# Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Pressurized Water Reactors; Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Boiling Water Reactors
**AGENCY:**
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
**ACTION:**
NUREG; issuance.
**SUMMARY:**
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-1122, Revision 3, “Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Pressurized Water Reactors,” and NUREG-1123, Revision 3, “Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Boiling Water Reactors.”
**DATES:**
NUREG-1122, Revision 3 and NUREG-1223, Revision 3 take effect on September 25, 2020.
**ADDRESSES:**
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0068 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-2017-0068. 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.
• *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 reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to *[email protected].* NUREG-1122, Revision 3, “Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Pressurized Water Reactors,” is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20260H083 and NUREG-1123, Revision 3, “Knowledge and Abilities Catalog for Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Boiling Water Reactors,” is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20260H086.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Brian Tindell, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2026, email: *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The NRC published a notice of the availability of the drafts of NUREG-1122 and NUREG-1123 in the *Federal Register* on April 14, 2017 (82 FR 18018) for a 30-day public comment period. The public comment period closed on May 15, 2017. The NRC received eight public comments on the drafts of NUREG-1122 and NUREG-1123 and the comments can be found on *Regulations.gov* under Docket ID NRC-2017-0068.
NUREG-1122, Rev. 3 and NUREG-1123, Rev. 3 provide the basis for the development of content-valid examinations used for the licensing of operators at nuclear power plants under the NRC's regulations contained in title 10 of the *Code of Federal Regulations* (10 CFR) part 55, “Operators' Licenses.” The examinations developed using NUREG-1122 and NUREG-1123, along with NUREG-1021, “Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors,” will sample the topics listed in 10 CFR part 55.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated: September 22, 2020.
Christian B. Cowdrey,
Chief, Operator Licensing and Human Factors Branch, Division of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.