[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 201 (Friday, October 16, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 65750-65755]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19926]
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Proposed Rules
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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 201 / Friday, October 16, 2020 /
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
22 CFR Part 22
[Public Notice 10522]
RIN 1400-AE12
Schedule of Fees for Consular Services--Documentary Services Fee
AGENCY: Department of State.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Department of State (the Department) proposes an
adjustment to the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services (Schedule of
Fees) for authentication of a document in the United States. The
Department is incorporating the domestic authentications fee into the
Schedule of Fees and increasing it from $8 to $20, in light of the
findings of its Cost of Service Model (CoSM), to ensure that the fee
for this consular service better aligns with the costs of providing
this service. The proposed fee was calculated and set to recover the
full cost of providing the document authentication service, in line
with OMB Circular A-25. The collected fees are remitted to the
Department of Treasury. The Department of State lacks statutory
authority to retain this fee revenue.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before December 15,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit comments to the Department by
any of the following methods:
Visit the Regulations.gov website at: http://www.regulations.gov and search for the Regulatory Information Number
(RIN) 1400-AE12 or docket number DOS-2018-0037.
Mail (paper, disk, or CD-ROM): U.S. Department of State,
Office of the Comptroller, Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA/C), SA-17 8th
Floor, Washington, DC 20522-1707.
Email: [email protected]. You must include the RIN (1400-
AE12) in the subject line of your message.
All comments should include the commenter's name, the organization
the commenter represents, if applicable, and the commenter's address.
If the Department is unable to read your comment for any reason, and
cannot contact you for clarification, the Department may not be able to
consider your comment. After the conclusion of the comment period, the
Department will publish a Final Rule (in which it will address relevant
comments) as expeditiously as possible.
During the comment period, the public may request an appointment to
review Cost of Service Model (CoSM) data on site if certain conditions
are met. To request an appointment, please call 202-485-8915 and leave
a message with your contact information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Schlicht, Management Analyst,
Office of the Comptroller, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of
State; phone: 202-485-8915, telefax: 202-485-6826; email:
[email protected].
Background
The proposed rule makes a change to the Schedule of Fees in 22 CFR
22.1. The Department generally sets and collects its fees based on the
concept of full cost recovery. The Department completed a review of
current consular fees and will implement a change to the Schedule of
Fees based on the cost of services calculated by updates to the Cost of
Service Model. This specific rule proposes to adjust the fee associated
with document authentications in the United States.
What is the authority for this action?
Authority for the Department's authentications service is contained
in 22 CFR part 131. The Department derives the general authority to set
fees based on the cost of the consular services it provides and to
charge those fees from the general user charges statute, 31 U.S.C.
9701. See, e.g., 31 U.S.C. 9701(b)(2)(A) (``The head of each agency . .
. may prescribe regulations establishing the charge for a service or
thing of value provided by the agency . . . based on . . . the costs to
the government.''). The funds collected for many consular fees must be
deposited into the general fund of the Treasury pursuant to 31 U.S.C.
3302(b). Various statutes permit the Department of State to retain some
of the fee revenue it collects (e.g. passport security surcharge,
immigrant visa security surcharge, affidavit of support, etc.), but the
Department of State lacks statutory authority to retain the fees
collected for document authentication. As a result, all fees associated
with this service are remitted to the Department of Treasury.
What are document authentication services?
The Office of Authentications provides authentication services for
public documents that will be used overseas. These services support
individuals, commercial organizations, institutions, federal, and state
government agencies seeking to use certain documents abroad. In order
to be recognized overseas, U.S. public documents may require
authentication. Authentication is the process whereby the signature
and/or seal of a public official on a document is certified as
authentic. There are two kinds of authentication depending upon the
country where the document is to be used. The first is with an
Apostille for countries that are parties to the Hague Apostille
Convention. The Department only issues Apostilles for federal public
documents; U.S. states issue Apostilles for their documents such as
vital records and notarials. The second form of authentication is part
of the chain legalization process. Under this process, the Department
issues an authentication certificate for federal documents and for U.S.
state authentication certificates certifying underlying state public
documents. These are then further authenticated by the foreign Embassy
of the country where the document is to be used.
