ML13158A177

2013 Duane Arnold Energy Center Initial Examination Miscellaneous Correspondence

ML13158A177
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Site:	Duane Arnold
Issue date:	04/08/2013
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2013 DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE

UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION Ill 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, ILLINOIS 60532-4352 October 23, 2012 Mr. Richard L. Anderson Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION

Dear Mr. Anderson:

In a telephone conversation on October 18, 2012, between Mr. Eric Murray, Operations Trainer, and Mr. Bruce Palagi, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at the Duane Arnold Energy Center during the week of April 8, 2013.

In addition, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of March 18, 2013.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The NRC's 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 November 26, 2012. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by January 14, 2013.

Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 55.40(b)(3),

(1 0 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 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.

R. Anderson 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.

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 approval number 3150-0018. The public reporting burden for this collection 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, 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; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-1 0202, (3150-0018), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless. it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

In 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 Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

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. Bruce Palagi at 630-829-9611, or me at 630-829-9707.

Sincerely,

~~*A Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-331;72-032 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ'

R. Anderson 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.

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 approval number 3150-0018. The public reporting burden for this collection 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, 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; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0018), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

In 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 Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

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. Bruce Palagi at 630-829-9611, or me at 630-829-9707.

Sincerely, Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-331;72-032 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ' DISTRIBUTION:

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SUBJECT:

DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION DISTRIBUTION:

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION Ill 2443 WARRENVIllE ROAD, SUITE 210 liSlE, IlliNOIS 60532-4352 April4, 2013 Mr. Richard L. Anderson Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION APPROVAL

Dear Mr. Anderson:

The purpose of this letter is to confirm the final arrangements for the upcoming operator licensing examinations at the Duane Arnold Energy Center.

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its review of the operator license applications in connection with this examination and will separately provide a list of approved applicants to Mr. William Simmons, Training Manager. Note that any examination waivers and application denials have been addressed in a separate correspondence.

The NRC has approved the subject examinations and hereby authorizes you to administer the written examinations in accordance with Revision 9 of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors," one day during the week of April 15, 2013. The NRC staff will administer the operating tests during the week April 8, 2013.

Please contact Mr. Bruce B. Palagi, Chief Examiner, at 630-829-9611 if you have any questions or identify any errors or changes in the license level (RO or SRO) or type of examination (partial or complete written examination and/or operating test) specified for each applicant.

In 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 System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page of the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Sincerely, . _,

Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc w/encl: Distribution via ListServ'

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• Mr. Richard L. Anderson Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION APPROVAL

Dear Mr. Anderson:

The purpose of this letter is to confirm the final arrangements for the upcoming operator licensing examinations at the Duane Arnold Energy Center.

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its review of the operator license applications in connection with this examination and will separately provide a list of approved applicants to Mr. William Simmons, Training Manager. Note that any examination waivers and application denials have been addressed in separate correspondence.

The NRC has approved the subject examinations and hereby authorizes you to administer the written examinations in accordance with Revision 9 of NUREG-1 021, AOperator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors,@ one day during the week of April 15, 2013. The NRC staff will administer the operating tests during the week April 8, 2013.

Please contact Mr. Bruce B. Palagi, Chief Examiner, at 630-829-9611 if you have any questions or identify any errors or changes in the license level (RO or SRO) or type of examination (partial or complete written examination and/or operating test) specified for each applicant.

In 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 System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page of the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Sincerely, Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc w/encl: Distribution via ListServ' Distribution:

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Letter to Mr. Richard L. Anderson from Mr. Hironori Peterson dated March , 2013.

SUBJECT:

OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION APPROVAL DISTRIBUTION:

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION Ill 2443 WARRENVIllE ROAD, SUITE 210 liSlE, IlliNOIS 60532-4352 November 16, 2011 Mr. Peter Wells Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS:

DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER

Dear Mr. Wells:

We have received your letter NG-11-0256, dated July 11, 2011. In that letter, you confirmed initial operator licensing examinations be scheduled for April 2013 and April 2015.

In response, we had previously scheduled initial operator licensing examinations for the weeks of AprilS and 15, 2013, and April27, 2015, at the Duane Arnold Energy Center. However, these dates have changed due to changes in the number of applicants in each class. The 2013 initial operator licensing examination date has been changed to the week of April 8, 2013, with an on-site validation date of March 18, 2013. The 2015 initial operator license examination dates have been changed to the weeks of April 27 and May 4, 2015, with an on-site validation date of AprilS, 2015.

