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User Fees for Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection Services
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service published this final rule in the Federal Register on May 7, 2024. It took effect on October 1, 2024.
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What the agency says
We are amending the user fee regulations associated with the agricultural quarantine and inspection (AQI) program. Specifically, we are adjusting the fees for certain AQI services that are provided in connection with certain commercial vessels, commercial trucks, commercial railroad cars, commercial aircraft, and international passengers arriving at ports in the customs territory of the United States or precleared or preinspected at a site outside the customs territory of the United States; adjusting the caps on prepaid fees associated with commercial trucks and commercial railroad cars; and removing certain fee exemptions that are no longer justifiable based upon pathway analyses of risk. We are also revising requirements pertaining to remittances and statements. Specifically, we will require monthly rather than quarterly remittances for the commercial aircraft fee, international air passenger fee, and international cruise passenger fee, clarify our requirements, and provide for electronic payments and statements. We are also including in the regulations information on agents responsible for ensuring compliance with paying the user fees and the requirement for entities to notify the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the event they have a change in personnel responsible for fee payments. These changes are necessary to recover the costs of the current level of AQI activity, to account for actual and projected increases in the cost of doing business, to increase fee payer accountability, and to more accurately align fees with the costs associated with each fee service.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-09348
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Agriculture Department; Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Published
- May 7, 2024
- Takes effect
- October 1, 2024
- Dates
- This rule is effective October 1, 2024, except for the removal of section Sec. 354.3(e)(2)(iv), which is effective on April 1, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. APHIS-2022-0023
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0579-AE71
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 7 CFR 354
- Topics
- Exports; Government employees; Plant diseases and pests; Quarantine; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Travel and transportation expenses
- Pages
- 49
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