94-936. Availability of Information to the Public

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

20 CFR Part 200

RIN 3220-AB05

 

Availability of Information to the Public

AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Railroad Retirement Board (Board) proposes to amend its 
regulations establishing fees to be assessed in connection with the 
search for records and provision of documents by the Board. The 
proposed rule increases some of the fees based on updates of estimates 
of direct costs to the Board of providing these services and adds a fee 
for transmittal of documents by other than regular mail.

DATES: Comments shall be submitted on or before February 14, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Secretary to the Board, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 Rush 
Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael C. Litt, Bureau of Law, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 Rush 
Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, [phone], TDD [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 5 U.S.C. 552(a) requires the 
promulgation of a regulation specifying the schedule of fees applicable 
to the processing of requests for information. These fees are to 
provide for the recovery of the direct costs of search, duplication, 
and review. The fees currently provided for in Sec. 200.4(g)(1) no 
longer reflect the actual costs of processing requests for information 
and do not include fees for specific methods of transmittal of 
documents. Consequently, the Board proposes to increase these fees 
presently found in Sec. 200.4(g) and to add a new paragraph to provide 
a charge for transmittal of documents by other than regular post.
    The Board has determined that this is not a major rule under 
Executive Order 12291. Therefore, no regulatory impact analysis is 
required. There are no information collections associated with this 
proposed rule within the meaning of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1980.

List of Subjects in 20 CFR Part 200

    Railroad employees, Railroad retirement, Railroad unemployment 
insurance.
    For the reasons set out in the preamble, title 20, chapter II, part 
200 of the Code of Federal Regulations is proposed to be amended as 
follows:

PART 200--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

    1. The authority citation for part 200 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 45 U.S.C. 231f(b)(5) and 45 U.S.C. 362; sec. 200.4 
also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552; sec. 200.5 also issued under 5 
U.S.C. 552a; sec. 200.6 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552b; sec. 200.7 
also issued under 31 U.S.C. 3717.

    2. Section 200.4 is amended by revising paragraph (g)(1) to read as 
follows:


Sec. 200.4  Availability of information to public.

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    (g) * * *
    (1) Fee schedule. To the extent that the following are chargeable, 
they are chargeable according to the following schedule:
    (i) The charge for making a manual search for records shall be 
$14.00 per hour;
    (ii) The charge for reviewing documents to determine whether any 
portion of any located document is permitted to be withheld shall be 
$30.00 per hour;
    (iii) The charge for making photocopies of any size document shall 
be $.10 per copy per page;
    (iv) The charge for computer-generated listings or labels shall 
include the direct cost to the RRB of analysis and programming, where 
required, plus the cost of computer operations to produce the listing 
or labels. The maximum computer search charge shall be $2,451.60 per 
hour ($40.86 per minute). Search time shall not include the time 
expended in analysis or programming where these operations are 
required.
    (v) There shall be no charge for transmitting documents by regular 
post. The charge for all other methods of transmitting documents shall 
be the actual cost of transmittal.
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    Dated: January 5, 1994.

    By Authority of the Board.
Beatrice Ezerski,
Secretary to the Board.
[FR Doc. 94-936 Filed 1-13-94; 8:45 am]
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