ML20238B319
| ML20238B319 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 12/04/1986 |
| From: | Real D DALLAS MORNING NEWS, DALLAS, TX |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-840 NUDOCS 8708210233 | |
| Download: ML20238B319 (3) | |
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December 4,
1986 FREEDOM OF WNN Chief, FOIA Branch ACT REQUEST Division of Rules and Records CQ fh-f U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
/ d h-Washington, D.C.
20555 To the FOI Officer:
This request is made under the federal Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C.
552.
Please send me a copy of the Office of Inspector and Auditor report regarding investigative matters concerning the Comanche Peak nuclear plant near Glen Rose, Texas. The particular report I am. interested in is described in a newspaper article I have enclosed.
As you know, the FOI Act provides that if portions of a document are exempt from release, the remainder must be segregated and disclosed.
Therefore, I will expect you to send me all nonexempt portions of the records which I have requested, and ask that you justify any deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the FOI Act.-I reserve the right to appeal your decision to withhold any materials.
I I am prepared to pay reasonable search and duplication fees in connection with this request. However, the FOI Act provides for waiver i
or reduction of fees if disclosure could be considered as "primarily benefiting the general public." I am a journalist employed by The Dallas Morning News, and intend to use the information I am requesting as the basis for a planned article. Therefore, I ask that you waive all search I
and duplication fees. If you deny this request, however, and the fees I
will exceed $100, please notify me of the charges before you fill my request so that I may decide whether to pay the fees or appeal your denial of my request for a waiver.
As I am making this request in the capacity of a journalist and this information is of timely value, I will appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by mail, if you have any questions regarding this request. My telephor.e number in Dallas is (214)- 977-8467.
Thank you for your assistance, and I will look forward to receiving your reply within 10 business days, as required by law.
Yours truly, A
David Real Staff Writer QB2 3 gs3po4 REAL86-g40 pyg I
Communicahons Center. DaHas. Texas 75265. 214/977-8222 1
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Children's Medical Center in Dallas V ctor Stello, age said Wednesday.
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r to the Art NW P.O. Box 1878,1 eat back to work, baby-sits. lows her around beca use she drops her food.
i t he's"not real good"at the Rey're buddies. ney a te and put that butter M oDy loved it, Gallagher says, and the hair-a night of saloon. keeping, on everything they could. They used about all washing seemed to have taken care of that alert in the mornings."
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barbecue and assorted other activities. It last.
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""*j*'g Re first witness, Vivien Drake, Continued from Page 1 Officials of Texas Utilities Elec-eral a secretary at the agency's Wash-De group asked the licensing tric Co., the major owner of the wreer very...
e ony ington headquarters.said sbe was board to obtain and release the re-plant, said in June 1985 that their s e sera scnon,s n r
the directed by Michael Dunlap, a su-port, which it said " deals with se-own concerns about the plant were 8d'r' L
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$es in his office. But she said shervisor at the agency, to purge rious deficiencies in the QA/QC such that they would not, at that i nts (quality assurance / quality control) point, start it up even if they had a Rates l em had not been told todisposeof any program, at Comanche Peak and beense to do so. The plant is under-ter-particular filesnorlook forpoten.
with senous problems with over-going an extenstre reinspection, s.np%
tially ernbarrawin part of a coverup. g records as sight of the plant by the Region IV and some completed construction ind office."
work has been npped out and re-
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The Region IV officein Arlington done.
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on, he second witness, Barry Bos-covers nuclear power plants in 14 The report is not the first sign of t
to kowitz, a staff consultant on field states.
trouble in the Region IV office.
Tat operations at the Washington Association counsel Tony Rois-12st March,the commission's Off-r,er,s
)m headquarters, said be had no di-man, who signed the letter, said his ice of Inspector and Auditor said farsat.
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! 'ist rect knowledge that documents organization fears the commission's that the Arlington office had not
""*r were disposed of after the veter-staff "may be sitting on this report, responded properly to allega tions of by ans were grantedauthority by Pa-perhaps... hoping.. to modify its harassment of Comanche Peak in-
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. extremely damaging conclusions." spectors.
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/A rnents in the agency's file Roisman said the association on Joe Fouchard, the comminion's i., w % w relevant to their lawsuit.
Dursday would officially request chief spokesman in Washington, us anopo an tc,,
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a copy of it last week.
said: 'There is an Of fice of Inspector es
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and Auditor report oninvestigative ad ued shredding of documents "It is my understanding that the matters relating to Comanche Peak.
m might be illegal, he was ignored, document and its attachments con-It is before thecommhsion and Stel-3
'if and a co worker told him the tain substantial evidence relating to lo.Beyond that,we willhavenocom-m x
shredding went on af ter theagen, theinadequacy of the quality assur-men t."
al ey had received the request for ance/ quality control program m ef-Region IV Director Bob Martin ir documents.
feet at Comanche Peak during its has not seen the report and could y,
Dunlap testified that he had au-construction, as well as informa tion not comment on it.s contents
- d. thorized disposal of the docu-regardingthefailureof RegionIVto Wednesday, said Gary Sanborn, re-Inents before receiving the veter-report or disclose these deficien-gional-state liaison officer in tb e Arl-e..e ans' request.
eies,a Roisman wrote.
ington office.
Comanche Peak is nine years be-lawrence Chandler, who repre-IJoder questioning by Patel, hind its originalsched ule and is cost-sents the commhtlon in the Conian-e-
n Bc:kowitz said be subsequently ing 87.7 billion,10 times its original che Peak licensing process, said the told a superior that he was con-budget. De Atomic Safety and Lt. commission staff will decide
'- cerned that two folders relevant censing Board has been critical of whether the report is pertinent to Call 0Ur new num to the lawsuit had not been pro-the plant's design and construction, the Comanche Peak licensing pro.
s n vided bytheVA toplaintiffsin the and some investment officials have cess and therefore whether it run anyprivate[
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begun to voice doubts that the huge should be distributed to the licens-non-Cornrnercialad plant will ever be licensed.
ing board and other parties.
Wanted Or rental.
'>rs fight proposed parole SAME RA1 gg eI days off for each day served.
.k to Tarrant Ifarrell Anderson had received credit for 45 In 11r/3, Paprskar pleaded guilty to killing the review this years and three months when be was released, Ramirez brothers and was given two 20Lycar sen.
And get a half-price lie wu in prison about 16 years-tences. His second hearing was moved to lious-ton because of intense publicity in Tarrant Coun-y0Ur secondinsertiot
'ormally pro-ne judge who tried severalof the cases and 17-
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% days, W re any effect the graadtnother of the tyearoidsald tbey were Paprskar was teleased from the Texas Depart-
%-s Anderson's disappointed that all four kiDers may be released from prison by the end of the year.
snent of Corrections Aug. 4,1980.
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@mMM eingtheone 1 knew onenem was wt,Mh,anow about the otber two,, the child's grandmother in the slayings and w@as sentenced to two 25 yea q* ' '
e to release said Wednesday. "Really, they deserve more sentences. She was paroled in February 1975.
During Michael Paprskar's trialin Fort W altiplehomi.tha3,,theygot People like that wa,lking the prosecutors arrued that he wac racev~m' orth, f a'--
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