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AGENDA
STANDARDS COMMITTEE on
NUCLEAR QUALITY ASSURANCE (NQA)
Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown 215 W. South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 United States
8:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Thursday, October 19, 2017
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NQA Standards Committee AGENDA
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1.0 CALL TO ORDER/OPENING REMARKS/INTRODUCTIONS
The general session is scheduled to be called to order at 8:00 a.m.
2.0 RECORD OF ATTENDANCE 3.0 APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 6, 2017 MEETING MINUTES
Chair to review any changes and call a vote to approve. 4.0 ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Chair to review any changes, call for new items of business, and call a vote to adopt.
5.0 AWARDS
Award presentations (as applicable).
6.0 PERSONNEL ACTIONS
6.1 Appointments/Reappointments/Resignation/Etc.
Brief Summary of Standards Committee membership actions taken in closed session
The Subcommittee chairs are requested to introduce any new appointed members for their Subcommittee.
6.2 Balance of Interest
Page 10 contains the current balance of interest for the Standards Committee. The Chair requests the members to identify any change in their balance of interest.
6.3 BNCS Nominations
7.0 SPECIAL ISSUES AND TOPICS
7.1 Future NQA-1 Editions
7.2 Update on Certification Activity
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8.0 BNCS REPORT
8.1 June 2017 meeting Pittsburgh 8.2 September 2017 meeting San Diego
9.0 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
Summary of Actions/Topics from this Meeting. 10.0 SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS AND IWG REPORTS
PowerPoint presentations should include the following, as applicable: Subcommittee’s status of TPN’s and associated ballots. Any additional SC information. 10.1 Subcommittee on Applications
10.2 Subcommittee on Assessment & Verification
10.3 Subcommittee on Engineering & Procurement Processes
10.4 Subcommittee on Interface & Administration
10.5 Subcommittee on International Activity
10.6 Europe International Working Group
10.7 Subcommittee on Program Management Processes
10.8 Subcommittee on Software Quality Assurance
10.9 Subcommittee on Waste Management
11.0 TPN Accepted for Subcommittee work since the April 6, 2017 Meeting
TPN # 17-06 to review wording in Section 300 of Subpart 3.1-15.1 Implementing Guidance for Part I with Requirement 15: Control of Nonconforming Items to ensure specific consistency with the text in Requirement 15 Part I, 2017 Edition. SC-A&V TPN approved under Record # 17-794, Standards Committee Ballot # 17-1044.
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Ballot # 17-1044 closed 4/13/17. Proposal will be developed under Record # 17-2097 (instead of Record #17-1533). TPN # 17-07 to evaluate the applicability and adequacy of the software quality assurance requirements and guidance of NQA-1-2015 SC-SQA TPN was approved under Record # 16-2904, Standards Committee Ballot # 17-1438. Ballot # 17-1438 closed 5/31/17. Proposal will be developed under Record # 17-1534. TPN # 17-08 to revise PMP Parts III and IV SC-PMP TPN was approved under Record # 17-863, Standards Committee Ballot # 17-1715. Ballot # 17-1715 closed 6/17/17. Proposal will be developed under Record # 17-1648.
TPN # 17-09 to perform a periodic review of A&V Subcommittee requirements to identify potential improvements, validate requirements, and propose needed changes for Committee consideration. SC-A&V TPN was approved under Record # 17-1758, Standards Committee Ballot
# 17-2103RC1. Ballot # 17-2103RC1 closed 8/23/17. Proposal will be developed under Record # 17-2418.
TPN # 17-10 to develop guidance on methods and documentation of corrective action trending. The guidance may be proposed as a new Part III Subpart 3.1-16.2. SC-A&V TPN was approved under Record #17-1887, Standards Committee Ballot #17-2259. Ballot #17-2259 closed 8/16/17. Proposal will be developed under Record # 17-2419.
12.0 INQUIRIES (D. SPARKMAN)
Subcommittee on Applications
None
Subcommittee on Assessment & Verification
Record # 15-2265 Established: 10/06/15 PM: E. Groover Subject: Electronic tagging for identifying non-conforming items Status: 1) Determined to be an intent interpretation. SC to draft a TPN to
address Requirement 15; 2) Contact inquirer to determine whether they want to wait until Requirement 15 is addressed or directly answer inquiry as is.
