ML19257A558

Responds to NRC 791030 Ltr Re Violations Noted in IE Insp Repts 50-329/79-22 & 50-330/79-22.Corrective Actions: Welders Reinstructed on Weld Rod Control & Training Session Was Conducted

ML19257A558
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Site:	Midland
Issue date:	11/30/1979
From:	Howell S CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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C0mpBDy Senior Vice Presdent General offices: 1945 West Pernell Road, Jackson, Michigen 49201 * (517) 788 4453 November 30, 1979 Howe-297-79 Mr J G Keppler, Regional Director Office of Inspection und Enforcement US Nuclear Regulatory Co==ission Region III 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

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INSPECTIO:; REPORT NO 50-329/79-22 AND NO 50-330/79-22 The enclosure to this letter is a response to your letter of October 30, 1979, which transmitted the subject Inspection Report and which requested our written statement on an itet of noncompliance.

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Enclosure:

Consumers Power Company's Response to Inspection Report No 50-329/79-22 and No 50-330/79-22 1689 179 DEO 8001040

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CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY RESPONSE TO ITEM OF NONCOMPLIANCE DESCRIBED IN NRC INSPECTION REPORT

_(NO. 50-329/79-22) (NO. 50-330/79-22)

TWO PORTABLE ROD OVENS NOT ENERGIZED _ I (50-330/79-22-02)

Description of Noncompliance Appendix A of Report No 50-329/79-22 and 50-330/79-22 provides the following:

' Activities "10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, states in part, that, affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instruction,

. and shall be accomplished in accordance with these procedures, .

instructions, procedures, . . .'

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Bechtel Quality Assurance Mahual ASME Section III Nuclear ' .. Components

. Requirements Division 1, paragraph Slh8, states in part, that, for receipt, inspection, storage, issue and return to stock of velding filler materials are in WFMC-1.

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Becht el Power Corporation Procedure Specification No.

'The WFMC-1, Revision 6, portable Amendment 9, paragraph 6.5.8.1, states, in part, that, warmers shall be energized within three hours of the electrode issuance from the rod room . . .'

Contrary to the above, the inspector established the following:

00 p.m. a portable oven with a.- On October 9, 1979, approximately 3:

I.D. No. 288, containing approximately 30 sticks of 3/32" diameter E7018 velding rods was left unenergized 'n the Unit 2 Containment The velding .

Building adjacent to the Emergency Personnel Hatch.The velding rods were iss rods were cold to touch.

on veld No. M326-2880W, cf Systems No. 3 0"-2HBC-110-H9 on drawing No. 619-2-9 a partable oven with

b. On October 10, 1979, approximately 2:00 p.m.,

I.D. No. 286, containing approximately 60 sticks of 3/32" and 1/8" diameter E7018 velding rods was left unenergized in the -0" Unit and 2 270 Containment Building at approximately elevation 611' The velding rods azimuth. The velding rods were cold to touch.

were issued to be used on veld No. M326-2h96W, of system No. 10" -

2HBC.110-H28, on drawing No. 619-2-30.

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c. The portable ovens were is ued to the velders at 7:

days in question according to the logs kept at the rod room.

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d. No veldinF has been performed at the time when the conditions were noted because no veld rod stub was in the stub can."

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Response

Bechtel has taken the following actions:

1. The offending velders were immediately reinstructed on veld rod control and emphasis was placed on portable varmer energizing requirements.

2. A documented training session was conducted by Bechtel site management.

In attendance were various craft and area superintendents, lead field engineers, assistant lead field engineers, and the assistant subcontracts manager.

3 Bechtel supervisors and field engineers are concentrating on this subject to assure conformance to opecification requirements.

h. Bechtel Field Engineering has re-issued the " General Instructions to Welders" which is given to velders upon satisfactorily passing the velders' qualification tests. Each velder is required to sign a statement that says, "I have yead and undcrctand the ' General Instructions to Welders.'" These instructions also have been issued in French due to the number of Canadians on the project.

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With these actions completed, full compliance has been achieved.

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