Fees for Services Performed in Connection With Motor Carrier Registration and Insurance

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

49 CFR Part 360

RIN 2125-AE24

Fees for Services Performed in Connection With Motor Carrier

Registration and Insurance

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This document adopts filing fees and fee collection

regulations for the motor carrier registration and insurance functions

transferred to the FHWA as a result of the enactment of the ICC

Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA). The effect of this rule is to make

these fees and regulations applicable to registration and insurance

filings made with the FHWA.

DATES: This rule is effective March 15, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Thomas T. Vining, Licensing and

Insurance Division, Office of Motor Carrier Information Analysis, HIA-

30, (202) 358-7028; or Mr. Michael Falk, Office of the Chief Counsel,

(202) 366-0834, Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington, D.C. 20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15

p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Access

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Background

The ICCTA (Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat. 803) which was enacted on

December 29, 1995, abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC).

The ICCTA transferred many of the ICC's motor carrier functions to the

Secretary of Transportation. In particular, the former ICC's licensing

and insurance functions, relating to operations by for-hire motor

carriers, property brokers, and freight forwarders in interstate or

foreign commerce, were transferred to the Secretary and are now

performed by the FHWA, Office of Motor Carrier Information Analysis,

Licensing and

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Insurance Division. The ICC's remaining rail and motor carrier rate

functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), a

new entity, established within the DOT.

Section 204, the savings provision of ICCTA, provides that all

regulations previously issued by the ICC continue in effect according

to their terms until modified or terminated. All of the ICC

regulations, including those related to filing fees, previously

codified at 49 CFR Part 1002, were transferred to the STB in the final

rule entitled ``Transfer of Regulations from the Interstate Commerce

Commission to the Surface Transportation Board Pursuant to the ICC

Termination Act of 1995,'' 61 FR 1842 (January 24, 1996). The STB

issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that proposed to modify the

filing fees related to functions retained by the STB and to eliminate

all filing fees related to the motor carrier functions transferred to

the FHWA. See ``Regulations Governing Fees For Services In Connection

With Licensing and Related Services--1996 Update,'' 61 FR 15208 (April

5, 1996) (1996 Fee Update). The Board's final decision was issued in

Regulations Governing Fees for Service, 1 S.T.B. 179 (1996) 61 FR 42190

(August 14, 1996). Consequently, the FHWA is issuing this final rule to

preserve the filing fees and fee regulations pertaining to the FHWA's

new motor carrier functions as part of the FHWA's regulations.

Revenues from these fees directly support the licensing and

insurance functions transferred from the former ICC to the FHWA. For

this reason, these fees may differ somewhat from fees for other similar

services performed by the FHWA.

Section-By-Section Analysis

Record Search and Copying Fees

A new section codified at 49 CFR 360.1 will provide specific fees

for record searches, and the review, copying, and certification of the

FHWA's public records related to motor carriers. These fees cover

charges for searching and copying records maintained in the FHWA

microfilm, paper files, or computer databases.

The STB's regulations at 49 CFR 1002.1 from which these regulations

are derived also contain provisions related to searches of records not

considered public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C.

552. Those provisions are not carried over in this new section,

however, because FOIA requests for the FHWA records are covered by

existing DOT regulations at 49 CFR Part 7.

Fee Processing Regulations and Schedule of Filing Fees

A new section at 49 CFR 360.3 will contain the general fee

processing regulations and the schedule of filing fees related to the

motor carrier registration and insurance functions that now are

performed by the FHWA pursuant to the ICCTA. These general fee

regulations will establish the following policies and procedures:

(1) How and when filing fees must be paid;

(2) The procedure for opening a billing account for insurance

filings and the terms and conditions for such an account;

(3) The policy that fees are not refundable;

(4) The policy regarding fees for related or consolidated

proceedings;

(5) The policy and procedure for a request for waiver or reduction

of a filing fee; and

(6) The policy for checks returned to the FHWA by a bank or other

financial institution.

