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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS
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YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY
(98-126C) (Merow, S.
CONNECTICUT YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY
(98-154C) (Merow, S.
MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY
(98- 474C) (Merow, S.
Plaintiffs,
THE UNITED STATES,
Defendant.
Washington ,
D.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Continued deposition of THOMAS POLLOG, a
witness herein , called for examination by counsel for
Plaintiffs in the above- entitled matter , pursuant to
agreement, the witness having been previously
duly,
taken at the offices of Spriggs & Hollingsworth, 1350
I Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.
C.,
20005-3305, at
9:40 a. m.,
Wednesday, May 22, 2002 , and the
proceedings being taken down by Stenotype by JAN
WILLIAMS, RPR , and transcribed under her direction.
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MR . S KALABAN :
Do you have any general understanding of
what happened with these criteria?
MR. CRAWFORD:
Obj ection, asked and
answered; obj ection to the extent it calls for
specula tion.
THE WITNESS:
I don t have any specific
recollection of what we did with
this. However, I
mean I could imagine what we may have done with
reports like this that we typically received from
contractors.
BY MR. SKALABAN:
Which is what?
Probably we would review it
in-house,
possibly send it out to other interested parts of the
RW organization for review, possibly solicit
comments, possibly meet with the author to discuss
it, get comments.
Do you remember meeting with anyone at Oak
Ridge or Martin Marietta regarding this report at
all?
I know -- I can recall of no specific
meeting with anyone from Oak Ridge or Martin Marietta
about this report.
And for the record would you explain what
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the relationship of Oak Ridge or Martin Marietta was
to the program at this time?
Yes, they were one of our
contractors.
And Martin Marietta was a contractor who
operated Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
I believe that' s correct.
And Oak Ridge is a DOE laboratory?
Yes.
It says, if you look at Bates page 1030,
that'
s HQR 034-1030 , it says prepared by E.
It also indicates it' s prepared by Oak
Johnson.
Ridge National
Labs.
Well, it says it' s prepared
MR. CRAWFORD:
for Oak Ridge which is also described in the
BY MR. SKALABAN:
forward.
Okay.
What was E. R. Johnson
relationship to the program?
MR. CRAWFORD:
Ob1ection, asked and
answered.
THE WITNESS:
He had several.
He was a
direct contractor to the waste acceptance team at
that point in
time.
And he was also a subcontractor
to at least shown by here Oak Ridge National Lab,
Martin Marietta, and he may have been to other organizations, but I am not aware of that at any
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time.
But it wouldn t surprise me.
BY MR. SKALABAN:
Who are your main
contacts, and again I'
frame,
, 90,
91, who
asking about this general time
were your main contacts at E. R. Johnson that you
worked with?
MR. CRAWFORD:
Obj ection , asked and
answered.
THE WITNESS:
Billy Cole which was the
main contact.
Minor contacts would have been E. R.
I believe that was
Johnson, Barry McLeod.
it.
Possibly Bill Teer
, but I' m
not sure when he came on
board.
It was somewhere in the latter part of my
, 91 , time
time with waste acceptance in the ' 90,
period.
BY MR. SKALABAN:
I want to make sure I just understand what
you just
said.
No.
Mr. Teer used to work for E.
Johnson and then joined RW at some point?
Okay.
Mr. Teer was with another
company, I
believe TN, and came to E. R. Johnson in the latter
part of that '
, time period, when I was
working on waste acceptance.
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Now, turning back to the external
distribution list of DOE, there I s a list of people
here on Bates No. HQR 34- 1154.
And the specific
names begin with
Mr. Barrett.
Do you remember out of
this list, was there anyone in particular who was --
any of these people at RW in particular had sort of
an expertise or was a lead in considering failed fuel
issues?
MR. CRAWFORD:
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague.
No.
BY MR. SKALABAN:
Do you have any recollection of who would have been the point person at DOE for reviewing this
report, addressing this report, and/or doing
something with this report?
MR. CRAWFORD:
THE WITNESS:
Obj ection, vague, compound.
My guess is Mr. Brownstein.
BY MR. SKALABAN:
I want to make sure I understand your
prior testimony correctly.
The conclusion that'
reflected in little 2 on page 2- 5, HQR 034-1044, you
don t remember any conversations with anyone at DOE
or at the contractor regarding the conclusions set
forth in this paragraph?
You re on paragraph 2 now on page 2-5?
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