Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: e96f542b-95a5-47ec-b1f0-f88d836fa6bd
Document Type: srp
Title: - 13.1.3-9
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0702/ML070250009.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 13
Section ID: 13.1.2
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Revision 6 - March 2007 establishing qualifications and staffing levels for all positions on which the safety of the facility will depend. Meeting the requirements of 10 CFR 50.40(b) and 10 CFR 50.80, as applicable, provides assurance that the applicant is technically qualified to engage in the proposed activities and has established the necessary managerial and technical-support organizations to safely operate the proposed facility. 2. Compliance with 10 CFR 50.54(j), (k), (l), and (m) requires the applicant to demonstrate that its operating organization satisfies minimum requirements for operator supervision and the availability of licensed senior operators and licensed operators during reactor operations and other specific reactor conditions or modes of operation. Any requests for exemptions from the licensed operator staffing requirements specified in 10 CFR 50.54(m) should be granted (or denied) based on the guidance set forth in NUREG-1791 and founded on a thorough analysis of personnel performance. 3. The key positions for ensuring the safe operation of the plant are in the operating organization. A staffing review of the operating organization shows whether an applicant is technically qualified to operate the facility. III. REVIEW PROCEDURES The reviewer will select material from the procedures described below, as may be appropriate for a particular case. These review procedures are based on the identified SRP acceptance criteria. For deviations from these acceptance criteria, the staff should review the applicant’s evaluation of how the proposed alternatives provide an acceptable method of complying with the relevant NRC requirements identified in Subsection II. In reviewing information about the operating organization, the following points should be considered: 1. During the early stages of construction or plant design, the applicant will generally not have made selections for plant staff positions. The reviewer, therefore, examines this section of the