The schedule of filing fees set forth in this new section contains

the description of all fee items related to the motor carrier licensing

and insurance functions that were transferred to the FHWA. The fee

items in the schedule of filing fees set forth in Sec. 360.3(f) cover

such activities as motor carrier registration applications, name

changes for motor carriers, property brokers, or freight forwarders,

insurance filings, and self-insurance applications.1 Some

fee item references have been modified to more accurately describe the

activity covered by the fee item and to remove or revise outdated

regulatory and statutory citations. In addition, many fee items have

been renumbered because of the elimination of various fee items and the

desirability of grouping together similar fee items. These fee items

were formerly found at 49 CFR 1002.2.

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\1\ On September 23, 1997, the FHWA published an advance notice

of proposed rulemaking to examine, in part, the need for assessing

additional fees for processing and monitoring activities associated

with the self-insurance program. See FHWA Docket No. FHWA-97-2923,

MC-97-11, ``Qualifications of Motor Carriers to Self-Insure Their

Operations and Fees to Support The Approval and Compliance

Process,'' 62 FR 49654. On September 29, 1997, the FHWA corrected

the assigned FHWA docket number and address for submission of

comments at 62 FR 50892. The final rule being announced here does

not address the issues covered in that proceeding.

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Fee Update Procedure and Cost Update Formula

New Sec. 360.5 provides that fees may be updated as deemed

necessary by the FHWA according to the cost update formula set forth in

that section. These regulations also provide that notices of fee

updates will be published in the Federal Register and will be effective

30 days after publication of the update notice. In addition, the

regulations set forth the formula for rounding updated fees.

Fee Levels

The ICCTA included a provision codified at 49 U.S.C. 13908 which

directs the Secretary to issue regulations to replace the former ICC

registration and insurance programs, the DOT identification number

system, and possibly the single State registration system under 49

U.S.C. 14504 with a single, on-line, Federal system. The new system

will serve as a clearinghouse and depository for information on, and

identification of, foreign and domestic motor carriers, brokers, and

freight forwarders required to register with the DOT. An advance notice

of proposed rulemaking which sought comments on the parameters of the

new system was published in FHWA Docket No. MC-96-25, FHWA 97-2349,

``Motor Carrier Replacement/Information System,'' 61 FR 43816 (August

26, 1996). Thus, the registration and insurance fees adopted here will

only apply during the transition period to the new system.

The ICC's last user fee update, which established the ICC's filing

fees at the 1995 cost level, was effective on February 1, 1995. See

``Regulations Governing Fees for Services In Connection With Licensing

and Related Services-1995 Update,'' 59 FR 67642 (December 30, 1994).

The FHWA's schedule of fees will be updated to 1996 cost levels based

on the costing formula in Sec. 360.5. Because this is a transition

period, complete FHWA budget data that would be necessary to develop

various factors of the cost update formula are not available.

Therefore, the FHWA will use the same update factor calculations that

STB used in its 1996 Fee Update. In any future update proceedings, the

FHWA budget data will be used to develop the cost update factors.

Accordingly, for this fee update, the direct labor cost data for

all fees have been revised to reflect the combined 1996 governmentwide

general salary and the 1996 locality salary increase of 2.54 percent

that took effect in January 1996.2 The Government Fringe

Benefit

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Cost used in the cost update formula is 49.55 percent. Based on fiscal

year 1995 actual budget data, the Office General and Administrative

Expense Factor is 26.73 percent for 1996. The General and

Administrative Expense Factor for 1996 is 11.36 percent. The Operations

Overhead Factor, which is developed from fiscal year 1995 payroll data,

is 13.97 percent for 1996. The 1996 fully distributed cost for each

item developed from these factors is set forth in the appendix of this

document. The appendix will not appear in the Code of Federal

Regulations.

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\2\ The 1996 governmentwide general salary increase of 2.00

percent and the 1996 locality salary increase for the Washington,

DC, area of 0.54 percent make up the combined 2.54 percent increase.

The Washington, DC, locality salary increase is relied on because

all employees involved in these fee activities are located in the

Washington, DC, area.

