ML19330A813
| ML19330A813 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/22/1980 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Hirata Y HIRATA VALVE INDUSTRY CO., LTD. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19330A806 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900355 NUDOCS 8007290492 | |
| Download: ML19330A813 (2) | |
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Kawasaki Division Atta: Mr. T. Hirata Vice President, Kawasaki Division 15, Hisanoto, Takatsu-Ku Kawasaki-City, Kanagawa-Prof., JAPAN Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on January 21-25, 1980, of your facility at Kawasaki-City, Japan, associated with the manufacture of nuclear valves and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. T. Hirata and members of his 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 knew, 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 cor-rective action in response to their findings.
Areas aw==4n=A and our findings are discussed in the suelosed report. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an av==4 nation 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 cone =4ning, (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.
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2 You will note that deviation A of the enclosure is related to management failure to assure fun compliance with committed corrective actions concerning deviation B in the enclosure of Inspection Report No. 79-02, which was identified in our letter of October 2,1979, following the referenced inspection.
Specifically, a corrective action response for deviation B in Inspection Report No. 79-02 was given in your letter of November 12, 1979, which informed us that two revised welding procedure specifications would be submitted for customer approval by the end of November,1979.
It was noted during this inspection, that this was not accomplished until January 7,1980.
Failure to assure fun compliance with committed corrective actions has been observed in both of the last two inspections conducted at your facility.
Accordingly, in your response, in addition to verifying correction of the specific deviations, as requested above, please inform us of further steps you have taken, or plan to taka, to additionally assure that management commitments win be both performed as stated and 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 enc; > sed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room. If this report contains any
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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 includs a full statement of the reasone on the basis of which it is claimed that the informa-tion is ptsprietary, 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 win be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation
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Inspection Report No. 99900335/80-01
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