ML20093L395
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 03/15/1984 |
| From: | Boyer V, Clohecy D PECO ENERGY CO., (FORMERLY PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC |
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| CON-#484-557 OL, NUDOCS 8410180550 | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING BARD . 32 In The Matter Of: PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY Limerick Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353 0' Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday, March 15, 1984 Depositions in tandem of DAVID T. CLOHECY and VINCENT S. BOYER held in the offices of Philadelphia Electric Co., 2300 Market Street, at 9:10 a.m. on the above date before Neith D. Ecker, Registered Professional Reporter.
APPEARANCES:
AIR & WATER POLLUTION PATROL by: FRANK ROMANO Chairman CONNER & WETTERHAN, P.C.
by: Mark J. Wetterhan, Esq.
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ALSO PRESENT:
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DAVID T. CLOHECY and VINCENT S. BOYER, sworn.
MR. WETTERHAN: This is a deposition as ordered by the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board provided in the captioned proceeding as ordered in l Transcript 8306 et seq.
The deposition will be by pursuant to the rules of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 CFR Part 2, in particular 10 CFR 2.74a.
Before we start, I just want to bring the procedure to your court reporter's attention that when the court testimony is fully transcribed, the deposition shall be submitted to the deponents for examination and signature.
Let me be clear that we do not waive this.
Once you receive the signature, the deposition shall promptly be forwarded by registered mail to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Secretary, Washington, D.C., 20555.
MR. ROMANO: I wish to say that I stipulate h
that I don't want to waive any of my rights here, too; and that I will first have to see the copy before I sign it. That's...
MR. WETTERHAN: Off the record.
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MR. GUTIERREZ: I want to make one clarification. It's the NRC staff's understanding that this is a deposition ordered by the Board as a result of a discovery dispute between the licensee and the Air & Water Pollution Patrol. I am not l
making -- entering an appearance in this case and l
have been asked by the case attorneys to sit in and monitor the deposition.
MR. ROMANO: I would like to ask the representative of the'NRC why wasn't it possible for the inspector for the NRC to be here?
MR. GUTIERREZ: You want an on-the-record response to that?
MR. ROMANO: Yes.
MR. GUTIERREZ: It's my understanding based on the Board's order that what the Board ordered was t that PECo produce certain witnesses to clarify l
certain answers they've already given you in response to interrogatories; and that there's no pending l
discovery before the staff that needs clarification.
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that the order of the Board'also indicated that I may have followup questions depending upon what statements are made; and that I feel that inasmuch as the NRC inspector is very important to the clarification of answers received from the applicant to AWPP interrogatories, that I feel that without him it jeopardizes our effort to clarify a number of points. And I really feel that the NRC being part of this entire operation at least should have the inspector involved with the 76-06-01 incident.
MR. GUTIERREZ: I only reiterate our understanding that this is a discovery dispute between PECo and the Air & Water Pollution Patrol; th,at at no time did the Board direct deposit' ions be taken of NRC staff personnel.
MR. ROMANO: Well, I just have to add again that the Board did say I would have followup questions; and without knowing what my followup questions would be, I think it's unfair to have limited, limited -- the people I might want to depose or ask questions of.
MR. WETTERHAN: Well, we'can't settle anything. Your statement is on the record. You can do with it what you want. I suggest that you now
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MR. GUTIERREZ: Just one further clarification.
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I have read.the transcript in pertinent parts; and it is the staff's understanding that the followup questions which the Boara referenced were followup questions you may have directed toward the PECo employees that provided answers to your interrogatories.
MR. ROMANO: Well, there we have a matter of a misunderstanding in that the Judge specifically .
stated that when he -- when I asked for everybody involved with the 76-06-01, he designated -- he
, stated that there probably would not be all of them there but that the applicant must understand that my followup questions might require something like that.
So that we have it on the record that the only two witnesses for the applicant is Mr. Boyer and Mr. Clohecy.
MR. WETTERHAN: That's on the record.
MR. ROMANO: I will ask a question as we go.
And at this time I would like to say if we get an answer, I expect that it indicates that you
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I would like to see - .let's see. I'm a little at a loss here because I had expected that the NRC inspector would be here to sort of corroborate or say -- be a sort of umpire in some of these-questions.
And so I'll start off with the plan to perform welding with electrodes fastened to a broomstick was revealed.to the NRC inspector by, according to the answer to Interrogatory No. 4, my first set, was answered by Jay Windsor, Bechtel structural steel and rigging superintendent; R.
Johnson, Bechtel general foreman ironwork; R. Seisle, Bechtel foreman ironwork; G. P. Auclair, Bechtel welder.
Is that so? Is Mr. Corcoran not here?
MR. WETTERHAN: Mr. Corcoran is not here.
These are the two witnesses.
MR. ROMANO: The inspector who was involved for the applicant and the inspector who was involved for the NRC are not here. I don't see how i
it's possible to clarify a dispute between applicant and AWPP without principal people being present.
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MR. ROMANO: I am going to continue.
MR. WETTERHAN: Thank you.
MR. ROMANO: Well, then, I would have to say, Mr. Clohecy, is that not so?
MR. CLOHECY: Let me see what we said.
You said the fourth set of interrogatories?
MR. ROMANO: No. I said Interrogatory No. 4, first set.
MR. CLOHECY: Oh, first set, okay. Let me take.a look at that.
Okay. Yes, I agree with our previous statement.
MR. ROMANO: Well, I see here as licensee's inspector I was going to ask a question; but now I have to say as the licensee's representative, which is not the person I really wanted to be speaking to, Mr. Clohecy, should you have known that the weld procedure had not been qualified using extensions?
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MR. ROMANO: I said should you have known --
MR. WETTERHAN: Let the witness finish, please.
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5 MR. CLOHECY: I don't agree with your 6 characterization there of the weld procedure not 7 qualified. That's not correct.
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17 MR. ROMANO: Well, then will you turn to 18 the Attachment 1 from letter of R. T. Carlson to 19 V. S. Boyer dated 11/10/76 transmitting NRC i.e.
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23 MR. ROMANO: I am referring to Page 5 --
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2 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. I have Page 5 and 3 Summary of Findings.
4 MR. ROMANO: Page.5.
5 MR. WETTERHAN: Yes.
6 MR. CLOHECY: Yes.
7 MR. ROMANO: Would you read the second 8 paragraph starting with "The inspector," which I 9 note to be the NRC inspector. Would you read that?
10 MR. WETTERHAN:. Read.it.
11 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. "The inspector determined
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, 15 such extensions. Although the applicable Code AWS 16 Dl-1-72 does not specifically address the use of 17 electrode holder extensions with respect to I
18 procedure / welder qualifications, it does in Part 19 3.1.2 require that equipment be designed and 20 manufactured so as to enable qualified welders to 21 attain the results prescribed in the AWS Code."
