ML19263B533
| ML19263B533 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/13/1978 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Howard R PULLMAN POWER PRODUCTS CORP. (FORMERLY PULLMAN, INC.) |
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| ML19263B527 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900021 NUDOCS 7901180360 | |
| Download: ML19263B533 (2) | |
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13 0CT 1978 Docket No. 99900021/78-02 Pullman Power Products Division of Pullman, Incorporated Attn: Mr. R. E. Howard Vice President and General Manager Post Office Box 3308, Reach Road Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17701 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on September 25-29, 1978, of your facility at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, associated with the fabrication of nuclear piping assemblies and to the discussions of our findings with you aN members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm that, in the aree-inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements inposed by a customer are being implemented; nor to assure tiat 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.
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Pullman Power Products 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 timt have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence, and (3) the date your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
You will note that deviation A of the enclosure resulted from your failure to take committed corrective actions com rning deviation B, identified in a
our letter to you dated May 12, 1978, following our previous inspection.
Specifically, in your letter of June 7,1978, you committed to a series of actions involving welding procedure specification modification, procedure requalification, personnel training and surveillance of production welding operations.
In fact, the procedurdl actions taken were not consistent with your letter or ASME Code,Section IX, requirements.
Your other comit-ments could not be verified because of lack of documentation of training and failure to define required welding surveillance criteria (see Item B.3 of the attached report). Consequently, in your response, in addition as requested above to verifying correction of the specific deviation, please inform us of steps you have taken, or plan to take, to assure that manage-ment commitments to take corrective action will be accommodated in the future.
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 Comission'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 with-hold 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 propri-etary 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 pleated to discuss them with you.
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'Karl V. Seyfrit' Director Enclosures.
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900021/78-02