§285.708. What are the CVA's or project engineer's primary duties for fabrication and installation review? — Inbound Citations

(a) To comply with § 285.708(a)(3), the CVA or project engineer must make periodic onsite inspections while fabrication is in progress and must verify the following fabrication items, as appropriate:

(1) Quality control by lessee (or grant holder) and builder;

(2) Fabrication site facilities;

(3) Material quality and identification methods;

(4) Fabrication procedures specified in your FIRs and adherence to such procedures;

(5) Welder and welding procedure qualification and identification;

(6) Structural tolerances specified, and adherence to those tolerances;

(7) Nondestructive examination requirements and evaluation results of the specified examinations;

(8) Destructive testing requirements and results;

(9) Repair procedures;

(10) Installation of corrosion-protection systems and splash-zone protection;

(11) Erection procedures to ensure that overstressing of structural members does not occur;

(12) Alignment procedures;

(13) Dimensional check of the overall structure, including any turrets, turret-and-hull interfaces, any mooring line and chain and riser tensioning line segments, and tendon or tethering systems; and

(a) To comply with § 285.708(a)(4), the CVA or project engineer must make periodic onsite inspections while installation is in progress and must, as appropriate, verify, witness, survey, or check the installation and commissioning of items required by this section.

(2) Your CVA submits the project verification report, as described in § 285.708(a)(5), including information required by § 285.708(b)(1), or interim report(s), as described in § 285.712(a) for facilities installed prior to commencing commercial operations;

(c) You must provide BSEE with the location of these records, as required in §§ 285.701(c) and (d), 285.702(c) and (d), 285.703(b), and 285.708(a)(5) and (7).

(3) Your CVA submits the Critical Safety Systems and Equipment commissioning records, as described in § 285.708(a)(6) or interim report(s), as described in § 285.712(a), for facilities installed prior to commencing commercial operations; and

(c) You must provide BSEE with the location of these records, as required in §§ 285.701(c) and (d), 285.702(c) and (d), 285.703(b), and 285.708(a)(5) and (7).

(2) Your CVA submits the project verification report, as described in § 285.708(a)(5), including information required by § 285.708(b)(1), or interim report(s), as described in § 285.712(a) for facilities installed prior to commencing commercial operations;