ML20237G042

Responds to 870707 Appeal Re Denial of FOIA Request for Documents.Appeal Granted.Portions of Six Documents Re Insp Rept 50-424/86-91 Concerning Drug Abuse at Facility Previously Withheld Encl

ML20237G042
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	08/11/1987
From:	Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To:	Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
Shared Package
ML20237G045	List: ML20237G042 ML20237G083
References
FOIA-87-90, FOIA-87-A-52 NUDOCS 8708130290
Download: ML20237G042 (1)

See also: IR 05000424/1986091

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Government Accountability Project

Midwest Office IN RESPONSE REFER

104 E. Wisconsin Avenue TO F0IA-87-A-52

Appleton, WI 54911-4897 (F01A-87-90)

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Dear Ms. Bauman:

This is in response to your letter dated July 7,1987, in which you appealed

Mr. Donnie H. Grimsley's form response dated July 1,1987. Mr. Grimsley's

form response denied portions of six documents subject to your Freedom of

Information Act request for documents concerning Inspection Report

50-424/86-91 dated November 13, 1986, concerning drug abuse at the Alvin W.

Vogtle nuclear power plant.

Acting on your appeal, I have carefully reviewed the record in this case and

have determined that the previously withheld information,can now be made

publicly available. Your appeal is, thereforc, granted.

Enclosed are copies of the documents.

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xecutive Director for Operations

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{ eso addrtsonal agency records sab,ect to the request have been located

l Agency recomes wbpect to the roowst that are esentshed m Appends

are already averlebee for pubhc mopecten and copying a the NRC Penc Docurnent Room.

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g Agency receeds subsect to the request that are adentsfod m Appende b are bemg made svedeble for pein; mopeces we copyng e the N9iC PutAc Document

l Roorn,1717 H Street. N W., Washmgton DC, m a folder under the FOIA number and roovester name

l The nonpropsessary version of the proposaits) that you agreed to eccept e a te6ephone conversaten m $ a member of mv staff a noe bomg made evedable for pubiec wupacten

l and coying as she NRC Pubiac Document Room.1717 H Street, N W . Washengton, DC r an a folder under the FOLA nwnber and roosesser name.

l Erwea==re is odermetson on how you may obtam access to and the chargue for copyme records pieced a the NRC Pubic Document Rossi,1717 H Street. N.W , Washmgen. DC.

j Agency recoses subpect to the recpest are enclosed. Any appicable charpe for copes of the records provided and payment procedures are noted m the awnrnents escten

l Records subsecs to the request have been referred to another Federet agencytest for review and derect response to you

l m view of NetC's response to the request no further accon a being taken on appeal letter dated

PART li A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC OtSCLOSURE

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c ,tosn infonummon in the requeeted recorde e bems *'thheid from put$c declosure pursuant to the FOIA enempters descr6ed e and for the reasons stated m Port it, sec-

none S. C. and D. Any redessed portens of the documents for e on8y part of the record a being withheid are being made avaaabte for pubesC e4pectson and copymg en

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ggo,ds m to the request that er) described in the enclosed Appendices _ ere bemg withheld m thew entwety or in part under FOtA

Exemptione sund for the reasons set forth below pursuant to 5 U.S C. 562tb) and to CFR 9 5de) of NRC Regulations.

1 The unsPeund miormatson es prope$ ciasaded pursuant to Esecutwe Order 12356 (EXEMPfl0N 11

2 The warmeno enformaten resates nosety to the mismal personned rules and procedures of NRC. (EXEMPTON 2

3 The usePeund mformagon a specificalN esemoted from put hc doclosure by statute andicated' IEXEMPfl0N 3

3.ca.n 541146 of the Attwmc Energy Act w vch r prohiteis the declosure of Restrcted Data or Formerly Restreted Data 142 U.S.C. 2161-21061.

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Secean 147 of the Atomsc Energy Act which proMuts the doctosure of Unclassefed Safeguards informaten 142 U.S C. 2167).

4. The musemed informaten e a trade secret or commeraal or thanced eformatson ther a bosng withheld for the reasonts) indested: (EXEMPTON di

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The emeermetson a consedered to be confidential busmess l'/opnetary) mformatson

N smemmenon a considered to tw propnetary informaten pursuant to 10 CFR 2]90(d)(1).

The suewmocon was submmed and recewed m confusence from a foreign source pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790 ldh 2).

