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(2) For manipulation or attempted
manipulation violations:
TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH (b)(2)
Date of violation and corresponding penalty
U.S. Code citation
Civil monetary penalty description
10/23/2004
through
5/21/2008
05/22/2008
through
8/14/2011
08//15/2011
through
11/01/2015
11/02/2015 to
present
Civil Monetary Penalty Imposed by the Commission in an Administrative Action
7 U.S.C. 9 (Section 6(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act).
7 U.S.C. 13a (Section 6b of the
Commodity Exchange Act).
For any person other than a registered entity1.
For a registered entity1 or any of its
directors, officers or employees.
$130,000
$1,000,000
$1,025,000
$1,212,866
625,000
1,000,000
1,025,000
1,212,866
$1,025,000
$1,212,866
Civil Monetary Penalty Imposed by a Federal District Court in a Civil Injunctive Action
7 U.S.C. 13a-1 (Section 6c of the
Commodity Exchange Act).
1 The
Any Person .......................................
$1,000,000
term ‘‘Registered Entity’’ is defined in 7 U.S.C. 1a (Section 1a of the Commodity Exchange Act).
Issued in Washington, DC on January 8,
2020, by the Commission.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
Note: The following appendix will not
appear in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Appendix to Adjustment of Civil
Monetary Penalties for Inflation—
2020—Commission Voting Summary
On this matter, Chairman Tarbert and
Commissioners Quintenz, Behnam, Stump,
and Berkovitz voted in the affirmative. No
Commissioner voted in the negative.
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
New Mailing Standards for Domestic
Mailing Services Products
Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
On October 9, 2019, the Postal
ServiceTM filed a notice of mailing
services price adjustments with the
Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC),
effective January 26, 2020. This final
rule contains the revisions to Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal
Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®)
to implement the changes coincident
with the price adjustments and other
minor DMM changes.
DATES: Effective January 26, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacqueline Erwin at (202) 268–2158, or
Dale Kennedy at (202) 268–6592.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
December 20, 2019, the Postal
VerDate Sep<11>2014
15:46 Jan 10, 2020
Regulatory Commission (PRC) found
that the price adjustments proposed by
the Postal Service may take effect as
planned. The price adjustments and
DMM revisions are scheduled to become
effective on January 26, 2020. Final
prices are available under Docket No.
R2020–1 (Order No.5373) on the Postal
Regulatory Commission’s website at
www.prc.gov.
USPS did not receive any comments
on the proposed changes.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Administrative practice and
procedure, Postal Service.
The Postal Service adopts the
following changes to Mailing Standards
of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM),
incorporated by reference in the Code of
Federal Regulations. See 39 CFR 111.1.
Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is
amended as follows:
PART 111—[AMENDED]
SUMMARY:
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR
part 111 continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301–
307; 18 U.S.C. 1692–1737; 39 U.S.C. 101,
401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001–3011, 3201–
3219, 3403–3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632,
3633, and 5001.
2. Revise the Mailing Standards of the
United States Postal Service, Domestic
Mail Manual (DMM) as follows:
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230
First-Class Mail
233
Prices and Eligibility
1.0
Prices and Fees
*
*
1.5
Presort Mailing Fee
*
*
*
[Revise the second sentence of 1.5; to
read as follows:]
* * * Payment of this fee does not
apply to qualified full-service mailings
(under 705.23.3.1a).* * *
*
*
*
*
*
240 Commercial Mail USPS
Marketing Mail
243
Prices and Eligibility
1.0
Prices and Fees
*
*
1.4
Fees
1.4.1
*
*
*
Presort Mailing Fee
[Revise the second sentence of 1.4.1;
to read as follows:]
* * * Payment of this fee does not
apply to mailers who present qualified
full-service mailings (under
705.23.3.1a).* * *
*
*
*
*
*
260 Commercial Mail Bound Printed
Matter
263
Prices and Eligibility
1.0
Prices and Fees
*
*
*
*
*
Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM)
1.2 Presorted and Carrier Route
Bound Printed Matter
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1.2.5
200
Commercial Mail
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* * * Payment of this fee does not
apply to mailers who present only
qualified full-service flat-size mailings
(under 705.23.3.1a).
*
*
*
*
*
Additional Services
*
*
508
Recipient Services
*
*
4.0
Post Office Box Service
*
*
4.4
Basis of Fees and Payment
*
*
4.4.2
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Fee Changes
5.0
Caller Service
*
*
5.5
Basis of Fees and Payment
*
*
5.5.3
*
*
*
*
*
Fee Changes
[Revise the text of 5.5.3 by adding new
last sentence; to read as follows:]
* * * In addition, the USPS may
assign a fee group to a new ZIP Code,
may reassign one or more 5-digit ZIP
Codes to the next higher or lower fee
group based on the ZIP Codes’ cost and
market characteristics, or may regroup
5-digit ZIP Codes.
