[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 43785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20686]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Seabrook Nuclear Power Station; Issuance of Director's Decision 
Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Enforcement, 
has issued a Director's Decision concerning a petition dated March 31, 
1999, filed by Mr. David A. Lochbaum against unspecified individuals 
working at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station (Seabrook Station) 
pursuant to Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR 2.206). The petition requests that the individuals 
responsible for discrimination against a contract electrician at the 
Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station as identified in NRC Office of 
Investigations (OI) Report No. 1-98-005 be banned by the NRC from 
participation in licensed activities at and for any nuclear power plant 
for a period of at least five (5) years; that the individuals 
responsible for creating a false record to cover up the concern raised 
by the contract electrician as identified in the cited OI report also 
be banned by the NRC from participation in licensed activities at and 
for any nuclear power plant for a period of a least five (5) years; and 
that the Petitioner be permitted to attend the upcoming pre-decisional 
enforcement conference on this matter.
    The Director, Office of Enforcement, has determined that the 
petition should be denied for the reasons stated in the ``Director's 
Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206'' (i.e., DD-99-10). While the NRC staff 
concluded that the foreman had engaged in wrongdoing, the Director, 
Office of Enforcement denied Mr. Lochbaum's request to ban the foreman 
from participating in licensed activities for a period of at least five 
years because the requested enforcement action is not appropriate based 
on the circumstances of the case. The Director's Decision and the 
Notices of Violation issued to the foreman, Williams Power Corporation, 
and NAESCO for the foreman's wrongdoing are available for public 
inspection and copying in the Commission's Public Document Room, the 
Gelman Building, 2120 L Street NW, Washington, DC, and on the NRC's web 
page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/2206/index.html and http://
www.nrc.gov/OE/rpr/oehome4.htm respectively.
    A copy of the Director's Decision has been filed with the Secretary 
of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance with 10 CFR 
2.206(c). As provided therein, the Director's Decision will become the 
final action of the Commission twenty-five days after issuance unless 
the Commission, on its own motion, institutes a review of the Decision 
within that time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 3rd day of August 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
R. W. Borchardt,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 99-20686 Filed 8-10-99; 8:45 am]
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