ML20247P832
| ML20247P832 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 05/16/1989 |
| From: | Briggs W NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC) |
| To: | Sellers W JUSTICE, DEPT. OF |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20247P696 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-89-258 NUDOCS 8908040315 | |
| Download: ML20247P832 (2) | |
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20044-0887
Dear Mr. Sellers:
Pursuant to the agreement between the Nuclear Regulatory.
CommisFicn ("NRC" or "CommisFion") and.the Department of Justice j
("DCJ"), this letter wi31 inform you of a third-party subpoena i
received by the NRC which requests docume,nts referred to the DOJ in connection with a potentini criminal violation.
Attached is a subpoens served upon Samuel J. Chilk, the Secretary of the Commission, which seeks documents related to the Commission's order of Perch 31, 1987, which directed an incediately effective shurcown of the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station.
The NRC's Office of Investigations ("OI") referred two Reports of Investigations related to that order, ROI 1-87-003 and ROI 1-87-003-S, to your cifice on December 9, 1987, for DOJ review of j
potential violations of federal law and possible prosecution.
Documents which are responsive to the attached subpoena request were among those documents forwarded to the DOJ in that packsge.
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f Under the hRC's litigation policy, this office coordinates the agency's response to such requests with your office when those requerts seek documents or information related to ongoing DOJ investigations or putential DOJ prosecutions.
OI advises this' Office that the attorney handling this-action in the U.S..
Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is Ps.
Judy Goldstein Smith.
The attorney handling the NRC's response to the subpoena in this office is Mr. Charles E. Mullins, who may be l
re6ched at 492-3606..
By copy of this letter we are potifying the
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requesting party that we will not release any documents responsive to the s'ubpoena until we receive a formal response from your office and conclude whatever coordination DOJ finds necessary.
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As stated cc: Judy Goldstein Smith, Esq.
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