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Responds to RP Griffin 761015 Referral Forwarding Nd Brown Re Nuclear Plant Safety.Discusses NRC Responsibilities Re Public Health & Safety Protection & Facility QA Requirements
ML19330A281
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Site: Midland
Issue date: 11/22/1976
From: Dircks W
NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
To: Griffin R
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nuclear power plant experience with no serious accidents. A final j

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can be' preserved for present as well as future plants. Enclosure.3 is the news release wnica further discusses this repcrt and how it can te obtained.

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Mr. Erown has indicated [a concern redaroing poor workmanship and procedures ceing used in construction of.tne Mialana. plants. W e Midland plants were issued constructton peraits on recer.cer 15, 1972.

In J970, the Atcraic Energy Comission issued the' quality assurance requiremnts set

.forth in-Appendix-6 of 10 Cra Part 50, '" Quid ity Assurance Criteria i

- for. Nuclear.Fower Plants and Fuel Reprocessing P1 ants," wnich is provided in Enclosore 4.

he requirements set forth in. tnis Appendix L of 10 CFR Fart 50 were the result of our staff's indepth revlew of. problem areas encountered "during 'the construction of plants prior to 1970 and were designed to provide the necessary guide)ines and requirer.ents for an

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prograra'has> received.an 'indepth review by our staff and has been I'

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. Appendix 8 jf.10 CFR Part 50. The 22;incidsnts'of poor workmansnip greferredqtojbpTMr.isrown were detected, reported, and,d oy the C repaired in faccordance with the quality assurance program. approve mich ~isione.of the primary cojectives of the quality assurance program.

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