ML22347A151

William B. Mcguire Nuclear Station Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000369/2023301 and 05000370/2023301

ML22347A151
Person / Time
Site:	McGuire, Mcguire
Issue date:	12/13/2022
From:	Tom Stephen Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	Pigott E Duke Energy Carolinas
References
50-369/22-301, 50-370/22-301 50-369/OL-23, 50-370/OL-23
Download: ML22347A151 (4)

See also: IR 05000369/2023301

Text

December 13, 2022

Mr. Edward R. Pigott

Site Vice President

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC

McGuire Nuclear Station

MG01VP/12700 Hagers Ferry Road

Huntersville, NC 28078-8985

SUBJECT: WILLIAM B. MCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000369/2023301 AND 05000370/2023301

Dear Mr. Pigott:

During a telephone conversation on December 6, 2022, between Mr. Steven Mosteller, Exam

Author of Record and Mr. Daniel Bacon, Senior Operations Engineer, arrangements were made

for the administration of licensing examinations at the McGuire Nuclear Station. The on-site

preparatory week is scheduled for the week of June 26, 2023. The operating test is scheduled

to be administered during the week of July 31 and August 7, 2023. The written examination is

scheduled to be administered the week of August 14, 2022.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare both the operating test and

written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 12 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 3, 2023. Mr. Bacon provided the written examination outline to your staff on

June 29, 2022. The written examinations, operating tests, and supporting reference materials

identified in NUREG-1021, Examination Standard (ES)-2.1, Preparing for Operator Licensing

Initial Examinations, will be due by May 17, 2023. 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 test 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.

E. Pigott 2

To conduct the requested written examinations and operating tests, your staff will need to

provide adequate space and accommodations and to make the simulation facility available on

the dates noted above. In accordance with ES-3.5, Administering Operating Tests, your staff

should retain the original simulator performance data (e.g., system pressures, temperatures,

and levels) generated during the dynamic operating tests until the NRC takes licensing action

on all the applications and any adjudicatory actions on any hearing demands are complete.

ES-1.2, Guidelines for Taking NRC Examinations, contains a number of NRC guidelines for

the written examinations and operating tests as they are being administered.

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

operator and senior reactor operator waiver and/or excusal requests (Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) approval number 3150-0090) at least 60 days before the first examination date (if

possible). Contact Mr. Bacon to determine the method for submission of the waiver or excusal

requests. Preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications (OMB

approval number 3150-0090) and medical certifications (OMB approval number 3150-0024)

should be submitted 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.

Final signed applications certifying that all training has been completed and requesting any

waivers or excusals, as applicable, should be submitted at least 14 days before the first

examination date.

Although the guidelines for receiving waiver or excusal requests call for at least 30 days before

the first examination date (preliminary) and 14 days before the first examination date (final), the

requests should be submitted as early as possible in the process (see the 60-day guideline

above). Resolutions resulting from verbal inquiries by the licensee to the NRC are not binding.

Submittals addressing waivers or excusals, or both, should be in writing (i.e., using NRC Form

398, Personal Qualifications Statement - Licensee, or as directed by Mr. Bates when

contacting him to determine the method for submission). The NRC will document its final

decision on whether to grant a waiver or excusal on the final (not preliminary) NRC Form 398

submitted for the applicant. The NRC will not provide its decision until the final application is

submitted to the agency.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

This letter contains information collection requirements that are subject to the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). These information collections were approved

by the Office of Management and Budget, approval number 3150-0018.

The burden to the public for these voluntary information collections is estimated

to average 2,250 hours0.00289 days <br />0.0694 hours <br />4.133598e-4 weeks <br />9.5125e-5 months <br /> per examination or response including the time for reviewing

instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the information collections. Send comments regarding this information

collection to the FOIA, Library, and Information Collections Branch (T6-A10M), U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555 0001, or by e-mail to

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs (3150-0018), Attn: Desk Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725

17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20503; email:

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.

E. Pigott 3

Public Protection Notification

The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection

of information, unless the document requesting or requiring the collection displays a currently

valid OMB control number.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,

of the agencys Rules of Practice, a copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available

electronically for public inspection through the Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Website at

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.adams.html.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Mosteller 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. Bacon at (404) 997-4518, (Internet

E-mail: Daniel.Bacon@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4703, (Internet E-mail:

Thomas.Stephen@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Thomas A. Stephen, Chief

Operations Branch 1

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos.: 50-369 and 50-370

License Nos.: NPF-9 and NPF-17

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