ML20104A562

Submits Further Response to IE Bulletin 83-06.Flanges Originally Installed on Pumps by Johnston Pump Co Replaced W/Flanges Mfg by G&W Taylor Forge Div.Johnston Pump Failed to Revise Documentation.Repts Corrected

ML20104A562
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	01/14/1985
From:	Foster D, Foster D GEORGIA POWER CO.
To:	James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
References
GN-507, IEB-83-06, IEB-83-6, NUDOCS 8502010365
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• Georgia Power Company Route 2, Box 299A Waynesboro. Georgia 30830 Telephone 404 554-9961, Ext,3360 404 724-8114, Ext. ?360

. vicIPres,oent and Protect 85 JM22 P 2: 03 Geor5ila Power General Manager vogue Protect January 14, 1985 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Office of Inspection and Enforcement RII: JP0:

. Region II - Suite 2900 50-424 101 Marietta Street, NW 50-425

Atlanta, Georgia 30323 File

X7BC24 Attention: Mr. James P. O'Reilly The following is submitted further to our letters of November 23, 1983 (File: X7BC24, Log: GN-287) and March 22,1984 (File: X7BC24, Log: GN-331), in response to I & E Bulletin 83-06, "Non-conforming Materials Supplied by Tube-Line Corporation Facilities at Long Island City, New York; Houston, Texas; and Carol Stream, Illinois:"

As reported in previous correspondence on this subject, all fittings supplied to the Vogtle Project directly from Tube-Line are two inches and smaller. It_should also be noted i. hat all are stainless steel materials. The Vogtle Project architect / engineer and "N" certificate holder, . Bechtel Power Corporation, conducted a supplier quality audit of- Tube-Line Corporation's Carol Stream Facility, which

.is-the only-Tube-Line facility which supplies stainless steel materials.

The audit verified that although ' Tube-Line sub-vendors' quality assurance programs did not meet all the requirements of Subsection NA-3700/NCA-3800 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (hereafter referred to as the ~" Code"), Tube-Line audit . checklists indicated that

in all cases suppliers' material identification and control . programs were satisfactory.

Based -on the audit results, Bechtel recommended that Georgia-Power Company (GPC) invoke Subarticle . NX-2600 from . the 1977 : Edition of Section III'of the Code, which exempts two inches and smaller flanges and . fittings from all NA 3700/NCA 3800 quality program requirements except for; the. requirements. of NA 3767.4. This recommendation was accepted by GPC /and the use of Subarticle NX-2600, with application

' limited to material supplied - by Tube-Line Corporation, was approved on March 23, 1984.

To satisfy the requirements of NA 3767.4 for the ninety-three separate heats of materials two inches and smaller supplied to the Vogtle Project -by Tube-Line (See Attachment A), chemical and physical property analyses on a representative sample of fifteen heats were

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The results ofL the. analyses were compared with the certified material test: reports (CMTR) provided by Tube-Line with the fittings. Only one discrepancy ~ was identified. One ~ flange, . classified as ASME SA182 F316' material,' failed to meet minimum mechanical properties, but the Bechtel report attributed. the failure to subsize specimens used. in

-the testing . due. to ~ the limited . availability of materials from that

' heat. (ABJB). ~. The' statistical accuracy'of tests on subsize specimens

.is lower than results of, tests using full size specimens. In addition, the Tube-Line CMTR ' indicated that heat ABJB complies with ASME chemical andL mechanical properties, and the Bechtel test confirmed that the material conforms to required chemistry requirements. Metallographic 7 evaluations also. indicate that the material was properly heat treated.

The heats and specimens used in the chemical and physical property

. analyses are identified in Attachment B.

Tube' Line . CMTR's for Class 1 fittings contain a statement

-indicating that the represented materials have been tested and qualified in accordance with subarticle NB-2000 of the Code. Since NB-2000 contains the _~ NDE requirements for Class 1 components, Georgia Power

Company - document'1 reviewers accepted this statement as an- adequate indication -that required . NDE testing had been performed. The CMTR's

.also contained a statement specific to the results of ultrasonic testing

.but did not specifically address liquid penetrant examination results.

