ML20032E369
| ML20032E369 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 10/21/1981 |
| From: | Aamodt M AAMODTS |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
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| ML20032E364 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 8111200476 | |
| Download: ML20032E369 (9) | |
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AAM - 10/21/81
._m; :crEr:mrxcr UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 00CMETED NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION USNRC BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of
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AAMODT RESPONSE TO NRC STAFF'S DISCOVERY REQUEST NO. 79 79.
Describe in detail the ways in which you believe the Staff's plan for retesting operators and monitoring its examinations is inadequate.-
RESPONSE
The Staff's plan has been identified as ADMINISTRATION OF OPERATOR LICENSING WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS (a t tached).
The plan fails to address the need for proctoring, the provision of proctoring, the quality of proctoring and the responsibilities of proctors.
Proctoring is the main deterrent to cheating.
The plan fails to address the attitude of the candidates.
Candidates should be requested to sign a pledge to indicate that their responses are solely their own.
The plan fails to address the problem of ineligible candidates sitting for the licensing examination; these. candidates are motivated to cheat since that may be the only way they can pass.
The plan is faulted by allowing candidates to bring in their own lunches.
Lunches should be provided.
The plan is faulted by the use of loose paper for responses; 8111200476 811021 PDR ADOCK 05000289 o
2 careless exhibition of papers can be prevented by use of answer booklets.
Tne plan does not prehibit candidates taking papers out of the testing room.
The plan does not prohibit conversation among candidates.
The plan does not indicate whether Licensee personnel will discuss the examination with the OLB examiners within the testing room, creating an annoyance, distraction of proctoring, opportunity for candidates to hear answers.
The plan does not discuss protection of the test prior to its administration.
The plan does not provide for alternate forms to be used within a testing session, as well as for subsec.nt sessions.
The spacing of candidates is sufficiently remote if all other conditions indicated above are met.
The candidates should be admonished that cheating will result in termination of employment, nt. reassignment.
An honor code should be established.
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ENCLOSURE NO. 2 ADMINISTRATION OF OPEMTOR LICENSING WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS Operator Licensing Branch R;quirements 1.
Ample room shall be provided for comoleting the written examination.
Minimum spacing is one apolicant oer 5 X 2 1/2 ft. minimum rize table with 3 foot scacing between tables.
All acclicants shall comolete the examination in one room.
If necessary, the facility should make arrangements for the use. of a suitable room at a local school, motel, or other building.
Obtaining this room is the resoonsibility of the licensee.
2 All aoplicants are required to bring their lunch to the examining room.
3.
No wall charts, models, and or other training materials shall be Dresent in the examining room.
4 The facility shall arrange to have oersonnel availcble to review the examination with the OLB examiners.
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The NRC will furnish lined answer pads and any reference material needed to complete the examination.
No other cacer or material, exceot for calculaters and slide rules will be allowed in the room.
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The facility should furnish black cens for the apolicants to use for ccrpleting the examination.
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LNITED STATES OF AMER]!QKETED NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSS N BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AgggIgpARD In the Matter of
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FOLLOW-ON INTERROGATORIES OF LICENSEE RE REOPENED HEARINGS ON CHEATING INCIDENT Re Issue 1 l.
Follow-on Request 1:
Provide the letter (copy) sent by R.
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Arnold to management personnel re records of cheating or suspected cheating, names cf individuals to whom the letter was sent and position, and the response letter from each of these individuals.
j(._ Follev-on Request 1:
Re Note 9/23/81, Item #2, Was " I '.'
Operator I?
Identify ooo by position.
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Follow-on Request 1:
R.
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Lloyd letter to Arnold, 9/1/81, Explain what is meant by " obligations to the community because of public health and cafety".
(Ttem E14).
4.
The Notes provided in response Request 1 are illegible.
e Please provide typed copy of the handwritten notes.
5.
Follow-on Request 2:
Provide typed copies of hand written reports and notes that are illegible; these include the four page report of Newton of 8/28/81 - Attorney Work Product - Privileged
& Confidential, and 9/3/81 interview of GG (3 pages).
6.
Follow-on Request 2:
Had Trunk been provided with the in-
2 formation that the Second Round of Category T tests were taken home at the time Mr. Trunk wrote on 9/7/81 to John Wilson?
7.
Follow-on Request 2:
Re 9/9/81 Notes of meeting on training, please answer the following questions:
a.
