NRC Renews Paperwork for Tracking Your Radioactive Materials
Published Date: 12/11/2025
Notice
Summary
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is renewing approval for a form and guide that help track special nuclear and source materials. This affects companies handling these materials, who must keep accurate physical inventory reports. Comments on this renewal are open until February 9, 2026, with no new costs introduced—just a smooth continuation of current rules.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Who Must Report and Which Materials
Certain fuel cycle facility licensees that possess special nuclear material (enriched uranium, plutonium, or U-233) must submit NRC Form 327. The collection is targeted to fuel facility licensees who handle these specific materials.
Specific Reporting Schedules by Material Significance
Reporting frequency depends on the strategic significance of the special nuclear material: licensees with strategic SNM report every 6 months; moderate strategic significance report every 9 months; low strategic significance report annually. Two enrichment facilities have different schedules: one reports dynamic inventories every 2 months and static inventories annually; the other reports dynamic inventories every 3 months and static inventories every 9 months.
Estimated Annual Responses and Burden Hours
The NRC estimates 77 annual responses from 7 respondents, requiring a total of 308 hours per year to comply with this information collection. The data are used to assess material control/accounting and to detect or confirm absence of SNM theft or diversion.
NRC Form 327 Renewal Continues
The NRC is renewing OMB approval (No. 3150-0139) for NRC Form 327 and NUREG/BR-0096 to continue existing physical inventory reporting for special nuclear and source materials. The renewal keeps current rules in place with no new costs introduced and the public comment period is open through February 9, 2026.
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