ML19289F753
| ML19289F753 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/19/1978 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Tharp W GUY F. ATKINSON CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19289F749 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900031 NUDOCS 7906160008 | |
| Download: ML19289F753 (3) | |
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19 DEC 1978 Docket No.
99900031/78-02 Bingham-Willamette Company ATTN: Mr. Wm. E. Tharp President and General u
Manager 2800 N. W. Front Avenue Portland, Oregon 97210 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on November 13-16, 1978, of your facility at Portland, Oregon, associated with the manufacture of nuclear pumps and reactor vessel internals 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 confirra 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 cur.tomer 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 nr 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 inspec.or.
During the inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA Program failed to meet certain NRC requirements.
The specific findi..gs 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 cor.pleted.
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Bingham-Willamette Company You will note that deviatiors A, B, and C of the enclosure are related to management failure to implen.ent or assure compliance with committed corrective actions concerning, respectively, deviations I, M, and Q (Inspection Report No. 78 -01), which were identified in our letter of February 23, 1978, following the referenced inspection.
Specifically, in the case of deviations A and B, failures of Instrument Lab personnel to adhere to calibration procedures and of shop supervision not assuring sign off of completed operations on work orders were identified to you initially in our letter of July 29, 1977 (DetailsSection II, 0.3.a. and DetailsSection III, C.3.a., Inspection Report No. 77-01), and again in our letter of February 23,1978 (Items I and M of Enclosure, Inspection Report No. 78-01).
Corrective action responses to these findings have included direction of personnel relative to requirements by memo and meetings, sign off of a completed operation identified in deviation M, an Instrument Lab organizational change and calibration procedure review and revision.
Further examples of calibration personnel not adhering to procedures and supervision not assuring sign off of completed operations on work orders were identified this inspection. Additionally, it was noted that sign off of the operation identified in deviation M and review and revision of calibra-tion procedures had not been accomplished as committed.
Similarly, in response to deviation Q in Inspection Report No. 78-01, you committed in your letter of April 10, 1978, to heat number verification after fit / tack and/or weld operations. As identified in deviation C, this commitment has not been appropriately implemented.
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 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 Public Document Room. If this report contains any informa-tion 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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Bingham-Willamette Company Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
Sincerely,
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'A Karl V. Seyfrit Director
Enclosures:
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tiotice of Deviation 2.
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