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The fully distributed cost increased for all items. Due to the

rounding procedures set forth in Sec. 360.5(e), however, not all fees

will change. The actual filing fees are set forth in Sec. 360.3(f).

In this rulemaking proceeding the FHWA is adopting the ICC's fee

regulations related to the recently transferred motor carrier functions

without any substantive changes. Therefore, these regulations impose no

new burdens on the public.

The fee update regulations in Sec. 360.5 provide that updated fees

are to be published in the Federal Register and are to be effective 30

days after publication. In previous update proceedings in which the

former ICC only modified its filing fees on the basis of the cost

update formula, the updated fee schedule was issued as a final rule

without prior notice and comment. See ``Regulations Governing Fees for

Services In Connection With Licensing and Related Services--1995

Update,'' 59 FR 67642 (December 30, 1994); Regulations Governing Fees

for Services-1993 Update, 9 I.C.C.2d 855 (1993); Regulations Governing

Fees for Services-1991 Update, 8 I.C.C. 2d 13 (1991); and Regulations

Governing Fees for Services-1990 Update, 7 I.C.C. 2d 855 (1990). The

FHWA will follow that precedent and establish its filing fees at the

1996 cost level without prior notice and comment because this fee

update only involves the mechanical application of the cost update

formula. For these reasons and because this rule imposes no significant

burdens on the public, the FHWA finds good cause to make this

regulation final without prior notice and opportunity for comments

under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Rulemaking Analyses and Notices

The FHWA believes that prior notice and opportunity for comment are

unnecessary under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B). The FHWA is not exercising

discretion in a way that could be meaningfully affected by public

comments. In this rulemaking, the former ICC's filing fee regulations

related to the motor carrier functions transferred to the FHWA are

being recodified as FHWA regulations. Additionally, three fees items

(for name changes, for self-insurance applications, and for

reinstatement of revoked operating authority) are being increased as a

result of the mechanical application of a cost formula originally

adopted by the ICC after notice and comment. The public will also have

sufficient advance notice of changes in the three fee items because

these changes and the underlying regulations will be effective on 30

days notice as provided in the regulations adopted here in Sec. 360.5.

Executive Order 12866 (Federal Regulation) and DOT Regulatory

Policies and Procedures

The FHWA has determined that this action is not a significant

regulatory action under Executive Order 12866, or significant within

the meaning of Department of Transportation regulatory policies and

procedures. This regulatory action is not likely to have an annual

effect on the economy of $100 million or more. In addition, it is not

expected to cause an adverse effect on any sector of the economy

because this rule will simply move certain regulations from one part of

the CFR to another and make incremental adjustments to three filing

fees. It will not impose any significant burden on the public. No

serious inconsistency or interference with another agency's actions or

plans will result because this rulemaking is designed to facilitate the

transfer of the former ICC's motor carrier functions and related

programs to the FHWA. In light of this analysis, the FHWA finds that a

full regulatory evaluation is not required.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

In compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (Pub. L. 96-354,

5 U.S.C. 601-612), the agency has evaluated the effects of this

rulemaking on small entities. The fee structure remains the same, and

any fee increases are incremental. Moreover, with the exception of the

unchanged $10 fee for insurance filings made by insurance companies,

the fee items are not assessed against any individual on a regular

basis. Accordingly, the FHWA certifies that the action contained in

this document will not have a significant economic impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act

The FHWA has determined that this rule does not impose any unfunded

mandates on State, local, or tribal governments in the aggregate, or on

the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one year, as

required by the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1532).

Executive Order 12612 (Federalism Assessment)

This action has been analyzed in accordance with the principles and

criteria contained in Executive Order 12612, and it has been determined

that this rulemaking does not have sufficient federalism implications

to warrant the preparation of a federalism assessment. Thus, an

analysis of the federalism issue raised by issuance of these filing fee

regulations is not required for the purposes of this rulemaking.

Executive Order 12372 (Intergovernmental Review)

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Number 20.217, Motor

Carrier Safety. The regulations implementing Executive Order 12372

regarding intergovernmental consultation on Federal programs and

activities do not apply to this program.

