NOTICE: Final Rule 90-407-2 Fee Increases for Overtime Services

On October 2, 2015, the Federal Register published Final Rule 09-047-2, “Fee Increases for Overtime Services”. This rule adjusts the hourly rates hourly rates charged for Sundays, holidays, or other overtime work performed by employees of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for any person, firm, or corporation having ownership, custody, or control of regulated commodities or articles subject to agricultural inspection, laboratory testing, certification, or quarantine under the regulations.  With these rate adjustments APHIS will recover the true cost of providing the services. This is the first change to overtime rates since 2002.

The new rates are commensurate with the anticipated cost of providing reimbursable services through 2018. This final rule includes clarifying regulations so that reimbursable inspections performed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are billed in accordance with DHS overtime regulations. 

This rate increase is effective on November 2, 2015.

You can view the final rule at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-10-02/html/2015-25101.htm

 

 

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