- all other records relevant to and/or generated in connection with the _ inspection conducted by Mr. R.P. McIntnyre of the Nuclear-Reyulatory Commission (NRC) on August 25-29, 1986 of the office of Stone &

Webster Engineering Corporation, -New York, New York, to review the implementation of Stone & Webster's Quality Assurance (QA) program concerning activities relating to the Design Requalification of piping and pipe cupports of Comanche Peak Units 1 and 2, and to the discussions of the NRC's findings with Mr. Carl Watters and members of Stone & Webster at the conclusion of the inspection.

This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a (b) and the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1. A.2 and A. 3 (approved l October 8,1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC "offical working", investigative or other files, or at any other location, including private residences.

If :any records, as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a (b), and the NRC Manual, supra, and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed af ter this request, please provide all surrounding records, including ]

but not limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated in connection with, and/or issued in order to implement the action (s) .

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GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the E

inf ermation can be . considered as primarily benefiting the- general publi c, " 5 U.S.C. .522 (a) (4) (a). GAP is a non profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government.

Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents lL of government accountability. Through it Environmental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens l

groups and interveners in the concern for safety at nuclear power plants.

We are requesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring project of the NRC's' ef forts to protect public health and safety at and near nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste; facilities.

For any documents or portions that you' deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents lor portions of documents withheld. - The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemtion is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is required under Vaughn v. ~

Rosen (I), 484 F2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 197.3), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).

We look forward to your response to this request within ten'(10) i working days. ,

Sincerely, 6 N/?

Linda Bauman' FOIA Coordinator Midwest Office j Responses to this request should be mailed to :

Government Accountability Project Midwest Office 3424 Marcos Lane Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 l

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