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23 Procedure there. You said that the welder did not l 24 have to be qualified; is that what you said?
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MR. ROMANO: That's right. It says that.
But that's talking about the extensions.
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MR. ROMANO: Here it specifically states that the welder had not been qualified.
MR. CLOHECY: No, it doesn ' t say that.
MR. ROMANO: Well, I would like then to have this page -- I think the procedure is that you .
will read this, is it, and that we can put this in as an exhibit.
THE COURT REPORTER: Okay.
MR. WETTERHAN: You can do it that way or identify it, since we all know what page we're talking about, to save you a couple of cents.
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I 4 MR. ROMANO: Isn't it true, Mr. Clohecy_,
5 that -- see, I could say this to the inspector who 6 was there; but it makes it difficult now for me to 7 be asking somebody .else a question which I had 8 specifically written for the NR -- for the licensee's 9 inspector.
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18 MR. BOYER: Yes. That question is not 19 clear.
20 MR. ROMANO: Well, I'm not taking it out 21 of a paragraph. I'm taking it out of --
22 MR. WETTERHAN: Could you rephrase it, Mr.
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2 Mr. Corcoran, stated such non-qualified weld 3 procedure had been used after it was revealed by the 4 craft and supervision people?
5 MR. CLOHECY: Where?
6 MR. ROMANO: Well, then we go back again 7 to Page 5.
8 MR. WETTERHAN: Let me state something, 9 an objection for the record.
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16 MR. ROMANO: Yes. But I want to ask these 17 questions because I feel they're very important to 18 the clarification which I didn't get previoasly and 19 which is not just perhaps specifically to one 20 interrogatory, but it comes in somewhere in the 21 various interrogatories that I didn't feel I got a 22 Proper answer to.
23 It states in the second -- third sentence 24 on that " Interviews" -- and that's NRC inspectors -- !
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4 stated, and licensee" -- and licensee, that's the 5 one we're talking about -- "and contractor QA and 6 QC personnel later confirmed" after the interviews 7 with the craft and supervision personnel, "that,"
8 as you read it there, "this approach had been used 9 on similar limited access weld joints at Elevation 10 253, Columns F and H at Wall 23."
11 Now, then I asked the question, isn't it 12 true that you -- as you read there -- know that 13 non-qualified weld procedure had been used -- have 14 been used previous -- before, before the personnel 1
15 revealed this broomstick affair was going to take 16 place at weld -- at Elevation 253, Columns F and H at 17 Wall 237 18 MR. CLOHECY: No, it's not true that the 19 weld procedure was not qualified.
20 As it says there, the inspector made an 21 observation that the procedure had not been 22 qualified using electrode holder extensions.
23 MR. ROMANO: That doesn't answer the 24 question I'm asking.
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15 1 MR. CLOHECY: But the procedure was 2 qualified.
3 .MR. WETTERHAN: One at :s time.
4 MR. ROMANO: How is he going to finish --
5 MR. WETTERHAN: One at a timo.
6 MR. ROMANO: -- when he stops? I feel 7 that's it.
8 No, you'ro not answering the question.
9 It is indicated right there in that 10 paragraph that once the craf t and supervision 11 personnel or through their interview found out that 12 this situation was going to take place, then, after 13 that that the licensco and contractor QA and OC 14 personnel, it says, stated that this approach had 15 boon used before at olovations -- at Elevation 253, 16 Columns F and !! at Wall 23.
17 MR. BOYER: That's what it says.
l 18 MR. ROMANO: That's what it says.
19 May I ask you, Mr. Boyer, what do you mean 20 by "That's what it saya"?
21 MR. BOYER: Well, you road a statomont 22 and asked whether that's what it said. I said yes, 23 I agroo with you that that's what -- that you road 2.i it correctly.
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16 l 1 MR. ROMANO: But you don't agree that the 2 licensee inspector knew of a similar case describad 3 there previous to the interview of the NRC inspector?
4 MR. BOYER: That question isn't clear.
5 MR. GUTIERREZ: Can I have a clarification 6 of that question? I didn't understand the question.
7 MR. WETTERHAN: What do you mean by 8 "similar case"?
9 MR. ROMANO: The craft and supervision 10 personnel as a result of an interview with the NRC i
11 inspector found -- brought out the fact that a 12 wold was going to be dono using broomstick 13 extensions.
14 And it says then that the licensee and 15 contractor QA and QC personnel later confirmed --
16 that's after they learned about this -- later 17 confirmed that this use of broomstick extensions, 18 which is a non-qualified uso, had already boon used to beforo.
20 MR. WETTERHAN: Wo will stipulate to the 21 fact that broomsticks had boon used beforo, in the 22 interest of saving timo. Wo do not stipulate that -- i l
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5 MR. GUTIERREZ: Mr. Romano, just.so'I'm -- 1 6 7 ,MR. ROMANO: 1 don' t believe you're 7 qualified -- I don't believe your effert is to 8 qualifyitfortherecohd, to clarify it for the 9 record.
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16 of extensions to the notice of whoever had to know 17 it there before. it was found out by the NRC 18 inspector.
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4 MR. WETTERHAN: Let the witness complete --
5 MR. ROMANO: Yes, but I can't --
6 MR. CLOHECY: Would you repeat it?
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13 MR. BOYER: He's asking who the NRC 14 inspector was who made the observation.
15 MR. CLOHECY: The NRC inspector was Al 16 Toth.
I MR. ROMANO: Who the Bechtel QC inspector 18 was?
19 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. We answered that in 20 one of our interrogatories, in one of -- in response 21
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1983, which was a list of names in response to a 9 general question.
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15 MR. ROMANO: Yes, okay. It has been --
16 MR. BOYER: -- but does not include Mr.
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18 MR. ROMANO: All right.
19 MR. BOYER: So we would say it was Mr.
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22 MR. ROMANO: Was Mr. Bishop one of the 23 inspectors or Mr. Driver one of the inspectors or 24 not?
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5 MR. CLOHECY: On the NRC Inspection Report?
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11 MR. CLOHECY: Where?
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15 MR. BOYER: Wait a minute. Hold on.
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17 MR. BOYER: Well, to simplify the matter, 18 we can see Mr. Bishop's name is listed in both 19 places. Mr. Driver's may or may not -- he may or 20 may not have been involved in this particular 21 incident.
22 MR. ROMANO: He may or may not have been?
23 MR. BOYER: Well, his name is not listed 24 on Discovery No. 17.
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2 MR. CLOHECY: Yes. Discovery 17 are the 3 names as listed in the NRC Inspection haports as 4 personnel contacted by the NRC. And you would have 5 to ask the NRC why they didn't list Mr. Driver.
