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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
December 3, 2019.
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The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments are
requested regarding whether the
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by January 6, 2020
will be considered. Written comments
should be addressed to: Desk Officer for
Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), New
Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20502.
Commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Copies of the submission(s) may
be obtained by calling (202) 720–8958.
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potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
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the collection of information unless it
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Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: Modernization of Swine
Slaughter Inspection.
OMB Control Number: 0583–0171.
Summary of Collection: The Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has
been delegated the authority to exercise
the functions of the Secretary (7 CFR
2.18, 2.53), as specified in the Federal
Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C.
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601, et seq.). This statute mandates that
FSIS protect the public by verifying that
meat products are safe, wholesome,
unadulterated, and properly labeled and
packaged.
Need and Use of the Information:
FSIS will collect information to ensure
that all establishments operating under
the New Swine Slaughter Inspection
System (NSIS) monitor their systems
through microbial testing and
recordkeeping. Establishments operating
under NSIS are required to (1) identify
animals or carcasses that establishment
personnel have sorted and removed for
disposal before FSIS inspection with a
unique tag, tattoo, or similar device, (2)
maintain records to document the total
number of animals and carcasses sorted
and removed per day and the reasons
for their removal, and (3) maintain
records documenting that products
resulting from their slaughter operations
meet the new definition of RTC pork
product.
Furthermore, FSIS will collection
information to ensure that each
establishment operating under the NSIS
submit on an annual basis an attestation
to the management member of the local
FSIS circuit safety committee stating
that it maintains a program to monitor
and document any work-related
conditions of establishment workers.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 84.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 4,348.
Kimble Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
The 2020 basetime, overtime, holiday,
and laboratory services rates will be
applied on January 5, 2020.
DATES: FSIS will charge the rates
announced in this notice beginning
January 5, 2020.
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:
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 2020 rates,
which will be applied starting on
January 5, 2020.
2020 Rates and Calculations
The following table lists the 2020
Rates per hour, per employee, by type
of service:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket Number FSIS–2019–0027]
2020 Rate Changes for the Basetime,
Overtime, Holiday, and Laboratory
Services Rates
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the 2020 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.
SUMMARY:
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Basetime ...............................
Overtime ...............................
Holiday ..................................
Laboratory .............................
2020 rate
(estimates
rounded to
reflect
billable
quarters)
$64.84
79.88
94.88
82.32
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
Office of International Affairs program
office and transferred all of its
inspection program personnel to OFO.
Therefore, inspection program
personnel’s pay and hours are identified
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in the calculations as ‘‘OFO inspection
program personnel’s’’ pay and hours.
FSIS determined the 2020 rates using
the following calculations:
Basetime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the 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 2020 basetime
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay
divided by the previous fiscal year’s
Regular Hours ($431,891,249/
14,748,261)] = $29.28 + ($29.28 * 2.6%
(calendar year 2020 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $30.05 + $10.38 (benefits
rate) + $2.49 (travel and operating rate)
+ $21.92 (overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad
debt allowance rate) = $64.84, which is
already divisible by 4.
Overtime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the 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 living increase,
multiplied by 1.5 (for overtime), 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 2020 overtime
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay
divided by previous fiscal year’s Regular
Hours ($431,891,249/14,748,261)] =
$29.28 + ($29.28 * 2.6% (calendar year
2020 Cost of Living Increase)) = $30.05
* 1.5 = $45.07 + $10.38 (benefits rate)
+ $2.49 (travel and operating rate) +
$21.92 (overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad debt
allowance rate) = $79.86 rounded up to
$79.88, so that it is divisible by 4.
Holiday Rate = The quotient of
dividing the 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 living increase,
multiplied by 2 (for holiday pay), 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 2020 holiday
rate per hour per program employee
calculation is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay
divided by Regular Hours
($431,891,249/14,748,261)] = $29.28 +
($29.28 * 2.6% (calendar year 2019 Cost
of Living Increase)) = $30.05 * 2 =
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$60.09 + $10.38 (benefits rate) + $2.49
(travel and operating rate) + $21.92
(overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad debt
allowance rate) = $94.88, which is
already divisible by 4.
