ML14254A076

Notification of NRC Retake Operator Licensing Examination 05000445/2015301, 05000446/2015301

ML14254A076
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	09/11/2014
From:	Vincent Gaddy Division of Reactor Safety IV
To:	Flores R Luminant Generation Co
Gaddy V
References
IR-2015-301
Download: ML14254A076 (3)

See also: IR 05000445/2015301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E LAMAR BLVD

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

September 11, 2014

Rafael Flores, Senior Vice President

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Attention: Regulatory Affairs

Luminant Generation Company LLC

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant

P.O. Box 1002

Glen Rose, TX 76043

SUBJECT: COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 -

NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION

05000445/2015301; 05000446/2015301

Dear Mr. Flores:

In a telephone conversation on September 10, 2014, between Messrs. Gary Struble, Simulator

and Licensing Examination Manager, and Sean Hedger, Chief Examiner, arrangements were

made for the administration of a retake licensing examination at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power

Plant, Units 1 and 2, during the week of February 9, 2015.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the retake examination

(written examination for two reactor operator applicants) based on the guidelines in

NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 9,

Supplement 1, and NUREG-1122, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant

Operators, Revision 2, Supplement 1. 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 examination

outlines by November 24, 2014. The written examination and supporting reference materials

identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by December 22, 2014. 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 outlines, 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.

Any delay in receiving the required examinations and reference materials, or the submittal of

inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled.

R. Flores -2-

In order to conduct the requested written examination, it will be necessary for your staff to

provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402. In addition,

Appendix E to NUREG-1021 contains a number of NRC policies and guidelines that will be in

effect while the written examination is being administered.

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary 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) by January 5, 2015. Signed applications certifying that all training

has been completed should be submitted by January 26, 2015. If the final signed applications

are not received by that date, a postponement may be necessary.

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, which expires on April 30, 2016. The public reporting burden for

this collection of information is estimated to average 50 hours5.787037e-4 days <br />0.0139 hours <br />8.267196e-5 weeks <br />1.9025e-5 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 regarding this burden estimate or any

other aspect of these information collections, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to

the Records and FOIA/Privacy Services Branch (T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to

INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.

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 and its

enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRCs Public Document

Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs Agencywide

Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the

electronic Reading Room page of the NRCs public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm/adams.html.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Struble 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. Hedger at 817-200-1556, or myself at 817-200-

1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Dockets: 50-445; 50-446

Licenses: NPF-87; NPF-89

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