ML16019A033

Ltr 01/15/16 - Monticello Confirmation of Initial Lic Exam (Dwr)

ML16019A033
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	01/15/2016
From:	Orlikowski R J Operations Branch III
To:	Gardner P A Northern States Power Co
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Download: ML16019A033 (4)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 January 15, 2016 Mr. Peter A. Gardner Site Vice President Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Northern States Power Company, Minnesota 2807 West County Road 75 Monticello, MN 55362-9637

SUBJECT:

MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT - CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION

Dear Mr. Gardner:

In a telephone conversation on January 5, 2016, between Mr. G. Allex, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant General Supervisor of Operations Training, and Mr. D. Reeser, Operations Engineer/Chief Examiner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant during the week of November 14, 2016. As agreed during the telephone conversation, the staff of the NRC will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10 of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." To ensure the development of quality simulator examination scenarios, the NRC intends to visit your facility, the 2nd or 3rd week of August 2016, to pre-validate the events/malfunctions of the NRC drafted scenarios, with the intent to ensure the capabilities of the simulation facility will allow performance of the events, and to obtain feedback from your staff on the validity and complexity of the scenarios. As an alternative to a NRC site visit, the facility may send one or more representatives to the Region III offices, with the necessary hardware and software to remotely demonstrate the capabilities of the sites simulation facility. The actual dates of that visit will be discussed with members of your Training department staff so as to minimize the impact to your facility. The NRC will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of October 17, 2016. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review and comment on the proposed examination materials no later than during the onsite validation week. To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 by February 29, 2016. 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. Please contact the Chief Examiner (D. Reeser) if you have any questions related to the materials to be submitted. 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, P. Gardner your staff 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 to 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. 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, so as to ensure a timely NRC review and evaluation process. 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. After you have been notified by the NRC Chief Examiner or Branch Chief that operator licenses have been issued, please direct any inquiries concerning a formal presentation of certificates to this office. Our goal is to have the operator certificates available for your celebration. At least 1 month advance notice of your celebration arrangements would be appreciated to plan our senior manager attendance and process the certificates. 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. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 500 hours0.00579 days <br />0.139 hours <br />8.267196e-4 weeks <br />1.9025e-4 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, 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 BJS1@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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

P. Gardner Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. G. Allex 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 D. Reeser at 630-829-9859, or me at 630-829-9834. Sincerely, /RA/ Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-263 License No. DPR-22 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV P. Gardner Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. G. Allex 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 D. Reeser at 630-829-9859, or me at 630-829-9834. Sincerely, /RA/ Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-263 License No. DPR-22 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION: Kimyata MorganButler RidsNrrDorlLpl3-1 Resource RidsNrrPMMonticello RidsNrrDirsIrib Resource Cynthia Pederson Darrell Roberts Richard Skokowski Allan Barker Carole Ariano Linda Linn DRPIII DRSIII Jim Clay Carmen Olteanu Scott Sloan ADAMS Accession Number ML16019A033 Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box "C" = Copy without attach/encl "E" = Copy with attach/encl "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME MBielby for DReeser:jw ROrlikowski DATE 01/14/16 01/15/16 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUITE 210 LISLE, IL 60532-4352 January 15, 2016 Mr. Peter A. Gardner Site Vice President Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Northern States Power Company, Minnesota 2807 West County Road 75 Monticello, MN 55362-9637

SUBJECT:

MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT - CONFIRMATION OF INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATION

Dear Mr. Gardner:

In a telephone conversation on January 5, 2016, between Mr. G. Allex, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant General Supervisor of Operations Training, and Mr. D. Reeser, Operations Engineer/Chief Examiner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant during the week of November 14, 2016. As agreed during the telephone conversation, the staff of the NRC will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10 of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." To ensure the development of quality simulator examination scenarios, the NRC intends to visit your facility, the 2nd or 3rd week of August 2016, to pre-validate the events/malfunctions of the NRC drafted scenarios, with the intent to ensure the capabilities of the simulation facility will allow performance of the events, and to obtain feedback from your staff on the validity and complexity of the scenarios. As an alternative to a NRC site visit, the facility may send one or more representatives to the Region III offices, with the necessary hardware and software to remotely demonstrate the capabilities of the sites simulation facility. The actual dates of that visit will be discussed with members of your Training department staff so as to minimize the impact to your facility. The NRC will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of October 17, 2016. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review and comment on the proposed examination materials no later than during the onsite validation week. To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 by February 29, 2016. 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. Please contact the Chief Examiner (D. Reeser) if you have any questions related to the materials to be submitted. 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, P. Gardner your staff 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 to 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. 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, so as to ensure a timely NRC review and evaluation process. 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. After you have been notified by the NRC Chief Examiner or Branch Chief that operator licenses have been issued, please direct any inquiries concerning a formal presentation of certificates to this office. Our goal is to have the operator certificates available for your celebration. At least 1 month advance notice of your celebration arrangements would be appreciated to plan our senior manager attendance and process the certificates. 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. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 500 hours0.00579 days <br />0.139 hours <br />8.267196e-4 weeks <br />1.9025e-4 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, 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 BJS1@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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding," of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC's Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

P. Gardner Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. G. Allex 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 D. Reeser at 630-829-9859, or me at 630-829-9834. Sincerely, /RA/ Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-263 License No. DPR-22 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV P. Gardner Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. G. Allex 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 D. Reeser at 630-829-9859, or me at 630-829-9834. Sincerely, /RA/ Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-263 License No. DPR-22 cc: Distribution via LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION: Kimyata MorganButler RidsNrrDorlLpl3-1 Resource RidsNrrPMMonticello RidsNrrDirsIrib Resource Cynthia Pederson Darrell Roberts Richard Skokowski Allan Barker Carole Ariano Linda Linn DRPIII DRSIII Jim Clay Carmen Olteanu Scott Sloan ADAMS Accession Number ML16019A033 Publicly Available Non-Publicly Available Sensitive Non-Sensitive To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the concurrence box "C" = Copy without attach/encl "E" = Copy with attach/encl "N" = No copy OFFICE RIII RIII RIII RIII NAME MBielby for DReeser:jw ROrlikowski DATE 01/14/16 01/15/16 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY