ML20215E935
| ML20215E935 | |
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| Site: | Arkansas Nuclear  |
| Issue date: | 10/06/1986 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20215E926 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-313-86-25, 50-368-86-26, NUDOCS 8610160026 | |
| Download: ML20215E935 (3) | |
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i NOTICE OF VIOLATION Arkansas' Power & Light Company Dockets:
50-313/86-25 50-368/86-26 Licenses:
DPR-51 NPF-6 During an NRC inspection conducted on July 28 through August 1,1986, violations of the NRC requirements were identified.
The violations involved inadequate quality assurance records associated with Category I structural concrete production and. failure to conduct independent n'onitoring of contractor activities during inservice inspections that were performed on Unit 2 components..In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C (1986), the violations are listed below:
A.
Concrete Production Facility Criterion XVII of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50, states, in part, "...
sufficient records shall be maintained to furnish evidence of activities affecting quality."
Section 17.2.2 of the AP&L Quality Assurance Manual Operatiuns requires,
"... outside firms that perform work on the plant in the areas of design, procurement, maintenance, modification, testing, quality assurance, and special nuclear materials are to provide documentation / certification records to the plant for subsequent storage and retention by the Plant Administrative Manager."
Criterion XII of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50, states that ".
measures shall be established to assure that tools, gages, instruments, and other measuring and testing devices used in activities affecting quality are properly controlled, cal erated, and adjusted at specific periods to maintain accuracy within necessary limits."
Section 12 of the Arkansas Power & Light Quality Assurance Manual -
Operations states, in part, " Measuring and test equipment is to be properly controlled, calibrated and adjusted at specific intervals or prior to use to assure the necessary accuracy of calibrated equipment.
AP&L Technical Specification for Material Testing and/or Inspection Services, APL-C-2401, Section 9.1.1) states, "All inspections and tests performed by the Material Testing Service Contractor shall be documented and the reports submitted to AP&L."
Contrary to the above requirements, the following are examples of inadequate documentation and/or insp'ections:
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Although a letter from the batch plant water meter vendor stated that calibration of the meter was accomplished, there was no reference that a calibration had been performed to the tolerance specified by checklist (item 2.5.3, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
-(NRMCA) Procedure) l 2.
NRMCA, Item 7. "... agreement to regularly check scales, volumetric batching devices, and dispensers," page 17, required that checks be done at intervals not exceeding 9J days. No checks had been documented since November 11, 1985; however, the batching accuracies were found to be within the specified tolerances when rechecks were completed in June 1986.
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AP&L Specification APL-C-2401 Section 9.4, delineated responsibilities of the concrete batch plant inspector. The licensee representative indicated due to a misinterpretation of the requirements of Section 9.1.1, Items 9.4 3)a. through o., the inspection results were only partially documented.
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AP&L Specification APL-C-2401, page 29, table 7, Item 5.1, mixer uniformity ASTM C-94 (C-94, paragraph 11.5 through 11.9) and checklist Item 5, of NRMCA procedures, address certain requirements relative to truck mixer uniformity tests and blade inspections.
i There was no documented evidence that these requirements were
, accomplished. The licensee demonstrated that the truck mixer uniformity tests were being accomplished; however, truck mixer blade 4
inspections had not been performed prior to June 1986.
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The NRC inspectors observed that the mixer water tank sight gages on delivery trucks were not calibrated prior to use.
4 This is a Severity Level V violation (Supplement I.E.) (313/8625-01; 368/8626-01).
I B.
ISI Implementation Criterion IX of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50, states, in part, that " measures shall be established to assure that special processes, including nondestructive testing, are controlled and accomplished in accordance with applicable codes, specifications, and criteria"; 1.e., procedures.
Section 9.5 of the AP&L Quality Assurance Manual Operations requires that the " Performance of special processes in accordance with applicable codes, standards, specifications and plant procedures is verified by Quality Control personnel through their survei' lance and inspection activities...."
Quality Assurance Procedure QAP-7, Revision 1. Site Contractor Control, paragraph 5.7.2(d), included a question concerning AN0 quality control (QC) monitoring of site contractor activities in accordance with Procedure 1000.12.
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3 AN0 Procedure 1000.12, Revision 7, Control of Site Contractors, paragraph 6.6.15, required AP&L QC to provide inspection and/or surveillance of contractor work activities.
Contrary to the above, the licensee representative stated that although surveillances were conducted during other contractor ISI activities, AN0 QC had not performed surveillances and/or inspected Combustion Engineering ISI inspection activities.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement II) (368/8626-02).
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Arkansas Power & Light Company is hereby required to submit to this office within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice, a written statement or explanation in reply, including for violation B.(1) the reason for the violations if admitted, (2 the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved, (3 the corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations, and (4 the date when full compliance will be achieved. Where good cause is shown, consideration will be given to extending the response time.
We have examined your documented evidence that verified corrective action had been completed on the five items listed under violation A prior to further production of Category I concrete on June 2,1986. Therefore, violation A has been resolved and no response is required.
4 Dated at Arlington, Texas this 6th day of October 1986
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