ML20210E920

Notice of Nonconformance from Insp on 861020-24

ML20210E920
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Issue date:	02/06/1987
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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ML20210E907	List: ML20210E903 ML20210E920 ML20210E937
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REF-QA-99900015 NUDOCS 8702100397
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APPENDIX A l I

Capital Pipe and Steel Products, Inc.

Docket No. 99900015/86-01 NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE Based on the results of the NRC inspection conducted on October 20-24, 1986, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements.

Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states: " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings. Instructions, procedures or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."

Nanconformances with these requirements are as follows:

A. Section 10.4.2 of the Capitol Pipe Quality System Manual (QSM) states,

" Specific corrective action measures will be documented on the noncon-formance report and approved by the Q.A. Supervisor. The Q.A. Supervisor will sign off the report verifying that the corrective action measures have been completed."

Contrary to the above, the following Nanconformance Reports (NCR) were signed off as complete (dispositioned) when one or more required mechanical or chemical tests were not performed, or had a value not meeting specifi-cation requirements: (86-01-01) ,

1. NCR 4-N-86 (heat no. W159) was dispositioned after having two complete sets of mechanical tests and chemical analyses per-formed. The material failed a material hardness test, yet this failure was not transcribed to or otherwise noted on the NCR.

2. NCR 6-N-86 (heat no. W557) was dispositioned with only one retest performed. The purchasing utility (Tennessee Valley Authority -

TVA) had invoked the reouirements of ASTM A-500 on their purchase order, one of which specifies that twice the number of failed tests must be successfully repeated before the material can be accepted.

Since two tensile tests had failed to meet specification, four successful retests should have been performed instead of the single successful retest. The NCR had no entry noting jhe requirements of ASTM A-530 needed to disposition it.

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3. NCR 29-N-86 (heat no. W292) was dispositioned with only one retest performed. Since the requirements of ASTM A-530 were applicable (see item 2 above), two successful retests should have been per-formed to adequately disposition this NCR. In addition, no entry was found to note the special requirements of ASTM A-530 were in effect.

B. Section 6.6.5(d) of the Capital Pipe QSM states, " Purchase Orders for nuclear materials shall contain the following information as a minimum:

Provisions of 10 CFR 21 apply."

Contrary to the above, purchase orders for mechanical and chemical testing for material supplied to nuclear customers did not specify that the requirements of 10 CFR Part 21 were aplicable to the testing services supplied. (86-01-02)

C. Section 7.3.2 of the Capitol Pipe QSM states, in part, "All manufacturer's Certified Material Test Reports, Data Reports or Certificates of Compliance are reviewed and approved by the Quality Assurance Department for conformance to specification and order requirements.

This approval is indicated by stamping the document with a Q.A. stamp and dating."

Contrary to the above, two purchase orders for mechanical testing by an outside laboratory specified a 28% elongation requirement, while the governing material specifications (ASTM A-376 and ASME SA-376) called for 35% longitudinal and 25% transverse elongation. No evidence was found to document the difference between the value shown on the p(urchase 86-01-03) orders and those of the governing material specifications.

D. Section 4.8.1 of the Capitol Pipe QSM states, in part, "At the time of shipment of material to the customer, all required documentation is compiled by the Quality Assurance Department."

Contrary to the above, TVA Purchase Order D-38279-00N contained a

! requirenent to perforn chemical analyses for the nitrogen and cobalt content of material supplied under their Attachment FS (independent f analysis of foreign supplied material), but such analyses were not performed. (86-01-04) l E. Secticn 12.4.5 of the Capitol Pipe QSM states, in part, "The results of the vendor's corrective action must be received by the CA Department, in writing, within a specified time period."

l Contrary to the above, a review of audit files showed two suppliers had not taken corrective action to findings identified by' Capitol Pipe during their audit. One of the audits having an overdue corrective action response was performed in 1982; the other audit was perforr:ed in 1985. (86-01-05) l

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