[en] The total system life-cycle cost (TSLCC) analysis for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program is an ongoing activity that helps determine whether the revenue-producing mechanism established by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982--a fee levied on the producers of nuclear power--is sufficient to cover the cost of the program. This paper summarizes the program cost estimates in the third fee adequacy evaluation conducted in January 1985. Costs for reference waste-management program were estimated to be 24 to 30 billion (1984) dollars. Costs for the sensitivity cases studied ranged from 21 to 35 billion dollars. Factors such as repository location, quantity of waste generated, transportation cask technology, and repository startup dates were shown to exert substantial impacts on total-system costs