Laboratory Services Rate = The
quotient of dividing the Office of Public
Health Science’s (OPHS’s) previous
fiscal year’s regular direct pay by the
OPHS previous fiscal year’s regular
hours, plus the quotient multiplied by
the calendar year’s percentage 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 2020
laboratory services rate per hour per
program employee is:
[FY 2019 OPHS Regular Direct Pay/
OPHS Regular hours ($22,973,965/
496,184)] = $46.30 + ($46.30 * 2.6%
(calendar year 2020 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $47.51 + $10.38 (benefits
rate) + $2.49 (travel and operating rate)
+ $21.92 (overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad
debt allowance rate) = $82.30, rounded
up to 82.32, so that it is divisible by 4.
Calculations for the Benefits, Travel
and Operating, Overhead, and
Allowance for Bad Debt Rates
These rates are components of the
basetime, overtime, holiday, and
laboratory services rates formulas.
Benefits Rate: The quotient of
dividing the previous fiscal year’s direct
benefits costs by the previous fiscal
year’s total hours (regular, overtime, and
holiday), plus that quotient multiplied
by the calendar year’s percentage cost of
living increase. Some examples of direct
benefits are health insurance,
retirement, life insurance, and Thrift
Savings Plan basic and matching
contributions.
The calculation for the 2020 benefits
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2019 Direct Benefits/(Total
Regular hours + Total Overtime hours +
Total Holiday hours) ($184,242,174/
18,205,950)] = $10.12 + ($10.12 * 2.6%
(calendar year 2019 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $10.38.
Travel and Operating Rate: The
quotient of dividing the previous fiscal
year’s total direct travel and operating
costs by the previous fiscal year’s total
hours (regular, overtime, and holiday),
plus that quotient multiplied by the
calendar year’s percentage of inflation.
The calculation for the 2020 travel
and operating rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Direct Travel and
Operating Costs/(Total Regular hours +
Total Overtime hours + Total Holiday
hours) ($44,335,973/18,205,950)] =
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$2.44 + ($2.44 * 2.3% (2020 Inflation)
= $2.49.
Overhead Rate: The quotient of
dividing the previous fiscal year’s
indirect costs plus the previous fiscal
year’s information technology (IT) costs
in the Public Health Data
Communication Infrastructure System
Fund plus the provision for the
operating balance less any Greenbook
costs (i.e., costs of USDA support
services prorated to the service
component for which fees are charged)
that are not related to food inspection by
the previous fiscal year’s total hours
(regular, overtime, and holiday) worked
across all funds, plus the quotient
multiplied by the calendar year’s
percentage of inflation.
The calculation for the 2020 overhead
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Overhead/(Total
Regular hours + Total Overtime hours +
Total Holiday hours) ($ 390,080,911/
18,205,950)] = $21.43 + ($21.43 * 2.3%
(2019 Inflation) = $21.92.
Allowance for Bad Debt Rate =
Previous fiscal year’s total allowance for
bad debt (for example, debt owed that
is not paid in full by plants and
establishments that declare bankruptcy)
divided by previous fiscal year’s total
hours (regular, overtime, and holiday)
worked.
The 2020 calculation for bad debt rate
per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Bad Debt/(Total
Regular hours + Total Overtime hours +
Total Holiday hours) = ($317,344/
18,205,950)] = $0.02.
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FSIS will make copies of this Federal
Register publication available through
the FSIS Constituent Update, which is
used to provide information regarding
FSIS policies, procedures, regulations,
Federal Register notices, FSIS public
meetings, and other types of information
that could affect or would be of interest
to our constituents and stakeholders.
The Constituent Update is available on
the FSIS web page. Through the web
page, FSIS can provide information to a
much broader, more diverse audience.
In addition, FSIS offers an email
subscription service which provides
automatic and customized access to
selected food safety news and
information. This service is available at:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/subscribe.
