§ 130.5 - Exemptions.

§ 130.5 User fees for services at privately owned permanent and temporary import quarantine facilitiesExemptions.

(a) User fees for any service rendered by an APHIS representative for each animal quarantined in a privately operated permanent or temporary import quarantine facility will be calculated at the hourly user fee rate listed in § 130.30, for each employee required to perform the service. The person for whom the service is provided and the person requesting the service are jointly and severally liable for payment of these user fees in accordance with §§ 130.50 and 130.51.

(b) [Reserved]

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 0579–0094)

[65 FR 52006, Aug. 28, 2000, as amended at 72 FR 70766, Dec. 13, 2007]

Veterinary diagnostics. APHIS will not charge user fees for veterinary diagnostic services under the following conditions:

(1) When veterinary diagnostic services are provided in connection with Federal programs to control or eradicate diseases or pests of livestock or poultry in the United States (program diseases);

(2) When veterinary diagnostic services are provided in support of zoonotic disease surveillance when the Administrator has determined that there is a significant threat to human health; and

(3) When veterinary diagnostic reagents are distributed within the United States for testing for foreign animal diseases.

(b) [Reserved]