Paperwork Reduction Act

This action does not contain a collection of information

requirement for purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44

U.S.C. 3501-3520.

National Environmental Policy Act

The agency has analyzed this rulemaking for the purpose of the

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and

has determined that this action would not have any effect on the

quality of the environment.

Regulatory Identification Number

A regulatory identification number (RIN) is assigned to each

regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations.

The Regulatory Information Service Center publishes the Unified Agenda

in April and October of each year. The RIN contained in the heading of

this document can be used to cross reference this action with the

Unified Agenda.

Lists of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 360

Administrative practice and procedure, Fees, Insurance, and Motor

carriers.

Issued on: February 4, 1999.

Kenneth R. Wykle,

Federal Highway Administrator.

In consideration of the foregoing, the FHWA is amending title 49,

Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter III, by adding Part 360 to read as

follows:

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PART 360--FEES FOR MOTOR CARRIER REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE

Sec.

360.1 Fees for records search, review, copying, certification, and

related services.

360.3 Filing fees.

360.5 Updating user fees.

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 9701; 49 U.S.C. 13908(c) and 14504(c)(2);

and 49 CFR 1.48.

Sec. 360.1 Fees for records search, review, copying, certification,

and related services.

Certifications and copies of public records and documents on file

with the Federal Highway Administration will be furnished on the

following basis, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act regulations

at 49 CFR Part 7:

(a) Certificate of the Director, Office of Motor Carrier

Information Analysis, as to the authenticity of documents, $9.00;

(b) Service involved in checking records to be certified to

determine authenticity, including clerical work, etc., incidental

thereto, at the rate of $16.00 per hour;

(c) Electrostatic copies of the public documents, at the rate of

$.80 per letter size or legal size exposure. A minimum charge of $5.00

will be made for this service; and

(d) Search and copying services requiring ADP processing, as

follows:

(1) A fee of $42.00 per hour for professional staff time will be

charged when it is required to fulfill a request for ADP data.

(2) The fee for computer searches will be set at the current rate

for computer service. Information on those charges can be obtained from

the Chief, Licensing and Insurance Division.

(3) Printing shall be charged at the rate of $.10 per page of

computer generated output with a minimum charge of $.25. A charge of

$30 per reel of magnetic tape will be made if the tape is to be

permanently retained by the requestor.

Sec. 360.3 Filing fees.

(a) Manner of payment. (1) Except for the insurance fees described

in the next sentence, all filing fees will be payable at the time and

place the application, petition, or other document is tendered for

filing. The service fee for insurance, surety or self-insurer accepted

certificate of insurance, surety bond or other instrument submitted in

lieu of a broker surety bond must be charged to an insurance service

account established by the Federal Highway Administration in accordance

with paragraph (a)(2) of this section.

(2) Billing account procedure. A written request must be submitted

to the Office of Motor Carrier Information Analysis, Licensing and

Insurance Division, to establish an insurance service fee account.

(i) Each account will have a specific billing date within each

month and a billing cycle. The billing date is the date that the bill

is prepared and printed. The billing cycle is the period between the

billing date in one month and the billing date in the next month. A

bill for each account which has activity or an unpaid balance during

the billing cycle will be sent on the billing date each month. Payment

will be due 20 days from the billing date. Payments received before the

next billing date are applied to the account. Interest will accrue in

accordance with 4 CFR 102.13.

(ii) The Debt Collection Act of 1982, including disclosure to the

consumer reporting agencies and the use of collection agencies, as set

forth in 4 CFR 102.5 and 102.6 will be utilized to encourage payment

where appropriate.

(iii) An account holder who files a petition in bankruptcy or who

is the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding must provide the following

information to the Office of Motor Carrier Information Analysis,

Licensing and Insurance Division:

(A) The filing date of the bankruptcy petition;

(B) The court in which the bankruptcy petition was filed;

(C) The type of bankruptcy proceeding;

(D) The name, address, and telephone number of its representative

in the bankruptcy proceeding; and

(E) The name, address, and telephone number of the bankruptcy

trustee, if one has been appointed.

