ML20217N916

Informs That QA Program Approval 0363 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

ML20217N916
Person / Time
Site:	07100363
Issue date:	08/11/1997
From:	Jankovich J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Skorohod P BRIGGS ASSOCIATES, INC. (FORMERLY BRIGGS ENGINEERING
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NUDOCS 9708260386
Download: ML20217N916 (1)

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August 11, 1997 y;

-Mr.-Paul M. Skorchod Briggs Associates. Inc.

400 Hingham Street Rockland. MA 02370

Dear Mr. Skorohod:

Your Quality Assurance Program A] proval No. 0363 is hereby terminated. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission pualished 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 (OA) requirements tur transportation. As a result of these changes, 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 required that inspection and maintenance )rograms 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 is no need for you to respond to this letter.

If you have further questions, please contact Stephen O'Connor of my staff (telephone:

301 415-8561, e-mail:

SCO@NRC. GOV).

Sincerely.

/s/

John P. Jankovich. Section Chief Transportation and Storage Inspection Section Spent Fuel Project Office. NMSS Docket No. 71-0363

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