ML19011A371
| ML19011A371 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palo Verde, Wolf Creek, Grand Gulf, Cooper, Arkansas Nuclear, Columbia, River Bend, Diablo Canyon, Callaway, Waterford, South Texas, Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 01/10/2019 |
| From: | Greg Werner Operations Branch IV |
| To: | Ameren Missouri, Arizona Public Service Co, Energy Northwest, Entergy Operations, Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), Pacific Gas & Electric Co, South Texas, TEX Operations Company, Wolf Creek |
| References | |
| Download: ML19011A371 (7) | |
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January 10, 2019 THIS LETTER DISTRIBUTED TO THE FOLLOWING DOCKET NUMBERS:
Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos.: 50-313; 50-368 Callaway Plant, Docket No.: 50-483 Columbia Generating Station, Docket No.: 50-397 Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos.: 50-445; 50-446 Cooper Nuclear Station, Docket No.: 50-298 Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos.: 50-275; 50-323 Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Docket No.: 50-416 Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, Docket Nos.: 50-528; 50-529; 50-530 River Bend Station, Docket No.: 50-458 South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos.: 50-498; 50-499 Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, Docket No.: 50-382 Wolf Creek Generating Station, Docket No.: 50-482
SUBJECT:
ANNOUNCEMENT OF GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINTATION SECTION OF THE WRITTEN OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION FOR 2019 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 6, 2019 September 4, 2019 To register personnel to take the GFE, an authorized representative of your facility may submit a letter to Scott Morris, Regional Administrator, Region IV, 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 is available 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/electronic-gfe-registration-info.html. Use of this registration process will eliminate the need to submit a letter.
Under the Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (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 Eric Cushing at 301-415-1064 or at Eric.Cushing@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Gregory Werner, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety
Enclosure:
Sample Registration Letter cc:
Electronic distribution to all Region IV Sites Dennis Kilpatrick, Training Manager Arkansas Nuclear One Entergy Operations, Inc.
1448 S.R. 333 Russellville, AR 72802 Mark Otten, Training Director Operations Training Ameren Missouri-Callaway Energy P.O. Box 620 Fulton, MO 65251
Glenn Pierce, Manager Nuclear Training Energy Northwest P.O. Box 968, MD-1023 Richland, WA 99352-0968 Donna Christiansen, Director Nuclear Training Vistra Operations Company LLC P.O. Box 1002 Glen Rose, TX 76043-1147 Mike Bacon, Manager Nuclear Training Cooper Nuclear Station 72676-648 Avenue Brownville, NE 68321 Justin Rogers, Training Manager Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diablo Canyon Power Plant P.O. Box 56, Mail Code 104/6 Avila Beach, CA 93424 Doug Lauterburg, Manager Training and Development Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Entergy Operations, Inc.
P.O. Box 756 Port Gibson, MS 39150 Paul Bury Nuclear Training Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Mail Station 7602 P.O. Box 52034 Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034 Kevin Stupak, Manager Training Entergy Operations, Inc.
River Bend Station 5485 US Highway 61N St. Francisville, LA 70775 Gerard Hildebrandt, Manager Operations Training STP Nuclear Operating Company South Texas Project Electric Generating Station P.O. Box 289 Wadsworth, TX 77483
Robert Simpson, Director Training and Development Entergy Operations, Inc.
Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 17265 River Road Killona, LA 70057-0751 Jennifer Yunk, Manager of Training Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation P.O. Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839
Electronic distribution by RIV w/o enclosure:
Regional Administrator (Scott.Morris@nrc.gov)
Deputy Regional Administrator (Mark.Shaffer@nrc.gov)
DRP Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)
DRS Acting Director (Ryan.Lantz@nrc.gov)
DRS Acting Deputy Director (Geoffrey.Miller@nrc.gov)
DRP Deputy Director (Michael.Hay@nrc.gov)
Regional Counsel (David.Cylkowski@nrc.gov)
RIV/ETA: OEDO (Aida.Rivera-Varona@nrc.gov)
Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)
Senior Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)
Project Manager (Thomas.Wengert@nrc.gov)
RIV Congressional Affairs Officer (Angel.Moreno@nrc.gov)
RIV RSLO (Bill.Maier@nrc.gov)
Team Lead, DRS/IPAT (Ray.Kellar@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRS/IPAT (Peter.Jayroe@nrc.gov)
RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)
ACES (R4Enforcement.Resource@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/D (Neil.OKeefe@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/E (John.Dixon@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, (John.Vera@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Christopher.Henderson@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Margaret.Tobin@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Thomas.Sullivan@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/A (Mark.Haire@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/A (Ryan.Alexander@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/A (Ayesha.Athar@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/A (Larry.Newman@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Gregory.Kolcum@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Lindsay.Merker@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Mary.Bennett@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/C (Jason.Kozal@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer (Cale.Young@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer (David.Proulx@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer (Timothy.DeBey@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Patricia.Vossmar@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Michael.Stafford@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Amy.Elam@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Jeffrey.Josey@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Rayomand.Kumana@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Lenora.Reyna@nrc.gov)
Branch Chief, DRP/B (Nick.Taylor@nrc.gov)
Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (Binesh.Tharakan@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/B (Jim.Melfi@nrc.gov)
Project Engineer, DRP/B (Erica.Combs@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Dan.Bradley@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Steven.Janicki@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Dawn.Yancey@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Christopher.Newport@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (John.Reynoso@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Madeleine.Arel@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Timothy.Steadham@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Neil.Day@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Charles.Peabody@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (David.You@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Dustin.Reinert@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Russell.Bywater@nrc.gov Site Administrative Assistant (Yvonne.Dubay@nrc.gov)
Acting Senior Resident Inspector (Brian.Parks@nrc.gov)
Acting Resident Inspector (Timothy.DeBey@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Lisa.Day@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Alfred.Sanchez@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Jackson.Choate@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Frances.Ramirez@nrc.gov)
Acting Resident Inspector (Larry.Newman@nrc.gov)
Senior Resident Inspector (Douglas.Dodson@nrc.gov)
Resident Inspector (Fabian.Thomas@nrc.gov)
Site Administrative Assistant (Susan.Galemore@nrc.gov)
X SUNSI Review By: JAB ADAMS X Yes No X Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available X Non-Sensitive Sensitive Keyword:
NRR-079 OFFICE NRC:RIV:DRS:OB C:OB NAME JABridges GWerner SIGNATURE
/RA/
/RA/
DATE 1/11/19 1/14/19
Sample Registration Letter Scott Morris Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV 1600 East Lamar Blvd.
Arlington, TX 76011-4511
Dear (Name),
(Facility name) requests approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to have the following (number) individuals take the (BW R or PW R) generic fundamentals examination (GFE) section of the written operator licensing examination to be administered on (date):
Name Date of Birth Previous Docket No.
(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 Branch, NRR