ML20237E866

Final Response to FOIA Request for Complete Listing/Printout of Nprds.Encl App N & O Documents Also Available in Pdr. Portions of App O & App P Documents Withheld (Ref FOIA Exemptions 4 & 5)

ML20237E866
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Issue date:	12/15/1987
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Gordon J Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
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FOIA-87-465 NUDOCS 8712290232
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Re: F01 A. F01 A-87-465 j APPENDIX N, RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE PDR UNDER THE ABOVE REOU NUM8ER DATE DESCRIPTION Item #1

1. 2/1986 .  !

Program Description INPO 86-010, Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System. (22 pages). I j

ltem #3 2* 2/8/84 Memo from F. Rosa to G. M. Holahan, seject: IFRDS Dats Collection for RPS/ESFAS Instrumentation (2 pages) w/ a (a). 2/13/84 Memo subject:from Thomas P. Speis to Darrell Eisenhuto Instrumentation. (30 pages)NPRDS Data Collection (b) 12/83 {

Draft Review and Assessment of Evaluation of Surveillance Frequencies and out of Service Times for the Reactor Protection Instrumentation System. (64 pages) 3' 2/15/84 Letter from E.P. W11kenson concerning NPRDS. (4 pagesl INP0, to W1111am J. Dircks, 4.

10/22/85 Letter from Zack T. Pate, INPO, to William J. Dircks concerning semiannual evaluation of NPARS.  !

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ence. (13 4 2/24/87 Letter from William F. Conway. Ilr0 concerning (2pages) using contractors to evaIvate PRDS data.to Victor Sta

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Re: F01A-87-455 APPENDIX 0 RECORDS PARTIALLY WITHHELD Item #3

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. including Agendavarious NPRDS Users graphs Group. (36'pages and charts. Meeting Exemption No. 7. January)22 (4).

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NPRDS Reporting) Procedures Manual. (INPO). Exemption (4) (522pages  ;

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2. 9/1985 NPRDS Reportable General Electric BoilingSystem and Component Water Reactors. . INP0) Scop (204 (e Manual for pages) Exemption (4),

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3. 9/1985 NPRDS Reportable System and Component Scope Manual for Combustible Engineering Pressurized Water Reactor. (161 pages) Exemption (4).

4. 9/1985 NPRDS Reportable System and Component Scope Manual for i Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactors. (168pages) i Exemption (4).

5. 9/1985 Reportable System and Component Scope Manual for Babcock and Wilcox Pressurized Water Reactors. (157pages) i Exemption (4).

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6. 7/23/87 Note from J. Vora to G. L. Plumlee and J. L. Crooks with  !

enclosures: Applicability (14 pages) Exemption (5)y of NPRDS for the NPAR Program.

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PUBLIC CITIZEN Buyen Up D Congress Watch O Cntical Moss c Health Research Group D Utigation Group D Tax Croup July 20, 1987 Don Grimsley Director, Division of Rules & Records Nuclear Regulatory Commission TREEDOM OF INF0dtMAT A R Washington, DC 20555 4.EQUEST MNBB 4210 (pg Attn. Freedom of Information Act Request Mr. Grimsley:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. S 552, Public Citizen's critical Mass Energy Project hereby requests copies of the following records :

1. A complete listing of all conditions, situations, mishaps, accidents, or any kind of event included in the Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System (NPRDS), including, but not limited to individual component failures and records of all other events it collects. In addition, records explicitly defining what kind or type of events are reported to the NPRDS would also be appreciated.

2. Any and all analyses of nuclear power plant operating experience which use the NPRDS or any of the information contained therein. Such analyses may include, but are not limited to, analyses of aging of plant systems or components; recurring problems or deficiencies in plant systems or components assessments of particular systems or components precursors to major events or any other type of analysis that may have been performed using the NPRDS.

3. Any and all assessments or evaluations of the performance of the NPRDS system done since the system's inception including, but not limited to, the criteria against which the performance of the system is measured and the methodology used for assessment and evaluation, the assessments or evaluations themselves, and correspondence related to or concerning the performance of the system.

This request pertains to all records in the posession of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (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, corputer memories and printouts, 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.

215 Permsylvarda Ave. SE D Washington, DC 20003 0 (202) 546 4998 k O3-I 2- Pt.

Public' Citizen's Critical Mass Enorgy Project is a nationally known

.nonJprofit 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 primarily benefitting the public," 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. S 9 and 14(a). If you rule otherwise, please notify us before filling the request.

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 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 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 fiL&1 determination within ten working days. If your of fice is unable to fully respond to this request in that time, please send us a written estimate of when the response will be completed.

If you have any questions about this request, please telephone me l

at (202) 546-4996.

Thank you for your help. i l Since[ely, l b8 oshua Gordon Nuclear Analyst Public Citizen's Critical Hass Energy Project l

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