(3) Fees will be payable to the Federal Highway Administration by a

check payable in United States currency drawn upon funds deposited in a

United States or foreign bank or other financial institution, money

order payable in United States' currency, or credit card (VISA or

MASTERCARD).

(b) Any filing that is not accompanied by the appropriate filing

fee is deficient except for filings that satisfy the deferred payment

procedures in paragraph (a) of this section.

(c) Fees not refundable. Fees will be assessed for every filing in

the type of proceeding listed in the schedule of fees contained in

paragraph (f) of this section, subject to the exceptions contained in

paragraphs (d) and (e) of this section. After the application,

petition, or other document has been accepted for filing by the Federal

Highway Administration, the filing fee will not be refunded, regardless

of whether the application, petition, or other document is granted or

approved, denied, rejected before docketing, dismissed, or withdrawn.

(d) Related or consolidated proceedings. (1) Separate fees need not

be paid for related applications filed by the same applicant which

would be the subject of one proceeding. (This does not mean requests

for multiple types of operating authority filed on forms in the OP-1

series under the regulations at 49 CFR part 365. A separate filing fee

is required for each type of authority sought in each transportation

mode, e.g., common, contract, and broker authority for motor property

carriers.)

(2) Separate fees will be assessed for the filing of temporary

operating authority applications as provided in paragraph (f)(6) of

this section, regardless of whether such applications are related to an

application for corresponding permanent operating authority.

(3) The Federal Highway Administration may reject concurrently

filed applications, petitions, or other documents asserted to be

related and refund the filing fee if, in its judgment, they embrace two

or more severable matters which should be the subject of separate

proceedings.

(e) Waiver or reduction of filing fees. It is the general policy of

the Federal Highway Administration not to waive or reduce filing fees

except as described as follows:

(1) Filing fees are waived for an application or other proceeding

which is filed by a Federal government agency, or a State or local

government entity. For purposes of this section the phrases ``Federal

government agency'' or ``government entity'' do not include a quasi-

governmental corporation or government subsidized transportation

company.

(2) In extraordinary situations the Federal Highway Administration

will accept requests for waivers or fee reductions in accordance with

the following procedure:

(i) When to request. At the time that a filing is submitted to the

Federal Highway Administration the applicant may request a waiver or

reduction of the fee prescribed in this part. Such request should be

addressed to the Director, Office of Motor Carrier Information

Analysis.

(ii) Basis. The applicant must show the waiver or reduction of the

fee is in the best interest of the public, or that payment of the fee

would impose an undue hardship upon the requestor.

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(iii) Federal Highway Administration action. The Director, Office

of Motor Carrier Information Analysis, will notify the applicant of the

decision to grant or deny the request for waiver or reduction.

(f) Schedule of filing fees.

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Type of Proceeding Fee

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Part I: Licensing:

(1)................................... An application for motor carrier operating $300

authority, a certificate of registration

for certain foreign carriers, property

broker authority, or freight forwarder

authority.

(2)................................... A petition to interpret or clarify an 3,000

operating authority.

(3)................................... A request seeking the modification of 50

operating authority only to the extent of

making a ministerial correction, when the

original error was caused by applicant, a

change in the name of the shipper or

owner of a plant site, or the change of a

highway name or number.

(4)................................... A petition to renew authority to transport 250

explosives.

(5)................................... An application for authority to deviate 150

from authorized regular-route authority.

(6)................................... An application for motor carrier temporary 100

authority issued in an emergency

situation.

(7)................................... Request for name change of a motor 14

carrier, property broker, or freight

forwarder.

(8)--(49)............................. [Reserved]................................ ..........................

Part II: Insurance:

(50).................................. (i) An application for original 4,200

qualification as self-insurer for bodily

injury and property damage insurance

(BI&PD).

(ii) An application for original 420

qualification as self-insurer for cargo

insurance.