6 MR. ROMANO: But are you saying then that 7 you had sent in his name and that the NRC did not 8 list it?
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15 you did not send in his name and the NRC did not 16 list it?"
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17 MR. CLOHECY: again I ask you Well, then 18 MR. ROMANO: considered The NRC inspector 19 this statement. a stick did not about attached to that an electrode holder Part 3.1.2 unless 20 21 requirement of the AWS for the meet this lification test 22 satisfactory by qua necessary in the Proven i ue that was 23 kind of welding techn q l 24 ORTING. INC.
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2 Isn' t that specifically stating that the 3 welder was not qualified?
4 MR. BOYER: No. That is not that the 5 inspector's view was as you stated it there. It was 6 his opinion. And the next sentence indicates that 7 .the licensee disagreed with his opinion.
8 MR. ROMANO: Wel.' , I don' t see it that way.
9 Let -- it specifically states that the 10 manner in which the weld was to be done did not meet 11 the requirement. If it was to be -- to meet the 12 requirement, this welder had to take a quaiification 13 test for the six- different weld techniques that 14 would be needed in order to do that.
15 So that the statement is clear as it is 16 written here unless we want to challenge -- I say, 17 Mr. Boyer, are you challenging the NRC inspector's 18 statement at that point?
10 MR. BOYER: I am not challenging it. I'm 20 just trying to clarify what you read and to interpret 21 for you what it said. And it says, "The inspector 22 considered," et cetera.
23 MR. ROMANO: Yes.
24 MR. BOYER: That was the inspector's view.
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2 So there was a difference of interpretation 3
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the code requirements relating to the qualification 5 procedures necessary'tx) use an extension.
6 MR. ROMANO: Would you say that good 7 quality assurance by.the licensee would have them 8 oppose or disagree with a view of the inspector who 9 had quality assurance in mind?
10 MR. BOYER: That was a rather long sentence 11 and I lost it.
12 MR. ROMANO: I've heard them longer than 13 this morning.
14 MR.fBOYER: Well, maybe you can repeat it 15 again and I might be able to answer it again.
16 MR. ROMANO: I said that the licensee 17 quality assurance inspector, wouldn't you feel that 18 the licensee QC inspector would instead of disagreein< ,
19 you know, go along with the idea of the NRC 20 inspector who had determined or felt that use of the 21 broomstick and by the specific person did not 22 qualify him to make this type of weld?
23 MR. BOYER: The NRC is free to make its 24 interpretation of' requirements; and we, the applicant,
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the licensee, make our determination of. requirements.
2 Generally, there is agreement between the 3 interpretation.
4 However, in this particular case there 5 was a difference of opinion as to the interpretation 6 of the requirements. The inspector felt that the 7 particular. extension that was used should have been 8 qualified. We felt that the requirements were 9 covered'by our procedures which consisted of the 10 qualific5tions of the weld procedure and the welder.
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17 MR. ROMANO: Bat use of a broomstick'as 18 the extension was not considered proper procedure, 19 was it?
20 MR. WETTERHAN: Objection. I don't' 21 understand that question.
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2 So you're wrong, Mr. Romano.
3 MR. ROMANO: But I am being asked to 4 repeat questions all the time here. And, again, you 5 know, it doesn't seem proper.
6 MR. WETTERHAN: Did the witness understand 7 the question?
8 MR. BOYER: I understood it when he stated 9 it; but there's been so much conversation since then, 10 he'll have to repeat it.
11 MR. ROMANO: See, same thing happens to 12 me now. That's .what I think is not fair about it.
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16 MR..BOYER: I know that extensions are 17 allowed. As to whether a broomstick is appropriate 18 or not, I would have to defer to someone who was a 19 little more knowledgeable in welding technique 20 areas to make that judgment.
21 MR. ROMANO: Do you have anyone here who 22 could make that judgment?
23 MR. BOYER: Do you feel...
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6 MR. ROMANO: But is a broomstick allowed?
7 MR. CLOHECY: Use of.an approved --
8 MR. ROMANO: You're not asking (sic) the 9 question ~--
10 MR. CLOHECY: -- approved electrode holder 11 extension --
12 MR. WETTERHAN: Fine.
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14 MR. ROMANO: Is a broomstick considered 15 to be a proper extension?
16 MR. CLOHECY: I can only answer with the --
17 MR. ROMANO: I'd like a yes or no answer.
18 MR. CLOHECY: -- requirement -- is it?
19 MR. WETTERHAN: Just continue your answer 20 and finish it.
21 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. It would have to be 22 approved by engineering. They would have to 23 evaluate it.
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11 MR. BOYER: The exact person is not known.
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14 MR. CLOHECY: One or more.
15 MR. BOYER: You are trying to'go back and 16 make us recall from memory a statement -- the 17 individual who made a statement that reported in the 18 NRC Inspector Report. We cannot absolutely identify 19 the individual. So we listed'a group of individuals, 20 one of whom we believe made that statement.
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7 MR. GUTIERREZ: Excuse me, Mr. Romano.
8 I just want to reiterate -- I don' t want 9 that remark to'go unanswered -- to suggest it was 10 ever the intent of this deposition to depose NRC 11 inspectors is totally contrary to my understanding 12 what the purpose of this deposition was ever
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17 MR. WETTERHAN: Let me add two things --
18 MR. ROMANO: But, wait a minute --
19 MR. WETTERHAN: -- first of all, in a 20 telephor4e conversation we had with Mr. Romano, I 21 stated the same thing. I agree with the NRC counsel's 22 Position. And I believe as stated in the transcript 23 section which I quoted, that is clear.
24 MR. ROMANO: Well, now here we are again.
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2 MR. GUTIERREZ: I think our positions are 3 clear on the record. And you probably should ask 4 the questions to the witness.
5 MR. ROMANO: But Judge Brenner did say.I 6 could have followup questions. Now we're finding up --
7 finding out that without the NRC inspector I can't 8 proceed with followup questions. And --
9 MR. WETTERHAN: Mr. Romano --
10 MR. ROMANO:' I cannot understand how we 11 can clarify.a; dispute without the principal people 12 being here. And I think it was an obligation of j '7l 13 the NRC. inspector to be here, I would feel, for the 14 purpose of ---
15 MR. CUTIERREZ: The dispute was --
16 MR. ROMANO: -- for the purpose of --
17 MR. GUTIERREZ: -- between your organi-18 zation and the utility.
19 MR. ROMANO: But the NRC is what I said 20 earlier -- in this case in particular could have 21 been an umpire here today.-
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4 MR. ROMANO: Isn't it true, I guess Mr.
