---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7552"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7552"
heading: "Motor vehicle compliance program fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7552"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Emission Standards for Moving Sources"
  - "Part A — Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards"
---

# §7552. Motor vehicle compliance program fees

- (a) **Fee collection—** Consistent with [section 9701 of title 31](/usc/31/9701.md), the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) may promulgate (and from time to time revise) regulations establishing fees to recover all reasonable costs to the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) associated with—
  - (1) new vehicle or engine certification under [section 7525(a) of this title](/usc/42/7525.md?p=a) or part C,
  - (2) new vehicle or engine compliance monitoring and testing under [section 7525(b) of this title](/usc/42/7525.md?p=b) or part C, and
  - (3) in-use vehicle or engine compliance monitoring and testing under [section 7541(c) of this title](/usc/42/7541.md?p=c) or part C.

  The [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) may establish for all foreign and domestic [manufacturers](/usc/42/7550.md?p=1) a fee schedule based on such factors as the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) finds appropriate and equitable and nondiscriminatory, including the number of vehicles or engines produced under a certificate of conformity. In the case of heavy-duty engine and vehicle [manufacturers](/usc/42/7550.md?p=1), such fees shall not exceed a reasonable amount to recover an appropriate portion of such reasonable costs.

- (b) **Special Treasury fund—** Any fees collected under this section shall be deposited in a special fund in the United States Treasury for licensing and other services which thereafter shall be available for appropriation, to remain available until expended, to carry out the [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1)’s activities for which the fees were collected.
- (c) **Limitation on fund use—** Moneys in the special fund referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) shall not be used until after the first fiscal year commencing after the first July 1 when fees are paid into the fund.
- (d) **Administrator’s testing authority—** Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a)’s authority to require [manufacturer](/usc/42/7550.md?p=1) or confirmatory testing as provided in this part.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, § 217, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title II, § 225, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2504.)