NL-04-0317, Comment (4) Submitted by Southern Nuclear Operating Company, J. B. Beasley Jr., on Proposed Rules PR-170 & PR-171 Regarding Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY2004

Comment (4) Submitted by Southern Nuclear Operating Company, J. B. Beasley Jr., on Proposed Rules PR-170 & PR-171 Regarding Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY2004

ML040640856
Person / Time
Site:	Hatch, Vogtle, Farley
Issue date:	03/02/2004
From:	Beasley J Southern Nuclear Operating Co
To:	Annette Vietti-Cook NRC/SECY
Ngbea E S
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+adjud/ruledam200505, 68FR04865 00004, NL-04-0317, PR-170, PR-171
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DOCKETED USNRC J. Barnie Beasley, Jr .,RE. Southern Nuclear Executive Vice Presider Operating Company, Inc. March 3, 2004 (12:13PM) 40 Inverness Center Parkway Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 OFFICE OF SECRETARY RULEMAKINGS AND T-I O)rnQI M I--

I O)7t1In J.:.,IIU I IV ADJUDICATIONS STAFF-Fax 205.992.6165 DO CK SOUTHERN AVA PURPOSED RUL~j~L't0tI n rCOMPANY March 2, 20C (Rq FIZ . - . Ei)eEnet o Serve Yo iir Wo rId Annette Vietti-Cook, Secretary NL-04-03 17 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attention: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Southern Nuclear Operating Company Comments on: Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY2004 (69 Federal Register 4865 dated February 2. 2004)

Dear Ms. Vietti-Cook:

Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC), the licensed operator for the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant and the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, has reviewed the proposed NRC User Fee Rule published in the Federal Register on February 2, 2004 (69 FR 4865). SNC endorses the comments to be provided by the Nuclear Energy Institute.

SNC would like to emphasize that there is one major issue described in the NEI comments that should be noted by the Commission. A significant portion of the proposed fee increase for power reactors is again for homeland security issues. Although the NRC requested that these expenditures be paid from the general funds and not licensee fees, the 2004 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act again included them in the NRC's budget for recovery under the user fee rule. Support for homeland security activities should be funded through the general treasury because homeland security related to nuclear power plants fundamentally is part of the nation's responsibility to protect its critical infrastructure.

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