NUREG/BR-0238, Materials Annual Fee Billing Handbook, NRC Form 628, Financial EDI Authorization, NUREG/BR-0254, Payment Methods NRC Form 629, Authorization for Payment by Credit Card

FedEx or overnight mailings must be delivered to:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Bank Government Lockbox
SL-MO-C2GL
1005 Convention Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63101

TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION
NUMBER
You must file your Taxpayer Identification Number with the NRC.
NRC Form 531 can be viewed and printed from the NRC Web site at
http://www.nrc.gov. Select NRC Library> Document Collections> Forms>
Forms (NRC). You can also obtain a form by calling the
Accounts Receivable Help Desk at (301) 415-7554.

FOR INFORMATION
The Office of the Chief Financial Officer will promptly respond to all
requests for information. Please contact the office at:
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OCFO/DOC/ ARB
Mail Stop T9-E10
Washington, DC 20555-0001
PH (301) 415-7554
E-mail [email protected]

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OCFO/DOC/ARB
Mail Stop T9-E10
Washington, DC 20555-0001
PH (301) 415-7554

NUREG/BR-0254, Rev. 8
TBD

APPROVED BY OMB: NO. 3150–0190

PAYMENT BY CREDIT CARD

❺ AMOUNT - The transfer amount must be punctuated with commas and
decimal point; use of the “$” is optional. The depositor will provide this item.

Estimated burden per response to comply with this voluntary collection
request: 10 minutes. This collection solicits information that will allow
the respondent to transfer funds electronically. Forward comments
regarding burden estimate to the Records Management Branch
(T-6 F33), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001, and to the Paperwork Reduction Project (3150-0190), Office of
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. If a means used to
impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB
control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is
not required to respond to, the information collection.

The NRC is currently accepting credit cards for payment of annual fees,
full cost licensing and inspection fees, new license fees, revisions to
reciprocity applications, civil penalties, and other fees. We accept Visa,
MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. If you wish to pay by
credit card, complete the authorization form included with your invoice
or civil penalty. You may also print a copy of the form from the NRC Web
site. The URL is http://www.nrc.gov. Select NRC Library> Document
Collections> Forms> Forms (NRC). The authorization form is NRC Form
629, Authorization for Payment by Credit Card.

❻ SENDER-DFI-NAME - The Federal Reserve Bank will automatically insert
this information.

The following are payment methods accepted by the NRC for payment of
an annual fee, a proposed or imposed civil penalty, a full cost licensing
or inspection invoice, an application fee, a revision to a reciprocity
application, a registration fee, or other fees.

PAYMENT BY AUTOMATED
CLEARINGHOUSE

Mail the completed credit card authorization to:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Bank
P.O. Box 979051
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000
Be sure to reference your invoice number if you are paying a bill. If you are
submitting an application fee for a new license or a revision to a reciprocity
application, just state this in the invoice field. Credit card payments are only
accepted for invoices under $24,999.99.

The Automated Clearinghouse / Electronic Data Interchange
(ACH/EDI) Network is a highly reliable and efficient nationwide batchoriented electronic funds transfer system. The ACH/EDI is governed by
operating rules that provide for the interbank clearing of debit and credit
transactions and for the exchange of information among participating
financial institutions.

If you are paying a civil penalty, reference the Enforcement Action (EA)
number in the invoice field.

A growing number of transactions involving the collection of funds by
Federal agencies are being made through the ACH/EDI. The Federal
government is the largest single user of the ACH/EDI, originating and
receiving millions of transactions each month. At the NRC, collections via
the ACH/EDI have been increasing each year since 1996.

The NRC can receive funds through the U.S. Department of the Treasury
(Treasury) Fedwire Deposit System. The basic wire message format below
complies with the Federal Reserve Board’s standard structured third-party
format for all electronic funds transfer (EFT) messages.

ACH offers several advantages over checks:
Provides automatic bill payment
Eliminates postage fees
Eliminates lost checks
Reduces transaction time
Reduces check writing and reconciliation fees
Least expensive of all electronic collection systems

Both payment and refunds (debits and credits) can be processed
through the ACH/EDI Network
To respond to the growing needs of companies to electronically send
payment information as well as payments between trading partners,
the ACH/EDI system incorporated Corporate-to-Corporate payments.
Because of the importance of moving information quickly, the NRC can
now accept electronic payment through our Corporate-to-Corporate
payment program.
To pay by ACH/EDI, you may obtain a copy of NRC Form 628, FINANCIAL
EDI AUTHORIZATION, by calling the Accounts Receivable Help Desk at
(301) 415-7554.

PROCEDURE FOR ELECTRONIC
FUNDS TRANSFER

➊

➌
➏
➒
➓

TO

➍

➎

$

AMOUNT

O R D E R I N G B A N K A N D R E L AT E D D ATA

TREAS NYC/CTR

❾ AGENCY LOCATION CODE (ALC) - THIS ITEM IS OF CRITICAL
IMPORTANCE. IT MUST APPEAR ON THE FUNDS TRANSFER DEPOSIT
MESSAGE IN THE PRECISE MANNER AS STATED TO ALLOW FOR THE
AUTOMATED PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE FUNDS
TRANSFER MESSAGE TO THE AGENCY LOCATION CODE OF THE
APPROPRIATE AGENCY. The ALC identification sequence can, if necessary,
begin on one line and end on the next line; however, the field tag “BNF=”
must be on one line and cannot contain any spaces. The NRC’s 8-digit ALC
is: BNF=/AC-31000001
❿ THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION - The Originator to Beneficiary Information
(OBI) field tag “OBI=” signifies the beginning of the free-form third-party text.
All other identifying information intended 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.
The optimum format for fields 7, 8, 9, and 10 using an 8-digit ALC is as follows:
TREAS NYC/CTR/BNF=/AC-31000001 OBI=

If the licensee’s 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 Federal Reserve Bank.

021030004
REF

❽ PRODUCT CODE - A product code of “CTR” for customer transfer should
be the first data in the RECEIVER-TEXT field. Other values may be entered,
if appropriate, using the ABA’s options. A slash must be entered after the
product code.

The optimum format, shown above, will allow 219 character positions of
information following the “OBI=” indicator.

➋

FROM

❼ RECEIVER-DFI-NAME - Treasury’s name for deposit messages is
“TREAS NYC”. The sending bank will enter this name.

➐

➑

BNF=/AC-31000001 OBI=

For transfer of funds from local Federal Reserve Banks to be recorded
on the same day, the transfer must be received at the New York Federal
Reserve Bank by 4 p.m., EST. Otherwise, the deposit will be recorded on
the next workday.

See sample EFT message to Treasury above. Each numbered field is
described below:

PAYMENT BY CHECK

❶ RECEIVER-DFI# - Treasury’s ABA number for deposit messages is 021030004.

Checks should be made payable to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission with the invoice number, Enforcement Action (EA) number, or
other information which identifies the payment, written on the check. Mail
the check to:

❷ TYPE-SUBTYPE-CD - The sending bank will provide the type and subtype
code.
❸ SENDER-DFI# - The sending bank will provide this number.
❹ SENDER-REF# - The sending bank will insert this 16-character reference
number at its discretion.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Bank
P.O. Box 979051
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000