ML16014A309

Ltr 01/13/16 Requalification Program Inspection at Palisades Station.(Rkw)

ML16014A309
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	01/13/2016
From:	Robert Orlikowski Operations Branch III
To:	Vitale A Entergy Nuclear Operations
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION III 2443 WARRENVILLE RD. SUIT E 210 LISLE, IL 60532

-4352 January 13, 2016 Mr. Anthony Vitale Vice President, Operations Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Palisades Nuclear Plant 27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway Covert, MI 49043

-9530

SUBJECT:

REQUALIFICATION PROGRAM INSPECTION AT PALISADES STATION

Dear Mr. Vitale:

In a telephone conversation on January 7, 2016 , Mr. R.K. Walton , from Operator Licensing Branch and Ms. B. Dotson, Palisades Regulatory Affairs made arrangements for the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to inspect the Licensed Operator Requalification Program at the Palisades Station

. The inspection is planned for the week of February 8, 2016, which coincides with your regularly scheduled requalification examination cycle. The staff at your facility should prepare and conduct the requalification examinations in accordance with your N RC-approved Requalification Program

. In accordance with Title 10 , Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 55.59(c), the NRC may request facility licensees to submit their biennial comprehensive requalification written examinations or annual operating tests as necessary to support the NRC's inspection program needs. In order for the NRC to adequately prepare for this inspection, please furnish the operating tests scheduled to be administered the weeks of February 1 and February 8, 2016 to the NRC by February 2, 2016. Ms. B. Dotson has been advised of this request and provided with the name and address of the NRC lead inspector assigned to this inspection.

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 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 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 not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

In accordance with 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 Document s 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).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding this inspection, please contact Mr. R.K. Walton at (630) 829-9 836, or me at (630) 829-9 834. Sincerely, /RA/

Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50

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In accordance with 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 Document s 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).

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions regarding this inspection, please contact Mr. R.K. Walton at (630) 829

-9836, or me at (630) 829

-9834. Sincerely, /RA/

Robert J. Orlikowski, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos. 50

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