ML20140B757

Advises That Info Submitted Re NSP Rept NSPNAD-96001,rev 2, Dtd Jan 1997, Monticello Cycle 18 Final Reload Design Rept (Reload Safety Evaluation), Will Be Withheld from Public Disclosure

ML20140B757
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	06/03/1997
From:	Kim T NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Richard Anderson NORTHERN STATES POWER CO.
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NUDOCS 9706060312
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'% June 3, 1997 Mr. Roger 0. Anderson Director Licensing and Management Issues Northern States Power Company 414 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis. MN 55401

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR WITHHOLDING INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE (MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT)

Dear Mr. Anderson:

By your application dated May 2.1997, and affidavit dated May 5.1997. you submitted revised information with respect to the four General Electric GE12 lead use assemblies that are included in the Monticello Cycle 18 (Reload 17) core and requested that Northern States Power Company (NSP) report NSPNAD-96001. Rev. 2. dated January 1997 titled "Monticello Cycle 18 Final Reload Design Report (Reload Safety Evaluation." be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790.

Your application did not include a nonproprietary version of this document.

and we request that a nonproprietary version De submitted to NRC within 90 l days from the date of this letter, for release to the NRC Public Document i Room.

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i You stated that the submitted information should be considered exempt from mandatory public disclosure for the following reasons:

1. Tne information disclosesk:a process, method. or apparatus, including supporting data and analyses, where prevention of its use by NSP's competitors without license from NSP constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies.

! 2. The information if used by a competitor, would reduce his expenditure of resources or improve his competitive position in the design.

! manufacture, shipment, installation, assurance of quality, or licensing of a similar product.

l I 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

. determined that the submitted information sought to be withheld contains 0

proprietary commercial information.

Therefore. NSP report NSPNAD-96001. Rev. 2. dated January 1997 titled 0

"Monticello Cycle 18 Final Reload Design Report (Reload Safety Evaluation." I -

marked as pro)rietary, will be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to 4

10 CFR 2.790(3)(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 4

persons properly and directly concerned to inspect the documents. If the need

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R. O. Anderson 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 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.

ORIGINAL SIGNED BY Tae Kim Senior Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-263 cc: See next page l DlSTRIBUTION:

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