ML20135F806

Informs That W Rept, Wolf Creek Incomplete Rod Insertion During Cycle 8,Interim Rept on Insp Results & Root Cause, Rev 1, Will Be Withheld from Public Disclosure,Per Request

ML20135F806
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	03/07/1997
From:	Stone J NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Liparulo N WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, DIV OF CBS CORP.
References
NUDOCS 9703140132
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• j NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 3000H001 i

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l Mr. N. J. Liparulo, Manager l Equipment Design and Regulatory Engineering l~

Westinghouse Electric Corporation P.O. Box 355 j Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0355 i

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE, WOLF

, CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORPORATION (AW-97-1072) i

Dear Mr. Liparulo:

l l By your application and affidavit dated January 24, 1997 (AW-97-1072), you submitted a Westinghouse report titled " Wolf Creek Incomplete Rod Insertion

! During Cycle 8, Interim Report on Inspection Results and Root Cause, Revision

! 1," dated January 1997, and requested that it be withheld from public

, disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790. A nonproprietary version was also submitted for placement in the Public Document Room.

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Your affidavit dated January 24, 1997, states that the submitted information

should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for the following j reasons

"(a) The information reveals the distinguishing aspects of a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.) where prevention of

its use by any of Westinghouse's competitors without license from j Westinghouse constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.

i (b) It consists of supporting data, including test data, relative to a process (or component, structure, tool, method, etc.), the application of which data secures a competitive economic j advantage, e.g., by optimization or improved marketability.

i (c) Its use by a competitor would reduce his expenditure of resources l or improve his competitive position in the design, manufacture,

shipment, installation, assurance of quality, or licensing a

similar product."

! We have reviewed your application and the material in accordance with the IO i requirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and, on the basis of your statements, have i determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains '

proprietary commercial information.

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1 Therefore, we have determined that the information entitled " Wolf Creek i Incomplete Rod Insertion During Cycle 8, Interim Report on Inspection Results

! and Root Cause, Revision 1," dated January 1997, marked as proprietary will be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section j

103(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

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h Mr. N. J. Liparulo March 7,1997 Withholding from public inspection 'shall not affect the right, if any, of persons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents. If the need arises,'we may send copies of this information to our consultants working in this area. We will, of course, . ensure that the consultants have signed the appropriate agreements for handling proprietary information, j If the basis' for withh61dinh this information from public inspection should change in the future!such that1the information could then be made available for public inspection,'you'should promptly notify the:NRC. You also should 4 understand'that the NRC;may.have cause to review this determination in the l future, for example,-if sthef scope of>a Freedom of Information Act request includes your informition. . In all' review situations, if the NRC makes a ,

determinationadversetothe(pabove',jyou public disclo'sure. 4 T .

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1 Also, you.rg Ja'nuary,24,11997,' letter states that the January 1997 report supersedes'the March"1996, report.of'the same title and you requested that copiesJof.the March 1996? report be removedtfrom the files and returned to

' Westingho~use or destroyed. . Enclosed are;, copies of the March 1996 report that were removed from the files.'.tIf> additional copies of. the report are found they will be' destroyed.L  ?,,' ~ L

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i Jay Silberg, Esq. Chief Operating Officer i l Shaw, Pittman,' Potts & Trowbridge kulf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation l 4

2300 N Street, NW P. O. Box 411 Washington, D.C. 20037 l

,. Burlington, Kansas 66839 l 1

Regional Administrator, Region IV Supervisor Licensing l

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

, 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 P.O. Box 411

Arlington, Texas 76011 Burlington, Kansas 66839 i Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Resident Inspectors Office

! P. O. Box 311 8201 NRC Road

Burlington, Kansas 66839 Steedman, Missouri 65077-1032

! Chief Engineer Mr. Otto L. Maynard Utilities Division President and Chief Executive Officer Kansas Corporation Commission Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

1500 SW Arrowhead Road Post Office Box 411 j Topeka, Kansas 66604-4027 Burlington, Kansas 66839 i Office of the Governor

. State of Kansas Topeka, Kansas 66612 l

4 Attorney General Judicial Center

! 301 S.W. 10th

! 2nd Floor Topeka, Kansas 66612

! County Clerk i Coffey County Courthouse i Burlington, Kansas 66839 Public Health Physicist

. Bureau of Air & Radiation Division of Environment l Kansas Department of Health i and Environment

' Forbes Field Building 283 Topeka, Kansas 66620

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