ML17187A848
| ML17187A848 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 03/12/1997 |
| From: | Stang J NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Johnson I COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9703140118 | |
| Download: ML17187A848 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 March 12, 1997 Ms. Irene Johnson, Acting Manager Nuclear Regulatory Services Commonwealth Edison Company
- Executive Towers West III 1400 Op~s Place,. Suite ~00 Downers Grove, IL 60515
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
Dear Ms. Johnson:
By lefter from Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) dated February 17, 1997, and General Electric Company's (GE) affidavit executed by George B. Stramback dated February 6, 1997, you submitted proprietary documents entitled, NEDE-30911, SHEX-04 User's Manual, Class II (GE Company Proprietary Information}, dated August 1985; *NEDE;._309lt-l, SHEX-04V User's Manual.
(Addendum to SHEX-04 User's Manual), Class II (GE Company Proprietary Information), dated June 1994; 384HA497, Heat Exchanger (RHR), Heat Transfer Calculation Computer Progr:am, Revision 2, (GE Company Proprietary Information), dated October 3, 1979, and requested that they be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2. 790.
Non-proprietary ve'rsi ans were also included in the supmittal.
GE stated that the information should be considered exempt from mandatory public*distlosure for the following reasons:
(4)a.
Information that discloses a process, method, or apparatus, including supporting data and analyses, where prevention of its use by General El e.ctri c' s competitors without license from General Electric constitutes a competitive economic advantage*over other companies;
- b. -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;
- (8)
The information identified... above, is classified as proprietary
.because it contain~ detailed design bases and methods and
.pr<;>cesses regarding the use of analytical models, including 9703140118 970312 PDR*\\'.*TOPRP EUTCEIL
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Ms. Irene Johnson computer codes, which GE has developed or modified, and applied to perform evaluations of containment pressurization and heat transfer capability for loss-of-coolant accidents for the BWR.
This detailed level of information normally only is available for GE internal use, is not supplied even to our customers, and only is available for ~udit by customers and the NRC.
This information shows in specific detail the processes, codes and methods employed to perform the evaluations.
The development, modification and approval of this informatio~ and models for thes~ BWR analysis computer codes was achieved at a
- signifjtant cost, on the order of several hundred thousand dollars, to GE.
The development of the supporting proces~es, was at a significant
. additional cost to GE, in excess of a !llil'l ion do 11 ars, over and abov~ the large cdst rif developing the underlying individual proprietary report information."
- We have reviewed* your submittal* and the material in accordance with the
~equirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and~ on the basis of GE's statements, have determined that the submitted iriformation sought t6 be withhel~ contains trade secrets or proprietary commerci~l information.
'Therefore, we have dete'rmi ned that the* documents. entitled, NEDE-30911, SHEX-04
- user's Manual, Clas~ II (GE Company Proprietary Information), dated August 1985; NEDE-30911-1,, SHEX-04V User's* Manual (Addendum to SHEX-04 User's.
Manual), Class II (GE Company Proprietary Information), dated June 1994; *
- 384HA497, Heat Exchanger (RHR), Heat Transfer Calculation Computer Program, Revision. 2, (GE Company Proprietary Information), dated October 3, 1979, marked as proprietary will be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section 103(b) of the Atomic Energy Act df 1954, as amended~
Withholding from publi~ inspection shall not affect the right, if any, of.
persons properly and directly concerned to inspe~t* the documents.
If the need arises, we may sen~ copies of this information to our consultants working in this ~rea.
We will, of cours~. insure that the consultants have signed the appropriate ag_reements for* ha'ndl i n*g 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 should also understand th~t the NRC may have cause to review this determination in the future, for example, if the scope of a Freedom of Information Act request
- Ms. Irene Johnson includes your informat.ion~ '_In all review situations*, if the NRC needs additional information from you or makes.a determination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of* any public disclosure~
I Docket Nos. 50-237, 50-249 cc:
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.PUBLIC PDII-1-2 r/f J. Roe E. Adensam R. Capra MPSiemien, OGC (and e-mail MPS)
CMoore JStang PHiland, Riii Sincerely;
- Orjginal signed by:
John F. Stang, S~nior Project Mana~er Project:Dir~ctorate 111-2 Divisirin of Re~ctor. Projects - Ill/IV
. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DOCUMENT NAME:
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- I. Johnson Commonwealth Edison Company cc:
Michael I. Miller, E~quire Sidley and Austin One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois
- 60603
- site Vice President Dresden Nuclear Power Station 6500 North Dresden Road. *
~orris, 111-i~ois 60450-9765
- Station Manager*
Dresden Nuclear Power Station 6500 North Dresden Ro~d Morris, Illinois 60450-9765 U.S.. Nuclear Regulatory. Commission
~est~eryt Inspectors Office Dresden Stat.ion
- 6500 Noith* Dresden Road
- . Morris, :111 i noi s
- 60450-9766 Regional ~dmin~strator U.S. NRC; Region Ill 801.Warrenvill~ Road Lisle, lll.inois
- 60532-4351-.
111.ino~s Depart~ent of Nu~lear ~afety Office of Nuclear Facility Safety 1035 Outer' Park Dri~e
- Springfield,,111 inoi s. 62704
- . :Chairman Grundy Courity Board.
Administration B~ilding 1320 Union.Street Morris, Illinois 60450
- Oocu111ent Control Desk-L'icensing Commonwealth Edison Company 1400 Opus Place, Suite 400 Downers Grove:, 11 Ji noi s* 60515 David J. Robare General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue
- san Jose, California 95125 Dreiden Nutlear Power Station Unit Nos. 2 and 3