ML22007A156

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000390/2022301 and 05000391/2022301

ML22007A156
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	01/07/2022
From:	Gerald Mccoy Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Jim Barstow Tennessee Valley Authority
References
50-390/22-301, 50-391/22-301 50-390/OL-22, 50-391/OL-22
Download: ML22007A156 (4)

See also: IR 05000390/2022301

Text

January 7, 2022

Mr. James Barstow

Vice President, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs and Support Services

Tennessee Valley Authority

1101 Market Street, LP 4A

Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT: WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED OPERATOR

INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000390/2022301 and 05000391/2022301

Dear Mr. Barstow:

In a telephone conversation on January 5, 2022, between Mr. Leon Neat, Operations Training

Manager and Mr. David Lanyi, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the

administration of operator licensing examinations at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The on-site

preparatory week is scheduled for the week of July 5, 2022. The operating test is scheduled to

be administered during the week of August 8, 2022. The written examination is scheduled to be

administered the week of August 22, 2022.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and

written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 12 of NUREG-1021, "Operator

Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The NRCs regional office will discuss

with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examinations are administered.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the operating test

outline by March 11, 2022. Mr. Lanyi provided the written examination outline to your staff in

November 2021. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting reference materials

identified in NUREG-1021, Examination Standard (ES)-2.1, Preparing for Operator Licensing

Initial Examinations, will be due by May 25, 2022. Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal

Regulations (10 CFR) 55.40(b)(3), an authorized representative of the facility licensee shall

approve the examinations and tests before they are submitted to the NRC for review and

approval. All materials shall be complete and ready-to-use.

We request that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or safeguards information in

your response be contained in a separate enclosure and appropriately marked. Delays in

receiving the required examination and reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or

incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be cancelled or rescheduled.

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 ES-4.3,

Administering Written Examinations, and to make the simulation facility available on the dates

noted above. In accordance with ES-3.5, Administering Operating Tests, your staff should

retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures, and

levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the NRC takes licensing action on all

the applications and any adjudicatory actions on any hearing demands are complete.

ES-1.2, Guidelines for Taking NRC Examinations, contains a number of NRC guidelines for

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the written examinations and operating tests as they are being administered. Your staff has also

agreed to make copies of all examination materials that are necessary for administering the

examination.

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary reactor

operator and senior reactor operator waiver and/or excusal requests (if any) (Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) control number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first

examination date (if possible). Contact Mr. Lanyi to determine the method for submission of the

waiver or excusal requests. Preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license

applications (OMB control number 3150-0090) and medical certifications (OMB control number

3150-0024) should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the NRC

does not receive the preliminary applications at least 30 days before the examination date, a

postponement may be necessary. Final, signed applications certifying that all training has been

completed and requesting any waivers or excusals, as applicable, should be submitted at least

14 days before the first examination date.

Although the guidelines for waiver or excusal requests call for their receipt at least 30 days

before the first examination date (preliminary) and 14 days before the first examination date

(final), the requests should be submitted as early as possible in the process (see the 60-day

guideline above). Resolutions resulting from verbal inquiries by the facility licensee to the NRC

are not binding. Submittals addressing waivers or excusals, or both, should be in writing (i.e.,

using NRC Form 398, Personal Qualifications StatementLicensee, or as directed by Mr.

Lanyi when contacting him to determine the method for submission). The NRC will document its

final decision on whether to grant a waiver or excusal on the final (not preliminary) NRC Form

398 submitted for the applicant. The NRC will not provide its decision until the final application is

submitted to the agency.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

This letter contains information collection requirements that are subject to the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved

by the OMB, approval number 3150-0018.

The burden to the public for these voluntary information collections is estimated

to average 2,250 hours0.00289 days <br />0.0694 hours <br />4.133598e-4 weeks <br />9.5125e-5 months <br /> per examination or response, including the time for reviewing

instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the information collections. Send comments regarding this information

collection to the FOIA, Library, and Information Collections Branch (T6-A10M), U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555 0001, or by e-mail to

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs (3150-0018), Attn: Desk Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725

17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20503; e-mail: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.

Public Protection Notification

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection

of information, unless the document requesting or requiring the collection displays a currently

valid OMB control number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding, a

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copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection through

the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is

accessible on the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Neat has been advised of the policies and

guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions about the NRC's examination

procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Lanyi at (404) 997-4487, (Internet E-mail:

david.lanyi@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4551, (Internet E-mail: Gerald.McCoy@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gerald McCoy, Chief

Operations Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos.: 50-390, 50-391

License Nos.: NFP-90, NFP-96

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NAME D.Egelstad DLanyi G.McCoy

DATE 01/06/2022 01/06/2022 01/07/2022