ML20024G724
| ML20024G724 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1973 |
| From: | Skovholt D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Dienhart A NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9104260287 | |
| Download: ML20024G724 (2) | |
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50-263 Northern States Power Company ATTH: Mr. Arthur V. Dienhart Vice President of Engineering 414 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 Gentle.nen:
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 reauire facility licensees to carry out adequate Operater requalif t::stier. programs.
An amendment to Part 55 of the AEC's reaulations, which was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1973 establishes minimum re-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.
5n 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 Also, each facility licensee must have such requalification program.
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, mur' submit an operator requalification program for Commission approval and con-currently implement that program within three months after the effective date of the amendments.
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~2' 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 fif ty-nine addit'ional copies should be provided.
All other facility licensees are requested to sub-mit one signed original and twenty-one additional copies.
Sincerely,
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D J. Skovholt, Assistant Director l
for Operating Reactors Directorate of Licensing
Enclosure:
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- 1. Amendment to 10 CFR Part 50 and Part 55 cc: Gerald Charnoff, Counsel Shaw, Pittman, Potts, Trowbridge & Madden 910 17th Street Washington,.D.C. 20006 DISTRIBUTION:
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