ML20237C166
| ML20237C166 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/16/1987 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| To: | Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
| References | |
| FOIA-87-655, FOIA-87-A-100 NUDOCS 8712210092 | |
| Download: ML20237C166 (1) | |
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Ms. Linda Bauman Government Accountability Project Midwest Office 104 East Wisconsin Avenue Appleton, WI 54911 Re: F0IA Appeal 87A-100C
Dear Ms. Bauman:
This letter responds to your November 6, 1987 appeal of this Agency's denial of documents identified on Appendix B of our October 27, 1987 response to F01A-87-655.
In response to your appeal, the withheld material was again reviewed.
On the basis of this review, I affirm the Acency's initial decision.
The denied Appendix B material consists of seven draft copies of the GA0's Audit Report of the NRC. These drafts contain the mark-up suggestions and comments of various agency officials. Followino mark-up, the draf ts were re-submitted to GA0 for further review and possible revision. Because the mark-up suggestions contained in these drafts were subject to further review and revision and because release of these drafts would reveal predecisionally the deliberative process of the Agency, the decision to withhold these draf ts pursuant to Exemption 5 of the F0IA was entirely proper.
This letter represents final Agency action on your November 6,1987 F0IA appeal. Judicial review of the denial of these documents is available in Federal District Court in the district in which you reside, or have your principal place of business or in the District of Columbia.
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RECORDS IN PDR UNDER THE ABOVE REQUEST NUMBER
- 1. 3/27/87 EDO Control form with attached note to Tom Rehm from Margo Bridgers concerning requested information, re: GA0 Audit of Adequacy of NRC Safety Standards For Nuclear Power Plants. (2 pages)
- 2. 4/24/87 Note from T. A. Rehm to addresses, subject: Attached DraftGA0 Report.(1page)
- 3. 4/30/87 Letter from T. Rehm to Phil Olson, GAO, re: Information requested related to GA0 Audit. (3 pages)
- 4. 5/8/87 Letter from T. A. Rehm to Mary Ann Kruslicky, GAO, concerning statements on the NRC Safety Standards For Nuclear Power Plants. (1 page)
- 5. 5/19/87 Memo from T. A. Rehm to addressees, subject: Draft GAD Report on NRC's Safet Enforcement Effort. (y1page)
Standards and Inspection and
- 6. 7/1/87 Handwritten notes to Tom Rehm from Scott Newberry, w/ attached Issue / Consent Paper. (4 pages)
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Re: F01A-87-655 APPENDIX B TO BE TOTALLY WITWELD
- 1. Various Dates Seven copies of GAO's draft Statement of Facts as annotated with cosuments by staff offices (NRR. AE00 Research, OE, OGC & ARM) in response to a request by the Office of EDO. (371 pages) Exemption 5.
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\Voshington DC. 20006 (202)232-8550 MIDWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911-4897 September 23, 1987 FR2EDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST EREEDOM 0F BIFORMATION l Of U.S.
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-TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act '(FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552,) the Government Accountability Project .( G AP ) requests copies of any and all {
agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, draf ts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, enginee,r,ing analyses, drawings , files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks , books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, and eny other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records relevant to and or generated in connection with and including the federal report released Tuesday, September 22, 1987 by the General Accounting Office, regarding the Nuclear Regulatory.
Commission lacking guidelines on shutting down nuclear power plants for cafety violations. (see attached article)
This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) 4+8, ond'the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October 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 after this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not li'mited 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 com l
cetion with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
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.. s GAP requests thatifees be waived, because " finding the information can be considered as primarily benefitting the general public, "5 U.S.C.
552 (a) (4) (a). GAP is a non profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerrad with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through it Environmental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens 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 efforts 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 !
or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 82]
(D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).
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look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working i
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FOIA Coordinator Midwest Office Rasponse to this request should be mailed to the Midwest Office:
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