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Record # 16-1716 Established: 7/19/16 PM: J. Ice Subject: Lead Auditor Status: Letter Issued August 24, 2017. ITEM COMPLETE
Record # 17-252 Established: 1/26/17 PM: R. Symes
Subject: Internal Audit - Auditor Independence Status: Letter Issued July 26, 2017. ITEM COMPLETE
Record # 17-1856
Established: 7/24/17 Subject: Interpretation Impact
Status: Inquiry 17-1856 was reviewed by the NQA Interpretation Special Working Group, and was determined to not be a proper inquiry. Inquirer Jerry Ice was contacted by email, and was asked to reframe the question with specific reference to an applicable Code requirement. ITEM CLOSED
Subcommittee on Engineering & Procurement Processes
Record # 15-1189 Established: 5/19/15 PM: W. Ware Subject: Commercial Grade Survey, Part II, Subpart 2.14, Section 603 Status: Letter Issued September 21, 2017. ITEM COMPLETE
Record # 15-2239
Established: 9/30/15 PM: M. Vann Mitchell Subject: Design Process Status: Letter Issued June 7, 2017. ITEM COMPLETED
Record # 16-274
Established: 2/05/16 PM: W. Ware Subject: Material & Analytical Testing Status: Standards Committee Ballot # 16-3395 closed 12/05/16 with 3
negatives. Comments responses resulted in 2 negatives withdrawn. Subcommittee to decide whether to wait for the last negative to be withdrawn or to recirculate the proposal.
Record # 16-1843
Established: 8/05/16 PM: P. Anderson Subject: Inquiry on NDE Controls Status: Was identified on the 4/06/17 meeting agenda as a SC-AV item. SC-
AV however did not find the inquiry to be related to their work and transferred the inquiry to SC-EPP.
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Record # 16-1963 Established: 8/17/16 PM: W. Ware Subject: Certificate of Conformance Status: Letter Issued September 21, 2017. ITEM COMPLETED
Record # 16-2920
Established: 11/28/16 PM: W. Ware Subject: Technical Evaluation for Commercial Grade Items Status: Inquiry TG concluded the inquiry to be consulting in nature pending
Subcommittee approval. Secretary’s Note – 5/03/17, B. Blyth forwarded to W. Ware and SC-EPP. Thought to be similar to Inquiry # 16-1669.
Record # 17-426
Established: 2/15/17 PM: D. Vickery Subject: Procurement document review Status: As per request of Inquirer Rusty DeKleine via email on 8/15/17,
ITEM WITHDRAWN 8/24/17
Record # 17-732 Established: 3/21/17 PM: R. Czuba
Subject: Design Inputs Status:
Record # 17-778
Established: 3/28/17 PM: T. Rezk Subject: Subpart 2.2 regarding receipt inspections Status: Recently assigned to the Subcommittee. Under development.
Record # 17-1977
Established: 8/07/17 PM: P. Kilroy
Subject: Foreign Material Exclusion (FME) Status: Went out for SC-EPP Ballot on 9/08/17
Record # 17-2070
Established: 8/14/17 PM: R. Czuba
Subject: Applicability of Requirements Status:
Subcommittee on Interface & Administration
Subcommittee on International Activity
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Europe International Working Group
Subcommittee on Program Management Processes
Record # 16-763 Established: 3/24/16 PM: A. Appleton Subject: Subcontract of Auditing Status: SC-PMP concluded the request was not a valid inquiry.
May 4th: NQA Secretary notified the Inquirer. May 5th: BPV III Secretary asked inquirer to rephrase and resubmit an interpretation request based on BPV III. ITEM CLOSED
Record # 16-878
Established: 4/07/16 PM: R. Blyth Subject: QA Program development Status: Ballot # 17-752 closed with 2 negatives. Responses to comments
resulted in 1 negative withdrawn. Subcommittee to decide whether to wait for the last negative to be withdrawn or to recirculate the proposal.
Record # 16-2780
Established: 11/11/16 PM: D. Vickery Subject: Uncertainty/tolerance of M&TE Status: Letter Issued 7/28/17. ITEM COMPLETE.
Record # 16-3045 Established: 12/11/16 PM: D. Vickery Subject: Supplier Evaluation Status: As per request of Inquirer Byung-Sup Song on 8/6/17,
ITEM WITHDRAWN 8/8/17
Record # 17-730 Established: 3/21/17 PM: A. Cole Subject: QA Records Storage Facility
Status: Record # 17-1799
Established: 7/17/17 PM:
Subject: Storage Temperature Requirements Status: Chuck Smolens requested to withdraw his inquiry via email due to
Mr. Jefferson's reworded 17-1833 inquiry being equivalent to Chuck's 17-1799 inquiry. ITEM WITHDRAWN 8/21/17
Record # 17-1833
Established: 7/20/17
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PM: M. Cox & P. Anderson Subject: Storage Areas
Status: Went out for SC- PMP & SC-EPP Ballot # 17-2655 on 9/08/17
Subcommittee on Software Quality Assurance
Record # 16-1862 Established: 8/09/16 PM: P. Diepolder Subject: Applicability to personnel testing computer programs Status: SC-SQA Ballot #17-2279 closed on 9/6/17. Ballot comments are
being addressed.
