ML20235V162

Forwards Amend 5 to Advanced BWR Ssar, Consisting of Nonproprietary Chapter 20 & Proprietary Sections 7.2 & 7.5. Binders for Chapter 19,along W/New Tabs for Chapters 1,7 & 3 & Affidavit Also Encl.Sections Withheld

ML20235V162
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Site:	05000605
Issue date:	02/28/1989
From:	Marriott P GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
To:	Chris Miller NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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February 28,1989 MFN No. 011-89 Docket No. STN50-605 Document Control Desk .,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington,D.C. 20555 Attention: Charles L Miller, Director Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate

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Submittal of Amendment 5 to GE's ABWR SSAR L

Dear Mr. Miller:

Enclosed are thirty-four copies of Section 7.2, Reactor Protection System, and Section 7.5 Infonnation Systems Important to Safety of the Standard Safety Analysis Report (SSAR) for the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR). ,

Also please find enclosed, in addition to Sections 7.2 and 7.5, information identified as deferred in <

previously submitted chapters of the SSAR and other SSAR page changes with an accompanying change page instruction sheet. Note that Sections 7.2 and 7.5 contain information that is designated as General Electric Company proprietary information.

The non-proprietary material of Chapter 20 is being resubmitted to correct printing problems of the or:ginal submittal and includes some Amendment 5 update (corrections) pages. This material is being supplied with its own binder. Also, two binders for Chapter 19 are included along with some new tabs for Chapters 1,7, and 3.

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T. E. Murley (NRC)

D.M.Crutchfield (NRC)

D.J. McGoff (DOE)

F.J.Miraglia.Jr. (NRC)

D.C.Scaletti (NRC)

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AFFIDAVIT I, David J. Robare, being duly sworn, depose and state as follows:

1. I am Manager, Products Licensing, General Electric Company, and have been delegated the function of reviewing the information described in paragraph 2 which is sought to be with-held and have been authorized to apply for its withholding.

- 2. The information sought to be withheld is Section 7.5,Information Systems Important to Safety, and selected figures from Section 7.2 relating to the ReactorProtection System.

~3. In designating material as proprietary, General Electric utilizes the definition of proprietary information and trade secrets set forth in the American Law Institute's Restatement of Torts, Section 757. This definition provides:

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"A trade secret may consist of any formula, pattern, device or compilation of infor-mation which is used in one's business and which gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it A substantial element of secrecy must exist, so that, except by the use of improper means, there would be difficulty in acquiring information.... Some factors to be considered in determining whether given information is one's trade secret are: (1) the extent to

. which the information is known outside of his business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in his business; (3) the extent of mea-sures taken by him to guerd the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the in-formation to him and to his competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money ex-panded by him in developing the information; (6) the ease or difficulty with the which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others."

4. Som,e examples of categories of information which fit into the definition of proprietary infor-mation are:

a. Information that disdosed a process, method or apparatus where prevention of its use by General Electric's competitors without license from General Electric constitutes a competitive economic advantage over other companies;

b. Information consisting of supporting data and analyses, including test. data, relative to a process, method or apparatus, the. application of which provide a competitive economic advantage, e.g., by optu, nization or improved marketability;

c. Information which if used by a competitor, would reduce his expenditure of resources or improve his competitive position in the design, manufacture, shipment, installation, as-I surance of quality or licensing of a similar product;

d. Information which reveals cost or price information, production capacities, budget levels or commercial strategies of General Electric, its customers or supp:lers;

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e. Information which reveals aspects of past, present or future General Electric cus-tomer-funded development plans and prograras of potential commercial value to Gen-eral Electric: 1

f. Information which discloses patentable subject matter for which it may be desirable to obtain patent protection;

g. Information which General Electric must treat as proprietary according to agreements l with other parties.

5. In addition to proprietary treatment given to material meeting the standards enumerated above, General Electric customarily maintains in confidence preliminary and draft material which has not been subject to complete proprietary, technical and editorial review. This prac-tice is based on the fact that draft documents often do not appropriately reflect all aspects of a problem, may contain tentative conclusions and may contam, errors that can be corrected during normal review and approval procedures. Also, until the final document is complete it may not be possible to make any definitive determination as to its proprietary nature. Gen-eral Electric is not generally willing to release such a document in such a preliminary form.

Such documents are, how ver, on occasion furnished to the NRC staff on a confidential basis because it is General Electric's belief that it is in the public interest for the staff to be promptly furnished with significant or potentially significant information. Furnishing the document on a confidential basis pending completion of General Electric's internal review permits early acquaintance of the staff with the information while protecting General Elec-tric's potential proprietary position and permitting General Electric to insure the public doc-uments are technically accurate and correct.

6. Initial approval of proprietary treatment of a document is typically made by the Subsection manager of the origmating component, who is most likely to be acquainted with the value and sensitivity of the information in relation to industry knowledge. Access to such docu-ments within the Company is limited on a "need to know" basis and such documents are clearly identified as proprietary.

7. The procedure for approval of external release of such a document typically requires review by the Subsection Manager, Project manager, Principal Scientist or other equivalent author-ity, by the Subsection Manager of the cognizant Marketing function (or delegate) and by the Legal Operation for technical content, competitive effect and determination of the accuracy of the proprietary designation in accordance with the standards enumerated above. Disclo-sures outside General Electric are generally limited to regulatory bodies, customers and po-tential customers and their agents, suppliers and licensees then only with appropriate protec-tion by applicable regulatory provisions or proprietary agreements.

8. The document mentioned in paragraph 2 above has been evaluated in accordance with the above criteria and procedures and has been found to contain information which is propri-etary and which is customarily held in confidence by General Electric.

9. The information to the best of my knowledge and belief ht.s consistently been held in confi-dence by the General Electric Company, no public disclosure has been made, and it is not available in public sources. All disclosures to third parties have been made pursuant to regu-latory provisions of proprietary agreements which provide for maintenance of the informa-tion in confidence.

10. Section 7.5 and the selected figures of Section 7.2 are being submitted as proprietary at this time in order to allow sufficient time to properly identify the proprietary information.

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We plan to remove selected portions of this material from the proprietary information cr.tegory as we complete our review.

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David J. Robare, being duly sworn, deposes and says:

That he has read the foregoing affidavit and the matters stated therein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief.

Executed at San Jose, California, this Jf dayof /d 198 .

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.- Amendme-t 5 - Pzge Ch*nge Instr actims l

1 - ' 'Ibe fouowing pages are being changed for the ladicated reason. Please make the specified thenger is your SSAR:

Ramove Add ' Remove Add M Pane No. Pane No, PaneNo.

New 7455,56 6.2-17,18 6117,18 New 7.2-57,58 6119,20 6.2-19,20 New . 7159,60 5.2 37/98 6337,38 New 7.241,62 6S3,4 6S3,4 ' New '7.243,64 6.4-1,2 6.4-1,2 New 7.245,66 6A3,4 6A3,4 New - 7.247,68 6A7 6.4-7 New 7.249,70 6S3,4 6A3,4 New 7.2-71,72 6S1,2 6.7-1,2 New 7.2-73,74 7-ii,iii 7-ii,lii New . 7.2-75,76 7.1-3,4 7,1-3,4 New 7177,78 7.1-17,18 7.1-17,18 New '7179,00 7.1-22,23 7.1 22,23 New 7.241,82-7.1-24,25 7.1-24,25 New 7.243,84 New 7.2-li,iii New 7.245,86 New 7Siv New 7.247,88 7.2-1 7.21.2 New 7.249,90 New 713,4 New 7.2-91,92 New 7.25,6 New 7.2-93,94 New 7.2-7,8 ' New 7.2-95,%

New 7.2-9,10 New 7197,98 New 7111,12 New 7 1 99,100 New 7113,14 New 7 1 101,102

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New 7415,16 New 7.2-103,104 New 7417,18 New 7.2-105,106 New 7119,20 New. 7 1 107.108 l New 7.2-21.22 New' 7.2-109,110 i I

New 7.2-23,24 New 7.2-110 New 7.2-25,26 New 7Sii New 7127,28 7S1 7S1 New 7429,30 7&ii,lii 7&li,lii New 7131 7.6-iv 7&iiin,1v )

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New 7.2 43,44 7.6-20 7420,7.6-20e New 7.2 45,46 7423 7423,23e New 7.2 47,48 New 7.6-78,79 New 7.2 49,50 New 7440,81 New 7151,52 9-il,iii 9-il,iii New 7153,54 9-iv 9-iv ,

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New 9Alb,1c New 9Ald 9A2 9.4-2 9A3 9A3,3s New 9A-1 a Chapter 19 - Response to Severe Accident Policy Statement Binders are provided with this submittal for Chapter 19. Please insert your existing Chapter 19 material into these binders.

Chapter 20-Questions and Answers The non-proprietary material of this chapter is'being replaced with the material included with the

.. . binder that is being supplied with this amendment submittal.

NOTE: . Please remove Finures 20.318a. 18b. and -19 (canes 20.3-123.124. and 125) alone with Finure 20.3 20 (nane 20.3-143) from the oreviousiv submitted Chanter 20 and insert them into the material in the Chanter 20 binder.

Tabs Tabs for the following sections are being supplied with this submittal and are located in the front of the second volume of the Chapter 19 binder. Please remove these tabs from this binder and insert them into the appropriate locations.

Appendix 1A Appendix 3D Appendix 3F Appendix 3G

' Appendix 3H Appendix 3I Amendment 5 Page 2

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