Federal Register: September 28, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 186)
DOCID: fr28se09-33 FR Doc E9-23320
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Docket ID: [Docket No. APHIS-2009-0054]
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr28se09-33
ACTION: Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Fiscal Year 2010 Veterinary Import/Export User Fees and Veterinary Diagnostic Services User Fees
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
This notice pertains to user fees charged for import- and exportrelated services that we provide for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors and for certain veterinary diagnostic services. The purpose of this notice is to remind the public of the user fees for fiscal year 2010 (October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2010).
SUMMARY:
Fiscal Year 2010 Veterinary Import/Export User Fees and Veterinary Diagnostic Services User Fees
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Background
Veterinary Import/Export User Fees
The regulations in 9 CFR part 130 (referred to below as the regulations) list user fees for import and exportrelated services provided by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors.
These user fees are authorized by section 2509(c)(1) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may establish and collect fees that will cover the cost of providing import and exportrelated services for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors.
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on March 30, 2009 (74 FR 1399914006, Docket No. APHIS20060144), and effective April 29, 2009, we established, for fiscal years 2009 through 2013, user fees for those services.
The veterinary import/export user fees are found in Sec. Sec.
130.2 through 130.11 and Sec. Sec. 130.20 through 130.30 of the regulations and cover the following:
On October 1, 2009, the veterinary import/export user fees for fiscal year 2010 will take effect. You may view the regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which includes charts showing all the fiscal year 2010 veterinary import/export user fees, on the Internet at Regulation.gov, at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS20090054.
Veterinary Diagnostic Services User Fees
User fees to reimburse APHIS for the costs of providing veterinary diagnostic services are also contained in 9 CFR part 130. These user fees are authorized by section 2509(c) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may, among other things, prescribe regulations and collect fees to recover the costs of veterinary diagnostics relating to the control and eradication of communicable diseases of livestock and poultry within the United States.
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on December 19, 2007 (72 FR 7174471750, Docket No. APHIS20060161), and effective January 18, 2008, we established, for fiscal years 2008 through 2012 and beyond, user fees for certain veterinary diagnostic services, including certain diagnostic tests, reagents, and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services. Veterinary diagnostics is the work performed in a laboratory to determine whether a diseasecausing organism or chemical agent is present in body tissues or cells and, if so, to identify those organisms or agents. Services in this category include: (1) Performing identification, serology, and pathobiology tests and providing diagnostic reagents and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services for the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA; and (2) performing laboratory tests and providing reagents and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services at the NVSL Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NVSL FADDL) in Greenport, NY.
The veterinary diagnostic services user fees are found in Sec. Sec. 130.12 through 130.19 and cover the following:
On October 1, 2009, the veterinary diagnostic services user fees for fiscal year 2010 will take effect. You may view the regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which includes charts showing all the fiscal year 2010 veterinary import/export user fees, on the Internet at Regulation.gov, at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS20090054.
Done in Washington, DC, this 23rd day of September 2009. Karen Grillo,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. E923320 Filed 92509; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
For information on Veterinary Services import and export program operations, contact Dr. Freeda Isaac, Director, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 39, Riverdale, MD 207371231; (301) 7348364.
For information on Veterinary Diagnostic program operations, contact Dr. Elizabeth Lautner, Director, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, VS, APHIS, 1800 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA 50010; (515) 663 7301.
For information concerning user fee rate development, contact Mrs. Kris Caraher, Section Head, User Fees Section, Financial Services Branch, FMD, MRPBS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 54, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 7345901.