[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 213 (Friday, November 2, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 55113-55114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24002]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 170 and 171
[Docket No. PRM-170-7; NRC-2018-0172]
Categorization of the Licensee Fee Category for Full-Cost
Recovery
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; notice of docketing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received a
petition for rulemaking (PRM) from Mr. Christopher S. Pugsley, Esq.
(the petitioner), on behalf of Water Remediation Technology (WRT), LLC,
dated July 3, 2018, requesting that the NRC amend its regulations
regarding full-cost recovery of licensee fees. The petition was
docketed by the NRC on August 2, 2018, and has been assigned Docket No.
PRM-170-7. The NRC is examining the issues raised in PRM-170-7 to
determine whether they should be considered in rulemaking. The NRC is
not instituting a public comment period for this PRM as the staff
anticipates considering the issues raised in the petition in the
upcoming fiscal year 2019 proposed fee rule, and the public will have
an opportunity to comment at that time.
DATES: The PRM is available on November 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0172 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information for this petition. You may
obtain publicly-available information
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related to this petition by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0172. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this
document. The petition, PRM-170-7, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18214A757.
NRC's PDR: 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Renu Suri, Office of the Chief
Financial Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0161, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. The Petitioner
Mr. Christopher S. Pugsley, Esq. (the petitioner) submitted this
petition on behalf of WRT, requesting that the NRC amend its
regulations to re-categorize licensees performing water treatment
services from a full-cost recovery category to a category with a fixed
annual fee.
II. The Petition
The petitioner is requesting that the NRC revise parts 170 and 171
of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) to re-
categorize WRT as a licensee that does not require full-cost recovery
for fees billed to it during the life of its license, address
consistency issues between 10 CFR parts 170 and 171 for small entities,
and extend the timeframe in which a request for a fee exemption must be
submitted under Sec. 170.11. The petitioner also requests that the
rule change be actively considered in the NRC's fiscal year 2019
rulemaking for its fee regulations.
III. Discussion of the Petition
The petitioner requests that the NRC amend its regulations to re-
categorize WRT as a licensee that does not require full-cost recovery
for fees billed to it during the life of its license under 10 CFR part
170, address consistency issues between 10 CFR parts 170 and 171 for
small entities, and consider this rule change during the FY 2019
revision of the fee rule. The petitioner assists small community water
systems with compliance with the uranium drinking water standard:
``WRT's license operations are not intended to process source material
for its commercial value thereby reducing the financial benefit to the
licensee as compared to uranium recovery facilities that process ores
primarily for their source material content.'' The petitioner suggests
that the NRC should further ease the financial burden on community
water systems so that they may comply with the uranium drinking water
standard. The petitioner also notes NRC actions that seem to agree with
his recommendation.
The petitioner also requests additional conforming and related
changes. The petitioner asserts that the NRC should consider addressing
consistency issues between 10 CFR parts 170 and 171 fees for uranium
water treatment licensees that are recognized by the NRC as small
entities. The petitioner also requested that the NRC consider amending
language under Sec. 170.11 to extend the time within which a licensee
may appeal the assessment of fees and apply for a fee exemption. The
petitioner notes that NRC could approve the petition as an alternative
to revising the NRC's fee recovery requirements during the next
revision of the annual fee rule.
IV. Conclusion
The NRC will examine the issues raised in PRM-170-7 to determine
whether they should be considered in rulemaking.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of October, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018-24002 Filed 11-1-18; 8:45 am]
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