5 Clohecy, for Mr. Corcoran, that the licensee and 6
contractor -- contractor's QC were negligent in 7
permitting broomstick extensions on previous welding?
8 MR. CLOHECY: I would not say.that's true.
9 MR. ROMANO: Well, did they. allow the use 10 of broomsticks on previous -- broomstick extensions 11 on previous welding?
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16 MR. CLOHECY: What it says in the report II is that the licensee and contractor QA and QC 18 personnel later confirmed that this approach had been 19 used.
20 MR. ROMANO: Yes.
21 They later confirmed af ter it was brought 22 out by interviews with craft.
23 Why didn't they object to this use of 24 broomsticks for extension at the previous use that
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6 MR. ROMANO: Well, it states it right 7 there. ,,,,'
8 MR. CLOHECY: It says they. confirmed it.
9 MR. ROMANO: Yes, they. confirmed it 10 because th'ey had knowledge with which to confirm it.
11 MR. CLOHECY: Not necessarily prior 12 knowledge.
13 MR.. ROMANO: Well, all I get is "not 14 necessarily",; and that doesn't clarify anything.
15 I'd like.to ask: Isn't it true a Mr.
16 Ferretti was also an inspector involved with 76-06-01' 17 MR. CLOHECY: Yes.
18 MR. ROMANO: Where was he mentioned here 19 this morning in other questions asking who the 20 inspectors were?
21 MR. CLOHECY: Because it does not appear 22 that he was the one who confirmed or was questioned 23 about this approach with the electrode holder 24 extensions.
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16 MR. CLORECY: That's correct.
17 MR. ROMANO: Why did not you mention him?
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21 MR. ROMANO: I didn't ask you whether he 22 confirmed anything. I just asked you why did you 23 not state that he was involved in this 76-06-01.
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4 MR. WETTERHAN: Do you have a question 5 pending? Is there a question pending?
6 MR. GUTIERREZ: (Shaking head.)
7 MR. WETTERHAN: No?
8 MR. ROMANO: Now, I go to Interrogatory 9 No. 6, first set. This has to do with 76-06-01.
10 Is it your understanding, Mr. Clohecy, 11 that welder G. P. Auclair, who the applicant stated 12 was the welder involved in the broomstick affair, 13 was stated to be a qualified -- you stated him to be 14 a qualified welder, did you not?
15 MR. CLOHECY: That's correct.
16 MR. ROMANO: And also it was stated that 17 no unqualified welders were involved; isn't that 18 true?
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3 MR. CLOHECY: You did.
4 MR. ROMANO: No, I didn't. I'll have to 5 ask you again.
6 The NRC inspector had stated that the 7 welder was not qualified to use those extensions.
8 Not only that, the NRC inspector questioned Mr.
9 Auclair's qualifications as to whether he had been 10 qualified to do these six different kinds of 11 limited access joint welds.
12 Are you saying that, again, you differ 1 13 with the NRC inspector as to whether he was 14 qualified or not?
15 MR. CLOHECY: Are you asking whether I 16 differ with the NRC inspector?
17 MR. ROMANO: I asked you that. You 18 question --
19 MR. CLOHECY: Whether he was qualified?
20 Yes, I do differ with him.
21 MR. ROMANO: Do you have proof that Mr.
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3 MR. ROMANO: I -- wasn't answered.
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5 MR. CLOhECY: Yes, he was qualified.
6 MR. ROMANO: Would you give references to 7 where we can'get that proof, that at the time that 8 this happened and that at the time the NRC inspector 9 questioned his qualifications, that he was qualified 10 in these six different weld techniques?
11 MR.' WETTERHAN: Objection. This is beyond 12 the reasonable scope of what the Board asks for.
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16 MR. ROMANO: I feel that this is a very 17 important part.
18 Here we have a welder who the NRC has 19 stated was not gnalified to do this. The applicant 20 is stated that he was, and we would like to have 21 proof of that situation.
22 MR. WETTZRHAN: Could you state for the 23 record whether those qualifications are stored at 24 the Limerick Generating Station?
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5 MR. WETTERHAN: Objection. That's not 6 for him to provide. Discovery is open -- over. I 7
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2 MR. WETTERHAN: Applicant's understanding 3 is the same.
4 MR. ROMANO: But -- what is your name?
5 MR. GUTIERREZ: Jay Gutierrez.
6 MR. ROMANO: Mr. Gutierrez, I am not a 7 lawyer., And the limitations of even asking a 8 question are coming out here, so that I did not 9 know that I could just say "Here, put this whole 10 thing in."
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15 I think you could save some time if you realize that 16 you've attached that whole document. So I don't 17 think you had to do it each separate page.
18 MR. ROMANO: Then we will have that whole 19 document put in as an exhibit.
20 We go to Interrogatory No. --
21 MR. WETTERHAN: Off the record.
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23 MR. ROMANO: I'm going to Interrogatory 24 No. 8. I miedthe question: "Did applicant design'
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9 Then I ask: Isn't it true that proper 10 equipment was to be available to available qualified 11 ' welders to meet AWS Code?
12 MR. CLOHECY: Yes, the code says they 13 should use equipment designed and manufactured for 14 welding.
15 MR. ROMANO: That means that the use of 16 broomsticks were not considered to be proper then; 17 right?
18 MR. CLOHECY: That's not what the code 19 says.
20 MR. ROMANO: The code says that the 21 equipment has to be designed and manufactured so as 22 to meet the code, do:s it not?
23 MR. CLOHECY: It says it has to be designed 24 and manufactured for welding.
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10 MR. WETTE3HAN: Fine.
11 Listen to the' question. He does not want 12 you to look at the code.
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15 MR. WETTERHAN: Are you directing them not 16 to lock through the c9de and just , to forget that II question?
1 MR. ROMANO: Not at til. If I feel it's 19 necessary as we go on, I will then perhaps look it 20 up.
21 Now, AWS Dl-1-72 under Part 3.1.2 does 22 state that the equipment must be designed and 23 manufactured so as to enable qualified welders to 24 meet the AWS Code?
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10 MR. ROMANO: Well, that's exactly what I 11 said. It has to be designed and manufactured so to 12 enable qualified welders to meet AWS Code for 13 welding.
14 Now, then I ask again: Isn't it true that 15 proper equipment was to be available, that equipment 16 that's been just described in that code, was to be 17 available to enable qualified welders to meet AWS 18 Code?
19 MR. CLOHECY: That is a requirement of the 20 code.
21 MR. ROMANO: But I ask you: Was it to be 22 available by the applicant, contractor, whatever, to 23 enable the welders to meet AWS Code?
24 MR. CLOHECY. Yes, it --
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4 MR. ROMANO: Therefore, isn't it true that 5 the use of. equipment which is not specified, which 6 was not the proper equipment, is contrary to good 7 practice, is contrary to good practice?
