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Approves Request for Withholding Documents from Public Insp as Proprietary.Markedup Copy
ML20039H240
Person / Time
Site: 05000561
Issue date: 06/14/1977
From: Parr O
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Taylor J
BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
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JUN 141377 Docket File NRC PDR 0 ELD JCooke OELD RGriffith RSBoyd lxx:ket tio. 37.1 50-561 RCDeYoung DBVassallo Babcock & Wilcox CcT.pany ODPArr AITil:

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P. O. Box 1260 UIR-3 File Lynchborg, Virginia 24505 HSmith SErd Gentle rn:

Ff@EST IER WInBOLDItrJ DATA PM4 PUBLIC DISCIDSURE - E&u-205 SU3Jirr:

By your letter dated May 19, 1977, you providco additional justification for withhciding as proprietary certain caterial suir.itted witn.%.endments 7, 10, 11 and 1.s to :w R-205. In tnat letter ycu fjuviced that cLter g

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four reaccas for requesting our withholding of these doeuxents from public dicciosure pursuant to 10 C"R 2.790 were as fo11m s:

(1) Baccock

& Wilcox has excAnced in excess of six hundred tnousanti collars on the Vessel Medel riew rest (V"Ir) for the 205 Fuci Assecoly Vaasci Design; (2) work cn tnese tests was initiated in 1371 n:r.2 licensing activities associated with thic progran. are still going on; (3) canufacturing tolerances associateo with nuclear fuel vere oevelooed froa detailea engineering evaluatienc of fuel-related research and develoo. ment programs costing in e:: ceca of one million dollars; (4) Baccock & Wilcox has taxen steps to maintain this inforr.ation as prcprietary since it is the unicue result of researcn and devalcp ent programs financed by Baccock & Wilcox and is not available in the puolic da'ain; (5) corcstic competitors of Babcock & Wilcox, incluaing Comoustion Enginceering, G2neral Slectric and tiestinghouse, would cenefit ny this infor. ration if it Qere released to the puolic. riraftwerk Union, a foreign manufacturer, woulc also f this infor:aation to tne cuolic; and (6) release benefit rrg.gge riea;cJ'uest 221.61 (Amic.ent No. 7) and tne informa-of thgred;cnseYo WC bq y

tion contain2d in Arendant: 10,11 and 13 would jeopardize tne i',

competitive standing of Babcock & bilcox by providing its competitors with inforic.ation developed by a large investment of sabcock & Wilcox

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'rie have reviewec your coolication arw2 =aterial based on the recuiremnts o-QQ and criteria of 10 CFR 2.790 and have occcratined that the above-acncicned te M vit%nia "meMn ers wrats er confihntial or O

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JUN 141977 2-6accock & hilcox Cor::pany We alto have found at this ti;.e that tne rigat of the public to ca fully appriced as to the ba,es for and effects of tne proposed licensing action doas not out./eigh tne de:::enstrated concern tor protection of your ca.:: peti-tive position. Accoroingly, we nave cetermined that the inforration should be withneld fro;a pualic disclosure.

Wo.therefore approve your request for withholding pursuant to Section 2.790 of 10 CFR Part 2 and are withholding tne aforementioned docu.nents from giblic inspection as proprietary.

Withholding from public inspection snall not affect the rignt, if any, If of persona properly and directly concerneo to insnect the decur.cnts.

the net:d arises, we may send copics of this inforr.:ation to our consultr.nts workin? in this area. We will, of cource, assure that the consultant have signed tnc approoriate agrescents for handling proprietary data.

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cc: Washington Public r Supply System ATIN: Mr. N. O. Strand Managing Director (Acting)

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Mr. Robert Borsum Bethesda Representative Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division Suite 5515, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, Maryland 20014 B. G. Shult::

Project Engineer Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation P. O. Box 2325 Boston, Massachusetts 02107

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Mr. W. E. Kessler Commonwealth Associates, Inc.

