ML19317D741
| ML19317D741 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1973 |
| From: | Skovholt D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Thies A DUKE POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7912100507 | |
| Download: ML19317D741 (2) | |
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%,, D,,,,,,, D August 22, 1973 Docket No. 50-269, 50-270 & 50-287 Duke Power Company ATTN: Mr. Austin C. Thies, Senior Vice President, Production and Transmission P.O. Box 2178 Charlotte, North. Carolina 28201 Gentlemen:
The Atomic Energy Commission has amend,ed its regulations to require operators who manipulate the controls of nuclear power reactors and other licensed proouction and utilization facilities to complete a requalification program or be administered a reexamination before each license renewal and to requiie facility licensees to carry out adequate operater recualification programs.
An amendment to Part 55 of the AEC's regulations, which was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1973 establishes minimum re-
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quirements for requalification programs including on-the-job training and lectures on basic theories and safety systems of the specific plant.
It applies to both operators and senior operators.
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date requires that an application for a license to operate a facility must include a description and plans' for implementation of an operator reqlalification program. Also, each facility licensee must have such a program in operation within three months 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 Commission approval and con-currently implement that program within three montns after the effective date of the amendments.
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All power, test and reprocessing facility licensees are requested to submit the required information with one signed original and thirty-nine additional copies.
If a single submittal covers note than one unit at a station, one signed original and fifty-nine additional copies should be provided.
All other facility licensees are requested to sub-mit one signed original and twenty-one additional copies.
Sincerely, hr l
D J. Skovholt, Assistant Director for Operating Reactors Directotate of Licensing
Enclosure:
- 1. Amendment to 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 55 cc: William L. Porter, Counsei Duke Power Company P.O. Box 2178 422 So. Church Street Charlotte, South Carolina 28201 l
DISTRIBUTION:
Facility File D.J. Skovholt R.G. DeYoung A. Schwencer
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