ML17072A012

Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit 2 - Senior Reactor and Reactor Operator Initial License Examinations

ML17072A012
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Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	03/09/2017
From:	Jackson D E Operations Branch I
To:	Richey M FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
Bixler C J
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ML17068A096	List: IR 05000412/2017301 ML17072A012 ML17305A086 ML17305A153 ML18019B173 ML18101B304 ML18102A106 ML18102A158 ML18102A224 ML18102A269 ML18102A573 ML18102A982
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I 2100 RENAISSANCE BLVD. KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406-2713 March 9, 2017 Mr. Marty Richey Site Vice President First Energy Nuclear Operating Company Beaver Valley Power Station P. O. Box 4 Shippingport, PA 15077-0004

SUBJECT:

BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION UNIT 2 - SENIOR REACTOR AND REACTOR OPERATOR INITIAL LICENSE EXAMINATIONS

Dear Mr. Richey:

In a telephone conversation on March 8, 2017, between Mr. Joseph M. D'Antonio, Sr. Operations Engineer, and Mr. Tom Gaydosik, Lead, Fleet Exam Team, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Beaver Valley Unit 2 during the weeks of November 6 and November 13, 2017. In addition, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will make an examination validation visit to your facility the week of October 9, 2017. As this is an NRC developed examination, the NRC will make additional site trips for exam development on dates to be determined as development progresses. As agreed during the telephone conversation, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 11, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The NRC's regional office will discuss with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examinations are administered. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review the examinations during development.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the reference materials identified in Attachment 3 of ES-201 as requested by the NRC exam developers. As of the date of this letter, your staff has furnished the NRC with two laptop computers for online access to these materials. In the event that technical difficulties interfere with such access, hardcopy or electronic versions of reference materials requested will be due immediately. We request that any personal, proprietary, sensitive unclassified, or safeguards information in your response be contained in a separate enclosure and marked appropriately. Any delay in receiving the required 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 for exam development as required as well as on the specific dates noted above. In accordance with ES-302, 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 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.

M. Richey 2 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.

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 one 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 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-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 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 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Request for Withholding," of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosures 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 Electronic Reading Room page of the NRC's Public Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html . Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Gaydosik 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. Joseph D'Antonio at (610) 337-5085, or me at (610) 337-5306. Sincerely, /RA/ Donald E. Jackson, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket No. 50-412 License No. NPF-73 cc: Distribution via ListServ M. Richey 3

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