[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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