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Forwards Insp Rept 50-289/73-14 on 730829 & Notice of Violation
ML19256D489
Person / Time
Site: Crane 
Issue date: 09/14/1973
From: Howard E
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To: John Miller
METROPOLITAN EDISON CO.
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See also: IR 05000289/1973014

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Metropoliton Edison Company

Docket No. 50-289

Attention:

Mr. J. G. Miller

Vice President

P. O. Box 542

Reading, Pennsylvania

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This refers to the inspection conducted by Mr. Ross L. Brown of this

office on .iugust 29, 1973 at the Walworth/Aloyco Company plant, located

in Linden, New Jersey, relative to the manufacture of the Three Mile

Island Valves and to the discussion of the findings at the conclusion of

the inspection held by Mr. Brown with manage =ent fepresentatives of GPU

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Service Corporation, Babcock and Wilcox_ Company,.@2 Associates, and

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Walworth/Aloyco Company.

Areas examined during this inspection are described in the Regulatory

Operations Inspection Report which is enclosed with this letter. Within

these areas, the inspection consisted of selective examination of procedures

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and representative records, interviews with plant personnel, and observation

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Dur_ng the inspection, it was found that certain activities appear to be

in violation of the ASTM requirements.

The items and referet.ces to the

pertinent requirements are listed in the enclosure to this letter.

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letter constitutes a notice sent to you pursuant to the provisions of

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Section 2.201 of the AEC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2, Title 10, Code of

Federal Regulations.

Section 2.201 requires you to submit to this office

within 30 days of your receipt of this notice,.a written statement of ex-

planation in reply, including: (1) corrective steps which have been or

will te taken by you, and the results achieved; (2) corrective steps which

will be taken to avoid further violations; and (3) the date when full com-

pliance will be achieved.

In accordance with Section 2.790 of the AEC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2,

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and the enclosed

inspection report will be placed in the AEC's Public Document Room.

If this

report contains any information that you (or your contractor) believe to be

proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within 20

days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure.

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Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on

the basis of which it is claimed proprietary, and should be prepared

so that proprietary information identified in the application is con-

tained in a separate parc of the document.

If we do not hear from you

in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed

in the Public Document Room.

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Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be

pleased to discuss them with you.

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