ML090750681

Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000275/2010301 and 05000323/2010301

ML090750681
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	03/16/2009
From:	Ryan Lantz Operations Branch IV
To:	Conway J Pacific Gas & Electric Co
References
05000275/10-301, 05000323/10-301
Download: ML090750681 (5)

See also: IR 05000275/2010301

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UNITED STATES

NUC LE AR RE G UL AT O RY C O M M I S S I O N

R E GI ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD , SU I TE 400

AR LI N GTON , TEXAS 76011-4125

March 16, 2009

John T. Conway

Senior Vice President &

Chief Nuclear Officer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

P. O. Box 3

Mail Code 104/6/601

Avila Beach, CA 93424

SUBJECT: DIABLO CANYON, UNITS 1 AND 2 - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL

OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000275/2010301 AND

05000323/2010301

Dear Mr. Conway:

In a telephone conversation on February 18, 2009, between Messrs. Ronald Fortier and

Gabriel Apger, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing

examinations at Diablo Canyon during the weeks of January 11 and January 18, 2010.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff and the staff of the U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC) will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in

NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 9,

Supplement 1, and NUREG-1122, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant

Operators, Revision 2, Supplement 1.

The staff of the NRC will prepare the written examination. Your staff will be given the opportunity

to review the written examinations before on-site validation.

The staff of the NRC will prepare two administrative, two simulator/control room and two in-plant

job performance measures for the operating test. The staff of the NRC will also develop two

simulator scenarios. Following preparation of portions of the operating tests by the NRC, the

staff of the NRC will turn the operating tests over to your staff to complete the preparation and

draft submittal of the entire operating test. 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, the staff of the NRC will develop the examination outlines. Your

staff have already provided the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201. The

operating tests will be due by October 16, 2009. 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

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licensee shall approve the tests before they are submitted to the NRC for review and approval.

All materials shall 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 appropriately marked. Any delay in receiving the required tests, or the submittal

of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled. In

addition, your support for on-site validation of the examinations is required during the week of

November 30, 2009.

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 to 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.

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary operator and

senior 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 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 regarding this

burden estimate or any other aspect of these information collections, including suggestions for

reducing the burden, to the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch (T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to

INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.

The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an

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.

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Fortier has been advised of the policies and

guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRCs examination

procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Apger at 817-276-6508, or myself at 817-860-

8159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

BWStapleton for

Ryan E. Lantz, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Dockets: 50-275; 50-323

Licenses: DPR-80; DPR-82

DISTRIBUTION:

Sierra Club San Lucia Chapter

ATTN: Andrew Christie

P. O. Box 15755

San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Nancy Culver

San Luis Obispo

Mothers for Peace

P. O. Box 164

Pismo Beach, CA 93448

Chairman

San Luis Obispo County

Board of Supervisors

1055 Monterey Street, Suite D430

San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

Truman Burns\Robert Kinosian

California Public Utilities Commission

505 Van Ness Ave., Rm. 4102

San Francisco, CA 94102

Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee

Attn: Robert R. Wellington, Esq.

Legal Counsel

857 Cass Street, Suite D

Monterey, CA 93940

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Director, Radiological Health Branch

State Department of Health Services

P. O. Box 997414 (MS 7610)

Sacramento, CA 95899-7414

City Editor

The Tribune

3825 South Higuera Street

P. O. Box 112

San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-0112

James D. Boyd, Commissioner

California Energy Commission

1516 Ninth Street (MS 31)

Sacramento, CA 95814

James R. Becker, Site Vice President &

Station Director

Diablo Canyon Power Plant

P. O. Box 56

Avila Beach, CA 93424

Jennifer Tang

Field Representative

United States Senator Barbara Boxer

1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240

San Francisco, CA 94111

Chief, Radiological Emergency Preparedness Section

FEMA Region 9

1111 Broadway, Suite 1200

Oakland, CA 94607-4052

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Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Chuck.Casto@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Dwight.Chamberlain@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Roy.Caniano@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Michael.Peck@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Tony.Brown@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Vincent.Gaddy@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (Rick.Deese@nrc.gov)

DC Site Secretary (Agnes.Chan@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Team Leader, DRP/TSS (Chuck.Paulk@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

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SUNSI Rev Compl. Yes No ADAMS Yes No Reviewer Initials GWA

Publicly Avail Yes No Sensitive Yes No Sens. Type Initials GWA

OE:OB C:OB

GWApger BWStapleton for

RELantz

/RA/ /RA/

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