ML20217N809

Informs That QA Program Approval 0687 Is Terminated Due to NRC Final Rule Which Revised Requirements of 10CFR34. Separate NRC QA Program Approval Is No Longer Needed as Result of Changes

ML20217N809
Person / Time
Site:	07100687
Issue date:	08/15/1997
From:	Jankovich J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Myers D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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., August 15, 1997 Mr. D. L. Myers inspectjon. Management Corporation 5626 E. 186th Street S.

Bixby OK 74008

Dear Mr. Myers:

Your Quality Assurance Program A] proval No. 0687 is hereby terminated. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission pu)lished a final rule, effective June 27, 1997.

revising the requirements of 10 CfR Part 34. " Licenses for Industrial Radiography and Radiation Safety Requirements for Industrial Radiographic Operations." The revision which contained numerous changes in the requirements, also modified the quality assurance (0A) requirements for transportation. As a result of these .hanges, a separate NRC OA program approval is no longer needed.

Specifically, transportation activities are now contained in a new paragraph.

10 CFR 71.101(g). This provision was added to the regulations and requires that inspection and maintenance orograms limited to radiographic exposure devices, source changers, or paccages transporting these devices and meeting the provisions of 10 CFR Part 34.31(b) or equivalent Agreement State regulations, satisfy the general license requirements specified in 10 CFR Part 71.12(b) for Type B transport packages.

There in no need for you to respond to this letter. If you have further cuestions, please contact Stephen O'Connor of my staff (telephone: 301 415-E561, e mail: SCO@NRC. GOV).

Sincerely:

/s/

John P. Jankovich Section Chief /

Transportation and Storage /

Inspection Section O Spent Fuel Project Office, NMSS Docket No. 71-0687 DISTRIBUTION:

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