Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Reno E. Bonfanti, after
a hearing on the record, recommended that the complaint in
this action under the employee protection provision of the
Energy Reorganization Act (42 USC 5851) (ERA) be dismissed.
He held that the complainant, Wallace Royce, was an employee
of respondent Bechtel Power Corporation protected by the Act
and that Royce had engaged in protected activities. He found,
however, that Bechtel had a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason
for discharging Royce and would have done so even absent his
protected activity. I find that the record fully supports
the ALJ's recommendation and I adopt it.
