ML20141F272

Requests That Proprietary Rept NSPNAD-97002-P, Slb Methodology Be Withheld from Public Disclosure.Affidavit, Submitted

ML20141F272
Person / Time
Site:	Prairie Island
Issue date:	06/25/1997
From:	Richard Anderson NORTHERN STATES POWER CO.
To:	NRC
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NUDOCS 9707020206
Download: ML20141F272 (2)

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UNITED STATES NUCL EAR REGULATORY COMMISSION q l

NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT DOCKET Nos. 50-282 '

50-306 REQUEST TO WITHHOLD PROPRIETARY INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, hereby requests that Attachment 2 to the letter entitled, " Main Steam Line Break Methodology", be 1 withheld from public disclosure due to its proprietary nature. The details of this i request are provided in the following affidavit

AFFIDAVIT I, Roger O. Anderson, being duly sworn, depose and state as follows:

(1) I am Director, Nuclear Energy Engineering, Northern States Power

. Company ("NSP") and have been authorized to apply for withholding the

, information described in paragraph (2).

(2) The information sought to be withheld is the Report entitled, " Steam Line Break Methodology, NSPNAD-95002, June 1997", Proprietary Version )

presented in Attachment 2 to NSP's letter to the NRC entitled, " Steam Line

Break Methodology" Attachment 2, which contains 67 pages, has the words, "NSP Proprietary Information", on the bottom of each page.

(3) in making this application for withholding of proprietary information of which it is the owner, NSP relies upon the exemption from disclosure set forth in the NRC regulauon 10 CFR 2.790(b)(1) for confidential commercial information.

(4) Justification for the request for withholding from public disclosure is j provided by addressing the five considerations identified in 10 CFR  !

2.790(b)(4).

To the best of my knowledge and belief:

a. This information is considered company confidential and has been held in confidence by NSP.

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, AFFIDAVIT RIquist to Withhold Propriet:ry informition . . j

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b. This information is of the type customarily held in confidence by NSP and the rationale basis is that it would provide an unfair advantage to l competitors if it were disclosed.

c. This information is transmitted in confidence to the NRC and the purpose of this request is to maintain its confidentiality.

d. This methodology the Prairie Island two-loop Westinghouse nuclear plant is not available from public sources.

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e. Public disclosure of the information sought to be withheld is likely to l cause harm to NSP's competitive position; NSP expended substantial l resources in developing this methodology; failure to withhold this I information would allow others tn benefit from it without commensurate expenditures.

This letter contains no restricted or other defense information. I l

NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY I By <d RogerD. Anderson  ;

Director i Nuclear Energy Engineering On this 9 6~ day of Ag a-6 , /W 7 before me a notary public in and for said County, personally appeared, Roger O. Anderson, Director, Nuclear Energy Engineering, and being first duly sv.>orn acknowledged that he is authorized to execute this document on behalf of Northern States Power Company, that he knows the contents thereof, and that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief the statements made in it are true and that it is not inter-posed for delay.

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