ML18200A170

Notification of NRC Retake Operator Licensing Examination Approval 05000528/2018302; 05000529/2018302; 05000530/2018302

ML18200A170
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	07/18/2018
From:	Vincent Gaddy NRC Region 4
To:	Bement R Arizona Public Service Co
References
IR 2018302
Download: ML18200A170 (3)

See also: IR 05000528/2018302

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 EAST LAMAR BOULEVARD

ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76011-4511

July 18, 2018

Mr. Robert S. Bement

Executive Vice President Nuclear/

Chief Nuclear Officer

Arizona Public Service Company

P.O. Box 52034, MS 7602

Phoenix, AZ 85072-2034

SUBJECT: PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 -

NOTIFICATION OF NRC RETAKE OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION

APPROVAL 05000528/2018302; 05000529/2018302; 05000530/2018302

Dear Mr. Bement:

In a telephone conversation on July 11, 2018, between John Rodgers, Senior Operations

Training Instructor, and Daniel Bacon, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the

administration of a retake licensing examination at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station,

Units 1, 2, and 3 during the week of September 24, 2018.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the retake examination

(operating examination for two senior reactor operator applicants) based on the guidelines in

NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors, Revision 11,

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 examination is administered.

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

examination outline by July 27, 2018. The operating examination and supporting reference

materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by August 17, 2018. 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 examination to be rescheduled.

In order to conduct the requested operating examination, it will be necessary for your staff to

provide adequate space and accommodations in accordance with ES-302. In addition,

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.

R. Bement 2

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit signed applications

certifying that all training has been completed by September 10, 2018. If the final signed

applications are not received by that date, a postponement may be necessary.

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 June 30, 2019. 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 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 Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 2.390 of the NRCs

Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, 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. Rodgers 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 Daniel Bacon at 404-997-4518, or

myself at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-528, 50-529, and 50-530

License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, and NPF-74

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