ML13030A490

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station - Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000416/2014301

ML13030A490
Person / Time
Site:	Grand Gulf
Issue date:	01/30/2013
From:	Vincent Gaddy Operations Branch IV
To:	Kevin Mulligan Entergy Operations
References
50-416/14-301
Download: ML13030A490 (6)

See also: IR 05000416/2014301

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January 30, 2013

Kevin Mulligan Vice President Operations Entergy Operations, Inc.

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station P.O. Box 756 Port Gibson, MS 39150

SUBJECT: GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000416/2014301

Dear Mr. Mulligan:

In a telephone conversation on January 30, 2013, between Messrs. Rasch, Operations Training Superintendent, and S. Garchow, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the administration of licensing examinations at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station beginning the week of August 11, 2014. As discussed during the telephone conversation, the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will prepare the written examination based on the guidelines in NUREG-1021, "Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors," Revision 9, Supplement 1, and NUREG-1123, "Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators," Revision 2, Supplement 1. Your staff will be given the opportunity to review the examination prior to administration.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the supporting reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 and enclosed with this letter by March 1, 2013. 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 reference materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may cause the examinations to be rescheduled. In addition, your support for on-site validation of the examinations is required during the week of July 14, 2014.

In order 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 to 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 operator and 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.

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 500 hours0.00579 days <br />0.139 hours <br />8.267196e-4 weeks <br />1.9025e-4 months <br /> per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, writing the examinations, 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 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. Rasch 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. S. Garchow, Chief Examiner, at 817-200-1426, or myself at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,/RA/ Kelly Clayton for Vincent Gaddy, Chief Operations Branch Division of Reactor Safety

Enclosure:

Reference Materials Request