Sec. 13. User fees
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In this section, the term live wildlife shipment does not include shipments made by qualified institutions for scientific, veterinary, or medical research, medical research, education, conservation outreach, or display purposes. Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall propose, and subsequently adopt, by regulation, a reasonable fee to be charged on imported live wildlife shipments for use in recovering a portion of the costs of— improving the information available on the importation and interstate commerce trade of wildlife; monitoring that information under section 7; conducting risk assessments and risk analyses for nonnative wildlife taxa in that trade under sections 4 and 5; making emergency designations under section 6; and preventing wildlife pathogens and parasites under section 10.
The purpose of the user fees in this section shall be to recover approximately 75 percent of the costs to the Director for the services listed in subsection (b), after such date as the user fee regulation under subsection
(b)is fully implemented and the amounts of the fees received have been appropriated to the Injurious Wildlife Prevention Fund pursuant to section 16(b)(2)(A) for at least one full fiscal year. The amount of the additional fee to be charged on any live wildlife shipment under this section shall be set by the Secretary only after fully considering public comments on the proposed fee regulation and it shall be charged broadly and fairly across the live wildlife import industry and at the lowest level feasible to achieve the cost recovery purpose in subsection (c). The fees shall be set so that the annual total fee revenue shall not exceed the amount of the annual total fee revenue of the fee charged by the Director under the inspection program of the Director to oversee the importation of live wildlife carried out pursuant to— section 11(f) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1540(f) ); subpart I of part 14 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations); and other applicable authority.
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