---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 60302"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "60302"
heading: "User fees for underground natural gas storage facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/60302"
units:
  - "Subtitle VIII — Pipelines"
  - "Chapter 603 — User Fees"
---

# §60302. User fees for underground natural gas storage facilities

- (a) **In General.—** A fee shall be imposed on an entity operating an [underground natural gas storage facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) subject to section 60141. Any such fee imposed shall be collected before the end of the fiscal year to which it applies.
- (b) **Means of Collection.—** The [Secretary](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) of Transportation shall prescribe procedures to collect fees under this section. The [Secretary](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) may use a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government or of a [State](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-20) or local government to collect the fee and may reimburse the department, agency, or instrumentality a reasonable amount for its services.
- (c) **Use of Fees.—**
  - (1) **Account.—** There is established an [Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) Safety Account in the Pipeline Safety Fund established in the Treasury of the United States under section 60301.
  - (2) **Use of fees.—** A fee collected under this section—
    - (A) shall be deposited in the [Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) Safety Account; and
    - (B) if the fee is related to an [underground natural gas storage facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) subject to [section 60141](/usc/49/60141.md), the amount of the fee may be used only for an activity related to [underground natural gas storage facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) safety.
  - (3) **Limitation.—** No fee may be collected under this section, except to the extent that the expenditure of such fee to pay the costs of an activity related to [underground natural gas storage facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-26) safety for which such fee is imposed is provided in advance in an appropriations Act.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–183, § 12(c), June 22, 2016, 130 Stat. 523.)