ML20249C789

Expresses Surprise & Confusion by Chairman 980130 Memo Re Invitations to Foreign Officials to Participate as Observers for Salem Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Response Exercise on 980303

ML20249C789
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	02/03/1998
From:	Diaz N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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ML20249C767	List: IA-98-121, Informs That Commission Concurred in Recipient Proposal That Chairman & Commissioners Shall Become Cognizant of Agency Emergency Procedures & Responses & Develop Schedule for Commissioners Training & Participation in Exercises ML20249C766 ML20249C772 ML20249C775 ML20249C777 ML20249C783 ML20249C789 ML20249C791 ML20249C796 ML20249C819 ML20249C821 ML20249C822 ML20249C824
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FOIA-98-121 NUDOCS 9807010199
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' MEMORANDUM TO: Chairman Jackson - ,

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FROM: Commissioner Diazj

SUBJECT:

SALEM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMERGENCY-

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RESPONSE EXERCISE ON MARCH 3,'1998 I am surprised and confused by your memorandum of January 30,1998. .,

J Surprised, because this is an "old" issue, with advance notice given to you and all

' Commissioners beginning with my memorandum of September 23,'1997, one-on-one meetings, and communications with AEOD. After i retumed from Mexico (December 7, 1997), I confirmed my interest in the next full' exercise and that neither you nor the other Commissioners had expressed an interest. I even personally informed Mr. Stoiber, OlP, of the potential activity. In January 1998, I personally obtained assurances from ,

Mr. Martin that all. requirements were satisfied, including consultation with the EDO.

Then, and only then, did I send the invitations to the foreign officials to participate as observers, as a professional courtesy to those officials, with whom I am personally acquainted. You did not meet with me in the period of November 12,1997 -

January 20,1998.

Confused, because I believe I have followed existing procedures and customary practices. I have failed, after receiving your memorandum, to find any procedures that .

-exclude U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioners from fostering intemational relations.

Additionally, I did not find limitations in the law or intemal Commission procedures addressing participation by the Commission or individual Commissioners in the necessary processes to establish policy on and be fully cognizant of emergency preparedness.

Therefore, I believe the Commission should engage the mechanisms at its disposal to clarify these matters.~

cc: Commissioner Dieus Commissioner McGaffigan j L. Joseph Callan; EDO I Thomas T. . Martin, AEOD ]

- Karen Cyr, General Counseli j

C. Stoiber, IP i <

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