ML22087A403
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| Issue date: | 03/28/2022 |
| From: | Mayer A NRC/NRR/DORL/LPL1 |
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Data accessed: 2/5/22 Data Sheet - Operating Reactor Licensing Resource Estimates Summary:
The tables below offer resource and schedule estimates for licensing activities for operating reactors. This information is being offered to enhance stakeholder awareness of the costs and timelines associated with review of a wide array of operating reactor licensing actions. Actual costs and schedule may vary depending on the unique circumstances of each review.
These estimates have informed staff resource estimates as part of the acceptance review process, the fee estimate process in support of the annual fee rule, and the operating reactor budget formulation process. Using this data-driven approach, we can identify trends and outliers in licensing action resources and review schedules to help us better engage with our internal and external stakeholders.
Methodology:
The resource and schedule estimates included in this data sheet are based on a large dataset (about 5,000 rows of data) of completed licensing actions from 2018 - 2021. We used this large dataset to create the internal-facing Licensing Resource Predictive Tool for calculating median ranges (+/- 25% from median) of staff hours and review timelines for almost any type of operating reactor licensing action, with additional keyword search functionality. In creating this data sheet and the accompanying graphics for the Operating Reactor Licensing Resource Estimator, the staff only included types of licensing actions that had at least four submittals since 2018, in order to have a sufficiently representative sample of reviews. The data for COVID-19 related licensing actions was excluded from all queries except specifically for the table titled, COVID-19 Related Licensing Actions, to ensure that these short-turn reviews did not skew the median values for normal licensing actions.
A Note on the NRC Fee Rule:
The estimated hours shown in the tables below represent NRC professional staff hours associated with project management and engineering review. The distribution of time among professional staff members (job categories) working on a project vary within each activity and from project to project. However, a single professional hourly rate is applied to all hours regardless of which professional staff contributed these hours. Indirect costs are included in the applied hourly rate as published in the current NRC Fee Rule. The median range estimates of hours shown in these tables are only intended to provide an approximate estimate of the total cost of NRC work on a billable activity based upon historical data.
Looking for Other Operating Reactor Business Line Resource Estimates?
Periodically, the staff updates a Fee Estimate worksheet that contains high, medium, and low resource estimates for staff reviews across the operating reactor business line, including operating reactor licensing and oversight, operator licensing, and research and test reactor licensing actions.
This traditional fee estimate data sheet also includes data on estimates for where contractors are used to assist NRC in its review of licensing actions.
Data accessed: 2/5/22 High-Level Types of Licensing Actions Median
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Amendments 104 195 370 7.2 9.8 11.5 878 Exemptions 60.2 89.4 171.4 4.5 7.8 10.4 68 Relief Requests 46.6 82 117.1 4.9 7.1 8.9 558 License Transfers 170 244.5 431.5 4.4 5.7 9.2 17 Power Uprates 1281.3 1375 1675 8.7 9.7 10.4 6
Program Change Requiring Prior NRC Approval 57 82.5 139 3.5 5.6 6.4 9
Notice of Enforcement Discretion 4.75 13.75 25 0.2 0.2 0.4 12 Other Licensing Tasks*
12.5 22.9 38.8 3.4 5.9 8.7 276
- Other licensing tasks are activities that are not specifically requested by a licensee via correspondence, but require NRC resources to review or support. For example, presubmittal public meetings, reviews of steam generator tube inspection reports, reviews of license renewal commitment changes, etc.
