ML20127M347
| ML20127M347 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 06/21/1985 |
| From: | Groover E GEORGIA POWER CO. |
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| OL, NUDOCS 8507010199 | |
| Download: ML20127M347 (10) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
-NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board On the matter.of GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, et al.,
DOCKET NUMBERS 50-424 and 50-425 (Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2)
AFFIDAVIT OF E.
D.
GROOVER COUNTY OF BURKE STATE OF GEORGIA Before the undersigned officer duly authorized to administ'er oaths did appear E.
D.
Groover, who after being
-duly-sworn, did state as follows:
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My name is E.
D.
Groover.
My business address is Vogtle Electric 1 Generating Plant, Route 2, Waynesboro,
. Georgia 30830.
I am employed by Georgia Power Company as
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. Quality Assurance Site Manager (Construction).
In that
' position I am primarily responsible for verifying the proper implementation of the VEGP site QA program from-commencement of construction through pre-operational testing.
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I make this Affidavit in support of Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of Joint Intervenors' Contention No. 8 (Quality Assurance).
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. be true and correct.
I will first describe the Inter-
'~venors' allegations concerning the purportly insufficient QA manual in 1974.
'I will then discuss.Intervenors' allegation that inferior materials have been used on site.
Finally, I will discuss the VEGP storage procedures in 1977.
INSUFFICIENCY'IN THE GPC QA MANUAL IN 1984
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.The first..I&E Report which Joint Intervenors' cite inLsupport'of their' challenge to the procurement practices at VEGP is I&E Report No. 74-1 issued on
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March'_27, 1974.
Three deficiencies were identified by the-
-Atomic Energy Commission'as follows:
.A-1 GPC'Q'A' Manual did not adequately describe the QA Program for design and procurement.
c A-2 The GPC Quality Assurance audit planning did not include adequate disability,_in'that the Lapplication of all. applicable QA criteria was not clear for design and procurement.
A-3 _The Southern Services, Inc. (SSI) QA Manual did not reflect theirequirements of the current PSAR, Section 17.
4.
'The deficiencies and the details of these de-
- ficiencies.are set.forth in ISE Report No. 74-1.
None of the deficiencies involved problems which adversely Laffected the quality at VEGP.
5.
These deficiencies were found by the AEC before a
' construction permit _was issued wit'h regard to Plant Vogtle 1
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and at-a time before. safety-related work had been
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performed.
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At-that time, GPC's Quality Assurance responsi-bilities-relative to design and procurement were being handled by Southern Company Services, its sister engineering service organization.
SCS was administering a-contract with Bechtel Power Corporation, the architect-engineer.
Therefore, at the time, the QA audit program description and the QA manual was a Southern Company Services document.
7.
. Southern Company Services Quality Assurance organization performed work on a number of other projects.
Their quality assurance audit program description _was general and_ contained few specific details unique to the Vogtle-Project.
8.
In response to the AEC's identified deficiencies, GPC~ proposed as corrective action to completely rewrite the VEGP.QA Manual.
The rewritten manual was composed of eighteen sections corresponcing with the arrangement of 10 C.F.R.,
Part 50, Appendix B and showing the require-ments for implementation of those criteria.
The new QA Manual also had a text with accompanying diagram and organizational charts which fully described organi-zational/ functional alignment, responsibilities and authorities and activities of the QA program.
_The con-tractor QA programs and their interfaces with GPC were
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clearly outlined by appropriate text and references.
Reference of supporting documents and implementing pro-cedures was utilized to indicate how the QA requirements were satisfied and to insure that the manual was self-supporting.
The QA manual, which resulted from this corrective action, is essentially the same as that which has-governed all safety-related work at VEGP since it was adopted in response to I&E Report No. 74-1.
No safety-related work was done under the allegedly deficient QA manual.
9.
The AEC accepted Georgia Power Company's proposed corrective' action and closed these deficiencies in an I&E
' Report' issued on October 9,
- 1974, 10.
There is nothing in this incident which suggests a compromise of the safety of the construction or procure-ment practices at Plant Vogtle.
Simply stated, this incident 1does not support Joint Intervenors' challenge to the procurement practices at VEGP.
' ALLEGATION THAT INFERIOR MATERIALS i
HAVE BEEN USED ON SITE 11.
To the extent this allegation may relate to some
" spools which were checked,"'GPC had a re-inspection ot approximately 15,000 piping spool pieces that had been fabricated by. Pullman Power Products.
The.re-inspection was needed to ascertain the. acceptability of fabrication welds after code rejectable deficiencies had been found in l
l a sampling of spool' pieces stored at the Plant site.
