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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC–2018–0032]
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory
and Deregulatory Actions
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.
AGENCY:
We are publishing our
semiannual regulatory agenda (the
Agenda) in accordance with Public Law
96–354, ‘‘The Regulatory Flexibility
Act,’’ and Executive Order 12866,
‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review.’’ The
Agenda is a compilation of all
rulemaking activities on which we have
recently completed action or have
proposed or are considering action. We
have completed 6 rulemaking activities
since publication of our last Agenda on
January 12, 2018 (83 FR 2018). This
issuance of our Agenda contains 28
active and 20 long-term rulemaking
activities: 3 are Economically
Significant; 8 represent Other
Significant agency priorities; 35 are
Substantive, Nonsignificant rulemaking
activities; and 2 are Administrative
rulemaking activities. In addition, 3
rulemaking activities impact small
entities. We are requesting comment on
the rulemaking activities as identified in
this Agenda.
DATES: Submit comments on rulemaking
activities as identified in this Agenda by
July 11, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any
rulemaking activity in the Agenda by
the date and methods specified in any
Federal Register notice on the
rulemaking activity. Comments received
on rulemaking activities for which the
comment period has closed will be
considered if it is practical to do so, but
assurance of consideration cannot be
given except as to comments received
on or before the closure dates specified
in the Federal Register notice. You may
submit comments on this Agenda
through the Federal Rulemaking website
by going to https://www.regulations.gov
and searching for Docket ID NRC–2018–
0032. Address questions about NRC
dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone:
301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@
nrc.gov. For technical questions on any
rulemaking activity listed in the
Agenda, contact the individual listed
under the heading ‘‘Agency Contact’’ for
that rulemaking activity.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
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Submitting Comments’’ in the
section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cindy Bladey, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone:
301–415–3280; email: Cindy.Bladey@
nrc.gov. Persons outside the
Washington, DC, metropolitan area may
call, toll-free: 1–800–368–5642. For
further information on the substantive
content of any rulemaking activity listed
in the Agenda, contact the individual
listed under the heading ‘‘Agency
Contact’’ for that rulemaking activity.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018–
0032 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
document. You may obtain publicallyavailable information related to this
document by any of the following
methods:
• Reginfo.gov:
Æ For completed rulemaking
activities go to https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/eAgendaHistory?showStage=
completed, select ‘‘spring 2018 Unified
Agenda of Federal Regulatory and
Deregulatory Actions’’ from drop down
menu, and select ‘‘Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’’ from drop down menu.
Æ For active rulemaking activities go
to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
eAgendaMain and select ‘‘Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’’ from drop
down menu.
Æ For long-term rulemaking activities
go to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
eAgendaMain, select ‘‘Current Long
Term Actions’’ link, and select ‘‘Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’’ from drop
down menu.
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2018–0032.
• NRC’s Public Document Room: You
may examine and purchase copies of
public documents at the NRC’s PDR,
Room O1–F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2018–
0032 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC will post all comment
submissions at https://
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www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS). The
NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove identifying or
contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC
does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
Introduction
The Agenda is a compilation of all
rulemaking activities on which an
agency has recently completed action or
has proposed or is considering action.
The Agenda reports rulemaking
activities in three major categories:
Completed, active, and long-term.
Completed rulemaking activities are
those that were completed since
publication of an agency’s last Agenda;
active rulemaking activities are those for
which an agency currently plans to have
an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final
Rule issued within the next 12 months;
and long-term rulemaking activities are
rulemaking activities under
development but for which an agency
does not expect to have a regulatory
action within the 12 months after
publication of the current edition of the
Unified Agenda.
We assign a ‘‘Regulation Identifier
Number’’ (RIN) to a rulemaking activity
when our Commission initiates a
rulemaking and approves a rulemaking
plan, or when the NRC staff begins work
on a Commission-delegated rulemaking
that does not require a rulemaking plan.
