ML14017A073

Generation Station, Unit 1 & 2 - Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Retake Examination

ML14017A073
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	01/17/2014
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Koehl D South Texas
References
IR-14-301
Download: ML14017A073 (3)

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UNITE D S TATE S NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON R E G IO N I V 1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD AR L I NGTON , TEXAS 7 601 1- 4511 January 17, 2014 Dennis L. Koehl President and Chief Executive Officer STP Nuclear Operating Company P.O. Box 289 Wadsworth, TX 77483

SUBJECT:

SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1 and 2 - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING RETAKE EXAMINATION 05000498/2014301; 05000499/2014301

Dear Mr. Koehl:

In a telephone conversation on January 15, 2014, between Mr. Ken Struble, Supervisor Initial Licensed Operators, and Mr. Steve Garchow, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing retake examinations at the South Texas Project on May 1, 2014.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, the NRC will provide the written examination draft outlines and your staff will prepare the examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, and the use of Revision 2 of NUREG-1122, Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators. The NRCs regional office will discuss with your staff any changes that might be necessary before the examinations are administered.

The examinations and supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 2 to ES-201 will be due by April 1, 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 examinations 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.

Appendix E to NUREG-1021 contains a number of the NRC policies and guidelines that will be in effect while the written examination is being administered.

To permit timely review and evaluation by the NRC, your staff should submit the preliminary senior 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

D. Koehl 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 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 Steve Garchow at 817-200-1426, or myself at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent Gaddy, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Dockets: 50-498; 50-499 Licenses: NPF-76; NPF-80

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