ML22172A122

Senior Reactor and Reactor Operator Initial License Examinations

ML22172A122
Person / Time
Site:	Nine Mile Point
Issue date:	06/21/2022
From:	Diane Jackson NRC/RGN-I/DORS
To:	Rhoades D Constellation Energy Generation, Constellation Nuclear
Jackson D
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June 21, 2022

Mr. David P. Rhoades Senior Vice President Constellation Energy Generation, LLC President and Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO)

Constellation Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1 - SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATIONS

Dear Mr. Rhoades:

In a telephone conversation on June 15, 2022, between Mr. Brian Fuller, Chief Examiner and Mr. Michael Dougherty, Exam Author, arrangements were made for the administration of operator licensing examinations at Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Unit 1 during the week of January 30, 2023.

As agreed upon during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 12 to 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 m eet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the operating test outlines by September 2, 2022. The NRC staff provided the written exam ination outline on December 17, 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 November 16, 2022. Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 55.40(b)(3), an authori zed representative of the facility licensee shall approve the examinations and tests before they are subm itted 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. De la y s in receiving the required materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the exam inations to be cancelled or 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.

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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 operator and senior reactor operator waiver or excusal requests (if any) (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control num ber 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the firs t exam ination date (if possible). Contact Mr. Brian Fuller, Chief Examiner to determ ine 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 num ber 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. Subm ittals addressing waivers or excusals, or both, should be in writing (i.e.,

using NRC Form 398 or as directed by Mr. Fuller when contacting him to determ ine the method for subm ission). Th e 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 inform ation collections were approved by the OMB, approval number 3150- 0018.

The burden to the public for these voluntary information collect ions 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 17 th 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 v a lid 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 fo r 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 /a dam s.h tm l.

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Dougherty has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions about the NRCs examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Brian Fuller at (610) 741-9636 or m e at (610) 337-5306.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Operating Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50 -220 License No. DPR-63

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NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1 - SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATIONS DATED JUNE 21, 2022

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