ML19275A546
| ML19275A546 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 06/28/1979 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Wallis G ESB, INC. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19275A539 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900360 NUDOCS 7910040621 | |
| Download: ML19275A546 (2) | |
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,e AR LINGTON, TEX AS 76012 28 JUN 1979 Docket No. 99900360/79-01 ESB Incorporated Exide Industrial Battery Division ATTN:
Mr. G. R. Wallis Vice President and General Manager 101 Gibraltar Road Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. W. E. Foster of this office on May 30 - June 1, 1979, of your facility at Sumter, South Carolina, associated with the manufacture of lead-acid batteries and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. A. P. Bracalente 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 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 dates 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 1101 136 tE910 04 0 62/
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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 informa-tion identified in the application is contained in a separate part of ?.he 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, eN 1
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6 Uldis Potapovs, Chic 16 Vendor Inspection Branch
Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900360/79-01 cc:
ESB, Incorporated Exide Industrial Battery Division ATTN:
Mr. A. P. Bracalente Post Office Box 1797 Sumter, South Carolina 29150 1101 137