Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2026

What it does

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend the licensing, inspection, special project, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. The proposed amendments are necessary to comply with the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, which requires the NRC to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of its annual budget less certain amounts excluded from this fee recovery requirement. In addition, the NRC is proposing amendments to establish fixed caps on service fees to implement section 5(a) of Executive Order 14300, "Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." The proposed fixed fee caps implementing Executive Order 14300 would drive increased efficiency and accountability in the NRC's licensing activities and other activities requested by applicants and licensees.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

3 parts of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

10 CFR 15, 10 CFR 170, 10 CFR 171

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3150-AL12 since Jan. 1, 2025.

Since then:

• June 16, 2026 Final rule. Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2026

What happens next and when

Submit comments by April 13, 2026. Because the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act requires the NRC to collect fees for fiscal year 2026 by September 30, 2026, the NRC must finalize any revisions to its fee schedules promptly and thus is unable to grant any extension request of the comment period.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket NRC-2023-0212 on Regulations.gov
• Title 10 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register