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IE Insp Rept 50-358/79-22 on 790611-13 & 0718-19. Noncompliance Noted:Inadequate Control,Storage, Identification & Organization of Spare Parts of safety-related Hangers
ML19208D846
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Site: Zimmer
Issue date: 08/09/1979
From: Danielson D, Yin I
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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50-358-79-22, NUDOCS 7910010164
Download: ML19208D846 (5)


See also: IR 05000358/1979022

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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT

FIGION III

Report No. 50-352/79-22

Docket No. 50-358

License No. CPPR-88

Licensee: Cincinnati Gas and Electric

Company

139 East 4th Street

Cincinnati, OH 45201

Facility Name: Wm H. Zimmer Power Station

Inspection At: Zimmer Site, Moscow, Ohio; and General Electric Company,

San Jose, California

Inspection Conducted: June 11-13, and July 18-19, 1979

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Inspector:

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Approved By:

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Engineering Support Section 2

Inspection Summary

Inspection on June 11-13, and July 18-19, 1979 (Report No. 50-358/79-22)

Areas Inspected:

Inspection of safety related hanger and restraint

activities including:

(1) Observation of licensee audit at NSSS supplier

office, (2) review status of hanger calculations, (3) review of QC inspection

procedures and implementation, (4) review site document control, and (5)

observation of hanger installation and storage conditions. The inspection

involved a total of 32 inspector-hours on site and at the NSSS supplier

office by one NRC inspector.

Results: Of the five areas inspected, no apparent items of noncompliance

were identified in four areas; one apparent item of noncompliance was

identified in one area (infraction - inadequate storage control for the

safety related hangers and restraint components - Paragraph 5).

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DETAILS

Persors Contacted

Principal Licensee Personnel (CG&E)

  • B. K. Culver, Project Manager
  • W. W. Schwiers, Principal QA&S Engineer
  • J. Weissenberg, QA&S Engineer
    • R. P. Ehas, QA&S Engineer

Henry J. Kaiser Company (HJK)

  • R. Marshall, Project Manager
  • E. V. Knox, Corporate QA Manager
  • R. E. Turner, Site QA Manager

General Electric Company (GE)

    • W. E. Smith, Project Manager
    • E. O. Swain, Manager, Piping Design
    • H. J. Pearson, Project EnFineer
    • R. C. Boesser, Manager, QA&OM
    • G. R. Hosack, Manager, Quality Audits
    • R. J. Valencia, Audit Coordinator

USNRC - RIII

  • T. E. Vandel, Project Inspector
  • Denotes those personnel attending the exit interview on July 19, 1979,

at the Zimmer site.

    • Denotes those personnel attending the exit interview on June 13, 1979,

at the GE, San Jose, California, office.

Licensee Action on Previous Identified Items

(Closed) Unresolved Item (358/78-27-02):

Improper component outdoor

stora6e and excessive time to resolve the NCR written on similar problems.

Followup inspections in this area were p, 'ormed and recorded in RIII

Report Nos. 78-32, and 79-11.

During thf

' sit, the inspector reviewed

the following documents:

1.

KEI FCP 2-210, "On Site Piping and Hanger Material Outdoor Laydown,"

Bev. 2, dated June 12, 1979.

2.

CG&E Audit Report No. 254, "On Site Piping and Hanger Material

Outdoor Laydown," dated July 17, 1979.

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CG&E NCR No. 7229 issued on December 29, 1978; remains open.

The inspector stated that he had no adverse comments on these procedures

and t!* measures taken to resolve NCR No. 7229. However, after observing

the indoor storage of hanger and snubber attachments components, this

item is elevated to an item of noncompliance.

See Paragraph 5 of this

report.

Functional or Program Areas Inspected

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Observation of Licensee Audit at GE

The inspector accompanied the licensee's QA audit team on June 11-13,

1979, at GE, San Jose, California.

The audit areas included pipe

stress analysis, pipe whip restraint design, work procedures and

personnel qualification. As a result of the audit, the licensee

identified several deficiencies relative to the establishment of

formal procedures, procedure implementation, personnel qualification,

and review of vendor drawings. The audit team leader stated that

followup on these items will be in accordance with normal corporate

procedures. The inspector noted that since individual GE hanger and

snubber final design and verification is being performed by S&L, and

an extended effort in making hanger calculations have been carried

out in S&L, no further separate evaluation was required. The inspector

commented that the GE calculationn for the cable type pipe whip

restraints installed on the 10, 16, and 20-inch recirculation loop

had not been checket by another qualified engineers, however, because

of the conservatism established in the scaling formula derived from

actual testing and the use of alternative computation methods, the

overall measure of the calculation and documentative was considered

acceptable.

No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.

2.

A-E Review on Safety Related Hangers and Restraints

Since March, 1979, S&L has reported to CG&E every two weeks the

status of subject reviews. To this date, seven reports were sub-

mitted from S&L indicating a consistent trend of approximately 50%

of all the items reviewed required major or minor redesign effort.

