Thirty-four of the 35 met the target fees set by the user fee law.
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They're also -- they've also identified an ongoing funding stream, whether it's a user fee or something.
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The Consumer Federation of America also says investors would be best served by advisors paying a user fee to the SEC.
The medical device user fee legislation has been amended to take into account the increasing resource demands for a small business.
He was instrumental in the establishment of new user fee regimes to finance expanded security measures following the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
That was when the FDA had a deadline, under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, to let Pfizer know its decision on the drug.
Dyax submitted its reply on June 1, 2009, and the FDA set a decision deadline of December 1 under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA).
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Whether imposed on oil or gasoline or electricity or on all carbon fuels, such a user fee would amount to pennies on the gallon for consumers.
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Instead, the Senate is going to vote soon on a bill that reauthorizes the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), which is set to expire later this year.
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Since the advent of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act in 1992, biotech investors have come to expect the agency to be far more predictable than it actually is.
Continental countries like Sweden pay for most of their health service through taxation or compulsory insurance (which amounts to much the same thing) but most make patients pay a user fee.
In his address to attendees at the Hard Assets conference, Chilton said the financial industry should have some sort of user fee imposed to fund the CFTC, which is currently funded via taxpayers.
Drug safety legislation could be coupled to the re-approval of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, a 1997 law that sped up drug approvals by getting drug firms to help pay for the process.
Last time FDA had its budget clipped (by a much smaller amount) it used the shortfall as reason to back off some of its commitments under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) to review applications on pre-determined timetables.
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What makes Congress's failure to change the criteria for a small drug developer especially surprising is that outside the purview of the drug user fee legislation, the SBA's size limitation for a small business has been raised to 750 employees.
The PDUFA user fee program has been a great success over the past two decades, as the increased funding from the pharmaceutical companies has allowed the FDA to add about 200 staff members and reduce the drug review process by nearly half.
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The comparable legislation that mandates user-fee waivers for small medical device companies, the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA), specifies different criteria: Whether or not a company is small is determined by gross receipts or sales for the company and affiliates.
What will lead us there are directed government investments in energy innovation, in which a smart user fee on energy consumption or carbon emissions can play an important, but fundamentally different (and less central role) as envisioned by conventional cap and trade, carbon tax, and gas tax proponents.
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This bill should maintain - or preferably increase - current levels of funding, provide strong federal leadership for national transportation priorities, protect current assets and expand system capacity, retain the user fee principle for federal highway and transit financing, and expedite the process of transportation project review and approval.
The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
For several years, drugmakers have been paying fees when they file new drug applications that the FDA uses to pay its reviewers, under a law called the prescription drug user fee act, or PDUFA. In return, the FDA promises to deliver some decision--even if it's just "needs more data"--by a given date, called the PDUFA date.
The sensible thing, in my view, would be to end this user-fee proposal once and for all, so all these business people can get back to work and be productive, and the government can find something more worthwhile to do.
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For one thing, they typically charge a simple subscription fee per user, making the cost of information technology easier to see and manage.
Under terms set by the card systems the merchant can refuse to accept any or all varieties of plastic, but if it takes a card it can't make the user pay the card fee.
There is no contract and no line-rental fee: the user simply buys call vouchers from shops and petrol stations.
OneLeap, a UK-based company, enables any user to send a message to any other user within the OneLeap system for a fee.
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Advertisers cough up a sales commission, whenever a user buys a product via Zango, or a cost-per-visitor fee.
Legitimate MLMs charge a relatively small fee for their starter kits, sell products that are purchased by the ultimate user and normally offer reps refunds for unsold items.
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