ML19347B958
| ML19347B958 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/11/1980 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | King A GRINNELL CORP. (FORMERLY ITT GRINNELL CORP.) |
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| ML19347B954 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99900019 NUDOCS 8010160297 | |
| Download: ML19347B958 (2) | |
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76012 August 11, 1980 Docket No. 99900019/80-01 III Grinnell Industrial Piping, Incorporated Attn:
Mr. A. K. King President and General Manager Post Office Box 566 Kernersv111e, North Carolina 27284 Gentlemen:
This refers to tae QA Program inspection condacted by Mr. I. Barnes of this office on July 21-23, 1980, of your facility at Kernersville, North Carolina, associated with the fabrication of nuclear piping assemblies and to the. dis-cussions of our findings with you and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was nade to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented.
The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique cuality 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 know, the NRC requirer., 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 c.nspections by an NP.C licensee or his agents nor from taking effective cor-i rective action in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report. Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an exnmination 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 neet certain NRC requirements.
The specific findings and ref erences t2 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 containing, (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 neasures were or will be completed.
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III Grinnell Industrial Piping, Inc.
2 You will note that the Notice of Deviation is related to nanagemetic failure to assure compliance with committed corrective actions concerning Deviation A in the enclosure of Inspection Report No. 79-01, which was identified in our letter of April 2, 1979, following the referenced inspection.
l Specifically, a corrective action response for Deviation A in Inspection Report No. 79-01 was given in your letter of September 13, 1979, which informed us that copies of technical question forms would be sent to the Director of Quality Assurance for the purpose of monitoring revisions to Job Specifications.
It was determined during this inspection that this commitment was never imple-mented.
l Consequently, in your response, in addition to verifying correction of the t
specific deviation,. as requested above, please inform us of what additional steps you have taken, or plan to take, to assure that management commitments will 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 I
enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any 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 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.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
l Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased l
to discuss them with you.
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Sincerely, h1 sey'frit.
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l Director
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Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation l
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Inspection Report No. 99900019/80-01 l
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