ML062000695
| ML062000695 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Salem, Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 05/13/2004 |
| From: | NRC/OI |
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| References | |
| 1-2003-045, FOIA/PA-2005-0194 | |
| Download: ML062000695 (29) | |
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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
4 OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS 5 INTERVIEW 6 ------------------------------- x 7 11 IN THE MATTER OF:
8 11 INTERVIEW OF: : Docket No. 1-2003-045 9
10 (CLOSED) ii -------------------------------x 12 13 Thursday, May 13, 2004 14 PSEG Headquarters is Newark, New Jersey 16 17 The above-entitled interview was conducted 18 11 at 11:44 a.m.
19 20 11- BEFORE:
21 Special Agent JEFF TEATOR 22 23 24 25 Lecp[dAN deMte -
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1 APPEARANCES:
2 3 ON BEHALF OF PSEG SERVICES AND 4 JEFF KEENAN 5 Assistant General Solicitor 6 PSEG Services 7
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3 1 PROCEEDINGS 2 (11:44 a.m.)
3 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Today's date is May 4 13, the year is 2004. My name is Jeffrey Teator. I'm 5 a Senior Special Agent with the United States Nuclear 6 Regulatory Commissions, Office of Investigations.
7 It's approximately 11:44 in the morning. This morning 8 I am interviewing Is that the 9 correct pronunciation?
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t 10 I A Yes, it is.
/11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Can I call you 12 13 Yes, you may.
14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. I am 15 interviewing, in the 21st Floor Conference Room 16 at PSEG headquarters, located in Newark, New Jersey.
17 n-d prior to going on record, 18 did I present you with my credentials?
- ) Yes, you did.
19 20 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Did I explain to 21 you this is a voluntary interview?
22 Yes, you did.
23 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. Knowing 24 it's voluntary, do you wish to go forward?
25 Yes./
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4 1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. You're being 2 interviewed today as a fact witness. No one's accused 3 you of doing anything wrong, but your answers have to 4 be true and accurate. That's really the only way you 5 can get yourself in any kind of trouble today is if 6 you knowingly or deliberately lie or withhold 7 information during the course of this interview.
8 Do you have any objection today to 9 providing sworn testimony?
10 11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Raise your 12 right hand for me, please.
13 -, do you swear that the 14 information that you are about to provide to me is the 15 truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
16 Yes, I do.
17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Thank you.
i 18 you're represented by counsel today. Counsel 19 could identify himself for the record, please, and 20 explain your representation.
21 MR. KEENAN: Yes. My name is Jeff Keenan.
22 I'm Assistant General Solicitor for PSEG Services.
23 Today I'm representing, and PSEG Nuclear in a 24 joint capacity. I've reviewed the file and I don't 25 believe there's a conflict of interest. If a conflict9. /
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5 1 arises, we'll take a break in the record and figure 2 out how to best handle that. We appreciate the 3 opportunity to provide the testimony, and we would 4 like the ability to review the transcript at a 5 mutually convenient time and place later.
6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Thank you.
7 ,\a few follow-up questions for you regarding 8 representation.
9k 10 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And they're real 11 specific questions. Does your employer require you to 12 have counsel represent you if you're interviewed by 13 the NRC's Office of Investigations?
14 R No.
15 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Were you in 16 any way threatened with any type of adverse action by 17 your employer if you chose to not have counsel 18 represent you during this interview?
19No 20 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Do you 21 understand that you have a right to a private 22 interview with me if you wanted one?
23 Yes.
24 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Knowing all 25 this, do you wish to go forward with counsel present?
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2 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. I want to 3 get some background information about you, and then 4 we'll go into your job title and responsibilities, and 5 then we'll move on from there, okay?
6 )okay.
7 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Can you give me 8 your date and place of birth, please?
9 10 ii SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And your social 12 security number?
13 14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Your current home is address, please.
16 17 18 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Where's that at, 19 20 21 22 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
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7 1 served in the United States military?
2 No.
3 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Have you 4 attended college?
SYes.
5 6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Which school?
7 - ) Several.
8 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Do you have 9 a decjree from any of th em?
10 11 12 13 14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Which school?
15 16 17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. And what's 18 yourderee in?
19 20 SPECIAL AGE.NT TEATOR: Okay. And you're M.%
21 pursuing a' n which discipline?
