ML24290A110

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000400/2025301

ML24290A110
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	10/24/2024
From:	Matthew Endress NRC/RGN-II/DRS/OLB
To:	Haaf T Duke Energy Corp
References
50-400/25-301
Download: ML24290A110 (1)

See also: IR 05000400/2025301

Text

Thomas P. Haaf

Site Vice President

Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant

Duke Energy Corporation

5413 Shearon Harris Rd

M/C HNP01

New Hill, NC 27562-9300

SUBJECT: SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF

LICENSED OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000400/2025301

Dear Thomas Haaf:

During a telephone conversation on October 15, 2024, between Mr. Scott Rua, Superintendent

Nuclear Operations Training, and Mr. Kenneth Schaaf, Operations Engineer, arrangements

were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power

Plant. The on-site preparatory week is scheduled for the week of June 8, 2025. The operating

test is scheduled to be administered during the week of July 8, 2025. The written examination is

scheduled to be administered the week of July 15, 2025.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and

written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 12 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.

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

outline by February 13, 2025. Mr. Schaaf provided the written examination outline to your staff

on October 15, 2024. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting reference

materials identified in NUREG-1021, Examination Standard (ES)-2.1, Preparing for Operator

Licensing Initial Examinations, will be due by April 29, 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 examinations and tests before they are 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 examination and reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or

incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be cancelled or 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-4.3,

Administering Written Examinations, and to make the simulation facility available on the dates

noted above. In accordance with ES-3.5, Administering Operating Tests, your staff should

retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures, and October 23, 2024

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levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the NRC takes licensing action on all

the applications and any adjudicatory actions on any hearing demands are complete.

ES-1.2, Guidelines for Taking NRC Examinations, contains a number of NRC guidelines for

the written examinations and operating tests as they are being administered. Your staff has also

agreed to make copies of all examination materials that are necessary for administering the

examination.

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

operator and senior reactor operator waiver and/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 Mr. Bates 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

3150-0024) should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the NRC

does not receive the preliminary applications 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 waiver or excusal requests call for their receipt 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 facility 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

Mr. Bates 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 FOIA, Library, and Information Collections Branch (T6-A10M), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555 0001, or by e-mail 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; e-mail: 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.

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In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding, a

copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection through

the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is

accessible on the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

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

guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions about the NRC's examination

procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Bates at (404) 997-4612, (Internet E-mail:

Mark.Bates@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4703, (Internet E-mail: Thomas.Stephen@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

Matthew Endress, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Operating Reactor Safety

Docket No.: 50-400

License No.: NPF-63

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Signed by Endress, Matthew

on 10/23/24