ML12180A452

Notification of NRC Retake Operator Licensing Examination 05000285/2012302

ML12180A452
Person / Time
Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	06/28/2012
From:	Mark Haire Operations Branch IV
To:	Bannister D Omaha Public Power District
vlm/Steely C
References
50-285/OL-12-302
Download: ML12180A452 (3)

See also: IR 05000285/2012302

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UNITE D S TATE S

NUC LEAR RE GULATOR Y C OMMI S SI ON

RE G IO N I V

1600 EAST LAMAR BLVD

AR L INGTON , TEXAS 7 60 11 - 4511

June 28, 2012

David J. Bannister, Vice President

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Omaha Public Power District

Fort Calhoun Station FC-2-4

P.O. Box 550

Fort Calhoun, NE 68023-0550

SUBJECT: FORT CALHOUN STATION - NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR

LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000285/2012302

Dear Mr. Bannister:

In a telephone conversation on June 6, 2012, between Messrs. Tom Giebelhausen, Manager

Operations Training and Simulator, and Chris Steely, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made

for the administration of licensing examinations at Fort Calhoun Station on September 21, 2012.

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 examinations are

administered.

To meet the above schedule, it will be necessary for your staff to furnish the examination outline

by July 13, 2012. The written examination and reference materials identified in Attachment 3 to

ES-201 will be due by August 13, 2012. 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, examination, and tests 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.

In order to conduct the requested written examinations, it will be necessary for your staff to

provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-402.

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

effect while the written examinations are being administered.

D. Bannister -2-

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 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, 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 NRCs Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter 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. Giebelhausen 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. Steely at 817-200-1432, or myself

at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark S. Haire, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket: 50-285

License: DPR-40

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