The .Vogtle Project piping contractor o and "NA" certificate holder, Pullman Power. Products, recommended that Georgia Power Company verify .

that liquid ' penetrant ' testing' had actually been performed. After reviewing _ the -situation, Georgia Power Company ' initiated a Deviation Report - for design engineering resolution to determine if required liquid penetrant testing records were available. Design engineering Texamined :the documentation . packages for Class 1 fittings but could find no liquid penetrant examination records. Tube-Line Corporation's

>  : Carol Stream facility was contacted and requested to provide the missing records. Tube-Line was unable to produce the. records.-

Approximately 1800 Class 1 fittings. are affected by the lack-of liquid penetrant testing . records. Approximately 15% of ' these are

-installed in piping systems. Pullman Power Products conducted liquid

, penetrant examinations of 'approximately 1 thirty uninstalled. fittings

, 'to ~ retain at. the.: site in order- to continue small bore piping n installation ' and the : remainder ' were L returned to Tube-Line. . Tube-Line-n _

Land; Consolidated Pipe a'nd : Supply Company, the ' prime supplier of .the 7 fittings- to Vogtle, contracted Brand Examination Services and Testing

.w.  ; Company (BESTC0) to perfom Lliquid. penetrant ' examinations - of the

' returned fittings.~ _ Testing has been completed and preliminary results indicate that no discrepancies were identified.

The approximately 300 fittings - already installed at Plant Vogtle

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.will be liquid . penetrant tested per Code . requirements for. Class 1:

. components. . Testing _ will be conducted and documented. by a qualified testing : agency yet to be ' selected. Georgia Power -Company will inform lthe NRC of the results of: these tests as well. as the final results of . testing conducted 'by BESTC0 when the infomation becomes available.

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Previous correspondence on I & E Bulletin 83-06 indicated that eight 4 inch raised-face,150#, ASTM A-105, Grade 79, slip-on flanges were identified as being supplied by Tube-Line through Johnston Pump Company of Glendora, California. These flanges were used in the fabrication of two Unit 2 Diesel Oil Storage Tank Pumps (Plant Equipment Nos. 2-2403-P4-001 and 2-2403-P4-002), which are Seismic Category 1, safety-related, Code Section III, Class 3 components. It was indicated that these flanges would require a complete evaluation relative to Code requirements. In preparing for this evaluation a visual examination of the flanges and the pumps, which were already installed in the plant, was performed. It was discovered that the flanges .were marked with symbols which indicated that they were not manufactured by Tube-Line Corporation. Further investigations revealed

.that Tube-Line flanges were originally installed on the pumps by Johnston Pump Company but that, when informed of the controversy surrounding Tube-Line materials, Johnston Pump replaced the flanges with those manufactured. by G&W Taylor Forge Division before they left their shop. Johnston Pump, however, failed to revise the documentation packages for the pumps. The document packages for both pumps still contained the . Tube-Line CMTR and the NPV-1 Code Data Reports still

. indicated that . the Tube-Line flanges were used. This oversight was

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reported to Johnson Pump Company, which promptly supplied corrected Code Data Reports and the correct CMTR.

This report contains no proprietary infonnation and may be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room.

Very t ly youp ,

, , u D. O. Foster REF/D0F/tdm Attachment.

D. O. Foster -states that he is the Vice President and Project General Manager .of Vogtle Project and is authorized to execute this oath on behalf of Georgia Power Company and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the facts set orth in this letter are true.

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xc: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk Washington, D. C. 20555 R. J.LKelly J. A. Bailey G. Bockhold R. E. Conway

- O. Batum P. D. Rice G. F. Head H. H. Gregory C. S. McCall (OPC)

J. T. Beckham W. T. Nickerson E. L. Blake, Jr.

R. A. Thomas- D. R. Altman (Shaw, et. al. )

D. E. Dutton D. L. Kinnsch (BPC) J. E. Joiner

-W. F. Sanders (NRC) J. L. Vota (W) (Troutman, et. al .)

