---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 197"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "197"
heading: "Defense Logistics Agency: fees charged for logistics information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/197"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 8 — Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities"
  - "Subchapter I — Common Supply and Service Activities"
---

# §197. Defense Logistics Agency: fees charged for logistics information

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may charge fees for providing information in the Federal Logistics Information System through Defense Logistics Information Services to a [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the executive branch outside the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense, or to a [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4), a political subdivision of a [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4), or any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
- (b) **Amount.—** The fee or fees prescribed under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be such amount or amounts as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense determines appropriate for recovering the costs of providing information as described in such subsection.
- (c) **Retention of Fees.—** Fees collected under this section shall be credited to the appropriation available for Defense Logistics Information Services for the fiscal year in which collected, shall be merged with other sums in such appropriation, and shall be available for the same purposes and period as the appropriation with which merged.
- (d) **Defense Logistics Information Services Defined.—** In this section, the term “Defense Logistics Information Services” means the organization within the Defense Logistics [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) that is known as Defense Logistics Information Services.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, § 1010(a), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2038.)