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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 87, No. 5 

Friday, January 7, 2022 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. AMS–FGIS–21–0092] 

RIN 0581–AD94 

2022 Rates for Grain Inspection 

Services Under the United States Grain 

Standards Act 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is announcing the 2022 

rate it will charge for official inspection 

and weighing services, supervision of 

official inspection and weighing 

services, and miscellaneous fees for 

other services performed under the 

United States Grain Standards Act, as 

amended. This action publishes the 

annual review of fees and the resulting 

fees. 

DATES: Applicable February 1, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Prospective customers can 

find the fee scheduled posted on the 

Agency’s public website: https://

www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/fgisprogram-directives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise Ruggles, FGIS Executive Program 

Analyst, USDA AMS; Telephone: 816– 

702–3897; Email: Denise.M.Ruggles@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Grain Standards Act 

(USGSA) provides the Secretary of 

Agriculture with the authority to charge 

and collect reasonable fees to cover the 

costs of performing official services and 

costs associated with managing the 

program. The regulations require that 

Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) 

annually review the national and local 

tonnage fees, supervision fee, and fees 

for service (7 CFR 800.71). 

7 CFR 800.71(a)(1) Schedule A 

Calculations 

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 (FY2021 in 

this case) to ensure that it has 41⁄2

months of operating expenses as 

required by section 800.71(b)(3) 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)(3)(i)–(ii)). 

Tonnage fees for the 5-year rolling 

average tonnage were calculated on the 

previous 5 fiscal years (2017, 2018, 

2019, 2020, and 2021). 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 

following: 

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. 

The fiscal year 2022 national tonnage 

fee, prior to the operating reserve 

review, is $0.054 per metric ton. The 

calculation of this fee rate is based on 

FY2021 national administrative costs of 

$6,687,477, divided by 5-year rolling 

tonnage average of 123,853,477. 

Fiscal year Metric tons 

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

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

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

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

2021 ...................................... 136,574,792 

5-Year Rolling Average ........ 123,853,477 

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 FGIS field offices during the 

previous 5 fiscal years. 

Field office FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 

5-Year

rolling

average

New Orleans ............................................ 70,439,862 66,996,126 57,807,378 59,768,303 72,482,289 65,498,792 

League City .............................................. 13,307,780 8,424,216 7,939,994 9,318,595 12,877,525 10,373,622

Portland .................................................... 5,175,459 4,643,241 2,530,648 3,331,672 4,136,482 3,963,500

Toledo ...................................................... 2,229,920 1,802,762 1,597,584 948,840 1,154,856 1,546,792

The local field office administrative 

costs for fiscal year 2021 and the fiscal 

year 2022 calculated local field office 

tonnage fee, prior to the operating 

reserve review, are as follows: 

Field office 

FY 2021 local 

administrative 

costs 

Calculated 

FY 2022 local 

tonnage fee 

New Orleans ................................................................................................................................................ $1,268,285 $0.019


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Field office 

FY 2021 local 

administrative 

costs 

Calculated 

FY 2022 local 

tonnage fee 

League City .................................................................................................................................................. 444,041 0.043 

Portland ........................................................................................................................................................ 531,013 0.134 

Toledo .......................................................................................................................................................... 182,736 0.118 

Operating reserve. In order to 

maintain an operating reserve that is not 

less than 3 and not more than 6 months 

of operating expenses, FGIS reviewed 

the value of the operating reserve at the 

end of FY 2021 to ensure that an 

operating reserve equivalent to 41⁄2

months of operating expenses is 

maintained. 

The program operating reserve at the 

end of fiscal year 2021 was $7,073,637 

with a monthly operating expense of 

$3,151,244. The target of 4.5 months of 

operating reserve is $14,180,599. 

Therefore, the operating reserve is less 

than 4.5 times the monthly operating 

expenses by $7,073,637. For each 

$1,000,000, rounded down, above the 

target level, all Schedule A fees must be 

increased by 2 percent. The operating 

reserve is $7.1 million below the target 

level, implying a 14 percent increase in 

fees is required. However, section 

800.71(b)(3)(ii) limits annual fee 

changes to 5 percent. Therefore, for 

2022, FGIS is increasing all the 2021 

Schedule A fees for service in Schedule 

A in paragraph (a)(1) by 5 percent, 

including calculated fiscal year 2022 

national and local tonnage fees. 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 will be published 

on the agency’s public website after 

Federal Register publication. 

