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Effective Date: January 1, 2024

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NDGI | Illinois Division

1672 Sauget Industrial Parkway E-mail: IOGI@graininspection.com

Sauget, Illinois 62206 Phone: (800) 548-5575

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT (AMA) FEE SCHEDULE

This fee schedule supersedes all other fee schedules issued by this office. Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) must 

approve all fees for official services and Official Agencies will assess only those fees appearing on their current approved fee 

schedule. 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.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Effective Date: January 1, 2024

Regular Hours: 7:00 am – 3:00 pm, Monday through Friday, excluding Holidays

Time can be prorated when applicable, but it is not to exceed 8 hours per day.

All requests for service will be honored on a first call first service basis.

Regular Hourly rate: Technician and/or Sampler: $34.50 per hour

Hourly Rate when a unit fee is not applicable: $48.25

Used for additional labor that is not included in other hourly rates. This may include, but not 

limited to, extra data entry work, additional labor beyond sampling on-site, etc.

Checktesting/Approval of Equipment/Samplers $65.00 per hour

Rates assessed in 1⁄4-hour increments.

Overtime Hourly rate: 1 1⁄2-time regular hourly rate applies to all hours outside the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 

p.m., Monday through Friday and Saturday. Sunday and Holidays will be charged at 

double time. (4 hour minimum applies)

Holidays: New Year's Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor 

Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Holidays that fall on Saturday will be 

observed on the preceding Friday. Those that fall on Sunday will be observed on the 

following Monday. 

Finance Charges: 1 1⁄2% per month after 30 days from Statement Date. Direct pass-through of credit card 

charge from credit card processor, if credit card is used.

Stand-by Rate: Any stand-by time in excess of one hour will have an additional $8.00 per hour added 

to the appropriate hourly rate. 

Minimum Hourly Call-out Rates: Minimum 4 hours per person at the applicable hourly rate will apply Monday through 

Sunday. This includes office work outside of normal 

business hours and holding employees for service. 

Travel time is included in minimum hour total. 

Mileage Fees: Mileage will be assessed at the rate of less than 

or equal to the IRS standard mileage rate and 

will be prorated when possible. Mileage will be 

charged on all trips. 

Travel Time: Will be charged at the applicable hourly 

rate and prorated when possible.

Hourly and mileage fees will be in addition to the unit fee unless stated otherwise.

NDGI reserves the right to determine the number of personnel required to properly 

provide the service requested.
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OFFICIAL SERVICES

All official services included the applicable certificates per FGIS guidelines and instructions. 

Unit Rates

The unit rates below are in addition to hour and mileage rates. 

Minimum unit fee: Container, Rail & Truck sampling requests must average a minimum of 2 units per hour otherwise an 

additional $10.65 will be applied per hour. Time for averaging will be calculated from NDGI office until returning to NDGI 

office. 

Processed Commodity Railcar/Container Rate: (Includes sampling and grading/inspection) $20.75

Processed Commodity Truck Rate: (Includes sampling and grading/inspection) $16.00

Processed Commodity Weighing: $6.25

Stowage Exam Certification: $5.75

Witness Fumigation $5.00

Stowage Exam Only $11.50

Stowage Exam Only - Barge: $42.50 

Sampling Only – Barge $145.00

Sampling Only – All other carriers $13.00

Additional Testing Services

Aflatoxin: $35.25 per test

Vomitoxin: $35.25 per test

Other Mycotoxin Tests, not listed above: $42.00 per test

Falling Number: $30.00 per test

Composite Sample Prep: $7.25

Administrative Rates

Duplicate/Corrected certificate: $3.65

Special Handling: $7.50

Shipping Samples per Applicant Request. Special Handling in addition to actual freight charges.

Documentation: $8.30

Fax: $1.00

921-2 Required Statements: $2.00

Sealing

Plastic Seals (In addition to hour and mileage rates) $2.45 per seal

Cable Seals (In addition to Additional Hourly Rate and mileage rates) $3.20 per seal

- A picture of every Railcar ID and each seal is taken and stored at NDGI for 30 days.

- An extra person will be sent out solely to take pictures and charged at the Additional Labor Rate. 

Certification (applicants request seal numbers recorded on certificate, per certificate) $2.50

NDGI is not responsible for the seals after the carrier leaves the applicant’s property. It is the applicant’s responsibility to 

confirm all seals have been applied by NDGI to their satisfaction.

Pulse & Edible Beans Commodity Inspection Services

NDGI Illinois Offices do not currently grade pulses and edible beans. NDGI Fargo, ND does perform grading for these 

services. Fees are located at www.GrainInspection.com/Fees under North Dakota. Any service listed would also include 

shipment fees to the NDGI Fargo, ND office.

Miscellaneous

Services not listed by this fee schedule will be charged a minimum of 1 hour at

the applicable hourly rate.

All services during regular hours must be canceled a minimum of 6 hours prior to the 

scheduled start otherwise the applicable minimum charge will apply.

ANY cancellations for services during non-regular hours will have the applicable 

minimum charge applied.

Document search or data entry taking over 15 minutes will be charged an additional 

hourly rate in 1/4 increments. (Does not include grade certificate entry.)

Customer is responsible for any on-site requirements needed to provide services.