ML22031A254

301 Corporate Notification Letter

ML22031A254
Person / Time
Site:	Robinson
Issue date:	01/25/2022
From:	Gerald Mccoy Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Kapopoulos E Duke Energy Progress
References
50-261/22-301 50-261/OL-22
Download: ML22031A254 (4)

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January 25, 2022 Mr. Ernest J. Kapopoulos, Jr.

Site Vice President H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant Duke Energy Progress, LLC 3581 West Entrance Road, RNPA01 Hartsville, SC 29550

SUBJECT:

H. B. ROBINSON STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000261/2022301

Dear Mr. Kapopoulos:

During a telephone conversation on January 18, 2022, between Mr. M. Santalla, Superintendent of Operations Training, and Mr. D. Bacon, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at the H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant. The on-site preparatory week is scheduled for the week of August 29, 2022. The operating test is scheduled to be administered during the week of October 3, 2022. The written examination is scheduled to be administered during the week of October 10, 2022.

As agreed upon during the telephone conversation, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will prepare both the operating test outlines and the written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 12 of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors."

Your staff will be given the opportunity to review the operating test outlines beginning on February 18, 2022 and to review the written examination beginning on June 24, 2022. Your staff has also agreed to make copies of all examination materials that are necessary for administering the examination.

We request that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or safeguards information in your response be contained in a separate enclosure and appropriately marked. Any delay in receiving the required examination and reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled.

To conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, your staff will need to provide adequate space and accommodations 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 the written examinations and operating tests as they are being administered.

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

E. Kapopoulos 2 operator and senior reactor operator waiver and/or excusal requests (if any) (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first examination date (if possible). Contact Mr. Bacon to determine the method for submission of the waiver or excusal requests. Preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications (OMB approval number 3150-0090) and medical certifications (OMB approval number 3150-0024) should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the applications are not received 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 receiving waiver or excusal requests call for 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 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. Bacon 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 Office of Management and Budget, approval number 3150-0018.

The burden to the public for these mandatory information collections is estimated to average 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 months <br /> per examination, 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; email:

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 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.

E. Kapopoulos 3 Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Santalla has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Bacon at (404) 997-4518, (Internet E-mail:

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

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gerald J. McCoy, Chief Operations Branch 1 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-261 License Nos.: DPR-23 cc: Distribution via Listserv

ML22031A254 SUNSI REVIEW COMPLETE FORM 665 ATTACHED OFFICE RII/DRS/OB1 RII/DRS/OB1 RII/DRS/OB1 NAME DEgelstad DBacon GMcCoy DATE 1/21/2022 1/24/2022 1/ 25 /2022