On October 19, 2016, the NRC issued a Severity Level III Notice of Violation to Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. for a violation of 10 CFR 50.9, "Completeness and accuracy of information." This violation involved the licensee's failure to provide information to the Commission that was complete and accurate in all material respects. The issue was the result of the mismanagement of information by Edwin I Hatch Nuclear Plant (HNP) personnel which resulted in losing track of the type of configuration that had been implemented to deal with intergranular stress corrosion cracking in 1988. The NRC used this inaccurate information to approve HNP's proposed alternative to American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code and deferral of nondestructive examinations required by ASME Code.