ML20140E608
| ML20140E608 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 06/09/1997 |
| From: | Kim T NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Richard Anderson NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. |
| References | |
| TAC-M97487, NUDOCS 9706120158 | |
| Download: ML20140E608 (3) | |
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June 9, 1997 i
Mr. Roger 0. Anderson, Director Licensing and Management Issues Northern States Power Company 414 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN 55401 l
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT) (TAC NO. M97487) i
Dear Mr. Anderson:
1 By Northern States Power Company's (NSP's) application dated April 23, 1997, and General Electric Com)any's (GE's) affidavit dated April 23, 1997, executed by Ralph J. Reda. NSP su)mitted a supalement to its license amendment request of November 25, 1996, and requested tlat the attachment to Exhibit B
(" Additional Information Regarding the 1.08 Cycle Specific SLMCPR [ safety limit minimum critical power ratio] for Monticello Cycle 18") be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790.
Your application did not include a nonproprietary version of this document, and we request that a nonproprietary version be submitted to NRC, within 90 days of the date of this letter, for release to the NRC Public Document Room.
GE stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for the following reasons:
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The information discloses a process, method, or apparatus, including supporting data ard analyses, where prevention of its use by GE's j
competitors without license from GE constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.
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The information, 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.
3.
The information contains details of GE's safety limit MCPR analysis and the corresponding results which GE has applied to Monticello's actual core design with GE's Gell fuel. The development of the methods used in these analyses, along with the testing, development and approval of the supporting critical power correlation was achieved at a significant cost, on the order of several millions of dollars, to GE.
We have reviewed your application and the material in accordance with the
/g requirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and, on the basis of your statements, have
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determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains proprietary commercial information.
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b Therefore, the attachment to Exhibit B (" Additional Information Regarding thes 1.08 Cycle Specific SLMCPR for Monticello Cycle 18") marked as proprietary, j
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R. O. Anderson i will be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section 103(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended.
3 Withholding from public inspection shall not affect the right, if any, of persons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents.
If the need I
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 j
appropriate agreements for handling proprietary information.
i If the basis for withholding this information from public inspection should change in the future such that the information could then be made available i
for public inspection, you should promptly notify the NRC.
You also should j
understand that the NRC may have cause to review this determination in the future, for example, if the scope of a Freedom of Information Act request includes your information.
In all ' review situations, if the NRC makes a l
determination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of any j
public disclosure.
Sincerely.
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Tae Kim, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-263 cc: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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't Mr. Roger 0. Anderson, Director Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Northern States Power Company cc:
J. E. Silberg, Esquire Kris Sanda, Commissioner Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge Department of Public Service 2300 N Street, N. W.
121 Seventh Place East Washington DC 20037 Suite 200 St. Paul. Minnesota 55101-2145 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector's Office Adonis A. Neblett 2807 W. County Road 75 Assistant Attorney General Monticello Minnesota 55362 Office of the Attorney General 445 Minnesota Street Plant Manager Suite 900 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-2127 ATTN: Site Licensing Northern States Power Company Ralph J. Reda, Manager 2807 West County Road 75 Fuel and Facility Licensing Monticello, Minnesota 55362-9637 General Electric Company P.O. Box 780 Robert Nelson. President Wilmington, NC 28402 Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association (MECCA) 1051 South McKnight Road St. Paul, Minnesota 55119 Commissioner Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 520 Lafayette Road St. Paul, Minnesota 55119 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrenville Road Lisle. Illinois 60532-4351 Commissioner of Health Minnesota Department of Health 717 Delaware Street. S. E.
. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 Darla Groshens. Audi'or/ Treasurer Wright County Government Center 10 NW Second Street Buffalo, Minnesota 55313 s
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