When the office receives a request, it is given a unique service
number (for tracking purposes). The documents are examined for
originality, original signatures, seals, notaries' annotations, and
chronological date order. If a document is approved for processing, a
certificate of authentication under the Seal of the Department of State
for and in the name of the Secretary of State is printed, signed, and
eyeletted to the document. If the document is not approved to be
processed, a correspondence letter is sent to the customer informing
them of additional documentation that is needed to process their
document. If it is determined after review that the document is being
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requested for an unlawful or improper purpose, the office sends the
customer a refusal letter.
The most common documents authenticated are:
FBI- federal background check and police records
Certificates of Birth, Marriage, Death, and Divorce
Diplomas and Transcripts
Police Records and Certified Court Records
Name Change Decrees
Power of Attorney
HHS- Company Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, and
Authorization of Agent
Declarations and Incumbency
Dossier and Home Study
Courier Letters, Extraditions, Warrants, and Secretarial
Assignments
Naturalization Certificates
For more information, including application instructions, please
visit: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/records-and-authentications/authenticate-your-document/office-of-authentications.html.
Why is the department adjusting the documentary services fee at this
time?
With certain exceptions--such as the reciprocal nonimmigrant visa
issuance fee--the Department of State generally sets consular fees at
an amount calculated to achieve recovery of the costs to the U.S.
Government of providing the consular service, in a manner consistent
with general user charges principles. As set forth in Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-25, as a general policy, each
recipient should pay a user charge for government services, resources,
or goods from which he or she derives a special benefit, at an amount
sufficient for the U.S. Government to recover the full costs of
providing the service, resource, or good. See OMB Circular No. A-25,
sec. 6(a)(2)(a). The OMB guidance covers all Federal Executive Branch
activities that convey special benefits to recipients beyond those that
accrue to the general public. See id., sections 4(a), 6(a)(1).
The Department reviews consular fees periodically, including
through an annual update to its Cost of Service Model, to determine
each fee's appropriateness in light of the OMB guidance. The Department
proposes the change set forth in the Schedule of Fees accordingly. The
Cost of Service Model is an activity-based costing model that
determines the current direct and indirect costs to the U.S. Government
associated with each consular good and service the Department provides.
The model update identifies the cost of the various discrete consular
goods and services, both direct and indirect, and the update's results
formed the basis of the change proposed to the Schedule of Fees.
Activity-Based Costing
To set fees in accordance with the general user charges principles,
the Department must determine the true cost of providing consular
services. Following guidance provided in ``Managerial Cost Accounting
Concepts and Standards for the Federal Government,'' OMB's Statement #4
of Federal Accounting Standards (SFFAS #4), available at http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_4.pdf, the Department chose to
develop and use an activity-based costing (ABC) model to determine the
true cost of each of its consular services.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) defines activity-based
costing as a ``set of accounting methods used to identify and describe
costs and required resources for activities within processes.'' Because
an organization can use the same staff and resources (computer
equipment, production facilities, etc.) to produce multiple products or
services, ABC models seek to identify and assign costs to processes and
activities and then to individual products and services through the
identification of key cost drivers referred to as ``resource drivers''
and ``activity drivers.''
ABC models also seek to identify the amount of time an
organization's personnel spend on each service and how much overhead
cost (rent, utilities, facilities maintenance, etc.) is associated with
delivering each service. ABC models require financial and accounting
analysis and modeling skills combined with a detailed understanding of
an organization's business processes. ABC models require an
organization to identify all activities required to produce a
particular product or service (``activities'') and all resources
consumed (costs) in the course of producing that product or service. An
organization must also measure the quantity of resources consumed
(``resource driver''); and the frequency and intensity of demand placed
on activities to produce services (``activity driver''). SFFAS
Statement #4 provides a detailed discussion of the use of cost
accounting by the U.S. Government.
The Department's Cost of Service Model
The Department conducted periodic Cost of Service Studies using ABC
methods to determine the costs of its consular services through 2009.