22 23 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. At some 24 point, were you hired to work for PSEG?
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8 1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. And what is 2 your current job title?
3 4
5 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: How long have you 6 held that position?
7 Since approximately April of 8 last year.
9 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Since 4-03, 10 approximately.
i1 Yes.
12 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. And prior to 13 that, what was your job?
14 I was ..
15 -. Twithin the same department.
16 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: And how long were 17 you the from what 18 dates, I guess, approximately?
19 Probably for the two years 20 prior to that, so from 2001 to 2003.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: When in '01 do you 22 think you became th 23 Probably in the February-March 24 time frame, maybe a couple months later.
25 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Until when again?
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1 Until I got the 2 position in April 2003.
3 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. I'm not so 4 good with dates sometimes.
5 ,Okay.
6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. As the 7 -)can you give me your 8 general job description, what you did in that 9 capacity?
10 SSure. I managed a staff of 11 about ten people who were responsible for the day-to-12 day operation of the payroll function. That would be 13 processing deduction cards, W4 forms, managing the 14 production day activities including balancing special 15 payments and things of that nature.
16 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. How about 17 dealing with temporary living and allowances?
18 Sure. My staff would process 19 gross-ups for temporary living if those temporary 20 living assignments were identified as being greater 21 than a year.
22 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Let's talk 23 about do you 'know who Kim Harvin (phonetic) is?
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10 1 living. That's how I know her.
2 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. I've seen 3 that term, gross-up. Sounds kind of gross to me. Can 4 you tell me -- in the accounting area, business 5 administration, what does that mean?
6 What it means is we want to 7 make you whole on your out-of-pocket, but in order to 8 do that, if it's a taxable situation, I have to give 9 you a little bit more money to cover your taxes. So, 10 for example, if you were out of pocket $1,000 and I 11 know that your total tax liability on that $1,000 is 12 going to be $350, I'll give you around $1,350, the 13 $350 being the gross-up portion, so when I applied it 14 to your payroll record the system would take the $350 15 as tax and leave you with the $1,000 that you were 16 originally out of pocket.
17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
1811AI It's a way to do the best we 19 can for peop r on different assignments. We 20 want to make sure they're whole, but we also need to 21 obey the tax rules.
22 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Just the term threw 23 me a little bit.
24 Okay.
25 SPECIAL AGEN TEATOR: Gross-up.
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Ii 1 Better than gross out, right?
2 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right, I guess.
3 Right. Okay. Let's talk about Kim Harvin then.
- ~Okay 4
5 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: At some point, was 6 your department tasked with determining living 7 expenses, temporary living allowance for Kim Harvin?
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- We were never responsible for 9 determining living allowance.
10 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
ii We were notified that Kim was 12 receiving reimbursement for temporary living and that 13 that temporary living assignment had been determined 14 to go into a period that was greater than one year.
15 The IRS regs require us to begin taxing those 16 reimbursements at the point in time we are told that 17 it's going to be a greater than one year assignment.
18 So Accounts Payable would have originally been 19 reimbursing her via the trip expense process. The 20 minute that we learned it was temporary living greater 21 than a year they would forward those T&Es to my staff 22 who would perform the gross-up and apply it to the 23 payroll.
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1 than a year?
.2 I don't know the exact time 3 frame.
4 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Can you give me an 5 approximate maybe?
6 I don' t even remember when she 7 started the temporary assignment or started submitting 8 her T&Es. It was sometime, I would think, prior to 9 2001. It was probably somewhere in the year 2000 we 10 started receiving them, I'm thinking. I'd have to go 11 back and double check the records.
12 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: At some point in 13 late 2001 a decision was made where Kim Harvin would 14 become one o people. She'd be working
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18 Were you part of any discussions surrounding that and 19 what impact that might have on her living expenses or 20 allowances?
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1 discussions going back and forth about a method of 2 reimbursing her.
3 She had been, I think, on the phone with 4 a couple of people on my staff about is there a 5 comparable to her situation anywhere else in the 6 company, and if so what were we doing in that case.
7 And it was and.' ... jjj"--(ph) that I 8 think were on the phone with her at the time and told 9 her that the only comparable at the time that we had 10 was the people who go down to INPO in Georgia. And 11 they're processed the same exact way.
12 I believe at that time also' 0id tell 13 her, though, that if there was an acceptable monthly 14 payment that would cover all her expenses, instead of 15 doing the T&E process that that was another option 16 open to her if we got approvals for that sort of 17 thing.
