Richard A. Deweese v. Tennessee Valley Authority

ARCHER, Chief Judge.

Richard A. Deweese appeals from the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or board), Docket No. SL-0351-93-0045-1-1 (Aug. 13, 1993), 1 affirming the action of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or agency) separating him from the service under reduction-in-force (RIF) procedures. 58 M.S.P.R. 608. We reverse and remand.

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Deweese was a Mechanical Engineer, SC-4, with the TVA’s Office of Nuclear Power, Knoxville, Tennessee. The TVA decided in the fall of 1989 to “downsize” the Nuclear Engineering unit from about 350 employees to about 120 employees. Under the…