ML23024A065
| ML23024A065 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/18/2023 |
| From: | NRC/OCFO |
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| Download: ML23024A065 (3) | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
LICENSE, ANNUAL, AND INSPECTION FEE INVOICE -- TERMS AND CONDITIONS NOTICE: This invoice shows the fee assessed for a licensing action or USE OF CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES AND CONTRACTING inspection of your licensed program or the assessment of an annual FOR COLLECTION SERVICES: All current consumer and commercial fee. Fees are assessed in accordance with the pertinent schedules debt shall be reported to a credit reporting agency in accordance with 31 contained in the current 10 CFR Part 170 or 10 CFR Part 171. The CFR Chapter IX, Part 901.5 and 10 CFR 15.26. When a debt is 120 days revocation or termination of your license does not relieve you of the or more delinquent, the NRC is required to refer the debt to the responsibility for any debt(s). The fee and associated interest, Department of the Treasury (Treasury) for collections. Treasury may penalties, and administrative cost, if any, constitute a debt to the United employ a variety of tools to collect your delinquent debt. These tools States, and the invoice is the demand for payment required under include administrative offset, Tax Refund Offset, wage garnishment, Federal law and implementing regulations. referral to a private collection agency and referral to the Department of Justice for litigation/collection. As a debtor, you are liable for all collection TERMS: Your payment is due immediately and should be made fees incurred with the collection of this debt.
payable by check, draft, money order, credit card (submit electronic payment via Pay.gov or manual payment using the NRC Form 629) or 10 CFR 170.41 FAILURE BY APPLICANT OR LICENSEE TO PAY electronic funds transfer (FedWire or ACH) made payable to the U.S. PRESCRIBED FEES AND 10 CFR 171.23 ENFORCEMENT: If you fail NRC. Payment should be made by electronic funds transfer if the to pay the prescribed fee or file a false certification for small entity amount owed is $5,000 or greater. Federal agencies may make status, the NRC will not process any applications for you and will revoke payment using the Intragovernmental Payment and Collection System your license for nonpayment of the fee assessed. The filing of a false (IPAC). certification of small entity status could result in civil sanctions being imposed by the NRC under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act.
INTEREST: You will be assessed interest at the rate of 1% per year on debts owed to the NRC. The interest rate will remain fixed for the 10 CFR 170.51 RIGHT TO DISPUTE ASSESED FEES: Your request duration of the indebtedness. However, interest will be waived if for review of the fees assessed, and appeal or disagreement with the payment is received within 30 days from the invoice date. prescribed fee, must be submitted in writing in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 15.31, "Disputed Debts."
PENALTY: You will be assessed a penalty charge at the rate of 6% per year on any portion of a debt that is delinquent for more than 90 days. CONTACTS: For questions about your invoice or to request a change This charge will be calculated on or after the 91st day of delinquency of billing address, please call (301) 415-7554 or send an email to but will accrue from the date the debt became delinquent. A debt is Fees.Resource@nrc.gov. To submit notice of bankruptcy, send written delinquent if it has not been paid by the invoice date. notification via email Fees.Resource@nrc.gov or by mail to:
ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGE: You will be assessed an administrative LABOR ADMINISTRATION AND FEE BILLING BRANCH charge incurred for processing and handling your delinquent debt. This OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER charge is $52 a month and will be assessed each month the debt is U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION delinquent. There will be an additional administrative charge of $500 11545 ROCKVILLE PIKE assessed if an Order Revoking License is issued to you for ROCKVILLE, MD 20852-2738 nonpayment of fees.
NRC PROCEDURES FOR EXTENDING PAYMENT DATES OF LICENSE, INSPECTION, AND ANNUAL FEE INVOICES License, inspection, and annual fees are billed in accordance with the interest waiver period. A request is deemed to have merit if it causes schedules contained in 10 CFR Part 170 and 10 CFR Part 171. Interest the NRC to question whether the amount originally billed is correct.
on the amount billed accrues from the invoice date but will be waived if the amount due is paid within 30 days after the invoice date. If an A. If the explanation has merit, the NRC will notify you in writing that extension of time to pay is granted, interest will be waived if the debt is the request is granted and that the 45-day interest waiver period will be paid before the expiration of the extended period. The 45-day interest extended to a certain date. This date will be 30 days after the date the waiver period may be extended, at NRC's discretion, using the following revised invoice is mailed. The amount on the revised invoice will procedures: constitute a final determination of the existence or amount of the debt. A final determination by NRC for this purpose need not await the outcome
- 1. The NRC must receive your written request for an extension of the of litigation or further administrative review. Further extensions of the 45- day interest waiver period before expiration of the 45-day period. due date will not be granted. If the amount on the revised invoice is not The request should explain why the debt is incorrect in fact or in law (10 paid within 30 days after the date the revised invoice is mailed, interest CFR 15.31). If the request is not received within the 45-day interest from the date of the original invoice will become due and payable.
waiver period, it will automatically be denied. Telephone requests for extensions will not be considered. Requests for extensions of the 45- B. NRC may, at its option, meet with your representatives to receive day interest waiver period should be submitted to to the Office of the further evidence or arguments supporting your contentions.
