ML19341A529
| ML19341A529 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/29/1980 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Jamarl Cummings NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTOR & AUDITOR (OIA) |
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| Download: ML19341A529 (9) | |
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CG4MENTS ON DRAFT OIA REPORT " AUDIT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NRR-RELATED 114I LESSONS LEARNED CONCERNING UTILITY PERSONNEL LICENSING AND TRAINING" Your memorandum of September 5,1980 requested comments on the subject draft DIA report.
He are in general agreement with the facts and findings of the report, with the following comments.
The report notes two recommendations arising out of the various TMI studies that DIA believes were not adequately addressed in the Action Plan.
The first of these concerns the operator requalification examination pro-gram.
As the OIA report acknowledges, NRR has a study undenvay with Analysis and Technology, Inc., to consider guidelines for requalification examinations and alternative methods for fulfilling the Commission 's directive to administer all annual requalification examinations.
Since the FY 1982 budget package had to be prepared before any results were available from this study, we estimated the resources that would be required to administer requalification examinations added up to approximately fifty man-years per year.
These estimates were based on administering the requali-fication examinations in a manner sjmilar to the procedures used in 6dainistering the replacement examsl/.
Since it would be impractical to think we could increase the NRC staff by that amount for budgeting purposes, we used professional man-years for the replacement examination program and allocated money to contract out the implementation of the requalification examination program.
Rather than use all of the money and none of the people in the FY 82 for requalification e.seminations, we expect to reapportion money and people available after the planning has progressed further.
The resources requested include an increase of eleven professicnals for 1982; this seemed, based on experience, to be the caximum number we could expect to recruit in one year.
He anticipate that we vill make a recommendation to the Commission on plans and budget for this program in early spring af 1981.
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The second recomuendation noted in the OIA report' appears to refer to Section 3.13.8 of the IE Special Review Group report.
The recommendation states that provisions should be made to allow NRC to conduct tests of emergency prepared-ness capability if the licensee fails to conduct such a test.
The recent revisions to Part 50 require licensees to conduct various drills and exer-cises.
Failure to comply with the regulations could result in suspension or modification of the facility license.
In addition, NRC will observe and critique certain of the exercises jointly with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the sense that NRC participates in the evaluation of an exercise, we believe that the cited recommendation is met.
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