ML18005A420

Announcement of Generic Fundamentals Examination Section of the Written Operator Licensing Examination for 2018

ML18005A420
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Site:	Beaver Valley, Millstone, Calvert Cliffs, Peach Bottom, Salem, Nine Mile Point, Indian Point, Oyster Creek, Hope Creek, Pilgrim, Three Mile Island, Susquehanna, Seabrook, Limerick, Vermont Yankee, Ginna, FitzPatrick
Issue date:	01/03/2018
From:	Diane Jackson Operations Branch I
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BLVD., Suite 100 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 January 3, 2018 THIS LETTER IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE FOLLOWING DOCKET NUMBERS:

Beaver Valley Power Station, Docket Nos. 50-334 and 50-412 Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Docket Nos. 50-317 and 50-318 James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-333 R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, LLC, Docket No. 50-244 Hope Creek Generating Station, Docket No. 50-354 Indian Point Station, Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286 Limerick Generating Station, Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353 Millstone Power Station, Docket Nos. 50-336 and 50-423 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410 Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, Docket No. 50-219 Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Docket Nos. 50-277 and 50-278 Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Docket No. 50-293 Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Docket Nos. 50-272 and 50-311 Seabrook Station, Docket No. 50-443 Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388 Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Docket No. 50-289

SUBJECT:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINTATION SECTION OF THE WRITTEN OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION FOR 2018 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) plans to administer the generic fundamentals examination (GFE) section of the written operator licensing examination on the following dates during this calendar year:

March 7, 2018 September 5, 2018 To register personnel to take the GFE, an authorized representative of your facility may submit a letter to the appropriate regional administrator with a copy addressed, as follows:

Chief, Operator Licensing Branch Mail Stop O 13 H16M U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Alternatively, a voluntary online registration portal will be available the week of January 22, 2018 and can be used by an authorized representative of your facility to request administration of the GFE to individuals. More information on using this voluntary registration process can be found at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operator-licensing.html. Use of this registration process will eliminate the need to submit a letter.

Region I Part 50 Dockets Under 10 CFR 55.31(a)(3), in order for the NRC written examination and operating test to be administered to an applicant for an operator license, the applicant shall submit a written request from an authorized representative of the facility licensee by which the applicant will be employed. As stated above, use of the online registration portal would satisfy this requirement. The NRC permits a request for administration of the GFE section of the written examination to be made and granted prior to the applicants successful completion the facility licensee's requirements to be licensed as an operator or senior operator and prior to the facility licensee's certification of the need for an operator or a senior operator to perform assigned duties. However, the facility licensee should only request administration of the GFE section of the written examination for individuals who will have completed fundamentals training by the date of the examination.

The submittal should identify the individuals who will take the examination. The submittal should also identify the personnel who will have access to the examinations, and will be responsible for examination security, before they are administered (e.g., proctors) and include the address and name of the individual to whom the examinations are to be sent.

To allow the NRC to assign docket numbers, both the NRC Regional Administrator and the Chief, Operator Licensing Branch, should receive your letter, or online registration, at least 30 calendar days before each desired examination date shown above. A sample registration letter is enclosed.

Copies of the administered BWR and PWR GFEs and their answer keys will be available for review in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) immediately after administration of the second subsequent GFE. At that time, the NRC will also update its GFE Web Page, http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operator-licensing/generic-fundamentals-examinations.html.

If you have any questions concerning this examination, please contact Jacob Dolecki at 301-415-2947 or at Jacob.Dolecki@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety cc: Distribution via ListServ

Enclosure:

As stated

ML18005A420 SUNSI Review Non-Sensitive Publicly Available OFFICE RI/DRS/OB RI/DRS/OB NAME CBixler DEJackson DATE 12/28/17 1/3/18 Sample Registration Letter Mr. Daniel H. Dorman Region I, Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2100 Renaissance Blvd., Suite 100 King of Prussia, PA 19406-2713

Dear Mr. Dorman:

(Facility name) requests approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to have the following (number) individuals take the (BW R or PWR) generic fundamentals examination (GFE) section of the written operator licensing examination to be administered on (date):

Full Name Date of Birth Previous Docket No.

(Last name, first name and middle initial)

(Insert the name, date of birth, and previous Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 55 Docket Number (if applicable) for each person.)

The registrants should have completed the generic fundamentals portion of the training program by the examination date and are expected to meet all other requirements of 10 CFR 55.31 in the future.

The following personnel will have access to the examinations before they are administered:

Name Title (Insert the name and title of each person who will have access to the examinations before they are administered (e.g., proctors).

Please address the examinations to the overnight mail address, as follows (note that home addresses are not acceptable):

Name, Title Street Address City, State, Zip Code If you have any questions, please contact (facility contact name) at (telephone number).

Sincerely, (Name, Title) cc: Chief, Operator Licensing and Training Branch Division of Inspection and Regional Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Mail Stop OWFN 07 D23 Rockville, MD 20852-2738 D. E. Jackson, Chief, Region I/DRS/OB