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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0006]
General Conference Committee of the
National Poultry Improvement Plan
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of renewal.
AGENCY:
We are giving notice that the
Secretary of Agriculture has renewed
the charter of the General Conference
Committee of the National Poultry
Improvement Plan (Committee) for a 2year period. The Secretary of
Agriculture has determined that the
Committee is necessary and in the
public interest.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Denise L. Heard, Senior Coordinator,
National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS,
APHIS, USDA, 1506 Klondike Road,
Suite 101, Conyers, GA 30094; (770)
922–3496.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the General Conference
Committee of the National Poultry
Improvement Plan (Committee) is to
maintain and ensure industry
involvement in Federal administration
of matters pertaining to poultry health.
The Committee Chairperson and the
Vice Chairperson shall be elected by the
Committee from among its members.
There are seven members on the
Committee. The poultry industry elects
the members of the Committee. The
members represent six geographic areas
with one member-at-large.
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SUMMARY:
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of
December 2018.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket Number FSIS–2018–0051]
2019 Rates and Calculations
The following table lists the 2019
Rates per hour, per employee, by type
of service:
2019 Rate Changes for the Basetime,
Overtime, Holiday, and Laboratory
Services Rates
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
Service
AGENCY:
The Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the 2019 rates it will charge meat and
poultry establishments, egg products
plants, and importers and exporters for
providing voluntary, overtime, and
holiday inspection and identification,
certification, and laboratory services.
The 2019 basetime, overtime, holiday,
and laboratory services rates will be
applied on the first FSIS pay period
approximately 30 days after the
publication of this notice, which begins
on January 20, 2019.
DATES: FSIS will charge the rates
announced in this notice beginning
January 20, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Michael
Toner, Director, Budget Division, Office
of the Chief Financial Officer, FSIS, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Room 2159,
South Building, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250–
3700; Telephone: (202) 690–8398, Fax:
(202) 690–4155.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[FR Doc. 2018–27480 Filed 12–19–18; 8:45 am]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Background
On April 12, 2011, FSIS published a
final rule amending its regulations to
establish formulas for calculating the
rates it charges meat and poultry
establishments, egg products plants, and
importers and exporters for providing
voluntary, overtime, and holiday
inspection and identification,
certification, and laboratory services (76
FR 20220).
In the final rule, FSIS stated that it
would use the formulas to calculate the
annual rates, publish the rates in
Federal Register notices prior to the
start of each calendar year, and apply
the rates on the first FSIS pay period at
the beginning of the calendar year.
This notice provides the 2019 rates,
which will be applied starting on
January 20, 2019.
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Basetime ...............................
Overtime ...............................
Holiday ..................................
Laboratory .............................
2019 Rate
(estimates
rounded to
reflect
billable
quarters)
$59.96
74.76
89.56
75.56
The regulations state that FSIS will
calculate the rates using formulas that
include the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
and regular hours (9 CFR 391.2, 391.3,
391.4, 590.126, 590.128, 592.510,
592.520, and 592.530). In 2013, an
Agency reorganization eliminated the
OIA program office and transferred all
of its inspection program personnel to
OFO. Therefore, inspection program
personnel’s pay and hours are identified
in the calculations as ‘‘OFO inspection
program personnel’s’’ pay and hours.
FSIS determined the 2019 rates using
the following calculations:
Basetime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
by the previous fiscal year’s regular
hours, plus the quotient multiplied by
the calendar year’s percentage of cost of
living increase, plus the benefits rate,
plus the travel and operating rate, plus
the overhead rate, plus the allowance
for bad debt rate.
The calculation for the 2019 basetime
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2018 OFO Regular Direct Pay
divided by the previous fiscal year’s
Regular Hours ($461,873,361/
15,909,552)] = $29.03 + ($29.03 * 1.9%
(calendar year 2019 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $29.58 + $10.36 (benefits
rate) + $2.10 (travel and operating rate)
+ $17.92 (overhead rate) + $0.00 (bad
debt allowance rate) = $59.96, which is
already divisible by 4.
Overtime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
by the previous fiscal year’s regular
hours, plus that quotient multiplied by
the calendar year’s percentage of cost of
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
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and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2018-0006]
General Conference Committee of the National Poultry Improvement
Plan
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of renewal.
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SUMMARY: We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture has
renewed the charter of the General Conference Committee of the National
Poultry Improvement Plan (Committee) for a 2-year period. The Secretary
of Agriculture has determined that the Committee is necessary and in
the public interest.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Denise L. Heard, Senior
Coordinator, National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, USDA, 1506
Klondike Road, Suite 101, Conyers, GA 30094; (770) 922-3496.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the General Conference
Committee of the National Poultry Improvement Plan (Committee) is to
maintain and ensure industry involvement in Federal administration of
matters pertaining to poultry health.
The Committee Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson shall be elected
by the Committee from among its members. There are seven members on the
Committee. The poultry industry elects the members of the Committee.
The members represent six geographic areas with one member-at-large.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of December 2018.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-27480 Filed 12-19-18; 8:45 am]
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