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 PUBLIC LAW 99-272—APR. 7, 1986

100 STAT. 147

tee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report evaluating the feasibility and necessity of establishing a system for the assessment and collection of annual charges from persons licensed by the Commission pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) to fund all or part of the activities conducted by the Commission pursuant to such Act. Such report shall include an analysis of— (1) the extent to which the Commission's existing statutory or regulatory authority to assess and collect annual charges, including the authority of the Commission to assess and collect fees pursuant to title V of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act of 1952, is adequate to enable the Commission to assess 31 USC 9701. and collect fees commensurate with the value of the benefit rendered to the licensee and the cost to the Commission of rendering such benefit; (2) the amounts currently assessed and collected by the Commission pursuant to existing statutory or regulatory authority, and the purposes for which such fees are assessed and collected; and (3) any recommendations of the Commission for expanding the existing statutory authority to assess and collect fees, including the Commission's justification for such expansion. Qi) ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon the expiration of a period of 45 calendar days (excluding any day in which either House of Congress is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 calendar days to a day certain or an adjournment sine die) £ following receipt by the Congress of the report required pursuant to subsection (a), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall assess and collect annual charges from its licensees on a fiscal year basis, except that— (A) the maximum amount of the aggregate charges as• sessed pursuant to this paragraph in any fiscal year may . not exceed an amount that, when added to other amounts '"^ collected by the Commission for such fiscal year under other provisions of law, is estimated to be equal to 33 percent of the costs incurred by the Commission with respect to such fiscal year; and (B) any such charge assessed pursuant to this paragraph • shall be reasonably related to the regulatory service provided by the Commission and shall fairly reflect the cost to V..>? the Commission of providing such service. (2) ESTABLISHMENT OF AMOUNT BY RULE.—The amount of the charges assessed pursuant to this paragraph shall be established by rule.

TITLE VIII—OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF AND RELATED PROGRAMS SEC. 8001. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be referred to as the 'Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1985".

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1985. 43 USC 1301 note.

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