ML18082A600

2nd Pub Mtg Slides Bud Overview Rev 2

ML18082A600
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Issue date:	03/23/2018
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FY 2018 Fuel Facilities Business Line Budget and Proposed Fees Brian Harris License Fee Policy Team Lead 1

NRC Budget Authority

• FY 2018 Congressional Budget Justification: $952.0 million.

• An adjustment of $15 million included for the Integrated University Program because it has historically been included by Congress in the final appropriations bill.

• Total Budget Authority used in the Proposed FY 2018 Fee Rule:

$967.0 million, an increase of $49.9 million from FY 2017.

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Professional Hourly Rate and Full Cost FTE Methodology Mission-Direct Program Salaries & Benefits $341.2M Mission-Indirect Program Support 136.1M Agency Support (Corporate Support and the IG) 313.1M Subtotal: $790.3M Less Offsetting Receipts - 0.0M Total Budget $790.3M Mission-Direct FTE 1,938 FTEs Annual Mission-Direct FTE Productive Hours: 1,510 Hours Professional Hourly Rate $270 (Total Budget Included in Professional Hourly Rate divided by Mission-Direct FTE Converted to Hours )

Fully Costed FTE Rate = Subtotal divided by Mission-Direct FTE $407,810

• Methodology based on OMB Circular A-25 User Charges

• • Budget included in Professional Hourly Rate calculation excludes mission-direct contract resources 3

Budget Allocation For Fees CROSSWALK OF BUSINESS LINES ALLOCATION TO FEE CLASSES*

Business Line License Fee Class Operating Reactors Power Reactors, Test and Research Reactors, Import/Export New Reactors Power Reactors Fuel Facilities Fuel Facilities Nuclear Materials Users Materials Users, Import/Export Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Spent Fuel Storage/Reactor Decommissioning, Transportation Decommissioning and Low-level Waste Spent Fuel Storage/Reactor Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery Reconciling Items

• Budget resources excluded from fee calculations (fee-recovery exclusions)

• Mission-Indirect Program Support resources

• Business Line resources allocated to other fee classes or fee relief categories

• Budgeted resources allocated from other Business Lines

• Utilization of a full costed FTE rate

• Delineates where the Majority portion of a Business Lines direct budgeted resources are allocated for a fee class.

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Reconciliation: Fuel Facilities Business Line vs. Fee Class FY 2018 Budget Congressional Budget Fuel Facilities Justification Business Line (Dollars in thousands)

Contract ($,K) FTE Product Lines Event Response 30.0 2.0 Generic Homeland Security 1911.0 3.0 International Activities 0.0 7.0 Licensing 845.0 32.0 Oversight 729.0 41.0 Rulemaking 23.0 7.0 Mission Support/Supervisors 350.0 22.0 State/Tribal/Federal Programs 0.0 0.0 Training 304.0 0.0 Travel 1101.0 0.0

$ 5,293.0 114.0 FTE rate $175,020 times 114 FTEs (includes Salaries & Benefits only) $19,952.0 Total Business Line Budget (BL) $ 5,293.0 $19,952.0 = $ 25,245.0 5

Reconciliation: Fuel Facilities Business Line vs. Fee Class FY 2018 Budget FY18 Proposed Fee Rule Fuel Facilities Fee (Dollars in thousands) Class 1 Fee-recovery exclusions Contract ($,K) FTE 2 Mission-indirect resources Deductions from BL resources 3 Resources allocated to Generic Homeland Security 1 (1911.0) (3.0) other fee classes or fee relief International Activities 2, 3 0.0 (6.0) categories Licensing 2 0.0 (1.0) 4 Resources allocated from Oversight 2 (407.0) 0.0 other Business Lines Mission Support/Supervisors 2 (350.0) (22.0)

Training 3 (179.0) 0.0 Travel 2 (1101.0) 0.0 (3,948.0) (32.0)

Increases from BL resources Oversight 4 5.7 0.0 State/Tribal/Federal Programs 4 0.0 0.5 Training 4 66.0 0.2 71.7 0.7 BL resources w/ fee rule allocations $ 1,416.7 82.7 FTE fully costed rate $407,810 times 82.7 FTEs (includes Salaries, Benefits, indirect $ 33,726.0 resources& agency support )

Total Fee Class Budget $ 1,416.7 $ 33,726.0 = $ 35,142.7 6

Reconciliation: Fuel Facilities Business Line vs. Fee Class FY 2018 Budget Reconciliation Summary (Dollars in thousands)

Contract ($,K) FTE FTE ($) Total Total Business Line Budget (CBJ) $ 5,293.0 114.0 $ 19,952.0 = $ 25,245.0 Includes S&B only Total Fee Class Budget $ 1,416.7 82.7 $ 33,726.0 = $ 35,142.7 Includes S&B , Indirect &

Agency support (Full cost)

Allocation Adjustments $ (3,876.3) (31.3) $ 13,774.0 $ 9,897.7 7

Part 171 Calculation Example:

Fuel Facilities Fee Class

[Dollars in Millions]

FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017* FY 2018P Step 1 $47.2 $42.8 $40.5 $33.9 $35.1 Budget Resources:

Step 2 (16.7) (11.5) (11.7) (9.6) (9.3)

Deduct Part 170 Est. Billings:

Step 3 29.5 33.9 31.6 28.4 29.2 Adjustments/

Recovery Amount:

No. of Licensees 10 9 9 9 7 Average Change 2.6% 18.1% -6.1% -6.9% 6.5%

• Centrus Energy Lead Cascade was a licensee during FY17Q1 8

Allocation of LLW Surcharge

• Use Data Available from DOEs Manifest Information Management System

- Contains Information on Four Generator Classes

• Academic

• Industrial

• Medical

• Utility

- The ratio of utility waste volumes to total LLW volumes over a period of time is used to estimate the allocation of the surcharge

- Account for material users licensed by agreement states Allocation of LLW Surcharge in FY 2018 Percent $(millions)

Operating Power Reactors 41 1.4 Spent Fuel Storage/Reactor Decommissioning 0 0 Research and Test Reactors 0 0 Fuel Facilities 46 1.6 Material Users 13 0.4 Transportation 0 0 Rare Earth Facilities 0 0 Uranium Recovery 0 0 Total 100 3.4 9

Team Contacts

• Brian Harris, Team Lead, License Fee Policy Team, Brian.Harris@nrc.gov, 301-415-6382

• Billy Blaney, Program Analyst, License Fee Policy Team, William. Blaney@nrc.gov, 301-415-5092

• Christie Galster, Senior Accountant, License Fee Policy Team, Christine.Galster@nrc.gov, 301-415-0662

• Renu Suri, Fees Transformation Project Manager, License Fee Policy Team, Renu.Suri@nrc.gov, 301-415-0161 10