[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51366-51367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25672]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey


Digital Cartographic Data Sets; Revised Prices

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: USGS Restructures Prices For Digital Map Products.
    The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has revised prices for some 
digital cartographic data sets. Known as US GeoData, these data sets 
include digital elevation models (DEM), digital line graphs (DLG), 
digital raster graphics (DRG), land use and land cover data (LULC), 
geographic names information system data (GNIS), and black-and-white 
and color-infrared digital orthophoto quarter quadrangles (DOQQ).
    Prices for these products were last revised more than 10 years ago. 
Prices have been adjusted to accurately reflect and ensure recovery of 
the costs associated with their reproduction and distribution, and are 
directly proportional to file size. These changes are consistent with 
guidance contained in the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-
130 which permits government agencies to recover only reproduction and 
distribution costs from the sale of its products.

DATES: Revised prices for the US GeoData products are shown in the 
table below. These prices will become effective on October 1, 1998. A 
$3.50 handling fee applies to each order.

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                                                Base charge  Base charge
             Product                Price/File     (media)       (ftp)
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DEM..............................        $1.00       $45.00       $30.00
DLG..............................         1.00        45.00        30.00
DRG..............................         1.00        45.00        30.00
LULC.............................         1.00        45.00        30.00
GNIS.............................         1.00        45.00        30.00
DOQQ (B/W).......................         7.50        45.00        30.00
DOQQ (CIR).......................        15.00        45.00        30.00
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    After October 1, the DRG data sets will only be available for 
purchase only as individual primary series quadrangles (1:24,000-, 
1:25,000-, 1:63,360-scale), priced at $1.00 each. A 1-degree block set 
will not longer be offered as the standard distribution format. 
However, 1-degree blocks of DRG's may still be purchased under the new 
prince structure as a composite of sixty four 7.5-minute files, two 
1:100,000-scale files, and one 1:250,000-scale file at a cost of $112.
    All US GeoData product order received by or postmarked before 
October 1, 1998, will be subject to the current price structure. All US 
GeoData product orders received after October 1, 1998, will be priced 
according to the new structure. Customers who place orders between 
September 14, 1998, and October 1, 1998, will be allowed a grace 
period, ending October 31, 1998, to change their orders. The grace 
period is not available on customer orders placed before September 14, 
1998.

POINT OF CONTACT: Barron Bradford of the National Mapping Division's 
Office of Data and Information Delivery, 703-648-5774 or by e-mail at 
[email protected].

    Dated: September 18, 1998.
Richard E. Witmer,
Chief, National Mapping Division.
[FR Doc. 98-25672 Filed 9-24-98; 8:45 am]
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