ML15175A402

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000259/2015302, 05000260/2015302, and 05000296/2015302

ML15175A402
Person / Time
Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	06/23/2015
From:	Gerald Mccoy Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	James Shea Tennessee Valley Authority
References
50-259/15-302, 50-260/15-302, 50-296/15-302
Download: ML15175A402 (4)

See also: IR 05000259/2015302

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

June 23, 2015

Mr. Joseph W. Shea

Vice President, Nuclear Licensing

Tennessee Valley Authority

1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C

Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT: BROWNS FERRY NUCLEAR PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000259/2015302, 05000260/2015302,

AND 05000296/2015302

Dear Mr. Shea:

In a telephone conversation on June 17, 2015 between Mr. D. Binkley, Initial License Training

Supervisor, Mr. J. Viera, Chief Under Instruction, and Mr. P. Capehart, Senior Operations

Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Browns

Ferry Nuclear Plant during the week of November 16, 2015. The written examination is

scheduled to be administered during the week of November 23, 2015. The on-site preparatory

week is scheduled for the week of October 19, 2015.

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

the guidelines in Revision 10, of 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. Your staff has also agreed to make

copies of all examination materials that are necessary for administering the examination.

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

outline by August 10, 2015. Mr. P. Capehart, provided the written examination outline to your

staff in March 2015. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting reference

materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by September 17, 2015. Pursuant to

Title 10, Section 55.40(b)(3), of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 55.40(b)(3)), an

authorized representative of the facility licensee shall approve the examinations, and tests

before they are submitted to the Commission 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. Any delay in receiving the required examination and reference materials, or the

submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be

rescheduled.

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

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should retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures,

and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the examination results are final.

Appendix E of NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in

effect while the written examinations and operating tests are being administered.

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary reactor

operator and senior reactor operator license applications (Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approval number 3150-0090), medical certifications (OMB approval number 3150-0024),

and waiver requests (if any)(OMB approval number 3150-0090) at least 30 days before the first

examination date. If the applications are not received at least 30 days before the examination

date, a postponement may be necessary. Signed applications certifying that all training has

been completed should be submitted at least 14 days before the first examination date.

This letter contains information collections that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved by OMB, under

approval number 3150-0018, which expires on April 30, 2016. The public reporting burden for

this collection of information is estimated to average 2500 hours0.0289 days <br />0.694 hours <br />0.00413 weeks <br />9.5125e-4 months <br /> per response, including the

time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, writing the

examinations, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments on

any aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the

Information and Records Management Branch (T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to infocollectsresource@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.

The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an

information collection, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

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 Public Document Room or from the Publicly

Available Records (PARS) component of 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.

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. D. Binkley has been advised of the policies

and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's

examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. J. Viera at (404) 997-4643, (Internet

E-mail: Joseph.Viera@nrc.gov), Mr. P. Capehart at (404) 997-4483, (Internet E-mail:

Phillip.Capehart@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4551, (Internet E-mail: Gerald.McCoy@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Gerald J. McCoy, Chief

Operations Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos.: 50-259, 50-260, and 50-296

License Nos.: DPR-33, DPR-52, and DPR-68

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