NRC Generic Letter 85-04, Operating Licensing Examinations
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January 29, 1985
TO ALL POWER REACTOR LICENSEES AND APPLICANTS FOR AN OPERATING LICENSING
Gentlemen:
SUBJECT: OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATIONS (Generic Letter 85-04)
This letter is to request your best estimate of your need for operator licensing examinations for the remainder of this fiscal year (February 1, 1985 to September 30, 1985) and fiscal years FY 1986, FY 1987, and FY 1988 (October 1 to September 30 of each year). This information is needed to update the schedules you provided in response to Generic Letter 83-40. We are also requesting that you provide requalification examination schedules for this same time period. Please identify the dates you have scheduled your requalification examination and your anticipated requests for licensing examination site visits and the number of examinations for each visit.
Your best estimates are needed to plan for NRC resources to meet your operator licensing needs. Please be aware that in response to budget reductions the NRC has resources for only two visits tn each site per year for administering licensing examinations. To meet this goal in FY 1986 and beyond, the regional offices may be required to redistribute the requested facility operator examinations visits across the entire fiscal year to even out the examination workload and eliminate high demand periods. Therefore, your submittal of this schedule does not guarantee the number or date of examinations requested. However, an accurate estimate of the need for examinations will allow us to propose budget modifications, if necessary. You should also keep us informed of significant changes in your estimates as they occur, so that we can keep our data base current.
Your schedules, in the enclosed suggested format, should be returned to Mr. Don Beckham, Chief, Operator Licensing Branch, AR-5221, Washington, D.C.,
20555, with a courtesy copy to the appropriate Regional Administrator 30 days from the receipt of this letter. We appreciate your assistance. If you have any questions, please call Mr. Don Beckham, Chief, Operator Licensing Branch, at (301) 492-4868.This request was approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under clearance OMB-3150-0018, which expired December 31, 1987.
Sincerely,
Darrell G. Eisenhut, Director Division of Licensing
Enclosures:
- 1. Operating Licensing Examination Schedule
- 2. Requalification Examination Schedule
- 3. List of Recently Issued Generic Letters