ML20236P496
| ML20236P496 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/13/1998 |
| From: | NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| ML20236P478 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900100 NUDOCS 9807160371 | |
| Download: ML20236P496 (2) | |
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NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE Limitorque Corporation Docket No. 99900100 Lynchburg, Virginia Based on the results of an inspection conducted on April 21 through 23,1998, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements.
A. Criterion XVI, " Corrective Action," of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B," Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," (Appendix B), requires in part that " measures shall be established to assure that conditions adverse to quality, such as failures, malfunctions, deficiencies, deviations, defective material and equipment, and nonconformances are promptly identified and corrected," "in the case of significant conditions adverse to quality, the measures shall assure that the cause of the condition is determined and corrective action taken to preclude repetition," and "the identification of the significant condition adverse to quality, the cause of the condition, and the corrective action taken shall be documented and reported to the appropriate levels of management."
Limitorque Corporation's (Limitorque) Quality Assurance Procedure QAP 14.1, " Corrective Action Procedure," Revision 3, dated February 7,1997, states that "upon identification of a condition or trend adverse to quality, Quality Assurance will initiate the appropriate C/A
[ corrective action) docurnent and provide recommended corrective actions," and "the recipients of the C/A document shall determine the cause, develop and implement j
appropriate corrective action that corrects the deficiency and the steps to prevent recurrence."
Contrary to the above, the NRC found that Limitorque had obtained information by l
September of 1997 which indicated that the use of relaxed criteria for the sizing equation for ac-powered motor actuators could potentially allow licensees to use ac-powered motor actuators which had not been adequately sized and that Limitorque had not taken
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adequate corrective action regarding licensee use of the relaxed criteria in the sizing i
equation guidance by the time of the NRC inspection in April 1998.
(Nonconformance 99900100/98-01-01)
B. Also contrary to the requirements of Criterion XVI, " Corrective Action," of 10 CFR Part 50, I
Appendix B, the NRC found that the Limitorque 10 CFR Part 21 Evaluations No. 45, dated September 28,1993, and No. 47, dated December 9,1993, documented certain corrective actions to be performed and that Limitorque had not completed these corrective actions.
These evaluations concerned notifying customers of the appropriate hardware to be used with SMB-000 actuators and correcting discrepancies in previously supplied motor revolutions per minute (RPM) curves.
(Nonconformance 99900100/98-01-02) l 9807160371 980713 PDR GA999 ENVLMIT 99900100 PDR
l Please provide a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555, with a copy to the Chief, Quality Assurance, Vendor inspection and Maintenance Branch, Division of Reactor Controls and Human Factors, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, within 30 days of the date of the letter i
l transmitting this Notice of Nonconformance. This reply should be clearly marked as a " Reply to a Notice of Nonconformance" and should include for each nonconformance:
(1) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to correct these items; (2) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence; and (3) the dates l
your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this.111.bday of July 1998 2
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