ML20246J558

Grants 890609 & 16 Requests for Withholding of Rev 0 to TR-ESE-737 from Public Disclosure Per 10CFR2.790

ML20246J558
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	08/28/1989
From:	Stone J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Labruna S Public Service Enterprise Group
References
TAC-72677, TAC-72678, NUDOCS 8909050194
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Docket Nos. 50-272/311 Mr. Stanley LaBruna Vice President-Nuclear Operations Public Service Electric and Gas Company Posi: Office Sox 236

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SUBJECT:

RE00EST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (TAC NOS. 72677/72678) By your application of June 16, 1989 and affidavit of A. E. Scherer dated June 9 1989, you submitted TR-ESE-737, Rev. O, Salem ICI Thimble Tube Flow Induced Vibration Test Program and requested that it be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790. You stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for, among others, the following reasons:

1. The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure concerns the test results supporting the effectiveness of wear sleeves in reducing in-core instrumentation thimble tube wear in Westinghouse reactors, which is owned and has been held in confidence by Combustion Engineering.

2. The information consists of test data or other similar data concerning a process, method or component, the splication of which results in substantial competitive advantage to Combustion Engineering.

3. In order to acquire such information, a competitor would also require considerable time and inconvenience developing wear sleeve designs for reducing in-core instrumentation thimble tube wear in Westinghouse reactors.

4. The infonnation consists of the test results supporting the effectiveness of wear sleeves in reducing in-core instrumentation thimble tube wear in Westinghouse reactors, the application of which provides a competitive economic advantage. The availability of such information to competitors would enable them to modify their product to better compete with Combustion Engineering, take marketing or other actions to improve their product's position or impair the position of Combustion Engineering's product, and avoid developing similar data and analyses in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.

1 We have reviewed your application and the material in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 2.790 and, on the basis of your statements, have f0( determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains trade 0 secrets or proprietary commercial information.

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t , Therefore, the report, TR-ESE-737, Rev. O, Salem ICI Thimble Tube Flow Induced Vibration Test Program, marked as proprietary, 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. 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. If the basis for withholding this information from public inspection should change in the future such that the information could then be made available for public inspection, you should promptly notify the NRC. You also should 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 incipdes your information. In all reviex situations, if the NRC makes a dete:oination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of any public disclosure. Sincerely, es /$ James C. Stone, Project Manager Project Directorate I-2 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation CC: See next page l l l

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 .,t-Mr. Steven E.'.Miltenberger Public Service Electric 8 Gas Company                    Salen Nuclear Generating Station
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cc: Mark J. Wetterhahn, Escuire Richard B. McGlynn, Cosmiission Conner and Wetterhahn Department of Public Utilities Suite 1050 State of New Jersey 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 101 Cosmerce Street

                           > Washington, DC 20006                                     Newark, NJ 07102 Richard Fryling, Jr., Esquire                            Regional Administrator, Region I Law Department - Tower SE                                U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission.

80 Park Place 475 Allendale Road Newark, NJ. 07101 . King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. L. K. Miller Lower A110 ways Creek Township General Manager - Salem Operations c/o Mary 0. Henderson, Clerk Salem Generating Station Municipal Building, P.O. Box 157 P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Mr. Bruce A.' Preston, Manager Mr. S. LaBruna Licensing'and Regulation Vice President - Nuclear Operations Nuclear Department

                           - Nuclear Department                                       P.O. Box 236 P.O. Box 236                                              Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey 08038 Mr. David Wersan Robert Trace, Mayor .                                    Assistant Consumer Advocate Lower Alloways Creek Township                             Office of Consumer Advocate Municipal Hall.              .

1425 Strawberry Square Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 Harrisburg, PA 17120 Kathy Halvey Gibson, Resident Inspector Scott B. Ungerer Salem Nuclear Generating Station MGR. - Joint Geraration Projects U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comunission Atlantic Electric Drawer I- P.O. Box 1500 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038 1199 Black Horse Pike Pleasantville, NJ 08232 Richard F. Engel Deputy Attorney General Delmarva Power & Light Company L Department.of Law and Public Safety c/o Jack Urban CN-112 General Manager, Fuel Supply State House Annex 800 King Street

                           . Trenton, NJ 08625                                        P.O. Box 231 Wilmington, DE 19899 Mr. Kent Tosch, Chief New Jersey Department of                                  Mr. A. E. Scherer, Director Environmental Protection                                 Nuclear Licensing Division of Environmental Quality                         1000 Prospect Hill Road
                           - Bureau of Nuclear Engineerin9                            P.O. Box 500 State of New Jersey                                       Windsor, CN 06095-0500 CN 415 Trenton, NJ 08625

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Therefore, the report, TR-ESE-737, Rev. O, Salem ICI Thimble Tube Flow Induced Yibration Test Program, marked as proprietary, 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. 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 cupies 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. If the basis for withholding this information from public inspection should change in the future such that the information could then be made available for public inspection, you should promptly notify the NRC. You also should 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 determination adverse to the above, you will be notified in advance of any public disclosure. Sincerely,

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