Sec. 1.1151  Authority to prescribe and collect regulatory fees.

    Authority to impose and collect regulatory fees is contained in 
title VI, section 6002(a) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
1993 (Pub. L. 103-66, 107 Stat. 397), enacting section 9 of the 
Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 159, which directs the Commission to 
prescribe and collect annual regulatory fees from designated regulatees 
in order to recover the costs of certain of its regulatory activities in 
the private radio, mass media, common carrier, and cable television 
services.
[ 59 FR 30999 , June 16,1994]