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#REDIRECT [[IA-87-661, Partially Withheld Ltr Informing of NRC Plans to Establish Advisory Committee to Negotiate Consensus on Proposed Revs to 10CFR2 Re Submission & Mgt of Records & Documents for High Level Waste Repository Licensing.W/O Draft Charter]]
| number = ML20237C172
| issue date = 12/16/1987
| title = Responds to Appeal Re Denial of FOIA Request for Documents. Documents Withheld Due to Personal Handwritten Notes of Agency Employee (Ref FOIA Exemption 5)
| author name = Chilk S
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION (NRR)
| addressee name = Bauman L
| addressee affiliation = GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
| docket =
| license number =
| contact person =
| case reference number = FOIA-87-661, FOIA-87-A-99
| document report number = NUDOCS 8712210094
| document type = CORRESPONDENCE-LETTERS, NRC TO PUBLIC ENTITY/CITIZEN/ORGANIZATION/MEDIA, OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE
| page count = 1
| project =
| stage = Other
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[ga arc %#'o UNITED STATES                                        P
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OFFICE OF THE                                        December 16, 1987 SECRETARY Ms. Linda Bauman Government Accountability Project Midwest Office 104 East Wisconsin Avenue Appleton, WI 54911 Re: F0IA APPEAL 87A-99C
 
==Dear Ms. Bauman:==
 
This letter responds to your November 6,1987 appeal of this Agency's denial of the document identified on Appendix B of our October 22, 1987 response to F01A-87-661.
In response to your appeal, the withheld material was acain reviewed.
On the basis of this review, I affirm the Agency's initial decision but on different grounds.
The document that has been withheld consists of the personal handwritten notes of an acency employee. These notes, which were prepared solely at the employee's discretion, were never circulated within the agency and could have been discarded at will, are not " agency" records within the meaning of the F0IA. Consequently, the Agency is under no obligation to make these notes available under the F0IA. See, Kalmin v. Department of the Navy, 605 F.Supp.1492 (D.D.C.1985) (uncirculated personal notes maintained at residence or in office desk drawer held to be personal property, not " agency records").
This letter represents final Agency action on your November 6, 1987 FOIA appeal. Judicial review of the denial of this document is available in Federal District Court in the district in which you reside, or have your principal place of business or in the District of Columbia.
Si erely
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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTADIUTY PRO.fECT 15S Coneecncur Avenue. RW, Sune 202                                                                                                    I Wcr.vc.n D.C. 20036                                                                                                    (202) 232 6MO MICWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVEhVE AFJI. NrN, WISCONSIN      54911-4897 September 24, 1987 miin6eir suomiantil FRIEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST                                                                                            Mf Director 3'd /0~C      "
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Cf. ice of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20210 TC+ WBOM IT MAY CONCERN Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552,) the Gerernment Accountability Project IGAP) requests copies of any and all apncy records and information, including but not limited to notes, let.ters, memoranda, draf ts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, rtr. scripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, or.rineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, cereements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runof f s, and 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 an organizational meeting of the Nuclear Regulatory Advisory committee on Thursday, Septmeber 17, 1987 in which Carl Sinderbrand, Wisconsin Department of Justice was present. The request includes any and all documentation on MRC's concern that they cannot make the licensing deadlines. (see attached article)                                                            .
This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, Appendiz 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8,1980) whether they currently exf at in the NRC offica14 WM investigative or other files, or at any other loontion, including'g@$iNte residences.
If any records' as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, supra, l    and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated in conn                                                        l ec. ion with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
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l GA? requests that f ees be waived, because " finding the information can be cons;3ered as primarily benefitting the general public, "5 U.S.C.          i 552 (a) (4) (a;.        GAP is a non profit, non partisan public interest      i organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through it Environmental Whistleblewer 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 efforts to protect public health and safety at and near          i nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste facilities.                  l l
For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific POIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents    {
or portions of documents withheld.        The index should provide a detailed
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justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why      !
occh exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 828 (C.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).                        )
Wa look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working days.
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Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Midwest Office Rosponse to this request should be mailed to the Midwest Of fice:
104 E. Wisconsin Avenue -B Appleotn, Wisconsin      54911-4897
 
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Re: F0!A-87-661 APPENDIX A RECORDS MAINTAINED ANmG PDR FILES DATE                          DESCRIPTION 8/15/87            Loring Mills, Letter to Chilk, NRC (3 pages)
Accession No. 8708200149 8/5/87              Federal Register Notice, Formation of an
* Advisory Committee to Negotiate a Proposed Rule on the Submission and Management of Records and Documents Related to the Licensing of a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste, 52 FR 29024      (7pages) 8/5/87 Background Pap Rulemaking.           (er ce 55 pages)  the Negotiated 5/26/87            Conservation Foundation Feasibility Report.    (33 pages) l 8/13/87            Conservation Foundation, Organizational Meeting. (7 pages) 9/16/87            NARUC, Opening Statement.    (7pages) 9/30/87            F. X. Cameron, Sussiary or organizational meeting. (3 pages) 9/18/87            Dixon Hoyle, Letter to Howard Bellman, Conservation Foundation. (2pages) 10/2/87            Conservation Foundation October 15,16 Training Sessions. (59pages) 9/4/87 Ruth  Ann Storey, Conservation            Letter Foundation. to Bellman}
(2pages Undated Draft 16-17,Agenda,      Meettag) held on September 1987. (1page Undated            LSS--Framework For Negotiations. (5pages) 9/87                Project Participnt List, "HLW Licensing Support System Advisory Consittee." (4 pages)
 
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: 15.            9/18/87              Letter to Mr. Tim Mealey, The Conservation Foundation, From Lisa Sprutil, Office of the Attorney General. (4 pages)              l
: 16.            9/30/87              Federal Register Notice; High-Level Maste    \
Licensing Support System Advisory Committee  I (Negotiated Rulemaking); Second Meeting.
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RECORDS TOTALLY WITHHELD NUPSER                                  DATE DESCRIPTION & EXDIPTION
: 1.              9/16/87                F.X. Cameron, Notes on organizational meeting. (16 pages)
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