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Title 50 — War and National Defense

Chapter 47 — National Security Agency

§ 3618. Collection of service charges for certification or validation of information assurance products

Statutory text

(a)

Collection

The Director may collect charges for evaluating, certifying, or validating information assurance products under the National Information Assurance Program or successor program.

(b)

Establishment of charges

The charges collected under subsection (a) shall be established through a public rulemaking process in accordance with Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A–25.

(c)

Limitation on charges

Charges collected under subsection (a) shall not exceed the direct costs of the program referred to in that subsection.

(d)

Reimbursement or advance payment

The appropriation or fund bearing the cost of the service for which charges are collected under the program referred to in subsection (a) may be reimbursed, or the Director may require advance payment subject to such adjustment on completion of the work as may be agreed upon.

(e)

Crediting of amounts collected

Amounts collected under this section shall be credited to the account or accounts from which costs associated with such amounts have been or will be incurred, to reimburse or offset the direct costs of the program referred to in subsection (a).

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 86–36 § 20 · 73 Stat. 63

    Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 3618

    (Pub. L. 86–36, § 20, as added Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title IX, § 933, Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2363.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–36, § 20, as added Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title IX, § 933, Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2363.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified in a note under section 402 of this title prior to editorial reclassification as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–36, § 20, as added Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title IX, § 933, , 120 Stat. 2363.)

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