Fremont Grain Inspection Dept., Inc.

603 East Dodge Street – Fremont, NE 68025

Phone: 402-721-1270 

Owner: Mike Totten / Chief Inspector: Mike Totten

 AMA FEE SCHEDULE

Effective Date: January 1st, 2024 

*Sample Lot Inspection Fees: 

Container................................... $17.78

Phytosanitary Log........................$20.00

Combined Lot Certificate............$20.00 

Commodity Cooperative Service Agreement Fees. In addition to all other applicable fees, 

commodity cooperative service agreement fees for commodity inspection services (pulses, hops, and 

miscellaneous processed commodities), excluding rice, will be assessed at the current percentage rate 

identified in FGIS Directive 9180.74 (Service Fees and Billing Codes, Attachment 4.) The assessed fees 

must exclude travel, mailing expenses, and state and local taxes. Invoices will identify assessed 

commodity cooperative service agreement fees as separate line items. 

AMA Rice Cooperative Service Agreement Fees. In addition to all other applicable fees, AMA rice 

cooperative service agreement fees for rice inspection services will be assessed at the current percentage 

rate identified in FGIS Directive 9180.74 (Service Fees and Billing Codes, Attachment 3.) The assessed fees 

must exclude travel, mailing expenses, and state and local taxes. Invoices will identify assessed AMA rice 

cooperative service agreement fees as separate line items. 

 Hourly Charges will be assessed in addition to Sample Lot Inspection Fees. Fremont

Grain Inspection reserves the right to determine the number of inspection personnel to 

properly provide the service requested. A minimum of four hours will be charged if 

not directly preceding or following regular business hours. Overnight shifts will 

be charged a minimum of 8 hours per employee requested. All hourly fees 

will be assessed in half-hour increments, per individual necessary to 

perform the service. Standby and Travel time will be charged at the 

applicable hourly rate.

Regular Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am through 5:00 pm 

(except holidays). 
*Regular Hourly Rate: $37.00 (first 8 hours within regular business hours) 

*Overtime Hourly Rate: One and one-half times the regular hourly rate. Overtime will be 

charged outside the regular business hours on weekdays and Saturday.

*Sunday and Holiday Hourly Rate: Double the regular rate. Holidays include New Year’s Eve at 

noon, New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, 

Friday after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve at noon, Christmas Day. All days of a three-day 

weekend in conjunction with a holiday will be considered holiday overtime.

*Mileage Fees: The IRS standard mileage rate will be assessed per miles traveled to any 

requested destination outside the city limits of Fremont, NE by full time employees or outside 

the city limits of the residence of part time employees (not to exceed mileage from local 

specified service point). Mileage will be pro-rated where possible. 

Weekday on-call time: When an applicant requests personnel available after regular hours, but 

not on-site. Personnel are off site waiting to report to duty, a two hour minimum charge per 

employee will be assessed at the applicable hourly rate. 

Weekend /Holiday on call time: On-call charges are when an applicant wants inspection 

personnel to be available and waiting to report to duty during the weekend hours. The elevator 

must place us on call by noon Thursday. A weekend starting time must be established by no later 

than 4:00 pm Friday or the day before a Holiday. This is the time that our personnel will be 

required to be available to report to work and the clock starts for on call time, per hour/per 

employee until loading begins or is cancelled. The elevator must contact agency personnel to 

notify them of any changes to the start time. Cancellation or change of a start time will result in a 

four-hour minimum per person, charge assessed at the appropriate hourly rate. Agency personnel 

will not be required to be available until the established starting time. This will ensure our 

employees of some compensation for being on indefinite weekend call. 

Cancellation Charges: If a start time is established during non-regular hours and the applicant 

cancels prior to the start time, a four hour per person cancellation charge will be assessed. 

Finance Charge: 1 1⁄2% (1.5%) per month after 20 days from Statement Date. 

Personnel Safety: When a customer requests stowage or sampling service 

from on top of railcars, it is the customer responsibility to make the grain or 

stowage area accessible. Grain inspection employees do not open and close 

doors/lids. Also - two people must be present during testing, 2 of our 

employees or 1 of ours and 1 elevator staff. Personnel must be able to 

“render aid if needed”. 
Weather Policy: During inclement weather sampling and stowage examinations may be delayed 

or dismissed when the following conditions exist. High winds, rainfall that creates conditions 

that are either dangerous to employees and /or degrading to the grain being sampled, lightning, 

snow and/or ice, any other related and/or facility specific condition that could put employees 

providing the sampling or stowage services in jeopardy. Adequate lighting must be provided 

when services are requested after sunset.