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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 108
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-86
NUCLEAR ENERGY INNOVATION AND MODERNIZATION
ACT
MAY 25, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany S. 512]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 512) to modernize the regulation of nuclear en-
ergy having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the
bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
The Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1990 as amended
(OBRA-90) requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to
recover 90 percent of its budget through fees levied on its licensees
including those of nuclear power reactors, research reactors, nu-
clear fuel producers, and radioactive materials users, e.g. for med-
ical and industrial applications. The remaining 10 percent of the
budget is funded by taxpayers to cover any work the NRC may do
that is not attributable to its licensees. In addition to this 10 per-
cent, funds are also appropriated to cover work for federal agencies
such as Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, generic homeland secu-
rity activities, and Inspector General services that are provided to
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