8 MR. BOYER: Well, if it -- if it is-9 specifically, stated that a piece of equipment is 10 not to be used,.then if that piece of equipment were
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16 MR. ROMANO: All right. Well, then I ask:
17 Do you know whether the applicant had proper equip-18 ment to meet that code that we are discussing here?
19 MR. CLOHECY: The equipment used was 20 designed and manufactured for welding. The 21 electrode holder extension used as an aid was not 22 approved by engineering.
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17 MR. ROMANO: Then call it off.there then.
18 MR. WETTERHAN: It's entirely proper.
19 MR. ROMANO: Are you taking the witnesses 20 conferring?
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6 MR. CLOHECY: No, I wouldn't say.that.
7 MR. ROMANO: Are you saying that in spite 8 of the fact that. specific wordage is given as to the 9 manner, the type of. extension that should be had 10 when not present does not violate the code.?
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17 And now you're saying it's not required.
18 MR. CLOHECY: The code does not say that 19 extensions must be designed and manufactured.
20 MR. ROMANO: In view of the fact then that 21 the applicant did not have the proper extensions, 22 are you saying that it's okay for a welder then to 23 Pi ck up any stick or anything like that and use it 24 in the absence of.the applicant's not having the fl - - -m .__
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2 MR. CLOHECY: No, I'm not saying that.
3 MR. ROMANO: Well, then you said that he 4 could use this extension or you say that there's no 5 such specification for an extension.
6 You did say that, didn' t youI, that there's 7 no such specification?
8 MR. CLOHECY: No, I didn't say.that.
9 MR. ROMANO: All right. I'm glad we have 10 a tape recorder this morning.
11 MR. WETTERHAN: And a court reporter.
12 MR. ROMANO: And a court reporter, right.
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19 MR. CLOHECY: That's correct.
j 20 MR. BOYER: You say.you had -- we did not 21 have -- he said that we did not have on site other l 22 approved extensions, other extensions which had 23 been approved. We did not have a supply.of 24 extensions. My interpretation of.your question is
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9 MR. WETTERHAN: Objection. That is so 10 argumentative that it's not worthy,of a response.
11 I will not.have these witnesses talking about 12 indictments or anything. Just ask questions as to 13 the fact's. ' You'can make any. inference you want 14 before the. Board or in your published findings.
15 MR. ROMANO: I'll ask the question: Why 16 didn't the applicant have approved extensions on the 17 site?
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20 MR. ROMANO: Well, isn't it so that this 21 code that we've discussed here states that they had 22 to be used in these kinds of welding?
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4 MR. ROMANO: Well, he refers to the code.
5 And he refers to -- and the inspector states that 6 the use of electrode holder extensions -- the 7 inspector,. .the NRC inspector, considered that an 8 electrode holder attached to a stick did not meet 9 the requirements of the code we're talking about.
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19 MR. CLOHECY: Yes.
20 MR. ROMANO: Now, the applicant says that 21 if they need any.such equipment needed for use at 22 Limerick -- we're talking about the extensions --
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5 MR. BOYER: Well, the applicant was 6 familiar with that section of the code. The welder 7 involved in this particular weld felt that the 8 extension that he was using was appropriate.
9 As it turned out, there were some 10 deficiencies in the weld. So he had not made a 11 proper judgment. The deficiencies have not -- were s .
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16 MR. ROMANO: You say the welder took it 17 upon himself to decide to use the non-qualifying 18 extension?
19 MR. BOYER: Yes. Well, not a non-qualifyin J.
20 He felt it qualified for the work that he was to 21 Perform.
22 MR. ROMANO: Is it general that welders, 23 especially in a nuclear facility, can make the 24 decision as to whether they can modify a specificatica?
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7 Well, he did not use -- in MR. BOYER:
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3 17 MR. BOYER: I can't answer that.
18 MR. ROMANO: Can't answer it.
19 You do know that this fault -- faulty type 20 of work was brought to the attention of the 21 applicant by the NRC inspector; is that correct?
22 MR. BOYER: Yes.
23 MR. ROMAMO: Yes.
24 Do you know whether it's possible that
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5 MR. BOYER: Your statement was that it 6 was an improper procedure. In the welder's view 7 it was appropriate and proper. There was no 8 specific procedure which said that he could not use 9 that type of access to the weld.
10 MR. ROMANO: Well, I thought we went 11 through this, did we not, that the extension had to 12 be designed and manufactured so as to enable him to e
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14 And then, you'know -- and then --
15 MR..BOYER: In his opinion, he was using 16 a suitable extension.
17 MR. ROMANO: We're back again to whether 18 an individual welder can determine through his own ;
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23 MR. BOYER: That's right. It was detected --
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7 MR. BOYER: If.it's a specified procedure, 8 it would be improper.
9 MR. CLOHECY: If the welder is violating 10 a procedure, that's improper.
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16 MR. ROMANO: Right.
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19 MR. WETTERHAN: Okay. 8? You're there.
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1 21 (A five-minute recess was taken at 22 approximately 10:40 a.m.)
23 MR. ROMANO: Now, we are on Interrogatory 24 No. 9 of the first set. And I aded the question:
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15 MR. WETTERHAN: Clohecy.
16 MR. ROMANO: Clohecy for Mr. Corcoran --
17 well, now, let me see here. I have-to take a 18 second.
19 Well, I'm going to read again from Page 5 20 as to whether or not I did not -- I mischaracterized --
21 whether I mischaracterized that the licensee 22 disagreed.
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5 MR. WETTERHAN: I think he's explained --
MR. ROMANO: No. I'm asking Mr. Boyer.
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answer, or do you rest on that answer?
9 MR. BOYER: As stated in the last sentence 10 of the interrogatory, our interpretation of the II NRC report as you quote it on Page 5 --
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13 MR. WETTERHAN: No, you may not.
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17 MR. ROMANO: Well, I will repeat. I said I
that the last sentence in the response to 19 Interrogatory No. 9 which says, "The licensee's 20 representative, Mr. Corcoran, disagreed with the 21 inspector's statements on the need for certain
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24 MR. ROMANO: But the statements there of
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1 1 the NRC inspector calling attention to the non-2 qualification situations with the licensee disagreeir3, 3 he disagreed to the inspector's statement on a need 4 for certain qualifications; but he also disagreed 5 with the fact that the welder wasn't qualified --
6 you know, the welder himself.wasn't qualified. So 7 that that doesn't really. answer the whole situation 8 as far as I can see it.
9 MR. BOYER: I thought your question relatec 10 to the inspection of the -- what other welds which 11 had been identified.
