ML20136E567

FOIA Request for Documents Re 850912 loss-of-load Test Incident,As Discussed in Hl Thompson to Ee Van Brunt

ML20136E567
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	10/10/1985
From:	Garde B GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
References
FOIA-85-696 NUDOCS 8511210520
Download: ML20136E567 (2)

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GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT 1555 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 202 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202)232-8550 October 10, 1985 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST PREEDOM OF R)RMWOM Director ACT REQJEST Office of Administration Nuclear Regulatory Commission h =$.hk Washington, D.C. 20555 at d /0=/8 =$

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. 552, the Government Accountability Project (" GAP")

requests copies of any and all agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calendars, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephone messages, coqputations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, 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 the loss-of-load test incident discussed in the October 2, 1985 letter to Mr. E.E.

Van Brunt, Jr., Executive Vice President of Arizona Nuclear Power Project from Hugh L. Thompson, Jr., Director of the Licensing Division of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. This includes all documents from the time of the incident itself, on September 12, 1985.

This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 69.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8, 1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC official, " working", investigative or other files, or at any other location, including private residences.

If any records as defined in 10 C.F.R. I9.3a(b) and the NRC Manual, supra, 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 connection with, and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).

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GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information can be' considered as primarily benefitting the general public," 5 U.S.C. {552(a)(4)(a). GAP is a non-profit, non partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability.

Through its Citizens Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens groups seeking to ensure the health and safety of their communities. The Citizens Clinic is currently assisting several citizens groups, local governments and intervenors in Arizona concerning the construction of the Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

We are requesting the above information as part of an ongoing monitoring project on the adequacy of Region V and the NRC's efforts to protect public safety and health at nuclear power plants.

For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld.

This index is required under Vaughn v. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert, denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974).

We look forward to your response to this request within ten days.

Sincerely, (h

Billie Pirner Garde Director, Citizens Clinic

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