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PUBLIC LAW 104-264—OCT. 9, 1996 110 STAT. 3247 in subsection (a) with respect to one or more Federal Aviation Administration funding proposals which contain changes in existing laws or new statutory authority required to implement such funding proposal or proposals. "(2) FUNDING PROPOSAL.—The term 'funding proposal' means a proposal to provide interim or permanent funding for operations of the Federal Aviation Administration. "(d) RULES OF THE SENATE.— The provisions of this section are enacted— "(1) as an exercise of the rulemgiking power of the Senate and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of the Senate and they supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and "(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate.", (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.— The table of sections for chapter 481 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "48111. Funding proposals.". SEC. 276. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Chapter 453 is amended— (1) by redesignating section 45303 as section 45304; and (2) by inserting after section 45302 the following: ^§ 45303. Administrative provisions "(a) FEES PAYABLE TO ADMINISTRATOR. — All fees imposed and amounts collected under this chapter for services performed, or materials furnished, by the Federal Aviation Administration are payable to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. "(b) REFUNDS.— The Administrator may refund any fee paid by mistake or any amount paid in excess of that required. "(c) RECEIPTS CREDITED TO ACCOUNT. —Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, all fees and amounts collected by the Administration, except insurance premiums and other fees charged for the provision of insurance and deposited in the Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund and interest earned on investments of such Fund, and except amounts which on September 30, 1996, are required to be credited to the general fund of the Treasury (whether imposed under this section or not)— "(1) shall be credited to a separate account established in the Treasury and made available for Administration activities; "(2) shall be available immediately for expenditure but only for congressionally authorized and intended purposes; and "(3) shall remain available until expended. "(d) ANNUAL BUDGET REPORT BY ADMINISTRATOR.—The Administrator shall, on the ssune day each year as the President submits the annual budget to Congress, provide to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Trsuisportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives— "(1) a list of fee collections by the Administration during the preceding fiscal year;