ML17037C259

Letter Regarding Amendments to Part 55 of the Aec'S Regulations Establishing Minimum Requirements for Requalification Programs and Requesting That All Power, Test, and Reprocessing Facility Licenses Submit the Required ...

ML17037C259
Person / Time
Site:	Nine Mile Point
Issue date:	08/22/1973
From:	Skovholt D US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
To:	Raymond P Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
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~4)IS 0I August 22, 1973 Uocket Ho, 5P 22P Niagara mohawk Power Corporation ATTN: Nr. Philip D. Raymond, Yice President-Engineering 300 Erie Boulevard 1<est Syracuse, New York 13202 Gentlemen:

4 The Atomic Energy Commission has amended its regulations to require operators who manipulate the controls of nuclear power reactors and other licensed production and utilization facilities to complete a requalification program or be admipistered a reexamination before each license renewal and to require facility licensees to carry out i

srlansi~+e nnev a+nv v enid~1 fir ~tiOn nv nnv'>me An amendment to Part 55.of the AEC's regulations, which was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1973 establishes minimum re-

'quirements for requalificatipn programs including on-the-job training and lectures on basic theories and safety systems of the specific plant. It applies to both operators and senior operators.

. An amendment to Part 50 published in the Federal Register on the same date requires that an application for. a license to operate a facility ItIust include a description and plans for implementation of an operator requalification program. Also, each facility licensee must have such a program in oper'ation within three months after issuance of an operating license. Holders of operating licenses in effect on the effective date of these amendments, September 17,'1973, must submit an operator requalification program for Commission approval'and con- .

currently implement that program within three months after the date of the amendments. 'ffective

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

All power, test and reprocessing facility licensees are requested to submit the required information with one signed original and thirty-nine additional copies. If a single submittal covers more than one unit at. a station, one signed original and fifty-nine additional copies should be provided. All other facility licensees are requested to sub-mit one signed original and twenty-one additional copies.

Sincerely, D. J. Skovholt, Assistant Director for Operating Reactors Directorate of Licensing

Enclosure:

1. Amendment to 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 55, cc: Arvin E. Upton, Esquire Attorney LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby 8 HacRae 1821 Jefferson Place N.M.

Washington, D.C. 20036 DISTR NUT ION:

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