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Senior Reactor and Reactor Operator Initial Examinations - Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2
ML120270009
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Site: Limerick  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 01/26/2012
From: Diane Jackson
Operations Branch I
To: Pacilio M
Exelon Generation Co
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UNITED STATES N UCLEAR REGU LATORY COMMISSION W

REGION I 475 ALLENDALE ROAD KING OF PRUSSIA. PA 19406-1415 January 26, 2012 Mr. Michael J. Pacilio Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and Chief Nuclear Officer, Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Rd.

Warrenville, lL 60555

SUBJECT:

SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR lNlTlAL EXAMINATIONS -

LIMERICK GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2

Dear Mr. Pacilio:

ln a telephone conversation on January 24,2012, between Mr. John G. Caruso, Senior Operations EngineeriExaminer, and Mr. Robert Ruffe, Operations Training Manager, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Limerick Generating Station during the weeks of during the weeks of October 8 and 15,2Q12.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, 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.

Your staff will be given the opportunity to review the examinations during the week of August 6, 2012, during a pre-validation week for this exam. In addition, as the NRC examination team completes development of the individual sections of the examinations these will be provided in advance to your staff for review.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 of ES-201 will be due by February 2,2012. 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 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.9., system pressures, temperatures, and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination results are final. Appendix E of NUREG-1021contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered.

M. Pacilio To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff sho_uld 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)'

anO w'aiver requests (if any) (OMB approval number 3150-0090) at least 30 days before the first examination date. f ine appiications are not received at least 30 days before the examination date, a postponement may be necessary. Signed applications certifying that alltraining has been completed should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.

After you have been notified by the NRC Chief Examiner or Branch Chief that operator licenses have'been issued, please dirett any inquiries concerning a formal presentation of certificates to this office. Our goal is to have the operator certificates available for your celebration. At least plan our one month advahce notice of your celebration arrangements would be appreciated to senior manager attendance and process the certificates' This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of lgg5 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The OMB, under approval number 3150-0018, approved these information collections. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 50 houis per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and main'taining 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 FO;A/privacy Services Branch ft-S fSZ), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, Dc 2osss-tjoot, or by electronlc mail to infocollects@nrc.gov; and to the Desk officer, office of lnformation and Reguiatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0018), Office of Management and Budget, Washingtoi, DC 2OSOS. The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not requ'ired to respond io, information collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. "n ln accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room or from the publicly Available Records'(PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Minagement System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page of tn6 NnC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based'html.

M. Pacilio Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Ruffe has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. lf you have any questions regarding the NRC's examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. John Caruso at (610) 337-5389, or me at (610) 337-5306.

Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-352, 50-353 License Nos. NPF-39, NPF-85 cc:

R. Dickinson, Director of Training cc: Distribution via ListServ

ML120270009 DOCUMENT NAME: G:\DRS\Operations Branch\CARUSO\Exam 13-LGS Ocl12 (U01858)\12Odayexamltr.docx After declarinq this document "An Official Agency Record," it will be released to the Public.

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