(51).................................. A service fee for insurer, surety, or self- $10 per accepted

insurer accepted certificate of certificate, surety bond

insurance, surety bond, and other or other instrument

instrument submitted in lieu of a broker submitted in lieu of a

surety bond. broker surety bond.

(52).................................. A petition for reinstatement of revoked 80

operating authority.

(53)--(79)............................ [Reserved]................................

Part III: Services:

(80).................................. Request for service or pleading list for 13 per list

proceedings.

(81).................................. Faxed copies of operating authority to 5

applicants or their representatives who

did not receive a served copy.

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(g) Returned check policy. (1) If a check submitted to the FHWA for

a filing or service fee is dishonored by a bank or financial

institution on which it is drawn, the FHWA will notify the person who

submitted the check that:

(i) All work will be suspended on the filing or proceeding, until

the check is made good;

(ii) A returned check charge of $6.00 and any bank charges incurred

by the FHWA as a result of the dishonored check must be submitted with

the filing fee which is outstanding; and

(iii) If payment is not made within the time specified by the FHWA,

the proceeding will be dismissed or the filing may be rejected.

(2) If a person repeatedly submits dishonored checks to the FHWA

for filing fees, the FHWA may notify the person that all future filing

fees must be submitted in the form of a certified or cashier's check or

a money order.

Sec. 360.5 Updating user fees.

(a) Update. Each fee established in this part may be updated in

accordance with this section as deemed necessary by the FHWA.

(b) Publication and effective dates. Updated fees shall be

published in the Federal Register and shall become effective 30 days

after publication.

(c) Payment of fees. Any person submitting a filing for which a fee

is established shall pay the fee in effect at the time of the filing.

(d) Method of updating fees. Each fee shall be updated by updating

the cost components comprising the fee. Cost components shall be

updated as follows:

(1) Direct labor costs shall be updated by multiplying base level

direct labor costs by percentage changes in average wages and salaries

of FHWA employees. Base level direct labor costs are direct labor costs

determined by the cost study in Regulations Governing Fees For Service,

1 I.C.C. 2d 60 (1984), or subsequent cost studies. The base period for

measuring changes shall be April 1984 or the year of the last cost

study.

(2) Operations overhead shall be developed each year on the basis

of current relationships existing on a weighted basis, for indirect

labor applicable to the first supervisory work centers directly

associated with user fee activity. Actual updating of operations

overhead will be accomplished by applying the current percentage factor

to updated direct labor, including current governmental overhead costs.

(3)(i) Office general and administrative costs shall be developed

each year on the basis of current levels costs, i.e., dividing actual

office general and administrative costs for the current fiscal year by

total office costs for the office directly associated with user fee

activity. Actual updating of office general and administrative costs

will be accomplished by applying the current percentage factor to

updated direct labor, including current governmental overhead and

current operations overhead costs.

(ii) FHWA general and administrative costs shall be developed each

year on the basis of current level costs; i.e., dividing actual FHWA

general and administrative costs for the current fiscal year by total

agency expenses for the current fiscal year. Actual updating of FHWA

general and administrative costs will be accomplished by applying the

current percentage factor to updated direct labor, including current

governmental overhead, operations overhead and office general and

administrative costs.

(4) Publication costs shall be adjusted on the basis of known

changes in the costs applicable to publication of material in the

Federal Register or FHWA-OMC Register.

(This rounding procedures excludes copying, printing and search

fees.)

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(e) Rounding of updated fees. Updated fees shall be rounded in the

following manner:

(1) Fees between $1 and $30 will be rounded to the nearest $1;

(2) Fees between $30 and $100 will be rounded to the nearest $10;

(3) Fees between $100 and $999 will be rounded to the nearest $50;

and

(4) Fees above $1,000 will be rounded to the nearest $100.

