ML23121A075
| ML23121A075 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 05/01/2023 |
| From: | Stephen Poy NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB |
| To: | |
| References | |
| Download: ML23121A075 (1) | |
Text
The table below offers resource estimates for common licensing and oversight services. 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. The NRC encourages licensees and applicants to engage early in the process when submitting new actions. The table will be updated on a biennial basis.
The estimated hours shown in this chart represent NRC professional staff hours associated with project management, safety specialists, safeguards specialists, and environmental specialists.
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.
Fuel Facility Regulatory Action Cost Estimates (May 2023)
Billed Number of NRC Billed Number of NRC Direct Billed Number of NRC Direct Billed Contractor Billed Contractor Billed Contractor Costs:
Direct Staff Hours: Low Staff Hours: High Estimate Staff Hours: Average Costs: Low Estimate Costs: High Estimate Average Estimate of Level of Major Licensing Action Estimate of Level of Effort of Level of Effort Estimate of Level of Effort of Level of Effort of Level of Effort Effort COST ESTIMATES FOR FUEL FACILITIES BUSINESS LINE Fuel Fabrication - High Enriched Uranium License Renewal Cost 1,700 3,000 2,250 $0 $600,000 $300,000 License Amendment Cost1 25 1,800 60 $0 $0 $0 Project Management (annual) 280 800 600 $0 $0 $0 Fuel Fabrication - Low Enriched Uranium License Renewal Cost 1,000 3,500 2,000 $0 $600,000 $300,000 License Amendment Cost 20 1,000 250 $0 $0 $0 Project Management (annual) 160 400 300 $0 $0 $0 Enrichment Facility Initial Application Cost 11,250 14,500 13,000 $600,000 $2,500,000 $1,550,000 License Amendment Cost 1 20 500 150 $0 $600,000 $300,000 Project Management (annual) 80 1,600 600 $0 $0 $0 Conversion Facility Initial Application Cost (single 6,000 $1,000,000 action, International Isotopes)
License Renewal Cost (single 3,000 $300,000 action, Honeywell) 1 These cost estimates went up due to more complex amendments submitted in 2020 and 2021.
Fuel Facility Regulatory Action Cost Estimates (May 2023)
Billed Number of NRC Billed Number of NRC Direct Billed Number of NRC Direct Billed Contractor Billed Contractor Billed Contractor Costs:
Direct Staff Hours: Low Staff Hours: High Estimate Staff Hours: Average Costs: Low Estimate Costs: High Estimate Average Estimate of Level of Major Licensing Action Estimate of Level of Effort of Level of Effort Estimate of Level of Effort of Level of Effort of Level of Effort Effort License Amendment Cost 2 20 300 75 $0 Project Management (annual) 30 750 390 $0 Critical Mass - Non Fuel Cycle Initial Application Cost 450 800 550 $0 $0 $0 License Amendment Cost 10 120 50 $0 $0 $0 Project Management (annual) 20 60 50 $0 $0 $0 3
Product Line - Inspection Routine Safety Inspection - Quarterly inspection reports that consolidate the results of several routine inspections.
High Enriched Uranium Facility 350 1,200 660 $0 $0 $0 Inspection Cost Low Enriched Uranium Facility 275 1,420 1,125 $0 $0 $0 Inspection Cost Routine Safeguards Inspection - Stand-alone report for a single inspection usually within one week.
Physical Security Inspection 20 120 110 $0 $0 $0 Cost Material Control & Accounting 150 300 180 $0 $0 $0 Inspection Cost Reactive Inspection - Special inspections conducted after events that require prompt follow-up action. The number of inspectors and the duration of the inspection varies.
Reactive inspection Cost 150 1,600 800 $0 $0 $0 Resident Inspector Indirect 600 680 650 $0 $0 $0 Cost 2 These cost estimates went up due to more complex amendments submitted in 2020 and 2021.
3 The direct staff hours include inspection preparation, documentation, and travel hours. These hours are in addition to the direct inspection effort defined in NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 2600, Fuel Cycle Facility Operational Safety and Safeguards Inspection Program, and in the associated inspection procedures. Annual hours may fluctuate based on which inspection procedures are required to be used in inspections in a given year. Inspections may be performed on a semi-annual, annual, biennial, triennial, or quintennial frequency.