ML20217A362
| ML20217A362 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 12/01/1978 |
| From: | Reinmuth G, Rohrbacker R, Thornburg H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| PNO-78-201, NUDOCS 9804220247 | |
| Download: ML20217A362 (1) | |
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h PRELIMINARY' NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-78-201 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of event of
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POSSIBLE safety or public :enterest significance.
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presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this ~date. l Facility: South Texas h oject, Units 1 & 2 Houston Lighting and Power Company {
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Subject:
i CONTACT BY SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS ALLEGING IRREGULARITIES IN QUALITY CONTROL PRACTICE AT STP l
RIV received a telephone call at approximately 9:30 a.m. on December 1, 1 1978, from Jesse Clement, a reporter for the San Antonio Express News. I Mr. Clement was interested in the allegations which had been made re- I garding nonconform:ng construction practices and insufficient quality control programs at the South Texas site (Bay City).
He said that he had been contacted by an individual from the Bay City i plant (STP) who claimed had been fired for trying to do his job. He stated that the individual said that several of the site QC inspectors had been fired on " trumped up" charges. The individual named three people and said he knew of two others (for a total of six) who had L"b l been terminated in the same manner. The reporter stated that the A individual knew the six had filed legal depositions that they had been fired because they were harassing construction by finding " nit picking" nonconformances and slowing the progress of construction work.
Clements was informed that RIV conducted several investigations at l l
STP in regard to similar allegations of irregularities in the Civil QA . !
program at STP and one concerned an individual who' claimed to have been
, unjustly terminated. The reports of these investigatiors were referenced l and he was informed that they were filed in the LPDR in the Matagorda i County Court House in Bay City, Texas l
Clements further stated that the individuals, through a lawyer repre-senting ar, anti nuclear group, were seeking an injunction to shut-down l
construction activities at the STP site.
He also stated that the lawyer has contacted Congressmen of a sub- l committee (unknown) to investigate activities at the site. i Media interest 'is unknown at t'nis time. A press release is not planned.
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