ML20084F051

Forwards Proprietary Responses to NRC Request for Addl Info Re Severe Accident Portion of GE Gessar II Submittal.Encl Withheld (Ref 10CFR2.790)

ML20084F051
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Site:	05000447
Issue date:	04/20/1984
From:	Quirk J GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
To:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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MFN-046-84, MFN-46-84, NUDOCS 8405030098
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i GENER AL'$ ELECTRIC NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS DMslON i GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY e 175 CURTNER AVENUE

• SAN JOSE, CAUFORNIA 95125 MFN-046-84 April 20, 1984 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Washington, D.C. 20555 Attention: Mr. D.G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing Gentlemen:

SUBJECT:

IN THE MATTER OF 238 NUCLEAR ISLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC STANDARD SAFETY ANALYSIS REPORT (GESSAR II)

DOCKET NO. STN 50-447 SUBMITTAL OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING SEVERE ACCIDENT REVIEW 0F GESSAR II

References:

1) K. Shiu (BNL) memorandum to I. A. Papazoglou (BNL),

Subject:

Questions on GESSAR Seismic PRA Review, March 1, 1984

2) I.A. Papazoglou (BNL) memorandum to R.A. Bari (BNL),

Subject:

GESSAR Internal Flood PRA Review, January 25, 1984 In response to the NRC Staff informal request for additional information regarding the severe accident portion of GE's GESSAR II submittal, please find responses to the questions included in References 1 and 2.

It should be noted that the responses to questions 1-12 were provided informally on May 13, 1984. Furthermore, many of the attached questions were originally contained in the Round 3 questions which were answered

in draft form on February 1,1984.

We are requesting that the attached information be withheld from public disclosure and considered as proprietary pursuant to Section 2.790 of i 10CRF Part 2.

Very truly yours, u

Quirk, Manager Oh Ih' M4 B Systems Licensing l Nuclear Safety & Licensing Operation 4/775)e g,/

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GEN ER AL'$ ELECTRIC cc: F.J. Miraglia (NRC) w/o attach D.C. Scaletti (NRC) w/o attach A. Thadani (NRC) w/o attach C.O. Thomas (flRC) w/o attach L.S. Gifford (GE-Bethesda) w/o attach R. Villa (GE)

J.N. Fox (GE)

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l GENERAL ELECTRIC C0MPANY AFFIDAVIT f

I, Joseph F. Quirk, being duly sworn, depose and state as follows:

1. I am Manager, BWR Systems Licensing, Nuclear Safety & Licensing Operation, General Electric Company, and have been delegated the function of reviewing the information described in paragraph 2 which is sought to be withheld and have been authorized to apply for its withholding.

2. The information sought to be withheld is contained in proprietary information in support of the Severe Accident portion of the 238 Nuclear Island General Electric Standard Safety Analysis Report (GESSAR II).

3. In designating material as proprietary, General Electric utilizes the definition of proprietary information and trade secrets set forth in the American Law Institute's Restatement Of Torts, Section 757. This definition provides:

"A trade secret may consist of any formula, pattern, device or compilation of information which is used in one's business and which gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it. . . . A substantial element of secrecy must exist, so that, except by the use of improper means, there would be difficulty in acquiring informa-tion.... Some factors to be considered in determining whether given information is one's trade secret are: (1) the extent to which the information is known outside of his business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in his business; (3) the extent of measures taken by him to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to him and to his competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by him in developing the information; (6) the ease or difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others."

4. Some examples of categories of information which fit into the definition of proprietary information are:

a. Information that discloses a process, method or apparatus where prevention of its use by General Electric's competitors without license from General Electric constitutes a competi-tive economic advantage over other companies;

b. Information consisting of supporting data and analyses, includ-ing test data, relative to a process, method or apparatus, the application of which provide a competitive economic advantage,

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c. Information which if used by a competitor, would reduce his expenditure of resources or improve his competitive position in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality or licensing of a similar product;

d. Information which reveals cost or price information, produc-tion capacities, budget levels or commercial strategies of General Electric, its customers or suppliers;

e. Information which reveals aspects of past, present or future General Electric customer-funded development plans and programs of potential commercial value to General Electric;

f. Information which discloses patentable subject matter for which it may be desirable to obtain patent protection;

g. Information which General Electric must treat as proprietary according to agreements with other parties.

5. In addition to proprietary treatment given to material meeting the standards enumerated above, General Electric customarily maintains in confidence preliminary and draf t material which has not been subject to complete proprietary, technical and editorial review.

This practico is based on the fact that draft documents aften do not appropriately reflect all aspects of a problem, may contain tentative conclusions and may contain errors that can be corrected during normal review and approval procedures. Also, until the final document is completed it may not be possible to make any definitive determination as to its proprietary nature. General Electric is not generally willing to release such a document to the general public in such a preliminary form. Such documents.are, .

however, on occasion furnished to the NRC staff on a confidential basis because it is General Electric's belief that it is in the public interest for the staff to be promptly furnished with signif.1-

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cant or potentially significant information. Furnishing the docu- _

ment on a confidential basis pending completion of Generat Electric's u internal review permits early acquaintance of the staff with the - s.

information while protecting General Electric's potential proprie-tary position and permitting General Electric to insure the,public ,

documents are technically accurate and correct. '

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6. Initial approval of proprietary treatment of a document is N3de b'y '

the Subsection Manager of the originating component, the man most likely to be acquainted with the value and sensitivity of the information in relation to industry knowledge. Access to such "l(

documents within the Company is limited on a "need to know" basis and such documents at all times are clearly identified as proprietary.

7. The procedure for approval of external release of such a document is reviewed by the Section Manager, Project Manager, Principal Scientist or other equivalent authority, by the Section Manager of '

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Operation for technical content, competitive effect and deter-mination of the accuracy of the proprietary designation in accord-ance with the stanjards enumerated above. Disclosures outside General Electric are generally limited to regulatory bodies, customers and potential customers and their agents, suppliers and licensees only in accordance with appropriate regulatory provisions or proprietary agreements.

8. The document mentioned in paragraph 2 above has been evaluated in accordance with the above criteria and procedures and has been found to contain information which is proprietary and which is customarily held in confidence by General Electric.

9. The infolmation mentioned in paragraph 2 provides additional infor-mction in support of the severe accident portion of GESSAR II

contained in Section 150.3 of the GESSAR II submittal.

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10. The information to the best of my knowledge and belief, has consistently i' been held in confidence by the General Electric Company, no public

, disclosure has been made, and it is not available in public sources.

All disclosures to third parties have been made pursuant to regulatory provisions of proprietary agreements which provide for maintenance of the information in confidence.

11. Puulic disclesure of the information sought to be withheld is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the General Electric Company and deprive or reduce the availability of profit-maklag opportunities because:

,a i ' It was developed with the expenditure of resources exceeding

$5GU,000.

b. Public availability of this information would deprive General Electric of the ability to seek reimbursement, would permit competitors to utilize this information to General Electric's detriment, and would impair General Electric's ability to s

maintain licensing agreements to the substantial financial and competitive disadvantage of General Electric.

c. Public availability of the information would allow foreign cotpetitor%. including competiting BWR suppliers, to obtain inf6rnation at no cost which General Electric developed at substantial cost. Use of this information by foreign competitors would (tive them a competitive advantage over General Electric bj allowing foreign competitors to develop an ECCS methodology at abwer cost than General Electric.

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Joseph F. Quirk, being duly sworn, deposes and says:

That he has read the foregoing affiaavit and the matters stated therein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief.

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