On March 8, 2001, a Notice of Violations and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $5,500 was issued for two Severity Level III violations. The first violation (assessed the full penalty) involved the failure to use pipeliner radiography devices in a manner described in a 1999 exemption granted by the NRC. The second violation involved the failure to perform radiation surveys following radiographic exposures using pipeliner radiography devices.