NRC Generic Letter 89-12, Operator Licensing Examination
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July 6, 1989
TO: ALL POWER REACTOR LICENSEES AND APPLICANTS FOR AN OPERATING LICENSE
SUBJECT: OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATIONS (GENERIC LETTER 89-12)
Generic Letter (GL) 89-03, dated March 24, 1989, promulgated the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) national examination schedule. It assigned each facility two examination dates during the fiscal year based, to the extent possible, upon the examination estimates reported in response to GL 88-13, dated August 8, 1988. It encouraged facilities to target the assigned examination dates in fiscal year 1990, which begins on October 1, 1989, but acknowledged that some deviation from the promulgated schedule would be accommodated to facilitate incremental training schedule revisions. Beginning in fiscal year 1991 (October 1, 1990), replacement examinations will not be rescheduled but deferred until the next regularly scheduled site visit.
To plan its resources for fiscal years 1990 through 1993, the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) requires your input to update the number of candidates you provided in response to GL 88-13. On the proposed format provided as Enclosure 1, please provide your best estimate of the anticipated number of candidates to be examined during each site visit assigned to you in Generic Letter 89-03. Also, please provide the dates for your scheduled requalification examinations during the same fiscal years in the proposed format provided as Enclosure 2. Your schedules, to be voluntarily submitted on the enclosed suggested formats, should be returned to Mr. Kenneth E. Perkins, Jr., Chief, Operator Licensing Branch, OWFN-10D-18, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, with a courtesy copy to the appropriate Regional Administrator, by September 1, 1989.
Bear in mind that 10 CFR 55.45 (b)(2)(iv) prohibits the simulation facility portion of the operating test from being administered on other than a certified or an approved simulation facility after May 26, 1991. In anticipation of that deadline, NRR requires your best estimate of the dates on which you expect to certify and/or apply for NRC approval of your simulation facility(ies). A space has been provided for this purpose on the Proposed Operator Licensing Schedule Format, Enclosure 1.
The NRC regional offices, through direct liaison with your training managers, will confirm your examination requests. As stated in GL 89-03, the regional offices will continue to schedule NRC requalification examinations on a case-by-case basis until NRR reconciles the differences between the requalification and replacement examination methodologies in order to allow the concurrent administration of both examinations.
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This request is covered by Office of Management and Budget Clearance Number 3150-0131, which expires March 31, 1992. The estimated average burden is two person-hours per owner response, including assessment of the new recommendations, searching data sources, gathering and analyzing the data, and preparing the required letters. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to the Records and Reports Management Branch, Division of Information Support Services, Office of Information Resources Management, Washington, D.C. 20555; and to the Paperwork Reduction Project (3150-0131), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503.
We appreciate your assistance in this matter and invite you to address any questions concerning this generic letter to Mr. Perkins at (301) 492-1031.
Sincerely,
James G. Partlow, Associate Director for Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosures:
- 1. Proposed Operator Licensing Examination Schedule Format
- 2. Proposed Requalification Examination Schedule Format
- 3. List of Recently Issued NRC Generic Letters Enclosure 1
PROPOSED OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION SCHEDULE FORMAT
Facility Enclosure 2
PROPOSED REQUALIFICATION EXAMINATION SCHEDULE FORMAT
Facility