ML18059A511
| ML18059A511 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 11/16/1993 |
| From: | Hsia A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Toelle S ABB COMBUSTION ENGINEERING NUCLEAR FUEL (FORMERLY |
| References | |
| TAC-M87760, NUDOCS 9311300103 | |
| Download: ML18059A511 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES
- NUCJ&AR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 Docket No. 50-255 Mr. S. A. Toelle, Mana~er Nuclear Licensing Combustion Engineering, Inc.
1000 Prospect Hill Road P. 0. Box 500 Windsor, Connecticut 06095-0500
Dear Mr. Toelle:
November 16, 1993
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (TAC NO. M87760)
By application dated October 20, 1993, Consumers Power Company (CPCo) submitted responses to NRC's October 8, 1993, request for additional information regarding the recent pressurizer safe end crack at the Palisades Plant.
Included in CPCo's submittal was your affidavit dated October 20, 1993, requesting that Enclosure*1 of the submittal be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790.
You stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for the following reasons:
- 1. A similar product is manufactured and sold by major pressurized water reactor (PWR) competitors of CE.
- 2. Development of this information by CE required thousands of manhours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. A competitor would have to undergo similar expense in generating equivalent information.
. 3. In order to acquire such information, a competitor would also require considerable time and inconvenience to ascertain the specific material properties pertaining to the Palisades Plant pressurizer.
- 4. The information required significant effort and expense to obtain the licensing approvals necessary for application of the information.
Avoidance of this expense would decrease a competitor's cost in applying the information and marketing the product to which the information is applicable.
- 5. The information consists of specific fabrication specification and material test data associated with the Palisades Plant pressurizer built by CE, the application of which provides a competitive economic advantage.
The availability of such information to competitors would enable them to modify their product to better compete with CE, take marketing or other actions to improve their product's position or impair the position of CE's product, and.avoid developing similar data and arialyses in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.
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~.-Mr~ Gerald 8. Slade Plant General Manager Pal hades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 M. I. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54th Floor One First National Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Regional Administrator; Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan. 49043 Office of the Governor Room l - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 Hr. David W. Rogers Safety and Licensing Director Palisades Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector Office Palisades Plant 27782 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Palisades Plant Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health Department of Public Health 3423 N. Logan Street P. O. Box 30195 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.
Washington DC 20037 Alora Davis Commitment Tracking System Coordinator Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 27780 Blue Star Memorial Hwy.
Covert, Michigan 49043-9530 Mr. Carl Czajkowski Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 830.
Upton, New York 11973 July 1993