ML20080D495

Affidavit of Jh Taylor Re Determining Whether Documents Listed in Exhibit a Contain Proprietary Info.Rept Comprises Info Which Affords B&W Opportunity to Obtain Competitive Advantage

ML20080D495
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	01/13/1983
From:	Taylor J BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
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AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. TAYLOR A. My name is James H. Taylor. I am Manager of Licensing in the Nuclear Power Generation Division of Babcock & Wilcox, and as such I am authorized to execute this Affidavit.

B. I am familiar with the criteria applied by Babcock & Wilcox to de-termine whether certain information of Babcock & Wilcox is proprietary and I am familiar with the procedures established within Babcock & Wilcox, particularly the Nuclear Power Generation' Division (NPGD), to ensure the proper application of these criteria.

C. In determining whether a Babcock & Wilcox document is to be classi-l fied as proprietary information, an initial determination is made l

by the unit manager who is responsible for originating the document as to whether it falls within the criteria set forth in Paragraph D r hereof. If the information falls within any one of these criteria ,

it is classified as proprietary by the originating unit manager.

This initial determination is reviewed by the cognizant section i manager. If the document is designated as proprietary, it is re-viewed again by 1.icensing personnel and other management within

' NPGD as designated by the Manager of Licensing to assure that the l

regulatory requirements of 10 CFR Section 2.790 are met.

D. The following information is provided to demonstrate that the pro-visions of 10,CFR Section 2.790 of the Commission's regulations have been considered:

(1) The information has been held in confidence by the Babcock &

. Wilcox Company. Copies of the document are clearly identified as proprietary. In addition, whenever Babcock & Wilcox transmits the information to a customer, customer's agent, potential customer or regulatory agency, the transmittal re-

! quests the recipient to hold the information as proprietary.

Also, in order to strictly limit any potential or actual customer's use of proprietary information, the following 8402090141 840206 PDR ADOCK 05000289 G PDR J _ -.

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AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. TAYLOR (Cont'd) provision is included in all proposals submitted by Babcock

& Wilcox, and an applicable version of the proprietary provision is included in all of Babcock & Wilcnx's contracts:

" purchaser may retain Company's Proposal for use in connection with any contract resulting therefrom, and, for that purpose, make such copies thereof as may be necessary. Any proprietary information concerning Company's or its Suppliers' products or manufacturing processes which is so designated tur Company or its Suppliers and disclosed to Purchaser incident to the performance of such contract shall remain the property of Company or its Suppliers and is disclosed in confi-dance, and Purchaser shall not publish or otherwise disclose it to others without the written approval of Company, and no rights, implied or otherwise, are granted to produce or have produced any products or to practice or cause to be practiced any manufacturing processes covered thereby.

Notwithstanding the above, Purchaser may provide the i NRC or any other regulatory agency wi'th any such pro-prietary information as the NRC or such other agency may require; provided, however, that Purchaser shall first give Company written notice of such proposed disclosure and Company shall have the right to amend such proprietary information so as to make it non-pro-prietary. In the event that Company cannot amend such proprietary information, purchaser shall, prior to disclosing such information, use its best efforts to obtain a commitment from NRC or such other ag'ency

. to have such information withheld from public inspection.

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I Babcock &Wilcox AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. TAYLOR (Cont'd)

Company shall be given the right to participate in l

pursuit of such confidential treatment." - -

(ii) The following criteria are customarily applied by Babcock &

Wilcox in a rational decision process to determine whether the information should be classified as proprietary. Information may be classified as proprietary if one or more of the following criteria are met.

a. Information reveals cost or price information, commercial strategies, production capabilities, or budget levels cf Babcock & Wilcox, its customers or suppliers.

b. The information reveals data or material concerning Babcock

& Wilcox research or development plans or programs of present or potential competitive advantage to Babcock &

Wilcox.

