ML20133J450
| ML20133J450 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Cooper  |
| Issue date: | 01/14/1997 |
| From: | Gwynn T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Horn G NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9701210021 | |
| Download: ML20133J450 (8) | |
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AR LlNGTON, TEXAS 76011 8064 JAN I 41997 Guy R. Horn, Vice President - Nuclear Nebraska Public Power District 141415th Street Columbus, Nebraska 68601
SUBJECT:
NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-298/97-01
Dear Mr. Horn:
In a telephone conversation on December 11,1996, between Mr. Wil.
et Lead initial Training, and Mr. Thomas Meadows, Chief Examiner, arrangements m nade for the administration of licensing examinations at the Cooper Nuclear Station sing the week of June 16,1997.
Your staff has agreed to participate in a voluntary pilot examination program in which your staff will prepare the written examinations and operating tests and submit them to the NRC regional office for evaluation and approval. Your staff will prepare the proposed examinations in accordance with the guidelines in Revision 7, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021," Operator Licensing Examiner Standards"; Revision 5 of NUP.r.G/BR-0122,
" Examiners' Handbook for Developing Operator Licensing Written Examinations"; and the enclosure to this letter. The NRC regional office will discuss with your staff any examination changes that might be necessary prior to their administration.
To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the proposed examination outlines by April 17,1997. The proposed written examinations, operating tests, and the supporting reference materials will be due by May 17,1997. Any delay in receiving the required reference and examination materials or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials may result in the examinations being rescheduled.
In order to conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, it will be necessary for your staff to provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with Examiner Standard ES-402 and to make the simulation facility available on the dates noted above. To facilitate efficient scheduling and the best possible measure of applicant performance, examinations will be scheduled during normal business hours. If you expect to need a different schedule, please inform us as soon as possible.
Appendix E of NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered.
Examiner Standards ES-402, Attachment 1, and ES-302, Attachment 1, contain a number i
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Nebraska Public Power District of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered. In accordance with Examiner Standard ES-302, your staff should retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., syst'em pressures, temperatures, and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination results are final.
Your staff should submit preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications and waiver requests at least 30 days before the first examination date so that the NRC will be able to review the applications and the medical certifications and evaluate any requested waivers. If the applications are not received at least 30 days before the examination date, a postponement may be necessary. Signed applications certifying that all training has been completed should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.
This request is covered by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Clearance Number 3150-0101,which expires April 30,1997. The estimated average burden is 7.7 hours8.101852e-5 days <br />0.00194 hours <br />1.157407e-5 weeks <br />2.6635e-6 months <br /> per response, including gathering, xeroxing and mailing the required reference material; the estimated average burden to prepare the examinations is 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 months <br />. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Information and Records Management Branch, Mail Stop T-6 F33, Office of Information Resources Management, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555; and to the Paperwork Reduction Project (3150-0101), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Green has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's i
examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Thomas R. Meadows at 817/860-8156or John Pellet at 817/860-8159.
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wy, Director Division of Reactor Safety Docket: 50-298 License: DPR-46
l Nebraska Public Power District l cc w/ enclosure:
John R. McPhail, General Counsel Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 499 Columbus, Nebraska 68602-0499 P. D. Graham, Vice President of Nuclear Energy Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 98 Brownville, Nebraska 68321 B. L. Houston, Nuclear Licensing and Safety Manager Nebraska Public Power District P.O. Box 98 Brownville, Nebraska 68321 R. J. Singer, Manager-Nuclear Midwest Power 907 Walnut Street P.O. Box 657 Des Moines, Iowa 50303 Mr. Ron Stoddard Lincoln Electric System 11th and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 Randolph Wood, Director Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality P.O. Box 98922 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-8922 Chairman Nemaha County Board of Commissioners Nemaha County Courthouse 1824 N Street Auburn, Nebraska 68305
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Nebraska Public Power District I Cheryl Rogers, LLRW Program Manager Environmental Protection Section Nebraska Department of Health 301 Centennial Mall, South P.O. Box 95007 i
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Director Nebraska Department of Health P.O. Box 950070 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-5007 R. A. Kucera, Department Director of Intergovernmental Cooperation Department of Natural Resources P.O. Box 176 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Kansas Radiation Control Program Director i
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PILOT EXAMINATION GUIDELINES Facility licensees will prepare the written examinations and operating tests (dynamic simulator and walkthrough) in accordance with the instructions in Revision 7, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021 (" Operator Licensing Examiner Standards") and Revision 5 of NUREG/BR-0122 (" Examiners' Handbook for Developing Operator Licensing Written Examinations"), subject to the following additional criteria:
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The facility lict:nsee will prepare an integrated examination outline (written and operating test! and submit it to the NRC regional office for review, comment, and 1
approval at least 60 days before the scheduled examination date. The NRC chief examiner will work with the f acility licensee to resolve any problems and to avoid unnecessary revision of the final examination products.
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Facility employees who are involved with developing the examinations and tests will sign a standard security agreement (Form ES-201-2) before they gain specific knowledge of the examinations and tests. Facility employees who played a substantiai role in training the license applicants will generally not be involved in developing the license examinations or tests. If the f acility licensee considers such employees riecessary for developing the examinations or tests, it will define the measures it will take to ensure that the integrity of the examinations is not compromised and submit them to the NRC regional office for approval.
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The written examinations and operating tests will satisfy the following specific criterie:
A maximum of 50 percent of the written examination questions may be taken directly from the f acility question bank; up to an additional 40 percent of the questions may be taken from the facility bank but must be significantly modified; and a minimum of 10 percent of the questions will be newly developed. As discussed in NUREG/BR-0122,new questions should emphasize the applicants' understanding at the comprehension or application levels of knowledge because they have the greatest operational and discriminatory validity.
No more than 25 percent of the questinns on the examination may be repeated from previous examinations, quizzes, or tests administered to the license applicants, or from the past two NRC license examinations at the f acility. No questions may be drawn directly from the applicants' audit examination or similar testing vehicle given at the end of the training class.
Each walkthrough test willinclude at least two job performance measures (JPMs) that are either new or significantly altered, and each simulator scenario set vwillinclude at least one new or significantly altered scenario. Other scenarios used may be drawn directly from the f acility l
scenario bank; however, they will be altered to the degree needed to prevent the applicants from immediately recognizing the scenarios based on initial conditions or other cues.
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4 A significant modification, for purposes of the written questions, means a change to the conditions in the stem and at least one distractor significantly changed. Similarly, JPMs and simulator scenarios will have at least one substantive event or condition change that alters the course of action in the l
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The facility licensee will submit the final written examinations and operating tests to the NRC regional office at least 30 days before the scheduled examination date. In its submittal, the f acility licensee will include a history (e.g., bank, revised, new,
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The NRC regional office will assign a chief examiner to coordinate the review, j
revision (as determined necessary by the NRC), and validation of the written examinations and operating tests with the facility licensee. Additional NRC staff examiners will be assigned as necessary (typically one or two, depending on the number of applicants) to assist the chief examiner with administering and grading the operating tests in accordance with existing procedures. The facility licensee will administer and grade the written examinations; NRC examiners will review and approve the licensee's grading.
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