ML13231A230

IR 05000259-13-302, 05000260-13-302, 05000296-13-302, Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant - Notification of Licensed Operator Retake Initial Examination

ML13231A230
Person / Time
Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	08/19/2013
From:	Widmann M NRC/RGN-II/DRS/EB1
To:	James Shea Tennessee Valley Authority
References
IR-13-302
Download: ML13231A230 (5)

See also: IR 05000259/2013302

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

August 19, 2013

Mr. Joseph W. Shea

Vice President, Nuclear Licensing

Tennessee Valley Authority

1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C

Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR RETAKE INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000259/2013302,

05000260/2013302, AND 05000296/2013302

Dear Mr. Shea:

In a telephone conversation on August 7, 2013, between Mr. Chris Vaughn, Ops Training

Manager, Mr. Dan Zielinski, Facility Representative, Mr. Mike Gibson, Exam Author, and Mr.

Phillip Capehart, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration

of retake licensing examinations at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant. The on-site preparatory week

and the administration of the administrative topics portion and control room/in-plant systems

portion of the operating test is scheduled for the week of September 23, 2013.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the administrative topics

portion and control room/in-plant systems portion of the operating test based on the guidelines

in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for

Power Reactors." The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regional office will discuss

with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examinations are administered.

Your staff has also agreed to make copies of all examination materials that are necessary for

administering the examination.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the operating test

outlines, operating tests, and the supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to

ES-201 by August 26, 2013. 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 outline and operating test 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.

J. Shea 2

In order to conduct the requested 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.

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, medical certifications, and waiver

requests (if any) 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 Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) under approval number 3150-0018, which expires on

April 30, 2016. 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 on any aspect of this collection of information,

including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Information and Records Management

Branch (T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by

Internet electronic mail at infocollectsresource@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, 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 NRC Public Document

Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs document

system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm.adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

J. Shea 3

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Mike Gibson 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. Phillip Capehart at (404) 997-4483,

(Internet E-mail: Phillip.Capehart@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4550, (Internet E-mail:

Malcolm.Widmann@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Malcolm T. Widmann, Chief

Operations Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos.: 50-259, 50-260, 50-296

License Nos.: DPR-33, DPR-52, DPR-68

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Letter to Joseph W. Shea from Malcolm T. Widmann dated August 19, 2013.

SUBJECT: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR RETAKE INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000259/2013302,

05000260/2013302, AND 05000296/2013302

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