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Forwards Proposed Public Announcement Re NRC Amend to 10CFR2 on Handling of Proprietary Info
ML20028A247
Person / Time
Issue date: 11/06/1975
From: Harris J
NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA)
To:
Shared Package
ML20027A718 List:
References
FOIA-82-408, TASK-PS, TASK-SE SECY-75-588A, NUDOCS 8211170486
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Under the present regulations, most NRC records and documents in

j; licensing proceedings are routinely made available to the public. However, yv the regulat.~on, which is consistent with the Freedom of Information Act, provides for some exceptions to this general policy; disclosure of" proprietary infor=ation is one of these exceptions."

In November of 1973, the former Atomic Energy Comission announced

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. proprietary information and asked for public co=ent on five possibie alterna-tives for dealing witn the matter. After furtrer ccasideration and taking t

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