The Office of Management and Budget
uses this number to track all relevant
documents throughout the entire
‘‘lifecycle’’ of a particular rulemaking
activity. We report all rulemaking
activities in the Agenda that have been
assigned a RIN and meet the definition
for a completed, an active, or a longterm rulemaking activity.
The information contained in this
Agenda is updated to reflect any action
that has occurred on a rulemaking
activity since publication of our last
Agenda on January 12, 2018 (83 FR
2018). Specifically, the information in
this Agenda has been updated through
February 23, 2018. The NRC provides
additional information on planned
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rulemaking and petition for rulemaking
activities, including priority and
schedule, on our website at https://
www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/
rulemaking/rules-petitions.html#cprlist.
The date for the next scheduled action
under the heading ‘‘Timetable’’ is the
date the next regulatory action for the
rulemaking activity is scheduled to be
published in the Federal Register. The
date is considered tentative and is not
binding on the Commission or its staff.
The Agenda is intended to provide the
public early notice and opportunity to
participate in our rulemaking process.
However, we may consider or act on any
rulemaking activity even though it is not
included in the Agenda.
Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under the
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Section 610 of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (RFA) requires agencies
to conduct a review within 10 years of
promulgation of those regulations that
have or will have a significant economic
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impact on a substantial number of small
entities. We undertake these reviews to
decide whether the rules should be
unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At
this time, we do not have any rules that
have a significant economic impact on
a substantial number of small entities;
therefore, we have not included any
RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in
this edition of the Agenda. A complete
listing of our regulations that impact
small entities and related Small Entity
Compliance Guides are available from
the NRC’s website at https://
www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/
rulemaking/flexibility-act/smallentities.html.
rules that the NRC reports in its Agenda
and recommended that the NRC refine
its prioritization process for rulemaking
activities to take into account the cost
and burden imposed by a proposed
regulation.
The NRC actively seeks to improve its
rulemaking process and annually
reviews its methodology for prioritizing
rulemaking activities. The NRC will
align its prioritization process with the
‘‘NRC Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2018–
2022’’ (February 2018; ADAMS
Accession No. ML18032A561) and will
consider the Nuclear Energy Institute’s
suggestions upon the NRC’s next review
of the prioritization methodology.
Public Comments Received on NRC
Unified Agenda
As part of the most recent publication
of the NRC’s Agenda in January 2018,
the NRC requested public comment on
its rulemaking activities. In response,
the Nuclear Energy Institute commented
on the number and average age of the
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day
of February 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Regulatory Analysis and Rulemaking
Support Branch, Division of Rulemaking,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—PROPOSED RULE STAGE
Regulation
Identifier No.
Sequence No.
Title
320 ....................................................................
Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032] ..
3150–AJ99
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—FINAL RULE STAGE
Regulation
Identifier No.
Sequence No.
Title
321 ....................................................................
Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026] ..
3150–AJ95
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—LONG-TERM ACTIONS
Regulation
Identifier No.
Sequence No.
Title
322 ....................................................................
Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2020 [NRC–2017–0228] ..
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION (NRC)
Incidental to Reprocessing, generic
homeland security activities, and
Inspector General services for the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,
through fees assessed to licensees. This
rulemaking would amend the
Commission’s fee schedules for
licensing, inspection, and annual fees
charged to its applicants and licensees.
The licensing and inspection fees are
established under 10 CFR part 170 and
recover the NRC’s cost of providing
services to identifiable applicants and
licensees. Examples of services
provided by the NRC for which 10 CFR
part 170 fees are assessed include
license application reviews, license
renewals, license amendment reviews,
and inspections. The annual fees
established under 10 CFR part 171
Proposed Rule Stage
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Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032]
E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent
agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42
U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C.
5841
Abstract: This rule would implement
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which
requires the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) to recover
approximately 90 percent of its budget
authority in a given fiscal year, less the
amounts appropriated from the Waste
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recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g.,
research and rulemaking) and other
regulatory activities not recovered under
10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM ..................
Final Rule ............
Date
FR Cite
01/00/19
05/00/19
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office
of the Chief Financial Officer,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone:
301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@
nrc.gov.
