9 C.F.R. § 130.30 Hourly rate and minimum user fees.
Title 9 - Animals and Animal Products
(a) User fees for import- or export-related veterinary services listed in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(13) of this section, except those services covered by flat rate user fees elsewhere in this part, will be calculated at the hourly rate listed in the following table for each employee required to perform the service. The person for whom the service is provided and the person requesting the service are jointly and severally liable for payment of these user fees in accordance with §§130.50 and 130.51. (1) Providing services to live animals for import or entry at airports, ocean ports, and rail ports. (2) Conducting inspections, including laboratory and facility inspections, required to obtain permits, either to import animal products, aquaculture products, organisms or vectors, or to maintain compliance with import permits. (3) Obtaining samples required to be tested, either to obtain import permits or to ensure compliance with import permits. (4) Providing services for imported birds or ratites that are not subject to quarantine. (5) Supervising the opening of in-bond shipments. (6) Providing services for in-bond or in-transit animals to exit the United States. (7) Inspecting an export isolation facility and the animals in it. (8) Supervising animal or bird rest periods prior to export. (9) Supervising loading and unloading of animals or birds for export shipment. (10) Inspecting means of conveyance used to export animals or birds. (11) Conducting inspections under part 156 of this chapter. (12) Inspecting and approving an artificial insemination center or a semen collection center or the animals in it. (13) Providing other import-or export-related veterinary services for which there is no flat rate user fee specified elsewhere in this part. (b) When do I pay an additional amount for employee(s) working overtime? You must pay an additional amount if you need an APHIS employee to work on a Sunday, on a holiday, or at any time outside the normal tour of duty of that employee. Instead of paying the hourly rate user fee, you pay the rate listed in the following table for each employee needed to get the work done. [65 FR 52009, Aug. 28, 2000, as amended at 68 FR 51886, Aug. 29, 2003]
Title 9: Animals and Animal Products
PART 130—USER FEES
§ 130.30 Hourly rate and minimum user fees.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ User fee Beginning Oct. 1, 2003------------------------------------------------------------------------Hourly rate Per hour........................................ $84.00 Per quarter hour................................ 21.00Per service minimum fee............................. 25.00------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Premium rate user Overtime rates (outside the employee's normal tour fee Beginning of duty) Oct. 1, 2003------------------------------------------------------------------------Premium hourly rate Monday through Saturday and holidays: Per hour........................................ $100.00 Per quarter hour................................ 25.00Premium hourly rate for Sundays: Per hour........................................ 112.00 Per quarter hour................................ 28.00------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control numbers 0579–0055 and 0579–0094)