In 2010, the Department moved to adopt an annually updated Cost of
Service Model (CoSM) that measures all of its consular operations and
costs, including all activities needed to provide consular services,
whether fee-based or not. This provides a comprehensive and detailed
look at all consular services as well as all services the Department
performs for other agencies in connection with its consular operations.
The CoSM now includes approximately 118 distinct activities and enables
the Department to model its consular-related costs with a high degree
of precision.
The Department uses three methods outlined in SFFAS Statement #4
(paragraph 149(2)) to assign resource costs to activities: (a) Direct
tracing; (b) estimation based on surveys, interviews, or statistical
sampling; and (c) allocations. The Department uses direct tracing to
assign the cost of, for example, a physical passport book or the visa
foil placed in a visa applicant's passport. Assigning costs to
activities such as adjudicating a passport or visa application requires
estimation based on surveys, interviews, or statistical sampling to
determine who performs an activity and how long it takes. Indirect
costs (overhead) in the CoSM are allocated according to the level of
effort needed for a particular activity. Where possible, the model uses
overhead cost pools to assign indirect costs only to related
activities. For instance, the cost of rent for domestic passport
agencies is assigned only to passport costs, not to visas or other
services the Department provides only overseas. The Department
allocates indirect support costs to each consular service by the
portion of each cost attributable to consular activities. For example,
the model allocates a portion of the cost of the Department's Bureau of
Human Resources to consular services. The total amount of this
allocation is based on the number of Bureau of Human Resources staff
members who support Bureau of Consular Affairs personnel. In turn, this
amount is proportionally allocated between the different consular
services.
For consular activities that take place in the United States, the
Department collects workload and level of effort data from periodic
workload reports including Passport Agency Task Reports pulled from
management databases that include Passport's Management Information
System. Financial information is gathered from reports provided by the
Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of the Comptroller. The Department
converts the cost and workload data it collects into resource drivers
and activity drivers for each resource and activity.
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Because roughly 70 percent of the workforce involved in providing
consular services are full-time Federal employees, if demand for a
service falls precipitously, the Department cannot shed employees as
quickly as the private sector. Likewise, should demand rise
precipitously, the Department cannot add employees quickly, because
delivering the majority of consular services requires specially trained
employees who cannot begin their training until they have completed the
federal hiring process and obtained a security clearance. Additionally,
given government procurement rules and security requirements, the
Department must commit to many of its facilities and infrastructure
costs years before a facility becomes available. Despite changes in
demand, the Department is obligated to cover these costs. Given these
and other constraints on altering the Department's cost structure in
the short term, changes in service volumes can have dramatic effects on
whether a fee is self-sustaining. Predictive workloads are based on
projections by the Office of Visa Services, the Office of Passport
Services, and other parts of the Bureau of Consular Affairs that are
consistent with Department budget documents prepared for Congress.
The costs the Department enters into CoSM include every line item
of costs, including items such as physical material for making
passports and visas, salaries, rent, supplies, and IT hardware and
software. The Department then determines a resource driver for each of
these costs as discussed above and enters the resource drivers and
assignments into the model. The Department then selects an activity
driver, such as the volume data discussed above for each activity, in
order to assign these costs to each service type. This process allows
the model to calculate a total cost for each of the Schedule of Fees
line items for visa services, passport services, and overseas citizens
services as well as services for other government agencies and ``no
fee'' services. The model then divides the total weighted cost by the
total weighted volume of the service or product in question in order to
determine a final unit cost for the service or product. Projected costs
for predictive years are used to take account of changes in the size of
consular staff, workload, and similar factors. The resulting database
constitutes the Cost of Service Model.
The Department continues to refine and update the Cost of Service
Model in order to set fees commensurate with the cost of providing
consular services. Because the Cost of Service Model is a complex
series of iterative computer processes incorporating more than a
million calculations, it is not reducible to a tangible form such as a
document. Inputs are formatted in spreadsheets for entry into the ABC
software package. The ABC software package itself is an industry
standard commercial off-the-shelf product, SAP Business Objects. The
software's output includes spreadsheets with raw unit costs, validation
reports, and management reports.
