ML24038A005

NRC - License, Annual, and Inspection Fee Invoice - Terms and Conditions 2.6.24

ML24038A005
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Issue date:	02/06/2024
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

LICENSE, ANNUAL, AND INSPECTION FEE INVOICE -- TERMS AND CONDITIONS

NOTICE: This in voice shows the fee assess ed for a licensing action or USE OF CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES AND CONTRACTING inspection of your l icensed program or t he assessment of an annual FOR COLLECTION SERVICES: All current consumer and commercial fee. Fees are assess ed i n accordance with t he pertinent schedules debt shall be reported to a credit reporting agency in accordance with 31 contained in the c urrent 10 CFR Part 170 or 10 CFR P art 171. T he CFR Chapter IX, Part 901.5 and 10 CFR 15.26. When a debt is 120 days revocation or termination of your license does no t relieve you of the or more delinquent, the NRC is required to refer the debt to the responsibility for any debt (s). The fee and associated interest, Department of the Treasury (Treasury) for collections. Treasury may penalties, and administrative cost, if any, constitute a debt to the United employ a variety of tools to collect your delinquent debt. These tools States, and the invoice is the demand for payment required under include administrative offset, Tax Refund Offset, wage garnishment, Federal law and implementing regulations. referral to a private collection agency and referral to the Department of Justice for litigation/collection. As a debtor, you are liable for all collection TERMS: Effective October 1, 2024, the NRC will no longer accept fees incurred with the collection of this debt.

paper-based payments, including checks and paper credit card forms.

Your payment is due immediately and is payable via Pay.gov using a 10 CFR 170.41 FAILURE BY APPLICANT OR LICENSEE TO PAY debit or credit card, PayPal account, Amazon account, or bank PRESCRIBED FEES AND 10 CFR 171.23 ENFORCEMENT: If you fail account/electronic check or by draft, money order, credit card (manual to pay the prescribed fee or file a false certification for small entity payment using the NRC Form 629) or electronic funds transfer status, the NRC will not process any applications for you and will revoke (FedWire or ACH) made payable to the U.S. NRC. Federal agencies your license for nonpayment of the fee assessed. The filing of a false may make payment using the Intragovernmental Payment and certification of small entity status could result in civil sanctions being Collection System (IPAC). imposed by the NRC under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act.

INTEREST: You will be assessed interest at the rate of 3% per year on 10 CFR 170.51 RIGHT TO DISPUTE ASSESED FEES: Your request debts owed to the NRC. The interest rate will remain fix ed for the for review of the fees assessed, and appeal or disagreement with the duration of the indebtedness. However, interest will be waived if prescribed fee, must be submitted in writing in accordance with the payment is received within 30 days from the invoice date. provisions of 10 CFR 15.31, "Disputed Debts."

PENALTY: You will be asses sed a penalty charge at the rate of 6% per CONTACTS: For questions about your invoice or to request a change year on any portion of a debt that is delinquent for more than 90 days. of billing address, please call (301) 415- 7554 or send an email to This charge will be calculated on or after the 91st day of delinquency Fees.Resource@nrc.gov. To submit notice of bankruptcy, send written but will accrue from the date the debt became delinquent. A debt is notification via email Fees.Resource@nrc.gov or by mail to:

delinquent if it has not been paid by the invoice date.

ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGE: You will be assessed an administrative LABOR ADMINISTRATION AND FEE BILLING BRANCH charge incurred for processing and handling your delinquent debt. This OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER charge is $15 a month and will be assessed each month the debt is U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION delinquent. There will be an additional administrative charge of $463 11545 ROCKVILLE PIKE assessed if an Order Revoking License is is sued to you for ROCKVILLE, MD 20852- 2738

nonpayment of fees.

NRC PROCEDURES FOR EXTENDING PAYMENT DATES OF LICENSE, INSPECTION, AND ANNUAL FEE INVOICES

License, inspection, and annual fees are billed in accordance with the interest waiver period. A request is deemed to have merit if it causes schedules contained in 10 CFR Part 170 and 10 CFR Part 171. Interest the NRC to question whether the amount originally billed is correct.

on the amount billed accrues from the invoice date but will be waived if A. If the explanation has merit, the NRC will notify you in writing that the amount due is paid within 30 days after the invoice date. If an extension of time to pay is granted, interest will be waived if the debt is the request is granted and that the 45- day interest waiver period will be paid before the expiration of the extended period. The 45-day interest extended to a certain date. This date will be 30 days after the date the waiver period may be extended, at NRC's discretion, using the following revised invoice is mailed. The amount on the revised invoice will procedures: constitute a final determination of the existence or amount of the debt. A final determination by NRC for this purpose need not await the outcome

1. The NRC must receive your written request for an extension of the of litigation or further administrative review. Further extensions of the 45- day interest waiver period before expiration of the 45- day period.due date will not be granted. If the amount on the revised invoice is not The request should explain why the debt is incorrect in fact or in law (10 paid within 30 days after the date the revised invoice is mailed, interest CFR 15.31). If the request is not received within the 45- day interestfrom the date of the original invoice will become due and payable.

waiver period, it will automatically be denied. Telephone requests for B. NRC may, at its option, meet with your representatives to receive extensions will not be considered. Requests for extensions of the 45- further evidence or arguments supporting your contentions.

day interest waiver period should be submitted to to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer via the eBilling system, by email to FeeBillingInquiries.Resource@nrc.gov or by mail at: C. Your request for an extension may be granted either for the entire LABOR ADMINISTRATION AND FEE BILLING BRANCH amount originally billed or for a portion of the amount originally billed. If (T9E-10) OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER your request for an extension applies to only a portion of the originally U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION billed amount, the remaining amount is due and pay able and if it is not 11545 ROCKVILLE PIKE paid by the due date, interest from the date of the original invoice will be ROCKVILLE, MD 20852- 2738 assessed.

