ML24277A072

Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000275/2025301; 05000323/2025301

ML24277A072
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	10/03/2024
From:	Heather Gepford NRC/RGN-IV/DORS/OB
To:	Peck A Pacific Gas & Electric Co
References
2025301
Download: ML24277A072 (1)

See also: IR 05000275/2025301

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October 03, 2024

Adam Peck

Acting Senior Vice President, Generation

and Chief Nuclear Officer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

P.O. Box 56

Mail Code 104/6

Avila Beach, CA 93424

SUBJECT:

DIABLO CANYON POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 - NOTIFICATION OF NRC

INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000275/2025301;

05000323/2025301

Dear Mr. Peck:

In a telephone conversation on October 2, 2024, between Mr. Kenneth Smith, Nuclear

Operations Instructor - Licensed and Mr. John Kirkland, Chief Examiner, arrangements were

made for the administration of operator licensing examinations at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power

Plant during the weeks of October 27, 2025, and November 3, 2025.

As agreed during the telephone conversation, your staff will prepare the examinations based on

the guidelines in Revision 12 to NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for

Power Reactors. 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 operating test

outlines by May 26, 2025. The written examination outline was provided to your staff on October

2, 2024. 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 August 11, 2025. Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal

Regulations (10 CFR) 55.40(b)(3), an authorized representative of the facility licensee shall

approve the examinations 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. Delays in

receiving the required materials, or the submittal of inadequate or incomplete materials, may

cause the examinations to be cancelled or rescheduled. In addition, your support for on-site

validation of the examinations is required during the week of September 15, 2025.

A. Peck

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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 or excusal requests (if any) (Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) control number 3150 0090) at least 60 days before the first examination date

(if possible). Contact Mr. Kirkland to determine the method for submission of the waiver or

excusal requests. Preliminary reactor operator and senior reactor operator license applications

(OMB control number 3150 0090) and medical certifications (OMB control number 3150 0024)

should be submitted at least 30 days before the first examination date. If the NRC does not

receive the preliminary applications 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 waiver or excusal requests call for their receipt 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 facility licensee to the NRC

are not binding. Submittals addressing waivers or excusals, or both, should be in writing

(i.e., using NRC Form 398 or as directed when Mr. Kirkland contacted 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 OMB, approval number 3150-0018.

The burden to the public for these mandatory information collections is estimated to average

400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 months <br /> per examination, 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; e-mail:

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.

A. Peck

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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, a

copy of this letter and its enclosures will be available electronically for public inspection through the

NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is accessible

on the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

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 about the NRCs examination

procedures and guidelines, please contact me at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

Heather J Gepford, Ph.D.

Chief, Operations Branch

Division of Operating Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-275; 50-323

License Nos. DPR-80; DPR-82

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Signed by Gepford, Heather J.

on 10/03/24

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