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Informs of GE Indication of Adverse Financial Impact of Public Disclosure of Fault Trees
ML20040E559
Person / Time
Site: Limerick  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 12/29/1981
From: Eisenhut D
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8202050090
Download: ML20040E559 (2)
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H. R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation FROM:

Darrell G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing

SUBJECT:

GE FAULT TREES (LIMERICK PRA) - IMPACT OF PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Based on telephone discussions between a GE representative and E. Shomaker, OELD, GE has indicated that the adverse financial impact of public dis-closure of the fault trees developed for the Limerick PRA would be very great and that this would adversely affect GE's marketing ability of these fault trees for which there are believed to be four or more additional customers.

Identifying the dollar impact of the disclosure is also considered highly sensitive and proprietary by GE since it would indicate to these potential customers the total cumulative amount GE would hope to realize from its investment in developing the fault trees.

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Mr. William J. Dircks Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conanission Washington, D.C.

20555 In the Matter of Philadelphia Electric Company (Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2)

Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353

Dear Mr. Dircks:

By letter dated March 17, 1981, Eugene J. Bradley, Associate General Counsel of the Philadelphia Electric Company, transmitted to Harold R.

Denton, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, copies of the Operating License appli-cation in the captioned proceeding.

Transmitted along with, but not part of, the application, was a two volume Probabilistic Risk Assessment ("PRA") for the Limerick Station.

It is noted that Charles W.

Elliott, who is counsel for Limerick Ecology Action, petitioner to intervene, requested, in a letter to the Commission dated October 27, 1981, that the information be placed in the Public Document Room or, in the alternative, produced pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

Under separate cover, "certain detailed fault trees" which were prepared as part of the PRA were transmitted with a request that they be withheld from public disclosure in accordance with 10 C.F.R.

S2.790(d) for security reasons.

On October 22, 1981, the Commission published its final rule regarding protection of unclassified safeguards information which, inter alia, held that, in general, fault trees developed during the course of a probabilistic risk assess-ment would not be protected under the rule.

Its actions on October 22, 1981 constitute a de facto denial of our S2.790 request that the information Ee with-held as security information.

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S2.790(c), all of the copies of the fault trees k

provided previously should be returned to the Company im-mediately.

It is noted that given the Commission's past practice of retaining a copy of a returned document pursuant to 52.790, that such retention would be inappropriate, and I

indeed illegal, given the fact that the Commission has ruled that it must produce such information, which happens to be in its files, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request.

(See letters from Leonard Bickwit, Jr., General Counsel, NRC to George L. Edgar, Esq., Morgan, Lewis &

Bockius dated November 5, 1980 regarding Return of the General Electric Reed Report).

If you will call me when all of the copies in the t

Commission's possession have been assembled, we will arrange to have them picked up immediately.

We note that the information properly should also be withheld as " Company confidential" proprietary information of the General Electric Company.

Sincerely, l

Troy

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Counsel for Philadelphia Electric Company cc:

Charles W. Elliott, Esq.

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