QUESTIONS?

If you have questions, please visit https://www.nrc.gov and search 

for “License Fees.”

Questions may also be directed to the NRC Accounts Receivable 

Help Desk by e-mail at FEES.Resource@nrc.gov, by phone at 

(301) 415-7554, or by writing to the address below:

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

OCFO/DOC/ARB

Mail Stop T9-E10

Washington, DC 20555-0001

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

OCFO/DOC/ARB

Mail Stop T-9-E10

Washington, DC 20555-0001

PH (301) 415-7554

NUREG/BR-0254, Rev. 8

February 2018
APPROVED BY OMB: NO. 3150–0190

Estimated burden per response to comply with this voluntary collection 

request: 10 minutes. This brochure provides information about 

available payment methods. Forward comments about to burden 

estimate to the Records Management Branch (T6-F33), U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 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.

NRC accepts the methods described below.

PAYMENT BY AUTOMATED 

CLEARINGHOUSE

To pay by Automated Clearinghouse / Electronic Data Interchange 

(ACH/EDI), provide a copy of NRC Form 628 to your financial 

institution. You may obtain a copy of NRC Form 628 by calling the 

NRC Accounts Receivable Help Desk at (301) 415-7554.

PAYMENT BY CREDIT CARD

The NRC is currently accepts credit card payments of up to

$24,999.99. For payment by credit card, go to Pay.gov, search for 

“U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fees” and enter the required 

information.

You may also mail or fax NRC

Form 629 following the directions on

the form. To obtain a copy of NRC

Form 629 go to http://www.nrc.gov

and search for “NRC Form 629” or call

the NRC Accounts Receivable Help

Desk at (301) 415-7554.

PAYMENT BY FEDWIRE DEPOSIT 

SYSTEM

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. 

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=

The optimum format, shown above, will allow 219 character positions of 

information following the “OBI=” indicator.

If the licensee’s bank is not a member of the Federal Reserve System, the 

nonmember 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.

For a 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.

PAYMENT BY CHECK

Checks should be made payable to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission with the invoice number, Enforcement Action number, 

or other information that identifies the payment, written on the check. 

Mail the check to the following address:

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

U.S. Bank

P.O. Box 979051

St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

FedEx or overnight mailings must be delivered to the following address:

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 (TIN) with the NRC. 

Use NRC Form 531 to provide your TIN. You may obtain NRC 

Form 531 from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov by searching 

for “NRC Form 531” or by calling the NRC Accounts Receivable Help 

Desk at (301) 415-7554.

See the sample EFT message to Treasury below. Each numbered field is 

described below.

❶ RECEIVER-DFI# – Treasury’s routing number for deposit messages is

021030004.

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.

❺ AMOUNT – The transfer amount must be punctuated with commas and

decimal point; use of the “$” is optional. The depositor will provide this

item.

❻ SENDER-DFI-NAME – The Federal Reserve Bank will automatically insert

this information.

❼ RECEIVER-DFI-NAME – Treasury’s name for deposit messages is “TREAS

NYC”. The sending bank will enter this name.

❽ PRODUCT CODE – A product code of “CTR” for customer transfer should

be the first item in the reciever text field. Other values may be entered, if

appropriate, using the American Bankers Association’s options. A slash

must be entered after the product code.

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.

TO

FROM REF AMOUNT

ORDERING BANK AND RELATED DATA

$

TREAS NYC/CTR

➊ ➋

➍ ➎

➌

➐ ➑

➏

➒

➓

021030004

BNF=/AC-31000001 OBI=