ML20214B988

Responds to Re Release of General Counsel 851206 Memo on Sunshine Act Rule.Memo Is Predecisional Advice & Should Remain Confidential Until 860117 Public Meeting. Asselstine Does Not Oppose Release of Secy 85-67(A)

ML20214B988
Person / Time
Issue date:	01/03/1986
From:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Markey E HOUSE OF REP., ENERGY & COMMERCE
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NUDOCS 8602200717
Download: ML20214B988 (3)

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CHAIRMAN The Honorable Edward J. Markey, Chairman Subcomittee on Energy Conservation & Power Comittee on Energy and Comerce United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Chaiman:

In your letter of January 2,1986, you state that you believe that the General Counsel's December 6,1985, memorandum on the " Sunshine Act Rule" should be released to the public, and you ask us to advise you whether the Comission has any objection to its release.

As you know, the paper is scheduled for discussion in a public meeting on January 17, 1986. As a general matter, when a paper is discussed by the Comission in public session, copies of the document are provided for the public at that session. We intend to follow that course in this instance.

Thus the issue is not whether the document will be made public -- that is assured -- but whether it will be made public two weeks sooner than was planned.

The document in question is a predecisional advice memorandum from the General Counsel to the Comission. It was provided to you at your request, for the furtherance of your oversight responsibilities, with the understanding that its confidentiality would be maintained. We see no reason to depart in this case from the general rule that the confidentiality of predecisional documents scheduled for public discussion should be maintained until the day of the public meeting.

Comissioner Asselstine would have no objection to release of SECY 85-67(A) at this time.

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Dear Mr. Chairman:

In your letter of January 2,1986, you state that you believe that the.

General Counsel's December 6,1985, memorandum on the " Sunshine Act Rule" should be released to the public, and you ask us to advise you whether the-Commission has any objection to its release. ,

As you know, the paper is scheduled for discussion in a public meeting on January 17, 1986. As a general' matter, when a paper is. discussed by the Commission in public session, copies of the document'are provided for the public at that session. We intend to follow that course in this instance.

Thus the issue is not whether the document will be made public -- that is assured -- but whether it will be made public two weeks sooner than was planned.

The document in question is a predecisional advice memorandum from the General Counsel to the Commission. It was provided to you at your request, for the furtherance of your oversight responsibilities, with the understanding that its confidentiality would be maintained. We see.no reason to depart in this case from the general rule that the confidentiality of predecisional documents scheduled for public. discussion should be maintained until the day of the public meeting.

Commissioner Asselstine would have no objection to release of SECY 8Sa67(A)'l at this time. ,

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