USER CHARGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400190054-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 17, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
Subject: User charges
When the Federal Government provides special services for
s,Decial groups, it is both good economics and good government
o charge fees for these services
good economics, because user charges make possible an
efficient allocation of resources among alternative
D,rograms
- good government, because user charges ensure equitable
treatment of the general taxpayer.
At a Cabinet meeting on February 112 1965, I emphasized the
importance of user charges and called on each of you to
- develop and actively support legislative proposals to
establish or revise user charges
- review and keep up-to-date user charges which are
established administratively.
The Bureau of the Budget has just released a report on the
results of the user charge program dur=nr, fiscal year 1965.
Progress was made. These are the highlights:
- collections from user charges were $1,408 million,
up $137 million over the year before
- Congress enacted three significant user charge
measures which
? made permanent the 5% ticket tax on air
passenger travel
increased Patent Office fees -- for the first
time since 1932
? increased security reg stration fees.
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- Executive departments and agencies, through adminis-
trative action, increased 171 fees, decreased 28 fees,
and established 56 new fees. For example
? the Atomic.Energy Commission established a new
fee for the conversion of U-M uranyl nitrate
to oxide and metal
? the Food and Drug Administration increased fees
for establishing tolerances for pesticide
chemicals
the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service substantially decreased fees charged to
producers applying for price-support loans,
reflecting a simplified loan operations
procedure.
All of these accomplishments represent progress, but there is
still much to do.
"rst,,important user charge measures requested in my budget
are now pending before the Congress. These proposals involve
diverse activities of the Federal Government. Their passage
would add $326 million in user charge receipts. Transporta-
tion user charges alone -- for air, highway, and waterway
transportation -- would add $245 million.
I again call on each of you to give user charge legislative
proposals your continuing active support.
Second, the responsibility for reviewing and revising admin-
istrative user charges is a continuing one. These charges
should reflect the costs of providing service: if costs rise,
user charges should be increased; if costs fall, user charges
should be reduced.
1 again ask you to keep aoministrat_ve user charges current.
User charges are an essential element in responsible Federal
~iscal management. I am determined that user charges in this
Administration will be as comprehensive and current as our
efforts can make them.
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Remarks :
John :
Please look over the attached Presidential
memo on user charges. Neither the DCI nor
DDCI has seen it and there is no obligation for
the Agency to report to the President or BOB.
However, it would seem prudent to get a fix on
our situation. I suggest you have the staff
develop for Colonel White a status report on how
we are now applying the user charge procedure --
if at all -- and make recommendations as you see
fit as to what we should be doing with user
charges, if anything.
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