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Jackson, Michigan 49201 Robert J. Kafin, Esq.

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Babcock & 1111cox Comcany (TCox ICTN: rir. James H. Taylor ym 1 -1 G7 11anager of Licensing Nuclear Power Generation Division P. O. D]x 1260 Lynchburg, Virginia 24505 Gentler.an F.C;Wsr EUA WInIHowIrG IHFOPJ1XIION FfGi PU3LIC DIN 105URE - c5AR-205 SUeJECT:

By your letter dated July 19, 1376, you suomitted propriotary material concerning AI.cn,sent No. 2 to E 2-205. Sy your letter cacco ticy s,1977, you transmitted nranJment No.14 ana incorcorated the non-proprietary data en tuToncitent Go. 2 that was originally forwarded as proprierary.

Thesa docu::ents are:

Amendment No. 2 All figures concerning rcquest 231.9 which includes figures 231.9-1 tnrougn 231.9-13 and request 231.21 Your letter dated May 2,1977, transmitted additional ju'stification for the response to 231.3 shich yoa acvisea snould remain proprietary. You also transmitted aoaitional ]uctification for the proprietary portion of Amendtent No. 6, originally su b ittea on t;ovemoer 15, 1976. Tnat portion of Amenc ont Ito. G considered pecprietary is:

Amendment No. 6 The resconses to recuest nuraters 221.47, 231.34, 231.35, 231.35-1, 231.35-2 and 231.41 Your additional juctification for the proprietary c1'assification of the recponse to 231.3 of Acenament rio. 2 and the aforcrentioned oorticas of Acendment No. 6 were information items as follows:

(1) tnat an excess of a million dollars on fuel asnembly programs nas been expended by Babcock & Wilcox to navelop the data identified as procrietary; (2) that Daocock & Wilcox has schoduled testing costing in the huncreds of tnousanas of dollars for 1977 to octain auditional fuel cesign information; (3) that release of this information to the puolic woula cause substantial harm to the co.Tpetitive cosition of Bacccck & Wilcox; (4) that your competitors

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in the cocestic fuel cesign area are Westingneuse, General Electric, Concustion Engineering and Exxon, and that these competitors would be nnin tm evMuate mocock & Wilcox tusi desicns without similar exoenditures; and ' 5) tnat there arc severa.L darerga canuracturers saca as ara twer.<

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JUN 141977 2-Babcock t. rillcox We have reviewer) your aco11 cation and material basac on the requirements and criteria of 10 CFR 2.M0 and have cetermined that tne atacve,tentienea documents cougnt to be witanoid contain trade sacretc or confidential or privileged cct.cercial or financial infore.ation.

We also have found at this time that the rignt of the public to be fully apprised as to tne cases for and offects of the prococed licensing action does not outweigh tne comonstrateo concarn for protaction of your congetitivo position. Accordingly, we have determined tnat tne information snoulc be withheld from public disclosure.

We therefore approve your request for withholding pursuant to Section 2.790 of 10 Cea Part 2 and are withnolding the aforcI..cntioned doce ents from puolic inspection as proprietary.

Withhc1 ding from cublic inspection enall not affect tne rignt, if any, of persons properly ano directly concerned to inspect the docunents.

If tne n..cd arises, we cay sono copics of this infore.ation to our consultants working in tnic area. iw will, of courca, assure tnat the consultants have signed tne upcropriate agreenents for handling proprietary data.

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3000 George Washington Way Richland, Washington 99352 Mr. Robert Borstn Bethesda Representative Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division Suite 5515, 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, Maryland 20014 B. G. Shultz Project Engineer Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation P. O. Box 2325 Boston, Massachusetts 02107 Mr. W. E. Kessler i

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I 115 Maple Street q-Glen Falls, New York 12801 il Mr. B. M. Miller Ohio Edison Company 76 South Main Street Akron, Ohio 44308

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