ML19345B943
| ML19345B943 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/05/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML19345B937 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99900209 NUDOCS 8012020802 | |
| Download: ML19345B943 (2) | |
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Docket No.- 99900209/80-02 g
. NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based.on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on August 4-8, 1980, it
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appeared thatucertain of your activities were not conducted ~in full compliance with NRC requirements as indicated below:
' Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states,-
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented
-instructions, procedures, or drawings, or a' type appropriate 'to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with_these.
4 instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or
' drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative accep-
-tance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."
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QA Manual Section 8, paragraph 8.4.1 states in part, "Upon arrival, materialEis logged in-on a Receiving Report and checked in accordance with the Purchase Order requirements.
The Material Test Reports are delivered to the Quality Control Clerk by the Receiving Clerk for review prior to release of material for use.
If proper certification is not' received, material will be placed on reject status and. handled as.
such."
Contrary to the above,- welding material' was released for:use without being checked in accordance _with purchase order requirements, and without having the proper certification.
(See Details Section, paragraph C.3.a.).
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QA' Manual Section 7,-paragraph 7.3 states in part,
. The Production Manager is responsible for filling.out purchase -(job) requisitions for
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all'non-stocked! items ~as found on the hanger drawing bills of material and. submitting them to the Quality Control Manager for' review, prior to
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the transmittal to the Purchasing Agent'for issuance of purchase orders.
. Purchase'(Job) Requisitions shall contain.
. the following
. information.... Requirements for supplemental or special. data and/
or test results
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Contrary to the above,.the special, required minimum yield strength for
'SA 36 material, as denoted by the drawing, was not imposed in purchase-documentation to~a vendor.
As a result, material-has been received, accepted,-and' issued'to manufacturing,-which does not meet the drawing requirements. '(See Details' Section, paragarph E.3.a.)
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QA Manual'Section 9, paragraph 9.4 states in part,
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.cedures and welder / welding operator qualifications are prepared,fperformed and records maintained in accordance with ASME Sections III and IX."
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Bergen-Paterson Pipesupport Corporation (BP) employs. Code Case N-55
-(1609-1), " Inertia and Continuous Drive Friction-Welding," for. performing friction welding.. Code Case N-55, paragraph D. states, "The performance qualification.for' inertia welding operators'shall duplicate the test
. samples, test = specimens.and requirements of the welding procedure speci-fication~(WPS). -The welding operator who prepares welding procedure
-qualification test' specimens meeting the requirements of this Case is hereby qualified."
Contrary. to the above, the Manufacturer's Record of Welder or Welding-
' Operator Qualification Tests showed certain welding operators to be
~qualifiedLtofperform' friction welding.
However, the performance quali-
'fications'did not duplicate the test samples and test specimens of the WPS.
(See Details Section,' paragraph F.3.a.)-.
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