ML20198D215

Notice of Nonconformance from Insp on 860317-21

ML20198D215
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Issue date:	05/21/1986
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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REF-QA-99900931 NUDOCS 8605230189
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L i APPENDIX A Patel Enterprises, Inc.

Docket No. 99900931/86-01 NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on March 17-21,1986, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements. Nonconformance with these requirements are as follows:

A. Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states in part: " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings."

Paragraph 6.5.2 of the Quality Assurance Manual (QAM), Revision F, dated August 1, 1985, states: " Superseded documents shall be recalled from distribution and destroyed or physically marked VOID or SUPERSEDED in accordance with Quality Engineering procedures or Project Instructions as applicable."

Contrary to the above, (1) test procedures PEI-TR-860500-01 for Job Number (JN) 8605 and PEI-TR-860100-01 for JN 8601 were revised, however, the original controlled copies of both test procedures were not marked V0ID or SUPERSEDED.

B. Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states in part: " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings."

Section 3.4 of Quality Engineering procedure 4.1 (Procurement Document Control) dated September 1, 1985, Revision C, states in part:

' Contacts ,sith tustomers, vendors, or other parties which result in discussions via telephone, personal visits, etc. which provide information and/or direction shall be documented."

Contrary to the above, Patel orally authorized their vendor to perform testing to different requirements than that specified in Purchase Order 10?4 for JN 8603 without documenting this authorization.

C. Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states in part: " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings."

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Section 3.1 of Quality Engineering Procedure 3.4 (Nuclear Engineering

. Analysis) dated September 1,1985, Revision B, states in part:

"...it is imperative that calculations, assumptions, research, and final conclusions be absolutely accurate, sound and thorough."

Contrary to the above, it could not be determined that final conclusions for JN 8305-12 and JN 8201 as stated in assessment reports PEI-TR-83-4-33 and PEI-TR-82-4-50, respectively were accurate or sound. The assessment reports concluded that the plant functional performance requirements were satisfied even though no plant performance criteria for the equipment in question was provided by Patel's customers.

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