ML19311B859

Informs That NRC Determined That Encl 7,rept from EPRI Entitled Addendum to Seismic Verification of Nuclear Plant Equipment Anchorage to SQUG 950731 Submittal Proprietary & Will Be Withheld from Public Disclosure Per 10CFR2.790

ML19311B859
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Issue date:	10/02/1995
From:	Dan Dorman NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Kenny A ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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Intellectual Property Department Electric Power Research Institute

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REQUEST FOR WIT WOLDING INFORETION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE L

(SEISMIC QUALIFICATION UTILITY GROUP)

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Dear Mr. Kenny 31, 1995, t e Seismic Qualification Utility Group (SQUG) h zBy letter dated July submitted for NRC staff review " Revision 3 to the Generic Implementation Procedure-(GIP) for Seismic Verification of Nuclear Plant Equipment."

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to the SQUG submittal was a report from the Electric Power Nuclear Plant Equipm(EPRI) entitled,c" Addendum to Seismic Verific Research Institute ent Anchorage,*, dated June 1994;(EPRI Report NP5228, Revision 1) (the "Information"b. By' letter dated August 30, 1995, you submitted an application and aPf1 davit (executed August 30, 1995) and requested that the Information be withheld froH pub ic disclosure pursuant to r

10CFR2.790(a)(4).

l You stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from i-mandatory public dis osure for the following reasons:

(1) The Information has been held in confidence by EPRI.

EPRI intends to provide copies of the Information to EPRI members and to one or more L

EPRI contractors. EPRI members and contractors are bound'by L

confidentiality agreements to preserve the confidentiality of proprietary and confidential documents received from EPRI. Receipt of the Infored. ion by such members and contractors will not impair the l

. proprietary and confidential nature of the Information nor will such o

receipt impair the value of the Information-as trade secrets.

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-addition, EPR1 may license the Information to organizations that are not 1+

EPRI members. '

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. (ii) The Information is of a ty>e customarily /heid in confidence by EPRI and there is:a' rational' basis tierefor. The Information is of a type that EPRI considers to be trade secrets. Such Information is customarily held in confidence by EPRI because to disclose it would trevent EPRItfrom licensingithe-InformationLat fees which would ' allow)'

PRI-to recover its investment. JIf consultants and othar businesses t

providing services in the eldctricipower industry were able to obtain i

the Information, t'ey would be able to use it commercially for profit I-_

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and:avoidspendingthelargeamountofmoneythat:EPRIwasrequiredto}

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~ spend to obtain t w Information. The' rational basis that EPRI has for th -

classifying'information as a trade secret is'the uniform Trade Secrets t

Asi which California adopted in 1984 and which has been adopted by over l-twenty states. EThe Unifom Trade Secrets' Act defines a " trade secret"1 1

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