ML20217P219
| ML20217P219 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 04/02/1998 |
| From: | Conte R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Hickok R PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9804100029 | |
| Download: ML20217P219 (5) | |
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APR 2 1999
- Mr. Roy Hickok '
Manager - Nuclear Training; i-
~ North Atlantic Energy. Service Co.
' Seabrook Station P. O. Box 300 Seabrook, New Hampshire 03874~
' Gentlemen:
SUBJECT:
REVISED NRC FORMS 398 and 396
' Enclosed is a copy of the revised forms: NRC Form 398, Personal Qualifications Statement.
- 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 provided 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. Oh Form 398,
' you should 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 396, the applicable guidance used in making the medical determinations needs to be indicate,d. ' 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 ivill be out shortly.
Further, you shoulet 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.
contacting 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-33, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001,or e-mail BAM1@NRC. gov.
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if you have any questions regarding these forms, please contact Viryll Cu'rley at 610-337 '
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Sincerely, u
I Qyel QJp Richard J. Conte, Chief Operator Licensing and Human Performance Branch-Division of Reactor Safety.
L Docket No. 50-443 : NRC Form-398-Personal Qualifications Statement - Licensee
' : NRC Form-396-Certification of Medical Examination by Facility Licensee
" : Addendum Instructions for NRC Form 398 Friclosure 4: Description of Changes to NRC Forms 398 and 396 l.
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ENCLOSURE 3 ADDENDUM INSTRUCTION TO NRC FORM 398 1
Applies to ti e Instructions for item 4.g, on the " Type of Application":
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DATE FASSED GENERIC FUNDAMENTALS EXAM SECTION (GFES)
The last sentence of 4.g states: "This does not include instructor 1
l certification examinations or requalification examinations".
l This statement is in error and is not in accordance with Interim Rev. 8, ES-205, I
section B, third paragraph, which states as follows:
" Applicants do not need to take the GFE (nor obtain a waiver)if they were previously issaed an RO or SRO license or an instructor certification
[ underline adde 1] based on a site specific written examination (on the same type of facility) that was administered between February 1982 and November 1989 a 3d included the material covered by the GFE. Applicants who were issued a 'icense before 1982, will have to take the examination or apply for a waiver in accordance with ES-204.
The last sentence of 4.g should resd, "This does not include reaualification i
examinations."
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ENCLOSURE 4 c'
h CHANGES TO NRC FORMS 398 AND 396 NRC Form
- Item Description of Changes Number Number 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 i
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 sionificant control manioulations in item
- 17."
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 beino 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 sconsor, and a person is not reauired to respond to the information collection".
398 NA Form and Instructions: Top and Bottom left-hand side have date changes to 10-1997.
NRC Form -
Item Description of Changes Number Number 396 ltem A Medical Exara 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 soolicant has been found to meet the safeauards and fitness for duty reauirements for licensed coerators at this facility."
Item A Below the physician name,...... line, the word " physical" has been added:
" Based on the results of the ohvsical 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, 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 :
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