5 The weeuhmed eformaten consets of eteragency or straagswnr records that are not available through descovery dures litigation. Doctosure of predec enal informatir

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the agency tEXEMPTION D factual portions because the reeese of the facts would permet en

8. The weseused anformagon a esempted from pubiec deciosure trause ris declosure would result in a clearly unwarrarsed iswesen of personal pnvecy. (EAEMPTION se

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g mes asow them to take action to stuoid potental wrongdoing or a violataan of NRC toquwements from evestagstors (EXEMPTON 7 tall

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pursuent to O CFR 9.9 and/or 9.16 Olih* U S Nuc8"e' A**d" tory Commenen reguistens. it has twen determined that the Informsten withheld a w from production or hre

end that ns pseshenon or disclosure e contrary to m putilic interest The persons remonocio for the dennel are thee offican st'oritsised below as denyng offcels and the Direc or

of Runes and Records, Offes of Adminstration. ter any denists that eney be arf *aan=d to the Executrve Director for Operations IEpoi.

OEarvievG OFFICIAL TITLE.0FF4CE RECORCS DENIED APPELLATE OFFICIAL

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PART 11 D- APPEAL RIOMTS j

Tne denisi try each denying fecial idenIlEnd in Part 5.C may be appealed to the Apponete Official irfirntified in that section. Any such appeal must be in I

d ered enuet be made witles 30 days of receipt of this response Appeele must be addrussed as opgopriate to the Executive Director for Operatione or to

the Senatory of the C wnmission. U.S. modner,p Commesson, Weehmgton, DC 20555, and should clearty state on the envelope and in the letter

that a b an ~Appeel from en khief F0lA h=

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RE: F01A-87-90

APPENDlx F

RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE PDR UNDER THE A50VE REQUEST NUMBER

1. 6/8/82 Letter from R. Pierce Head, Jr. to Erployee and family

concerning Employee Assistance Program (2 pages).

2. 12/10/85 Letter to addressee from Howard Winkler, Re: Labur Relations

Dialogue (5 pages).

3. 3/31/86 Appendix 6, Vogtle Reinspection / Reverification Procedure (8

pages).

4. 9/15/86 Nuclear Regulatory Comission Assessment Vogtle Fitness For

Duty Program Legal classes, 9/15/86 (1 page).

5. UNDATED Notice for Bulletin Board, subject: Jobs At Nuclear Plants (2

, pages).

, 6. 9/15/86 Nuclear Regulatory Connission Assessrent Vogtle Fitness For

Duty Program Anti- Drug Program- testing Anti-Drug Program-

HistoryPackage(36pages).

7. 1/22/87 Letter from Phillip F. Mclkee to William E. Cline, subject:

l Followup to Fitness For Duty Inspection at Vogtle. (2 pages).

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Re: F01A-87-90

APPENDIX G

RECORDS PARTIALLY WITHHELD

1. UNDATED D0L Complaint by Five Former Vogtle Employees (1 page).

2. 8/12/82 Opinion and Award in the Matter of Arbitration Between Georgia l

Power Co. and Local Union No. 424 International Union of

Operating Engineers (13 pages). Ex. 6

3. 1/10/85 Judgement In a Civil Case Plantiff vs. Walsh Construction Co.,

Case CV184-084 (12 pages). Ex. 6

4. 2/21/85 Letter from Chester L. Davidson to William Contracting Co.

w/ copies of 2 grievances (2 pages). Ex. 6

5. 6/19/85 Letter from Chester . Davidson to Williams Contracting Inc.

concerning grievances. (2 oages). Ex. 6

6. 9/15/86 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Assessment Vogtle Fitnes for Duty

Program Union Coordination, 9/15/86 (1 pages. Ex. 6

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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT

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1555 Connecticut Awnue. N.W. Suite 202 i

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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ,

MIDWEST OFFICE

3424 MARCOS LANE

-APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911

January 29, 1987

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Fursuant to the Freedom of Information 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,

letters, 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 runoffs,

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 Inspection Report 50-424/86-91, dated November 13, 1986, regarding drug

abuse at Vogtle.

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 ,

October 8,1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC "offical, working" l

investigative or other files, or at any other location, wincluding private  ;

residences.

If any records, as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b), and the NRC Manual, q

oupra, and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after j

this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not

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limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or 1

removed, a description of the action (s) taken to, generated in connnection

with, and/or issued in order to implement the action (s). l

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

information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general

public, " 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

of government accountability. Through it Environmental Whistleblower

Clinic, GAP of fers 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 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. i

FOIA exemption, please provide an'index itemizing and describing the  ;

documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide j

c detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, l

explaining why each exemtion is relevant to the document or portion 1

of the document withheld. This index is required under Vaughn v.

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we look forward to your response to this request within ten (10).

working days.

Sincerely,

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Linda Bauman 1

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Midwest Office

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Responses to this request should be mailed to :

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Midwest Office

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