At the Bottom of page 1, to what tests do the these quotes refer, "Shown tests?", "Between Jan and March tests seen by them.
Had seen tests." ?
b.
Page 2, first 3 lines, to what tests does following refer, "last three tests 7/6, 7/5, 7/4 for review"?
8, Folloe-on Request 2:
Meeting between management and G, 9/11/81, bottom page 1.
Where G discusses test on Category T:
Provide the training department's version of the review of G's prior tests with G, including the indis idual who provided this review and how the review was accomplished.
Page 3, middle: It reported that Brown proctored; what test?
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' Follow-on Request 2:
Notes of telephone conversation 9/22/81' with Gerald Schile, page 1 at center:
Where states " Charts put on front table", explain nature of charts.
Does "well spread" refer to scating?
In what rooms?
Explain what notation "15 SRO passed, 18 RO no passed, 35 total" means.
Did Brown, Newton and Boltz proctor th!
examination?
Provide details of Licensee involvement in proctoring.
Provide credentials (re: < ' ant) of graders.
Page 2:
Explain "Some questions modified"; provide questions modified and original versions.
Provide job description of Gerald Schile.
What test is inferred?
10.
Follow-on Request 2: Interview of S, 9/14/81, Page 1 below middle:
What is S referring to by" Group participation in some cases -- announced ahead of time" and by "Sometimes told you to 4
3 close your books, etc."?
What testing is S referring to (both quoter ll.
Foll s-on Request 2: Notes on Followup on Lessons Handouts 3-
.rsonal Possession, 9/22/81. Did any of these operators locate and provide their lesson handouts as indicated they would?
Which individuals?
Provide all handouts relevant to hhe resolution of the test response similiarities.
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Follow-on Request 2:
Attorney Work Product, Privileged and Confidential:
page 4 (middle).
The lesson plan of ?. Messman of Energy, Inc. was to be obtained to analyze test- :esponse similiarities.
Was this obtained?
By whom?
Was it used in further analysiu?--If so, what were the conclusions?
Provide the lesson plan referred to. On Page 5 under Discussion, there appears that information may have beei drieted.
Please check and provide _.
if deleted.
Page 18, what is meant by G's " general character appears to be contrary to the ' establishment'"?
Follow-on:
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-" 13}, Re Issue 2',
Request 1 a.
Did Staf f indicate to you that they would prefer to interview the operators without management present?
If so, what individual of Staff indicated that to what individual of management?
b.
Which individual in management informed each interviewee that management would be present during the interview if desired? How was this information transmitted?
If by written communication, provide.
- 14. Pe Issue 2, Request.3 a.
Provide legible or typewritten copies of all items except ?5.
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- 15. Re Issue 5, Request 1 a.
Kelly:
What occasioned the absence of all four proctors from the room on the morning of April 2, 1980?
(Licensee copy dates this as 1981, presumably incorrectly.)
What sections of the POS examination were likely tc have been responded to at that time?
b.
ATT:
Why was the South Auditorium of the TMI-l Service Building not used for this examination?
What is the memory of the training department regarding presence of proctors in the testing What is ATT's view regarding the presence of proctors during rooms?
'ents examination and the need for proctors in general?
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Issue 12, ~~ Request 1 a.
Page 13 (bottom):
nrovide by individual the sections which were reviewed, what section (alternate or their own) was turned in, the training department review and analysis of the.
operators' review of the sections, and what grade each individual-would have received on this work if it had been taken and graded as an audit.
b.
Page 13 (beginning 2nd paragraph):
Provide notes and report of " exit interview" held with candidates.
7alicate which Shift Supervisors (by Letter designation) were selected i
to help candidates -to prepare for the NRC examination.
7 "qneral a.
When will Mr. Trunk's review of the Kelly non-category T exams be completed, as discussed in reply to MRC Interrogatories 1,
2, 3.
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Identify the two individuals with whom Mr. Arnold met because of their allegations of cheating, as discussed in reply to NRC Interrogatory 6.
c.
What is VV's current position with Licensee.
Is VV one of the non-operational licensed personnel Licensee plans to use in the control room in the event of a shortage of operators?
8.
Provide.. copy of I&E letter referred to in Note of 7/29/81 attached.
Respectfully submitted,
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Marjorie M. Aamodt October 21, 1981
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