Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/06/11/02-14477/update-of-existing-and-addition-of-new-filing-and-service-fees
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A Rule by the Federal Maritime Commission on 06/11/2002
Effective on July 15, 2002.
39858-39862 (5 pages)
02-14477
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/02-14477 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/02-14477
The Federal Maritime Commission (“Commission”) is revising its existing fees for filing petitions and complaints; various public information services, such as record searches, document copying, and admissions to practice; filing ocean transportation intermediary applications; applications for special permission; service contracts; agreements; and passenger vessel performance and casualty certificate applications. These revised fees reflect current costs to the Commission. In addition, the Commission is adding a new fee for the provision of a database report on effective carrier agreements, is making nomenclature changes in certain CFR units with respect to Commission bureau designations, and is making section reference changes in certain CFR units to reflect numbering changes made in a previous rulemaking. The Commission also is republishing a fee requirement that was previously inadvertently omitted.
Bryant L. VanBrakle, Secretary, Federal Maritime Commission, 800 North Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC 20573-0001, (202) 523-5725. E-mail: secretary@fmc.gov.
On March 21, 2002, the Commission published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”), 67 FR 13118, in Docket No. 02-05, Update of Existing and Addition of New Filing and Service Fees. No comments were received.
This rule updates the Commission's current filing and service fees which have been in effect since 1998, and are no longer representative of the Commission's actual costs for providing such services. Fee increases primarily reflect increases in salary and indirect (overhead) costs. For some services, the increase in processing or review time accounts in part for the increase in the level of fees. For other services, fees are lower due to overall reduced costs to provide those services.
The Commission is instituting a new user fee for provision of a database report on effective carrier agreements. Also, in promulgating new rules governing the filing of service contracts to implement the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-158, 112 Stat. 1902, in Docket No. 99-12, Termination of Dial-Up Service Contract Filing System, 64 FR 41041 (July 29, 1999), we inadvertently failed to carry over § 514.7 into part 530. That section was a permission process to correct clerical or administrative errors in the essential terms of a filed service contract, and included an attendant user fee. We are therefore republishing it.
This regulatory action was not subject to OMB review under Executive Order 12866, dated September 30, 1993. In accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission has certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration, that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. In its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission stated its intention to certify the rule because the impact on Start Printed Page 39859small business was expected to be de minimis, the agency is required to collect fees to recover its cost for providing certain services, and a waiver of fees is available for hardship cases (46 CFR 503.41). No comments disputed the Commission's intention to certify. The certification is, therefore, continued.
This Rule also makes nomenclature changes in certain CFR units to reflect a change in a relevant Commission bureau name since these CFR units were last revised. In the Proposed Rule, some nomenclature changes incorrectly referred to the Bureau of Consumer Complaints and Licensing when they should have referred to the Bureau of Trade Analysis, and we are making that correction in this Rule. Additionally, this Rule makes section reference changes in certain CFR units to reflect numbering changes made in a previous rulemaking.
This regulatory action is not a “major rule” under 5 U.S.C. 804(2). This rule does not contain any collection of information requirements as defined by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, as amended. Therefore, OMB review is not required.
(1) * * * Start Printed Page 39860
§ 515.12, 515.18, 515.22, 515.25, Appendix A to Subpart C, Appendix B to Subpart C, Appendix D to Subpart C (Amended)
(1) * * * Every such application shall be submitted to the Bureau of Trade Analysis and be accompanied by a filing fee of $172.
§§ 520.2, 520.3, 520.7
18. In addition to the amendments set forth above, in 46 CFR part 520 remove the words “Bureau of Tariffs, Certification and Licensing” and add, in their place, the words “Bureau of Trade Analysis” and remove the acronym “BTCL” and add, in its place, the acronym “BTA” in the following places:
(c) * * * Requests shall be filed, in duplicate, with the Commission's Office of the Secretary within forty-five (45) days of the contract's filing with the Commission, accompanied by remittance of a $276 service fee, and shall include:
(f) Fees. The filing fee is $1,834 for new class A/B agreements requiring Commission review and action; $931 for class A/B agreement modifications requiring Commission review and action; $442 for agreements processed under delegated authority (for types of agreements that can be processed under delegated authority, see § 501.26(e) of this chapter); and $145 for carrier and terminal exempt agreements.Start Printed Page 39861
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 553; sec. 19(a)(2), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, 46 U.S.C. app. 876(a)(2), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l), as amended by Pub. L. 105-258; Reorganization Plan No. 7 of 1961, 75 Stat. 840; and sec. 10002 of the Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988, 46 U.S.C. app. 1710a.
(9) A recommended action, including any of those enumerated in § 555.8, the result of which will, in the view of the Start Printed Page 39862petitioner, address the conditions complained of.
§§ 555.5, 555.8
(a) Section 555.5 (b);
(b) Section 555.8 (a); and
(c) Section 555.8 (a) (7).
[FR Doc. 02-14477 Filed 6-10-02; 8:45 am]