12 MR. ROMANO: Well --
13 MR. BOYER: That's what Interrogatory,9 14 is referring to, and I thought you were discussing 15 Interrogatory No. 9.
16 MR. ROMANO: That's right.
17 And the inspection of the weld is 18 involved there because the NRC inspector had already 19 said that they had used improper procedure and there 20 was a dispute at that point.
21 And as a result of.the dispute, the NRC 22 inspector said, "Okay. Let's inspect that thing 23 then."
24 That infers that PE, the licensee, was
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20 I can't answer that.
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8 MR. ROMANO: The weld that -- 253, 9 Columns F, H at Wall 23.
10 MR.- CLOHECY: Okay.. Thafs two welds.
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I4 MR. CLOHECY: That's correct.
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16 both in that weld and in the procedures used by 17 the inspector, the licensee had already.known that I8 that procedure using improper extensions had been 19 used before, did he not? We already discussed that?
20 MR. CLOHECY: No, that's not correct.
21 MR. ROMANO: Well, doesn't it state there 22 that he later confirmed that the approach had been 23 used before up at the end of the first paragraph?
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2 MR. ROMANO: No. I'm referring to the 3 licensee.
4 MR. WETTERHAN: Let him answer, and then 5 you can change your question.
6 MR. CLORECY: That's not referring to the 7 procedure. That.'s. referring to the approach of 8 using an electrode holder extension.
9 MR. ROMANO: I.was discussing the 10 licensee inspector and not the procedure using 11 extensions.
I 12 MR. BOYER: Can'you point where you are 13 referring to or can you : read? None of that has to 14 do with Interrogatory No. 9, as far as I can see.
15 MR. ROMANO: Well, it has to do with the 16 weld involved-there and whether or not the licensee 17 disagree with another inspection. We are hung up 18 on the same thing we were hung up on before about 19 mischaracterization.
20 Again I have to say that I would -- my 21 questions were to be for Mr. Corcoran who I feel 22 might have been able to more precibely answer. Pnd i
23 I think Mr. Clohecy is trying to do a dood job, but 24 he isn't the one that was specifically involved here.
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3 MR. WETTERIIAN: I'd like to make a 4 statement. Mr. Clohecy's name is written under 5 Answer to Interrogatory 9, which is in the set 6 designated Discovery 15. And as far as I have heard, 7 he has been able to answer any questions that you 8 have had of him.
9 MR. ROMANO: Well, so is Mr. Corcoran's 10 name under there, and he was the inspector. And I 11 think in order that I could fully question and 12 receive answers -- as I say again, the fact that the
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15 MR. WETTERHAN: I suggest you take that up 16 with the Licensing Board.
17 MR. ROMANO: Would you say, Mr. Clohecy, 18 that what did -- how do you interpret that sentence 19 starting with "The licensee," second paragraph, 20 "The licensee disagreed"?
21 Would you read the whole sentence and tell 22 me how you interpret that?
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2 MR. ROMANO: Well, I'm going away from 3 that response now and asking you another question.
4 Would you read that question -- read that 5 statement and then tell me what your interpretation 6 of that...
7 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. "The licensee 8 disagreed, and the inspector requested that the 9 provisions" -- "that provisions be made to permit 10 his visual inspection of the limited access welds 11 performed at Elevation 253 on Steel Beam Piece No.
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13 MR. ROMANO: How do you interpret that?
14 MR. CLOHECY: Well, my interpretation is 15 as given in the Answer to Interrogatory No. 9.
16 And I would have to say that the -- you 17 have to read the sentence before that and the sentenc 3 18 after that in order to understand that sentence 19 fully.
20 The disagreement was with the need to 21 qualify the welder and procedure using the 22 electrode holder extension. There was no disagree-l 23 ment regarding the need to inspect.
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8 Doesn't that infer that there was 9 discussion on the possibility of whether that weld 10 was good or not?
11 MR. CLOHECY: No, it doesn't infer that.
12 MR. ROMANO: But why would you feel the 13 inspector immediately called -- requested that 14 Provisions be made to permit his visual inspection 15 of that weld?
16 MR. CLOHECY: I think because he wanted to 17 inspect it.
18 MR. ROMANO: But it had already been 19 inspected once, hadn't it?
20 MR. CLOllECY: Yes.
21 MR. ROMANO: Why would he want to 22 reinspect it?
23 MR. GUTIERREZ: Point of clarification. l 24 Are you asking these witnesses now questions as to
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2 MR. ROMANO: Well, I'm trying to -- I 3 don't know what you exactly mean by " motivation."
4 But I'm trying to clarify -- l 5 MR. GUTIERREZ: It's.my understanding 6 you're asking the utility witnesses to explain why 7 NRC inspectors took certain actions.
8 MR. ROMANO: Yes. And I'm doing that 9 because the NRC inspector is not here.
10 And again I say that that jeopardizes my 11 position, because I have to take time trying to get 12 around with many questions when I could ask it
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15 MR. WETTERIIAN: Why --
16 MR. GUTIERREZ: I would only stand on my 17 former explanation as to why there are no NRC 18 inspectors and only add that the report you're 19 reading from speaks for itself.
20 MR. WETTERIIAN: I would agree that my 21 interpretation is the same as Mr. Gutierrez'.
22 I have allowed this to continue because it 23 is your deposition, and I don' t personally think it 24 has any utility whatsoever. But I've allowed it to
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2 MR. ROMANO: You mean -- you mean to tell 3 me you're going to say I wouldn't be able to proceed 4 unless you agreed to it? Is that what you're saying?
5 MR. WETTERHAN: I am saying that if at all 6 useful, this is marginally useful.
7 _You're asking an applicant's witness to 8 look at an inspection report that was written by the 9 NRC and ask what was their motivation behind certain 10 actions. They can hypothesize. They can guess.
11 They can give you their feeling. That's what these 12 witnesses are doing.
' 13 My only answer to you is I don't see what 14 usefulness it plays, but it is your deposition and 15 I have not objected.
16 MR. ROMANO: Okay.
17 Do you know, Mr. Clohecy, whether or not 18 the licensee inspector was present when Bechtel's 19 quality control inspector checked off this weld as 20 being suitable?
21 MR. CLOHECY: I believe he was not.
23 MR. ROMANO: You don't know for sure, do 23 you?
21 MR. CLOHECY: There's no record that he
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5 MR. CLOHECY: It would be documented if 6 he had been.
7 MR. ROMANO: In that specific situation 8 where there was this question,.why.wasn't --
9 MR. BOYER: Clarification. Question.
10 What question?
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I 15 MR. CLOHECY: Why wasn't...
