[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51925-51926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20171]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0227]
Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1021, Revision 12, ``Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power
Reactors.''
DATES: NUREG-1021, Revision 12 is available on September 17, 2021 and
will be applicable to operator licensing examinations that are
administered 6 months after this date. Power reactor facility licensees
that elect to prepare, proctor, and grade written examinations and/or
prepare operating tests with administration dates 6 months or more
after the date of this notice, must do so based on the guidance in
NUREG-1021, Revision 12.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0227 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
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 Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
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]. NUREG-1021, Revision 12 is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML21256A276.
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 or 302-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
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. Discussion
NUREG-1021, Revision 12, ``Operator Licensing Examination Standards
for Power Reactors,'' provides policies, procedures, and guidance for
the development, administration, and grading of examinations used for
licensing operators at nuclear power reactor facilities under the
Commission's regulations in part 55 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), ``Operators' Licenses.'' This NUREG also provides
guidance for maintaining operators' licenses and for the NRC to conduct
requalification examinations when necessary. The NRC is issuing
Revision 12 of this 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) revise instructions for the selection of critical tasks and
the assessment of critical and significant performance deficiencies,
and (4) implement changes to support the testing of fundamentals topics
on the site-specific initial licensing examination instead of in a
separate generic fundamentals examination.
II. Additional Information
Revision 12 of NUREG-1021 replaces Revision 11 of NUREG-1021. Draft
NUREG-1021, Revision 12, was published in the Federal Register for
public comment on December 1, 2020 (85 FR 77280) with a 75-day comment
period. The NRC received 124 public
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comments from private citizens and industry organizations. The NRC
staff's evaluation and resolution of the public comments are documented
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML21211A578.
III. Congressional Review Act
NUREG-1021, Revision 12, is a rule as defined in the Congressional
Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and
Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the
Congressional Review Act.
Dated: September 14, 2021.
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. 2021-20171 Filed 9-16-21; 8:45 am]
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