SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2026-4588 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2026-4588.
• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. To begin the search, select “Begin ADAMS Public Search.” For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. Draft NUREG-1307, Revision 21, “Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs ( printed page 66743) at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,” is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML26271A165.
• NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

B. Submitting Comments

The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking website ( www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-2026-4588 in your comment submission.

The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.

If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

Pursuant to section 50.75 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), “Reporting and recordkeeping for decommissioning planning,” the NRC requires nuclear power reactor licensees to adjust annually, in current year dollars, their estimate of the cost to decommission their plants. The annual updates are part of the process for providing reasonable assurance that adequate funds for decommissioning will be available when needed.

Revision 21 of NUREG-1307, “Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,” modifies the previous revision to this report issued in February 2025 (ADAMS Accession No. ML25037A226) and incorporates updates to the labor, energy, and waste burial escalation factors of the NRC minimum decommissioning fund formula. Due to the inclusion of disposal costs for low activity waste (a subset of low-level waste), unchanged low-level waste (LLW) burial charges at two of the nation's four LLW disposal facilities to which a majority of licensees are anticipated to dispose some portion of their LLW, and slightly to moderately higher charges at the remaining two facilities to which a small number of licensees are anticipated to dispose of their LLW, the minimum decommissioning fund formula amounts calculated by licensees, based on revised LLW burial factors presented in this report, will generally reflect minimum decommissioning fund requirements that are lower, on average, when compared to those previously reported by licensees in 2025.

Authority:42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.

91 FR 66742