ML19269E023
| ML19269E023 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/19/1978 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Schwab G DRAVO CORP. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19269E019 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900017 NUDOCS 7906230063 | |
| Download: ML19269E023 (3) | |
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19 OEC 1978 Docket 110. 99900017/78-02 Dravo Corporation Pipe Fabrication Division ATTN:
Mr. G. Schwab Vice President and General Manager 1115 Gilman Street Marietta, Ohio 45750 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on flovember 27-30, 1978, of your facility at Marietta, Ohio, 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 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 fiRC 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 liRC'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 examired 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 incpection 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.
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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Dravo Corporation You will note that deviation A of the enclosure resulted from your continuing failure to assure effective implementation of corrective actions concerning a deviation (DetailsSection I, 0.3.a.(1), Inspection Report No. 77-01), identified in our letter of May 19, 1977, following the referenced inspection. Specifically, in your letter of November 23, 1977, you informed us that welding foremen had been instructed and trained to include all variables over which a welder can exercise control on the Weld Joint Data card before giving to the welders.
The failure of welding foremen to comply with this commitment was identified to you in our letter of May 22,1978, following our April 10-13, 1978, inspection and now again following our November 27-30, 1978, inspection.
Your comments and actions contained in your June 30, 1978, letter (in response to our May 22, 1978, letter) relative to definition of and inclusion on the Weld Joint Data card of those variables, which have been established as standards in your shops, are acknowledged.
The results of this latest inspection, however, serve to identify that certain variables in welding procedure specifica-tions, either not considered as standards or differing from standard practice, are not being included in Weld Joint Data cards on a consistent basis.
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 which would assure effective implementa-tion of your corrective action commitments.
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.
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Dravo Corporation Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Karl V. Seyfrit Di rector
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