ML23017A030
| ML23017A030 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/17/2023 |
| From: | Sandra Valencia NRC/NRR/DRMA/RPSBI |
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| Download: ML23017A030 (1) | |
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New Reactors Business Line Fee Estimates (April 2020)
The table below offers resource estimates for licensing activities for the new reactors business line. This information is being offered to enhance stakeholder awareness of the costs associated with these services. It will also aid licensees and applicants in the planning and budgeting of future applications. This information is a compilation of historic actions. Actual costs for future applications may vary depending on the specific circumstances. The NRC encourages licensees and applicants to engage early in the process when submitting new actions.
The estimated hours shown in this chart 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 average, high, and low estimates of hours shown in this chart are only intended to provide an approximate estimate of the total cost of NRC work on a billable activity based upon historical data.
In addition, contractors are used to assist the NRC to complete projects. Contractors can be used to supplement NRC staff or provide a particular expertise required for the project. Similar to the hourly estimates, the average, high, and low estimates for contractor costs shown here are only intended to provide an approximate estimate of total contractor billable costs on an activity based upon historical data.
Staff Hours* Contractor Costs Low Level of High Level of Low Level of High level of Licensing Action Effort Effort Average Effort effort Average License amendments 30 1,819 263 N/A N/A N/A Combined Licenses (8 sites total)** 44,269 178,160 89,261 $2.76M $8.88M $5.02M Early Site Permits (6 total)** 14,626 64,940 29,104 $1.87M $5.11M $2.76M Design Certifications (6 total)** 108,000 257,104 179,395 N/A N/A N/A
- For current NRC labor rates, refer to the most recent Fee Rule. For FY19, the rate is $278/hour
- Staff hours and contractor costs are based on completed application reviews. Costs include the safety evaluation report and environmental impact statement but do not include pre-application interactions requested by the applicant.
N/A = information not available