ML17089A694

Operating Company - Amended Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000482/2017301

ML17089A694
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	03/30/2017
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Heflin A Wolf Creek
References
IR 2017301
Download: ML17089A694 (4)

See also: IR 05000482/2017301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E. LAMAR BLVD

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

March 30, 2017

Adam C. Heflin, President,

Chief Executive Officer,

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

P.O. Box 411

Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT: WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY - AMENDED NOTIFICATION

OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000482/2017301

Dear Mr. Heflin:

In a telephone conversation on November 30, 2016, between Messrs. R. Meyer, Supervisor,

Simulator and Examination Group, and C. Osterholtz, Chief Examiner, arrangements were

made for the administration of licensing examinations at Wolf Creek Generating Station during

the week of November 6, 2017.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, the NRC will prepare the examinations based on

the guidelines in NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power

Reactors, Revision 10, and NUREG-1123, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power

Plant Operators, Revision 2, Supplement 1. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review

the examinations during the week of, or before, September 11, 2017.

The NRC program office informed regional NRC staff that Revision 11 of NUREG-1021,

Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, was released on February 15,

2017. The Federal Register Notice that accompanied this release requires that any initial

examination administered after August 15, 2017, shall use the most recent revision of this

standard to develop and administer the examinations. Because NUREG-1122, Knowledge and

Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators, Revision 3, is not released, the

examination will continue to be developed using Revision 2, Supplement 1 of this catalog.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the supporting

reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 by February 1, 2017. 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 reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause

the examinations to be rescheduled. In addition, your support for on-site validation of the

examinations is required during the week of October 16, 2017.

A. Heflin 2

In order to conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, it will be necessary

for your staff to provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402, and

to make the simulation facility available on the dates noted above. In accordance with ES-302,

your staff shall capture all relevant simulator data (needed for the NRC to make licensing

decisions) during the dynamic operating tests and shall retain this data until the examination

results are final.

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) approval number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first examination

date (if able). Mr. C. Osterholtz should be contacted to determine the method for submission

of the waiver and/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 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 minimum guidelines for receiving waiver or excusal requests is 30 days before the

first examination date (preliminary) and 14 days before the first examination date (final), the

requests should be submitted as early in the process as possible (see the 60-day guideline,

above). Resolutions resulting from verbal inquiries by the licensee to the NRC are not binding.

Submittals addressing waivers and/or excusals should be in writing (i.e., on NRC Form 398, or

as directed when Mr. C. Osterholtz is contacted to determine the method for submission). The

NRCs final decision on whether to grant a waiver or excusal will be documented on the final

(not preliminary) NRC Form 398 submitted for the applicant and will not be provided until the

final application is submitted to the NRC.

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 or response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching

existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and

reviewing the information collection. You may submit comments on any aspect of the

information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the FOIA, Privacy and

Information Collections Branch (T-5 F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555-0001, or by electronic mail to INFOCOLLECTS.RESOURCE@NRC.GOV; and to the

Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0018), Office of

Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

Public Protection Notification

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a request for

information or an information collection requirement unless the requesting document displays a

currently valid OMB control number.

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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,

of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available

electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page

of the NRCs public Web Site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Meyer 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 Mr. C. Osterholtz at 817-200-1269 or myself at

817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No. 50-482

License No. NPF-42

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