Federal Register - February 22, 2021
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 33 / Monday, February 22, 2021 / Proposed Rules
CACs for all agency activities to clearly provide licensees with consistent descriptions of the work being performed across licensing actions, inspections, and over multiple dockets.
Invoices for service fees are now presented in a more useful and readable manner and hours and costs are no longer commingled. As a result, the NRCs invoices provide stakeholders greater transparency regarding fees.
In addition, in October 2019, the NRC
released an electronic billing eBilling system. This public facing, web-based application provides persons assessed service fees, including licensees, immediate delivery of NRC invoices, customizable email notifications, the capability to view and analyze invoice details, and access to the U.S.
Department of the Treasury systems to pay invoices. The eBilling application
provides persons assessed service fees, including licensees increased billing process transparency and has increased applicant and licensee confidence in the assessed fees and charges.
To address the third action, the NRC
is proposing a policy change to modify the regulations in 10 CFR chapter I to provide a standard process for licensees and applicants to efficiently dispute or otherwise seek review and correction of errors in invoices for services fees see Section III, Discussion, FY2021
Policy Changes, of this proposed rule.
III. Discussion FY 2021 Fee CollectionOverview The NRC is issuing this FY 2021
proposed fee rule based on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
the enacted budget. The proposed fee
rule reflects a total budget authority in the amount of $844.4 million, a decrease of $11.2 million from FY 2020. As explained previously, certain portions of the NRCs total budget authority for the fiscal year are excluded from NEIMAs fee-recovery requirement under Section 102b1B of NEIMA.
Based on the FY 2021 enacted budget, these exclusions total $123.0 million, consisting of $91.2 million for fee-relief activities; $17.7 million for advanced reactor regulatory infrastructure activities; $11.7 million for generic homeland security activities; $1.2
million for waste incidental to reprocessing activities; and $1.2 million for Inspector General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
Table I summarizes the excluded activities for the FY 2021 proposed rule.
TABLE IEXCLUDED ACTIVITIES
Dollars in millions
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FY 2021
proposed rule Fee-Relief Activities:
International activities not including the resources for import and export licensing
Agreement State oversight
Medical isotope production infrastructure
Fee exemption for nonprofit educational institutions
Costs not recovered from small entities under 10 CFR 171.16c
Regulatory support to Agreement States
Generic decommissioning/reclamation activities not related to the power reactor and spent fuel storage fee classes
Uranium recovery program and unregistered general licensees
Potential Department of Defense remediation program Memorandum of Understanding activities
Non-military radium sites
24.7
10.4
5.9
9.3
7.7
12.3
16.1
3.6
1.0
0.2
Subtotal Fee-Relief Activities
Activities under Section 102b1Bii of NEIMA Generic Homeland Security activities, Waste Incidental to Reprocessing activities, and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Advanced reactor regulatory infrastructure activities
91.2
Total Excluded Activities
123.0
After accounting for the exclusions from the fee-recovery requirement and net billing adjustments i.e., for FY 2021
invoices that the NRC estimates will not be paid during the fiscal year, less payments received in FY 2021 for prior year invoices and current year collections made for the termination of one operating power reactor, the NRC
must recover approximately $708.8
million in fees in FY 2021. Of this amount, the NRC estimates that $185.9
million will be recovered through 10
CFR part 170 service fees and approximately $522.9 million will be
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annual fees. Table II summarizes the fee-recovery amounts for the FY 2021
proposed fee rule using the enacted budget, and taking into account the budget authority for excluded activities and net billing adjustments. For all information presented in the following tables, individual values may not sum to totals due to rounding. Please see the work papers ADAMS Accession No.
ML20346A173 for actual amounts.
In FY 2021, the explanatory statement associated with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, also includes
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direction for the NRC to use $35.0
million in prior-year unobligated carryover funds, including $16.0 million to fund the Integrated University Program for FY 2021. The NRC does not assess fees in the current fiscal year for any carryover funds because, consistent with the requirements of NEIMA, fees are calculated based on the budget authority enacted for the current fiscal year and fees were already assessed in the fiscal year in which the carryover funds were appropriated.
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