THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: April 15, 1992 06:26 AM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Called Wayne about agenda items for York trip and Welch invoice.

1...Summary/Objective
.....Logging Documents


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Dep Natrl Rscrs & Consvn           40
020101 - Mr. Wayne Wetzel
020102 - Director's Office

SUBJECTS
Broadwater Project
Engineering Management, 911011
Replace v. Retrofit, 920120
Substantial Completion, Punch List, Planning
Meeting Procedures, Transcripts
Ideas, Methods, Evaluation

0908 -
0908 -    ..
0909 - Summary/Objective
0910 -
091001 - Follow up
091002 -
091003 - x0001 We reviewed the items proposed for the Voith meeting agenda, ref SDS
091004 - 7 line 091004, and the staff preparation items at line 091048, which
091005 - may be helpful to present in his staff meeting today on this matter.
091006 -
091007 -     Considered having DNRC and Power review the history of prior
091008 -     meetings with Voith, ref SDS 1 - 4, as encouragement to carry out
091009 -     the agenda proposals at ref SDS 7.  See particularly ref SDS 3
091010 -     line 2209 in which Tudor was alerted Voith's conduct showed there
091011 -     would be serious problems.
091012 -
091014 -      ..
091015 -     Logging Documents
091016 -
091017 -     Wayne feesl there may not be enough time for the staff to log the
091018 -     documents to SDS.
091019 -
091020 -     As a fall back, they could send them to me and I can do it.
091021 -     Would need a scanner.
091022 -
091024 -  ..
091025 - I suggested Wayne get the crew started doing an updated CPM for
091026 - project closeout, so they understand the pending tasks and the
091027 - corrleation of issues.
091028 -
091030 -  ..
091031 - Power has not submitted to Wayne its letter to Voith or any analysis
091032 - of the Spur v. Double Helical issue.  Wayne wrote a letter on this
091033 - matter in early March.
091034 -
091035 -     We discussed procedures to get Power off the fence on these
091036 -     issues.  The meeting agenda ideas, ref SDS 7 items e and f, are
091037 -     designed to do this.
091038 -
091039 -
091041 -  ..
091042 - We discussed DNRC's use of $500K being withheld to correct defective
091043 - work.  Sarah has reservations about DNRC using these funds, since they
091044 - may be needed to buy a new speed increaser.  I agree with this, and
091045 - also wonder about the strategy of asserting those funds are no longer
091046 - intended to be released to Voith.  On the other hand it seems much too
091047 - late to be trying to finess this matter.  Voith needs to know where it
091048 - stands and on the basis of that, it must perform or be terminated.
091049 -
091050 -
091051 -
091052 -
0911 -

SUBJECTS
Broadwater Project
DTL tolerance Claim
Review Claim by DNRC

1005 -
1006 - Summary/Objective
100701 -  ..
100702 - Wayne asked if Mike Sims can scan in the documents I need to continue
100703 - the claims work.  I indicated that Mike could do it, but I believe his
100704 - time is better invested writing up the record on events at the plant.
100706 -  ..
100707 - I suggested that JoAnn or Cindy could do it once I explain how it is
100708 - done.  The problem is that some documents are of too poor a quality to
100709 - scan (e.g. faxes, copies).
100711 -  ..
100712 - Wayne will investigate this further.
100713 -
100714 -
100715 -
100716 -
1008 -

SUBJECTS
Broadwater Project
Management Assistance Broadwater Contract
Discovery, Advantages of Saving the Record
Litigation Support, Concurrent Discovery
Writing "everything" down Not Needed to
Accountability is Burdensom for Executives
Legal Disputes Won by Control of the Record
Discovery What We Need to Know Before It is
Obstacles to Leadership, Ovecoming
Law is Microscope of Discovery for Truth,
Capturing the Record, What did we say, What did we hear
Organizational Memory Knowledge Preserve with SDS
Organizational Memory History Experience Repository Exerience Knowled

2515 -
251601 -  ..
251602 - Wayne will review the discussion on 920413 considering requirements
251603 - for investing adequate resources to understand daily experience that
251604 - impacts DNRC interests. ref SDS 6 0001  Without an adequate record
251605 - the chances of prevailing in legal proceedings is reduced.
251607 -  ..
251608 - We considered the SDS record on the Voith matter regarding the DTL as
251609 - showing the value of capturing important daily experience in the SDS
251610 - record.  There is a lot of activity that occurs each day that needs to
251611 - be preserved in order to establish DNRC's rights and to show that DNRC
251612 - performed as well as possible under the circumstances.
251614 -  ..
251615 - Wayne is concerned about how to effectively explain this to the DNRC
251616 - staff to overcome objections about "discoverability."  We considered
251617 - pointing out that at the time the record was prepared in 1988, the
251618 - Tudor people and some on the DNRC staff did not fully appreciate the
251619 - need to capture the record (indeed in some respects it was flatly
251620 - opposed by some).  Now however, we can see that the record turned out
251621 - to be very beneficial.  Clearly, it would have been helpful to have
251622 - had an SDS record for the start up period, and later when equipment
251623 - failures occurred and Voith attempted corrections; and then later when
251624 - Voith agreed on 920903, to the present.
251626 -  ..
251627 - Therefore, perhaps we should be gathering the record now to protect
251628 - our interests in ways we do not recognize or understand, because
251629 - looking back, we can see the benefit of the record.
251630 -
251631 -
251632 -
2517 -

SUBJECTS
Billings

2703 -
2704 - Summary
270501 -  ..
270502 - Wayne said Patty got the invoice printed okay, but it came out on
270503 - Montana letterhead.
270505 -  ..
270506 - I explained how to open Wayne's SDS Diary records to the entry I made
270507 - yesterday on this.  From that record we opened the file for the
270508 - invoice and changed the printer tray from 4 to 1 which is the
270509 - non-letterhead tray on DNRC's LPT2.  We filed it to "inv" in his
270510 - current directory.
270512 -  ..
270513 - He will put it on a disk and ask Patty to print another copy for
270514 - processing.
270515 -
270516 -
270517 -
2706 -

SUBJECTS
Install SDS on DNRC computers
SDS support for DNRC (network)
Broadwater project management evaluation

3005 -
3006 - Summary
300701 -  ..
300702 - I noticed that the software for connecting CPU #6 to their DEC system
300703 - is still on CPU #6.  Wayne advised they need a card to make the
300704 - connection.  He said they borrowed one from Patty's computer to do the
300705 - test the other day.
300707 -  ..
300708 - So somehow I need to get this card installed so Wayne can work a
300709 - little more efficiently between SDS and their existing system.
300711 -  ..
300712 - I also need to fix the backup on CPU #6 and finish installing Windows
300713 - 3.1.  Also want to try OS/2 2.0.
300715 -  ..
300716 - They need to do a full file backup.
300717 -
300718 -
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3008 -
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