ML19341A774
| ML19341A774 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/17/1980 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Van Hilten D GENERAL ATOMICS (FORMERLY GA TECHNOLOGIES, INC./GENER |
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| REF-QA-99900004 NUDOCS 8101270970 | |
| Download: ML19341A774 (2) | |
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Atta: Mr. D. R. Van H11 ten Executive Vice President Post Office Box 81608 San Diego, California 92138 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Pregram inspectica conducted by Mr. W. M. McNeill of this office on Octcber 27-30, 1980, of you, facility at San Diego, California, associ-ated with the manufacture and fabric 4 tion of nuclear fuel assemolies and to the discussions of cur findings with Mr. T. R. Colandrea and memcers of your staff at the conclusien of the inspection.
This inscection was made to confinn that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented.
The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality rr:pirements imoosed by a custcmer are being implemented; nor to assure tnat a specific product, ccmponent or service provided by you to your custaners, is of acceptacle quality.
As you knew, the NRC recuires each of its licensees to assume full responsibility for the quality of specific products, canpcnents or seriices precured from others.
You should therefore not conclude. that the. NRC's inspection exempts you frcm inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor frcm taking effective cor-rective acticn in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report.
Within these areas, the. inspection censisted of an examinaticn of p: ecedures and representative records, inter /iews with perscnnel, and cosertations by the inspector.
Within the sccce of this inspection, we fcund no instance wnere you failed to meet NRC requirements.
1 In accorcance with Secticn 2.790 of the Ccmmissicn's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a cecy of :nis letter with enclosure and ycur reply, together with ne encicsec inscecticn recort will :e placed in the Cannission's ?uolic Occument Rocm.
If this report centains any infornation. hat you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary tnat you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withnoic sucn l
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information from public disclosure.
Any such application must incluce a full statement of the reasons en 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 centained in a separate part of the dccument.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within tne specified period, the report will be placed in the public Document Rocm.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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Notice of Ceviation 2.
Inspecticn Recort No. 99900004/80-02
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