ADMINISTRATIVE, COLLECTION, AND ENFORCEMENT COSTS FOR CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES.

SEC. 206. ADMINISTRATIVE, COLLECTION, AND ENFORCEMENT COSTS FOR CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES. Section 664 of title 14, United States Code, is amended—(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (f);(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:“(c) In addition to the collection of fees and charges established under this section, the Secretary may recover from the person liable for the fee or charge the costs of collecting delinquent payments of the fee or charge, and enforcement costs associated with delinquent payments of the fees and charges.“(d)(1) The Secretary may employ any Federal, State, or local agency or instrumentality, or any private enterprise or business, to collect a fee or charge established under this section. “(2) A private enterprise or business employed by the Secretary to collect fees or charges—“(A) shall be subject to reasonable terms and conditions agreed to by the Secretary and the enterprise or business;“(B) shall provide appropriate accounting to the Secretary; and“(C) may not institute litigation as part of that collection.“(e) The Secretary shall account for the agency’s costs of collecting a fee or charge as a reimbursable expense, subject to the availability of appropriations, and the costs shall be credited to the account from which expended.”; and(3) by adding at the end the following:118 STAT. 1034 “(g) In this section the term ‘costs of collecting a fee or charge’ includes the reasonable administrative, accounting, personnel, contract, equipment, supply, training, and travel expenses of calculating, assessing, collecting, enforcing, reviewing, adjusting, and reporting on a fee or charge.”.