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MEMORANDUM FOR: 0. C. Shac'kl'eton Director, Field Office of Investigations, RV FROM: J. B. Martin, Regional Administrator
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ALLEGATIONS RELATED TO SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION j
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Allegation Tracking System No. RV-83-A-0044 i On October 13, 1983 Mr. H. B. Ray, the Station Manager, telephoned and notified the region of allegations made by Bechte} employees. He informed the region that Bechtei was going to hold a press conterence on October 14, 1983," ~~ to respond t'o certain allegations made to the Los Angeles Times by former , SONGS Bechtel workers. . . . . 1 The allegations made by the workers are: I a.ek (1) There is a general use of rug omsite by Bechtel workers.
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(2) Bechte) foremen are taking kickbacks from workers in return for . j allowing those workers to remain employed at SONGS and not be laid i off.
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(3) Answer keys to the " Red Badge" training examinations are available for sale onsite. " Red Badge" is a euphemism for the type of badge which allows a person to have unescorted access to the protected area. Your office is requested to conduct sufficient investigations to resolve allegations (1) and (3), above, and document the results of your investigations in a report. Item (2), above, does mot appear to violate any c.MRC requirements, however, you are" requested to evaluate and refer this' d allegation to propergeivil authorities if there is potential for violation of civil law, o +
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Because these items appear to have a high level of media interest, you are requested to take action in a timely manner, consistent, of course, with your other office priorities. l John B. Martin Regional Administrator
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1 hy Cheryl Clark, swrwrner_ _ ._. .. ._ __ l k W SW WA'Am MW M M Twenty one security guards at San Onofre Nuclear - s I 1 Power Plant's three generating stations have been ses-pended from their jobs because analysis of their urine I Idetected drugs. - 1 L Cliff Ingber, corporate counsel for Burns International Security Systems Inc., said the guards signed waivers agreeing to such tests as a condition of their employment. - The tests are considered necessary, he said, because of - ? the sensitive nature of n=remar power plant operation. .
, Burns has provided more than 300 uniformed, unarmed guards for around-the-clock duty at San Onofre under ceentract with Southern California Edson Co. since July 1.
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'- 1he urineJysis tests were ordered Friday, July 22. The l guards were not given advance notice that urine samples ;
were to be taken,Ingber said.
. Jim Hanchett, a spokesman for the federal Nuclear '
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. . . . ar power plant operations, said the NRC does not require .
' drug detection through urinalysis of guards or other nu-
' clear power plant employees, because of concern over the
-issue of invasion of employees' privacy.
However, Hanchett said.* findings of drugs among nu-clear plant employees at various plants has prompted q
" concern about the mental and physical alertness of em- !
, ployees engaged in important job-related duties." -
'Ingber, in a_ telephone interview from Burns headquar- -
.1ers in Paramus, NJ., said that of the more than 300 )
urinalysis tests taken,.21 revealed levels of THC, the '
- - active ingredient in marijsana, hashish and several other kinds of drugs. Those guards were immediately suspend- -
ed in late July, he said.
"The vast majority of our employees took this exam.
We're concerned with less than 10 percent," Ingber said. The 21 samples are now being retested by a more 1 sophisticated device, a mass spectrometer, to determine exactly what kind of drugs might have been in each I guard's system. When these tests are completed, they will I be reviewed and Burns officials will decide whether the j guards will be fired,Ingber said. , 1
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._ Burns' internal guidelines and rules governing employ-ee performance are not made'peblic,Ingber said. - 1
- Hanchett said the NRC is very concerned about "the ; i
. perceptible increase in the number of drug related epi- I sodes" at nuclear power plants in recent years. For ex- l
' ample, in the last two years workers at Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in Sacramento were found possess- , l ing cocaine and selling marijuana and cocaine. At the =
l Trojan nuclear plant in Oregon in 1979, 12 preser,t or i j
;former employees were arrested for trafficking in drugs. j
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' published a proposed regulation that would require utility i companies managing nuclear power plants to set up drug- -I and alcohol screening nrocrams The commission has not y3 // n > l
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, clear Generating Station have been Chtf bgher, corporate codmel for t fired or suspended' betonee they ,
. Amoked a drug screening'or refusadwere asp,.smmer1 ~Wordered llurus Arm, because said the firings and !
~ to take the test, accordW.g to ofScuds the guards either refaned M submit
$ 1 -dthe security company and a Nucle .Ito the eramelyp.or nunked the test.-
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m campany's anarmed g,M 'at a p=resas tacGuy," he s2 ., j provuleneon#yxcur, at the nu. Some of thoea who were fitwl and - 3
. clear complex, nM Davi Barros of -, ' ' are consideringlegs1 ac.
Soethern Call!ctde Eilison 01, the tion assinst '.he emipany, however l main owner shperator tin plant. - for vichtien M.eir privacy,accop , a. Barron said the duties included ing to fkt MRC men. 1 traffic control, escort services ar4 1 Hamhett said the Nuclear Regula. < j
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q Southern California Edison Ca B.u for drug screceing of any nuclear ,, I - c
, armed guards who provide the pri. plant personnet but last year had ,!'