The 1,271 total number of hangers reviewed up to June 18, 1979,

represents approximately 25% of all the safety related suspension

system components. Among the 1,271 reviewed, 418 or so were formally

issued for final construction. The licensee's previously estimated

review completion date of the end of July, 1979 (RIII Report No.

79-11, Paragraph 2), was erroneous. From identification of the

problem that S&L did not have all the necessary design calculations

for safety related hangers and restraints back in September 1978, to

present, the corrective measures taken by the licensee appear to be

sufficient. However, the present rate of S&L hanger calculation,

review, and issuance of final construction drawings could have some

effect on the overall project completion schedule.

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Review of QC inspection Procedures and Procedure Implementetion

The inspector reviewed the three main procedures used by CG&E and

KEI construction and QC personnel performing acceptance inspections.

These procedures are:

KEI QACMI M-12, " Inspection Instructions for Pipe Hangers,

a.

Support and Restraint Installation," Res. 2, dated June 26,

1979.

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b.

CG&E MC-5, " Pipe Support Final Inspection," Rev. 2, dated

June 18, 1979.

KEI FCP 2-135, " Process Pipe Support Installation After Sargent

c.

and Lundy Final Design Analysis." Re". 2, dated June 12, 1979.

The above procedures "a" and "b" above are being used for all hanger

construction knowing that modification may be reouir<

later.

Procedure "c" was prepared for final QC inspect 2on of those hangers

that had been reworked in accordance with S&L final derign analysis.

To the dat* of June 18, 1979, among the 1,271 safety related hangers

reviewed by S&L, 701 required some sort of redesign. From March 20,

1979, to July 13, 1979, 34 transmittals from S&L have been forwarded

to the site. These include 418 safety related hangers and snubbers,

of which approximately 50% required field modifications.

During review of FCP 2-135, the inspector found that the S&L installa-

tion requirement codes G, M, and B were incorporated.

Since the

issuance of FCP 2-135, S&L has transmitted final design drawing with

codes F, E, S, and V (in addition to G, M, and B) without definition.

Furthermore, when the field identified deficiencies on the transmittals,

no formal request for clarifications from S&L was initiated by KEI.

The control and handling of hanger modifications will be reviewed

further. This is an unresolved item.

(358/79-22-01)

No items of noncompliance or deriations were identified.

4.

Review of Site Document Control

During the course of inspection, one book of procedures located in

the CG&E project section containing all the field construction

procedures was used for reference and discussion. The inspector

noted that this book was not a controlled copy, and furthermore "for

information only" marks were not stamped. Further review revealed

that the Index No. 1-X series and the Index No. 2-X up to 100 series

were not up-to-date, and five procedures contained under Index No.

2-X 100 series were not the latest approved copies. The inspector

checked other document control provisions and verified that one of

the books listed under control distribution was kept up-to-date.

The problem was discussed with the licensee and two corrective

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eeasures were established,

i.e., (1) the document department will

not issue controlled procedures to persons outside the distribution

list, and (2) a planned CG&E audit was scheduled for July 19, 1979,

covering issuance control of all the work procedures. The inspector

reviewed the CG&E and QA&S audit checklist and will followup on

adequacy of the audit and review findings identified by CG&E. This

is an unresolved item.

(358/79-22-02)

No items of noncompliance or deviations were identified.

5.

Review of Hanger and Snubber Storage and Nonconformance Control

The inspector observed the indoor hanger, snubber, and component

storage area and identified the following problems:

Lack of control and identification of spare parts.

Spare parts

a.

consisted of parts with nonconforming conditions such as painted

and frozen ball bushings, rusted and frozen ball bushings,

damaged variable and constant spring coils, clamps that were

removed from installations, and scrapped items such as INC

mechanical snubbers.

b.

Some parts observed had been left outside on the ground and

appeared to be rusty and required restoration.

Spare parts, nonconforming parts, safety related items, and non

c.

safety items were mixed at all areas and scattered all over the

floors and passage walkways.

The lack of (1) storage control for safety related components, (2)

zestoration of adverse hardware conditions prior to be use as spare

parts, (3) control of the spare parts, and (4) identification and

segregation of nonconforming items are considered in noncompliance

with NRC regulations. This is an item of noncompliance identified

in Appendix A.

(358/79-22-03)

Unresolved Items

Unresolved items are matters about which more information is required in

order to ascertain whether they are acceptable items, items of noncom-

pliance or deviations. Unresolved items disclosed during this inspection

are discussed in Paragraphs 3 and 4.

Exit Interview

The inspector met with site representatives (denoted in the Persons

Contacted paragraph) at the conclusion of the inspection on July 19,

1979. The inspector summarized the scope and findings of the inspection

noted in this report.

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