ML19309D636
| ML19309D636 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 02/27/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19309D622 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900302 99900302-80-1, NUDOCS 8004110044 | |
| Download: ML19309D636 (2) | |
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b Western Piping and v
Engineering Co. Inc.
NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on January 28-February 1, 1980, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accor-dance with NRC requirements as indicated below:
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished." Deviations from these requirements are as follows:
A.
The Western Piping and Engineering Company, Inc., corrective action response letter of April 4, 1979, states with respect to Deviation D in IE Report 79-01, "To prevent recurrence, a twice yearly audit of the NDE Personnel Qualification File shall be conducted as an integral part of the company's Internal Audit System."
Contrary to the above, only one (1) audit of the NDE Personnel Quali-fication File was conducted during 1979.
(Details Section, B.3)
B.
Paragraph 4.5.3 of the Quality Assurance Manual, states in part, "After the Purchase Order is written, it is forwarded to the QA manager for his review and validation." In addition paragraph 4.6 states, " Code designated items and services shall be purchased from a Qualified Vendor or where item traceability has been substantiated, may be purchased from acceptable vendors and manufactured by the Company or manufactured by qualified vendors in behalf of the Company.
Contrary to the above requirements the following non compliances were noted during the review cf procurcment activities:
1.
All commercial nuclear Purchase Orders are not being forwarded to the QA Manager for review and validation; and 2.
Materials / services were being purchased from vendors not listed on the qualified vendors list.
(Details Section, C.3.b)
C.
Paragraph 15.4 of the Quality Assurance Manual states in part, "When a nonconformance is identified the QC manager shall apply a validated red ball label to the nonconforming item (s)... The QC manager shall prepare a nonconformance report (NCR) form and shall identify the Shop Traveler at the operation where the nonconformance was found."
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2 In addition paragraph 17.3 of the Quality Assurance Manual states in part, " Records.
. shall be maintained in a manner which will allow access by the ANI and the Owner... to specific information contained therein."
Contrary to the above requirements:
1.
Nonconforming Reports (NCR) were not being issued when items were found to be nonconforming to specification / drawings.
2.
Twelve (12) in process / completed NCRs were requested'for review.
Only four (4) NCRs were found to be readily retrievable during the inspection.
(Details Section D.3.b)