ML25085A340

Senior Reactor and Reactor Operator Retake License Examinations

ML25085A340
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	03/27/2025
From:	Sarah Elkhiamy NRC/RGN-I/DORS/OB
To:	Mcfeaters C Public Service Enterprise Group
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March 27, 2025 Charles McFeaters President and Chief Nuclear Officer PSEG Nuclear, LLC P.O. Box 236 Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038

SUBJECT:

SALEM NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 - SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR RETAKE LICENSE EXAMINATIONS

Dear Charles McFeaters:

In a telephone conversation on March 18, 2025, between Manan Patel, Chief Examiner, and Steven Miller, Facility Exam Lead, arrangements were made for the administration of an operator licensing re-examination at the Salem facility during the week of June 16, 2025.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 12, of NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors. The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRC) regional office will discuss with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examination is administered.

The written examination outline was provided to your staff on March 20, 2025. The written examination and supporting reference materials identified in NUREG-1021, Examination Standard (ES)-2.1, Preparing for Operator Licensing Initial Examinations, will be due by May 23, 2025. 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 examination before it is 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 materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examination to be canceled or rescheduled.

To conduct the requested written examination, your staff will need to provide adequate space and accommodations. ES-1.2, Guidelines for Taking NRC Examinations, contains a number of NRC guidelines for the written examination as it is 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 number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first examination date (if possible). Contact Manan Patel, Chief Examiner, 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

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3150-0024) should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the preliminary 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 Manan Patel 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 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Library, and Information Collections Branch (T6-A10M), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555 0001, or by email 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, of the agencys Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS).

ADAMS is accessible on the NRCs website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Steven Miller has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRCs examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Manan Patel at (610) 337-5304 or me at (610) 337-6916.

Sincerely, Sarah Elkhiamy, Chief Operations Branch Division of Operating Reactor Safety Docket Nos.

05000272 and 05000311 License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75 cc: Distribution via ListServ SARAH ELKHIAMY Digitally signed by SARAH ELKHIAMY Date: 2025.03.27 07:43:33 -04'00'

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