Limited revision of fee schedules--NRC. Final rule

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make two limited changes to its assessment of license and annual fees. The final rule assesses license fees, which are based on the full-cost method, quarterly instead of semiannually and establishes a lower tier small entity annual fee for those licensees that are small entities with relatively low annual gross receipts or supporting populations. These final amendments are intended to improve NRC financial management and further mitigate the impact of the annual fee on small licensees with relatively low annual gross receipts or supporting populations.