Fuel Facilities

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- $K includes FTE costs as well as contract support and travel. Numbers may not add due to rounding. This appendix provides the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) estimated Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 annual fee calculation for the operating power reactors fee class and compares that amount against the FY 2015 annual fee amount for operating power reactors, adjusted for inflation. In accordance with Section 102(b)(3)(B)(i) of the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (Public Law 115-439), the operating power reactors annual fee, to the maximum extent practicable, shall not exceed the operating power reactors annual fee amount established in the FY 2015 fee rule (80 FR 37432; June 30, 2015), adjusted for inflation. The estimated operating power reactors fee class annual fee is based on the NRC staff's allocation of the FY 2027 budget request to fee collections under Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 170, "Fees for Facilities, Materials, Import and Export Licenses, and Other Regulatory Services under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended," and allocations within the operating power reactors fee class under 10 CFR Part 171, "Annual Fees for Reactor Licenses and Fuel Cycle Licenses and Materials Licenses, Including Holders of Certificates of Compliance, Registrations, and Quality Assurance Program Approvals and Government Agencies Licensed by the NRC." In FY 2027, the estimated operating power reactors fee class annual fee assumes 95 operating power reactors and applies various data assumptions from the FY 2025 fee rule. Based on these allocations and assumptions, the annual fee per operating power reactor for FY 2027 is amount adjusted for inflation of $6,688K. Number of Operating Power Reactors 95 95 95 0 - Numbers may not add due to rounding. 1 The estimated 10 CFR Part 170 receipts for FY 2027 are based on the data from the FY 2025 fee rule. 2 Sum of the Estimated 10 CFR Part 171 Allocations, Generic Transportation Resources Allocation, Generic Low-Level Waste Surcharge, and the 10 3 FY 2027 Annual Fee per Operating Power Reactor applied various data assumptions from the FY 2025 fee rule. 4 Based on an average 2.8 percent Consumer Price Index estimated increase for FY 2027. The Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) (Public Law 115-439) requires the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of its total budget authority for a Fiscal Year (FY), less the budget authority for "excluded activities." In accordance with Section 102(b)(1)(B) of NEIMA, "excluded activities" include generic homeland security, waste incidental to reprocessing, the Nuclear Waste Fund, advanced reactors regulatory infrastructure activities, Office of the Inspector General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the University Nuclear Leadership Program, and fee-relief activities identified by the Commission. With the enactment of the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024, excluded activities also include international nuclear export and innovation activities; advanced nuclear reactors on U.S. Department of Energy sites or critical national security infrastructure sites; and mission indirect and agency support for advanced reactors preapplication and application activities. Consistent with prior fee rules, fee-relief activities identified by the Commission include Agreement State oversight, regulatory support to Agreement States, non-power production or utilization facilities program (including medical isotope production infrastructure), fee exemption for non-profit educational institutions, potential activities under the U.S. Department of War Remediation Program memorandum of understanding (military radium-226), non-military radium sites, some international activities, and minority serving institution grants. The table on the following page provides the amounts budgeted for fee-relief activities in FY 2027. Additionally, Executive Order (EO) 14300, "Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," directs the NRC to establish enforceable licensing decision deadlines supported by fixed caps on the recovery of hourly fees for certain licensing actions, such as new reactor applications, license renewals, and significant license amendments. While the EO does not change the NRC's statutory obligation under NEIMA, it may affect the amount and timing of recoverable fees for these activities.

Extracted from NRC, p. 12. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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