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INFORMATION REPORT 

October 4, 2016 SECY-16-0116 

FOR: The Commissioners 

FROM: Robert J. Lewis 

 Assistant for Operations 

 Office of the Executive Director for Operations 

SUBJECT: WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT – WEEK ENDING 

 SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 

CONTENTS Enclosure 

Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer A 

Office of the Chief Information Officer B 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research C 

 

 /RA/ 

 Robert J. Lewis 

 Assistant for Operations, OEDO 

Contact: M. Ralph, OEDO 

 301-415-1720
October 4, 2016 SECY-16-0116 

FOR: The Commissioners 

FROM: Robert J. Lewis 

 Assistant for Operations 

 Office of the Executive Director for Operations 

SUBJECT: WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT – WEEK ENDING 

 SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 

CONTENTS Enclosure 

Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer A 

Office of the Chief Information Officer B 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research C 

 

 /RA/ 

 Robert J. Lewis 

 Assistant for Operations, OEDO 

Contact: M. Ralph, OEDO 

 301-415-1720 

DISTRIBUTION: 

EDO R/F AO R/F 

ADAMS Accession No: ML16278A491 *via email 

OFFICE OEDO* OEDO/AO 

NAME MRalph RLewis 

DATE 10/04/2016 10/04/2016 

OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE A 

Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO) 

Items of Interest 

Week Ending September 23, 2016 

ARRIVALS 

NONE 

RETIREMENTS 

HINSON, CHARLES S SENIOR HEALTH PHYSICIST NRO 

 

DEPARTURES 

CARPENTER JR, CLARENCE E SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER NRR 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE B 

Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) 

Items of Interest 

Week Ending September 23, 2016

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) Requests and Appeals Received 

During the Period of September 19, 2016 – September 23, 2016, as submitted by requester 

Copy of OI Report 4-2014-009, NRC Security Inspection Report 

05000397/2015407 FOIA/PA-2016-0749 

Copy of calculations referenced in “Release and Hazard Calculations for 

Florida Power and Light’s Incoming Natural Gas Pipeline,” dated July 12, 

2016 

FOIA/PA-2016-0750 

All documents as specified, with respect to NUREG/BR-0292 ("Safety of 

Spent Fuel Transportation") FOIA/PA-2016-0751 

Access to the personnel file of named individual, 18 specified requests 

for documents in the relation to Case 8:02-cv-03511-DKC FOIA/PA-2016-0752 

First 100 pages of ML091590581 FOIA/PA-2016-0753 

First 100 pages of ML091530403 FOIA/PA-2016-0754 

First 100 pages of ML091070088 FOIA/PA-2016-0755 

Copies of all NRC staff maintained contacts of Department of Homeland 

Security - Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group FOIA/PA-2016-0756 

All maintained contacts in/by NRC staff related to FBI - Critical Incident 

Response Group FOIA/PA-2016-0757 

Past communication with FBI Counterterrorism Division - 

Communications Exploitation Section FOIA/PA-2016-0758 

All internal communication only on Office of General Counsel email 

server related to named individual FOIA/PA-2016-0759 

All communication between Regional office that covers Washington 

State, and related NRC offices and email suffix @wsdot.wa.gov, 2013-

current 

FOIA/PA-2016-0760 

Org chart, staff roster, purpose of, assigned budget and equipment listing 

of NRC - Counter assault team FOIA/PA-2016-0761 

Copy of PDF file attachment to email from Stephanie Blaney to classic 

pistol, June 30, 2015 10:29am (2015-0251) FOIA/PA-2016-0762 

Newest NRC Information Digest related to terrorist threat FOIA/PA-2016-0763 

NRC policy & legal opinion on using Department of justice - Confidential 

Source Agreement; Copy of NRC form that's version of the above that's 

in use 

FOIA/PA-2016-0764 

Past briefing, past reports sent to/from NRC and CIA Security Director 

Mary Rose McCaffrey FOIA/PA-2016-0765 

All notices from/to Washington State Department of Transportation and 

NRC, related to radioactive shipment in 2014-current FOIA/PA-2016-0766 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE B 

