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Notification of NRC Retake Operator Licensing Examination 05000498/2016301 and 05000499/2016301
	ML15337A525
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Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	12/03/2015
From:	Vincent Gaddy; Operations Branch IV
To:	Koehl D; South Texas
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December 3, 2015

Mr. Dennis Koehl

President and Chief Executive Officer

STP Nuclear Operating Company

P.O. Box 289

Wadsworth, TX 77483

SUBJECT: SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION

OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000498/2016301

AND 05000499/2016301

Dear Mr. Koehl:

In a telephone conversation on December 1, 2015, between Messrs. Stanley Mason, Lead for

Initial Licensing Regulator Exams, and Sean Hedger, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made

for the administration of a retake licensing examination at South Texas Project Electric

Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, during the week of May 2, 2016.

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

(written examination for two reactor operator and one senior reactor operator upgrade

applicants) based on the guidelines in NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination

Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 10, 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 February 3, 2016. The written examination and supporting reference materials

identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by March 5, 2016. 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 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.

D. Koehl

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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 March 30, 2016. Signed applications certifying that all

training has been completed should be submitted by April 20, 2016. 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 0.0139 hours 8.267196e-5 weeks 1.9025e-5 months 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 and Procedure, 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. Mason 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

Docket Nos. 50-498 and 50-499

License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80

cc: Electronic Distribution

D. Koehl

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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],