ML20217N827

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Informs That QA Program Approval 0316 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
ML20217N827
Person / Time
Site: 07100316
Issue date: 08/15/1997
From: Jankovich J
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Shannon J
MASON & HANGER - SILAS MASON CO., INC.
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NUDOCS 9708260347
Download: ML20217N827 (1)


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3 August 15, 1997 Mr. J. E. Shannon Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc.

Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Middletown IA 52638

Dear Mr. Shannon:

Your Quelity Assurance Program Approval No. 0316 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 r requirements, also modified the quality assurance (QA) requirements for

- ti ansportation. As a result of these changes, a separate NRC OA program F approval is no longer needed.

i Specificc'ly, transportation activities are now contained in a new paragraph.

L 10 CFR 71,10Mg). This provision was added to the regulations and requires

k. that inspection and maintenance 3rograms limited to radiographic exposure devices, source changers, or paccages transporting these devices and meeting t.he provisions of 10 CFR Part 34.31(b), or equivalent Agreement State regulatiors, satisfy the general license requirements ,pecified in 10 CFR Part 71.12(b) for Type B transport packages.

There is no need for you to respond to this letter. If you have further t questions, please contact Stephen O'Connor of my staff (telephone: 301 415-8S61, e mail: SCO@NRC. GOV).

Sincerely,

/s/

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