< c. The use of the information by a competitor would decrease his expenditures, in time or resources, in designing, producing or marketing' a similar product. ,

d. The information consists of test data or other similar data concerning a process, method or component, the application or which result's in a competitive advantage to Babcock &

Wilcox.

e. The information reveals special aspects of a process, method.

component or the like, the exclusive use of which results.in a competitive advantage to Babcock & Wilcox.

f. The information contains ideas for which patent protection may be sought.

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. Go L Babcock &Wilcox AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES H. TAYLOR (Cont'd) l The document (s) listed on Exhibit "A", which is attached hereto l

and made'a part hereof, has been evaluated in accordance with normal Babcock & Wilcox procedures with respect to classification and has been found to contain' information which falls within one or more of the criteria enumerated above. Exhibit "B", which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, specifically identifies the criteria appitcable to the document (s) listed 1n Exhibit "A".

(iii) The document (s) listed in Exhibit " A", which has been made avail-able to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission was made available in confidence with a request that the document (s) and the information contained therein be withheld from public l

disclosure.

(iv) The information is not available in the open literature and to the best of our knowledge is not known by Combustion Engineering, EXXON, General Electric, Westinghouse or other current or potential domestic or foreign competitors of 88W.

(v) Specific information with regard to whether public disclosure of the information is likely to cause harm to the competitive position of Babcock & Wilcox, taking into account the value of the information to Babcock & Wilcox; the amount of effort or money expended by Babcock & Wilcox developi.ng the information; and the, ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly l-duplicated by others is given in Exhib'it "B".

Eo I have personally reviewed the document (s) listed on Exhibit "A" and

- have found that it is considered proprietary by Babcock & Wilcox l

because it contains information which falls within one or more of the criteria enumerated in Paragraoh 0, and it is information which is. customarily held in confidence and protected as proprietary in-formation by Babcock & Wilcox. This report comprises information utilized by Babcock & Wilcox in its business which afford Babcock

& Wilcox an opportunity to obtain a competitive advantage over (4) em

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State'of Virginia City of Lynchburg)

James H. Taylor, being duly sworn, on his oath deposes and says that he is the person who subscribed his name to the foregoing stats-ment, and that the matters and facts set forth in the statement are true.

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Subscribe 4 and sworn bifore me this /3 day ofp>uwy 1983.

ahs Yfha6fhD Notary Public in and for the City of Lynchburg, State of Virginia ,

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l Babcock &Wilcox EXHIBIT A "Three Mile Ialand Unit 1 Once-Through Steam Generator .

Repair Kinetic Expansion Technical Report" GPUN Topical Report GPUN-TDR-007, Novemb'er 1982 B&W Topical Report BAW-1760, November 1982 .

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Babcock &Wilcox EXHIBIT B Description of Material Applicable Criteria "Three Mile Island Unit 1 D (ii) b, c, d & e once-Through steam Generator Repair Kinetic Expansion Technical Report" GPUN-TDR-007 November 1982 BAW-1760 November 1982 '

l l Portions as noted below:

• l Pages 1-5 thru l-10 Figures 1-2 and 1-8 thru l-13 Pages 2-1, 2-3 thru 2-5, 2-11 thru 2-13, 2-15 thru 2-18, 2-20, 2-27, 2-29 2-34 thru 2-39, 2-41, 2-45, 2-47 thru 2-49, 2-51, 2-53, 2-54 Table 2-4 Figures 2-2 thru 2-12, 2-14 thru 2-17a, l

2-19, 2-45, 2-46, 2-47B thru 2-47f Pages 3-1 and 3-2 Pages 4-2 and 4-3 Page 5-3 Page 6-2 9

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ADDITIONAL PROPRIETARY INFO.

B&W 1760/GPUN-TDR-007 LOCATION CRITERIA Page V C,F Page 2 4 15 C,E Page 2-21 C,D Page 2-31 C,E Page 2-44 C,E Fig 2-12 a + b C,D Fig 2-47 a thru f C,D Page 2-56 C,F Page 4-3 C,F Page A-3 C,E

' Delete-Fig 2-19 page 2-61

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