ML16078A002
| ML16078A002 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 03/17/2016 |
| From: | Diane Jackson NRC Region 1 |
| To: | Heacock D Dominion Resources |
| Jackson D | |
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| ML15308A610 | List: |
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| Download: ML16078A002 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BLVD., SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 March 17, 2016 Mr. David A. Heacock President and Chief Nuclear Officer Dominion Resources 5000 Dominion Blvd.
Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711
SUBJECT:
SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATIONS - MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNIT 2
Dear Mr. Heacock:
In a telephone conversation on March 10, 2016, between Mr. Brian Fuller, Chief Examiner, and Mr. Robert Cimmino, Exam Developer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Millstone Power Station, Unit 2 during the week of September 5, 2016. In addition, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of August 8, 2016.
As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." 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 June 15, 2016. The written examinations, operating tests, and the supporting reference materials, identified in Attachment 3 of ES-201, will be due by July 15, 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 should 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 marked appropriately. 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.
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.
D. Heacock 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.
After you have been notified by the NRC Chief Examiner or Branch Chief that operator licenses have been issued, please direct any inquiries concerning a formal presentation of certificates to this office. Our goal is to have the operator certificates available for your celebration. At least one month advance notice of your celebration arrangements would be appreciated to plan our senior manager attendance and process the certificates.
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 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 to infocollects@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 not conduct or 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 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 Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html#web-based-adams.
D. Heacock Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Cimmino 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 Brian Fuller at (610) 337-5077, or me at (610) 337-5306.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-336 License No. DPR-65 cc: Distribution via ListServ
D. Heacock Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Cimmino 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 Brian Fuller at (610) 337-5077, or me at (610) 337-5306.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-336 License No. DPR-65 cc: Distribution via ListServ Distribution w/encl: (via email)
DDorman, RA BPinson, DRP DLew, DRA JAmbrosini, DRP, SRI MScott, DRP LMcKown, DRP, RI RMcKinley, DRP CHighley, DRP, RI RLorson, DRS ARancourt, DRP, AA (contact via email)
BSmith, DRS TClark, RI OEDO GDentel, DRP RidsNrrPMMillstone Resource ADeFrancisco, DRP (actg until 3/5/16) RidsNrrDorlLpl1-1 Resource JSchussler, DRP ROPreports Resource DOCUMENT NAME: G:\DRS\Operations Branch\FULLER\Exam 16-MS2 Sept 5 (U01927)\Rev10-150dayexamltr.docx ADAMS PKG: ML15308A610 ADAMS ACCESSION NO.: ML16078002 SUNSI Review Non-Sensitive Publicly Available OFFICE RI/DRS/OB RI/DRS/OB NAME BFuller DEJackson DATE 03/17/2016 03/17/2016 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BLVD., SUITE 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 March 17, 2016 Mr. David A. Heacock President and Chief Nuclear Officer Dominion Resources 5000 Dominion Blvd.
Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711
SUBJECT:
SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATIONS - MILLSTONE POWER STATION, UNIT 2
Dear Mr. Heacock:
In a telephone conversation on March 10, 2016, between Mr. Brian Fuller, Chief Examiner, and Mr. Robert Cimmino, Exam Developer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Millstone Power Station, Unit 2 during the week of September 5, 2016. In addition, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of August 8, 2016.
As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." 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 June 15, 2016. The written examinations, operating tests, and the supporting reference materials, identified in Attachment 3 of ES-201, will be due by July 15, 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 should 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 marked appropriately. 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.
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.
D. Heacock 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.
After you have been notified by the NRC Chief Examiner or Branch Chief that operator licenses have been issued, please direct any inquiries concerning a formal presentation of certificates to this office. Our goal is to have the operator certificates available for your celebration. At least one month advance notice of your celebration arrangements would be appreciated to plan our senior manager attendance and process the certificates.
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 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 to infocollects@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 not conduct or 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 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 Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html#web-based-adams.
D. Heacock Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Cimmino 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 Brian Fuller at (610) 337-5077, or me at (610) 337-5306.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-336 License No. DPR-65 cc: Distribution via ListServ
D. Heacock Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Cimmino 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 Brian Fuller at (610) 337-5077, or me at (610) 337-5306.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-336 License No. DPR-65 cc: Distribution via ListServ Distribution w/encl: (via email)
DDorman, RA BPinson, DRP DLew, DRA JAmbrosini, DRP, SRI MScott, DRP LMcKown, DRP, RI RMcKinley, DRP CHighley, DRP, RI RLorson, DRS ARancourt, DRP, AA (contact via email)
BSmith, DRS TClark, RI OEDO GDentel, DRP RidsNrrPMMillstone Resource ADeFrancisco, DRP (actg until 3/5/16) RidsNrrDorlLpl1-1 Resource JSchussler, DRP ROPreports Resource DOCUMENT NAME: G:\DRS\Operations Branch\FULLER\Exam 16-MS2 Sept 5 (U01927)\Rev10-150dayexamltr.docx ADAMS PKG: ML15308A610 ADAMS ACCESSION NO.: ML16078002 SUNSI Review Non-Sensitive Publicly Available OFFICE RI/DRS/OB RI/DRS/OB NAME BFuller DEJackson DATE 03/17/2016 03/17/2016 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY