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This rule amends the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing, inspection, special project, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees and, for the first time, the NRC is proposing to recover its costs when it responds to third-party demands for information in litigation where the United States is not a party ("Touhy requests").  These amendments are necessary to implement the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 as amended (OBRA-90), which requires the NRC to recover approximately 90 percent of its annual budget through fees.

Overall Description of Deadline: The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, requires that the NRC recover approximately 90 percent of its budget authority in Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, less the amounts appropriated from the Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, and generic homeland security activities. The OBRA-90 requires that the fees for FY 2016, must be collected by September 30, 2016.