RIN: 3150–AJ99
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regulatory activities not recovered under
10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION (NRC)
Final Rule Stage
321. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee
Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026]
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E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent
agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42
U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C.
5841
Abstract: This proposed rule would
implement the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA–90),
as amended, which requires the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) to
recover approximately 90 percent of its
budget authority in a given fiscal year,
less the amounts appropriated from the
Waste Incidental to Reprocessing,
generic homeland security activities,
and Inspector General services for the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,
through fees assessed to licensees. This
rulemaking would amend the
Commission’s fee schedules for
licensing, inspection, and annual fees
charged to its applicants and licensees.
The licensing and inspection fees are
established under 10 CFR part 170 and
recover the NRC’s cost of providing
services to identifiable applicants and
licensees. Examples of services
provided by the NRC for which 10 CFR
part 170 fees are assessed include
license application reviews, license
renewals, license amendment reviews,
and inspections. The annual fees
established under 10 CFR part 171
recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g.,
research and rulemaking) and other
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Action
Date
NPRM ..................
NPRM Comment
Period End.
Final Rule ............
01/25/18
02/26/18
FR Cite
83 FR 3407
05/00/18
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office
of the Chief Financial Officer,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone:
301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@
nrc.gov.
RIN: 3150–AJ95
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION (NRC)
Long-Term Actions
322. • Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee
Recovery for FY 2020 [NRC–2017–0228]
E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent
agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42
U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C.
5841
Abstract: This rule would implement
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which
requires the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to recover approximately
90 percent of its budget authority in a
given fiscal year, less the amounts
appropriated from the Waste Incidental
to Reprocessing, generic homeland
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security activities, and Inspector
General services for the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board, through fees
assessed to licensees. This rulemaking
would amend the Commissions fee
schedules for licensing, inspection, and
annual fees charged to its applicants
and licensees. The licensing and
inspection fees are established under 10
CFR part 170 and recover the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s cost of
providing services to identifiable
applicants and licensees. Examples of
services provided by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for which 10
CFR part 170 fees are assessed include
license application reviews, license
renewals, license amendment reviews,
and inspections. The annual fees
established under 10 CFR part 171
recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g.
research and rulemaking) and other
regulatory activities not recovered under
10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
Action
NPRM ..................
Date
FR Cite
01/00/20
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office
of the Chief Financial Officer,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone:
301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@
nrc.gov.
RIN: 3150–AK10
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2018-0032]
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.
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SUMMARY: We are publishing our semiannual regulatory agenda (the
Agenda) in accordance with Public Law 96-354, ``The Regulatory
Flexibility Act,'' and Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and
Review.'' The Agenda is a compilation of all rulemaking activities on
which we have recently completed action or have proposed or are
considering action. We have completed 6 rulemaking activities since
publication of our last Agenda on January 12, 2018 (83 FR 2018). This
issuance of our Agenda contains 28 active and 20 long-term rulemaking
activities: 3 are Economically Significant; 8 represent Other
Significant agency priorities; 35 are Substantive, Nonsignificant
rulemaking activities; and 2 are Administrative rulemaking activities.
In addition, 3 rulemaking activities impact small entities. We are
requesting comment on the rulemaking activities as identified in this
Agenda.
DATES: Submit comments on rulemaking activities as identified in this
Agenda by July 11, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any rulemaking activity in the Agenda by
the date and methods specified in any Federal Register notice on the
rulemaking activity. Comments received on rulemaking activities for
which the comment period has closed will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given
except as to comments received on or before the closure dates specified
in the Federal Register notice. You may submit comments on this Agenda
through the Federal Rulemaking website by going to https://www.regulations.gov and searching for Docket ID NRC-2018-0032. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions on any
rulemaking activity listed in the Agenda, contact the individual listed
under the heading ``Agency Contact'' for that rulemaking activity.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Bladey, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3280; email:
[email protected]. Persons outside the Washington, DC, metropolitan
area may call, toll-free: 1-800-368-5642. For further information on
the substantive content of any rulemaking activity listed in the
Agenda, contact the individual listed under the heading ``Agency
Contact'' for that rulemaking activity.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0032 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this document. You may obtain
publically-available information related to this document by any of the
following methods:
Reginfo.gov:
[cir] For completed rulemaking activities go to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaHistory?showStage=completed, select
``spring 2018 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory
Actions'' from drop down menu, and select ``Nuclear Regulatory
Commission'' from drop down menu.