7 CFR 800.71(a)(2) Schedule B 

Calculations 

FGIS calculates the supervision 

tonnage fee using the prior year’s actual 

costs and the 5-year average tonnage of 

domestic U.S. grain shipments 

inspected, weighed, or both, including 

land carrier shipments to Canada and 

Mexico. 

Operating reserve adjustment. 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 FY 2021 

to ensure that an operating reserve of 6 

months is maintained. 

The operating reserve adjustment is 

the difference between FY 2021 ending 

reserves and the operating reserve 

threshold, which is equivalent to 6 

months of supervisory costs. FY 2021 

supervision costs were $1,369,123. The 

operating reserve threshold for FY 2022 

is calculated by dividing FY 2021 

supervision costs by 2 ($1,369,123/2 = 

$684,562). FY 2021 operating reserve 

ending balance ($2,042,268) exceeds the 

operating reserve threshold ($684,562) 

by $1,357,707. Therefore, the operating 

reserve adjustment for calendar year 

2022 is ¥$1,357,707. 

Supervision tonnage fee. FGIS adds 

the total prior year supervision costs 

and the operating reserve adjustment, 

then divide the result by the previous 5- 

year average tonnage. If the calculated 

fee is zero or a negative value, FGIS will 

suspend collection of supervision 

tonnage fees for the next calendar year. 

The supervision tonnage fee for 

calendar year 2022 is $0.000 per ton. 

The calculation, based on FY 2021 

supervision costs of $1,369,123, is 

$1,369,123 plus the operating reserve 

adjustment of ¥$1,357,707, which 

equals $11,416, divided by 5-year 

average tonnage of 231,147,201, which 

equals $0.000 per ton. 

Fiscal year Metric tons 

2017 ...................................... 244,355,906 

2018 ...................................... 234,298,085 

2019 ...................................... 206,693,881 

2020 ...................................... 237,649,430 

2021 ...................................... 232,738,700 

5-Year Rolling Average ........ 231,147,201 

Therefore, for 2022, FGIS will 

suspend the assessment of the 

supervision tonnage fee on domestic 

shipments officially inspected and/or 

weighed, including land carrier 

shipments to Canada and Mexico, 

performed by delegated States and/or 

designated agencies on or after January 

1, 2022. The fee Schedule B will be 

published on the agency’s public 

website after Federal Register 

publication. 

7 CFR 800.71(d) Miscellaneous Fees for 

Other Services Calculations 

Registration certificates and renewals. 

FGIS calculates the application fee by 

multiply the Schedule A non-contract 

hourly rate (Table 1 in § 800.71(a)) by a 

quantity of five. The resulting fee is 

expected to cover FGIS personnel costs 

to review applications, fee publication 

expenses, and administrative expenses. 

The Schedule A non-contract hourly 

rate is $66.20. Thus, the application fee 

for 2022 will be $66.20 times 5, or $331. 

The fee will be published on the 

agency’s public website after Federal 

Register publication. 

Designation amendments. FGIS 

calculates the rate using the Federal 

Register publication rate for three 

columns, plus one hour of noncontract 

hourly rate from § 800.71(a) Table 1 of 

Schedule A. The fee covers FGIS 

personnel costs, administrative 

expenses, and Federal Register 

publication costs. The Federal Register 

publication rate $151 per column and 

the Schedule A non-contract hourly rate 

is $66.20. FGIS calculates the fee will be 

$519.20 for calendar year 2022. The fee 

will be published on the agency’s public 

website after Federal Register 

publication. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71–87k. 

Erin Morris, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00026 Filed 1–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

[Docket No. USDA–2022–0001] 

Privacy Act of 1974; New System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of 

Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of a new system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 

1974 and Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Circular No. A–108, 

notice is hereby given that the Office of 

the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 

(OASCR), a component within the 

United States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA or ‘‘the Department’’), proposes 

to develop a new system of records 

notice titled, ‘‘USDA Reasonable 

Accommodations and Personal 

Assistance Services (RAPAS).’’ USDA/ 

RAPAS–01 proposes to establish this 

system of records to allow USDA and its 

mission areas and agencies to collect 

and maintain records on: Applicants for 

employment who have disabilities; 

individuals with disabilities to facilitate 

their participation in a USDA program 

or activity, including attendance at a 

meeting, training, conference or other 


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