ML14342A873

William McGuire Nuclear Station - Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000369/2015301 and 05000370/2015301

ML14342A873
Person / Time
Site:	Mcguire, McGuire
Issue date:	12/04/2014
From:	Eugene Guthrie Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Capps S Duke Energy Corp
References
50-369/15-301, 50-370/15-301
Download: ML14342A873 (3)

See also: IR 05000369/2015301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

December 4, 2014

Mr. Steven D. Capps

Site Vice President

Duke Energy Corporation

McGuire Nuclear Station

MG01VP/12700 Hagers Ferry Road

Huntersville, NC 28078

SUBJECT: WILLIAM B. MCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000369/2015301 AND 05000370/2015301

Dear Mr. Capps:

In a telephone conversation on November 25, 2014, between Mr. Steven Mosteller, MNS Exam

Team Lead, and Mr. Daniel Bacon, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for

the administration of licensing examinations at William B. McGuire Nuclear Station. The

operating test is scheduled to be administered during the weeks of April 27 and May 4, 2015.

The written examination is scheduled to be administered the week of May 11, 2015. The on-site

preparatory week is scheduled for the week of March 30, 2015.

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

written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021,

"Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) Regional office will discuss any changes with your staff 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 February 11, 2015. Mr. Daniel Bacon provided the written examination outline to your

staff in September, 2014. The operating test, written examination, and the supporting reference

materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by March 13, 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 outline, examination, and test 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. 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.

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,

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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.

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

operator and senior reactor operator license applications, medical certifications, and waiver

requests (if any) 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 the Office

of Management and Budget (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 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, 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 at 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 of the NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter will

be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room, or from

the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs Agencywide Documents

Access and Management System (ADAMS), 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. Mr. Steven Mosteller has been advised of the

policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRCs

examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Daniel Bacon at 404-997-4518,

(Internet E-mail: daniel.bacon@nrc.gov), or me at 404-997-4662, (Internet E-mail:

eugene.guthrie@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Eugene F. Guthrie, Chief

Operations Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-369 and 50-370

License Nos. NPF-9 and NPF-17

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