Options range from recalls to export
information, regulations, directives, and
notices. Customers can add or delete
subscriptions themselves and have the
option to password protect their
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Foreign-Trade Zone 32—Miami,
Florida; Application for Reorganization
(Expansion of Service Area) Under
Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by
the Greater Miami Foreign-Trade Zone,
Inc., grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 32,
requesting authority to reorganize the
zone to expand its service area under
the alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR Sec.
400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for
grantees for the establishment or
reorganization of zones and can permit
significantly greater flexibility in the
designation of new subzones or ‘‘usagedriven’’ FTZ sites for operators/users
located within a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’
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in the context of the FTZ Board’s
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for
a zone. The application was submitted
pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones
Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),
and the regulations of the FTZ Board (15
CFR part 400). It was formally docketed
on December 3, 2019.
FTZ 32 was approved by the FTZ
Board on September 6, 1977 (Board
Order 123, 42 FR 46568, September 16,
1977) and reorganized under the ASF on
December 20, 2012 (Board Order 1876,
78 FR 1197–1198, January 8, 2013). The
zone currently has a service area that
includes a portion of Miami-Dade
County, Florida.
The applicant is now requesting
authority to expand the service area of
the zone to include all of Miami-Dade
County, as described in the application.
If approved, the grantee would be able
to serve sites throughout the expanded
service area based on companies’ needs
for FTZ designation. The application
indicates that the proposed expanded
service area is in or adjacent to the
Miami U.S. Customs and Border
Protection Port of Entry.
In accordance with the FTZ Board’s
regulations, Christopher Kemp of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to
evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application
and case record and to report findings
and recommendations to the FTZ Board.
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions shall be
addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive
Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov. The
closing period for their receipt is
February 4, 2020. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during
the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period to
February 19, 2020.
A copy of the application will be
available for public inspection in the
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ
Board’s website, which is accessible via
www.trade.gov/ftz. For further
information, contact Christopher Kemp
at Christopher.Kemp@trade.gov or (202)
482–0862.
Dated: December 3, 2019.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Order Renewing Order Temporarily
Denying Export Privileges
Mahan Airways, Mahan Tower, No. 21,
Azadegan St., M.A. Jenah Exp. Way,
Tehran, Iran
Pejman Mahmood Kosarayanifard, a/k/a
Kosarian Fard, P.O. Box 52404, Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
Mahmoud Amini, G#22 Dubai Airport Free
Zone, P.O. Box 393754, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates, and P.O. Box 52404, Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, and Mohamed
Abdulla Alqaz Building, Al Maktoum
Street, Al Rigga, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
Kerman Aviation, a/k/a GIE Kerman
Aviation, 42 Avenue Montaigne 75008,
Paris, France
Sirjanco Trading LLC, P.O. Box 8709, Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
Mahan Air General Trading LLC, 19th Floor
Al Moosa Tower One, Sheik Zayed Road,
Dubai 40594, United Arab Emirates
Mehdi Bahrami, Mahan Airways—Istanbul
Office, Cumhuriye Cad. Sibil Apt No: 101
D:6, 34374 Emadad, Sisli Istanbul, Turkey
Al Naser Airlines a/k/a al-Naser Airlines a/
k/a Al Naser Wings Airline a/k/a Alnaser
Airlines and Air Freight Ltd., Home 46, AlKarrada, Babil Region, District 929, St. 21,
Beside Al Jadirya Private Hospital,
Baghdad, Iraq, and Al Amirat Street,
Section 309, St. 3/H.20, Al Mansour,
Baghdad, Iraq, and P.O. Box 28360, Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, and P.O. Box
911399, Amman 11191, Jordan
Ali Abdullah Alhay, a/k/a Ali Alhay, a/k/a