. mary security service. Proposed i@iii.g stilities to initi. , d Burns International, headquar. ate sud amuures.The progr.im was i l
. tered in Paramws, NJ., began pro. sever fglernated, he said. "
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' B-d' TIIEidtTRIBUNE San Diego. Tuesday, August 9,1983 i*' Guards '
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"Our only requirement is The 1,100 megawatt coinpeted when thermto.?
.that basically people must power reactor was running readsed the 20 percent,50 be pi'ysically capable of;today at the 99 percent Percent and 80 percent op.
.......,.-.w.= . their duties,"" level, which is emedered erating cwth. . .
said.' : full-power operation, Bar. The ecmpiction of the
; Meanwhile; 'the Unit 2 ron said, tests, which spanned more
,temw at the San Oncire "The plant la new in w Das a year, is a m3estone
. complex has been placed tine operations,"hesnR in the constmetion andyp. ,
.into sermt! operation after He said 34 tests Wre erating history of Unit 2, )
;completlag more than a completed sur==8mily la which is one of two new
- year of testing required by recent weeks at the100 per. reactors completed at the
- the Neclear Regulatory cent power level Earlier, a station at a cost of H 2 bil.
- ,"""'l'"a" series of other tests were lio.n.
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A ;y".2 7 ,enty.een .yntitypards at the ; At San Onofre, the comp ny provides secondary securi. ay sSan Mt@xlear Geaerting Sta- qy enerage by unarmed personnel. The dutjes include den have been aspeci fraf6e control, escort servires and watch duty in various f dirg their teuses of the plant, said David Barron, apakm==an for W jobs paenhag,furtherdets after inii
' dat wealysis umples shwed ed- Duthern California Edison Co the majority owner and
?dence'ai strug use, said an official of aparator of the nuclear comp, lex. Edison's own armed guards are responsible for Primary security at the nucle- ?F r Bins .1sternational. Socitrity fier- arsteuen. ,T.-
ynces ine. 1 ,m Company lawyer Cliff Ingber said 1'Utihty and federal authorities said there was no evi-fuither urinalyses are being conduct- .esce that*any of the guards who were suspended had pd drugs while on the job. 1, C.t "qc,M Ad using a mass spectrometer, a
~ Barns took over the secondary security activity at Saa
' - statM the art device for the detec . a g< ma turn setthu'tive,.#e of drugs. doofre last month, replacingTells Fargo Security Ser.
'4ess, Barron said. In If any- of the serinaly- to a question about the
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Aug-related suspensions, said, "We have confi-siH decide to fire the em-pyeese Gaee in Berue; otherwise we wouldn't have hired Abom." mariplinary , ?'"isnessures,r I take other Ingbersaid, i als June 1932 Edison was fined 860,000 by the Nuclear
., Yesterday, The Tribuse creported iagulatory Namianian for security violaticas at the Saa ,
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' that at least 15 securit7 E"ar.is bad Geofre Unit I nuclear reactor. The violations concerned i
. been fired after flunibg the drug failure to perform certain functions and did not involve
; screemog or refusing M tase the test. drugs or anyone obtaining unauthorized access to the j seclear plant. , j De information was tud ou anin- .
i correct wire report and information
- Barron said the utility does not routinely screen its own )
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Inger said later yesterday that no donunission about the Burns screening at San Onofre sa ' n . one has been hred rd that none of 11 guards out of 360 tested for drugs failed the tests and the employees refued to wizjt to- had been suspended or terminated. But NRC spokesman . ) the drug screening. He said security Jim Hanchett said the regulatory agency received the I 1 worters sign a form at the time they information "second or third hand" through an " informal are bited agreeing to ymicipate in acufication"
,eracity from Edison of the information. and could not vouch for the the company's drug screening pro- "
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were tested darks the last week in ' July, of0cials said. j "All who were asked to take 'We trinalysis ed so,"nid Ingber in as I latarview from company headquar-R^ thr) m Paramas. NJ. , . .
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'c-iplinary actica until scch thne as c se've had conclusive evidence that she employees were under the influ- - esce d drug "Ingber saki. Ee could . y-,y_.2,..--- . -
1: i e _ _ _ _ - . . . . . . i sat say %.Je remdts of the addinosal I. mts waald be in. A Warns etncials said the company l mes some form of drug screening at
> d 34 nuclear plants in the country Please see GUARM, B-4
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.j ' drug use "The company (Burns) gave as some information a couple of weeks ago, ,
and we said "I' hank you for telling us, 1 we really ygeciate it,' but it was
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gJg&e ge ' nothing we had any official jurisdiction g over or official laterest in " Hanchett said. -s
. Asked if there should be such regula. ,
Sr Patricia Klein . . tions, Hanchett replied, "I don't know. Herald statt writer wre ty.one security ' offi- ou. *
"We are not a drug enforcement '
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, guarding the San Onofre agency," he said.
f ( nuclear power plant have . % m> w when you look at it, they
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4 pected drug t.se, a Nuclear Oppe Regula. the firsttems of July that andsecurity shortly contract at San-tory Commission spokesman said taerJafter instituted a program to try
" ,# Iesterday and control an undesirable situation. So ne 21 either failed tests-de signed to detect drugs in their I thkbany Itir reading of the thing 1
r bodies, or refused to take suct wouldsaythqrveprobablydoneafairly
/ tests. Fifteen were fired and the good job. .The firings and suspensions at the L remaining six suwpended, accord San Onofre plant are part of a pattern of ..
