§55 Fees and Charges for Cotton Classing and Related Services; Criteria; Disposition of Moneys and Samples

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must charge fees for cotton classifier licenses, cotton quality determinations, and for making and selling cotton standards and their copies. The fees should, as closely as possible, pay for the costs of those services after accounting for money made by selling cotton samples. The Secretary can make rules saying when cotton samples sent in become U.S. property and may be sold. Those samples are not covered by chapters 1–11 of Title 40 and parts of Subtitle I, Division C of Title 41 (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711). All fees, late penalties, sale proceeds, and any interest go into the same appropriation account that pays for these services and can be used without a fiscal year limit. The Secretary may put those funds into insured or fully collateralized interest-bearing accounts, or the Treasury may invest them in U.S. government debt. The price the Secretary sets for practical forms that show the official U.S. cotton standards must roughly match the Department’s actual cost to create and prepare those forms.