ML21105A788
| ML21105A788 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility |
| Issue date: | 04/12/2021 |
| From: | Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, NAC International, TN Americas LLC |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
| Shared Package | |
| ML21105A766 | List: |
| References | |
| E-58496 | |
| Download: ML21105A788 (7) | |
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Enclosure 1 to E-58496 Affidavit Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390
- a. Interim Storage Partners
- b. TN Americas
- c. NAC International
AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 Interim Storage Partners LLC )
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. 'w JttS/f, ~(; ,._j I, Jeffery Isakson, depose and say that I am Chief Executive Officer/President; Interim Storage Partners LLC duly authorized to execute this affidavit, and have reviewed or caused to have reviewed the information that is identified as proprietary and referenced in the paragraph immediately below. I am submitting this affidavit in conformance with the provisions of IO CFR 2.390 of the Commission's regulations for withholding this information.
The information for which proprietary treatment is sought applies to the following documents listed below:
- License Application, Revision 4 pages clearly marked as containing proprietary information o Chapter 1, "General And Financial Information
- WCS CISF Safety Analysis Report, Revision 5 pages clearly marked as containing proprietary information o Chapter 2, "Site Characteristics" o Attachment D to Chapter 2 "Site-Specific Seismic Hazard Evaluation And Development of Seismic Design Ground Motions" in its entirety.
o Chapter 7, "Installation Design and Structural Evaluation" These documents have been appropriately designated as proprietary.
I have personal knowledge of the criteria and procedures utilized by Interim Storage Partners LLC in designating information as a trade secret, privileged or as confidential commercial or financial information.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) (4) of Section 2.390 of the Commission's regulations, the following is furnished for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure, included in the above referenced document, should be withheld.
I) The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure involves information related to the design of the WCS CISF, which are owned and have been held in confidence by Interim Storage Partners LLC.
- 2) The information is of a type customarily held in confidence by Interim Storage Partners LLC, and not customarily disclosed to the public. Interim Storage Partners LLC has a rational basis for determining the types of information customarily held in confidence by it.
- 3) Public disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of Interim Storage Partners LLC, because the information consists of descriptions of the design of the WCS CISF and descriptions of analyses of the WCS CISF, the application of which provide a competitive economic advantage. The availability of such information to competitors would enable them to modify their product or project to better compete with Interim Storage Partners LLC, take marketing or other actions to improve their product's or project's position or impair the position of Interim Storage Partners LLC product or project, and avoid developing similar data in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.
Further the deponent sayeth not.
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AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 TN Americas LLC )
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I, Prakash N~~anan, depo-se and say that I am the Chief Technical Officer of TN Americas LLC, duly authorized to execute this affidavit, and have reviewed or caused to have reviewed the information which is identified as proprietary and referenced in the paragraph immediately below. I am submitting this affidavit in conformance with the provisions of 10 CFR 2.390 of the Commission's regulations for withholding this information.
The information for which proprietary treatment is sought is listed below:
- WCS CISF Safety Analysis Report, Revision 5 pages clearly marked as containing proprietary information o Appendix A, "NUHOMS-MPl 87 Cask System" o Appendix B, "Standardized Advanced NUHOMS System" o Appendix C, "Standardized NUHOMS-61BT System" o Appendix D, "Standardized NUHOMS-61BTH Type 1 System"
- "WCS Lift Beam Assembly (three sheets)," WCS0l-2100, Revision 0
- NUHOMS System GTCC Canister Closure Installation (one sheet)," 13302-1007, Rev. 0 This document has been appropriately designated as proprietary.
I have personal knowledge of the criteria and procedures utilized by TN Americas LLC in designating information as a trade secret, privileged or as confidential commercial or financial information.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) (4) of Section 2.390 of the Commission' s regulations, the following is furnished for consideration by the Commission in determining whether the information sought to be withheld from public disclosure, included in the above referenced document, should be withheld.
- 1) The information sought to be withheld from public disclosure involves operating experience with spent fuel storage systems and details of spent fuel storage system associated with the fuel storage technology, which are owned and have been held in confidence by TN Americas LLC.
- 2) The information is of a type customarily held in confidence by TN Americas LLC, and not customarily disclosed to the public. TN Americas LLC has a rational basis for determining the types of information customarily held in confidence by it.
- 3) Public disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of TN Americas LLC, because the information consists of operating experience with NUHOMS and details of NUHOMS storage systems, the application of which provide a competitive economic advantage .. The availability of such information to competitors would enable them to modify their product to better compete with TN Americas LLC, take marketing or other actions to improve their product' s position or impair the position of TN Americas LLC's product, and avoid developing similar data and planning in support of their processes, methods or apparatus.
Further the deponent sayeth not.
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A NAC INTERNATIONAL NACINTERNATIONAL AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 George Carver (Affiant), Vice President, Engineering and Support Services, hereinafter referred to as NAC, at 3930 East Jones Bridge Road, Peachtree Comers, Georgia 30092, being duly sworn, deposes and says that:
- 1. Affiant has reviewed the information described in Item 2 and is personally familiar with the trade secrets and privileged information contained therein, and is authorized to request its withholding.
- 2. The information to be withheld includes the following NAC Proprietary Information that is being provided in support of the NRC review of SAR Revision 5 for Interim Storage Partners (ISP)
Centralized Interim Storage Facility (CISF) site-specific license application (NRC Docket No. 72-1050).
