ML19261D982
| ML19261D982 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/04/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Warren M BENDIX CORP. |
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| ML19261D976 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900066 NUDOCS 7906290708 | |
| Download: ML19261D982 (3) | |
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0 4 JAN 1979 Docket No.
99900066/78-03 Texas Pipe Bending Company ATTN: Mr. M. C. Warren President Post Office Box 5188 Houston, Texas 77012 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on December 11-15, 1978, of your facility at Houston, Texas associated with the fabrication of nuclear piping and piping assemblies and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. B. A. Graham and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
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This inspection was made to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your l
QA Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a j
customer are being implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your customers, is of acceptable i
quality. As you know, the NRC requires each of its licensees to assume l
full responsibility for the quality of specific products, ccmponents or j
services procured from others. You should theref0re 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 arehs, 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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Texas Pipe Bending Company You will note that deviations A and F of the enclosure are related to management failure to either implement or assure compliance with committed corrective actions concerning, respectively, deviation C in the enclosure of Inspection Report No. 78-01 and the deviation listed in DetailsSection I, 3.a.(3), of Inspection Report No. 77-01, which were identified in our letters of March 20, 1978 (78-01), and March 11, 1977 (77-01),
following the referenced inspections.
Specifically, in the case of deviation A, a corrective action response for deviation C in Inspection Report No. 78-01 was given in your letter of May 23, 1978, which informed us that a training procedure had been revised to require responsible individuals to respond within two weeks of becoming aware of findings involving a deviation from commitment.
Review of the training procedure shows, however, no such requirement has been incorporated.
i In the case of deviation F, incorrect penetrameter usage was identified to you initially in our letter of September 3,1976 (DetailsSection II, 3.c.(1),
Inspection Report No. 76-03), and again in our letter of March 11, 1977 i
(DetailsSection I, 3.a.(3), Inspection Report No. 77-01).
Corrective action responses to this finding have included supervisor review prior to radiography to determine correct penetrameter usage, further checking during evaluation of radiographs by the Level II or III examiner and l
monitoring by the supervisor of documentation.
A further example of j
incorrect penetrameter usage has been identified during this inspection, l
indicating inadequate implementation of committed corrective actions.
Consequently, in your response, in addition to verifying correction of the specific deviations, as requested above, please inform us of any additional steps you have taken, or plan to take, to assure that management comitments will be both performed as stated and effectively implemented.
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 ' parate 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.
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Texas Pipe Bending Company Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
Sincerely,
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Karl V. Seyfrit'.
Director
Enclosures:
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