ML13308B655
| ML13308B655 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 12/05/1979 |
| From: | Baer R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Scherer A ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Fuel, (Formerly ACF Industries ) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7912190215 | |
| Download: ML13308B655 (2) | |
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NRC PDR DBVassallo SAVarga Local PDR LWR #2 File RLBaer Docket Nos.cr HLee and 5-f)VHRood EShomaker, JCooke FJWilliams Mr. A. E. Scherer MRushbrook Licensing Manager (9438-401)
NSIC Combustion Engineering, Inc.
TIC 1000 Prospect Hill Road-ACRS(16)
Windsor, Connecticut 06095 Dear Mr.
Scherer:
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION.FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3)
By letters dated June 28 and August 27, 1979, the Southern California Edison Company submitted slides.of the fuel structure design for San Onofre 2 and 3 and your related affidavit and requested that the slides be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790. A non-proprietary version of the slides was also transmitted by Southern California Edison Company's letter.
The slides were presented previously at a meeting between Southern California Edison Company and the NRC.
Your affidavit stated that the reasons for requesting our withholding of this infonation were:
(1) the information is customarily held in confidence by your company and is not presently available in public sources; (2) the data provides you with a competitive advantage, resulting fromyour expenditure of thousands of man-hours of efforts and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
You believe that in order for your competitors to obtain this advantage, they would likely incur similar e.xpense, time, research and development efforts.
We have reviewed your application and material based on the requirements and criteria of 10 CFR 2.790 and have determined that the above-mentioned docunents sought to be withheld contain trade secrets or confidential commercial or finan cial information.
We also have found at this time that the right of the public to be fully apprised as to the bases for and effects of the proposed action does not outweigh the demon strated concern for protection of your competitive position.
Accordingly, we have detennined that the information should be withheld from public disclosure.
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We therefore approve your request for withholding pursuant to Section 2.790 of 10 CFR Part 2 and are withholding the slides described above as proprietary.
,Withholding from public inspection shall not affect the right, if any, of per sons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents.
If the need arises, we may send copies of this information to our consultants w6rking in this area.
We will, of course, assure that the consultants have signed the appropriate agreements for handling proprietary data.
If the basis for withholding this information from public inspection should change.in the future such that the information could then be made available for public inspection, you should promptly.notify the NRC.
Sincerely, Robert L. Baer, Chief Light Water Reactors Branch No. 2 Division of Project Management>.
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Mr. James H. Drake Vice President Southern California Edison Company 2244 Walnut Grove Avenue P. 0. Box 800 Rosemead, California 91770 fr. B.. Gilian Senior Vice President - Operations San Diego Gas and Electric Company 101 Ash Street P. 0. Box 1831 San Diego, California 92112 OELD DPM:LWR #2
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