ML19344F381
| ML19344F381 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/17/1980 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Mueller A PITT-DES MOINES, INC. (FORMERLY PITTSBURGH-DES MOINES |
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| REF-QA-99900109 NUDOCS 8009150207 | |
| Download: ML19344F381 (2) | |
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17 APR 1080 Docket No. 99900109/80-01 Pittsburgh - Das Moines Steel Co.
Eastern Division, Neville Island Attn: Mr. A. J. Mueller QA Manager Neville Island Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15225 Gentlemen:
This refers to 'tha QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. J. %. Sutton of this office on March 24-28, 1980, of your facility at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (Neville Island) associated with the fabrication of Nuclear Cont =4naant 7essels and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. W. ' Jones, President,
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at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your QA i
Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a customer are being l
implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your ' customers, is of acceptable quality. As you know, the NRC requires each cf its licensees to assuma full responsibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others.
1 You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exempts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking affective cor-rective action in response to their findings.
Areas ar==ined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report. Within these areas,.the inspection consisted of an av==instion of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
During the inspection it was found that the implementatien of your QA Program failed to meet certain NRC requirements. The specific findings and references i
to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
l Please provida us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a l
written statement containing, (1) a description of steps that have been or will
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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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Pittsburg - Des Moines Steel Co. 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 enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Rcom.
If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary it is necessary that you make a wricten 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.
Ii we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed ti the Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning :his inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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Notica of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900109/80-01
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