Chief Financial Officer via the eBilling system, by email to FeeBillingInquiries.Resource@nrc.gov or by mail at: C. Your request for an extension may be granted either for the entire amount originally billed or for a portion of the amount originally billed. If LABOR ADMINISTRATION AND FEE BILLING BRANCH your request for an extension applies to only a portion of the originally (T9E-10) OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER billed amount, the remaining amount is due and pay able and if it is not U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION paid by the due date, interest from the date of the original invoice will be 11545 ROCKVILLE PIKE assessed.
ROCKVILLE, MD 20852-2738 (Continued on reverse)
- 2. Your explanation must have merit for the NRC to extend the 45-day
- 3. If an extension of the 45-day interest waiver period is granted and the D. If your explanation does not have merit and does not cause the amount originally billed remains unchanged, such extension will be NRC to question whether the amount originally billed is correct, your stated on the revised invoice as provided in 2A above.
request will be denied. Failure of NRC to notify you before the end of the 45-day interest waiver period that a request for an extension has been 4. NRC records in support of billed fees are not subject to audit by non-denied will not constitute grounds for a waiver of interest. Governmental entities. However, copies of records desired by you can be made available to you if they are reproduced at your expense. For E. The assertion that the invoice is unsupported by a sufficiently any charges which may be assessed, refer to 10 CFR Part 9.
detailed breakdown of dates, hours, and other data does not constitute an explanation of why the amount billed is incorrect in fact or in law. If 5. NRC will refund to you any amount which is later determined to be an you view the information furnished with the invoice as insufficient for the overpayment, including interest, if any, which was paid by you on such purpose of a request for an extension, you should seek the necessary amount. NRC is not authorized to pay interest on any part of a license, information as soon as possible in order that a request for extension can inspection, or annual fee which was paid to NRC and is later refunded.
be submitted within the 45-day interest waiver period.
PROCEDURES FOR ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER The NRC can receive funds through the U.S. Department of the Field Content Treasury (Treasury) Fedwire Deposit System. The basic wire message format below complies with the Federal Reserve Boards standard (8) PRODUCT CODE - A product code of CTR for customer transfer should be structured third-party format for all electronic funds transfer (EFT) the first data in the RECEIVER-TEXT field. Other values may be entered, if messages. appropriate, using the ABAs options. A slash must be entered after the product code.
l (9) AGENCY LOCATION CODE (ALC) - THIS ITEM IS OF CRITICAL (1) IMPORTANCE. IT MUST APPEAR ON THE FUNDS TRANSFER DEPOSIT l 021030004 l (2) l MESSAGE IN THE PRECISE MANNER AS STATED TO ALLOW FOR THE AUTOMATED PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE FUNDS TRANSFER l (3) l (4) l (5) l MESSAGE TO THE AGENCY LOCATION CODE OF THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY. The ALC identification sequence can, if necessary, begin on one line l (6) / l and end on the next line; however, the field tag BNF= must be on one line and (7) (8) cannot contain any spaces. NRCs 8-digit ALC is lTREAS NYC/CTR / l (9) BNF=/AC-31000001 lBNF=/AC-31000001 OBI= l (10) THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION - The Originator to Beneficiary l (10) l Information field tag OBI= is used to signify the beginning of the free-form third-party text. All other identifying information to enable the NRC to identify l l the deposit, for example, NRC annual fee invoice number, description of fee - 10 CFR 171 annual fee, and licensee name, should be placed in this field.
A sample of an EFT message to Treasury and a narrative The optimum format for fields 7, 8, 9, and 10 using an 8-digit ALC is description of each field follow: as follows:
Field Content TREAS NYC/CTR/BNF=/AC-31000001 OBI=
(1) RECEIVER-DFI# - Treasurys ABA number for deposit The optimum format, shown above, will allow 219-character positions messages is 021030004 of information following the OBI= indicator.
(2) TYPE-SUBTYPE-CD - The type and subtype code will be If the licensees bank is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, provided by the sending bank. the non-member bank must transfer the necessary information and funds to a member bank, which then must transfer the information and funds to the local (3) SENDER-DFI# - This number will be provided by the Federal Reserve Bank.
sending bank.
For transfer of funds from local Federal Reserve Banks to be (4) SENDER-REF# - The 16-character reference number is recorded on the same day, the transfer must be received at the New York inserted by the sending bank at its discretion. Federal Reserve Bank by 4 p.m., EST. Otherwise, the deposit will be recorded on the next workday.
(5) AMOUNT - The transfer amount must be punctuated with commas and decimal point; use of the $ is optional. This item If there are any questions, contact:
will be provided by the depositor
. NRC Accounts Receivable Help Desk (6) SENDER-DFI-NAME - This information is automatically U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION inserted by the Federal Reserve Bank. TELEPHONE: 301- 415-7554 (7) RECEIVER-DFI-NAME - Treasurys name for deposit messages is TREAS NYC. This name should be entered by the sending bank.