Record # 17-1828 Established: 7/19/17 PM: M. Concepcion-Robles
Subject: Software Engineering Status: Went out for SC-SQA Ballot #17-2764 on 9/19/17
Subcommittee on Waste Management
Other Open Inquiries
Record # 17-2361 Established: 9/18/17
Subject: Nonconformance Report Status:
13.0 GOVERNMENTAL AND REGULATORY ORGANIZATION REPORTS
Written reports are requested for inclusion in the minutes.
13.1 NRC
13.2 DOE
13.3 IAEA
13.4 DNFSB
14.0 COMMITTEES AND STANDARD ORGANIZATION REPORTS
Written reports are requested for inclusion in the minutes.
14.1 ASQ See Page 11
14.2 ANS See Page 12
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14.3 ISO See Page 13
14.4 ASME Section III, General Requirements 14.5 NEI
14.6 AIA
14.7 NITSL See Pages 14-17
14.8 EPRI
14.9 ASTM 14.10 NIRMA 14.11 Nuclear Industry Assessment Committee
14.12 NUPIC 15.0 PREVIOUS ISSUES AND ASSIGNMENTS
16.0 NEW BUSINESS 17.0 ANNOUNCEMENTS
17.1 Business or Professional Announcements
18.0 ACTION ITEM SUMMARY FROM MEETING Taunia Van Valkenburg to provide a recap of the day’s activity and assignments.
19.0 PDH The Profession Development Hour sign-in sheet will be circulated for Standards Committee member credit. 20.0 FUTURE MEETINGS
20.1 Next NQA Meeting
20.2 Related Meetings 21.0 ADJOURNMENT
The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 1:30 p.m.
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O10500000
Standards Committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance
Total Membership - 35
AA
R. Jolly - Bechtel Power Corporation 1
T. Muraki - Advanced Technology 2
D. Prigel - Black Eagle Energy Inc. 3
J. Yanek - Fluor 4
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J. McIntyre - Sargent & Lundy 1
R. Sacco - SHINE Medical Technologies 2
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J. Adkins - Nuclear Quality Consultant 1
K. Ake - The Shelby Group LLC 2
H. Kirschenmann - Portage Inc. 3
N. Moreau - Theseus Professional Svces LLC 4
C. Moseley - 5
W. Sowder - Quality Management Services Co., LLC 6
R. Symes - 7
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R. Schrotke - Ron Schrotke, LLC 1
M. Tannenbaum - Electric Power Research Institute 2
T. Van Valkenburg - Los Alamos National Laboratory 3
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N. Barker - 1
W. Bryan - ANSYS Inc. 2
J. DeKleine - Axion Technical Services LLC 3
M. Hayse - Independent Consultant 4
C. Martin - National Security Technologies, LLC 5
K. Morrell - NSTec 6
M. Nicol - EnergySolutions, Inc. 7
G. Szabatura - AREVA Inc 8
AO
J. Bergstrom - Bergstrom Consulting 1
D. Brown - Sargent & Lundy, LLC 2
G. Danielson - US Department of Energy 3
T. Dunn - Performance Development Corp 4
K. Rhoads - Dominion 5
M. Smith - Nuclear Innovation North America 6
D. Sparkman - Sparkman & Associates, LLC 7
W. Ware - Southern Nuclear Operating Co. 8
D. Winchester - PSEG Nuclear 9
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W. Horton - Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board 1
R. McIntyre - US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2
Non-Voting Members
Duli C. Agarwal, PE
Joe W. Anderson, PE
Sidney Bernsen, Ph.D.
Robert Lee Blyth
Milton Concepcion-Robles
James A. Perry, PE
Tallapragada V. Sarma
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REPLY TO: Charles H. Moseley, Jr 1321 Heritage Heights Lane Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587 919-435-8105; 919-435-8105(Fax) longgray65@nc.rr.com
ASQ Liaison Report Cincinnati, Ohio
April 6, 2017
Infrastructure and Process Improvements
ANSI performed their reaccreditation audit in December 2014. A revision was submitted to ANSI to close out the audit. ANSI approved the Standards Committee Operating Manual on July 2, 2015. This places ASQ in an excellent position as a Standards Development Organization for the next three years.
The national ASQ Standards Committee Vice Chair is assigned the responsibility for maintaining the ASQ Operating Manual. This position is currently filled by the Energy and Environmental Standards Chair.
Energy and Environmental Division Standards
Work to revise ANSI/ASQC E1, Quality Program Guidelines for Project Phase of Nonnuclear Power Generation Facilities has been suspended. There is no current schedule. A new champion has been identified.
The EED Standards Chair informed the Division that some utilities have asked ASQ to “dust off” the draft of ANSI/ASQC E3, Quality Guidelines for Commercial Operations Phase of Nonnuclear Power Facilities, but no action has been taken.