*
*
*
*
*
700
Special Standards
*
*
*
*
*
705 Advanced Preparation and
Special Postage Payment Systems
*
22.0
*
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22.3
*
*
*
*
Seamless Acceptance Program
*
*
*
*
[Revise the introductory text of 22.3,
by adding new second and third
sentences to read as follows:]
* * * Any permits used in a
Seamless acceptance mailing will not
prevent that mailing from being
finalized regardless of if an annual fee
is due on that permit. However, the first
time the permit is used for a nonseamless mailing the mailer will have to
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*
General Eligibility Standards
[Revise the first sentence of the
introductory text of 23.2; to read as
follows:]
First-Class Mail (FCM), Periodicals,
and USPS Marketing Mail, cards (FCM
only), letters (except letters using
simplified address format) and flats
meeting eligibility requirements for
automation or carrier route prices
(except for USPS Marketing Mail ECR
saturation flats), and Bound Printed
Matter presorted or carrier route
barcoded flats, are potentially eligible
for full-service incentives.* * *
23.3
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AGENCY
40 CFR Part 19
[FRL–10003–77–OECA]
*
Fees
[Revise the title of 23.3.1; to read as
follows:]
23.3.1 Eligibility for Exception to
Payment of Annual Fees and Waiver of
Deposit of Permit Imprint Mail
Restrictions
[Revise the introductory text of 23.3.1;
to read as follows:]
Mailers who present automation or
presort mailings (of First-Class Mail
cards, letters, and flats, USPS Marketing
Mail letters and flats, or Bound Printed
Matter flats) that contain 90 percent or
more full-service eligible mail as fullservice, and 75 percent of their total
mail is eligible for full-service
incentives, are eligible for the following
exception to standards:
[Revise the text of item 23.3.1a; to
read as follows:]
a. Annual presort mailing or
destination entry fees, as applicable, do
not apply to mailings entered by mailers
who meet both the 90 percent and 75
percent full-service thresholds, for
qualified full-service mailings, as
specified in 23.3.1.* * *
*
*
*
*
*
Notice 123 (Price List)
Basic Standards
VerDate Sep<11>2014
Full-Service Automation Option
*
23.2
*
[Revise the second sentence of 4.4.2;
to read as follows:]
* * * In addition, the USPS may
assign a fee group to a new ZIP Code,
may reassign one or more 5-digit ZIP
Codes to the next higher or lower fee
group based on the ZIP Codes’ cost and
market characteristics, or may regroup
5-digit ZIP Codes.* * *
*
*
*
*
*
*
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pay the permit fee if they do not meet
the requirements for a fee waiver.* * *
*
*
*
*
*
Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation
Adjustment
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is promulgating this final
rule to adjust the level of the maximum
(and minimum) statutory civil monetary
penalty amounts under the statutes the
EPA administers. This action is
mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties
Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as
amended through the Federal Civil
Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act
Improvements Act of 2015 (‘‘the 2015
Act’’). The 2015 Act prescribes a
formula for annually adjusting the
statutory maximum (and minimum)
amount of civil penalties to reflect
inflation, maintain the deterrent effect
of statutory civil penalties, and promote
compliance with the law. The rule does
not necessarily revise the penalty
amounts that the EPA chooses to seek
pursuant to its civil penalty policies in
a particular case. The EPA’s civil
penalty policies, which guide
enforcement personnel on how to
exercise the EPA’s statutory penalty
authorities, take into account a number
of fact-specific considerations, e.g., the
seriousness of the violation, the
violator’s good faith efforts to comply,
any economic benefit gained by the
violator as a result of its noncompliance,
and a violator’s ability to pay.
DATES: This final rule is effective
January 13, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Smith-Watts, Office of Civil
Enforcement, Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance, Mail Code
2241A, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone
number: (202) 564–4083; smithwatts.david@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
[Revise prices as applicable.]
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*
*
*
We will publish an appropriate
amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect
these changes.
I. Background
*
Since 1996, Federal agencies have
been required to issue regulations
adjusting for inflation the statutory civil
penalties 1 that can be imposed under
Joshua J. Hofer,
Attorney, Federal Compliance.
1 The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment
Act of 1990, Public Law 101–410, 28 U.S.C. 2461
note, defines ‘‘civil monetary penalty’’ as any
penalty, fine, or other sanction that—(1)(i) is for a
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[FR Doc No: 2019-28488]
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products
AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: On October 9, 2019, the Postal Service\TM\ filed a notice of
mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory
Commission (PRC), effective January 26, 2020. This final rule contains
the revisions to Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to implement the changes coincident
with the price adjustments and other minor DMM changes.
DATES: Effective January 26, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Erwin at (202) 268-2158, or
Dale Kennedy at (202) 268-6592.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 20, 2019, the Postal Regulatory
Commission (PRC) found that the price adjustments proposed by the
Postal Service may take effect as planned. The price adjustments and
DMM revisions are scheduled to become effective on January 26, 2020.