Appendix

[Based on 1996 pay increase and overhead changes]

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1996

1995 Direct Check Govt. Total Operations Publication Total Sub

FEE# Direct Labor Process Fringes (2+3+4) Overhead Office G&A FHA G&A Cost (5-9)

Labor Updated

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

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1................................... 135.07 138.50 1.43 69.34 209.27 29.23 63.75 34.34 5.00 341.59

2................................... 64.77 66.42 1.43 33.62 101.46 14.17 30.91 16.65 5.00 168.19

3................................... 1,162.04 1,191.56 1.43 591.12 1,784.11 249.24 543.51 292.73 190.32 3,059.92

4................................... 22.74 23.32 1.43 12.26 37.01 5.17 11.27 6.07 0.00 59.53

5................................... 104.68 107.34 1.43 53.89 162.66 22.72 49.55 26.69 0.00 261.63

6................................... 145.13 148.82 1.43 74.45 224.69 31.39 68.45 36.87 5.00 366.40

7................................... 73.86 75.74 1.43 38.24 115.40 16.12 35.16 18.93 5.00 190.61

8................................... 56.40 57.83 1.43 29.36 88.63 12.38 27.00 14.54 5.00 147.55

9................................... 5.00 5.13 0.72 2.90 8.74 1.22 2.66 1.43 0.00 14.06

10.................................. 12.88 13.21 1.43 7.25 21.89 3.06 6.67 3.59 0.00 35.21

11.................................. 129..38 132.67 1.43 66.44 200.54 28.02 61.09 32.90 3.00 325.55

12.................................. 185.20 189.90 1.43 94.81 286.14 39.97 87.17 46.95 0.00 460.23

40.................................. 3,020.52 3,097.24 1.43 1,535.39 4,634.06 647.38 1,411.73 760.34 0.00 7,453.51

41.................................. 1,453.28 1,490.19 1.43 739.10 2,230.72 311.63 679.57 366.01 0.00 3,587.94

50i................................. 1,722.81 1,766.57 1.43 876.04 2,644.04 369.37 805.49 433.83 0.00 4,252.73

50ii................................ 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 425.27

51.................................. 1.03 1.06 0.72 0.88 2.66 0.37 0.81 0.44 0.00 4.27

52.................................. 31.45 32.25 1.43 16.69 50.37 7.04 15.34 8.26 0.00 81.01

70.................................. 336.79 345.34 1.69 171.96 518.99 72.50 158.11 85.15 0.00 834.75

80.................................. 4.85 4.97 0.72 2.82 8.51 1.19 2.59 1.40 0.00 13.69

81i................................. 41.95 43.02 1.43 22.02 66.47 9.29 20.25 10.91 0.00 106.91

81ii................................ 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 25.00

82.................................. 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00

*101................................ 3.17 3.25 0.72 1.97 5.94 0.83 1.81 0.97 0.00 9.55

*102................................ 16,55 16.97 0.00 8.41 25.38 3.55 7.73 4.16 0.00 40.82

*103................................ 0.55 0.56 0.00 0.28 0.84 0.12 0.26 0.14 0.00 1.36

*104................................ 41.63 42.69 0.00 21.15 63.84 8.92 19.45 10.47 0.00 102.68

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*101--Certification of Director, Office of Motor Carrier Application Information Analysis (Fee Set a Rounded Fully Distributed Cost Level--Column (10)

Above)--The 1996 Fee Is Set at $9.00.

*102--Service Involved on Checking Records To be Certified To Determine Authenticity, Including Clerical Work etc. Incidental Thereto (Fee Set at

Rounded Direct Labor Only Level--Column (2) Above)--The 1996 Fee Is Set at $16.00 Per Hour.

*103--Electrostatic Copies of Public Documents, at a Specific Per Page Rate With a Minimum Charge of $5.00 Per Request (Per Page Rate Based on the

Rounded Total in Column (5) Above)--The 1996 Fee Is Set at $.80 Per Page.

*104--A Fee for Professional Staff Time Will Be Charged When It Is Required To Fulfill a Request For ADP Data (Fee Set at Rounded Direct Labor Only

Level--Column (2) Above)--The 1996 Fee Is Set at $42.00 Per Hour.

Note: This appendix will not appear in the Code of Federal Regulations.

[FR Doc. 99-3510 Filed 2-11-99; 8:45 am]

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