ML20082H360

Affidavit of LL Smith Re Intimidation,Harassment or Threatening of Util Employees

ML20082H360
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	11/27/1983
From:	Laura Smith Citizens Association for Sound Energy
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AFFIDAVIT OF LESTER L. SMITH Q: Please state your name and address for the record.

A: My name is tester L. Smith. My address is 108 Sandra Dr., Azle, Texas 76020.

Q: Are you aware of any instances of intimidation, harassment, or threaten-ing of employees at Comanche Peak?

A: Yes.

Q: Are you aware of any instances of employees being discouraged from doing work right to begin with at Comanche Peak?

-A: Yes.

Q: In your opinion, have such instances of intimidation, harassment, threatening, or discouragement had an effect on morale of employees at the plant?

A: Yes.

Q: In your opinion, have such instances of intimidation, harassment, threatening, or discouragement had a detrimental effect on the quality of work at Comanche Peak?

A: Yes.

~ Q: If so, what effects have they.had?

A: Empicyees know if they talk, it is just a matter of time before they are out of a job. This can be shown if one just checks the records at the pla nt. For instance, Roy Combs was laid off in pipe hangers at the same time they were transfering welders from the pipe department into the hanger department.

Also, a weld technician can override QC regarding~ welds.

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2-O Q: Can you give us some other specific examples?

A: I already have. I gave a deposition to the NRC investigators on August 26, 1983. Juanita Ellis, with CASE, also attended at my request.

I ask that the Licensing Board have my deposition made part of my testimony in these proceedings. I asked the NRC investigators for a copy of my depo-si-tion on August 26 and was told that I could have a copy but not until their investigation was over. I did not ask to remain confidential and do not now want to remain confidential. I want a copy of my deposition (I have never had an opportunity to even read it over and be sure it's correct) and I would like to have it right now. I don't see any use in having to repeat everything over and over again when I've already stated everything under oath.

O Q: Are there specific problems in construction or design at Comanche Peak which you believe currently exist (which have not, as far as you know, been put into the process to be corrected) to which you could take the Licensing Board and show them? And would you be willing to do so?

A: There are welds made outside of procedures or NRC regulations. I know in particular of one weld on the 32" main steam line Where a weld data card was lost, so they just filled out a new one! I guess I could show the Board the papemork on it.

! Q: Are there other instances of intimidation of which you are aware?

! A: As I stated in my deposition, I knew it was just a matter of time and that the first lay-off they had, I would be gone, because I had been

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O identified as a witness by CASE in the April 1983 licensing hearings.

My son-in-law, Freddy Ray Harrell, and I had worked together for several months. After I was identified as a-CASE witness, they split us up and put me on the shift working from Thursday through Sunday and left Fred working Monday through Thursday. I think they did that to get back at us. Then they laid Fred off after he had pulled a hernia and want on the laytff list.

Someone should check the records to see who else in his crew was laid off, because Fred 'had a goo'd record down there. They laid him off while he was in the hospital. I think they laid him off because he had been identified as a CASE witness also. The three of us (Roy Combs, Fred Harrell, and I) had been identified as CASE witnesses and Roy and Fred were in the next lay-off; I knew I was going to be in that layoff too, so I quit when I got an p/

'- offer of a job right before the layoff.

Q: Why should the Licensing Board be concerned about such intimidation, harassment, or threatening or discouragement of employees, or such deficiencies as you may tell them about or show them at Comanche Peak? What's the bottan line as far as the safety of the plant is concerned?

A: It is about time someone looked at the waste and cost over i.a at this

- plant and where a lot of it went. People that do know anything at the plant are not going to talk.

Q: Do you want to testify regarding these matters in. the operating license hearings for Comanche Peak?

A: Yes, if something will be done, not just talk!

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O I have read the foregoing affidavit, which was prepared under my personal direction, and it is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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Date: 37 72 &w /ff3 STATE OF [8A86 COUNTY OF D /:1ILAg On this, the J 7 day of %V ,198],personallyappeared iErrge- _Cm , m , known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes therein expressed.

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