ML20198D554

Partially Withheld Allegation AQ-25 to Allegation Category Qa/Qc 7, QA Implementation Re Large Part of Brown & Root QA Const Mgt & Millwright Foreman Unqualified for Positions Held

ML20198D554
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	06/07/1985
From:	Livermore H, Wenczel V NRC, NRC - COMANCHE PEAK PROJECT (TECHNICAL REVIEW TEAM)
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1. Allegation Category: QA/QC 7, QA Implementation

2. Allegation Number: AQ-25

3. Characterization: It is alleged that a large part of Brown & Root (B&R)

QA construction management is not qualified for the positions held. It 4

was also alleged that a millwright foreman was unqualified.

4. Assessment of Safety Significance: In assessing this allegation, the NRC-Technical Review Team (TRT) reviewed the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) and Texas Utilities Electric Company.(TVEC) QA program for the minimum qualifications for all levels of B&R QA management personnel. The only qualification requirement was found in FSAR section 17.1.1.3; however, this was solely for the B&R QA manager located in the Houston corporate office.

B&R site QA has a " Supervisor's Handbook" which was specifically issued for Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station (CPSES). The handbook contains B&R QA job descriptions for the CPSES site and defines the minimum job classi-fication requirements. The personnel manager for B&R site construction stated that similar job classification descriptions do not exist for craft personnel.

The TRT reviewed the B&R QA site and TUEC organization charts dating back to January 1982, which encompassed the period when B&R personnel were transferred from the South Texas Project (STP) to CPSES. The resumes of-13 managers and supervisors, representing approximately a third of the B&R QA management positions onsite, were reviewed against the job classifica-tion requirements. For engineering and management positions, the minimum

' requirements necessary were an approved bachelor's degree in engineering or a scientific field plus a specified. number of years of QA-related experience. However, for management positions, an exclusionary clause permits work experience to wholly substitute for the educational require-ments. The TRT found that four upper managers did not have bachelor's .

degrees.

To evaluate the allegation concerning the " unqualified" millwright foreman, the TRT met with CPSES general building superintendents and obtained lists of current CPSES foremen who had previously worked for B&R at STP. The TRT reviewed the resumes of 25 individuals, several of whom were foremen i

and superintendents in the millwright shop. All of these construction foremen and superintendents had sufficient experience to satisfy CPSES job l description requirements.

Through the interviews, the TRT determined that the foreman cited in the allegation was one of two individuals. The TRT reviewed the background of these individuals, including their previous experience as supervisors and their education and training. In the opinion of the TRT, their qualifica-tions were adequate.

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5. Conclusion and Staff Positions: The TRT cannot substantiate the allega-tion and concludes that B&R QA construction managers'were qualified. In a similar uanner, based upon reviews of personnel records (education, experience, and training), the portion of the allegation concerning an unqualified millwright foreman was not substantiated. Although NRC regula-tions do not provide specific guidelines or minimum requirements regarding i

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A managerial qualifications, B&R met its own internal job classification regt'irements, by use of the exclusionary clause in some cases, in the placement of individuals in site management positions. Accordingly, this allegation has no generic implications.

On October 29, 1984' the TRT was notified that the alleger had declined to have any further contact with the NRC. Accordingly, no closecut inter-view was conducted.

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7. Attachments: None.

Reference Documents:

1. Testimony of A-7, March 7, 1984, pp. 11-12.

2. TUEC and Brown & Root organization charts (12), January 1982 through April 1984.

3. CPSES QA and Engineering personnel job classificatio.ns.

4. Quality, Craft, and Engineering Employee Resumes and personnel history records.

8. This statement prepared by: [

V. Wenczel,vTRT

[d Date Technical Reviewer Reviewed by: / w24aart H. Livermore,

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Date Group Leader Approved by:

V. Noonan, Date

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