ML14344A371

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000321/05000321/2015301 and 05000366/2015301

ML14344A371
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	12/08/2014
From:	Gerald Mccoy Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Vineyard D Southern Nuclear Operating Co
References
50-321/OL-15, 50-366/OL-15
Download: ML14344A371 (4)

See also: IR 05000321/2015301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

December 8, 2014

Mr. David R. Vineyard

Site Vice President

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant

11028 Hatch Parkway North

Baxley, GA 31513

SUBJECT: EDWIN I. HATCH - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED OPERATOR INITIAL

EXAMINATION 05000321/2015301 AND 05000366/2015301

Dear Mr. Vineyard:

In a telephone conversation November 21, 2014, between Mr. Anthony Ball and Ed Jones, Plant

Operations Instructors, and Mr. Phillip Capehart, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements

were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant.

The operating test is scheduled to be administered during the weeks of March 23 and 30, 2015.

The written examination is scheduled to be administered the week of April 6, 2015. The on-site

preparatory week is scheduled for the week of February 23, 2015.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and

written examination 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

outline by January 7, 2015. Mr. Capehart provided a written examination outline to your staff in

March 2014. The operating test, written examination, and the supporting reference materials

identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by February 6, 2015. 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, examination, and 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.

D. Vineyard 2

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.

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

hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the

data needed, 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).

D. Vineyard 3

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Ball and Mr. Jones have 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. Capehart at (404) 997-4483,

(Internet E-mail: Phillip.Capehart@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4551, (Internet E-mail:

Gerald.McCoy@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gerald J. McCoy, Chief

Operations Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-321, 50-366

License Nos. DPR-57, NPF-5

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