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Notification of NRC Initial Operator Licensing Examination 05000498/2017301 and 05000499/2017301
	ML16333A426
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	11/28/2016
From:	Vincent Gaddy; Operations Branch IV
To:	Koehl D; South Texas
References
	IR 2017301
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UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

REGION IV

1600 E. LAMAR BLVD.

ARLINGTON, TX 76011-4511

November 28, 2016

Mr. Dennis Koehl

President and Chief Executive Officer

STP Nuclear Operating Company

P.O. Box 289

Wadsworth, TX 77483

SUBJECT: SOUTH TEXAS PROJECT ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION - NOTIFICATION

OF NRC INITIAL OPERATOR LICENSING EXAMINATION 05000498/2017301

AND 05000499/2017301

Dear Mr. Koehl:

In a telephone conversation on November 16, 2016, between Messrs. T. Hurley, Supervisor for

this Initial Licensing Exam, and K. Clayton, Chief Examiner, arrangements were made for the

administration of licensing examinations at South Texas Project Electric Generating Station,

Units 1 and 2, during the weeks of September 25 and October 9, 2017.

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

the guidelines in NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power

Reactors, Revision 10, 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

outlines by June 26, 2017. The written examination, operating tests, and supporting reference

materials identified in Attachment 3 to ES-201 will be due by July 24, 2017. 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 outlines, 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.

Any delay in receiving the required examinations 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 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 and for validation the week of

August 14, 2017. 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.

D. Koehl -2-

To permit timely NRC review and evaluation, your staff should submit preliminary 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) by August 21, 2017. Signed applications certifying that all

training has been completed should be submitted by September 11, 2017. 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. The public reporting burden for this collection of information is

estimated to average 50 hours5.787037e-4 days 0.0139 hours 8.267196e-5 weeks 1.9025e-5 months 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 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of

this letter and its enclosures 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. Hurley 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. Clayton at 817-200-1216 or

myself at 817-200-1159.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Vincent G. Gaddy, Chief

Operations Branch

Division of Reactor Safety

Docket Nos. 50-498 and 50-499

License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80

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