ML111290650

Callaway Plant - Notification Of NRC Retake Operator Licensing Examination 05000483/2011302

ML111290650
Person / Time
Site:	Callaway
Issue date:	05/06/2011
From:	Haire M S Operations Branch IV
To:	Heflin A C Union Electric Co
References
50-483/OL-11-302
Download: ML111290650 (2)

See also: IR 05000483/2011302

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May 6,2011 Mr. Adam C. Heflin, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Union Electric Company P.O. Box 620 Fulton, MO 65251

SUBJECT: CALLAWAY PLANT -NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000483/2011302

Dear Mr. Heflin:

In a telephone conversation on March 30, 2011, between Mr. Bruce Moody, Senior Operations Instructor, and Mr. Steve Garchow, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Callaway Plant on June 10, 2011. As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff wiil prepare the examination based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1 021, "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 NRC's 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 outline by April 29, 2011. The examination and supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 2 to ES-201 will be due by May 16, 2011. 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 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 examinations to be rescheduled. 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 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 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. May 6,2011 Mr. Adam C. Heflin, Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Union Electric Company P.O. Box 620 Fulton, MO 65251 SUBJECT: CALLAWAY PLANT -NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000483/2011302

Dear Mr. Heflin:

In a telephone conversation on March 30, 2011, between Mr. Bruce Moody, Senior Operations Instructor, and Mr. Steve Garchow, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Callaway Plant on June 10, 2011. As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff wiil prepare the examination based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG-1 021, "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 NRC's 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 outline by April 29, 2011. The examination and supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 2 to ES-201 will be due by May 16, 2011. 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 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 examinations to be rescheduled. 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 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 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.

Mr. Adam -2 -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 FOINPrivacy Services Branch (T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to 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 Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Moody 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 817-276-4426, or myself at 817-860-8159. Docket: 50-483 License: NPF-30 Distribution via ListServe

Sincerely,S. Haire, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety Mr. Adam Heflin -2 -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 FOIAIPrivacy Services Branch (T-5 F52), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet electronic mail to 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 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 Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Moody 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 Steve Garchow at 817-276-4426, or myself at 817-860-8159. Docket: 50-483 License: NPF-30 Distribution via ListServe

Sincerely,S. Haire, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety