Operator Licensing National Examination Schedule (Generic Letter 89-03)
UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555
March 24, 1989
TO: ALL POWER REACTOR LICENSEES AND APPLICANTS FOR AN OPERATING LICENSE
SUBJECT: OPERATOR LICENSING NATIONAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
(GENERIC LETTER 89-03)
Generic Letter (GL) 88-13, dated August 8, 1988, solicited your estimated
replacement examination needs for each fiscal year (FY) through 1992 and
stated the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) intent to
implement a national examination schedule beginning in FY 1990 (October 1,
1989). Adopting such a schedule would enable the NRC to more efficiently
employ its limited examiner staff while allowing you to plan your training
efforts with greater confidence that your licensing examinations will be
administered on their designated dates.
The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) has evaluated your estimated
examination needs for FY 1990 and developed the enclosed national examination
schedule. Every attempt was made to schedule examination services at the
times you requested; however, if the workload within a region, among
facilities of the same vendor type, or nationally was excessive during a
particular month, then your designated examination dates were adjusted to
eliminate the excessive work!oad. Each facility was assigned two examination
dates during the fiscal year regardless of how many examinations were
indicated in its response to Generic Letter 88-13.
NRR's objective is to administer replacement and/or requalification
examinations at each site at approximately 6-month intervals. Although the
replacement and requalification examination methodologies are currently too
different to facilitate concurrent administration of both examinations, NRR is
evaluating the potential for adopting portions of the revised requalification
methodology in the replacement examination program. When the differences
between the two methodologies are reconciled, all normal licensing activities
necessary for your facility will be performed during one or both of your
designated examination dates.
The NRC regional offices, through direct liaison with your training managers,
will schedule examinations within the months assigned on the enclosed national
schedule. Every effort should be made to target the assigned examination
dates during FY 1990; however, in light of the lead time necessary to revise
your training schedules, some deviation from the enclosed schedule will be
accommodated. In the absence of documentable, extenuating circumstances,
replacement examinations during fiscal years 1991 and beyond will not be
rescheduled but will be deferred until the next regularly scheduled site
visit. During the period that NRR is evaluating concurrent administration of
replacement and requalification examinations, the regions will continue to
schedule requalification examinations on a case-by-case basis.
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The same schedule will be used year after year, so your operator licensing
examinations should be expected on approximately the same dates every year.
When requalification examinations are added to the schedule, they should be
expected with equal regularity. Your estimates of licensing examination
requirements for future fiscal years will be solicited to determine which
assigned dates you plan to utilize and the number of candidates to be examined
so that NRC may modify its budget and staffing accordingly.
We appreciate your assistance in this matter and invite you to direct any
questions concerning the national examination schedule to Mr. Kenneth E.
Perkins, Jr., at (301) 492-1031.
Sincerely,
Steven A. Varga, Acting
Associate Director for Projects
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosure:
National Examination Schedule
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NATIONAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
FACILITY OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
NAME
ARKANSAS 1 X X
ARKANSAS 2 X X
BEAVER VALLEY 1 X X
BEAVER VALLEY 2 X X
BIG ROCK X X
BRAIDWOOD 1/2 X X
BROWNS FERRY 1/2/3 X X
BRUNSWICK 1/2 X X
BYRON 1/2 X X
CALLAWAY X X
CALVERT CLIFFS 1/2 X X
CATAWBA 1/2 X X
CLINTON X X
COMANCHE PEAK 1/2 X X
COOPER X X
CRYSTAL RIVER 3 X X
DAVIS-BESSE X X
DC COOK 1/2 X X
DIABLO CANYON 1/2 X X
DRESDEN 2/3 X X
DUANE ARNOLD X X
FARLEY 1/2 X X
FERMI 2 X X
FITZPATRICK X X
FORT CALHOUN 1 X X
FORT ST VRAIN X X
GINNA X X
GRAND GULF X X
HADDAM NECK X X
HATCH 1/2 X X
HB ROBINSON X X
HOPE CREEK X X
INDIAN POINT 2 X X
INDIAN POINT 3 X X
KEWAUNEE X X
LACROSSE
LASALLE 1/2 X X
LIMERICK 1/2 X X
MAINE YANKEE X X
MCGUIRE 1/2 X X
MILLSTONE l X X
MILLSTONE 2 X X
MILLSTONE 3 X X
MONTICELLO 1/2 X X
NINE MILE POINT 1 X X
NINE MILE POINT 2 X X
NORTH ANNA 1/2 X X
OCONEE 1/2/3 X X
OYSTER CREEK X X
PALISADES X X
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NATIONAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
FACILITY OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
NAME
PALO VERDE 1/2/3 X X
PEACH BOTTOM 2/3 X X
PERRY X X
PILGRIM X X
POINT BEACH 1/2 X X
PRAIRIE ISLAND 1/2 X X
QUAD CITIES 1/2 X X
RANCHO SECO X X
RIVER BEND X X
SALEM 1/2 X X
SAN ONOFRE 1 X X
SAN ONOFRE 2/3 X X
SEABROOK 1/2 X X
SEQUOYAH 1/2 X X
SHEARON HARRIS X X
SHOREHAM X X
SOUTH TEXAS 1/2 X X
ST LUCIE 1/2 X X
SURRY 1/2 X X
SUSQUEHANNA 1/2 X X
TMI 1 X X
TMI 2
TROJAN X X
TURKEY POINT 3/4 X X
VC SUMMER X X
VERMONT YANKEE X X
VOGTLE 1/2 X X
WATERFORD 3 X X
WATTS BAR 1/2 X X
WNP 2 X X
WOLF CREEK X X
YANKEE ROWE X X
ZION 1/2 X X
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