Copies of all injunction letters sent to NRC from 2015-current FOIA/PA-2016-0767 

Copies of all Office of General Counsel legal opinions related to topic of 

drones FOIA/PA-2016-0768 

Copies of requests from NRC staff and non-staff to OIG, requesting an 

audit or investigation into the FOIA program (2014 or 2015); OIG Reports 

03-A-14, 03-A-20, 03-A-19 and 03-A-18; list of all open and closed IG 

cases 

FOIA/PA-2016-0769 

Any past/curt contracts that NRC has entered into to provide NRC File 

Transfer Protocol Storage Sites, for downloading data files; past 

contracts of NRC buying firearms 

FOIA/PA-2016-0770 

Copies of specified initial FOIA requests FOIA/PA-2016-0771 

All internal/external communication related to specified FOIA Cases and 

Appeals FOIA/PA-2016-0772 

First 100 pages of Collective Bargaining Agreement between NRC 

National Treasury Employees Union FOIA/PA-2016-0773 

Any records dealing with Mallinckrodt dumping of nuclear waste and 

radiologic testing results around 11600 Dorsett Rd - Maryland Heights, 

Missouri 63043 

FOIA/PA-2016-0774 

Copies of any and all site-specific spent fuel pool accident consequence 

studies involving the spent fuel pools at Indian Point Nuclear Generating 

Units 1, 2, and and/or 3 

FOIA/PA-2016-0775 

Appeal the closing of this request and the denial of requested fee waiver, 

in response to FOIA/PA-2016-0703 FOIA/PA-2016-0166A 

Appeal the closing of this request and denial of fee waiver, in response to 

FOIA/PA-2016-0672 FOIA/PA-2016-0167A 

Appeal the search of all letters to Department of Corrections, Washington 

State, and all letter to NRC from above, in response to FOIA/PA-2016-

0673 

FOIA/PA-2016-0168A 

Appeal the denial of requested cell number, in response to FOIA/PA2016-0612 FOIA/PA-2016-0169A 

Appeal the full denial of memo from Charles Mullins to Gabriele 

Chidichimo dated December 29, 2015, FOIA 2016-0164, in response to 

FOIA/PA-2016-0678 

FOIA/PA-2016-0170A 

Appeal the search and denial of name and title of Washington 

Department of Health staff who is to be sent notice of and when a 

radioactive shipment is done in Washington State, in response to 

FOIA/PA-2016-0681 

FOIA/PA-2016-0171A 

Appeal the search performed of all internal/external communication 

related to FOIA case 2016-0504 and FOIA appeal 2016-0124A, in 

relation to FOIA/PA-2016-0679 

FOIA/PA-2016-0172A 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE B 

Appeal the denial of email from Marvin Itzkowitz to Charles Mullins dated 

Jan. 11, 2016, 7:25am, re: FOIA 2016-0164, in response to FOIA/PA2016-0677 FOIA/PA-2016-0173A 

Appeal the search time and the denial of fee waiver, in response to 

FOIA/PA-2016-0675 FOIA/PA-2016-0174A 

Appeal the redactions made to the released FOIA log, in response to 

FOIA/PA-2016-0705 FOIA/PA-2016-0175A 

Appeal the denial and the search performed of the publication and report 

index/listing of Office of the General Counsel, in response to FOIA/PA2016-0698 FOIA/PA-2016-0176A 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE C 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 

Items of Interest 

Week Ending September 23, 2016 

Annual Cooperative Severe Accident Research Program (CSARP) and MELCOR Code 

Assessment Program (MCAP) Technical Review Meetings 

On September 13-16, 2016, the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) sponsored the 

annual CSARP and MCAP Technical Review Meetings. The purpose of these meetings was to 

exchange technical information on severe accident research including experiments and 

analytical models to address possible regulatory and safety issues. A total of 87 participants 

from 22 different countries attended the meetings and there were 43 technical 

presentations. CSARP members indicated growing use of MELCOR in their regulatory 

process. Other topics of interest included fission product scrubbing by pools, in-vessel retention 

and ex-vessel cooling, cross-walk between various severe accident codes, spent fuel pool 

modeling and experiments, Fukushima accident analysis, and tools for emergency response. In 

addition, a one-day MELCOR workshop was conducted on September 12, 2016 that focused on 

new code modeling features including control functions, water ingression and melt eruption, and 

turbulent deposition and resuspension. 

Annual International MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System (MACCS) User Group 

(IMUG) meeting 

On September 15-16, 2016, RES sponsored the annual IMUG Meeting. The purpose of this 

meeting was to exchange technical information and research experience among users of the 

MACCS suite of codes. MACCS is a severe accident consequence analysis computer code 

developed to evaluate the offsite consequences of a hypothetical release of radioactive material 

to the atmosphere. Participants included 15 International Cooperative Severe Accident 

Research Program members who presented on various topics such as “Application of 

Consequence Assessment at Nuclear Facilities” and “Current Activity and Future Plans for 

Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA).” Additionally, NRC staff presented on “Level 3 PRA,” 

“Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives Analysis,” and the “State of the Art Reactor 

Consequence Analysis Uncertainty Analysis.” These international meetings enhance 

collaboration on important severe accident research and knowledge of international activities. 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 ENCLOSURE C 

Federal Agencies Renew Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Modeling and 

Monitoring 

This week the NRC, EPA, DOE, USGS, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the National 

Science Foundation (NSF) completed their renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 

on environmental modeling and monitoring. The MOU provides a mechanism for the 

cooperating Federal agencies to pursue a common technology in environmental modeling and 

monitoring. It focuses on exchanging information on environmental modeling tools and 

supporting scientific information for environmental risk assessments, and protocols for 

establishing linkages between databases and models. The renewed MOU will remain in effect 

until July 27, 2021. RES has the lead for the NRC with NMSS as a sponsor and co-participant. 

This year the EPA representative chairs the Steering Committee with the NSF representative 

serving as vice-chair.