- a. Chapter 4, "Operating Systems"
- b. Chapter 7, "Installation Design and Structural Evaluation"
- c. Chapter 12, "Accident Analysis"
- d. Appendix E, "NAC-MPC"
- e. Appendix F, "NAC-UMS"
- f. Appendix G, "NAC-MAGNASTOR"
- "Lift Yoke, Transport Cask, NAC-STC," 30039-L024, Revision 0
- "Lift Yoke, Transport Cask, NAC-UMS'," 30039-L022, Revision 0
- "Lift Yoke, Transport Cask, MAGNATRAN," 30039-L023, Revision 0
- "Loaded Vertical Concrete Cask (VCC) CY-MPC, Waste Control Specialists (WCS),"
30039-863, Revision 0
- "Loaded Vertical Concrete Cask (VCC) MPC-Yankee, Waste Control Specialists (WCS),"
30039-862, Revision 0
- "Loaded Vertical Concrete Cask (VCC) NAC-UMS, Waste Control Specialists (WCS),"
30039-590, Revision 0
- "Loaded Concrete Cask, MAGNASTOR, Waste Control Specialists (WCS),"
30039-591, Revision 0 NAC is the owner of this information that is considered to be NAC Proprietary Information.
- 3. NAC makes this application for withholding of proprietary information based upon the exemption from disclosure set forth in: the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"); 5 USC Sec. 552(b)(4) and the Trade Secrets Act; 18 USC Sec. 1905; and NRC Regulations 10 CPR Part 9.17(a)(4), 2.390(a)(4), and 2.390(b)(l) for "trade secrets and commercial financial information obtained from a person, and privileged or confidential" (Exemption 4). The information for which exemption from disclosure is herein sought is all "confidential commercial information," and some portions may also qualify under the narrower definition of "trade secret," within the meanings assigned to those terms for purposes of FOIA Exemption 4.
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I NAC INTERNATIONAL NACINTERNATIONAL AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 (continued)
- 4. Examples of categories of information that fit into the definition of proprietary information are:
- a. Information that discloses a process, method, or apparatus, including supporting data and analyses, where prevention of its use by competitors of NAC, without license from NAC, constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.
- b. Information that, if used by a competitor, would reduce their expenditure of resources or improve their competitive position in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality or licensing of a similar product.
- c. Information that reveals cost or price information, production capacities, budget levels or commercial strategies of NAC, its customers, or its suppliers.
- d. Information that reveals aspects of past, present or future NAC customer-funded development plans and programs of potential commercial value to NAC.
- d. Information that discloses patentable subject matter for which it may be desirable to obtain patent protection.
The information that is sought to be withheld is considered to be proprietary for the reasons set forth in Items 4.a, 4.b, and 4.d.
- 5. The information to be withheld is being transmitted to the NRC in confidence.
- 6. The information sought to be withheld, including that compiled from many sources, is of a sort customarily held in confidence by NAC, and is, in fact, so held. This information has, to the best of my knowledge and belief, consistently been held in confidence by NAC. No public disclosure has been made, and it is not available in public sources. All disclosures to third parties, including any required transmittals to the NRC, have been made, or must be made, pursuant to regulatory provisions or proprietary agreements, which provide for maintenance of the information in confidence. Its initial designation as proprietary information and the subsequent steps taken to prevent its unauthorized disclosure are as set forth in Items 7 and 8 following.
- 7. Initial approval of proprietary treatment of a document/information is made by the Vice President, Engineering, the Project Manager, the Licensing Specialist, or the Director, Licensing - the persons most likely to know the value and sensitivity of the information in relation to industry knowledge.
Access to proprietary documents within NAC is limited via "controlled distribution" to individuals on a "need to know" basis. The procedure for external release of NAC proprietary documents typically requires the approval of the Project Manager based on a review of the documents for technical content, competitive effect and accuracy of the proprietary designation. Disclosures of proprietary documents outside of NAC are limited to regulatory agencies, customers and potential customers and their agents, suppliers, licensees and contractors with a legitimate need for the information, and then only in accordance with appropriate regulatory provisions or proprietary agreements.
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ANAC ftlFI INTERNATIONAL NACINTERNATIONAL AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 (continued)
- 8. NAC has invested a significant amount of time and money in the research, development, engineering and analytical costs to develop the information that is sought to be withheld as proprietary. This information is considered to be proprietary because it contains detailed descriptions of analytical approaches, methodologies, technical data and/or evaluation results not available elsewhere. The precise value of the expertise required to develop the proprietary information is difficult to quantify, but it is clearly substantial.
Public disclosure of the information to be withheld is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of NAC, as the owner of the information, and reduce or eliminate the availability of profit-making opportunities. The proprietary information is part of NAC's comprehensive spent fuel storage and transport technology base, and its commercial value extends beyond the original development cost to include the development of the expertise to determine and apply the appropriate evaluation process. The value of this proprietary information and the competitive advantage that it provides to NAC would be lost if the information were disclosed to the public. Making such information available to other parties, including competitors, without their having to make similar investments of time, labor and money would provide competitors with an unfair advantage and deprive NAC of the opportunity to seek an adequate return on its large investment.
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ANAC ffrl INTERNATIONAL NACINTERNATIONAL AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO 10 CFR 2.390 (continued)
STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF GWINNETT Mr. George Carver, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he has read the foregoing affidavit and the matters stated herein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. !,,{ ~
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George Carver Vice President, Engineering and Support Services NAC International Subscribed and sworn before me this ,ti lU day of , 2021.
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