ML20147B914
| ML20147B914 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 08/16/1978 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Niehaus P WILLIAM POWELL CO. |
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| ML20147B920 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900057 NUDOCS 7810110221 | |
| Download: ML20147B914 (2) | |
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%.** 16 AUG 1978 Docket No. 99900057/78-01 The William Powell Company ATTN: Mr. Paul Niehaus Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing 2503 Spring Grove Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45213 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. R. E. Oller of this office on July 25-28, 1978, of your Plant 2 facility at Cincinnati, Ohio, associated with the manufacture of nuclear valves and to the dis-cussions of our findings with Mr.' E. E. Winterfeldt and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented. The inspection effort is not designed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a customer are being implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your customers, is of acceptable quality. As you knov, the NRC requires each of its licensees to assume full, respon-sibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others. You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exempts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking effective corrective action in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findi.ngs are discussed in the enclosed report.
Within these areas, the inspection consisted of an examination of pro-cedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and obser-vations by the inspector.
During the inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA Program failed to meet certain NRC requirements. The specific findings and references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
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The William Powell Company Please provide us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a written statement containing, (1) a descri or will be taken to correct these items, (2)ption of steps of a description that have steps been that have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence, and (3) the date your ,
corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
Steps to correct Items A.2 and A.3 of the Notice of Deviation were
4 completed prior to the conclusion of this inspection. Therefore these items need not be addressed in the written statement discussed above, except to state corrective action to prevent recurrence.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room. If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withhold such information from public disclosure. Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is claimed that the information is proprietary, and should be -
prepared so that proprietary information identified in the application is contained in a separate part of the document. If we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be plear,ed to discuss them with you.
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U. Potapovs, Chiefj Vendor Inspection Branch . ,
Enclesures:
- 1. Notice of Deviation
- 2. Inspection Report No. 99900057/78-01 cc: Mr. E. E. Winterfeldt, Corporate QA Manager 6
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