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Vol. 86, No. 5 

Friday, January 8, 2021 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. AMS–FGIS–20–0094] 

Grain Fees for Official Inspection and 

Weighing Services Under the United 

States Grain Standards Act (USGSA) 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is announcing the 2021 

fee schedule for official inspection and 

weighing services performed under the 

USGSA, as amended, in order to comply 

with Federal Grain Inspection Service 

regulations and the Agriculture 

Reauthorizations Act of 2015. This 

action publishes the annual review of 

Schedule A fees calculation and the 

resulting fees. 

DATES: The new fee schedule went into 

effect on January 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Prospective customers can 

find the fee scheduled posted on the 

Agency’s public website. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise Ruggles, FGIS Executive Program 

Analyst, USDA AMS; Telephone: (816) 

659–8406; Email: Denise.M.Ruggles@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

USGSA provides the Secretary of 

Agriculture with the authority to charge 

and collect reasonable fees to cover the 

costs of performing official services and 

the costs associated with managing the 

program. The regulations require that 

the Federal Grain Inspection Service 

(FGIS) annually review the national 

tonnage fees, local tonnage fees, and 

fees for service. After calculating the 

tonnage fees according to the regulatory 

formula in 7 CFR 800.71(b)(1), FGIS 

then reviews the amount of funds in the 

operating reserve at the end of the fiscal 

year (FY2020 in this case) to ensure that 

it has 41⁄2 months of operating expenses 

as required by § 800.71(b)(2) of the 

regulations. If the operating reserve has 

more or less than 41⁄2 months of 

operating expenses, then FGIS must 

adjust all Schedule A fees. For each 

$1,000,000, rounded down, that the 

operating reserve varies from the target 

of 41⁄2 months, FGIS will adjust all 

Schedule A fees by 2 percent. If the 

operating reserve exceeds the target, all 

Schedule A fees will be reduced. If the 

operating reserve does not meet the 

target, all Schedule A fees will be 

increased. The maximum annual 

increase or decrease in fees is 5 percent 

(7 CFR 800.71(b)(2)(i)–(ii)). 

Tonnage fees for the 5-year rolling 

average tonnage were calculated on the 

previous 5 fiscal years—2016, 2017, 

2018, 2019, and 2020. Tonnage fees 

consist of the national tonnage fee and 

local tonnage fee and are calculated and 

rounded to the nearest $0.001 per metric 

ton. The tonnage fees are calculated as 

follows: 

National tonnage fee. The national 

tonnage fee is the national program 

administrative costs for the previous 

fiscal year divided by the average yearly 

tons of export grain officially inspected 

and/or weighed by delegated States and 

designated agencies, excluding land 

carrier shipments to Canada and 

Mexico, and outbound grain officially 

inspected and/or weighed by FGIS 

during the previous 5 fiscal years. 

Fiscal year Metric tons 

2016 ...................................... 122,330,979 

2017 ...................................... 135,017,935 

2018 ...................................... 129,687,652 

2019 ...................................... 107,896,235 

2020 ...................................... 110,090,771 

5-year Rolling Average ......... 121,004,714 

The national program administrative 

costs for fiscal year 2020 were 

$5,704,963. The fiscal year 2021 

national tonnage fee, prior to the 

operating reserve review, is calculated 

to be at $0.047 per metric ton. 

Local tonnage fee. The local tonnage 

fee is the field office administrative 

costs for the previous fiscal year divided 

by the average yearly tons of outbound 

grain officially inspected and/or 

weighed by the field office during the 

previous 5 fiscal years. 

The field office fiscal year tons for the 

previous 5 fiscal years and calculated 5- 

year rolling averages are as follows: 

Field office FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 

5-Year 

rolling 

average 

New Orleans ............................................ 66,077,535 70,439,862 66,996,126 57,807,378 59,768,303 64,217,841 

League City .............................................. 12,581,236 13,307,780 8,424,216 7,939,994 9,318,595 10,314,364 


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Field office FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 

5-Year 

rolling 

average 

Portland .................................................... 4,645,754 5,175,459 4,643,241 2,530,648 3,331,672 4,065,355 

Toledo ...................................................... 2,030,506 2,229,920 1,802,762 1,597,584 948,840 1,721,922 

The local field office administrative 

costs for fiscal year 2020 and the fiscal 

year 2021 calculated local field office 

tonnage fees, prior to the operating 

reserve review, are as follows: 

Field office 

FY 2020 Local 

administrative 

costs 

Calculated FY 2021 

local tonnage fee 

New Orleans .......................................................................................................................................... $1,209,886 $0.019 

League City ............................................................................................................................................ 574,717 0.056 

Portland .................................................................................................................................................. 346,941 0.085 

Toledo .................................................................................................................................................... 238,162 0.138 

Operating reserve. In order to 

maintain an operating reserve not less 

than 3 and not more than 6 months, 

FGIS reviewed the value of the 

operating reserve at the end of FY2020 

to ensure that an operating reserve of 

41⁄2 months is maintained. 

The program operating reserve at the 

end of fiscal year 2020 was $10,007,544, 

with a monthly operating expense of 

$2,983,133. The target of 4.5 months of 

operating reserve is $13,424,097. 

Therefore, the operating reserve is less 

than 4.5 times the monthly operating 

expenses by $3,416,553. For each 

$1,000,000, rounded down, below the 

target level, all Schedule A fees must be 

increased by 2 percent. The operating 

reserve is $3.4 million below the target 

level, resulting in a calculated 5 percent 

increase, as required by 

§ 800.71(b)(2)(ii). Therefore, for 2021, 

FGIS is increasing all the 2020 Schedule 

A fees for service in Schedule A in 

paragraph (a)(1) by 5 percent. All 

Schedule A fees for service are rounded 

to the nearest $0.10, except for fees 

based on tonnage or hundredweight. 

The fee Schedule A has been published 

on the agency’s public website. 

(Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71–87k.) 

Bruce Summers, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00165 Filed 1–7–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2020–0112] 

Notice of Request for Revision to and 

Extension of Approval of an 

Information Collection; Approval of 

Laboratories for Conducting Aquatic 

Animal Tests for Export Health 

Certificates 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request a revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection 

associated with its efforts to certify 

certain laboratories that conduct aquatic 

animal testing for export activities. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before March 9, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2020-0112. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2020–0112, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2020-0112 or in our 

reading room, which is located in room 

1620 of the USDA South Building, 14th 

Street and Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC. Normal reading room 

hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. To be 

sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 799–7039 before 

coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on conducting aquatic 

animal tests for export health 

certificates, contact Ms. Janet Warg, 

Microbiologist, Diagnostic Virology 

Laboratory, National Veterinary Services 

Laboratories, 1920 Dayton Avenue, P.O. 

Box 844, Ames, IA 50010; (515) 337– 

7551. For more information on the 

information collection process, contact 

Mr. Joseph Moxey, APHIS’ Information 

Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– 

2483. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Approval of Laboratories for 

Conducting Aquatic Animal Tests for 

Export Health Certificates. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0429. 

Type of Request: Revision to and 

extension of approval of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Animal Health 

Protection Act (AHPA, 7 U.S.C. 8301 et 

seq.) is the primary Federal law 

governing the protection of animal 

health. The AHPA gives the Secretary of 

Agriculture broad authority to detect, 

control, or eradicate pests or diseases of 

livestock or poultry. The Secretary may 

also prohibit or restrict import or export 

of any animal or related material if 

necessary to prevent the spread of any 

livestock or poultry pest or disease. 

Disease prevention is the most 

effective method for maintaining a 

healthy animal population and 

enhancing the ability of U.S. producers 

to compete in the global market of 


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