[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 231 (Tuesday, December 1, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77280-77281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26460]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0227]
Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-1021, Revision 12, ``Operator
Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors.'' NUREG-1021
establishes the policies, procedures, and guidance for the development,
administration, and grading of written examinations and operating tests
used for examining licensees and applicants for reactor operator and
senior reactor operator licenses at power reactor facilities. It also
provides procedures and guidance for maintaining operators' licenses
and for the NRC to conduct requalification examinations when necessary.
The draft NUREG streamlines the examination standards by organizing
them in topic-based sections for ease of use, clarifies existing
instructions, and introduces new instructions.
DATES: Submit comments by February 16, 2021. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0227. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges;
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maurin Scheetz, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2758, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0227 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0227.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected]. Draft Revision 12 of NUREG-1021 is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20329A326. A supporting
document that captures changes from Revision 11 to draft Revision 12 is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20325A254.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and purchase
copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your
request to the PDR by email to [email protected] or call 1-800-397-
4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2020-0227 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at
https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions
into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The draft NUREG-1021, Revision 12, provides policies, procedures,
and guidance for the development, administration, and grading of
examinations used for licensing operators at nuclear power plants under
the Commission's regulations in part 55 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, ``Operators' Licenses.'' This draft NUREG also
provides guidance for maintaining operators' licenses and for the NRC
to conduct requalification examinations when necessary. The NRC is
issuing the draft NUREG to (1) streamline information into topic-based
sections for ease of use, (2) clarify instructions for the
identification and grading of performance deficiencies on the operating
test, (3) introduce new instructions for the treatment of critical
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tasks and critical and significant performance deficiencies, and (4)
implement changes to support the reintegration of the generic
fundamentals examination with the site-specific initial licensing
examination. To assist in understanding the changes in the draft NUREG,
a supporting document that captures changes from Revision 11 to draft
Revision 12 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20325A254.
Dated: November 25, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christian B. Cowdrey,
Chief, Operator Licensing and Human Factors Branch, Division of Reactor
Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2020-26460 Filed 11-30-20; 8:45 am]
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