ML19326C940
| ML19326C940 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Arkansas Nuclear  |
| Issue date: | 08/23/1973 |
| From: | Skovholt D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Phillips J ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8004290569 | |
| Download: ML19326C940 (2) | |
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August 23, 1973 Docket No. 50-313; 50-368 Arkansas Power & Light Company ATTN: Mr. J. D. Phillips, Vice President and Chief Engineer-Sixth & Pine Streets Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601 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 reexamination before each license renewal and to require facility licensees to carry out adequate operator requalification programs.
An amendment to Part 55 6f the AEC's regulations, which was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1973 establishes minimum re-quirements for requalification programs including on-the,iob training and lectures on basic theories and safety systems of the specific plant.
It applies to both operators and senior operators, n amendment to Part 50 published in the Federal Register on the same date requires that an application for'a license to operate a facility i
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 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 Ccmmission approval and con-currently implement that program within three months after the effective date of the amendments.
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Arkansas Power & Light Co.
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 more 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, f
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J. Skavholt, Assistant Director for Operating Reactors Directorate of Licensing
Enclosure:
- i. Amendment to 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 55 cc: Mr. Horace U Jewell House, Holms nd Jewell 1550 Tower Bui ding Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 DISTRIBUTION:
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