18 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Which option 19 was taken, do you remember?
20 ._ At the time, I don't think --
21 we didn't hear of either option. All I know is that 22 she stopped submitting her T&Es. It was some time 23 later that I learned tha ad agreed to give her 24 a weekly amount or a monthly amount.
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1 ,made that -- agreed to give her a weekly or a 2 monthly amount, did that cause her to not have to 3 submit these T&Es anymore?
4 Yes.
5 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. All right.
6 So we're in that time period now, wherever that might 7 be.
84 9 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you remember 10 when jcame to that agreement?
11 Well, I don't when he came to 12 the agreement. I did receive documentation well after 13 the fact that suggested the agreement started much 14 earlier than when I was notified.
15 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
16 For example, the first memo I 17 got had nothing to dqo with 2001 payments. In the 18 middle of 2002, I received a memo authorizing $550 a 19 week, and that was retroactive back to January 1 of 20 that year.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right.
22 So what I did was I gave her 23 a lump sum payment for he missed six months, and then 24 for every biweekly I paid her $1,100 per 25 authorization. /\(
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1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right.
2 n it was after that memo that 3 something else surfaced that addressed 2001.
4 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right.
5 And it ended up that 6 apparently ske had approval for a monthly amount, and 7 it was in the $1,400 range, and someone was making 8 entries in the system to pay her that during the first 9 six months, and then I believe that the parties that 10 were processing this moved on to other assignments; no 11 one had given her the last six months. When I became 12 aware of it, we processed the remainder monies that 13 she was due.
14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: For the six months 15 in '01?
16 Ys 17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
18 And that was in 2003 when she 19 finally got tha~t money. That was the first we had 20 learned of it.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. You talked 22 about a memo mentioning a $5.50 weekly reimbursement.
23 Is that the memo that Mr. Keenan has in front of you 24 dated June 13, '02? Is that the memo you're referring 25 to? /"
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1 * "Yes.
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2 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. All right.
3 So this is -- these monies are being paid to Kim and 4 you get this June 13, 2002 memo and you start paying 5 her $1,100 every two weeks, right?
6 es.
7 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: At some point after 8 June 13, '02, were there questions raised regarding 9 expenses claimed by Kim Harvin that you're aware of?
10 . Not that I'm aware of.
11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Did you have 12 any further involvement at all in reviewing expenses
- 13. she was submitting for payment in addition to this 14 $550 weekly?
15 No. Once we stopped grossing 16 up her trip expenses we)were out of the picture as far 17 as any review or any handling of her T&Es.
18 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. When did you 19 stop grossing up her expenses again?
20 \1 think it was sometime in 21 2000.
22 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Really? That long 23 ago?
24 " Yes.
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1 point were you part of discussions withrho 2 was asking questions about expenses submitted by Kim 3 Harvin?
4 I know she asked for the file 5 at one point. I don't) remember at what point that --
6 well, actually, I do remember. When the 2003 memo 7 came in saying we had missed six months of payments a for 2001 --
9 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right.
10 .. -
-Ma" I asked for 11 signature on the memo, because it was so late from 12 when the original authorization was made. I felt it 13 was important to have her approval, so I got her 14 signature on it and at that point was discussing those 15 payments with her, and she --
16 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: With who?
17 Wit 18 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
19 And I think it was at that 20 point she had gotten tht file of T&Es.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: What does T&E mean 22 again?
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1 reasons why! wanted those T&Es, did she say?
- 2 No. She just generally 3 doesn't discuss that sort of thing with someone such 4 as myself.
5 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you recall her 6 stating in your presence the reasons for why she 7 wanted those T&Es?
8No.
9 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. The memo 10 you're referring to -- can you go to that one, Jeff?
11 It's February 5, 2003. It's from 12 (phonetic) t- Is that the one you're 13 referring to?
14 es.
15 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: The memo reads, "As 16 we discussed today,(' -- with concurrence 17 fromom, ehas agreed to authorize a payment
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18 of temporary living expenses for Kim Harvin for the 19 period July 2001 through and inclusive of December 20 2001. The amount of reimbursement of taxable is 21 $2,240 per month for a total of $13,440 for the six-22 month period. This amount is consistent with other 23 payments made to Ms. Harvin during the January to June 24 2001 period. As you indicated, this payment is 25 expected to be processed during the February 28 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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1 payroll period."
