ML20235X303

Responds to Recipient 870626 Question Whether Contractor Must Notify Suppliers of non-nuclear safety-related Parts of 10CFR21 Regulations in Purchase Orders.Once Invoked,Part 21 Requirements Apply,Even to nonsafety-related Components

ML20235X303
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Issue date:	10/16/1987
From:	Merschoff E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Craig T JOHNSTON PUMP CO.
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REF-QA-99901023 NUDOCS 8710190293
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Johnston Pump / General Valve Incorporated ATTN: Mr. Tommy Craig Quality Assurance Manager 2601 East 34th Street Chattanooga, TN 37407 i

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l Your letter to me dated June 26, 1987, requested the Commission's response to the following question:

1 "When a utility imposes the provisions of 10 CFR 21 in a purchase 1

l-order for pumping equipment or finished parts thereof, specified by the utility as Nuclear Safety Related, is the Contractor l-obligated to pass on the same provisions to subsuppliers of raw or finished items that the Contractor's Engineers have determined to be non-critical to equipment operability, or whose failure will not result in imediate catastrophic failure of the pump or in the l

case of an installed pump component, the entire assembly?"

j The requirements of Section 21.31 of 10 CFR Part 21 state that the regulation must be specified in procurement documents for a basic component. A basic I

component is a part or component defined in Section 21.3.(a) of CFR Part 21 and includes pressure retaining material constructed in accordance with Section l

III of the ASME Code or identified by the customer as " safety related." For i

those components which do not satisfy the definition of basic component in i

Section 21.3(a) of Part 21 or the customer does not specifically call out the application of Part 21, the requirements of 10 CFR Part 21 do not have to be i

passed on'to subtier vendors. However, if the customer calls out the applica-tion of Part 21 the requirements must be passed down even though the Contractor's Engineers have determined the items to be non-critical to equipment operability, i

or whose failure will not result in immediate catastrophic failure of the pump.

l If you have any questions on the NRC's position on this subject, you may contact JimStone(301-492-9661) of the Vendor Inspection Branch or Chip Cameron (301-492-8689) of the Office of the General Counsel of the NRC.

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