Using the Cost of Service Model To Assess Costs Associated With
Document Authentication Services
For analyzing document authentication services, the cost object is
Basic Domestic Authentication Service. It has six activities, denoted
in the model by the shorthand AUTH.#, and they are Provide Information,
Data Intake, Payment and Cashiering, Perform Authentication Review,
Personalize, and Issue. Further down, each activity is described in
detail. The resource driver is based on a time and motion study that
identified the percentage of time the Office of Authentications staff
spend on each activity. The overhead pools are the Passport General
Management Overhead Pool and the General Management Overhead Pool.
AUTH.1 Provide Information
Costs are allocated according to a time and motion study, with
tasks measured in the time and motion study mapped to CoSM
activities with the assistance of the Authentications staff. Tasks
include Retrieve messages from appointment/status line, Return
calls/answer live calls from appointment line, and Return status
calls. The cost of this activity is directly assigned to the Basic
Authentication cost object.
AUTH.2 Data Intake
Tasks mapped to AUTH.2 Data Intake include Collect mail-in
documents, walk-in documents, Greet customers in lobby, and Answer
customer questions in lobby area during case drop off/pick-up. The
cost of this activity is directly assigned to the Basic
Authentication cost object.
AUTH.3 Payment and Cashiering
Tasks mapped to AUTH.3 Payment and Cashiering include Conduct
follow-up calls for cases received without payment. The cost of this
activity is directly assigned to the Basic Authentication cost
object.
AUTH.4 Perform Authentication Review
Tasks mapped to AUTH.4 Perform Authentication Review include
Perform authentication review for appointment documents, Perform
initial review of case, Perform authentication review for counter
documents, and Perform authentication review for mail documents. The
cost of this activity is directly assigned to the Basic
Authentication cost object.
AUTH.5 Personalize
Tasks mapped to AUTH.5 Personalize include print, sign, and bind
certificate to the documents. The cost of this activity is directly
assigned to the Basic Authentication cost object.
AUTH.6 Issue
Tasks mapped to AUTH.6 Issue include Return document to
appointment customer in lobby and by mail back. The cost of this
activity is directly assigned to the Basic Authentication cost
object.
Domestic Authentications Driver
The table below details the resources, driver used, and
corresponding activities performed.
Table 1--Domestic Authentications Resource Driver
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Resources Driver used Activities
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CA Consolidation--DA, CA Time and motion AUTH.1 Provide
Headquarters Rent--DA, study. Information, AUTH.2
281201 PPT/S/TO/AUT Office Data Intake, AUTH.3
of Authentications Payment and
positions and costs. Cashiering, AUTH.4
Perform
Authentication
Review, AUTH.5
Personalize, AUTH.6
Issue.
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Costs are assigned according to a time and motion study, with tasks
measured in the time and motion study mapped to CoSM activities with
the assistance of the Authentications staff.
Domestic Authentications Fee
The Department is incorporating the domestic authentications fee
into the Schedule of Fees and increasing it from $8 to $20. The Office
of Authentications, which provides signed authentication certificates
for U.S. documents destined for use in foreign countries, moved from
the Bureau of Administration (A Bureau) to the Bureau of Consular
Affairs (CA) in October 2012. Before the move, the
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Office of Authentications charged $8 per authentication. At that time,
there were five direct-hire full-time employees (FTE), no contractors,
and a large backlog of authentications. In 2014, the Office of
Authentications moved to the new Washington Passport Agency to increase
space for operations, and in 2016 hired four contractors to perform
functions like mail opening, cashiering, and data entry, among other
clerical tasks.
Following the move to CA, the Department began to measure the cost
of Office of Authentications operations and services in the Cost of
Service Model. Costs for this service have gone up the past several
years to meet customer service expectations and workload requirements.
