ML20134G947
| ML20134G947 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Callaway  |
| Issue date: | 11/04/1996 |
| From: | Brockman K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Schnell D UNION ELECTRIC CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20134G807 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9611130444 | |
| Download: ML20134G947 (7) | |
See also: IR 05000483/1997001
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Donald F. Schnell, Senior Vice
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SUBJECT: PILOT INITIAL EXAMINATION (NRC INSPECTION REPORT 50-483/97-01)
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In a telephone conversation on October 28,1996, between Mr. Fran Biermann, Operating
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Supervisor, Requalification Training, and Howard Bundy of my staff, arrangements were
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made for the administration of licensing examinations at the Callaway Plant during the
week of February 24,1997.
Based on this telephone conversation, we understand that 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 this 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 NUREG/BR-0122," Examiners' Handbook for Developing
Operator Licensing Written Examinations," and the attachment to this letter. We will
discuss with your staff any examination changes that might be necessary prior to their
administration.
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To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the proposed
examination outlines by December 24,1996, and the finalized written examinations and
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the finalized operating test by January 24,1997. The NRC will review the completed and
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validatea examinations at your facility, the week of February 10,1997. Any delay in
receiving approved test outlines or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete test materials,
may result in the examinations being rescheduled.
In order to conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, it will be
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necessary for your staff to provide adequate space and accommodations,in accordance
with Examiner Standard-402 and to make the simulation facility available for the weeks
noted above.
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Examiner Standards-402s and -302, Attachment 1, contain a number of NRC policies and
guidelines that will be in effect while the written examinations and operating tests are
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being administered, in accordance with Examiner Standard-302, your staff should retain
the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures, and levels)
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generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination results are final.
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Your staff should submit the 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.
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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
hours per response, including gathering, xeroxing, and mailing the required material. Send
comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of
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information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Information and Records
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Management Branch, Mail Stop T-6 F33, Office of Information Resources Management,
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555; and to the Paperwork
Reduction Project (3150-0101),0ffice of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
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NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Biermann has been advised of the
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policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding this
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inspection, please contact Howard Bundy, at (817) 860-8172 or Tom McKernon, Acting
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Chief, Operations Branch at (817) 860-8153.
Sincerely,
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[ Kenneth E. Brockman, Acting Director
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Division of Reactor Safety
Docket No. 50-483
License No. NPF-30
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Attachment:
Pilot Examination Guidelines
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Professional Nuclear Consulting, Inc.
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Derwood, Maryland 20855
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Gerald Charnoff, Esq.
Thomas A. Baxter, Esq.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge
2300 N. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
H. D. Bono, Supervising Engineer
Site Licensing
Union Electric Company
P.O. Box 620
Fulton, Missouri 65251
G. L. Randolph, Vice President
Nuclear Operations
Union Electric Company
P.O. Box 620
Fulton, Missouri 65251
Manager - Electric Department
Missouri Public Service Commission
301 W. High
P O. Box 360
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Ronald A. Kucera, Deputy Director
Department of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
- Neil S. Carns, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
P.O. Box 411
Burlington, Kansas 66839
Dan 1. Bolef, President
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Kay Drey, Representative
Board of Directors Coalition
for the Environment
6267 Delmar Boulevard
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Quality Assurance
Union Electric Company
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Fulton, Missouri 65251
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ATTACHMENT
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PILOT EXAMINATION GUIDELINES
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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:
(1)
The facility licensee will prepare an integrated examination outline (written and
operating test) and submit it to the NRC regional office for review, comment, and
approval at least 60 days before the scheduled examination date. The NRC chief
examiner will work with the facility licensee to resolve any problems and to avoid
unnecessary revision of the final examination products.
(2)
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
substantial role in training the license applicants will generally not be involved in
developing the license examinations or tests. If the facility licensee considers such
employees necessary 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.
(3)
The written examinations and operating tests will satisfy the following specific
criteria:
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 questions on the examination may be
repeated from previous examinations, quiz:es, 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.
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Each walkthrough test willinclude at least two job performance
measures (JPMs) that are either new or significantly altered, and each
simulator scenario set willinclude at least one new or significantly altered
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scenario. Other scenarios used may be drawn directly from the facility
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scenario bank; however, they will be altered to the degree needed to prevent
the applicants from immediately recognizing the scenarios based on initial
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conditions or other cues.
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
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substantive event or condition change that alters the course of action in the
JPM or scenario.
(4)
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 facility licensee will include a history (e.g., bank, revised, new,
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and date last used) of each test item used on the written and operating tests.
(5)
The NRC regional office will assign a chief examiner to coordinate the review,
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revision (as determined necessary by the NRC), and validation of the written
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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
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administer and grade the written examinations; NRC examiners will review and
approve the licensee's grading.
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