ML15356A759

North Anna - Notification of Licensed Operational Examination 05000338/2016301 and 05000339/2016301

ML15356A759
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	12/21/2015
From:	Guthrie E F Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Heacock D A Virginia Electric & Power Co (VEPCO)
References
Download: ML15356A759 (4)

See also: IR 05000338/2016301

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December 21, 2015

Mr. David President and Chief Nuclear Officer Virginia Electric and Power Company North Anna Power Station, Units 1 & 2 Innsbrook Technical Center 5000 Dominion Boulevard Glen Allen, VA 23060-6711

SUBJECT: NORTH ANNA POWER STATION - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED OPERATIONAL EXAMINATION NOS. - 05000338/2016301 AND 05000339/2016301

Dear Mr. Heacock:

In a telephone conversation on December 1, 2015 between Mr. Bryan Thompson, Supervisor Nuclear Training, Mr. Randall Garrett, Senior Instructor, Mr. John Kernisky, Senior Instructor, Mr. Bruno Caballero, Senior Operations Engineer, and Mr. Newton Lacy, Operations Engineer, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at North Anna Nuclear Station. The operating test is scheduled to be administered during the weeks of June 20 and June 27, 2016. The written examination is scheduled to be administered after the operating test, during the week of June 27 or July 4, 2016. The on-site preparatory week is scheduled for the week of May 23, 2016.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and the written examinations based on the guidelines in Revision 10, of NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors." The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regional office will discuss with your staff any changes 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 March 7, 2016. Mr. Newton Lacy provided the written examination outline to your staff in June 2015. The supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by January 28, 2016, and the written examination will be due by February 29, 2016. The operating test will be due by April 18, 2016. 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, and tests before they are submitted to the Commission 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.

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, 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 (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 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 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 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 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, "Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,"

of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter and its enclosures 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 Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the Electronic Reading Room page of the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Randall Garrett has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Bruno Caballero at (404) 997-4608, (Internet E-mail: Bruno.Caballero@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4662, (Internet E-mail: Eugene.Guthrie@nrc.gov)

Sincerely,/RA: Gerald J. McCoy for/ Eugene F. Guthrie, Chief Operations Branch 2 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-338, 50-339 License Nos.: NPF-4, NPF-7

cc: Distribution via Listserv Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Randall Garrett has been advised of the policies and guidelines referenced in this letter. If you have any questions regarding the NRC's examination procedures and guidelines, please contact Mr. Bruno Caballero at (404) 997-4608, (Internet E-mail: Bruno.Caballero@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4662, (Internet E-mail: Eugene.Guthrie@nrc.gov)

Sincerely,/RA: Gerald J. McCoy for/ Eugene F. Guthrie, Chief Operations Branch 2 Division of Reactor Safety Docket Nos.: 50-338, 50-339 License Nos.: NPF-4, NPF-7

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