16 MR. BOYER: Mr. Romano, your question is 17 not clear. Why.wasn't he there at what particular 18 time? Are you referring to --
19 MR. ROMANO: Well, at the time that weld 20 was made and --
22 MR. ROMANO: -- reported as okay, the one 23 at 23, Column F and H at Wall 23.
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9 MR. CLOHECY: That's correct.
10 MR. BOYER: He did not have prior knowledge 11 of it at the time that the weld was conducted or at 12 the time that the --
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17 MR. CLOllECY: Yes, he confirmed it after 18 the NRC talked to craft and supervision personnel.
19 MR. ROMANO: But he had known it before,'he 20 had known it before it was brought up to the -- by 21 the NRC inspector, as it's stated there.
22 MR. CLOHECY: It does that state that there 23 MR. ROMANO: Well, it was not known by --
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6 So to me it does indicate that he did know 7 about this before, and that I feel that's improper --
8 that adds to the fact that the QC work was less than 9 what -- less than proper.
10 Well, I'm going to the third set. ,
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15 MR. ROMANO: I just want to go back to 16 No. 6 of the first set to be sure that I have this 17 in the record, that G. P. Auclair was stated to be 18 a qualified welder.
19 MR. BOYER: Yes, we -- I believe that it's 20 in this deposition already.
21 MR. ROMANO: Yes.
22 And that -- was he -- was he qualified in 23 every respect or in every technique which would be 23 involved in welding he performed?
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3 MR. ROMANO: You stated yes.
4 And that the NRC inspector's questioning 5 him about whether or not he was in fact qualified 6 for limited access welding was the inspector didn't 7 know his qualifications; is that so?
8 MR. CLOHECY: I don't understand your 9 question.
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14 Are you,.therefore, saying that the NRC 15 inspector was wrong in assuming that G. P. Auclair 16 did not have. qualifications to do that kind of 17 welding?
18 MR. BOYER: It's a matter of. interpretation.
19 MR. ROMANO: Well, the NRC inspector did 20 question the qualification of Mr. Auclair,.did he 21 not?
22 MR. BOYER: Yes.
23 MR. ROMANO: As it relates to quality 24 assurance on the-third set, Interrogatory No. 3
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5 Applicants state that "Not all welders 6 who performed deficient welds identified by.the 7 NRC as welding infractions have been identified."
8 Is that so?
9 MR..CLOHECY: Yes, that is so.
10 MR. ROMANO: They have not all been 11 identified.
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16 Is that also your understanding?
17 MR. CLOHECY: I would agree with our 18 response there in Interrogatory No. 3.
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4 MR. CLOHECY: That's correct.
5 MR. BOYER: Wait a minute. Pardon me.
6 MR. ROMANO: Do you have --
7 MR. BOYER: Pardon me.
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9 MR. CLOHECY: I would like to clarify. We 10 have not identified any. welders who were involved 11 more than once in a safety-related welding
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15 MR..BOYER: But his case would certainly 16 be reviewed.
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18 MR. ROMANO: Well, how is it that you can 19 say that welders identified by NRC as having 20 performed improper welding, that the applicant, 21 however, doesn't -- hasn't identified them?
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infractions have been identified." That means by 4 the applicant.
5 How is it that the NRC identified these 6 welders, these infractions and the applicant states 7 all those welders have not been identified?
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12 So' in certain of the balance of plant
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20 MR. CLOHECY: Okay. The NRC did not say 1
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22 I'd like to clarify that the AWS Code does 23 not require traceability --
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5 MR. ROMANO: Well, I know. That repeats 6 a question that was answered before.
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16 MR. ROMANO: Anywhere else in the plant.
17 MR. CLOHECY: I don't understand the 18 question.
19 MR. ROMANO: I'll skip the question because
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2 MR. CLOHECY: I agree with our statements 3 in Interrogatory No. 3.
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S MR. BOYER: That is not what this says.
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21 MR. BOYER: This last sentence refers to 22 the continual monitoring that is done of the 23 quality of welds produced by welders by their 24 supervisors. And if it is detected that a welder l
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8 MR. ROMANO: How do you retrain a welder 9 that has been making poor welds?
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16 MR. ROMANO: On a welder such as that 17 that you know is having trouble making proper welds, 18 do you have a program of a more precise and more 19 inclusive inspection of what that welder does?
20 MR. CLOHECY: The inspection requirements 21 would remain the same. There is a -- all welds get 22 a final inspection, all safety-related welds.
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l 2 MR. ROMANO: Well, how stringent is the 3 qualification test when a welder is found subsequent 1r 4 to be performing improper welds repeatedly?
5 MR. BOYER: We have not had improper 6 welds repeatedly.
7 MR. ROMANO: You had -- you do specify 8 that you've had welders who have more than once 9 been found to have unacceptable welding performance.
10 MR. BOYER: Where do you see that?
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8 -MR. ROMANO: Yes.
9 -Can I ask -- I do ask: Do you have any 10 welders there working who were found and records 11 show that'more than once they were performing 12 improper welds?
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15 MR. ROMANO: That is your answer --
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17 MR. BOYER: Oh, that relates to NRC 18 inspections.
19 MR. CLOHECY: Yes. Our answer relates to 20 welders involved with safety-related welding 21 infractions reporting to the -- reported by the 22 NRC. l 23 MR. ROMANO: Well, how about other than 24 reported to the NRC? Do you have -- can you state l
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4 MR. ROMANO: I say do you have records of 5
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MR. CLOHECY: Of what?
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8 g MR. CLOHECY: There have been some welders 10 who have been found to have some minor defects in..
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14 MR. ROMANO: And they are, nevertheless, 15 retrained to continue welding; is that.so?
16 MR. CLOHECY: Their performance is 17 evaluated on an individual case-by-case basis; and 18 it is determined what action should be taken, whether 39 retraining, requalification or other appropriate 20 a tion.
21 MR. ROMANO: What do you mean by "other 22 appropriate action"?
23 MR. CLOHECY: That would be determined on 24
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2 MR. ROMANO: Do you have a record of the 3 number of welders which have been discharged from 4 Limerick as a result of poor welding?
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1 7 MR. ROMANO: Where is that? _
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9 MR. CLOHECY: Yes. As we stated in 10 Interrogatory No. 4 to that same set of questions, 11 we'have identified one welder who was -- no, that 's - -
12 I'm sorry. That's not the answer I was referring to.'
13 There's another interrogatory.
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16 MR. WETTERHAN: Yes. '
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18 MR. CLOHECY: Yes. In Discovery 24, also 19 known as AWPP's twelfth set of interrogatories, l 20 Interrogatory 7K we have stated that "Bechtel Power 21 Corporation has separated, discharged or transferred 22 welders from work at Limerick for reasons such as 23 those listed above."
