ML19305A734
| ML19305A734 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 01/29/1980 |
| From: | Wolfe S Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| To: | Braun M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| FOIA-80-44 NUDOCS 8002130124 | |
| Download: ML19305A734 (4) | |
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January 29, 1980 Mr. Mike Braun 503 E. Stoughton Street Apartment 2 IN RESPONSE REFER Champaign, IL 61820 TO F01A-80-44
Dear Mr. Braun:
This is in partial response to your letter of January 16, 1980.
Your letter was received on January 22, 1980.
In ycur letter, you requested in paragraph (2), pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, copies of the Reed Report itself and the 27 safety related issues extracted from the report.
For your information, the NRC is in possession of a General Electric (GE) Nuclear Reactor Study on the subject of GE's Boiling Water Nuclear Steam Supply System which was prepared under the direction and supervision of Dr. Charles Reed in 1975 (the Reed Report) and the related Sub-Task Force Reports which serve as appendices to the Reed Report.
The NRC is also in possession of a list of 27 safety related considerations raised by the Reed Report which was furnished to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in the Black Fox Proceeding (Docket Nos. STN 50-556, STN 50-557) which was conducted in Tulsa, Oklahoma during February 1979.
These documents came into the possession of the NRC under a Protective Order issued on January 5,1979, by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in the Black Fox Proceedings.
Specifically, this Protective Order (copy attached) provides that "GE will make the Reed Report and the related Sub-Task Force Reports available to the Board in confidence."
GE claims that the entire report is proprietary.
In maintaining this confidence, only the members of this Licensing Board have access to this copy of the Reed Report and the related Sub-Task Force Reports.
Under the terms of the Protective Order, the list of 27 safety related considerations, while made available to the representatives of the parties in the Black Fox Proceedings, is also accorded confidential treatment.
Five previous requests under the Freedom of Information Act for the Reed Report have been denied by the Licensing Board.
Two of these were appealed.
The Licensing Board has certified to the Commission the question of whether the Reed Report should now-be returned to GE (copy of the certification attached).
The matter is presently under study in the Office of the General Counsel.
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Because the Reed Report has been made available to the Licensing Board in confidence and is subject to a Protective Order, and because the list of 27 safety related considerations is accorded confidential treatment under the terms of the same Protective Order, the requested documents are being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to exemption (4) cf the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)) and 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4) of the Commission's regulations.
The person responsible for this denial is the undersigned.
This denial may be appealed to the Commission within 30 days from the receipt of this letter.
As provided in 10 CFR 9.15, any such appeal must be in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Commission, Washington, DC 20555, and should clearly state on the envelope and in the letter that it is an " Appeal from an Initial F0IA Decision."
Sincerely, RA.ra1.,W 4 Sheldon J.'[o1 fe, Esquire Chairman, Atomic Safety and Licensing Brard Attachments:
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