2 The memo starts off, "As we discussed 3 today." Is that discussion occurring between you and 4
5 6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. During that 7 discussion, di make any statement to the 8 effect that Kim Harvin's position had been eliminated 9 down at Salem-Hope Creek?
2N 10 )I don't recall.
11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Think back to what 12 was said during that conversation if you could.
13 'N Well, I believe that -- my 14 recollection of the call was that we were trying to 15 determine if we had made all the payments to Kim that 16 we were supposed to make.
17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
18 ./And it was kind of frustrating 19 at the time because we were hearing about these 20 payments well after the fact.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Or promises for 22 payments. She didn't get paid for some of it.
23 SCL ERight.
SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right? Okay. Go 24 .1f 2 25 'ahead.
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1 \* And finding out well after "2 that fact that we were supposed to be making payments 3 was obviously frustrating to me because we have a 4 reputation of making payments timely and accurately.
5 And to hear about this so far after the fact seemed 6 questionable to me. So I remember talking to,-%" -
7 about this is another Kim situation that surfaced, and 8 I'm sure we had a conversation surrounding whether or 9 not she actually should get the money or not. I mean 10 if it's this far after the fact, do we really need to 11 make these payments now?
12 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right. Did he make 13 any statement to you which caused you to believe that 14 Kim's employment had been terminated, was shortly 15 going to be terminated? Did he make any statement to 16 that effect?
17 .I don't recall him one way or 18 the other saying anything like that.
19 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. You 20 mentioned this being another kim situation surfaced.
21 What did you mean by that?
22 Well, we had received the 23 notification here six months after she was due. If 24 you look at the original memo, the June 13 memo we 25 discussed for $550 week --
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1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Yes.
2 -- this was six months after 3 we should have begun payments, and it was payments to 4 be made for January 2002 through December 2002, 5 inclusive. Six months late making these payments, 6 gave her a lump sum payment, then every biweekly made 7 an $1, 100 payment to her through the end of December.
8 Then after that, all of a sudden, in February of 2003, 9 they're now talking about 2001.
10 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right.
11 Just the timing of it, in my 12 mind, was what happened? How do you know it was 13 agreed to so far after the fact? It just seemed to me 14 to be unusual.
15 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Bu" Qr 16 7jf 2and agreed that the 17 payments should be made as indicated on the February 18 5, 2003 memo.
19 Right.
20 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. Talk 21 about the conversation with'".... *n again, which is 22 discussed in the February 5, 2003 memo, as we 23 discussed today.
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1 discussion of payments from that point going forward 2 into 2003 for Kim Harvin?
3 No.
4 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Was there any 5 discussion that there would not be any such payments 6 for her in 2003 going forward?
7 Not to my knowledge. I mean 8 there could have been. I could have said something 9 like --
10 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: "Are we going to 11 pay her this year too?"
12 Yes.
13 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: That would be an 14 obvious question.
15 INN! Just as a point of here we 16 are, we're going back to another year. I mean it 17 certainly could have been an exchange. Sounds like 18 something I would say.
19 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: It does. That's 20 why I asked that. In any of your discussions in early 21 2003 time period surrounding these temporary living 22 reimbursements to Kim, was there any statement made in 23 your presence regarding Kim's employment being 24 terminated? Anything at all?
25 Not that I recall.
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1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Or any statement 2 made to the effect that she would not be getting these 3 living expenses in 2003, anything like that? Not just 4 during this one conversation we talked about with 5
- but 6 No. I wouldn't have -- I 7 don't think -- why would we have been talking about 8 2003 back in 2002 or even if we were talking about 9 2001. I don't think that we would have had a 10 conversation like that. I don't recall, anyway.
11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Well, let's 12 talk about 2003. Early '03, do you recall being part 13 of any such discussions surrounding Kim's payments 14 going forward or her employment going forward at that 15 point?
16 NO.
17 SPECIAL AGE'T TEATOR: Jeff, you wanted to 18 ask something?
19 MR. KEENAN: No. I just -- I don't know.
20
- I just wanted to make sure to the best of 21 your recollection, whatever you remember on these 22 discussions would be helpful for the interview.
23 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. It's 12:05.
24 Let me take a very short break.
25 * )Okay.
