ML20129G767

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Notice of Violation from Insp on 840917-21
ML20129G767
Person / Time
Site: North Anna  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 11/01/1984
From:
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To:
Shared Package
ML20129G765 List:
References
50-338-84-35, 50-339-84-35, NUDOCS 8507180236
Download: ML20129G767 (2)


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.s ENCLOSURE 1 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Virginia Electric and Power Company Docket Nos. 50-338 and 50-339 North Anna 1 and 2 License Nos. NPF-4 and NPF-7 The following violations were identified during an inspection conducted on September 17-21, 1984.

The Severity Levels were assigned in accordance with the NRCEnforcementPolicy(10CFRPart2,AppendixC).

10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion V and the license.e QA Program VEP-1-4A Section 17.2.5 collectively require that, for activities affecting quality, procedures shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished.

Contrary to the above, management controls had not been established which ensure that appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria are provided in all procedures controlling safety-related activities.

The following examples involve controlling procedures which require decisions and actions affecting quality but did not describe or reference criteria needed to accomplish these important activities.

a.

ADM 12.1, Measuring and Test Equipment Calibration Program, dated July 12, 1984 (1) Paragraph 3.1 did rot specify criteria by which the cognizant supervisor or Supervisor-Quality Control may change calibration intervals.

(2) Paragraph 8.6 and 9.1 did not specify criteria by which the Supervisor-Quality Control takes action on M&TE failing calibra-tion and evaluates the validity of tests and measurements conducted since the last acceptable calibration.

(3) Paragraph 9.3 did not specify criteria for conducting retests of systems or components.

The procedure did not require evaluation of the safety significance and reportability of systems or components that may be out of the required operating range.

Criteria was not provided for the evaluation and final disposition of M&TE consistently failing calibration.

b.

ADM 4.0, Procurement Document Control, dated February 22, 1984 Neither this procedure nor any other procedure specified criteria which delineated how procurement document reviews were performed by construction personnel, procurement coordinators, site engineering personnel, or QA/QC personnel.

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Virginia Electric and Power Company 2

Docket Nos. 50-338 and 50-339 North Anna 1 and 2 License Nos. NPF-4 and NPF-7 This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).

These examples are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of problems that may exist.

They should be considered symptoms of a much broader problem that may exist involving the specificity of management controls that have been established for all activities affecting quality at the North Anna station.

Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201, you are required to submit to this office within 30 days of the date of this Notice, a written statement or explanation in reply, including:

(1) admission or denial of the alleged violations; (2) the reasons for the violations if admitted; (3) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved; (4) corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations; and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved.

Security or safeguards information should be submitted as an enclosure to facilitate withholding it from public disclosure as required by 10 CFR 2.790(d) or 10 CFR 73.21.

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