ML18065A356
| ML18065A356 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 12/13/1995 |
| From: | Gamberoni M NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Smedley R CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9512220175 | |
| Download: ML18065A356 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES
- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Mr. Richard W. Smedley Manager, Licensing Palisades* Plant*.
- WASHINGTON, D.C, 20555-0001 December 13, 1995 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING. INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (PALISADES PLANT)
Dear Mr.
Sme~ley:
By Consumers Power Company;s (CPCo) application dated October 7, 1993, as supplemented May 24, 1995, and Combustion Engineering, Inc. 's {CE) affidavit executed by S. E. Ritterbusch on May 15, 1995, CPCo submitted information on the pressurizer safe end crack engineering analysis and root cause evaluation for Palisades and requested that the CE Report CEN-406-P, Revision 00, "A Status Report on CEOG Activities Concerning Pr.imary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking of Inconel 600 Penetrations," dated May 199J, be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790.
On November 27, 1995, CPCo submitted CEN-406-NP, a nonproprietary version of the above report.
In CE's affidavit it stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from ma~datory public disclosure for the following reasons:
The information consists of design information and plant-specific assessments of primary water stress corrosion cracking, 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 analyses in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.
We have reviewed CPCo's application and CE's affidavit 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 with he 1 d contains proprietary commercial information.
Therefore, the version of the submitted information marked as proprietary (CEN-406-P, Revision 00, "A Status Report on CE.OG Activities Concerning Primary Water Stress* corrosion Cracking of Inconel 600 Penetrations," dated May 1991) will be withheld from 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.
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Mr. R. December 13, 1995 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.
Docket No. 50-255 cc:
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Mr. Richard W. Smedley Consumers Power Company cc:
Mr. Thomas J. Palmisano Plant General Manager Pa1isades Plant 27JBO Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Mr,. Robert A. Fenech Vi.ce President, Nuclear Operations Palisades Plant 21780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 M. 1. Miller, Esquire Sidley & Austin 54ttb floor One 'first National Plaza Chicago, 1l 1 inois 60603 Mr~ Thomas A. McNish Vice President & Secretary Consumers Power Company 212,west Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Ju!Jiid L Bacon, Es qui re Co1nsumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jac:kson, Michigan 49201 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission BC>.ll iWarrenville Road Li s11e, Il 1 i no is 60532-4351 Je~ry Sarno Township Supervisor Covert Township 36197 M-140 Highway Covert, Michigan 49043 Office of the Governor RBom l - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector's 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. 0. Box 30195 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge 2300 N Street, N. W.
Washington DC 20037 Michigan Department of Attorney General Special Litigation Division 630 Law Building P.O. Box 30212 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Mr. S. E. Ritterbusch, Manager Standard Plant Licensing Combustion Engineering, Inc.
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