The Office of Authentications aims to maintain a five business day
turn-around time for all mail-in applications, and a three day turn-
around time for all walk-in requests. In 2016/2017, the office added
five additional contractors to meet demand of the existing workload and
to manage the walk-ins to the facility and to provide information and
manage the queue of customers needing authentication services. CA's
Office of Authentications now has nine FTEs and nine contractors. Only
FTEs have the authority to adjudicate authentications, and the
additional contractor resources allowed FTEs to reduce administrative
tasks to focus on adjudication. The scope of work for the Office of
Authentications also widened. Once CA inherited this service from the A
Bureau, all IT systems had to be updated and a tracking system was
created to manage workload. CA also had to increase its capacity to
manage calls to support customer service in addition to workflow
management systems to manage customers as they come into the facility.
A presence was added to the travel.state.gov site to provide the public
with information on the existence of the office. Lastly, two additional
printers, which are rented and bear an annual expense, were acquired to
meet demands for current technology.
Based on the findings of the most recent update to the Cost of
Service Model, the Department determined that a fee of $20 would fully
recover the cost of Office of Authentications operations and services.
This includes the salaries for the staff of the Office of
Authentications, rent for the physical location at 600 19th Street NW,
Washington, DC, and overhead costs that include information technology,
human resources, facilities maintenance, legal review, and security.
There are over 100 specific line item costs that flow into the
Department's cost for the domestic authentications service. A summary
level breakdown broken down into three general cost categories is
provided in the below table:
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Table 2: Line Item Total (Authentications).............. $4,431,980
Compensation........................................ 1,589,237
Non-Compensation.................................... 1,604,126
Partner Bureaus..................................... 1,238,617
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The Office of Authentications currently consists of nine civil-
service employees, which includes an increase of two full-time
employees (FTE) over the past five years, and several contract support
staff. As discussed below, the Department notes that authentication
services have remained roughly constant in recent years at
approximately 235,000 authentications annually and expects that trend
to continue. The FTE time-per-service (cycle time) has remained
relatively constant. As such, CA is not planning to increase either FTE
or contract staff at this time as the current staff is meeting demand
within the established cycle times. Compensation costs include FTE
staff salaries and benefits and domestic overhead costs directly
related to the domestic authentication service, and total $1,589,237.
The FTE average compensation cost (with benefits) is more than $138,000
per position. Additional costs in the Compensation category, totaling
approximately $38,582 per FTE, include general management overhead
costs, and domestic Passport staff costs included in Passport general
management overhead. The Non-Compensation costs total $1,604,126, and
include operating costs like domestic awards, contractor support costs,
personnel travel and transportation, utilities, supplies, equipment,
and CA IT costs which increase as FTE numbers increase.
The support from other State Department Partner Bureaus (or Partner
Bureaus) cost category includes compensation, overhead, and operating
costs associated with CA's Partner Bureaus that support the domestic
authentication service. Partner Bureau functions that support the
domestic authentication service include human resources support,
facilities maintenance, legal review, and security. This cost category
also includes rent CA pays for Office of Authentications space. The
directly applicable portion of the Partner Bureau's costs, in line with
the support they provide to perform this service, totals $1,238,617.
These three cost categories comprise the total overall costs of
providing the domestic authentication service, which totals $4,431,980.
The Cost of Service Model indicates that the cost-per-service is
$18.83. The Department has determined that it is most efficient to
round up to the nearest five dollars, which is why it has set the fee
at $20. The Department notes that because all fee revenue associated
with document authentication must be remitted to the Treasury, the
Department uses alternative sources of retained fee revenue with broad
spending authorities to fund the costs the Department incurs to provide
the documentary authentication services.
Regulatory Findings
Administrative Procedure Act
The Department is publishing this rule as a proposed rule, with a
60-day provision for public comments.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Department has reviewed this proposed rule and, by approving
it, certifies that it will not have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities as defined in 5 U.S.C. 601(6).
Unfunded Mandates Act of 1995
This proposed rule is not expected to result in the expenditure by
state, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the
private sector, of $100 million or more in any year, and it will not
significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no
actions were deemed necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. 1501-1504.
