3150-AK95 202410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 3150 Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2025 [NRC-2023-0069]

This rulemaking would amend the NRC's regulations for fee schedules. The NRC conducts this rulemaking annually to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of the NRC’s budget authority, less the budget authority for excluded activities to implement the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act. NEIMA requires that the FY 2025 fees be collected by September 30, 2025. This rulemaking would affect the fee schedules for licensing, inspection, and annual fees charged to the NRC’s applicants and licensees.

]]> Section 3(f)(1) Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage Yes No 10 CFR 170 10 CFR 171 31 U.S.C. 483 42 U.S.C. 2201 42 U.S.C. 2214 42 U.S.C. 5841 Statutory NPRM 09/30/2025 This rulemaking would amend the NRC's regulations for fee schedules. Consistent with the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), the NRC conducts this rulemaking annually to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of the NRC's total budget authority, less the budget authority for excluded activities. NEIMA requires that the FY 2025 fees to be collected, to the maximum extent practicable, by September 30, 2025. This rulemaking would affect the fee sc Yes

The NRC, as required by statute conducts an annual rulemaking in order to assess and collect service fees and
annual fees in a manner that ensures that, to the maximum extent practicable, the amount assessed and
collected approximates the NRC’s total budget authority for that fiscal year less the NRC’s budget authority for
excluded activities. NEIMA requires the NRC to establish through rulemaking a schedule of annual fees that fairly and
equitably allocates the aggregate amount of annual fees among licensees and certificate holders. NEIMA states that
this schedule may be based on the allocation of the NRC’s resources among licensees, certificate holders, or classes
of licensees or certificate holders and requires that the schedule of annual fees, to the maximum extent practicable,
shall be reasonably related to the cost of providing regulatory services.

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Effective October 1, 2020, NEIMA puts in place a revised framework for fee recovery by eliminating OBRA-
90’s approximately 90 percent fee-recovery requirement and requiring the NRC to assess and collect service fees
and annual fees in a manner that ensures that, to the maximum extent practicable, the amount assessed and collected
approximates the NRC’s total budget authority for that fiscal year less the NRC’s budget authority for
excluded activities.

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Because this action is mandated by statute and the fees must be assessed through rulemaking, the NRC did
not consider alternatives to this action.

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The cost to the NRC's licensees is approximately 100 percent of the NRC FY 2025 budget authority less the amounts
appropriated for excluded activities.

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None.

]]> NPRM 02/00/2025 Final Rule 06/00/2025 YES Businesses Governmental Jurisdictions Organizations Local State No No Yes No Jo Jacobs 3150 Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC 301 415-8388 jo.jacobs@nrc.gov Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington DC 20555-0001