[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[S. 1627 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1627

To extend the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect 
               fees through 2004, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 23 (legislative day, September 22), 1999

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect 
               fees through 2004, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``NRC Fairness in Funding Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ANNUAL CHARGES.

    Section 6101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 2214) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``September 30, 
        1999'' and inserting ``September 30, 2004''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) Aggregate amount of charges.--The aggregate amount of 
        the annual charges collected from all licensees shall equal an 
        amount that approximates 100 percent of the budget authority of 
        the Commission for the fiscal year for which the charge is 
        collected, less, with respect to the fiscal year, the sum of--
                    ``(A) any amount appropriated to the Commission 
                from the Nuclear Waste Fund;
                    ``(B) the amount of fees collected under subsection 
                (b); and
                    ``(C) for fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal year 
                thereafter, to the extent provided in paragraph (5), 
                the costs of activities of the Commission with respect 
                to which a determination is made under paragraph 
                (5).''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Excluded budget costs.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In the budget request for fiscal 
                year 2001 and each fiscal year thereafter, the 
                Commission shall--
                            ``(i) determine the activities of the 
                        Commission that could not be fairly and 
                        equitably funded through assessments of annual 
                        charges on a licensee or class of licensee of 
                        the Commission; and
                            ``(ii) subject to subparagraph (C), request 
                        that funding for the activities described in 
                        clause (i) be appropriated to the Commission 
                        out of the general fund of the Treasury.
                    ``(B) Considerations.--In making the determination 
                under subparagraph (A), the Commission shall consider--
                            ``(i) the extent to which activities of the 
                        Commission provide benefits to persons that are 
                        not licensees of the Commission; and
                            ``(ii) the extent to which the Commission 
                        cannot, as a matter of law, or does not, as a 
                        matter of policy, assess fees or charges on a 
                        licensee or class of licensee that benefits 
                        from the activities.
                    ``(C) Maximum excluded amount.--The total amount of 
                costs for which appropriations from the general fund of 
                the Treasury may be sought by the Commission under 
                subparagraph (A)(ii) shall not exceed 12 percent of the 
                budget authority of the Commission for any fiscal 
                year.''.
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