The NRC will write your 2015 initial license exam in accordance with NUREG 1021, Revision 9, Supplement 1. In the unlikely event that we are unable to support the examination during the scheduled weeks, we will inform you immediately upon discovery of such conditions and make arrangements to administer the examination at a mutually acceptable date.

We understand that your staff will develop the examination scheduled for 2013 unless we determine it is necessary for the NRC to develop an examination in which case, we will notify you immediately upon discovery of that need. Because your letter indicated that there were more than nine applicants being considered for the 2015 examination, the examination was scheduled for two weeks. Please inform us if the number of candidates change for any examination as this will impact the examination schedule. Also, please inform us at your earliest opportunity if you discover you need to change the scheduled dates for the examinations.

A supplementary letter will be sent to the training department approximately 120 days prior to the examination informing the training manager of the chief examiner's name. The letter will also outline examination security expectations, list the materials required by the NRC to conduct the examination, reconfirm the examination date, and reconfirm the number of candidates you have in the training program.

P. Wells In accordance with 10 CFR 2.930 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://ww.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

ironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ rM

P. Wells In accordance with 10 CFR 2.930 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://ww.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ' DISTRIBUTION:

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DUANE ARNOLD July 11,2011 NG-11-0256 10 CFR 55 Regional Administrator, Region Ill U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2443 Warrenville Road Suite 210 Lisle, IL 60532-4352 Duane Arnold Energy Center Docket 50-331 License No. DPR-49 Preparation and Scheduling of Operator Licensing Examinations As requested by your staff, the enclosure to this letter provides FPL Energy Duane Arnold's proposed schedule of examinations that we intend to prepare and the estimated number of applicants to be tested in our site examinations and generic fundamentals examinations in calendar years 2013 through 2016.

If you have any questions, please call Bill Simmons, Training Manager at (319) 851-7181.

This letter contains no new commitments.

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Vice President, Duane Arnold Energy Center NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC Enclosure CC: Chief Operator License Branch, Region Ill with attachment NRC Resident Inspector w/o NRC Document Control Desk w/o NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC, 3277 DAEC Road, Palo, lA 52324 JUL 1 3 2011

NRC FORM 536 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION APPROVED BY OMB: NO. 3150*0131 EXPIRES: 10/3112011 (10-2008)

Estimated burden per res~onse to comply with this voluntary information collection request: 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br />. his Information collection Is used to plan budgets and resources for operator examinations. Send comments r'1tardin~ burden OPERATOR LICENSING estimate to the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch \ -5 F 3), U.S.

Nuclear R~ulatory Commission, Washington. DC 20555-000 , or bfuinternet e-mail to in ocollects@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of In rmation EXAMINATION DATA and Regulatory Affairs, NE B-10202, (3150-0131), Office of Management and Budget, Washtngton, DC 20503. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person Is not required to respond to, the information collection.

FACILITY NRC REGION Duane Arnold 3

A. PROPOSED EXAMINATION PREPARATION SCHEDULE PROPOSED NUMBER CY 2013 CY 2014 CY 2015 CY 2016 ESTIMATED NUMBER OF LICENSEE-PREPARED 1 1 EXAMINATIONS ESTIMATED NUMBER OF NRC-PREPARED EXAMINATIONS B. INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS PROPOSED NUMBER CY 2013 cv2o14 cv2o15 CY 2016 NUMBER OF REACTOR 4 4 OPERATORS NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR 4 5

OPERATORS- INSTANT NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR OPERATORS-UPGRADE 4

NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR OPERATORS- LIMITED PROPOSED DATES PRIMARY DATE 04/08/2013 04/27/2015 ALTERNATE DATE 04/22/2013 05/11/2015 C. PROPOSED GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINATION (GFE) SCHEDULE CY 2013 CY 2014 PROPOSED -- ~--

NUMBER MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER ESTIMATED NUMBER OF 8 CANDIDATES NRC FORM 536 (10*2008) PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER

UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION Ill 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 June 1, 2011 Mr. Christopher R. Costanzo Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS:

DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER

Dear Mr. Costanzo:

We have received your letter NG-10-0460. In that letter, you requested an initial operator licensing examination be scheduled February 2015.

In response, we have scheduled an initial licensing examination for the week of April 27, 2015, at the Duane Arnold Energy Center. On-site validation of this examination is tentatively scheduled to occur approximately three weeks before the examination week. We note that you were previously scheduled for an initial operator licensing exam the week of April 8 and April 15, 2013. This date has not changed. In the unlikely event that we are unable to support the examination during the scheduled weeks, we will inform you immediately upon discovery of such conditions and make arrangements to administer the examination at a mutually acceptable date.

