ML19309F227
| ML19309F227 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/08/1980 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Moerke N SOUTHWEST FABRICATING & WELDING CO. (SUBS. OF IU |
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| ML19309F223 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900025 NUDOCS 8004290021 | |
| Download: ML19309F227 (2) | |
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Attn:
Mr. N. H. Moerke Vice President, Engineering 7525 Sherman Street, P. O. Box 9449 Houston, Texas 77011 Gentlemen:
This refers to the special inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on December 5,19 and 20,1979, of your facility at Houston, Texas associated with the fabrication of nuclear piping assemblies and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. B. J. Goodwin and members of his staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made as a result of information provided to this office by Region II of the Office of Inspection and Enforcement, relating to nonconformances that have been identified in Southwest Fabricating and Welding Company nuclear piping assemblies furnished to the V. C. Summers and Shearon Harris sites.
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 date your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
In addition to the deviations addressed in the enclosure, we are concerned (as discussed in Section I.C) about the effectiveness of your methods for providing instructions on inspection requirements to QC Inspection personnel, to assure compliance with applicable code requirements and workmanship stand-ards.
Specifically, sixty-two (62) socket welds from a total of two hundred and forty (240) re-inspected at site have been identified by South Carolina Electric and Gas Company as being undersized.
All of these welds had been previously accepted by your QC Inspectica personnel.
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2 on inspection requirements were not provided to these personnel on the Manu-facturing Record Sheets used for this contract, and it would also appear that such requirements were not documented in any form until after start of fabri-cation of this contract. We were additionally informed, that it was not the Southwest Fabricating and Welding Company policy to reference the applica-bility of a procedure to a contract on the Manufacturing Record Sheet, unless there was a contractual requirement for submittal and use of such a procedure.
It would appear that this policy may have contributed, in part, to the accept-ance of a product that was not in full compliance with all applicable code requirements.
Therefore, in your response to this letter, please discuss your position relative to these concerns including an assessment of the effective-ness of your system for providing instructions to personnel on applicable requirements.
In accordince with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Ta tle 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosad inspection report will be placed in :he Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any informatiou 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 informa-tion 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.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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G Uldis Potapovs", Chied Vendor Inspection Branch
Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900025/79-03