[cir] For active rulemaking activities go to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain and select ``Nuclear Regulatory
Commission'' from drop down menu.
[cir] For long-term rulemaking activities go to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain, select ``Current Long Term
Actions'' link, and select ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission'' from drop
down menu.
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0032.
NRC's Public Document Room: You may examine and purchase
copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0032 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into the
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). The NRC does
not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact
information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
Introduction
The Agenda is a compilation of all rulemaking activities on which
an agency has recently completed action or has proposed or is
considering action. The Agenda reports rulemaking activities in three
major categories: Completed, active, and long-term. Completed
rulemaking activities are those that were completed since publication
of an agency's last Agenda; active rulemaking activities are those for
which an agency currently plans to have an Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final Rule issued within the next 12
months; and long-term rulemaking activities are rulemaking activities
under development but for which an agency does not expect to have a
regulatory action within the 12 months after publication of the current
edition of the Unified Agenda.
We assign a ``Regulation Identifier Number'' (RIN) to a rulemaking
activity when our Commission initiates a rulemaking and approves a
rulemaking plan, or when the NRC staff begins work on a Commission-
delegated rulemaking that does not require a rulemaking plan. The
Office of Management and Budget uses this number to track all relevant
documents throughout the entire ``lifecycle'' of a particular
rulemaking activity. We report all rulemaking activities in the Agenda
that have been assigned a RIN and meet the definition for a completed,
an active, or a long-term rulemaking activity.
The information contained in this Agenda is updated to reflect any
action that has occurred on a rulemaking activity since publication of
our last Agenda on January 12, 2018 (83 FR 2018). Specifically, the
information in this Agenda has been updated through February 23, 2018.
The NRC provides additional information on planned
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rulemaking and petition for rulemaking activities, including priority
and schedule, on our website at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/rules-petitions.html#cprlist.
The date for the next scheduled action under the heading
``Timetable'' is the date the next regulatory action for the rulemaking
activity is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register. The date
is considered tentative and is not binding on the Commission or its
staff. The Agenda is intended to provide the public early notice and
opportunity to participate in our rulemaking process. However, we may
consider or act on any rulemaking activity even though it is not
included in the Agenda.
Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act
Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) requires
agencies to conduct a review within 10 years of promulgation of those
regulations that have or will have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities. We undertake these reviews to
decide whether the rules should be unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At
this time, we do not have any rules that have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities; therefore, we have
not included any RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in this edition of
the Agenda. A complete listing of our regulations that impact small
entities and related Small Entity Compliance Guides are available from
the NRC's website at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/flexibility-act/small-entities.html.
Public Comments Received on NRC Unified Agenda
As part of the most recent publication of the NRC's Agenda in
January 2018, the NRC requested public comment on its rulemaking
activities. In response, the Nuclear Energy Institute commented on the
number and average age of the rules that the NRC reports in its Agenda
and recommended that the NRC refine its prioritization process for
rulemaking activities to take into account the cost and burden imposed
by a proposed regulation.
The NRC actively seeks to improve its rulemaking process and
annually reviews its methodology for prioritizing rulemaking
activities. The NRC will align its prioritization process with the
``NRC Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2018-2022'' (February 2018; ADAMS
Accession No. ML18032A561) and will consider the Nuclear Energy
Institute's suggestions upon the NRC's next review of the
prioritization methodology.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of February 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Regulatory Analysis and Rulemaking Support Branch, Division of
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Proposed Rule Stage
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Regulation
Sequence No. Title Identifier No.