We understand that your staff will develop the examinations unless we determine it is necessary for the NRC to develop an examination in which case, we will notify you immediately upon discovery of that need. Because your letter indicated that there were more than nine applicants being considered for each of these examinations, the examinations were each scheduled for two weeks. Please inform us if the number of candidates change for any examination as this will impact the examination schedule. Also, please inform us at your earliest opportunity if you discover you need to change the scheduled dates for the examinations.

A supplementary letter will be sent to the training department approximately 120 days prior to the examination informing the training manager of the chief examiner's name. The letter will also outline examination security expectations, list the materials required by the NRC to conduct the examination, reconfirm the examination date, and reconfirm the number of candidates you have in the training program.

C. Costanzo In accordance with 10 CFR 2.930 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://ww.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, IRA by D. McNeil for/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ

C. Costanzo In accordance with 10 CFR 2.930 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publically Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http:!/ww.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, IRA by D. McNeil for/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ DISTRIBUTION:

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Duane Arnold Letter Re Confirmation of Initial Operator License Examinations Attachments: DUA 060111 DRS OL Exam Confirmation.docx The subject document has been completed and has been submitted to DPC to be declared in ADAMS. A Word copy of the document has been attached and the document has been assigned Accession

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c:?o/3 DUANE ARNOLD September 3, 2010 NG-10-0460 10 CFR 55 Regional Administrator, Region Ill U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2443 Warrenville Road Suite 210 Lisle, IL 60532-4352 Duane Arnold Energy Center Docket 50-331 License No. DPR-49 Preparation and Scheduling of Operator Licensing Examinations As requested by your staff, the enclosure to this letter provides FPL Energy Duane Arnold's proposed schedule of examinations that we intend to prepare and the estimated number of applicants to be tested in our site examinations and generic fundamentals examinations in calendar years 2012 through 2015.

If you have any questions, please call Bill Simmons, Training Manager at (319) 851-7181.

This letter contains no new commitments.

Christopher R. Costanzo Vice President, Duane Arnold Energy Center FPL Energy Duane Arnold, LLC Enclosure CC: Chief Operator License Branch, Region Ill with attachment NRC Resident Inspector w/o NRC Document Control Desk w/o NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC, 3277 DAEC Road, Palo, lA 52324

)i:Y 1 4 2010

NRC FORM 536 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION APPROVED BY OMS: NO. 3150-0131 EXPIRES: 10/3112011 (10.2008)

Estimated burden per response to comply with this voluntary information collection request: 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br />. This information collection is used to plan budgets and resources for operator examinations. Send comments regarding burden estimate to the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch (T-5 F53). U.S.

OPERA TOR LICENSING Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or bh internet e-mail to infocollects@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of In onmation EXAMINATION DATA and Regulatory Affairs, NE B-10202, (3150-0131), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, the information collecUon.

FACILITY NRC REGION Duane Arnold Energy Center III A. PROPOSED EXAMINATION PREPARATION SCHEDULE PROPOSED NUMBER CY 2012 CY 2013 CY 2014 CY 2015 ESTIMATED NUMBER OF LICENSEE-PREPARED 1 1 EXAMINATIONS ESTIMATED NUMBER OF NRC-PREPARED EXAMINATIONS B. INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS PROPOSED NUMBER CY 2012 CY 2013 CY 2014 CY 2015 NUMBER OF REACTOR 8 8 OPERATORS NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR 4 2 OPERATORS -INSTANT NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR OPERATORS-UPGRADE NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR OPERATORS- LIMITED PROPOSED DATES PRIMARY DATE 04/08/2013 02/09/2015 ALTERNATE DATE 04/15/2013 02/23/2015

c. PROPOSED GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINATION (GFE) SCHEDULE CY 2012 CY 2013 PROPOSED --- ---

NUMBER JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH ESTIMATED NUMBER OF 10 CANDIDATES NRC FORM 536 (10-2008) PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER

UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION Ill 2443 WARRENVILLE ROAD, SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 December 17, 2009 Mr. Christopher R. Costanzo Vice President NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, lA 52324-9785

SUBJECT:

DUANE ARNOLD ENERGY CENTER CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS

Dear Mr. Costanzo:

In a letter dated November 20, 2008 (NG-08-0877}, your staff requested we schedule an initial license operator examination during the week of June 20, 2011, or on the alternate week of June 26, 2011. We have tentatively scheduled the requested examination to start during the alternate requested week of June 26, 2011. Your staff also requested we schedule an initial license operator examination during the week of April 8, 2013. We have tentatively scheduled the requested examination to start during the specified week of April 8, 2013. On-site validation of these examinations is tentatively scheduled to occur approximately three weeks before the examination week. In the unlikely event that we are unable to support an examination during the scheduled weeks, we will inform you immediately upon discovery of such conditions and make arrangements to administer the examination at a mutually acceptable date.

