ML20236Y408
| ML20236Y408 | |
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| Issue date: | 05/20/1998 |
| From: | Gerard Jackson NRC |
| To: | Victor Dricks NRC |
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| FRN-63FR31840, RULE-PR-140, RULE-PR-170, RULE-PR-171, RULE-PR-2 AF83-2-012, AF83-2-12, NUDOCS 9808120176 | |
| Download: ML20236Y408 (3) | |
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. From: Glenda Jackson kj To: WND1,WNP9(VLD) Y O Date: 5/20/9811:51am Subject' Victor, Victor, Please see attached redline /strikout version. The first two changes are corrections, the last is a suggestiord-we usually give radiographer fees in these types of documents. After these changes are made, please send me the latest and hopefully then we'll be redy for Jesse Funches to review, Thanks again.
Glenda
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<WP Attachment Enclosed > CORRECTED VERSION. PLEASE RETURN WITH FINAL OK ASAP l
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f NRC AMENDS LICENSING, INSPECTION AND ANNUAL FEES The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is amending its licensing, inspection and annual fees.
The amendments implement the requirements of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 which mandates that the NRC recover approximately 100 percent of its budget auhrity - less appropriations from the Nuclear Waste Fund - in fiscal years 1990 through 1998 by assessing fees.
The Commission's budget authority for fiscal year 1998 is $472.8 million, of which $15 j million has been appropriated from the Nuclear Waste Fund. In addition, $3 million has been '
appropriated for NRC's activities related to commercial vitrification of waste stored at the Department of Energy's Hanford, Washington, site and the pilot program for the external regulation of the Department of Energy. Funding for these activities is excluded from license fee revenues by law. This leaves a budget of approximately $454.8 million which NRC must l collect in fees. The total amount to be recovered is approximately $6.4 million less than that recovered the previous fiscal year.
The number of licensees paying annual fees has decreased. The Zion nuclear power station, in Illinois, ceased operating this year, while the Haddam Neck (Connecticut), Maine Yankee, (Maine), and Big Rock Point (Michigan), plants all ceased operating last year. ;
As a result of the decrease in both the budget and the number of licensees, the fiscal year 1998 ant,ual fees are about the same as those for fiscal year 1997. Fees for fiscal year 1998 decrease by about one 0.1 percent. This reflects a change in the fees published in the proposed rule. Fees in the proposed rule were based on an estimated date when the licensee would certify it had permanently removed fuel from the Zion nuclear power stations. The fees in the final rule, reflect the certification date.
The 1998 annual fees are:
- $2,976,000 for power reactor licensees, from $2,978,000 in fiscal year 1997;
- $57,300 for nonpower (research and test) reactor licensees, from approximately the same amount in fiscal year 1997;
-- $2,604,000 for high-enriched uranium fuel facility licensees, from $2,606,000 in fiscal year 1997;
- $1,278,000 for low-enriched fuel fabrication facility licensees which manufacture fuel for nuclear power plants, from $1,279,000 in fiscal year 1997:
--$14,000 for radiographer, from $14;100 in fiscal year 1997; The amounts from fiscal year 1997 remain largely unchanged for broad scope medical licensees, who are charged $23,500.
The Commission's amendments include a decrease in hourly inspection and licensing rates, adjustments in rates for license reviews, full cost recovery for resident inspectors, and charges for overtime.
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2 The NRC is also planning to examine the current annual fee exemption policy for licensees undergoing decommissioning or holding possession-only licenses. Currently, licensees decommissioning their facilities who store their spent fuel in a spent fuel pool are not assessed an annual fee. But licensees who store spent fuel in an independent spent fuel storage installation, must pay such a fee. Any changes to this policy would be included in the fee rule for the next fiscal year.
The final rule will be available in the Federal Reaister. and published on the Internet at http://ruleforum.llnl. gov l
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