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2 45 CFR 1168.400(a), (b), (e). 

3 45 CFR 1174.3(a), (b). 

4 85 FR 22025. 

5 86 FR 44626. 

6 88 FR 18998. 

7 45 CFR 1168.400(g), (h), 1174.3(f), (g). 

8Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 

Memorandum M–25–02 (December 17, 2024). 

9 Id. 

civil monetary penalty provided by law 

within the jurisdiction of the agency, 

and to publish notice of each such 

adjustment in the Federal Register. An 

agency adjusts a civil monetary penalty 

by increasing the maximum amount of 

such penalty (or the range of minimum 

and maximum amounts, as applicable) 

by the percentage by which the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers (CPI–U) for the month of 

October preceding the date of 

adjustment (in this case, October 2024) 

exceeds the CPI–U for the October one 

year prior to the October immediately 

preceding the date of the adjustment (in 

this case, October 2023), then rounding 

each amount to the nearest dollar. 

NEH administers two civil monetary 

penalties subject to adjustment pursuant 

to the Inflation Adjustment Act: A civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

for violation of its New Restrictions on 

Lobbying regulation (the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty) 2 and a civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

under its Program Fraud Civil Remedies 

Act Regulations (the PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty).3 NEH made the 

initial ‘‘catch-up’’ adjustments to the 

Lobbying Civil Monetary Penalty for 

years 2016–2020 when it amended its 

New Restrictions on Lobbying 

regulation on April 21, 2020,4 and to the 

PFCRA Civil Monetary Penalty for years 

2016–2021 when it adopted its Program 

Fraud Civil Monetary Penalties Act 

regulations on August 13, 2021.5 NEH 

then adjusted the amount of those civil 

monetary penalties accordingly when it 

codified the statutory formula for 

inflation adjustments in NEH’s New 

Restrictions on Lobbying and Program 

Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations on 

March 30, 2023.6 Each regulation 

provides for subsequent annual 

adjustment of its respective civil 

monetary penalty by notice in the 

Federal Register.7

2. 2025 Adjustments for Inflation 

OMB has issued guidance on 

implementing and calculating the 2025 

adjustment under the Inflation 

Adjustment Act.8 Per this guidance, the 

CPI–U adjustment multiplier for this 

annual adjustment is 1.02598.9 The 

post-adjustment penalty or range is 

obtained by multiplying the preadjustment penalty or range by the 

percent change in the CPI–U over the 

relevant time period and rounding to 

the nearest dollar. Between October 

2023 and October 2024, the CPI–U 

increased by a multiplier of 102.598% 

Therefore, NEH will adjust each civil 

monetary penalty amount by 

multiplying it by 1.02598 and rounding 

to the nearest dollar. 

A. 2025 Adjustment to Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2024, the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty had a minimum 

amount of $24,496 and a maximum 

amount of $244,958. Therefore, the 

adjusted minimum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2025 is $25,132 

($24,496 multiplied by 1.02598) and the 

adjusted maximum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2025 is $251,322 

($244,958 multiplied by 1.02598). 

Thus, the Lobbying Civil Monetary 

Penalty, following the 2025 adjustment, 

has a minimum amount of $25,132 and 

a maximum amount of $251,322. 

B. 2025 Adjustment to PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2024, the PFCRA Civil Monetary 

Penalty had a maximum amount of 

$13,946. Therefore, the new, postadjustment maximum penalty for 2025 

under NEH’s PFCRA regulation is 

$14,308 ($13,946 multiplied by 

1.02598). 

Dated: December 20, 2024. 

Jessica Graves, 

Paralegal Specialist, National Endowment for 

the Humanities. 

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SUMMARY: The National Science 

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