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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 114 / Wednesday, June 16, 2021 / Rules and Regulations FY 2021 Fee CollectionProfessional Hourly Rate The NRC uses a professional hourly rate to assess fees under 10 CFR part 170
for specific services it provides. The professional hourly rate also helps determine flat fees which are used for the review of certain types of license applications. This rate is applicable to all activities for which fees are assessed under 170.21 and 170.31.

Professional Hourly Rate
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The NRCs professional hourly rate is derived by adding budgeted resources for: 1 Mission-direct program salaries and benefits, 2 mission-indirect program support, and 3 agency support corporate support and the Inspector General. The NRC then subtracts certain offsetting receipts and divides this total by the mission-direct full-time equivalent FTE converted to hours the mission-direct FTE converted
Budgeted Resources Mission-Direct FTE Converted to Hours
For FY 2021, the NRC is increasing the professional hourly rate from $279
to $288. The 3.2 percent increase in the FY 2021 professional hourly rate is primarily due to a 2.1 percent increase in budgetary resources of approximately $15.0 million. The increase in budgetary resources is, in turn, primarily due to an increase in salaries and benefits to support Federal pay raises for NRC
employees. The anticipated decline in the number of mission-direct FTE
compared to FY 2020 also contributed to the increase in the professional hourly rate. The professional hourly rate is inversely related to the mission-direct
to hours is the product of the missiondirect FTE multiplied by the estimated annual mission-direct FTE productive hours. The only budgeted resources excluded from the professional hourly rate are those for mission-direct contract resources, which are generally billed to licensees separately. The following shows the professional hourly rate calculation:

$732.2 million 1,684x1,510

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FTE amount; therefore, as the number of mission-direct FTE decrease the professional hourly rate can increase.
The number of mission-direct FTE is expected to decline by 17, primarily due to: 1 The completion of probabilistic risk assessment reviews related to lessons learned from the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan; 2 the closure of Duane Arnold Energy Center Duane Arnold; and 3 the reduced workload associated with significance determinations, operating experience evaluations, and generic communications development.

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$288

The FY 2021 estimate for annual mission-direct FTE productive hours is 1,510 hours, which is unchanged from FY 2020. This estimate, also referred to as the productive hours assumption, reflects the average number of hours that a mission-direct employee spends on mission-direct work in a given year.
This estimate, therefore, excludes hours charged to annual leave, sick leave, holidays, training, and general administrative tasks. Table III shows the professional hourly rate calculation methodology. The FY 2020 amounts are provided for comparison purposes.

TABLE IIIPROFESSIONAL HOURLY RATE CALCULATION
Dollars in millions, except as noted
Mission-Direct Program Salaries & Benefits
Mission-Indirect Program Support
Agency Support Corporate Support and the IG

$314.6
$110.8
$291.5

$335.3
$113.2
$283.7

Subtotal
Less Offsetting Receipts 2
Total Budgeted Resources Included in Professional Hourly Rate
Mission-Direct FTE Whole numbers
Annual Mission-Direct FTE Productive Hours Whole numbers
Mission-Direct FTE Converted to Hours Mission-Direct FTE multiplied by Annual Mission-Direct FTE Productive Hours
Professional Hourly Rate Total Budgeted Resources Included in Professional Hourly Rate Divided by MissionDirect FTE Converted to Hours Whole Numbers

$716.9
$0.0
$716.9
1,701
1,510

$732.2
$0.0
$732.2
1,684
1,510

2,568,510

2,542,840

$279

$288

FY 2021 Fee CollectionFlat Application Fee Changes
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The NRC is amending the flat application fees it charges in its schedule of fees in 170.21 and 170.31
to reflect the revised professional hourly rate of $288. The NRC charges these fees 2 The fees collected by the NRC for Freedom of Information Act FOIA services and indemnity fees financial protection required of all licensees for public liability claims at 10 CFR part 140 are subtracted from the budgeted resources amount when calculating the 10 CFR part 170 professional
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to applicants for materials licenses and other regulatory services, as well as to holders of materials licenses. The NRC
calculates these flat fees by multiplying the average professional staff hours needed to process the licensing actions by the professional hourly rate for FY
2021. As part of its calculations, the
NRC analyzes the actual hours spent performing licensing actions and estimates the five-year average of professional staff hours that are needed to process licensing actions as part of its biennial review of fees; these actions are required by Section 205a of the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 31 U.S.C.

hourly rate, per the guidance in the Office of Management and Budget OMB Circular A25, User Charges. The budgeted resources for FOIA
activities are allocated under the product for Information Services within the Corporate Support business line. The budgeted resources for
indemnity activities are allocated under the Licensing Actions and Research and Test Reactors products within the Operating Reactors business line.

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