Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2026

What it does

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending the licensing, inspection, special project, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. These 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 making amendments to establish fixed caps on service fees to implement section5(a) of Executive Order 14300, "Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." The fixed fee caps will provide cost predictability and drive increased efficiency and accountability in the NRC's licensing and other activities requested by applicants and licensees.

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

What changed in the regulation

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

10 CFR 15, 10 CFR 170, 10 CFR 171

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published 34 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 28 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3150-AL12 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• March 12, 2026 Proposed rule. Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2026

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on August 17, 2026.

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