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1 (Whereupon, the foregoing matter went off 2 the record at 12:05 p.m. and went back on 3 the record at 12:08 p.m.)
4 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: It's 12:08, we're 5 back on the record.
6 would you normally be privy to 7 discussions or decisions on people's continuing 8 employment here at the Company?
9 MNo 10 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. At some 11 point, did you learn that Kim Harvin's position was 12 eliminated down at Salem-Hope Creek?
13 Ys 14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Can you tell me 15 when you became aware of that?
16 \ We would have been issued a 17 PCA, personnel change )orm --
18 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
19 - - indicating her final work 20 day.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right.
22 ' And it would have been 23 processed by 'm-y staff, ard we would have included any 24 accrued vacation payout as well as any separation 25 payments due, if appropriate.
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1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. PCA. I 2 think I might have that. If not, I think we're 3 talking about something else. I'm just going to look 4 briefly for it.
5 MR. KEENAN: I'm not sure, Jeff.
6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: I'm going to leave 7 the tape on, because this isn't going to take very 8 long. 'ear with me, please. This won't take 9 real long.
10 (Pause.)
11 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Well, I thought I 12 could lay my hands on it, but I'm finding that I 13 can't. But you've described what a PCA is, and that 14 would be a document generated for anybody whose 15 employment is terminated; is that correct?
16 - Yes. That's also the vehicle 17 for other type changes, including changes in position, 18 equity increases, any number of master data changes.
19 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay.
20 Employee life event changes.
21 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. But did 22 you learn why her position was eliminated?
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1 or anyone down there at the site on why her position 2 was eliminated?
3 0 4 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Kim Harvin 5 is notified in late February '03 that her position is 6 going to be eliminated. She's given the 45-day 7 letter, okay? That happened, it occurred, it's a 8 fact. But at some point a decision was made to 9 accelerate her departure from the site. She would 10 continue to get paid for the 45 days, but her actual 11 work at the site would not last 45 days. A decision 12 was made to do that. Do you have any information on 13 why the decision was made or who made it?
14 No, but that's not uncommon, 15 I think, if you have/ somebody who's going to be 16 leaving.
17 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: What's your basis 18 for saying that's not uncommon?
19 think that I've encountered 20 that situation-over the years here where people's jobs 21 might be for whatever reason phased out, reorged out, 22 services no longer necessary for one reason or 23 another, and they have an'opportunity to post or bid 24 for other positions. They can do so from home rather 25 than being in the office where it might be awkward.
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1 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Right. Okay. At 2 any point were you made aware that Kim Harvin had 3 raised any type of safety concerns down there at 4 Salem-Hope Creek?
5 0 Only through a recent article 6 that was issued in the paper just this past month or 7 two.
8 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. In the 9 newspaper?
10 Yes. Yes. Someone had 11 brought it to a staff meeting we had.
12 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Do you know why 13 that person brought it to the staff meeting?
14 Just because it had Kim's name 15 on it, and that was actually t..
16 that was receiving her trip expenses prior to 17 -- well, all the trip expenses she had been 18 submitting, and he remembered her name.
19 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: All right. And 20 what's the name of that gentleman?
21 22 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. Did he say 23 anything regarding what was in the article, and did he 24 provide any type of information regarding what was in 25 the article or his thoughts or beliefs on whether NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W.
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2 No. I think it was just, 3 "Look, isn't this the person that used to be our 4 employee?" That was kind of the nature of the 5 example, or the conversation.
6 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. It's 12:13.
7 I believe I'm just about finished. I'm going to look 8 over my notes one more time, and then we're going to 9 finish up. I believe we're very close to being done.
77i, ii (Whereupon, the foregoing matter went off 12 the record at 12:13 p.m. and went back on 13 the record at 12:18 p.m.)
14 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. It's 12:18 15 in the afternoon. . don't have any further 16 questions, but during a discussion we had off the 17 record, we had some discussion about this PCA, and 18 you've agreed to go up to your office and get the copy 19 of the PCA and an email which is attached to it. And 20 you're going to bring that back down, and if I have 21 any questions for on that, I'll ask them at that 22 point.
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2 MR. KEENAN: No, nothing further.
3 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR:
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4 5 SPECIAL AGENT TEATOR: Okay. As of right 6 now, it's 12:19, this interview is concluded. Thank 7 you.
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