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2 MR. CLOHECY: Yes. "Bechtel Power 3 Corporation has separated, discharged or transferred 4
welders from work at Limerick for reasons such as 5 those listed above," which are the reasons you 6 listed in your interrogatory.
7 MR. ROMANO: How many were separated during 8 the working period?
9 MR. CLOHECY: I don't have that number 10 right now.-
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16 MR. ROMANO: . Do you have records showing 17 all -- how many such welders and what the situation 18 was for their removal?
19 MR. CLOHECY: We have records on that.
20 MR. ROMANO: Okay. I'll go to the tenth 21 set of interrogatories.
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2 MR. ROMANO: It's tenth, tenth set under 3 2A.
4 MR. WETTERHAN: Okay. Thank you.
5 MR. ROMANO: What is the procedure, Mr.
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6 It was -- right, they were the accessible 7 welds, right. _ .
8 -It was subsequently determined that'there 9 were a number of weld sheets, weld record sheets and 10 drawings that had other welds that had not yet been
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15 MR. ROMANO: Yes.
16 Well, then you said, did you not, that you 17 don't customarily.have the name of-the inspector on 18 these --
19 MR. BOYER: No. We have the name of the 20 inspector.
21 I said we do not have a file by inspectors' 22 names for every weld that he inspected. We do not 23 file them under the inspectors' names. That would 24 mean duplicate files and just a massive increase in
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2 A drawing can have a number of welds on 3 it. What? --10 to -- 5 to 20?
4 MR. CLOHECY: Yes, that many or more.
5 MR. BOYER: It can have 5 to 20 welds on 6 it. And a number of inspectors could be involved 7 with the.various welds on the drawing.
8 There is an inspection sheet attached to 9 that drawing which has a place for each of the welds 10 and for the inspector to put his initials.
11 MR. ROMANO: Well, then that was the 12 second time. .
E':l. 13 'You'would think by.the second time that 14 you weren't sure you 'would at that point know what 15 the number of welds should be, shouldn't you, after 16 the second approach to it?
17 MR. WETTERHAN: Which second approach?
18 MR. ROMANO: Well, the recount.
19 MR. BOYER: The second approach included 20 the drawings that were out in the active working 21 arena, so to speak, on field engineers' desks and 22 whatnot --
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24 MR. ROMANO: We are talking about 1976.
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7 Why wouldn't these records in 1976 summed 8
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16 MR..BOYER: I was referring to the 1976-1977 17 time frame.
18 MR. ROMANO: But then you should have had 19 the number of welds at the time you reported what 20 you thought was the number originally reported as 21 the number which he was involved with if you're 22 talking about the '76 - '77 time frame.
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9 MR. CLOHECY: Yes.
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16 MR. ROMANO: I would say why wasn't it 17 known at that time when it involved not only bad 18 welding, but it involved bad quality assurance and 19 involved false documentation of records?
20 MR. WETTERHAN:. I can't let that go by.
21 I disagree with false characterization of falsi .. .
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23 MR. ROMANO: I disagree it is a false 24 characterization because we'll read again on Page 5 i
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4 MR. WETTERHAN: He's going to clarify it 5 and withdraw it.
6 MR. ROMANO: Let me clarify..
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The QC inspector, Bechtel QC inspector 8 checked off. the weld and went beyond that and put it 9 down as having been given final quality verification.
10 then that same weld was reinspected and 11 found to be totally off,_isn't that a misstatement 1 "; 12 of fact'and isn't that falsification of. records?
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16 MR. ROMANO: Well, I say.my interpretation 17 of reading this situation that he probably never 18 ever looked at the weld because -- he is qualified 19 as an inspcctor, is he not?
20 MR. BOYER: Yes, sir.
21 MR. ROMANO: Would you think that he would 22 know a good weld from a bad weld?
23 MR. BOYER: Yes.
24 MR. ROMANO: Would you think he would know
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3 and were incomplete at the upper and lower edge of 4 the angle clip? Would you say.that it would be 5 difficult for a qualified inspector to recognize l
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7 ,MR..BOYER: I-can't really.make a statement 8 relative to that because I did not see the weld.
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18 MR. BOYER: Yes.
19 MR. ROMANO: -- do you not?
20 And you know that the NRC inspector made 21 the second inspection, do you not?
22 MR. BOYER: Yes.
23 MR. ROMANO: Would you say that the NRC 24 inspector incorrectly determined the condition of
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19 MR. GUTIERREZ: I haven't understood the 20 witness to question the qualifications of the NRC 21 inspector. l 22 MR. WETTERHAN: We don't even know even 23 if the NRC inspector's qualifications --
24 MR. ROMANO: Just a minute, Mr. Wetterhan.
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2 MR. ROMANO: Mr. Boyer, you did say.that 3 you're not sure what the applicant -- what the 4 Nuclear Regulatory inspector saw there. You can't 5 vouch for what he saw?
6 MR. BOYER: No, I can't.
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20 MR. BOYER: Well, what I'm basing my 21 statement on or - is that in this total reinspection 22 Program where we had a number of different inspectors 23 looking at a number of welds and in some cases we had 24 two or more inspectors looking at the same weld, we l
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21 MR. BOYER: Yes.
22 MR. ROMANO: -- that there may be other 23 deficient welds.
24 MR. ROMANO: That was an interim report.
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17 MR. ROMANO: Is it true, Mr. Clohecy, 18 quality control relative to audits on welding 19 activity were done with random sampling rather than 20 scientific statistical sampling?
21 MR. CLOHECY: Which audits of what welds 22 are you talking about?
23 MR. ROMANO: Well, in many of your audits --
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19 MR. ROMANO: You said you used judgment 20 at times in how many samples you take.
21 MR. CLOHECY: Yes, I answered this question 22 MR. ROMANO: And I asked you when do you 23 use -- on what basis do you use judg:nent?
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17 MR. ROMANO: Why isn't a statistical 18 procedure used rather than random judgment by an 19 ' individual?
20 MR. CLOHECY: We have used statistical 21 procedures.
22 MR. ROMANO: Why isn't it always used?
23 MR. CLOHECY: It's not' felt necessary.
24 MR. ROMANO: That's your opinion, isn't iti
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19 MR. ROMANO: I just want to ask. You had 20 stated, Mr. Boyer, in your December 15th, '76, 21 letter to James O'Reilly that the inspector involved 22 in that broomstick affair is no longer employed by 23 the contractor.
24 MR. BOYER: Right.
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23 MR. ROMANO: Do you know when?
24 MR. WETTERHAN: Do you have a date?
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17 MR. BOYER: Since he left the employment, 18 there was no need for further consic _ ion of that.
19 MR. ROMANO: Except to find out really 20 every weld he did in order to inspect it; is that 21 right?
22 MR. BOYER: That was not his function. ;
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