The I
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re-inspection program resulted in the satisfactory resolu-tion of this situation.
No inadaquate. spools were used.
STORAGE PROCEDURES IN 1977 12.
Intervenors refer to a statement made by an NRC.
inspector in I&E Report No. 77-3 that, at the time, "a QA program is not in operation at Vogtle," sufficient to receive safety-related equipment.
13.
This incident came about when safety-related equipment (including spray nozzles for containment spray systems, 44 Fisher control valves and 7 elbows for reactant cooler piping) were received at VEGP in early 19771bgfore VEGP was prepared to receive or properly store suchLsafety-related equipment.
14.
At the time, Georgia Power Company believed that 4
there was.not sufficient activity on site of a quality i
nature to justify the presenceoof full-time Quality Assurance personnel.
Mr. Cecil R.
Miles and myself periodically visited Plant Vogtle from plant Hatch (GpC's Nuclear Facility near Baxley, Georgia) to conduct audits as.necessary.
The safety equipment which was received and which was subject to I&E Report No. 77-3 arrived at VEGp between these periodic audits.
It was not expected that safety-related equipment-would be received on site at that time.
Accordingly, when the NRC inspection occurred between June 6 and-June 9, 1977, there were.no procedures governing the receipt and storage of this equipment.
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v Moreover, full-time inspection. audits-had not been planned.
Thus, a noncompliance was found by the NRC.
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On July 19, 1977, Georgia Power Company responded
-to_this' noncompliance with corrective action.
Georgia Power Company notified Westinghouse and other vendors that permanent warehousing facilities were not available at the site at that time.
Westinghouse was informed that the site-would not' receive safety-related equipment or
~ equipment which required greater than Level "D"
storage as specified in the Westinghouse storage procedures.
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Also, a tentative Quality Assurance audit schedule was prepared, and I, as Senior Quality Assurance Field Representative, was transferred to permanent assign-ment-at VEGP from PlantnHatch.
Receipt, inspection and storage procedures were written and approved, and a mechanical inspector was permanently assigned to the site.
The procedures for material control and handling which were written in 1977 are substantially the same as
- those which'have'been used since that time.to govern
- purchase of-all safety-related materials and equipment at VEGP.
17.
In response _t'o this corrective action, the NRC closed this noncompliance on November 18, 1977.
The inspector determined that the licensee had provided a program which corrected the noncompliance previously i
identified.
There was no adverse effect.upon the quality
of.the equipment which was: improperly stored and which was identified in-I&E Report'No.
77.-3.
-The quality of a11
.' future material and equipment stored at VEGP was assured by the: Quality Assurance Program.
Further Affiant sayeth not.
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GROOVER
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
.Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board In.the Matter of-
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GEORGIA POWER' COMPANY,
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and 50-425
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(Vogtle. Electric Generating
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Plant, Units 1 and 2)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I _hereby certify that copies of " Attachments 1 - 10 (Affidavits) _ Submitted in Support of Applicants ' Motion for Summary Disposition of Joint Intervenors' Contention No. 8" dated June-24, 1985, were served upon those persons on the attached Service List by depositing a copy of same in the United States Mail, postage prepaid, or where indicated by an asterisk (*) by hand delivery, this 24th day of June, 1985.
Respectfully submitted,
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Jam E. Joiner P.C.
Counsel for Applicants DATED: June _24, 1985 L_.
rr UNITED STATES-OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
'Incthe Matter of
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, et al.
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Docket Nos. 50-424
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50-425 (Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, )
1 Units 1 and 2)
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SERVICE LIST Morton B. Margulies, Chairman
- Douglas C. Teper
~ Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1253 Lenox Circle U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atlanta, Georgia 30306
-Weshington, D. C. 20555
- Laurie Fowler Mr. Gustave A. Linen'oerger Legal Environmental Assistance Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Foundation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 218 Flora Avenue, N. E.
Washington,ED. C.
20555 Atlanta, Georgia 30307 Dr. Oscar H. Paris
- Tha Johnson Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Campaign for a Prosperous Georgia U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 175 Trinity Avenue, S. W.
Washington-D.-C.
20555 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Barnard-M. Bordenick, Esquire Docketing and Service Section Office of Executive Legal Director Office of the Secretary U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, D. C. 20555 Commission Washington, D.
C.
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. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel 1 Bradley Jones, Esquire U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regional Counsel WashinJton, D.
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20555 U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Suite 3100 Appeal Board Panel 101 Marietta Street
.U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Washington, D. C.
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