I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3752 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require each agency Chief Financial 
Officer to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a report 
on and recommendations concerning the adjustment or reduction of fees 
imposed by the agency for services and things of value it provides. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 20, 2011 
Ms. RICHARDSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require each 
agency Chief Financial Officer to submit to the Office 
of Management and Budget a report on and rec-
ommendations concerning the adjustment or reduction 
of fees imposed by the agency for services and things 
of value it provides. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cost Recovery and 
Fair Value for Services Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Federal Government has an obligation 
to United States citizens to be stewards of their 
hard-earned taxpayer dollars by operating in an effi-
cient manner. 
(2) There are hundreds of Federal agencies in 
the executive branch providing an array of services 
and programs. 
(3) It is critical, especially in times when na-
tional debt is high, for these agencies to ensure that 
the programs they provide are consistently assessed 
regarding their costs and self-financed to the great-
est extent possible. 
(4) By setting equitable user fee rates for serv-
ices provided, agencies as well as those who use the 
services can participate in the shared fiscal responsi-
bility needed to reduce the deficit without overbur-
dening users or constraining demand. 
SEC. 3. USER FEE REPORT. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 902 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(c) USER FEE REPORT REQUIRED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than October 1 of 
each odd-numbered year, beginning with October 1, 
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2011, an agency Chief Financial Officer shall pre-
pare and submit a report to the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget on the review and 
recommendations under subsection (a)(8) and shall 
include with regard to the recommendations con-
cerning the adjustment or reduction of fees imposed 
by the agency for services and things of value it pro-
vides for the matters described under paragraphs (2) 
and (3). 
‘‘(2) MATTERS RELATED TO EQUITY.—The re-
port required by paragraph (1) shall include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) An evaluation of whether each user is 
paying an equitable amount and the ability of 
the user to pay the fee. 
‘‘(B) The extent to which use of such pro-
gram by certain users, or for certain types of 
uses, provides a public benefit. 
‘‘(C) The extent to which the program for 
which the fee is funding benefits the public and 
identifiable users. 
‘‘(3) MATTERS RELATED TO EFFICIENCY.—The 
report required by paragraph (1) shall include the 
following: 
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‘‘(A) The amount of the fee sufficient to 
cover the full cost of the service or thing of 
value provided by the agency. 
‘‘(B) Whether the agency has timely and 
reliable cost data to determine the amount of 
the fee to cover the full cost of the service or 
thing of value provided by the agency. 
‘‘(C) The extent to which the fee will fully 
or partially recover costs of the service or thing 
of value provided by the agency. 
‘‘(D) Whether the fee structure should in-
clude exemptions or reduced fees. 
‘‘(E) Whether the fee should be set as a 
percentage or as a fixed dollar amount. 
‘‘(F) How the fee will be structured to 
cover the intended share of the cost of the serv-
ice or thing of value provided by the agency 
over time. 
‘‘(G) Whether fee collections are projected 
to change over time in relation to the cost of 
the service or thing of value provided by the 
agency. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) EQUITABLE AMOUNT.—The term ‘eq-
uitable amount’ means an amount that is set at 
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