Data accessed: 2/5/22 License Amendments:
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Amendments - All 104 195 370 7.2 9.8 11.5 878 Exigent*
104 124.5 162.6 0.4 0.6 1.3 14 One-Time*
192.4 255.8 271.9 1.1 2.2 3.9 15 10 CFR 50.69*
564 680 821 11.4 12.5 15.7 24 EAL2 Scheme*
(excluded defueled) 132.5 192.3 232.5 9.8 10.8 11.7 17 ILRT3*
393.6 453.4 540.9 10 11 11.3 8
Source Term*
312 521 887 10.6 10.9 11.3 4
P/T or P-T4 or Pressure and Temperature*
275.2 413.3 554 10.4 11.7 12.5 4
- Indicates a keyword search - may not return all licensing actions related to this keyword due to spelling or phrasing differences 1 Enterprise Project Identifier 2 Emergency Action Level 3 Integrated Leakage Rate Testing 4 Pressure/Temperature License Amendments Adopting Technical Specifications Task Force Travelers (TSTFs)
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TSTFs - All 73 117 220 6.3 8.7 11.1 252 TSTF-372 73 76 98.5 5.4 5.6 6.3 4
TSTF-412 96.6 104.1 115.7 5.4 6.5 8.1 4
TSTF-425 387 514.5 542 10.8 11.8 12.4 13 TSTF-427 59.8 71.5 84.8 5.2 6.5 8.8 4
TSTF-439 86.6 126 145.5 10.4 10.7 11.2 7
TSTF-490 139.5 192.3 196 8.8 9.3 11.4 5
TSTF-500 311.1 366.1 373.2 9.8 11 11.2 4
TSTF-501 72 97.5 123.8 6.1 8.5 11.1 6
TSTF-505 1440 1674 2145 12.9 15 28.7 14 TSTF-522 93.8 105.8 117.8 6.1 8.2 8.6 6
TSTF-529 58.9 73.6 116.1 5.7 6.9 8.6 12 TSTF-542 247.1 298.5 389.9 10 11 11.7 23 TSTF-545 117.7 182.1 236.6 8.8 9.7 10.4 6
TSTF-547 141.9 192.8 215.1 6.6 8.9 10.2 8
Data accessed: 2/5/22 TSTF-551 40.1 46.8 70.3 4.7 6
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TSTF-563 76.3 98.8 128.1 7.6 8.7 9.6 14 TSTF-564 119.4 182.3 192.1 4.9 7.6 9.2 10 TSTF-566 51 57.5 70.7 7
9.2 11 6
TSTF-567 40 64.8 72.9 6.7 7.4 8.3 7
TSTF-569 51 62.3 86.4 6
7.5 8.4 7
TSTF-582 74.1 89.8 98.9 4.4 4.8 6.6 14 TSTFs - All Non-CLIIP1 74 126 250 6.9 9
11.1 232 TSTFs - All CLIIP 56.8 72.8 94.9 5.2 5.5 6.4 20 1 Consolidated Line Item Improvement Program Relief Requests Median
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Relief Requests
- All 46.6 82 117.1 4.9 7.1 8.9 558 IST1 31.9 50.3 67 2.9 6.2 8
43 ISI2 57 101.5 137.4 6.6 8
9.8 147 Impractical*
99.8 121 196.1 6.6 7.9 10 16 Code Case*
52.9 82.6 107.1 4.7 6.3 8.5 70 OMN3*
33.8 43.3 62.6 4.3 5.6 6.6 10 ASME4 Code Case N-729-4*
60.8 78 105.6 3.5 5
6.3 10 ASME Code Case N-513-4*
51.4 72.3 93.8 3.3 6.2 8.9 19 Verbal*
81.2 98 143.7 4.5 5
5.4 6
- Indicates a keyword search - may not return all licensing actions related to this keyword due to spelling or phrasing differences 1 Inservice Testing 2 Inservice Inspection 3 A type of Operations and Maintenance ASME Code Case 4 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Data accessed: 2/5/22 Exemptions Median
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Exemptions - All 60.2 89.4 171.4 4.5 7.8 10.4 68 10 CFR 73*
53.6 66.9 75.5 7.8 9.6 9.9 4
10 CFR 50.47*
414.3 494.5 518.8 10.4 12 12.6 5
Record Retention*
21.3 24.5 37.4 3.2 4.6 6.9 7
10 CFR 73.55*
51.3 61.5 72.3 7.4 9.3 9.8 5
10 CFR 50.54*
77.9 88 112.9 6.9 8
8.8 6
10 CFR 50.46*
123.8 319.3 536.5 11.8 13.9 16.5 5
- Indicates a keyword search - may not return all licensing actions related to this keyword due to spelling or phrasing differences Covid-19 Related Licensing Actions Median
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Licensing Actions -
All 10 20.3 39.7 0.4 0.8 1.4 282 License Amendments 75.6 139 251.2 0.8 1.3 2.4 20 Relief Requests 28.5 48.3 66.3 2.1 4.2 5.9 40 Exemptions - All 9
14.8 24.8 0.4 0.7 1
218 Exemptions - 10 CFR Part 26 7.3 10 18.1 0.1 0.3 0.4 54 Exemptions - 10 CFR Part 73 8.7 14.8 22.5 0.5 0.8 0.9 104 Exemptions - 10 CFR 50, Appendix E 22.5 29.5 39.8 0.9 1.2 1.7 27