Final prices are available under Docket No. R2020-1 (Order No.5373) on
the Postal Regulatory Commission's website at www.prc.gov.
USPS did not receive any comments on the proposed changes.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Administrative practice and procedure, Postal Service.
The Postal Service adopts the following changes to Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM), incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations.
See 39 CFR 111.1.
Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is amended as follows:
PART 111--[AMENDED]
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301-307; 18 U.S.C. 1692-
1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219,
3403-3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 3633, and 5001.
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2. Revise the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) as follows:
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM)
* * * * *
200 Commercial Mail
* * * * *
230 First-Class Mail
233 Prices and Eligibility
1.0 Prices and Fees
* * * * *
1.5 Presort Mailing Fee
[Revise the second sentence of 1.5; to read as follows:]
* * * Payment of this fee does not apply to qualified full-service
mailings (under 705.23.3.1a).* * *
* * * * *
240 Commercial Mail USPS Marketing Mail
243 Prices and Eligibility
1.0 Prices and Fees
* * * * *
1.4 Fees
1.4.1 Presort Mailing Fee
[Revise the second sentence of 1.4.1; to read as follows:]
* * * Payment of this fee does not apply to mailers who present
qualified full-service mailings (under 705.23.3.1a).* * *
* * * * *
260 Commercial Mail Bound Printed Matter
263 Prices and Eligibility
1.0 Prices and Fees
* * * * *
1.2 Presorted and Carrier Route Bound Printed Matter
* * * * *
1.2.5 Destination Entry Mailing Fee
[Revise the last sentence of 1.2.5; to read as follows:]
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* * * Payment of this fee does not apply to mailers who present
only qualified full-service flat-size mailings (under 705.23.3.1a).
* * * * *
500 Additional Services
* * * * *
508 Recipient Services
* * * * *
4.0 Post Office Box Service
* * * * *
4.4 Basis of Fees and Payment
* * * * *
4.4.2 Fee Changes
[Revise the second sentence of 4.4.2; to read as follows:]
* * * In addition, the USPS may assign a fee group to a new ZIP
Code, may reassign one or more 5-digit ZIP Codes to the next higher or
lower fee group based on the ZIP Codes' cost and market
characteristics, or may regroup 5-digit ZIP Codes.* * *
* * * * *
5.0 Caller Service
* * * * *
5.5 Basis of Fees and Payment
* * * * *
5.5.3 Fee Changes
[Revise the text of 5.5.3 by adding new last sentence; to read as
follows:]
* * * In addition, the USPS may assign a fee group to a new ZIP
Code, may reassign one or more 5-digit ZIP Codes to the next higher or
lower fee group based on the ZIP Codes' cost and market
characteristics, or may regroup 5-digit ZIP Codes.
* * * * *
700 Special Standards
* * * * *
705 Advanced Preparation and Special Postage Payment Systems
* * * * *
22.0 Seamless Acceptance Program
* * * * *
22.3 Basic Standards
[Revise the introductory text of 22.3, by adding new second and
third sentences to read as follows:]
* * * Any permits used in a Seamless acceptance mailing will not
prevent that mailing from being finalized regardless of if an annual
fee is due on that permit. However, the first time the permit is used
for a non-seamless mailing the mailer will have to pay the permit fee
if they do not meet the requirements for a fee waiver.* * *
* * * * *
23.0 Full-Service Automation Option
* * * * *
23.2 General Eligibility Standards
[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of 23.2; to
read as follows:]
First-Class Mail (FCM), Periodicals, and USPS Marketing Mail, cards
(FCM only), letters (except letters using simplified address format)
and flats meeting eligibility requirements for automation or carrier
route prices (except for USPS Marketing Mail ECR saturation flats), and
Bound Printed Matter presorted or carrier route barcoded flats, are
potentially eligible for full-service incentives.* * *
23.3 Fees
[Revise the title of 23.3.1; to read as follows:]
23.3.1 Eligibility for Exception to Payment of Annual Fees and Waiver
of Deposit of Permit Imprint Mail Restrictions
[Revise the introductory text of 23.3.1; to read as follows:]
Mailers who present automation or presort mailings (of First-Class
Mail cards, letters, and flats, USPS Marketing Mail letters and flats,
or Bound Printed Matter flats) that contain 90 percent or more full-
service eligible mail as full-service, and 75 percent of their total
mail is eligible for full-service incentives, are eligible for the
following exception to standards:
[Revise the text of item 23.3.1a; to read as follows:]
a. Annual presort mailing or destination entry fees, as applicable,
do not apply to mailings entered by mailers who meet both the 90
percent and 75 percent full-service thresholds, for qualified full-
service mailings, as specified in 23.3.1.* * *
* * * * *
Notice 123 (Price List)
[Revise prices as applicable.]
* * * * *
We will publish an appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to
reflect these changes.
Joshua J. Hofer,
Attorney, Federal Compliance.
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