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 104 STAT. 4070 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 (ii) REIMBURSEMENT. — The Secretary of Treasury shall use the Account to provide reimbursements to any appropriations accounts that incur the costs associated with the services authorized in paragraph (1). (iii) PROCEDURE. —The Secretary of the Treasury shall make reimbursement under clause (ii) on a quarterly basis. Amounts required to be reimbursed under clause (ii), shall be made on the basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the expenses described in clause (ii) that are incurred by the Secretary in the 3-month period immediately preceding such reimbursement. (iv) ADJUSTMENTS. —Adjustments of reimbursements made under clause (ii) shall be made to the extent necessary to correct prior estimates that were in excess of, or less than, the amount required to be reimbursed under clause (iii). (4) ADJUSTMENT IN FEE AMOUNTS. —The Secretary shall adjust the amount of the fees to be assessed under this subsection to reflect the cost to the Secretary in administering such subsection, in carrying out the activities at ports in customs territory of the United States and preclearance and preinspection sites outside the customs territory of the United States in connection with the provision of agricultural quarantine inspection services, and in maintaining a reasonable balance in the Account. (b) PLANT INSPECTION.— Subsection (f) of section 102 of the Act of September 21, 1944 (7 U.S.C. 147a(f)), is amended to read as follows: Appropriation "(f)(1) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), there are authorized to be authorization. appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Unless otherwise specifically authorized or provided for in appropriations Acts, no part of such sums shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed. "(2) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prescribe and collect fees to recover the costs of providing for the inspection of plants and plant products offered for export or transiting the United States and certifying to shippers and interested parties as to the freedom of such plants and plant products from plant pests according to the phytosanitary requirements of the foreign countries to which such plants and plant products may be exported, or to the freedom from exposure to plant pests while in transit through the United States. Any person for whom such an activity is performed shall be liable for payment of fees assessed. Upon failure to pay such fees when due, the Secretary of Agriculture shall assess a late payment penalty, and such overdue fees shall accrue interest, as required by section 3717 of title 31, United States Code. All fees, late payment penalties, and accrued interest collected shall be credited to such accounts that incur the costs and shall remain available , until expended without fiscal year limitation. The Secretary of Agriculture shall have a lien for the fees, any late payment penalty, and any accrued interest assessed against the plant or plant product for which services have been provided. In the case of any person who fails to make payment when due, the Secretary of Agriculture shall also have a lien against any plant or plant product thereafter attempted to be exported by such person. The Secretary of Agriculture may, in case of nonpayment of the fees, late payment penalty, or accrued interest, after giving reasonable notice of default to the person liable for payment of such assessments, sell at public sale after reasonable public notice, or otherwise dispose of, any such

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