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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 33 / Monday, February 22, 2021 / Proposed Rules TABLE VIIIANNUAL FEE SUMMARY CALCULATIONS FOR FUEL FACILITIESContinued Dollars in millions FY 2020
final
Summary fee calculations
FY 2021
proposed
Allocated generic transportation
Fee-relief adjustment
Allocated LLW surcharge
Billing adjustments

1.1
0.1
0.4
0.1

1.2
N/A
0.3
0.3

Total remaining required annual fee recovery

$18.0

$17.2

In comparison to FY 2020, the FY
2021 proposed annual fee for the fuel facilities fee class is decreasing primarily due to the increase in 10 CFR
part 170 estimated billings and the 10
CFR part 171 billing adjustment that was included in the fuel facilities calculation due to the deferral of annual fees and fees for services due to the COVID19 public health emergency.
The decrease in the proposed annual fee is offset by an increase in the budgeted resources as discussed below.
The 10 CFR part 170 estimated billings increased as a result of the following: 1 The increased workload to support the staffs review of a license amendment application associated with high assay low enriched uranium and the associated security plans, and 2 the
review of the Westinghouse environmental impact statement being developed for the license renewal. As part of the proposed annual fee, an approximate $0.3 million billing adjustment was included in the fuel facilities calculation due to the deferral of annual fees and fees for services due to the COVID19 public health emergency.
The decrease in the proposed annual fee is offset in part by an increase in the resources for contract costs budgeted for the fuel facilities fee class primarily due to a reduction in the utilization of prioryear unobligated carryover compared to FY 2020.
The NRC will continue allocating annual fees to individual fuel facility licensees based on the effort/fee determination matrix developed in the
FY 1999 final fee rule 64 FR 31447;
June 10, 1999. To briefly recap, the matrix groups licensees within this fee class into various fee categories. The matrix lists processes that are conducted at licensed sites and assigns effort factors for the safety and safeguards activities associated with each process these effort levels are reflected in Table IX. The annual fees are then distributed across the fee class based on the regulatory effort assigned by the matrix.
The effort factors in the matrix represent regulatory effort that is not recovered through 10 CFR part 170 fees e.g., rulemaking, guidance. Regulatory effort for activities that are subject to 10 CFR
part 170 fees, such as the number of inspections, is not applicable to the effort factor.

TABLE IXEFFORT FACTORS FOR FUEL FACILITIES, FY 2021
Facility type fee category High-Enriched Uranium Fuel 1.A.1a
Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel 1.A.1b
Limited Operations 1.A.2a
Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Demonstration 1.A.2b
Hot Cell and others 1.A.2c
Uranium Enrichment 1.E.
UF6 Conversion and Deconversion 2.A.1

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In FY 2021, the total remaining amount of annual fees proposed to be recovered, $17.2 million, is attributable to safety activities, safeguards activities, and the LLW surcharge. For FY 2021, the total budgeted resources proposed to be recovered as annual fees for safety activities are $9.6 million. To calculate the annual fee, the NRC allocates this amount to each fee category based on its
Effort factors
Number of facilities
percentage of the total regulatory effort for safety activities. Similarly, the NRC
allocates the budgeted resources to be recovered as annual fees for safeguards activities, $7.2 million, to each fee category based on its percentage of the total regulatory effort for safeguards activities. Finally, the fuel facilities fee class portion of the LLW surcharge $0.3 millionis allocated to each fee
Safety 2
3 0
0 0
1 1

Safeguards 88
70
0 0
0 16
7

91
21
0 0
0 23
2

category based on its percentage of the total regulatory effort for both safety and safeguards activities. The proposed annual fee per licensee is then calculated by dividing the total allocated budgeted resources for the fee category by the number of licensees in that fee category. The fee for each facility is summarized in Table X.

TABLE XANNUAL FEES FOR FUEL FACILITIES
Actual dollars FY 2020
final annual fee
Facility type fee category High-Enriched Uranium Fuel 1.A.1a
Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel 1.A.1b

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$5,067,000
1,717,000

FY 2021
proposed annual fee $4,835,000
1,639,000