How are the UCRA fees going to be established?
The statute requires the UCRA Board to recommend every year to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation the level of fees to be effective the following year, and requires the Secretary to actually set the fees within 90 days following the UCRA Board’s recommendation. (This process may require formal notice and opportunity for public comment.) Implicitly, in order for the UCRA Board to make such a recommendation, the UCRA Board must determine which states are going to participate in UCRA in the following year, what the aggregate of these states’ UCRA entitlement revenues may be (plus what amount of UCRA administrative costs are to be recouped through the fees), how many entities are subject to UCRA and how many commercial motor vehicles they operate, and what structure of fees will best serve to collect the revenue calculated to be needed.
