ML063560048

Senior Reactor and Reactor Operator Initial Examinations - (Three Mile Island)

ML063560048
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	12/21/2006
From:	Marvin Sykes Division of Reactor Safety I
To:	Crane C AmerGen Energy Co
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December 21, 2006 Mr. Christopher M. Crane President and CEO AmerGen Energy Company, LLC 200 Exelon Way, KSA 3-E Kennett Square, PA 19348

SUBJECT:

SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATIONS -

(THREE MILE ISLAND)

Dear Mr. Crane:

In a telephone conversation on December 21, 2006 between Mr. Joseph Murray, Operations Training Manager, and Mr. Joseph DAntonio, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Three Mile Island during the weeks of April 23 and April 30, 2007.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 9 of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The NRCs regional office will discuss with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examinations are administered.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the examination outlines by February 5, 2007. The written examinations, operating tests, and the supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 2 of ES-201 will be due by March 5, 2007.

Pursuant to Title 10, Section 55.40(b)(3), of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 55.40(b)(3)), an authorized representative of the facility licensee shall approve the outlines, examinations, and tests before they are submitted to the NRC for review and approval. All materials should be complete and ready-to-use.

We request that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or safeguards information in your response be contained in a separate enclosure and marked appropriately. Any delay in receiving the required examination and reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled.

In order to conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, it will be necessary for your staff to provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402, and to make the simulation facility available on the dates noted above. In accordance with ES-302, your staff should retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures, and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination results are final.

Appendix E of NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered.

C. M. Crane To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval number 3150-0090), medical certifications (OMB approval number 3150-0024),

and waiver requests (if any) (OMB approval number 3150-0090) at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the applications are not received at least 30 days before the examination date, a postponement may be necessary. Signed applications certifying that all training has been completed should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.

This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by the OMB, under approval number 3150-0018, which expires on June 30, 2009. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 500 hours0.00579 days <br />0.139 hours <br />8.267196e-4 weeks <br />1.9025e-4 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, writing the examinations, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments on any aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Information and Records Management Branch (T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail at BJS1@nrc.gov; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0018), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503.

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page of the NRCs public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Murray has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. DAntonio at (610) 337-5085, or me at (610) 337-5046.

Sincerely,

/RA by R. McKinley for/

Marvin D. Sykes, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No.: 50-289 (Unit 1)

License No.: DPR-50 (Unit 1)

C. M. Crane cc:

Chief Operating Officer, AmerGen Site Vice President - TMI Unit 1, AmerGen Plant Manager - TMI, Unit 1, AmerGen Regulatory Assurance Manager - TMI, Unit 1, AmerGen Director Licensing - AmerGen Manager Licensing - TMI, AmerGen Senior Vice President - Nuclear Services, AmerGen Vice President - Mid-Atlantic Operations, AmerGen Vice President - Operations Support, AmerGen Vice President - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, AmerGen Vice President - General Counsel and Secretary, AmerGen T. ONeill, Associate General Counsel, Exelon Generation Company J. Fewell, Esq., Assistant General Counsel, Exelon Nuclear Correspondence Control Desk - AmerGen Chairman, Board of County Commissioners of Dauphin County Chairman, Board of Supervisors of Londonderry Township R. Janati, Director, Bureau of Radiation Protection, State of PA J. Johnsrud, National Energy Committee E. Epstein, TMI-Alert (TMIA)

D. Allard, PADEP

Distribution:

A. R. Blough, DRS J. DAntonio, DRS, Chief Examiner DRS Master Exam File ©. Bixler) (w/concurrences)

M. Sykes, DRS DRS file Distribution w/encl: (via e-mail)

S. Collins, RA M. Dapas, DRA R. Bellamy, DRP R. Fuhrmeister, DRP D. Kern, DRP, Senior Resident Inspector B. Sosa, RI OEDO H. Chernoff, NRR F. Saba, PM, NRR J. Boska, NRR D. Kern, SRI - TMI J. Brand, RI - TMI C. LaRegina, ORA Region I Docket Room (with concurrences)

ROPreports@nrc.gov (All Inspection Reports)

SUNSI Review Complete: JMD (Reviewers Initials)

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