Ali Abdullah Ahmed Alhay Home 46, AlKarrada, Babil Region, District 929, St. 21,
Beside Al Jadirya Private Hospital,
Baghdad, Iraq and Anak Street, Qatif,
Saudi Arabia 61177
Bahar Safwa General Trading, P.O. Box
113212, Citadel Tower, Floor-5, Office
#504, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates and P.O. Box 8709, Citadel
Tower, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
Sky Blue Bird Group a/k/a Sky Blue Bird
Aviation a/k/a Sky Blue Bird Ltd a/k/a Sky
Blue Bird FZC, P.O. Box 16111, Ras Al
Khaimah Trade Zone, United Arab
Emirates
Issam Shammout, a/k/a Muhammad Isam
Muhammad Anwar Nur Shammout a/k/a
Issam Anwar, Philips Building, 4th Floor,
Al Fardous Street, Damascus, Syria, and Al
Kolaa, Beirut, Lebanon 151515, and 17–18
Margaret Street, 4th Floor, London, W1W
8RP, United Kingdom, and Cumhuriyet
Mah. Kavakli San St. Fulya, Cad. Hazar
Sok. No.14/A Silivri, Istanbul, Turkey
Pursuant to Section 766.24 of the
Export Administration Regulations, 15
CFR parts 730–774 (2019) (‘‘EAR’’ or
‘‘the Regulations’’), I hereby grant the
request of the Office of Export
Enforcement (‘‘OEE’’) to renew the
temporary denial order issued in this
matter on June 5, 2019. I find that
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket Number FSIS-2019-0027]
2020 Rate Changes for the Basetime, Overtime, Holiday, and
Laboratory Services Rates
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the 2020 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 2020 basetime, overtime, holiday, and
laboratory services rates will be applied on January 5, 2020.
DATES: FSIS will charge the rates announced in this notice beginning
January 5, 2020.
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:
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 2020 rates, which will be applied starting
on January 5, 2020.
2020 Rates and Calculations
The following table lists the 2020 Rates per hour, per employee, by
type of service:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2020 rate
(estimates
rounded to
Service reflect
billable
quarters)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Basetime................................................ $64.84
Overtime................................................ 79.88
Holiday................................................. 94.88
Laboratory.............................................. 82.32
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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
Office of International Affairs program office and transferred all of
its inspection program personnel to OFO. Therefore, inspection program
personnel's pay and hours are identified
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in the calculations as ``OFO inspection program personnel's'' pay and
hours.
FSIS determined the 2020 rates using the following calculations:
Basetime Rate = The quotient of dividing the 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 2020 basetime rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay divided by the previous fiscal
year's Regular Hours ($431,891,249/14,748,261)] = $29.28 + ($29.28 *
2.6% (calendar year 2020 Cost of Living Increase)) = $30.05 + $10.38
(benefits rate) + $2.49 (travel and operating rate) + $21.92 (overhead
rate) + $0.02 (bad debt allowance rate) = $64.84, which is already
divisible by 4.
Overtime Rate = The quotient of dividing the 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 living increase, multiplied by
1.5 (for overtime), 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 2020 overtime rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay divided by previous fiscal year's
Regular Hours ($431,891,249/14,748,261)] = $29.28 + ($29.28 * 2.6%
(calendar year 2020 Cost of Living Increase)) = $30.05 * 1.5 = $45.07 +
$10.38 (benefits rate) + $2.49 (travel and operating rate) + $21.92
(overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad debt allowance rate) = $79.86 rounded up
to $79.88, so that it is divisible by 4.
Holiday Rate = The quotient of dividing the 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 living increase, multiplied by 2
(for holiday pay), 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 2020 holiday rate per hour per program
employee calculation is:
[FY 2019 OFO Regular Direct Pay divided by Regular Hours
($431,891,249/14,748,261)] = $29.28 + ($29.28 * 2.6% (calendar year
2019 Cost of Living Increase)) = $30.05 * 2 = $60.09 + $10.38 (benefits
rate) + $2.49 (travel and operating rate) + $21.92 (overhead rate) +
$0.02 (bad debt allowance rate) = $94.88, which is already divisible by
4.
