ML20210T416

Approves 860617 Request That Center Line Co Rept 179, Cavitation,Torque & Performance Testing of 6-Inch & 12-Inch Elliptical Disc & 6-Inch Symmetrical Disc Butterfly Valves, Be Marked as Proprietary Per 10CFR2.790(b)(5)

ML20210T416
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	02/02/1987
From:	Donohew J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Fiedler P GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP.
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TAC-64380, NUDOCS 8702180179
Download: ML20210T416 (3)

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February.2, 1987 Docket No.- 50-219 i

i Mr.;P. B. Fiedler s

Vice President and Director i

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station

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Post Office Eox 388-Forked River, New York 08731

SUBJECT:

PROPRIETARY DATA REQUEST FOR CONTAINHENT PURGE AND VENT ISOLATION VALVES (TAC 64380)

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- Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station l

In your_ letter dated June 17, 1986, you provided a document from the Center Line Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma and requested, under 10 CFR 2.790, that it be considered proprietary and treated accordingly. This document was used by the-NRC staff to evaluate your request dated September 24, 1985, to cancel the commitment to install new containment purge and vent isolation valves (valves). In its evaluation dated October 10, 1986, the staff concluded the.

existing valves were-acceptable and your proposal to cancel the commitment to i

install the new valves was acceptable. In the letter dated October 10, 1986,-

I incorrectly referred to your request as being dated September 74,1986. As stated above, it was dated September 24, 1985.

i In my letter dated October 10,1986, I requested that you provide the basis per 10 CFR 2.790 for the document to be withheld from public disclosure and an affidavit. Since October 10, 1986, GPUNuclear(thelicen.see)hasshownthat i

the basis and affidavit is contained in the enclosures to your. letter dated June 17, 1986.

It was stated by Center Line Company that the submitted report No. 179 on I

three of the company's butterfly valves should be considered exempt from l

mandatory public disclosure for.the following reasons:

(1) Center Line has, to date, held the contents of report 179 in strict confidence, i

(2) Center Line, as well as other valve manufacturers, customarily 4

i withhold flow test data in confidence and publish only information i

about the valve discharge coefficient, i

(3) At Center Line's request, and as a part of the licensee's purchase order, it is its wish.that the report be kept confidential.

(4) Report No. 179 is not in the public domain. Center Line contracted an individual.to perform the tests and provide a report only to them.-

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-(5) Center Line holds that this information could cause substantial ham to its competitive position because other manufacturers could adopt this information for their use without purchasing the infomation -

and could use this report against Center Line in the market place.

We have reviewed the application and material based on the requirements and criteria of 10 CFR 2.790, and, on the basis of the vendor's statements, have.

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- determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains proprietary connercial information.

For this_ report, in the balancing of-the interests of the vendor urging nondisclosure and the public interest in disclosure, there,is no compelling reason for not withholding this information for the basis provided by the vendor.

Therefore, Center Line Report No. 179, Cavitation, Torque, and Performance Testing of a 6-inch and 12-inch Elliptical Disc and a 6-inch Symmetrical Disc Butterfly Valves, marked as proprietary,' will be withheld from public 1

' disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(b)(5) and Section 103(b) of the Atomic

- Emergency Act of 1954, as amended.

Withholding from public inspection shall not affect the right, if any, of j

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 L

this area. We will, of. course, ensure that the consultants have signed the appropriate agreements for handling proprietary information.

If it should become known to you in the future that the basis for withholding this information from public inspection has changed such that the information could then be made available for public-inspection, you should promptly notify the NRC. You and Center Line Company should also understand that the NRC may have cause to review this determination in the future, such as, if the scope of a Freedom of Infomation Act request includes your. infomation.

In all review situations, if the NRC makes a determination adverse to the above, you l

will be notified in advance of any public disclosure.

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Mr. Ernest L. Blake, Jr.

Resident Inspector Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge c/o U.S. NRC 2300 N Street, NW Post Office Box 445

. Washington, D.C.

20037 Forked River, New Jersey 08731 J.B. Liberman,-Esquire Commissioner Bishop, Liberman,-Cook, et al.

New Jersey Department of Energy.

1155 Avenue of the Americas 101 Commerce Street New York, New York 10036 Newark, New Jersey 07102 Mr. David M. Scott, Acting Chief

' Regional Administrator, Region I Bureau of Nuclear Engineering U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Department of Environmental Protection 631 Park Avenue CN 411 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Trenton, New Jersey 08625 BWR Licensing Manager GPU Nuclear Corporation 1 Upper Pond Road Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 Deputy Attorney General State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety 36 West State Street - CN 112 Trenton, New Jersey 08625 Mayor Lacey Township 818 West Lacey Road Forked River, New Jersey 08731 Licensing Manager Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Mail Stop: Site Emergency Bldg.

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