ANSI/ASQC E2 -1996. Guidelines for Inspection Planning has not been active for over twenty years.)
ANSI/ASQC E4, Quality Systems for Environmental Data and Technology Programs, was reviewed and approved by ANSI and was published in February of 2014. We have a few more years before having to decide the next course of action
Actions are taking place to revise the ASQC Quality Auditor’s Handbook that was last published by ASQC in 1986. This handbook was very popular in the mid- eighties and could be useful to utilities in the struggling nuclear renascence as well as international users. A late 2014 survey of utilities by the undersigned found little current interest. Many organizations still use the 1980s document to train their auditors and there is a lot of interest in revising it for international users.
Personnel
The undersigned serves as Vice Chair of the National ASQ Standards Committee. His current term will expire in December 2017.
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. Moseley, Jr.
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ANS Liaison Report REPLY TO:
Salt Lake City Utah Charles H. Moseley, Jr
October 19, 2017 1321 Heritage Heights Lane Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587
919-435-8105; 919-435-8105(Fax) longgray65@nc.rr.com
This report is from the liaison representative from ANS to ASME NQA who also serves as the ASME NQA liaison to the ANS Standards Board. ANS 3.2 Activity ANSI 18.7/ ANS3.2 Management, Administrative, and Quality Assurance Controls for the Operational Phase of Nuclear Power Plants is the main ANS standard of interest to the NQA committee. It was last published in 2012 There are four NQA Main committee members on the existing 3.2 working group so communications are very effective. The 2012 edition provides the Managerial, Administrative and QA controls necessary to implement 10CFR 50 Appendix B for operating Nuclear Power Plants. The revision references NQA-1 2008/2009 in many places as the standard for the implementation of the Quality Assurance requirements. (Over seventy operating nuclear units were represented on the WG.) The NRC issued Revision 3 to Regulatory Guide 1.33 in June 2013. (The last draft of Regulatory Guide 1.33 was issued for comment in 1983.) This was a major step forward in achieving consistent quality requirements for the nuclear industry. The Working Group decided to Reaffirm the NRC endorsed 2012 edition. Balloting was successful and ANSI approved the Reaffirmation in April 2017. A number of personnel changes in the Working Group will occur prior to the next required action. Other ASNS Quality Related Standards ANSI/ANS-15.2, Quality Control for Plate-type Uranium-aluminum Fuel Elements was reaffirmed in September 2016 as an alternative to revision. The intent is to revise the document to address new emerging materials prior to the next scheduled Standards action in 2021. ANSI/ANS-15.8-1995, Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Research Reactors was Reaffirmed in 2013. No action is planned for this year. Both standards are formatted in the eighteen criteria and are consistent with NQA-Part 1.
C. H. Moseley, Jr. ANS Standards Board Member ANS LLW Reactors Member ANS 3.2 Member
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ISO 19443, a Quality Management Standard for the Nuclear Supply Chain ASTM International administers the Nuclear Technical Advisory Group (NTAG) which provides all US support to the ISO Technical Committee 85 - Nuclear Energy (ISO/TC 85). The NTAG is responsible for the US review and balloting of all standards developed by ISO/TC 85. ISO/TC 85/Working Group 4 (ISO/WG 85/WG 4) has been working for several years developing ISO 19443, a quality management standard for the nuclear supply chain. The 7th meeting of the ISO/TC 85/WG 4 was hosted by the IAEA in Vienna, Austria from July 17 to July 21. Doug Brown and Don Prigel participated via Skype. All DIS (Draft International Standard) comments (including IAEA comments and positions) were considered and an overall review and revision of the draft was performed. The US had not offered any formal comments to the DIS version, but regardless, input from the US delegation was sought (and sometimes offered extemporaneously) on numerous issues. The US feedback was received positively and improved the resultant draft. The WG unanimously agreed with the content of the updated document and that it be promoted forward to Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) status. The scope of the standard has been contentious from the beginning and dominated discussion during many of the early WG meetings. Many of the participating countries have worked hard on the scope statement, and the French in particular compromised significantly from their original position. The IAEA asked for additional time to review the FDIS version approved by the WG, and the WG agreed to receive an updated IAEA position on or before September 1st. The IAEA subsequently concurred with the FDIS and the FDIS entered the approval cycle on September 1, beginning with final formatting and translation followed by a submittal for voting by the TC 85 countries. The next WG meeting is planned from December 11th to the 15th to address guidance material and conformity assessment requirements. The meeting location will be either UK - London (premises to be defined later) or FRANCE - Paris (premises to be defined later). The WG has already begun developing guidance on a number of topics. This work will continue at the December meeting. Since ISO 19443 will be an ISO conformity assessment standard (involving certification by third parties), the ISO Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO) will begin liaison with the WG to endure a consistent and harmonized approach to implementation of ISO 19443.
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