ML13137A194

Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000285-14-301

ML13137A194
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	05/16/2013
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Cortopassi L Omaha Public Power District
References
50-285/14-301
Download: ML13137A194 (3)

See also: IR 05000285/2014301

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UNITE D S TATE S

NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON

RE G IO N I V

1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

AR L INGTON , TEXAS 7601 1- 4511

May 16, 2013

Lou Cortopassi, Vice President

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT: FORT CALHOUN STATION - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR

LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000285/2014301

Dear Mr. Cortopassi:

In a telephone conversation on May 2, 2013, between Messrs. R. Cade, Operations Training

Manager, and T. Farina, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of

licensing examinations at Fort Calhoun Station during the week of May 19, 2014.

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 examination

outlines by March 11, 2014. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting

reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by April 8, 2014. 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 and reference

materials, 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 April 7, 2014.

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

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results are final.

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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. 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 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. Farina 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. Farina at 817-200-1117 or myself at

817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-285

License: DPR-40

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