ML20148Q368
| ML20148Q368 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 09/27/1978 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Schultz R ARMCO, INC. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20148Q339 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900268 NUDOCS 7811300021 | |
| Download: ML20148Q368 (2) | |
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2 7 SEP 1973 Docket No. 99900268/78-02 Armco, Inc.
Advanced Materials Division ATTft:
Mr. R. W. Schultz QA Supervisor 13835 Beaumont Highway Post Of fice Box 23068 Houston, Texas 77028 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. R. E. Oller oi this office on August 7-10, 1978, of your facility at Houston, Texas, associated with the manufacture of piping and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. C. F. Sprague and you at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a customer are being implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your customers, is of acceptable quality.
As you know, the flRC requires each of its licensees to assume full responsibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others.
You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exempts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking effective corrective action in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report.
Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an examination of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
During the inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA l
Program failed to meet certain NRC requirements.
The specific findings and j
references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures i
to this letter.
Please provide us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a written statement containing, (1) a description of steps that have been or will.be taken to correct these items, (2) a description of steps that have been' or will be taken to prevent recurrence. and (3) the date your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be l
com;)le ted.
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s Armco, Inc. You will note that deviation A of the enclosure resulted from your failure to take corrective action concerning Deviation No.1, identified in our letter to you dated February 23, 1978, following our previous inspection.
Specifically, in your letter of March 15, 1978, you stated that certain mill orders would be revised to properly identify the operations to specified procedure numbers (see Page 3, Item B.1 of the attached report) where, in fact, such action did not occur. Consequently, in your response as requested above in addition to verifying correction of the specific deviation, please inform us of any steps you ha>e taken, or plan to take, to assure that management commitments to take corrective action will be accommodated in the future.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure.
Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is claimed that the information is proprietary, and should be prepared so that proprietary information identified in the application is contained in a separate part of the document.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
Sincerely, 62adW x_/
1 Karl V. Seyfri Director
Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900268/78-02
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