ML092960620

Operating Corporation - Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000482-09-302

ML092960620
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	10/20/2009
From:	Ryan Lantz Operations Branch IV
To:	Muench R Wolf Creek
References
50-482/09-302
Download: ML092960620 (4)

See also: IR 05000482/2009302

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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

October 20, 2009

Rick A. Muench, President and

Chief Executive Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORPORATION - NOTIFICATION OF

NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000482/2009302

Dear Mr. Muench:

In a telephone conversation on October 14, 2009 between Messrs. Rick Murray and Gabriel

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

examination at Wolf Creek during the week of December 14, 2009. This examination will consist

only of the dynamic scenario portion of the operating test.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff 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 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 scenario outlines by

November 6, 2009. The simulator scenario portion of the operating tests will be due by

December 7, 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 licensee shall

approve the outlines, examinations, and 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 examinations,

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 on

December 14, 2009.

In order to conduct the requested operating tests, it will be necessary for your staff 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.

Mr. R. Muench -2-

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 50 hours5.787037e-4 days <br />0.0139 hours <br />8.267196e-5 weeks <br />1.9025e-5 months <br /> per response, including the time

for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, 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.

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 NRCs examination

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

8159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Ryan E. Lantz, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-482

License: NPF-42

DISTRIBUTION:

Mr. R. Muench -3-

Vice President Operations/Plant Manager

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

Jay Silberg, Esq.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

2300 N Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Supervisor Licensing

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

Chief Engineer

Utilities Division

Kansas Corporation Commission

1500 SW Arrowhead Road

Topeka, KS 66604-4027

Office of the Governor

State of Kansas

Topeka, KS 66612-1590

Attorney General

120 S.W. 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor

Topeka, KS 66612-1597

County Clerk

Coffey County Courthouse

110 South 6th Street

Burlington, KS 66839

Chief, Radiation and Asbestos

Control Section

Bureau of Air and Radiation

Kansas Department of Health and

Environment

1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310

Topeka, KS 66612-1366

Chief, Technological Hazards

Branch

FEMA, Region VII

9221 Ward Parkway

Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 64114-3372

Mr. R. Muench -4-

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 (Chris.Long@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Charles.Peabody@nrc.gov)

Site Secretary (Shirley.Allen@nrc.gov)

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

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

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

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

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