ML20137E351
| ML20137E351 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 12/13/1985 |
| From: | AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| FOIA-85-59 NUDOCS 8601170235 | |
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I'; fool thio,io tho, pbimbry rocc0 .' 23-1 y hm . .. . 7,came here, because:I felt this was a. problem, and this
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.q'uaintan ce s that work at the plant, these have not been E .c.h..an.ge.d.. . . .
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$ four months, then I worked in the electrical department.
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E same length which was Q (quality-control) cable. The re. 18 E location of the spliced Q cable was in the cable-spread 19 8 9 room. (The reason that I know that this cable was later g spliced is that a few days later I went, back and ' checked l- it and found that it had been spliced.) I did report 22 l tihis to Mr. Smith in the department 'tihat took the 23 24 .!t cable pull runs, and he told me not to worry about it; ; i . 3; .that it w a.s not my depart'ent m ahy longer (in other words, e
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o f '.~tha accignmnnt. had' been . fin'iphod)'. ~I'know froo. 23-3 part 1 l 4 l working in the electrical de,partment that O cable was not
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the drafting department because that's where I was more 7 n_. . A;_ - qualified. I.was given approximate *(on a sheet of paper) E- 8' n N
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cc j0 h un g", and I was told to incorporate them into -isometric 7 9=> 11: pipe: drawings known as BRHL (Brown and Root Hanger Loca-2 jp tions.). After the'first drawings (rev 0), drawings were ; E i ( hj23 returned to myself and others in my group (I was.in [ 2:
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jy , charge of the drafting. group drawing the locations.) E: 'I was told in a note to esti. mate footage between each-C' 15i5 g~: s Q: ~ hanger and incorporate it into the drawing. I note m' .
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2y then relayed to my drdfting supervisor that I was 2i unable to estimate locations without visually iftspecting 3
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23 ! and that'I had no other means of locating 'the hangers j i 24 ; except. . by . . g u.e s swo rk . I also informed the drafting super- . i.
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told to go.chend and do tho'. bas t with wha ti? we ' ve -got. . I o believe~that this was an inadequate estimation -- that' 2
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to incorporate the lianger footage locations. I wasn't -
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h' 17 25 it -- it's none of your business." Ile also said that r: g E 18 1 they had already been checked -- but he didn't say by
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21 to inform the Board of- this situation. From the informa-
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23 g what I visually saw in the f i e l' d , I strongly believe f 24 j that,if all of the material that w'a s issued by me and my , 25 ;- s'upport group was never checked by an engineer. or qualified , F., '- ~
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