28650 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 119 / Wednesday, June 20, 2018 / Notices 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Fees for Sanitation Inspection of 

Cruise Ships 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: General notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), located 

within the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) announces fees 

for vessel sanitation inspections for 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. These 

inspections are conducted by HHS/ 

CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP). 

VSP helps the cruise line industry fulfill 

its responsibility for developing and 

implementing comprehensive sanitation 

programs to minimize the risk for acute 

gastroenteritis. Every vessel that has a 

foreign itinerary and carries 13 or more 

passengers is subject to twice-yearly 

unannounced inspections and, when 

necessary, reinspection. 

DATES: These fees are effective October 

1, 2018, through September 30, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CDR 

Aimee Treffiletti, Chief, Vessel 

Sanitation Program, National Center for 

Environmental Health, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 

Buford Highway NE, MS F–59, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30341–3717; phone: 800–323– 

2132, 770–488–7070, or 954–356–6650; 

email: vsp@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Background 

HHS/CDC established the Vessel 

Sanitation Program (VSP) in the 1970s 

as a cooperative activity with the cruise 

ship industry. VSP helps the cruise ship 

industry prevent and control the 

introduction, transmission, and spread 

of gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise 

ships. VSP operates under the authority 

of the Public Health Service Act 

(Section 361 of the Public Health 

Service Act; 42 U.S.C. 264, ‘‘Control of 

Communicable Diseases’’). Regulations 

found at 42 CFR 71.41 (Foreign 

Quarantine—Requirements Upon 

Arrival at U.S. Ports: Sanitary 

Inspection; General Provisions) state 

that carriers arriving at U.S. ports from 

foreign areas are subject to sanitary 

inspections to determine whether 

rodent, insect, or other vermin 

infestations exist, contaminated food or 

water, or other sanitary conditions 

requiring measures for the prevention of 

the introduction, transmission, or 

spread of communicable diseases are 

present. 

The fee schedule for sanitation 

inspections of passenger cruise ships by 

VSP was first published in the Federal 

Register on November 24, 1987 (52 FR 

45019). HHS/CDC began collecting fees 

on March 1, 1988. This notice 

announces fees that are effective for FY 

2019, beginning on October 1, 2018, 

through September 30, 2019. 

The following formula will be used to 

determine the fees: 

Total cost of VSP = Total cost of 

operating the program, such as 

administration, travel, staffing, 

sanitation inspections, and outbreak 

response. Weighted number of annual 

inspections = Total number of ships and 

inspections per year accounting for 

vessel size, number of inspectors 

needed for vessel size, travel logistics to 

conduct inspections, and vessel location 

and arrivals in U.S. jurisdiction per 

year. 

The fee schedule was originally 

established and published in the 

Federal Register on July 17, 1987 (52 FR 

27060). It was most recently published 

in the Federal Register on July 17, 2017 

(82 FR 32707). The fee schedule for FY 

2019 is presented in Appendix A. 

Fee 

The fee schedule (Appendix A) will 

be effective October 1, 2018, through 

September 30, 2019. 

Applicability 

The fees will apply to all passenger 

cruise vessels for which inspections are 

conducted as part of HHS/CDC’s VSP. 

Inspections and reinspections involve 

the same procedures, require the same 

amount of time, and are therefore 

charged at the same rates. 

Dated: June 14, 2018. 

Sandra Cashman, 

Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

Appendix A 

FEE SCHEDULE FOR EACH VESSEL SIZE

Vessel size (GRT1) Inspection fee 

(U.S.) 

Extra Small (<3,000 GRT) ................................................................................................................................................................... $1,495 

Small (3,001–15,000 GRT) .................................................................................................................................................................. 2,990 

Medium (15,001–30,000 GRT) ............................................................................................................................................................ 5,980 

Large (30,001–60,000 GRT) ............................................................................................................................................................... 8,970 

Extra Large (60,001–120,000 GRT) .................................................................................................................................................... 11,960 

Mega (>120,001 GRT) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 17,940 

1Gross register tonnage in cubic feet, as shown in Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. 

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