Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 226 / Friday, November 22, 2024 / Notices 92697 

with the provisions set forth in section 

552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., as amended for 

the review, discussion, and evaluation 

of individual intramural programs and 

projects conducted by the National 

Institute Of Allergy And Infectious 

Diseases, including consideration of 

personnel qualifications and 

performance, and the competence of 

individual investigators, the disclosure 

of which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. 

Name of Committee: Vaccine Research 

Center Board of Scientific Counselors, NIAID. 

Date: December 10, 2024. 

Closed: 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate personnel 

qualifications and performance, and 

competence of individual investigators. 

Address: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, Convent Drive, Room 1100, Bethesda, 

MD 20892 (Video Assisted Meeting). 

Open: 11:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

Agenda: Concept review. 

Address: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, Convent Drive, Room 1100, Bethesda, 

MD 20892 (Video Assisted Meeting). 

Closed: 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate personnel 

qualifications and performance, and 

competence of individual investigators. 

Address: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, Convent Drive, Room 1100, Bethesda, 

MD 20892 (Video Assisted Meeting). 

Contact Person: Sarah J. Austin, Vaccine 

Research Center, National Institute of Allergy 

and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, 40 Convent Drive, Room 1100, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 761–7187, 

austinsj@niaid.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology, 

and Transplantation Research; 93.856, 

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: November 19, 2024. 

Lauren A. Fleck, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Customs Broker Permit User Fee 

Payment for 2025 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: General notice. 

SUMMARY: This document provides 

notice to customs brokers that the 

annual user fee that is assessed for each 

permit held by a customs broker, 

whether an individual, partnership, 

association, or corporation, is due no 

later than January 31, 2025. Pursuant to 

fee adjustments required by the Fixing 

America’s Surface Transportation Act 

(FAST Act) and the U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) regulations, the 

customs broker permit user fee payable 

for calendar year 2025 will be $180.57. 

DATES: Payment of the 2025 Customs 

Broker Permit User Fee is due no later 

than January 31, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mohammad O. Qureshi, Chief, Broker 

Management Branch, Office of Trade, 

(202) 909–3753, or 

mohammad.o.qureshi@cbp.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Pursuant to section 111.96 of title 19 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

(19 CFR 111.96(c)), U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) assesses an 

annual user fee for each customs broker 

permit granted to an individual, 

partnership, association, or corporation. 

The CBP regulations provide that this 

fee is payable each calendar year for a 

national permit held by a customs 

broker and must be paid by the due date 

published annually in the Federal 

Register. See 19 CFR 24.22(h) and (i); 19 

CFR 111.96(c). 

Section 24.22 of title 19 of the CFR 

(19 CFR 24.22) sets forth the terms and 

conditions for when fees for certain 

services, including specific customs 

user fees, are required. The specific 

customs user fee amounts that appear in 

19 CFR 24.22 are not the actual fees but 

represent the base year amounts that are 

subject to adjustment each fiscal year in 

accordance with the Fixing America’s 

Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) 

(Pub. L. 114–94, December 4, 2015). 

Section 32201 of the FAST Act 

amended section 13031 of the 

Consolidated Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 (19 

U.S.C. 58c) by requiring the Secretary of 

the Treasury to adjust certain customs 

COBRA user fees and corresponding 

limitations to reflect certain increases in 

inflation. Paragraph (k) of section 24.22 

of title 19 of the CFR (19 CFR 24.22(k)) 

sets forth the methodology to adjust fees 

for inflation and to determine the 

change in inflation, including the factor 

by which the fees and limitations will 

be adjusted, if necessary. 

Customs brokers are subject to an 

annual customs broker permit user fee 

calculated using the base year amount 

in appendix A to 19 CFR part 24, as 

adjusted by the terms in 19 CFR 

24.22(k). See 19 U.S.C. 58c(a)(7) and 19 

CFR 24.22(h). In accordance with 19 

CFR 24.22, CBP determines annually 

whether an adjustment to the fees and 

limitations is necessary and publishes a 

Federal Register notice specifying the 

amount of the fees and limitations for 

each fiscal year. On July 22, 2024, CBP 

published a Federal Register notice, 

entitled Customs User Fees To Be 

Adjusted for Inflation in Fiscal Year 

2025 (CBP Decision 24–11), which 

announced, among other fee 

adjustments, that the annual customs 

broker permit user fee will increase to 

$180.57 for calendar year 2025. See 89 

FR 59126. 

Thus, as required by 19 CFR 24.22, 

CBP provided notice in the Federal 

Register of the annual fee amount at 

least 60 days prior to the date that the 

payment is due for each customs broker 

national permit. This document notifies 

customs brokers that, for calendar year 

2025, the due date for payment of the 

annual customs broker permit user fee 

is January 31, 2025. If a customs broker 

fails to pay the annual customs broker 

permit user fee by January 31, 2025, the 

national permit is revoked by operation 

of law. See 19 CFR 111.45(b) and 

111.96(c). 

Customs brokers may either submit 

the fee through the eCBP portal or 

submit the fee at the processing Center, 

as defined in 19 CFR 111.1, in 

accordance with the remittance 

procedures in 19 CFR 24.22(i). CBP 

encourages customs brokers to pay the 

annual customs broker permit user fee 

electronically via the eCBP portal, 

located at https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/brokers/ 

#/home. Customs brokers who are first 

time users of the eCBP portal must 

create a Login.gov account. Instructions 

and training resources, such as user and 

quick reference guides, for customs 

brokers on how to create a Login.gov 

account and how to use the eCBP portal 

can be found on CBP’s website at 

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/eCBP. 

Rose M. Brophy, 

Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner, 

Office of Trade. 

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