ML20217N687
| ML20217N687 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 04/02/1998 |
| From: | Conte R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Tessier R NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9804090172 | |
| Download: ML20217N687 (5) | |
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g APR 2 jggg Mr. Robert W. Tessier
, Manager. Training Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Nuclear Training Center -
' 450 Lake Road.
Oswego, New York 13126 Gentlemen:
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SUBJECT:
REVISED NRC FORMS 398 and 396
- Enclosed is a copy of _the revised forms
- NRC Form-398, Personal Qualifications Statement J Licensee. (Enclosure 1), and NRC Form-396, Certification of Medical Examination by Facility Licensee (Enclosure 2). Due to error on the instructions for Form 398, addendum instructions for completing the form are pro'vided as Enclosure 3 to this letter. You should use these forms immediately for any new applications'or license renewals.that you are sending to the NRC. provides a summary of the detailed changes for these forms. On Form 398,
. you sh'ould note that applicants are now required to provide evidence on the significant control manipulations performed as trainees at the facility for which the license is being
. sought. On this matter, you should refer to NRC Information Notice No. 97-67, dated
- August 21,1997.
! On Form 396ithe applicable guidance used in making the medical determinations needs to E
be indicated. 'Also,' be advised that the NRC staff has recently approved Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.134, " Medical Evaluation of Licensed Personnel at Nuclear Power Plants," which endorses ANSI /ANS-3.4-1996," Medical Certification and Monitoring of Personnel Requiring Operator Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants." A notice in the Federal
' Register will be out shortly.
. Further, you should keep 'a copy of Enclosure 3 with the Form 398 until new forms are printed and distributed..Your office can obtain additional copies of both forms by
.contseting Beverly Martin by telephone on 301. 415-5877or by writing to her, U.S.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Mail Stop T-6-F-
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33i Washington, D.C. -20555 0001,or e-mail BAM1@NRC. gov.
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Mr. Robert W. Tessier If you have any questions regarding these forms, please contact Virgil Curley at 610-337-5379 or by e-mail VNC@NRC. gov. -
Sincerely,
@ lNnl s1 e Richard J. Conte, Chief Operator Licensing and Human Performance Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50 410 : NRC Form-398 - Personal Qualifications Statement - Licensee : NRC Form-396 - Certification of Medical Examination by Facility Licensee
' Enclosure 3: Addendum Instructions for NRC Form-398
' Enclosure 4: Description of Changes to NRC Forms-398 and 396 bec w/ enclosures:
J. H. Mueller, Senior Vice President PUBLIC D-bec w/ enclosures:
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ENCLOSURE 3 ADDENDUM INSTRUCTION TO NRC FORM 398
- Applies to the Instructions for item 4.g, on the " Type of Application":
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DATE PASSED GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAM SECTION (GFES)
The last sentence of 4.g s'tates: "This does not include instructor certification examinations or requalification examinations".
This statement is in error and is not in accordance with Interim Rev. 8, ES-205, section 8, third paragraph, which states as follows:
" Applicants do not need to take the GFE (nor obtain a waiver) if they were previously issued an RO or SRO license or an instructor certification
[ underline added] based on a site specific written examination (on the same type of facility) that was administered between February 1982 and November 1989 and included 'the material covered by the GFE.. Applicants 1
who were issued a license before 1982, will have to take the examination or j
apply for a waiver in accordance with ES-204.
1' The last sentence of 4.g should read, "This does not include reaualification examinations."
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a ENCLOSURE 4 CHANGES TO NRC FORMS 398 AND 396 NRC Form item Description of Changes Number
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.398 4.g
- See Enclosure 3 398:
13 Instruction Sheet: All new applications must provide evidence in accordance with 10 CFR 55.31(b) that the applicant, as a-trainee, has successfully manipulated the controls of the facility for which a license is sought. This section was changed to read as follows:
"At a minimum, five significant control manipulations must be performed which affect reactivity.or power level under item 13.3c. list the five sianificant control manioulations in item
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.398 18 Instruction Sheet - changed to read: "NRC Form-396, Certification of Medical Examination by Facility licensee must accompany this application unless a waiver of the medical examination is beina reauested.
398 NA Form: The OMB expiration date is now 10/31/2000.
In the OMB block the following was added: "If an information collection does not disolav a currentiv valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or soonsor, and a person is not reouired to resoond to the information collection".
-398' NA Form and Instructions: Top and Bottom left-hand side have date changes to 10-1997.
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NRC Form item Description of Changes Number Number 396 Item A -'
Medical Exam Information - statement regarding safeguards and fitness for duty requirements has been moved from item B to be included with the statement under A - Medical Exam Information as noted below:
"This is to certify that the above named applicant for an operator / senior operator license has been examined by a physician and that the aoolicant has been found to meet the safeouards and fitness for duty reouirements for licensed ooerators at this facility."
item A Below the physician name,...... line, the word " physical" has~
been added:
" Based on the results of the obvsical examination, including...."
in this same paragraph it states as follows: "I certify that in reaching this determination,'the guidance contained in ANSI /ANS 3.4-1996. or ANSI /ANS 3.4-1983 was used.
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i item B NONMEDICAL CERTIFICATION (old form) has been changed to: B - CERTIFICATION (new form) 396 NA Top and Bottom left-hand side of the form have date changes to 3-1998 396 NA Top right corner - OMB expiration date changed to :
12/31/1999
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