National Energy Board Cost Recovery Regulations (SOR/91-7)

6 For the purposes of calculating cost recovery charges in accordance with these Regulations, the total costs attributable for a year to the responsibilities of the Board under the Act or any other Act of Parliament are 95 per cent of the aggregate of

• (a) one fourth of the estimated program costs of the Board including the costs of goods and services provided to the Board by other federal departments or agencies, as set out in the Expenditure Plan published in the Estimates of the Government of Canada for the Board’s fiscal year ending in that year, and

• (b) three fourths of the forecasted program costs of the Board including the costs of goods and services provided to the Board by other federal departments or agencies, as prepared for the Expenditure Plan to be published in the Estimates of the Government of Canada for the Board’s fiscal year beginning during that year.