---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 436.12"
title: "10"
number: "436.12"
heading: "Life cycle cost methodology."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/436.12"
---

# §436.12. Life cycle cost methodology.


The life cycle cost methodology for this part is a systematic analysis of relevant costs, excluding sunk costs, over a study period, relating initial costs to future costs by the technique of discounting future costs to present values.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 55 FR 48220, Nov. 20, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8254; 42 U.S.C. 8258; 42 U.S.C. 8259b; 42 U.S.C. 8287, et seq.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 60669, Oct. 19, 1979, unless otherwise noted.