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Informs That Comments on Press Release Incorporated,Except One.Comment Associated W/Posting of Proposed Rule on Internet
ML20236W698
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Issue date: 03/25/1998
From: Turdici J
NRC
To: Funches J
NRC
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ML20014B037 List:
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FRN-63FR16046, RULE-PR-140, RULE-PR-170, RULE-PR-171, RULE-PR-2 AF83-1-018, AF83-1-18, NUDOCS 9808060159
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From: James Turdici ( h To: ~ WND1.WNP1.JLF Date: . 3/25/98 2:59pm Subject. Edits to Press Release Jesse:

Received your comments on the press release and have incorporated them except one it is assoociated with the posting of the proposed rule on the internet. We informed them in a previous paragraph as to how to obtain the proposed rule on the internet. Your edit changed where to find it so I revised your edit to be technically conect.

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S(f'$s~l'( 3 ORAFT s NRC PROPOSES TO AMEND 1.lCENSING, INSPECTION AND ANNUAL FEES l

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to amend its licensing, inspection and annualfees.

.I The proposed amendments implement the requiremerds of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 which mandates that the NRC recover approximately 100 percent of its budget authority - less appropriations from the Nuclear Waste Fund - in fiscal years 1990 through 1998 by assessing fees. 1 The Commission's budget authority for fiscal year 1998 is $472.8 million, of which $15 million has been appropriated from the Nuclear Waste Fund. in addition, $3 million has been

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Department of EnergyW r ' these activities are excluded from license fee revenues by law. This leaves a budget of approximately $454.8 million which NRC must collect in fees. The total amount to be recovered is approximately $6.4 million less than that recovered the previous fiscalyear.

The number of licensees pr;ying annualfees has decreased. The Zion nuclear power stabon, in lilinois, ceased operating this year, while the Haddam Neck ( Connecticut), Maine Yankee, (Maine), and Bin Rock Point (Michigan), plants all ceased operating last year, i

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M As a result of 'er- ch:n ;::. "f 5 i.; e!..e the proposed fiscal year 1998 annual s.4, cW &%r 4 <- f797 fees sit?l, b; 0.* ;: : ' E ';o those forfiscalyear j 1997, 4 Q o, t pq k& & m The 1998 annual fees are:

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- $2,980,000 for power reactor licensees, from $2,978,000 in fiscal year 1997;

- $57,300 for nonpower (research and test) reactor ihnsees, from approximately the same amountin fiscalyear 1997;

- $2,607.000 for high enriched uranium 'uel facility licensees, from $2,606,000 in fiscal yea 1997;

- $1,280,000 for low-enriched fust fabrication facility licensees which manufacture fuel for j

nuclear power plants, from $1,279,000 in fiscal year 1997; i

The amounts from fiscal year 1997 remain largely unchanged for radiographer and broad scope medicallicensees, who are charged $14,100 and $23,500, respectively.

Other changes to the fee rule are proposed, including a decrease in hourly inspection and licensing res, adjustments in rates for license reviews, full cost recovery for residen

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inspectom, and charges for overtime.

The NRC is also planning to examine the current annualfee exemption policy for licensees undergoing decommissioning or holding possession-only licenses. Currently, licensees decommissioning their facilities who store their spent fuel in a spent ff pool are not t

assessed an annual fee. But licensees who store spent fuel in an independent spent fuct

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stonge installation, must pay such a fee. Any changes to this policy would be included in the fee rule forthe next fiscal year.

Written comments on the proposed amendmerr.s to Parts 170 and 171 of the Commission's regulations should be received by (thirty days after publication in the Federal Register). They should be addressed to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.,20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and Adjudications staff.

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Comments may also be submitted via the NRC's electronic rulemaking website at http://www.nrc. gov. Select "rulemaking" from the tool bar and then "new rulemaking website."

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the Federal Register. and published on the internet at http://ruleforum.lini. gov.

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