ML19347F900

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Notice of Violation from Insp on 810416.Noncompliance Noted: Daily Constancy Checks of Dose Calibrator Varied More than 5% from Calculated Activity of Cs-137 Std
ML19347F900
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Issue date: 04/23/1981
From: Wiedeman D
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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NUDOCS 8105260555
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Appendix A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital License No. 12-17622-01 As a result of the inspection conducted on April 16, 1981, and in accordance with the Interim Enforcement Policy, 45 FR 66754 (October 7, 1980), the following violation was identified:

License Condition No. 14 requires that licensed material be possessed and used in accordance with the statements, repr:.4entations, and procedures contained in application dated July 8, 1977.

Item 11 of this application states that Appendix C,Section VI, of the NRC Draft License Guide, dated Februa ry 1976, will be followed. Appendix C,Section VI, requires that daily constancy checks of the dose calibrator shall not differ more than 5% from the calculated activity of the cesium-137 standard and variatiors greater than 5% indicates a need for instrument repair, adjustment, and/or recalibration.

Contrary to this requirement, it was learned through statements of licen-see representatives and a review of records that daily constancy checks of the dose calibrator varied more than 5% from the calculated activity of the cesium-137 standard.

Specifically, daily constancy checks of the dose calibrator varied between 6.8% and 17.8% from the calculated activity of the cesium-137 standard.

This is a Severity Level V violation (Supplement VII).

Pursuant tc ths provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, you are required to submit to this office withis. twenty-five days of the date of this Notice a written stacement or explanation in reply, including for each item of noncompliance:

(1) corrective actiot. taken and the results achieved; (2) corrective action te be taken to avoid further noncompliance; and (3) the date when full com-pliance will be achieved.

Under the authority of Section 182 of the Atomic

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Energy Act of 1954, as amended, this response shall be submitted under oath or affirmation.

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Dated D. G. Wiedeman, Acting Chief Materials Radiation Protection Section 1 R10526055 5

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