110 STAT. 3009-285 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 requirements of this section and section 440 are being met."; and (ii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: "(D) ANNUAL ASSESSMENT.— "(i) IN GENERAL.— For each fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1996, the Secretary of the Treasury may establish and collect from the Association an assessment (or assessments) in amounts sufficient to provide for reasonable costs and expenses of carrying out the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury under this section and section 440 during such fiscal year. In no event may the total amount so assessed exceed, for any fiscal year, $800,000, adjusted for each fiscal year ending after September 30, 1997, by the ratio of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) for the final month of the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the assessment is made to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for September 1997. "(ii) DEPOSIT.—Amounts collected from assessments under this subparagraph shall be deposited in an account within the Treasury of the United States as designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay out of any funds available in such account the reasonable costs and expenses of carrying out the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury under this section and section 440. None of the funds deposited into such account shall be available for any purpose other than making pa3niients for such costs and expenses."; and (C) by inserting after paragraph (13) (as added by paragraph (2)(C)) the following new paragraph: "(14) ACTIONS BY SECRETARY.— "(A) IN GENERAL.—For any fiscal quarter ending after January 1, 2000, the Association shall have a capital ratio of at least 2.25 percent. The Secretary of the Treasury may, whenever such capital ratio is not met, take any one or more of the actions described in paragraph (7), except that— "(i) the capital ratio to be restored pursuant to paragraph (7)(D) shall be 2.25 percent; and "(ii) if the relevant capital ratio is in excess of or equal to 2 percent for such quarter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall defer taking any of the actions set forth in paragraph (7) until the next succeeding quarter and may then proceed with any such action only if the capital ratio of the Association remains below 2.25 percent. "(B) APPLICABILITY.— The provisions of paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), and (11) shall be of no further application to the Association for any period after January 1, 2000. ". (4) INFORMATION REQUIRED; DIVIDENDS. —Section 439(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087-2(r)) is further amended—
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