Laboratory Services Rate = The quotient of dividing the Office of
Public Health Science's (OPHS's) previous fiscal year's regular direct
pay by the OPHS previous fiscal year's regular hours, plus the quotient
multiplied by the calendar year's percentage 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 2020 laboratory services rate per hour per
program employee is:
[FY 2019 OPHS Regular Direct Pay/OPHS Regular hours ($22,973,965/
496,184)] = $46.30 + ($46.30 * 2.6% (calendar year 2020 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $47.51 + $10.38 (benefits rate) + $2.49 (travel and
operating rate) + $21.92 (overhead rate) + $0.02 (bad debt allowance
rate) = $82.30, rounded up to 82.32, so that it is divisible by 4.
Calculations for the Benefits, Travel and Operating, Overhead, and
Allowance for Bad Debt Rates
These rates are components of the basetime, overtime, holiday, and
laboratory services rates formulas.
Benefits Rate: The quotient of dividing the previous fiscal year's
direct benefits costs by the previous fiscal year's total hours
(regular, overtime, and holiday), plus that quotient multiplied by the
calendar year's percentage cost of living increase. Some examples of
direct benefits are health insurance, retirement, life insurance, and
Thrift Savings Plan basic and matching contributions.
The calculation for the 2020 benefits rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 Direct Benefits/(Total Regular hours + Total Overtime
hours + Total Holiday hours) ($184,242,174/18,205,950)] = $10.12 +
($10.12 * 2.6% (calendar year 2019 Cost of Living Increase)) = $10.38.
Travel and Operating Rate: The quotient of dividing the previous
fiscal year's total direct travel and operating costs by the previous
fiscal year's total hours (regular, overtime, and holiday), plus that
quotient multiplied by the calendar year's percentage of inflation.
The calculation for the 2020 travel and operating rate per hour per
program employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Direct Travel and Operating Costs/(Total Regular
hours + Total Overtime hours + Total Holiday hours) ($44,335,973/
18,205,950)] = $2.44 + ($2.44 * 2.3% (2020 Inflation) = $2.49.
Overhead Rate: The quotient of dividing the previous fiscal year's
indirect costs plus the previous fiscal year's information technology
(IT) costs in the Public Health Data Communication Infrastructure
System Fund plus the provision for the operating balance less any
Greenbook costs (i.e., costs of USDA support services prorated to the
service component for which fees are charged) that are not related to
food inspection by the previous fiscal year's total hours (regular,
overtime, and holiday) worked across all funds, plus the quotient
multiplied by the calendar year's percentage of inflation.
The calculation for the 2020 overhead rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Overhead/(Total Regular hours + Total Overtime hours
+ Total Holiday hours) ($ 390,080,911/18,205,950)] = $21.43 + ($21.43 *
2.3% (2019 Inflation) = $21.92.
Allowance for Bad Debt Rate = Previous fiscal year's total
allowance for bad debt (for example, debt owed that is not paid in full
by plants and establishments that declare bankruptcy) divided by
previous fiscal year's total hours (regular, overtime, and holiday)
worked.
The 2020 calculation for bad debt rate per hour per program
employee is:
[FY 2019 Total Bad Debt/(Total Regular hours + Total Overtime hours
+ Total Holiday hours) = ($317,344/18,205,950)] = $0.02.
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USDA Non-Discrimination Statement
No agency, officer, or employee of the USDA shall, on the grounds
of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual
orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status,
income derived from a public assistance program, or political beliefs,
exclude from participation in, deny the benefits of, or subject to
discrimination any person in the United States under any program or
activity conducted by the USDA.
How To File a Complaint of Discrimination
To file a complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program
Discrimination Complaint Form, which may be accessed online at https://www.ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2012/Complain_combined_6_8_12.pdf, or write a letter signed by you or your
authorized representative.
Send your completed complaint form or letter to USDA by mail, fax,
or email:
Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of
Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410,
Fax: (202) 690-7442, Email: [email protected].
Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for
communication (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.), should contact
USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).
Done at Washington, DC.
Carmen Rottenberg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2019-26326 Filed 12-5-19; 8:45 am]
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