ML19296C510

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Confirmation of Initial License Examination
ML19296C510
Person / Time
Site: LaSalle  Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 10/23/2019
From: Robert Orlikowski
Operations Branch III
To: Bryan Hanson
Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear
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B. Hanson 1 October 23, 2019 Mr. Bryan C. Hanson Senior VP, Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and CNO, Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2: CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION

Dear Mr. Hanson:

In a telephone conversation on October 2, 2019, between Mr. C. Betken, LaSalle County Station Initial License Examination Lead, and Mr. G. Roach, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of operator licensing examinations at the LaSalle County Station during the weeks of November 2, 2020, and November 9, 2020.

As agreed upon during the telephone conversation, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will prepare the entire written examination, and the outlines for the job performance measures (JPMs) and scenarios (i.e., the operating test), based on the guidelines in Revision 11 to NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors. The written examination outline was provided to your staff on October 2, 2019.

Feedback on the written examination outline was received by the NRC on October 21, 2019.

The operating test outlines will be provided to your staff for review and comment on or before May 4, 2020, with feedback due on May 26, 2020. To ensure the development of quality simulator examination scenarios, the NRC will visit your facility during the week of July 27, 2020, to pre-validate the events/malfunctions constructed from the NRC prepared outlines, and to obtain feedback from your staff regarding scenario validity and capabilities of the simulator to support event performance. The NRC prepared written examination will be provided to your staff for review and comment on or before August 17, 2020. The facility prepared operating test will be provided to the NRC for review and comment on or before the same date. The NRC will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of September 28, 2020.

Your staff has furnished the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201, however additional requests may be made as examination development progresses. The NRC requests that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or Safeguards Information in your response be contained in a separate enclosure and appropriately marked. Delays in receiving the required materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be cancelled or rescheduled.

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, along with any video and audio recordings of the dynamic operating tests, until the NRC takes licensing action on all the applications and any adjudicatory actions on any hearing demands are complete.

B. Hanson 2 Appendix E to 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 waiver or excusal requests (if any) (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first examination date (if possible). Contact Mr. G. Roach to determine the method for submission of the waiver or excusal requests. Preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications (OMB control number 3150-0090) and medical certifications (OMB control number 3150-0024) should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the preliminary applications are not received at least 30 days before the examination date, a postponement may be necessary. Final signed applications certifying that all training has been completed and requesting any waivers or excusals, as applicable, should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.

Although the guidelines for receiving waiver or excusal requests call for at least 30 days before the first examination date (preliminary) and 14 days before the first examination date (final), the requests should be submitted as early as possible in the process (see the 60-day guideline above). Resolutions resulting from verbal inquiries by the licensee to the NRC are not binding.

Submittals addressing waivers or excusals, or both, should be in writing (i.e., using NRC Form 398, Personal Qualifications StatementLicensee, or as directed by Mr. G. Roach when contacting him to determine the method for submission). The NRC will document its final decision on whether to grant a waiver or excusal on the final (not preliminary) NRC Form 398 submitted for the applicant. The NRC will not provide its decision until the final application is submitted to the agency.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This letter contains information collection requirements 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, approval number 3150-0018.

The burden to the public for these mandatory information collections is estimated to average 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 months <br /> per examination or response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collections. You may submit comments on any aspect of the information collections, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to FOIA, Privacy and Information Collections Branch (T-5F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by electronic mail to infocollects.resource@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.

Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the document requesting or requiring the collection displays a currently valid OMB control number

B. Hanson 3 This letter will be made available for public inspection and copying at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html and at the NRC Public Document Room in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. C. Betken 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 Mr. G. Roach at (630) 829-9760 or myself at (630) 829-9834.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-373; 50-374 License Nos. NPF-11; NPF-18 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV Michael Martin, Training Manager

B. Hanson 4

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2: CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION DATED OCTOBER 23, 2019 DISTRIBUTION:

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