ML19261B784
| ML19261B784 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/22/1978 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Doris Lewis YOUNGSTOWN WELDING & ENGINEERING CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19261B781 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900029 NUDOCS 7903060006 | |
| Download: ML19261B784 (3) | |
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93900029/78-02 Youngsto,in Welding & Engineering Co.
Attn:
ttr. D. E. Lewis Quality Assurance Manager 3700 Oakwood Avenue Youngstown, Ohio 44509 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. Ps. E. Oller of this office on f!ovember 2-3, 1978, of your facility at Youngstown, Ohio, associated with the manufacture of welded piping and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. R. C. Yahn and Mr. E. E. Sigle and you at the conclu-sion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm 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 flRC requires each of its licens~ees to assume full responsibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others.
You should therefore not conclude that the f!P,C's inspection exempts you from inspections by an i4RC licensee or his agents nor from taking effec-tive 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 f1RC requirements.
The specific findings and references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
You will note Items A.1, A.2, and B. in deviation A of the enclosure results from your failure to take corrective and preventive actions concerning deviations A and D, identified in our letter to you dated April 13, 1978, 790306C66 6
Youngstown L'el,'ing & Engineering Company following our previous inspection.
Specifically, in your letter of June 16, 1978, you stated that the following corrective and preventive actions would be completed during April and hay 1973, when in fact, such actions did not occur:
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Corrective Action The QA Manual Sections I, " General"; VIII, " Heat Treating";
X, " Authorized Inspector"; XI, "Nonconformities"; and XII, " Audits";
were audited by the QA Hanager and determined to be satisfactory.
2.
Preventive Action ANI review has been added to the Monthly Audit Checklist.
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Preventive Action The training and indoctrination outline will be followed in con-ducting scheduled training sessions.
Consequently, in your response, as requested above, in addition to verifying correction of the :'ecific deviation, please inform us of any steps you have taken, or plan to tar.:
to assure that management commitments to take cor-rective action will be accommodated in the future.
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 talen to prevent recurrence, and (3) the dace your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
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) da3s to this office to withhold suct 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 informa-tion identified in the application is contained in a separate part of the docu-ment.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, th. report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
Youngstown !!elding & Engineering Company Should you have aay questions concerning this inspection, v;a will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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flotice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report tio. 99900029/78-02