ML11265A112

Notification of NRC Initial Retake Operator Licensing Examination 05000275/2011302; 05000323/2011302

ML11265A112
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	09/21/2011
From:	Mark Haire Division of Reactor Safety IV
To:	Conway J Pacific Gas & Electric Co
References
50-275/11-302, 50-323/11-302
Download: ML11265A112 (3)

See also: IR 05000275/2011302

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UNITED STATES

NUC LE AR RE G ULATO RY C O M M I S S I O N

R E GI ON I V

612 EAST LAMAR BLVD , SU I TE 400

AR LI N GTON , TEXAS 76011-4125

September 21, 2011

John T. Conway

Senior Vice President-Energy &

Supply and Chief Nuclear Officer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

77 Beale Street, Mail Code B32

San Francisco, CA 94105

SUBJECT: DIABLO CANYON, UNITS 1 AND 2 - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL RETAKE

OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000275/2011302;

05000323/2011302

Dear Mr. Conway,

In a telephone conversation on September 20, 2011, between Messrs. R. Fortier, Exam Support

Leader, and S. Garchow, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of a

simulator scenario licensing retake examination at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant during

the week of November 14, 2011.

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

administered.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the draft simulator

scenario examination, including the scenario outlines, by October 24, 2011. Pursuant to 10 CFR 55.40(b)(3), an authorized representative of the facility licensee shall approve the outlines

and examination 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 examination to

be rescheduled. In addition, your support for on-site validation of the examination is required

during the week of November 14, 2011.

In order to conduct the requested examination, 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, your staff should retain

the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures, and levels)

generated during the simulator scenarios until the examination result is final.

J. Conway -2-

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

effect while the examination is being administered.

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

operator license application (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval number 3150-

0090), medical certification (OMB approval number 3150-0024), and waiver request (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. The signed application certifying that all remedial 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 February 28, 2013. 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 Agency-wide

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. Fortier 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. Garchow at 817-276-4426 or myself at 817-860-

8159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark S. Haire, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Distribution: via ListServ for Diablo Canyon

J. Conway -3-

Electronic distribution by RIV:

Regional Administrator (Elmo.Collins@nrc.gov)

Deputy Regional Administrator (Art.Howell@nrc.gov)

DRP Director (Kriss.Kennedy@nrc.gov)

DRP Deputy Director (Troy.Pruett@nrc.gov)

DRS Director (Anton.Vegel@nrc.gov)

DRS Deputy Director (Tom.Blount@nrc.gov)

Senior Resident Inspector (Michael.Peck@nrc.gov)

Resident Inspector (Tony.Brown@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRP/B (Geoff.Miller@nrc.gov)

Senior Project Engineer, DRP/B (Rick.Deese@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Greg.Tutak@nrc.gov)

Project Engineer, DRP/B (Nestor.Makris@nrc.gov)

DC Administrative Assistant (Agnes.Chan@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Victor.Dricks@nrc.gov)

Public Affairs Officer (Lara.Uselding@nrc.gov)

Project Manager (Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov)

Acting Branch Chief, DRS/TSB (Dale.Powers@nrc.gov)

Branch Chief, DRS/OB (Mark.Haire@nrc.gov)

RITS Coordinator (Marisa.Herrera@nrc.gov)

Regional Counsel (Karla.Fuller@nrc.gov)

Congressional Affairs Officer (Jenny.Weil@nrc.gov)

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