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320........................... Revision of Fee 3150-AJ99
Schedules: Fee
Recovery for FY 2019
[NRC-2017-0032].
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Final Rule Stage
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Regulation
Sequence No. Title Identifier No.
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321........................... Revision of Fee 3150-AJ95
Schedules: Fee
Recovery for FY 2018
[NRC-2017-0026].
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Long-Term Actions
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Regulation
Sequence No. Title Identifier No.
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322........................... Revision of Fee 3150-AK10
Schedules: Fee
Recovery for FY 2020
[NRC-2017-0228].
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
Proposed Rule Stage
320. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC-2017-
0032]
E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42
U.S.C. 5841
Abstract: This rule would implement the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which requires the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to recover approximately 90 percent
of its budget authority in a given fiscal year, less the amounts
appropriated from the Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, generic
homeland security activities, and Inspector General services for the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, through fees assessed to
licensees. This rulemaking would amend the Commission's fee schedules
for licensing, inspection, and annual fees charged to its applicants
and licensees. The licensing and inspection fees are established under
10 CFR part 170 and recover the NRC's cost of providing services to
identifiable applicants and licensees. Examples of services provided by
the NRC for which 10 CFR part 170 fees are assessed include license
application reviews, license renewals, license amendment reviews, and
inspections. The annual fees established under 10 CFR part 171 recover
budgeted costs for generic (e.g., research and rulemaking) and other
regulatory activities not recovered under 10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
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Action Date FR Cite
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NPRM................................ 01/00/19
Final Rule.......................... 05/00/19
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, DC 20555-0001,
Phone: 301 415-5256, Email: [email protected].
RIN: 3150-AJ99
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
Final Rule Stage
321. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC-2017-
0026]
E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42
U.S.C. 5841
Abstract: This proposed rule would implement the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which requires the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to recover approximately 90 percent
of its budget authority in a given fiscal year, less the amounts
appropriated from the Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, generic
homeland security activities, and Inspector General services for the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, through fees assessed to
licensees. This rulemaking would amend the Commission's fee schedules
for licensing, inspection, and annual fees charged to its applicants
and licensees. The licensing and inspection fees are established under
10 CFR part 170 and recover the NRC's cost of providing services to
identifiable applicants and licensees. Examples of services provided by
the NRC for which 10 CFR part 170 fees are assessed include license
application reviews, license renewals, license amendment reviews, and
inspections. The annual fees established under 10 CFR part 171 recover
budgeted costs for generic (e.g., research and rulemaking) and other
regulatory activities not recovered under 10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
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Action Date FR Cite
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NPRM................................ 01/25/18 83 FR 3407
NPRM Comment Period End............. 02/26/18
Final Rule.......................... 05/00/18
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, DC 20555-0001,
Phone: 301 415-5256, Email: [email protected].
RIN: 3150-AJ95
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)
Long-Term Actions
322. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2020 [NRC-
2017-0228]
E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent agency.
Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42
U.S.C. 5841
Abstract: This rule would implement the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which requires the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to recover approximately 90 percent of
its budget authority in a given fiscal year, less the amounts
appropriated from the Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, generic
homeland security activities, and Inspector General services for the
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, through fees assessed to
licensees. This rulemaking would amend the Commissions fee schedules
for licensing, inspection, and annual fees charged to its applicants
and licensees. The licensing and inspection fees are established under
10 CFR part 170 and recover the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's cost of
providing services to identifiable applicants and licensees. Examples
of services provided by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for which 10
CFR part 170 fees are assessed include license application reviews,
license renewals, license amendment reviews, and inspections. The
annual fees established under 10 CFR part 171 recover budgeted costs
for generic (e.g. research and rulemaking) and other regulatory
activities not recovered under 10 CFR part 170 fees.
Timetable:
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Action Date FR Cite
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NPRM................................ 01/00/20
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Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, DC 20555-0001,
Phone: 301 415-5256, Email: [email protected].
RIN: 3150-AK10
[FR Doc. 2018-11244 Filed 6-8-18; 8:45 am]
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