ML16259A020

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000348/2017301 and 05000364/2017301

ML16259A020
Person / Time
Site:	Farley
Issue date:	09/13/2016
From:	Gerald Mccoy Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Gayheart C Southern Nuclear Operating Co
References
2017301
Download: ML16259A020 (4)

See also: IR 05000348/2017301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

September 13, 2016

Mrs. Cheryl A. Gayheart

Vice President Nuclear Plant Site

Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc.

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

7388 North State Highway 95

Columbia, AL 36319

SUBJECT: JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000348/2017301 AND

05000364/2017301

Dear Mrs. Gayheart:

During a telephone conversation on September 7, 2016, between Mr. Billy Thornton, Operations

Training Lead Instructor, Mr. Gary Ohmstede, Southern Nuclear Fleet Examination Manager,

Mr. David Lanyi, Senior Operations Engineer, and Mr. Newton Lacy, Operations Engineer,

arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant. The on-site preparatory week is scheduled for the week of

March 6, 2017. The operating test is scheduled to be administered during the weeks of April 3

and April 10, 2017. The written examination is scheduled to be administered the week of

April 17, 2017.

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

written examination 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 supporting

reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 and the operating test outline by

January 3, 2017. Mr. Dan Bacon provided the written examination outline to your staff in May

2016. The written examination will be due by January 18, 2017. The operating test will be due

February 2, 2017. 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.

C. Gayheart 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 (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 the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) under approval number 3150-0018, which expires on June 30,

2019. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2500

hours for examinations prepared by the facility, 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 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).

C. Gayheart 3

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Billy Thornton 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. David Lanyi at (404) 997-4487,

(Internet E-mail: David.Lanyi@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.: 50-348, 50-364

License Nos.: NPF-2, NPF-8

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