ML19207B898
| ML19207B898 | |
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| Issue date: | 05/17/1979 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Schultz R ARMCO, INC. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19207B891 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900268 NUDOCS 7909060033 | |
| Download: ML19207B898 (2) | |
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G11 RYAN PL AZA DRIVE. SUITE 1000 AR Lir'GT ON. T E X AS 76012 g-Docket flo. 99900268/79-01 Armco, Incorporated Advanced Material Division Attn: Mr. R. W. Schultz Quality Assurance SCpervisor 13835 Beaumont Highway Houston, Texas 77028 Gentlemen:
Thank you for your letter of April 20, 1979, in response to our letter dated March 22, 1979.
As a result of our review, we find that additional information, as discussed with you during a telephone call on May 17, 1979, is needed.
Please provide a discussion of each of the seven deviations from commitment listed in the enclosure to our March 22 letter, as these comments reference the response to these deviations contained in your April 20 letter, with reference to the following:
Items A, B, and C Your letter dated April 20, 1979, failed to provide a description of steps you will take, or have taken, to assure that commitments on the part of management to implement corrective action will be accommodated.
Therefore, please reconsider this matter and provide a description of preventive action you will implement to preclude recarrence and provide a date when such action will be completed.
Items D, E, F, and G Your response to these items does not deal with action to prevent recurrence, nor a time in which corrective steps will be completed.
,Please consider the following conments relative to these items.
Item D Please describe the steps which will be taken to assure that the Argon and Helium welding gas proportioning flowmeters will be identified by serial number, listed in calibration procedure QC-12, and calibrated at specified intervals. Also, provide the date that these steps will be implemented.
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Items E.1, 2, and 3 Please describe the steps which will be taken to assure that welding procedure specifications and the related qualification records will be revised whenever necessary; contain the proper parameters and be properly requalified when necessary to preve' recurrence of the sub-ject deviation.
Also, provide.the date that these steps will be impiemented.
Items F.1 and 2 Please describe the steps which will be taken to assure that sub-contracted services are controlled to prevent recurrence of the subject deviations. Also, provide the date when this action will be 0 plemented.
Item G Please describe corrective action steps, which you will take to assure that flDE reports completed to date for SA-312, ASME Code Class 2 pipe, have been reviewed by t'r.2 QA supervisor.
Also, describe steps which will be taken, to assure that the corrective action continues to be effective.
Provide the date when the above actions will be implemented.
Please provide this additional information within twenty (20) days in order that we may complete ~o~ur~revied in a timely manner.
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