ML19347D085
| ML19347D085 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/19/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| REF-QA-99900399 NUDOCS 8103100737 | |
| Download: ML19347D085 (2) | |
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American Insulated Wire Corporation Docket No. 99900399/80-01 NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on October 27-30, 1980, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements, as indicated below:
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Criterion XII of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states, " Measures shall be established to assure that tools, gages, instruments, and other measuring and testing devices used in activities affecting quality are properly controlled, calibrated, and adjusted at specified periods to maintain accuracy within necessary limits."
Contrary to the above, measures had not been established to assure that the following equipment used in activities affecting quality is properly con-trolled, calibrated, and adjusted at specified periods to maintain accuracy within necessary limits:
(a) instrumentation used in the continuous vulcan-izing process and (b) wire measuring devices.
See Details Section, para-graph 0.3.a.
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shali be accom-plished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily acccmplished." Deviations from these requirements are as follows:
B.
Paragraph 13.2.1 of the Quality Assurance Manual, dated June 25, 1979, states, "The methods for calibration shall be described in S.O.P. #13 and the intervals shall be as follows:..
- 2. Electrical Test Equipment:
Yearly intervals by an independent lab..
- 5. Spark Testers:
Quarterly intervals internally."
Contrary to the above:
a.
The Hipotronics DC Kilovoltmeter, located at the No. 9 Rewinder, had
' not been calibrated at yearly intervals, inasmuch as it displayed a calibration label which reflected a due date of October 28, 1979.
b.
Spark Testers had not been calibrated at quarterly intervals, as evidenced by the following Spark Testers that displayed calibration labels which reflected calibration due dates of March 29, 1980; Continuous Vulcanizing Machines, Nos. 3 and 4; Serial No. C-3402.
Serial No. C-1529 was due on March 28, 1980.
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Quality Assurance Standards and Procedures No. 11.01, datad Septemoer 17, 1979, contains the following requirements:
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Paragraph 2.1 states, " Inspectors shall identify standard at start-up of a job and then verify that correct E.S. Number and issue is in use as specified on order sheet."
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Paragraph 2.2 states, "After verification, the inspector shall fill out Oaily Dimensional and Physical Worksheet with requirements from E.S.
and as actually determined."
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Paragraph 2.3 states, "The running speed and steam pressure shall not be taken from the specification but shall be determined from the instrumentation.
If necessary, the runring speed shall be determined by timing the footage meter on the machine in question."
Contrary to the above:
a.
Although extrusion had started on CV-3, inspectors had not verified that the correct Engineering Specification (E.S.) issue in use was as specified on the Extrusion Order sheet dated June 10, 1980, for Order No. 65367; inasmuch as the E.S. issue had not been specified on the Extrusion Order, b.
Inspectors had not filled out Daily Dimensional and Physical Work-sheet (DDPW) with requirements, as evidenced by reviewed 00PWs that contained no information in the " Required Temperature,"
" Running Speed," and " Steam Pressure" spaces.
See Details Section, paragraph E.3.a.
D.
Paragraph 6.1.1 of the Quality Assurance Manual, dated June 25, 1979, states, " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented material such as:
(1) Instructions (2) Procedures (3) Drawings" Contrary to the above, the following activities affecting quality had not been prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings; specifically, machine set-up for insulating and jacketing.
See Details Section, paragraph E.3.a.
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