R. H. Pinson L. T. Gucwa D. C. Teoer (GANE)

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B'. M.'Guthrie C. E. Belflower L. Fowler (LEAF)

E. D. Groover M. Malcom (BPC) T. Johnson (ECPG)

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I ATTACHNENT A Page 1 of 3

SUMMARY

OF HEAT NUMBERS AND PURCHASE ORDER ITEM NUMBERS BY VENDOR VENDOR HEAT # P.O. ITEM #'s

1) NBK (Tokyo) AABK 131 Nippon.Benkan Kogyo AABL 132 -

1 AABS 554, 555 AABT 558 AACG 99 AACF 062 AACS 133 AADA 161 AADAB 552, 572, 573 AADAC 571, 575, 551 AADC 097, 098 AAEB 063 AAEBT 536 lAAEBU 537 AAEBUA 538 AAECD 539 AAECE 540 AAEP 553 AAES 559 AAET 578 .

AAYW 065 ABYA 064 ABYB 574 ABYC 577 ACHA 065, 557

2) KUZE '(Tokyo) AAWW 100 YaIEyo Sangyo Co. Ltd AAWU 99 AAWV 96 ABTA 556 ABTB 560 ABZN 555 ABZO 559 ABZY 554 ACKQ 576 ACKR -579 s

ATTACHMENT A.

Page 2 of 3 VENDOR HEAT 4 P.O. ITEM #'s

3) METALFAR ABHA 670 (Como, Italy) ABJB 669, 727, 614, 611, 666, 730 ABNE 667, 729, 612 ABOC 651, 641, 596, 636, 637, 591, 642, 592, 609, 722, 597, 638, 652, 653, 598, 643, 593 ABOD 668, 728, 613 ABPD 610 ABRD 585, 590, 650, 691, 584, 694, 595 ABRE 647, 594, 599, 639, 644, 653, 654, 695, 696, 699, 700, 703, 704, 707, 708, 581, 587, 582, 646, 586, 643 ABUD 605, 659, 660, 604, 692, 588, 583, 648 ABUE 615, 726, 693, 694, 697, 701, 702, 705, 706, 601, 602, 603, 654,.656, 657, 658, 600, 640, 655, 695, 645 ABUF 698, 694, 598, 584, 649 ABWA 608, 663, 723, 661, 725, 606 ABWB 609, 664

-ACAB 607, 665, 724, 610, 662, 721, 607

4) HACKNEY ABVAG 552

-(Dallas, Texas)

U ABVAg) (y) 134 ABVR 65

5) MACLINE ACBB 132

-(Montreal, Canada) ACBC 134 ACBD 135 ACNA 131 i.

.- ATTACHMENT A Page 3 of 3 P.O. ITEM VENDOR HEAT # NUMBER CUSTOM ALLOY PAUA 102 (Califon,N.J.) PAUAB 103 PAUAC 105 PAUAD 104 PAUAF 35 PAUAG 103 .

PAUAI 31 PAUAJ 32 PAUAK 33

PAUAL 34 PAUAM 70 PAUAN 70 PAUA0 66 PAUAP 68 PAUAQ 69 PAUAR 31 PAUAS 32 PAUAT 67 PAUA: 67 PAUAW 70 PAUS 103

~PAUE 34 PAUF 34 PAUG 34 PAUH 35 PAUI 35 PAUJ 33 PAUK 37

. PAUL 33

, PAUM 33 l PAU0 32 i

PAUQ. 101 PAUT 33 PAUW 102

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!- PAUY 67 7)CAPIT0L ABUF 698 ABRE 699 ABUE 705 ABRE 707

Attachment B Tube-Line Material and Heats Subjected to Additional Chemical and Physical Property Analysis PAUH 2" 90 Elbow

.ABUE 2" 1500 # RFSW Flange ABOC 3/4" 1500 # RFSW Flange ABNE 3/4" 150 # Blind Flange PAUT- 1" 90 Elbow PAUX 1 1/2" 90 Elbow PAVAQ _1 1/2" 2500 # Flange ABVR 2" 90 Elbow AACF 3/4" 90 Elbow ABYA 1 1/2" 90* Elbow ABJB 1 1/2" 150 # RFSW Flange AAEB- 1" 90 Elbow AAWW- 2" 45* Elbow ACBB 3/4" Tee Note: Original mill test reports were reviewed concurrently with property analysis.