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996
This rule is not a major rule as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
Executive Order 12866 and 13563
The Department has reviewed this proposed rule to ensure its
consistency with the regulatory philosophy and principles set forth in
the Executive Orders. This proposed rule has been submitted to OMB for
review.
This proposed rule is necessary in light of the need to incorporate
the authentications fee into the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services
and the Department of State's Cost of Service Model finding that the
cost of authenticating a document in the United States is higher than
the current fee. The Department is setting the fee in accordance with
31 U.S.C. 9701. See, e.g., 31 U.S.C. 9701(b)(2)(A) (``The head of each
agency . . . may prescribe regulations establishing the charge for a
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service or thing of value provided by the agency . . . based on . . .
the costs to the Government.''). This proposed rule sets the fee for
domestic authentications at the amount required to recover the costs
associated with providing this service.
Details of the proposed fee change are as follows:
Table 3--Fee Change Impact
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Estimated Estimated
annual number change in
Item No. Proposed fee Current fee Change in fee Percentage of services annual fees
increase requested 1 collected 2
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Schedule of Fees for Consular Services
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Documentary Services
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46. Authentications (by the Office of Authentications .............. .............. .............. .............. .............. ..............
domestically):
(a) Each basic authentication service............... $20 $8 $12 150 234,197 $2,810,364
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Total........................................... 20 8 12 150 234,197 2,810,364
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\1\ Based on FY 2018 workload. Workload has remained consistent over five years, averaging approximately 235,000 authentications each year--we expect
that trend to continue. Respondents may ask for more than one service on a form and a fee is assessed per document authenticated.
\2\ The Department of State does not retain this fee. All fee revenue associated with this service is remitted to Treasury.
Based on the foregoing information, and the fact that the CoSM has
demonstrated that the increase in fees will allow the U.S. government
to recover the full cost of providing this service, the Department
finds that the benefit to the public outweighs the cost of this rule as
outlined above.
Executive Order 13771
This regulation is not an E.O. 13771 regulatory action because it
is a transfer rule that changes only the fee for a service without
imposing any new costs. The increase of this current collection
accurately reflects the cost to the U.S. government of providing this
service.
Executive Orders 12372 and 13132
This regulation will not have substantial direct effects on the
states, on the relationship between the national government and the
states, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the
various levels of government. Therefore, in accordance with section 6
of Executive Order 13132, it is determined that this rule does not have
sufficient federalism implications to require consultations or warrant
the preparation of a federalism summary impact statement. The
regulations implementing Executive Order 12372 regarding
intergovernmental consultation on federal programs and activities do
not apply to this regulation.
Executive Order 13175
The Department has determined that this rulemaking will not have
tribal implications, will not impose substantial direct compliance
costs on Indian tribal governments, and will not preempt tribal law.
Accordingly, the requirements of Executive Order 13175 do not apply to
this rulemaking.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This rulemaking relates to an information collection request for
the DS-4194, Request for Authentications Service, which is being
processed separately.
List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 22
Consular services, Fees.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated in the preamble, 22 CFR part 22
is proposed to be amended as follows:
PART 22--SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR CONSULAR SERVICES--DEPARTMENT OF
STATE AND FOREIGN SERVICE
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1. The authority citation for part 22 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, 1153 note, 1157 note, 1183a note,
1184(c)(12), 1201(c), 1351, 1351 note, 1713, 1714, 1714 note; 10
U.S.C. 2602(c); 22 U.S.C. 214, 214 note, 1475e, 2504(h), 2651a,
4206, 4215, 4219, 6551; 31 U.S.C. 9701; Exec. Order 10,718, 22 FR
4632 (1957); Exec. Order 11,295, 31 FR 10603 (1966).
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2. In Sec. 22.1, amend the table by adding entry 46 under the heading
``Documentary Services'' to read as follows:
Sec. 22.1 Schedule of fees.
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Schedule of Fees for Consular Services
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Item No. Fee
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Documentary Services
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46. Authentications (by the Office of Authentications ..............
domestically):.........................................
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(a) Each basic authentication service............... $20
(Items 47-50 vacant.)................................... ..............
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Carl C. Risch,
Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, Department of State.
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