Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 106 /Wednesday, June 3, 1998 / Notices 30219

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Hearings and Appeals

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and

Orders; Week of January 12 Through

January 16, 1998

During the week of January 12

through January 16, 1998, the decisions

and orders summarized below were

issued with respect to appeals,

applications, petitions, or other requests

filed with the Office of Hearings and

Appeals of the Department of Energy.

The following summary also contains a

list of submissions that were dismissed

by the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Copies of the full text of these

decision and order are available in the

Public Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals, 950 L’Enfant

Plaza, SW, Washington, D.C., Monday

through Friday, except federal holidays.

They are also available in Energy

Management: Federal Energy

Guidelines, a commercially published

loose leaf reporter system. Some

decisions and orders are available on

the Office of Hearings and Appeals

World Wide Web site at http://

www.oha.doe.gov.

Dated: May 21, 1998.

Thomas O. Mann,

Acting Director, Office of Hearings and

Appeals.

Decision List No. 68

Week of January 12 through January 16,

1998

Personnel Security Hearings

Personnel Security Hearing, 1/12/98,

VSO–0164

A Hearing Officer issued an Opinion

regarding the eligibility of an individual

to maintain an access authorization

under the provisions of 10 CFR Part 710.

The DOE issued a Notification Letter

which alleged that the individual (1)

deliberately falsified information from a

Questionnaire for National Security

Position and in a Personnel Security

Interview, and (2) engaged in unusual

conduct that showed the individual is

not honest, reliable, or trustworthy or is

subject to coercion that may cause the

individual to act contrary to the best

interests of national security. See 10

CFR 710.8(f)(1). After carefully

examining the record of the proceeding,

the Hearing Officer determined that the

individual had deliberately omitted

information from a Questionnaire for

National Security Position and had

engaged in financially irresponsible

conduct and other behavior involving a

sensitive foreign country that showed

the individual is not trustworthy and is

subject to coercion. Accordingly, the

Hearing Officer recommended that the

individual’s access authorization not be

restored.

Personnel Security Hearing, 1/12/98

VSO–0166

An individual’s access authorization

had been suspended due to two items of

derogatory information that gave rise to

security concerns. The first item was a

diagnosis by a DOE psychiatrist that the

individual suffered from paranoid

delusional disorder, a mental condition

that causes, or may cause, a significant

defect in judgment or reliability as

provided at 10 CFR 710.8(h). The

second item was an interview in which

the individual stated she would disclose

classified information relating to health

issues, which indicated that the

individual is not honest reliable, or

trustworthy, as provided at 10 CFR

710.8(1). At the hearing, the individual,

while casting doubt on the DOE

psychiatrist’s diagnosis, failed to

establish her eligibility for access

authorization. Her expert witness

however, a clinical psychologist,

testified that the individual suffered

from psychotic depression with

episodic loss of contact with reality. In

addition, the individual stated at the

hearing that she would not disclose

classified information, The Hearing

Officer found, however, that the

individual’s statements were

unconvincing in view of testimony at

the hearing that she was emotionally

labile and subject to psychotic episodes.

Accordingly, the Hearing Officer

expressed the opinion that the

individual’s access authorization should

not be restored.

Dismissals

The following submissions were dismissed.

Name Case No.

Dykema Gossett PLLC ..................................................................................................................................................................... VFA–0362

Interstate Gulf ................................................................................................................................................................................... RF300–21691

National Starch & Chemical Co. ....................................................................................................................................................... RF272–95738

Personnel Security Hearing .............................................................................................................................................................. VSO–0182

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and

Orders; Office of Hearings and

Appeals

Week of January 26 Through January

30, 1998

During the week of January 26

through January 30, 1998, the decisions

and orders summarized below were

issued with respect to appeals,

applications, petitions, or other requests

filed with the Office of Hearings and

Appeals of the Department of Energy.

The following summary also contains a

list of submissions that were dismissed

by the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Copies of the full text of these

decisions and orders are available in the

Public Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals, 950 L’Enfant

Plaza, SW, Washington, D.C. 20585–

0107, Monday through Friday, except

federal holidays. They are also available

in Energy Management: Federal Energy

Guidelines, a commercially published

loose leaf reporter system. Some

decisions and orders are available on

the Office of Hearings and Appeals

World Wide Web site at http://

www.oha.doe.gov.