ML18200A170
| ML18200A170 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
| Issue date: | 07/18/2018 |
| From: | Vincent Gaddy NRC Region 4 |
| To: | Bement R Arizona Public Service Co |
| References | |
| IR 2018302 | |
| Download: ML18200A170 (3) | |
See also: IR 05000528/2018302
Text
July 18, 2018
Mr. Robert S. Bement
Executive Vice President Nuclear/
Chief Nuclear Officer
Arizona Public Service Company
P.O. Box 52034, MS 7602
Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034
SUBJECT: PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 -
NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION
APPROVAL 05000528/2018302; 05000529/2018302; 05000530/2018302
Dear Mr. Bement:
In a telephone conversation on July 11, 2018, between John Rodgers, Senior Operations
Training Instructor, and Daniel Bacon, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the
administration of a retake licensing examination at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station,
Units 1, 2, and 3 during the week of September 24, 2018.
As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the retake examination
(operating examination for two senior reactor operator applicants) based on the guidelines in
NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 11,
and NUREG-1122, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators,
Revision 2, Supplement 1. The NRCs regional office will discuss with your staff any changes
that might be necessary before the examination is administered.
To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the operating
examination outline by July 27, 2018. The operating examination and supporting reference
materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by August 17, 2018. 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 and examination 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 examination to be rescheduled.
In order to conduct the requested operating examination, it will be necessary for your staff to
provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-302. In addition,
Appendix E to NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in
effect while the written examination is being administered.
UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
REGION IV
1600 EAST LAMAR BOULEVARD
ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4511
R. Bement
2
To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit signed applications
certifying that all training has been completed by September 10, 2018. If the final signed
applications are not received by that date, a postponement may be necessary.
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 June 30, 2019. The public reporting burden for
this collection of information is estimated to average 50 hours5.787037e-4 days <br />0.0139 hours <br />8.267196e-5 weeks <br />1.9025e-5 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 regarding this burden estimate or any
other aspect of these information collections, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch (T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to
INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.
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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 2.390 of the NRCs
Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, 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
Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Rodgers has been advised of the policies
and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRCs
examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Daniel Bacon at 404-997-4518, or
myself at 817-200-1159.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief
Operations Branch
Division of Reactor Safety
Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, and 50-530
License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, and NPF-74
SUNSI Review:
ADAMS:
Non-Publicly Available
Non-Sensitive
Keyword:
By: VGaddy
Yes No
Publicly Available
Sensitive
RGN-002
OFFICE
OE:OB
SOE:OB
C:OB
NAME
MDoyle
DBacon
VGaddy
SIGNATURE
/RA/
/RA by email/
/RA/
DATE
07/17/18
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