ML15007A392

Er 05000445/2015301; 05000446/2015301 Comanche Peak, Units 1 and 2 - Revised Notification of NRC Retake Operator

ML15007A392
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	01/06/2015
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Flores R Luminant Generation Co
References
50-445/15-301, 50-446/15-301
Download: ML15007A392 (4)

See also: IR 05000445/2015301

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R. Flores UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E LAMAR BLVD

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

January 6, 2015

Mr. Rafael Flores, Senior Vice President

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Attention: Regulatory Affairs

Luminant Generation Company LLC

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant

P.O. Box 1002

Glen Rose, TX 76043

SUBJECT: COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 -

REVISED NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING

EXAMINATION 05000445/2015301; 05000446/2015301

Dear Mr. Flores:

In a telephone conversation on December 16, 2014, between Messrs. Gary Struble, Simulator

and Licensing Examination Manager, and Sean Hedger, Chief Examiner, Mr. Struble made a

request to revise the schedule for the upcoming retake licensing examination at Comanche

Peak Nuclear Power Plant. The schedule dates were originally communicated to the site via a

corporate notification letter, dated September 11, 2014 (Accession Number ML14254A076).

Based on this discussion, it was agreed to administer the retake licensing examination the week

of March 23, 2015.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the retake examination

(written examination for two reactor operator applicants) 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, the written examination and supporting reference materials

identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by January 26, 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 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.

R. Flores -2-

In order to conduct the requested written examination, it will be necessary for your staff to

provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402. In addition,

Appendix E to NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in

effect while the written examination is being administered.

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary 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) by January 9, 2015. Signed applications certifying that all training

has been completed should be submitted by January 26, 2015. If the final signed applications

are not received by that date, a postponement may be necessary.

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, which expires on April 30, 2016. 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 and

its enclosures 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. Struble 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. Hedger at 817-200-1556 or

myself at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Dockets: 50-445; 50-446

Licenses: NPF-87; NPF-89

R. Flores -3-

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Letter to Rafael Flores from Vincent G. Gaddy, dated January 6, 2015

SUBJECT: COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 -

REVISED NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING

EXAMINATION 05000445/2015301; 05000446/2015301

DISTRIBUTION:

Regional Administrator (Marc.Dapas@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

Acting DRP Deputy Director (Thomas.Farnholtz@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Jeff.Clark@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (John.Kramer@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Rayomand.Kumana@nrc.gov)

Administrative Assistant (Rhonda.Smith@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/A (Wayne.Walker@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A (Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/A (Thomas.Sullivan@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Project Manager (Stephen.Monarque@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Geoffrey.Miller@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)

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