Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2025

Document 2025-11544 is a Final Rule published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Federal Register on June 24, 2025, with an effective date of August 25, 2025. 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 implement a reduced hourly rate for advanced nuclear reactor applicants and pre-applicants for certain activities as required by the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/24/2025-11544/fee-schedules-fee-recovery-for-fiscal-year-2025.

No. Document 2025-11544 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.