ML17059B264
| ML17059B264 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 08/26/1996 |
| From: | Hood D NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Terry C NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. |
| References | |
| TAC-M95100, NUDOCS 9609060020 | |
| Download: ML17059B264 (8) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, O.C. 20555-0001 August 26, 1996 Carl D. Terry Vice President Nuclear Engineering Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Generation Business Group D-2 300 Erie Boulevard West
- Syracuse, NY 13202
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION UNIT NO.
1 (TAC NO. M95100)
Dear Mr. Terry:
By your application dated April 30,
- 1996, and affidavit dated April 29,
- 1996, executed by George B. Stramback, General Electric (GE), you submitted "Core Shroud Repair 270'ie Rod Assembly Assessment, Class III, dated April 1996, and requested that it be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790.
You also submitted a non-proprietary version for the Public Document Room.
You stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for the following reasons:
1.
Information that discloses a process,
- method, or apparatus, including supporting data and analyses, where prevention of its use by GE's competitors without license from GE constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies; 2.
Information which, if used by a competitor, would reduce his expenditure.,
of resources or improve his competitive position in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality, or licensing of a similar product;
- 3. 'he information identified is classified as proprietary because it contains detailed results of stress analysis with offset loading considering slipping and new techniques for seismic analyses which GE has developed and applied to the evaluation of boiling-water reactor reactors.
The application for which this document is presently being requested is for a hardware design modification (stabilizers for the shroud horizontal welds) intended to be installed in a reactor to resolve the reactor pressure vessel core shroud weld cracking concern.
The development and approval of this design modification utilized systems, components, and models and computer codes that were developed at a
significant cost to GE, on the order of several hundred thousand doll.ars.
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C. Terry August 26, 1996 The development of the design methods and evaluation process contained in the document along with the interpretation and application of the analytical results is derived from the extensive experience database that constitutes a major GE asset, on the order of several million dollars.
We have reviewed your application and the material in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and, on te basis of your statements, have determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains proprietary commercial information.
Therefore, the version of the submitted information marked as proprietary will.
be withheld from the public disclosure pursuant. to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section 103(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
Withholding from public inspection shall not affect the right, if any, of persons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents.
If the need
- arises, we may send copies of this information to our consultants working in this area.
We will, of course, ensure that the consultants have signed the appropriate agreements for handling proprietary information.
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.
You also should understand that the NRC may have cause to review this determination in the future, for example, if the scope of a Freedom of Information Act request includes your information.
In all review situations, if the NRC makes a
determination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of any public disclosure.
Sincerely,
/s/
Darl S.
Hood, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-1 Division of Reactor Projects I/II
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C. Terry The development of the design methods and evaluation process contained in the document along with the interpretation and application of the analytical results is derived from the extensive experience database that constitutes a major GE asset, on the order of'everal million dollars.
We have reviewed your application and the material in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and, on the basis of your statements, have determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains proprietary commercial information.
Therefore, the version of the submitted information marked as proprietary will be withheld from the public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section 103(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
Withholding from public inspection shall "not affect the right, if any, of persons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents.
If the need
- arises, we may send copies of this information to our consultants working in this area.
We will, of course, ensure that the consultants have signed the appropriate agreements-for handling proprietary information.
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.
You also should understand that the NRC may have cause to review this determination in the future, for example, if the scope of a Freedom of Information Act request includes your information.
In all review situations, if the NRC makes a
determination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of any public disclosure.
Sincerely, Docket No. 50-220 cc:
See next page Darl S.
Hood, Senior Project Hanager Project Directorate I-l Division of Reactor Projects - I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station Unit No.
1 CC:
Mr. B. Ralph Sylvia Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Niagara Hohawk Power Corporation Generation Business Group D-2 300 Erie Boulevard West
- Syracuse, NY 13202 Hr. Richard B. Abbott Vice President and General Manager Nuclear Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station P.O.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Hr. Hartin J. HcCormick, Jr.
Vice President Nuclear Safety Assessment and Support Niagara Hohawk Power Corporation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station P.O.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Hr. Kim A. Dahlberg General Manager Projects Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station P.O.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Hr. Norman L. Rademacher Plant Manager, Unit 1
Nine Hile Point Nuclear Station P.O.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Hs. Denise J. Wolniak Manager Licensing Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station P.O.
Box 63
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Regional Administrator, Region I.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O.
Box 126
- Lycoming, NY 13093 Charles Donaldson, Esquire Assistant Attorney General New York Department of Law 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271 Hr. Paul D.
Eddy State of New York Department of Public Service Power Division, System Operations 3 Empire State Plaza
- Albany, NY 12223 Mr. F. William Valentino, President New York State
- Energy, Research, and Development Authority 2 Rockefeller Plaza
- Albany, NY 12223-1253 Hark J. Wetterhahn, Esquire Winston
& Strawn 1400 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20005-3502 Supervisor Town of Scriba Route 8, Box 382
- Oswego, NY 13126 Gary D. Wilson, Esquire Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation 300 Erie Boulevard West
- Syracuse, NY 13202
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