Ing to the spokesman. marked increases in drugrelated inci. . All the officers wve 1 om dents at the nation's nuclear power
' Burns international Secetty '
J. P lantsc e ices Inc., based in Pama:A, .The number of nuclear power plant , The company is said. by NBC workers arrested or fired because of officials to be the largest supplier of security guards to US. nacieer drWahuse drastically andlast in tha the trafficking five years,has risen j power plants, the Associated Press Hanchett said. . He described the majority of cases as )
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, h. - mported'rm The fi was hered by Southern "s,eWg marjuana in the parking lots, California Edison Co., San Onofre's @e having cocaine packets on their
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" - provide a supplemental security persons inside a plant, security guards
) force beginning July 1. David smoking a little grass out on patrol at
' Barron, a spokesman for Southern midnight. It's ithe Burns' security guard California Edison Co, told the wire matter) certainly not an isolated in-
' stance, but you know, something that service. i The 1,100 megawatt Unit 11 we've been aware of for several years. "
"let's face it,'you know, the whole reactor - one of three at San ,
- Onofre - was brought inte full- society is doing it" he said. !
The NRC has yet to record a licensed I
/ power operation Monday after suc-cessfully completing a yearlong power!
series of tests David J. Fogarty, an a drug related incident, Hanchett said. ] encutive vice president said. "The cases we have seen have been i tlc Eurns guards are unarmed. maintenance '.vorkers,laborerers, secur. I ney provide traffic control, can. ity Until guards, that sort the recent of thing. cction " by Burns, the duct searches P wcurity check 4nscuseming worst case to date on the West Coast points, oparst kraymact.ines and mc! 9tectors, pro. been the firing of 12 workers vide escort services for vsiluc' +M th*, security guards, from the 'ftojan guard points of access to the plant, nutear power plant north of Portland, said Jim Hanchett, a San Freehm Ore.,The 12 were arrested as the result of based spokesman for the NRC. Hanchett said the private secur. an Oregon State Police undercover ity company administered urtaa. levestigation into drug trafficking.Han-lyses to 360 of its San Onegre chett said. security officers July 22. At the San Onofre plant itself, former ! But he said the NRC, anse workers told an NRC safety panel in responsibility it is to ensure the June 1981 that some temporary workers safety of the nation's suelear at the plant often used drugs and M power plants, does not have any alcohol, and that aboddy repairs were regulations outlawing the une of commonplace. drugs by nuclear plant employees, Reacting to such reports, the NRC nor do any procedures exist for last year proposed that utility comps-requiring power plants to report nies be required to ensure that nuclear drug use by employees. power plant workers with access to The tests of the Burns security protected areas are not under the i guards were not administered at nt',uence of drugs or alcohol. The utilities would have been able to select their o%n criteria for such A'"- assurances. The proposal has not been acted upon by the five member regulatory cornmis-ston, Hanchett said.
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Sy Mark Cone The Register nuclear facility for obvious rea. sons," Ingber said. A vaham for Burns Interna-Citing a need for " extraordinary tional said penodic tests for mari ' precautions"at the San Onofre nu-clear power plant, a security firm Juana and other drugs are part of the campany's fired 15 guards ar'd suspended six guards an h, policy. they Before re others after they either failed or h agneing to pade@lpate in refused to take drug tests, utility the tests, officials said Tuesday. The guards were disciplined by The firedernployees were partof -
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vices Inc., which has provided se- tant security" throughout theplant curity at the plant since July 1, at the San Diego County border, according to Southern California Barron said. The plant's toplevel Edison Co. watchrnen,however,artemployed The guards were part of an un- by Edison,which doesnot adminis-armed force that provides services ter urinalyses, Barron said. including parking lot security and traffic control. A separate armed Information about the types of team responsible for majo,r secu- drugs foundin the tests or the num-ber of guarils who refused to take rity was not included in the drug tests, power company spokesman Dave Barron said. the tests wasunavailable Tu The powercompanyis "requir to make sure allour employeesare Jim 11anchett, a spokesman for fit for duty,"Barton said. the Nuclear Regulatory Commls-sion, told the Associated Press that Neither the power company nor the dmg tests, which consisted of a the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-urinalysis, were administered to sion require drug tests for nuclear 360
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members of the security force plant employees, Barron said. Burns International chose to ad- " Cliff Ingber, corporate counsel minister the tests as its own form for the Paramus, N.J. based firm, of screening, Haachett said. told the AP that the firings "We have re regulations in that and suspensions were ordered af- ares, We ares't a drug enforce-ter traces of the drugs were de- ment agency," Hanchett said, tected in urine samples or guards refused to take the tests. "The commission was concerned
" Extraordinary about an increased number of-precautions drug-related instances concerning power plants in have to be taken in service to a Hanchett.said, the nation." N i
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