30 CFR §1220.013
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The following costs shall not be charged as direct or joint costs to NPSL operations:
- (a)Bonus payments to the United States;
- (b)Interest (except as permitted under § 1220.011(g));
- (c)Depreciation, depletion, amortization, or any other charge for capital recovery for materiel charged to the NPSL capital account under § 1220.011(c), except as explicitly provided by the allowance for capital recovery calculated according to § 1220.020;
- (d)The cost of taking inventory;
- (e)Research and development costs;
- (f)The following legal expenses:
- (1)The costs of litigation against the Federal government;
- (2)Fines or penalties levied by any Federal agency;
- (3)Settlement of claims or other litigation resulting from the lessee's violation of regulatory requirements or negligence; and
- (4)The cost of the lessee's legal staff or expense of outside attorneys, except as explicitly allowed under § 1220.011(f);
- (g)The following employee relocation costs (whether incurred by the employee or the lessee):
- (h)The lessee's own cost of administering employee benefit plans;
- (i)The cost of acquiring or constructing shore base facilities and real property improvements that are charged to NPSL operations on a rental basis under § 1220.011(g);
- (j)Rentals on any facilities, the investment costs of which have been charged either directly or as allocable joint costs, to the NPSL capital account; and
- (k)Pre-NPSL expenditures.