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2. Your explanation must have merit for the NRC to extend the 45- day D. If your explanation does not have merit and does not cause the 3. If an extension of the 45- day interest waiver period is granted and the NRC to question whether the amount originally billed is correct, your amount originally billed remains unchanged, such extension will be request will be denied. Failure of NRC to notify you before the end of the stated on the revised invoice as provided in 2A above.

45- day interest waiver period that a request for an extension has been 4. NRC records in support of billed fees are not subject to audit by non-denied will not constitute grounds for a waiver of interest. Governmental entities. However, copies of records desired by you can E. The assertion that the invoice is unsupported by a sufficiently be made available to you if they are reproduced at your expense. For detailed breakdown of dates, hours, and other data does not constitute any charges which may be assessed, refer to 10 CFR Part 9.

an explanation of why the amount billed is incorrect in fact or in law. If 5. NRC will refund to you any amount which is later determined to be an you view the information furnished with the invoice as insufficient for the overpayment, including interest, if any, which was paid by you on such purpose of a request for an extension, you should seek the necessary amount. NRC is not authorized to pay interest on any part of a license, information as soon as possible in order that a request for extension can inspection, or annual fee which was paid to NRC and is later refunded.

be submitted within the 45- day interest waiver period.

PROCEDURES FOR ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER

The NRC can receive funds through the U.S. Department of the Field Content Treasury (Treasury) Fedwire Deposit System. The basic wire message (8) PRODUCT CODE - A product code of CTR for customer transfer should be format below complies with the Federal Reserve Boards standard the first data in the RECEIVER-TEXT field. Other values may be entered, if structured third- party format for all electronic funds transfer (EFT) appropriate, using the ABAs options. A slash must be entered after the messages. product code.

l (9) AGENCY LOCATION CODE (ALC) - THIS ITEM IS OF CRITICAL (1) IMPORTANCE. IT MUST APPEAR ON THE FUNDS TRANSFER DEPOSIT l 021030004 l (2) l MESSAGE IN THE PRECISE MANNER AS STATED TO ALLOW FOR THE l (3) l (4) l (5) l AUTOMATED PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE FUNDS TRANSFER MESSAGE TO THE AGENCY LOCATION CODE OF THE APPROPRIATE l (6) / l AGENCY. The ALC identification sequence can, if necessary, begin on one line (7) (8) and end on the next line; however, the field tag BNF= must be on one line and lTREAS NYC/CTR / l cannot contain any spaces. NRCs 8-digit ALC is (9) BNF=/AC- 31000001 lBNF=/AC-31000001 OBI= l l (10) l Information field tag OBI= is used to signify the beginning of the free(10) THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION - The Originator to Beneficiary- form l l third-party text. All other identifying information to enable the NRC to identify the deposit, for example, NRC annual fee invoice number, description of fee - 10 CFR 171 annual fee, and licensee name, should be placed in this field.

A sample of an EFT message to Treasury and a narrative The optimum format for fields 7, 8, 9, and 10 using an 8-digit ALC is description of each field follow: as follows:

Field Content TREAS NYC/CTR/BNF=/AC- 31000001 OBI=

(1) RECEIVER-DFI# - Treasurys ABA number for deposit The optimum format, shown above, will allow 219-character positions messages is 021030004 of information following the OBI= indicator.

provided by the sending bank. (2) TYPE-SUBTYPE- CD - The type and subtype code will be If the licensees bank is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, the non-member bank must transfer the necessary information and funds to a member bank, which then must transfer the information and funds to the local sending bank. (3) SENDER-DFI# - This number will be provided by the Federal Reserve Bank.

(4) SENDER-REF# - The 16- character reference number is recorded on the same day, the transfer must be received at the New YorkFor transfer of funds from local Federal Reserve Banks to be inserted by the sending bank at its discretion. Federal Reserve Bank by 4 p.m., EST. Otherwise, the deposit will be recorded (5) AMOUNT - The transfer amount must be punctuated with on the next workday.

commas and decimal point; use of the $ is optional. This item If there are any questions, contact:

will be provided by the depositor NRC Accounts Receivable Help Desk

. U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (6) SENDER-DFI-NAME - This information is automatically TELEPHONE: 301- 415-7554 inserted by the Federal Reserve Bank.

(7) RECEIVER-DFI-NAME - Treasurys name for deposit messages is T REAS NYC. This name should be entered by the sending bank.