We understand that your staff will develop the examinations unless we determine the need for the NRC to develop an examination. The letter we received indicated that more than nine applicants were being considered for the examinations. The examinations have been scheduled for two weeks to accommodate more than nine applicants. If the number of applicants should decrease below ten applicants, please inform us as soon as possible, as this will result in a schedule change. Please inform us at your earliest opportunity if you discover you need to change the scheduled date for the examination.

A supplementary letter will be sent to the training department approximately 120 days prior to each of these initial examinations. The letters will inform the training department of the chief examiner's name, outline examination security expectations, list the materials required by the NRC to conduct the examination, reconfirm the examination dates, and reconfirm the number of candidates you have in the training program. If you have any questions concerning this information, please contact Mr. Dell McNeil of my staff at 630-829-9737.

C. Costanzo In 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 Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

Sincerely, IRA/

Hironori Peterson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Projects Docket No. 50-331 License No. DPR-49 cc: Distribution via ListServ

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Sincerely, IRA/

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FPL Energy Duane Arnold, llC 3277 DAEC Road Palo, Iowa 52324 FPLEnergy.

Duane Arnold Energy Center November 20, 2008 NG-08-0877 10 CFR 55 Regional Administrator, Region Ill U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2443 Warrenville Road Suite 210 Lisle, IL 60532-4352 Duane Arnold Energy Center Docket 50-331 License No. DPR-49 Preparation and Scheduling of Operator Licensing Examinations As requested by your staff, the enclosure to this letter provides FPL Energy Duane Arnold's proposed schedule of examinations that we intend to prepare and the estimated number of applicants to be tested in our site examinations and generic fundamentals examinations in calendar years 2011 through 2013.

If you have any questions, please call Jeffery Morris, Training Manager at (319) 851-7565.

This letter contains no new commitments .

. GLcl~

Richard L. Anderson Vice President, Duane Arnold Energy Center FPL Energy Duane Arnold, LLC Enclosure CC: Chief Operator License Branch, Region Ill with attachment NRC Resident Inspector w/o NRC Document Control Desk w/o DEC 1 2008

NRC FORM 536 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION APPROVED BY OMS: NO. 3150-0131 EXPIRES: 10/31/2011 (10-2008)

Estimated burden per res~nse to comply with this voluntary information collection request: 1 hour1.157407e-5 days <br />2.777778e-4 hours <br />1.653439e-6 weeks <br />3.805e-7 months <br />. is information collection is used to plan budgets and resources for operator examinations. Send comments re~ardin~ burden estimate to the Records and FOINPrivacy Services Branch ( -5 F 3), U.S.

OPERATOR LICENSING Nuclear Re~ulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or brc internet e-mail to in ocollects@nrc.gov, and to the Desk Officer, Office of In ormation EXAMINATION DATA and Regulatory Affairs, NE 8-10202, (3150-0131), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, the information collection.

FACILITY NRC REGION Duane Arnold Energy Center III A. PROPOSED EXAMINATION PREPARATION SCHEDULE CY 2011 CY 2013 PROPOSED NUMBER

-- - CY CY ESTIMATED NUMBER OF LICENSEE-PREPARED 1 1 EXAMINATIONS ESTIMATED NUMBER OF NRC-PREPARED EXAMINATIONS B. INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS PROPOSED NUMBER CY 2011 CY 2013 CY CY NUMBER OF REACTOR 8 8 OPERATORS NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR 2 2 OPERATORS -INSTANT NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR 2 2 OPERATORS-UPGRADE NUMBER OF SENIOR REACTOR 0 0 OPERATORS- LIMITED PROPOSED DATES PRIMARY DATE 06/20/2011 04/08/2013 ALTERNATE DATE 06/26/2011 04/29/2013

c. PROPOSED GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINATION (GFE) SCHEDULE CY 2011 CY PROPOSED ~--- -- -* --* ---*-- ---.

NUMBER MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER ESTIMATED NUMBER OF 10 CANDIDATES NRC FORM 536 (10-2008) PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER DEC I

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