ML19260C280
| ML19260C280 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/02/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Amidon W ITT GRINNELL INDUSTRIAL PIPING, INC. (SUBS. OF ITT |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19260C234 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900019 NUDOCS 7912260146 | |
| Download: ML19260C280 (2) | |
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O 2 APR 197 Docket No. 99900019/79-01 ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Incorporated Attn: Mr. W. C. Amidon President Post Office Box 566 Kernersville, North Carolina 27284 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on February 26-March 1,1979, of your facility at Kernersville, North Carolina, associated with the fabrication of nuclear piping assemblies and to the discussions of our findings with you and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confinn that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a customer are being implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your customers, is of acceptable quality. As you know, the NRC requires each of its licensees to assume full responsibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others.
You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exempts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking effective corrective action in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report.
Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an examination of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
During the inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA Program failed to meet certain NRC requirements. The specific findings and references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
Please provide us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a written statement containing, (1) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to correct these items, (2) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence, and (3) the date your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
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ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Incorporated In your response to Item B of the Enclosure to Inspection Report No. 78-01, you committed to corrective action concerned with solution heat treatment following hot bending of austinitic stainless steel pipe.
This matter is discussed further in Item A of Enclosure 1 to this letter, and in Section B.2 of Enclosure 2.
During this inspection, the adequacy of your corrective action, and failure to provide measures to comply with Regulatory Guide 1.44, raises concern relative to management direction and involvement in your quality assurance program.
The absence of formal documentation, reflecting your customer's understanding and agreement with your actions involving a matte ~r of potential safety significance, suggests that a significant defi-ciency may exist in the methods and practices used to ensure that customer quality requirements are met.
Consequently in your response, in addition to verifying correction of the specific deviations, as requested above, please indicate what actions you have taken or are planning to take to prevent recurrence of deviations of this kind.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure.
Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is claimed that the information is proprietary, and should be prepared so that proprietary information identified in the application is contained in a separate part 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.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
Sincerely, v
Karl V. Seyfrit Director
Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
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