Title 49 — TransportationRelease 119-73not60
§60302 User Fees for Underground Natural Gas Storage Facilities
Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE VIII— PIPELINES › Chapter 603— USER FEES › § 60302
Summary
Operators of certain underground natural gas storage facilities must pay a fee that must be collected before the end of the fiscal year it applies to. The Secretary of Transportation will make rules for collecting the fee and may use a federal, state, or local agency and pay it to collect. All fees go into a separate account in the Pipeline Safety Fund and may be spent only on underground storage safety. Fees can be collected only if a law approving that spending is passed first.
Full Legal Text
Title 49, §60302
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(a)A fee shall be imposed on an entity operating an underground natural gas storage facility subject to section 60141. Any such fee imposed shall be collected before the end of the fiscal year to which it applies.
(b)The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe procedures to collect fees under this section. The Secretary may use a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government or of a State or local government to collect the fee and may reimburse the department, agency, or instrumentality a reasonable amount for its services.
(c)(1)There is established an Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account in the Pipeline Safety Fund established in the Treasury of the United States under section 60301.
(2)A fee collected under this section—
(A)shall be deposited in the Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account; and
(B)if the fee is related to an underground natural gas storage facility subject to section 60141, the amount of the fee may be used only for an activity related to underground natural gas storage facility safety.
(3)No fee may be collected under this section, except to the extent that the expenditure of such fee to pay the costs of an activity related to underground natural gas storage facility safety for which such fee is imposed is provided in advance in an appropriations Act.
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Citation
49 U.S.C. § 60302
Title 49 — Transportation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60