14 U.S.C. § 664 : US Code - Section 664: User fees

Search 14 U.S.C. § 664 : US Code - Section 664: User fees

(a) A fee or charge for a service or thing of value provided by
the Coast Guard shall be prescribed as provided in section 9701 of
title 31.
(b) Amounts collected by the Secretary for a service or thing of
value provided by the Coast Guard shall be deposited in the general
fund of the Treasury as proprietary receipts of the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating and ascribed to Coast Guard
activities.
(c) In addition to the collection of fees and charges established
under this section, the Secretary may recover from the person
liable for the fee or charge the costs of collecting delinquent
payments of the fee or charge, and enforcement costs associated
with delinquent payments of the fees and charges.
(d)(1) The Secretary may employ any Federal, State, or local
agency or instrumentality, or any private enterprise or business,
to collect a fee or charge established under this section.
(2) A private enterprise or business employed by the Secretary to
collect fees or charges -
(A) shall be subject to reasonable terms and conditions agreed
to by the Secretary and the enterprise or business;
(B) shall provide appropriate accounting to the Secretary; and
(C) may not institute litigation as part of that collection.
(e) The Secretary shall account for the agency's costs of
collecting a fee or charge as a reimbursable expense, subject to
the availability of appropriations, and the costs shall be credited
to the account from which expended.
(f) Before January 1 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a
report to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation of the Senate that includes -
(1) a verification of each activity for which a fee or charge
is collected under any law stating -
(A) the amount collected in the prior fiscal year; and
(B) that the amount spent on that activity in that fiscal
year is not less than the amount collected; and
(2) the amount expected to be collected under any law in the
current fiscal year for each activity for which a fee or charge
is expected to be collected.
(g) In this section the term "costs of collecting a fee or
charge" includes the reasonable administrative, accounting,
personnel, contract, equipment, supply, training, and travel
expenses of calculating, assessing, collecting, enforcing,
reviewing, adjusting, and reporting on a fee or charge.