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(United States
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Washington, D.C. 20548
Accounting and Information
Management Division
B-260055
March 10, 1995
The Honorable John Glenn
United States Senate
The Honorable Gary A. Condit
House of Representatives
This letter responds to your October 4, 1994, request that w(
provide information on user fees collected by the Federal
Maritime Commission (FMC) for access to its Automated Tariff
Filing Information System (ATFI). You asked us to determine
(1) the actual revenues collected for ATFI user fees from
fiscal years 1993 through 1995 and (2) whether or not
original congressional budget estimates for ATFI user fees
were being met. We found that while the original budget
estimate for this period totaled $810 million, it is
currently estimated that the actual user fees will be only
$438,800, or 0.05 percent of the original budget estimate.
BACKGROUND
The FMC is primarily responsible for regulating the domestic
offshore and foreign waterborne commerce of the United
States. In carrying out its mission, FMC reviews and makes
available to the public tariffs filed by common carriers.'
Beginning in the early 1980s, FMC started looking for ways tc
automate its cumborsomp paper tariff filing system. In a
paper format, Tadr1zis were several inches thick in order to
cover all the possible cargo types, shipping destinations,
and service contract terms.
In December 1993, FMC completed the implementation of ATFI.
With ATFI, approximately 2,800 carriers and marine operators
'Tariffs of common carriers are a schedule of rates, charges,
classifications, rules, and practices for transporting cargo
by water.
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