[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-00056]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Interest Rate Paid on Cash Deposited To Secure U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement Immigration Bonds

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: For the period beginning January 1, 2018, and ending on March 
31, 2018, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration Bond 
interest rate is 1.24 per centum per annum.

DATES: Rates are applicable January 1, 2018 to March 31, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Comments or inquiries may be mailed to Sam Doak, Reporting 
Team Leader, Federal Borrowings Branch, Division of Accounting 
Operations, Office of Public Debt Accounting, Bureau of the Fiscal 
Service, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-1328. You can download this 
notice at the following internet addresses: http://www.treasury.gov or 
http://www.federalregister.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam Charlton, Manager, Federal 
Borrowings Branch, Office of Public Debt Accounting, Bureau of the 
Fiscal Service, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-1328, (304) 480-5248; 
Sam Doak, Reporting Team Leader, Federal Borrowings Branch, Division of 
Accounting Operations, Office of Public Debt Accounting, Bureau of the 
Fiscal Service, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 26106-1328, (304) 480-5117.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal law requires that interest payments 
on cash deposited to secure immigration bonds shall be ``at a rate 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, except that in no case 
shall the interest rate exceed 3 per centum per annum.'' 8 U.S.C. 
1363(a). Related Federal regulations state that ``Interest on cash 
deposited to secure immigration bonds will be at the rate as determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case will exceed 3 per 
centum per annum or be less than zero.'' 8 CFR 293.2. Treasury has 
determined that interest on the bonds will vary quarterly and will 
accrue during each calendar quarter at a rate equal to the lesser of 
the average of the bond equivalent rates on 91-day Treasury bills 
auctioned during the preceding calendar quarter, or 3 per centum per 
annum, but in no case less than zero. [FR Doc. 2015-18545] In addition 
to this Notice, Treasury posts the current quarterly rate in Table 2b--
Interest Rates for Specific Legislation on the TreasuryDirect website.

Gary Grippo,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Finance.
[FR Doc. 2018-00056 Filed 1-5-18; 8:45 am]
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