ML13045A843

Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination 05000261/2013301

ML13045A843
Person / Time
Site:	Robinson
Issue date:	02/11/2013
From:	Mark Franke Division of Reactor Safety II
To:	William Gideon Progress Energy Co
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See also: IR 05000261/2013301

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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION II

245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE NE, SUITE 1200

ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303-1257

February 11, 2013

Mr. William R. Gideon

Vice President

Progress Energy

H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

3581 West Entrance Rd

Hartsville, SC 29550

SUBJECT:

H. B. ROBINSON STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000261/2013301

Dear Mr. Gideon:

In a telephone conversation on January 30, 2013, between Mr. Jeffery L. Smith, Senior

Operations Instructor, and Mr. Richard S. Baldwin, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made

for the administration of licensing examinations at H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant. The

operating test is scheduled to be administered during the week July 29, 2013. The written

examination is scheduled to be administered the week of August 5, 2013. The on-site

preparatory week is scheduled for the week of July 8, 2013.

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

test and written examination based on the guidelines in Revision 9, Supplement 1, 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 May 15, 2013. Mr. Baldwin will provide a written examination outline to your staff by

February 8, 2013. The operating test, written examination, and the supporting reference

materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by June 14, 2013. 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.

W. Gideon

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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 of 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 reactor

operator and senior reactor operator license applications, medical certifications, and waiver

requests (if any) 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 the Office of

Management and Budget (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 on any aspect of this collection of information, including

suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Information and Records Management Branch (T-6

F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by Internet

electronic mail at infocollectsresource@nrc.gov; and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202, (3150-0018), Office of Management and Budget,

Washington, DC 20503.

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 NRC Public Document

Room or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of the NRCs document

system (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-

rm.adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room).

W. Gideon

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Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Mr. Smith 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. Baldwin at (404) 997-4642, (Internet E-mail:

Richard.Baldwin@nrc.gov), or me at (404) 997-4436, (Internet E-mail: Mark.Franke@nrc.gov).

Sincerely,

/RA/

Mark E. Franke, Chief

Operations Branch 2

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket No.: 50-261

License No.: DPR-23

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W. Gideon

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cc:

Division of Radiological Health

TN Dept. of Environment & Conservation

401 Church Street

Nashville, TN 37243-1532

Donald W. Barker

Manager, Nuclear Oversight

H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

Progress Energy

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J. W. (Bill) Pitesa

Senior Vice President

Nuclear Operations

Duke Energy Corporation

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Lara S. Nichols

Deputy General Counsel

Duke Energy Corporation

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M. Christopher Nolan

Director - Regulatory Affairs

General Office

Duke Energy Corporation

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Mike Glover

Director Site Operations

H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant

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Richard Keith Holbrook

Operations Manager

H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant

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Sandra Threatt, Manager

Nuclear Response and Emergency

Environmental Surveillance

Bureau of Land and Waste Management

Department of Health and Environmental

Control

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Sharon Wheeler

Manager, Support Services

H B Robinson Steam Electric Plant

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Brian C. McCabe

Manager, Nuclear Oversight

Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant

Progress Energy

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Richard Hightower

Supervisor

Licensing/Regulatory Programs

Progress Energy

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Joseph W. Donahue

Vice President

Nuclear Oversight

Progress Energy

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David T. Conley

Senior Counsel

Legal Department

Progress Energy

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John H. O'Neill, Jr.

Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge

2300 N. Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037-1128

Richard Haynes

Director, Division of Waste Management

Bureau of Land and Waste Management

S.C. Department of Health and

Environmental Control

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Thomas Cosgrove

Plant General Manager

H.B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

Progress Energy

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Donna B. Alexander

Manager, Nuclear Regulatory Affairs

(interim)

Progress Energy

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(cc contd - See Page 5)

W. Gideon

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(cc contd)

Robert P. Gruber

Executive Director

Public Staff - NCUC

4326 Mail Service Center

Raleigh, NC 27699-4326

W. Lee Cox, III

Section Chief

Radiation Protection Section

N.C. Department of Environmental

Commerce & Natural Resources

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Greg Kilpatrick

Operations Manager

H.B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

Progress Energy

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Mark Yeager

Division of Radioactive Waste Mgmt.

S.C. Department of Health and

Environmental Control

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Public Service Commission

State of South Carolina

P.O. Box 11649

Columbia, SC 29211

Chairman

North Carolina Utilities Commission

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Henry Curry

Training Manager

H.B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

Progress Energy

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Senior Resident Inspector

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant

2112 Old Camden Rd

Hartsville, SC 29550

Christos Kamilaris

Manager, Support Services

H.B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2

Progress Energy

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John W. Flitter

Director of Electric & Gas Regulation

South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff

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Letter to William R. Gideon from Mark E. Franke dated February 11, 2013.

SUBJECT:

H. B. ROBINSON STEAM ELECTRIS PLANT - NOTIFICATION OF LICENSED

OPERATOR INITIAL EXAMINATION 05000261/2013301

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