ML19308C065
| ML19308C065 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Lynchburg Research Center, Crane |
| Issue date: | 08/23/1973 |
| From: | Skovholt D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Clark R BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. |
| References | |
| TASK-TF, TASK-TMR NUDOCS 8001200050 | |
| Download: ML19308C065 (2) | |
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August 23, 1973 Docket No. 50-99 Babcock & Wilcox Company ATTH: Mr. R. H. Clark, Chief BAWTR Operations Research and Development Division P.O. Box 1260 1.ynchburg, Virginia 24505 Gentlemen:
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 administered a reexaminatien before each license renewal and to require facility licensees to carry out adequate operator requalification programs.
An amendmont tn Part 55 nf the AFC's reculations. which was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1573 establishes minimum re-quirements for requalification programs including on-the-job training and lectures on basic theories and safety systems of tha specific plant.
It applies to both. operators and senior operators.
nn amendment to part 50 published in the Federal Register on the same date requires that an application for a license to operate a facility must include a description and plans for implementation of an operator requalification program.
Also, each facility licensee must have such a program in operation within three nonths 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 Commiss. ion approval and con-currently implement that program within th ee months after the effective date of the amendments.
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l All power, test and reprocessing facility licensees are recuested to l
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 acditional copies should be provided.
All other facility licensees are requested to sub-mit one signed original and twenty-one additional copies.
Sincerely, f jcfS D
J. Skovholt, Assistant Director for.0perating Reactors Directorate of Licensing
Enclosure:
- 1. Amandment to 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 55 DISTRIBUTION:
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