ML19253C777
| ML19253C777 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 08/24/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML19253C756 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900268 99900268-79-2, NUDOCS 7912120109 | |
| Download: ML19253C777 (2) | |
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Armco Incorporated Advanced Materials Division Docket No. 99900268/79-02 NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on July 23-27, 1979, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements.
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."
Deviations from these requirements are as follows:
A.
The QA Manual paragraph 8.2.1 states, "All welding procedure specifications are developed by the Welding Engineer and are qualified according to Section IX and Section III of the ASME Code."
Paragraph 8.2.2 states,
" Welding and testing of procedure qualification test plates are carried out under the direction of the Welding Engineer." Paragraph 8.2.5 states in part, " Revisions to a welding specification which require requalification shall be handled in the same manner as for evaluating new procedure specifications.
See paragraph 8.2...
Contrary to the above, welding procedure specifications No. 10 (for automatic GTA welding) and No. 11 (for manual tack welding) were revised and requalified in April and July, 1979, respectively by the production Welding Supervisor, who was not properly authorized to perform these activities.
(See Details Section, paragraph B.5 for additional info rma tion).
B.
The QA Manual paragraph 6.2.1 states, "All nonconformities reported on an NCR are reviewed for corrective action by the Materials Review Board."
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2 ParaFraph 6.2.1.2 states, " Final disposition and corrective action is entered on the original NCR with all members of the MRB indicating acceptance of the corrective action by signing and dating the NCR."
Paragraph 6.2.1.3 states, " Concurrence of the ANI is required and is indicated by his signature and date."
Contrary to the above, the final disposition and corrective action entered on nonconformance report NCR No. 197, regarding repair by welding of defects in excess of 10 percent of the wall thickness in an SA-358 Class 1,Section III Class 2 pipe, was not signed and dated by all members of the MRB (Material Review Board) to indicate acceptance, nor was it signed and dated by the ANI to show concurrence.
C.
The QA Manual paragraph 17.2.1 states in part, ".
. continued Training Programs are arranged monthly either for review of existing procedures or for instructions when modifications of procedures are made."
Contrary to the above, training programs were not being arranged on a monthly basis as evidenced by the last four (4) sessions having been conducted on August 10, 1978; December 5,1978; March 2,1979 and April 17, 1979.
D.
Operating Procedure No. 35, Revision 2, " Hydrostatic Testing, Continuous Side," in paragraph III.4 states, "At the beginning and end of each 8 hour9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> shift, a reading is taken with the master gage and Foxboro Recorder simultaneously to verify the accuracy of the Recorder.
The master gage reading must not be less than the Recorder reading by more than 25 psi.
The master gage reading is recorded on the chart." Paragraph'IV states, "The Lab Technician changes the charts daily and ensures that mill order, size, schedule, type and number of pieces are recorded on the tracing.
Contrary to the above, observation of in process hydrostatic testing of two (2), eight (8) inch 0.D. pipes, established that Operating Procedure No. 35, Revision 2 was not being followed in that the Foxboro recorder was not used.
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