ML20215L335
| ML20215L335 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 06/18/1987 |
| From: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Chema T OHIO, STATE OF |
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| NUDOCS 8706260015 | |
| Download: ML20215L335 (1) | |
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June 18, 1987 CHAIRMAN Thomas V.
Chema, Chairman State of Ohio
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Dear Mr. Chema:
Thank you for your letter of June 11, 1987, concerning the i
so called " Reed Report."
I note in your letter that you are requesting the General
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Electric Company to provide the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio with a copy of the report.
I can assure you of our desire to cooperate fully in this and all other matters of common interest.
However, we strongly believe that your j
working to obtain the document from General Electric is the initiative which offers the best approach to satisfy your 1
Commission's needs.
As I am sure you are aware, General Electric continues to assert that the report is proprietary information the release of which would cause substantial i
harm to General Electric's competitive position.
Although the liuclear Regulatory Commission has not agreed with that position, that issue has not yet been judicially resolved.
The Commission last year did determine, as your letter correctly notes, that the report is protected from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as confidential commercial information whose disclosure would impair the agency's ability te, obtain similar necessary information in the future.
Commissioner Asselstine disagreed with the conmission's conclusion and voted to release the report.
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Based upon its review of the Reed Report several times in the late 1970's and again recently because of renewed interest in the report, the NRC staff has not identified any new safety issues of which it was not aware and which it had not already addressed or was in the process of addressing through various safety initiatives.
Undoubtedly, the interests of both of our respective Commissions would be best served if the. General Electric Company, which continues to assert that the report is proprietary, would reach an acceptable accommodation for its release.
8706260 Sincerely, PDR CD 5 070618 S NRCC CORRESpayDENCE PDR M/.
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