---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 11204"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "11204"
heading: "Processing fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/11204"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part G — Merchant Seamen Protection and Relief"
  - "Chapter 112 — Merchant Mariner Benefits"
---

# §11204. Processing fees

- (a) **Collection of Fees.—** The [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46), or in the case of personnel of the Army Transport Service or the Naval Transport Service, the [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) of Defense, shall collect a fee of $30 from each applicant for processing an application submitted under [section 11203(a) of this title](/usc/46/11203.md?p=a).
- (b) **Treatment of Fees Collected.—** Amounts received by the [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) under this section shall be deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts of the department in which the [Coast Guard](/usc/46/2101.md?p=2) is operating and ascribed to [Coast Guard](/usc/46/2101.md?p=2) activities. Amounts received by the [Secretary](/usc/46/2101.md?p=46) of Defense under this section shall be deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts of the Department of Defense. In either case, such amounts shall be available, subject to appropriation, for the administrative costs of processing applications under [section 11203 of this title](/usc/46/11203.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–368, title IV, § 402(a), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3337.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.