ML15356A759
| ML15356A759 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | North Anna  |
| Issue date: | 12/21/2015 |
| From: | Eugene Guthrie Division of Reactor Safety II |
| To: | Heacock D Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO) |
| References | |
| Download: ML15356A759 (4) | |
See also: IR 05000338/2016301
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UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION II
245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257
December 21, 2015
Mr. David A. Heacock
President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Virginia Electric and Power Company
North Anna Power Station, Units 1 & 2
Innsbrook Technical Center
5000 Dominion Boulevard
Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711
SUBJECT:
NORTH ANNA POWER STATION - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED
OPERATIONAL EXAMINATION NOS. - 05000338/2016301 AND
Dear Mr. Heacock:
In a telephone conversation on December 1, 2015 between Mr. Bryan Thompson, Supervisor
Nuclear Training, Mr. Randall Garrett, Senior Instructor, Mr. John Kernisky, Senior Instructor,
Mr. Bruno Caballero, Senior Operations Engineer, and Mr. Newton Lacy, Operations Engineer,
arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at North Anna
Nuclear Station. The operating test is scheduled to be administered during the weeks of
June 20 and June 27, 2016. The written examination is scheduled to be administered after the
operating test, during the week of June 27 or July 4, 2016. The on-site preparatory week is
scheduled for the week of May 23, 2016.
As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and
the written examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10, 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 March 7, 2016. Mr. Newton Lacy provided the written examination outline to your
staff in June 2015. The supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will
be due by January 28, 2016, and the written examination will be due by February 29, 2016. The
operating test will be due by April 18, 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 examinations, and tests before they are submitted to the Commission
for review and approval. All materials shall be complete and ready-to-use.
D. Heacock
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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.
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 (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 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 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-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 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 to 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, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,
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.
D. Heacock
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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Randall Garrett 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. Bruno Caballero at (404) 997-4608,
(Internet E-mail: Bruno.Caballero@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4662, (Internet E-mail:
Eugene.Guthrie@nrc.gov)
Sincerely,
/RA: Gerald J. McCoy for/
Eugene F. Guthrie, Chief
Operations Branch 2
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket Nos.: 50-338, 50-339
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