AQI User Fees: Extension of Current Fees Beyond Fiscal Year 2002

We are amending the user fee regulations to ensure that fiscal year 2002 user fee rates remain in effect beyond fiscal year 2002 until the fees are revised. In a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 16, 1999, we amended the regulations by adjusting the fees charged for certain agricultural quarantine and inspection services we provide in connection with certain commercial vessels, commercial trucks, commercial railroad cars, commercial aircraft, and international airline passengers arriving at ports in the customs territory of the United States. We should have stated that the fees for fiscal year 2002 would remain in effect until changed by further rulemaking; instead, we indicated that the fees would remain in effect through September 30, 2002. This interim rule will extend existing user fee rates and continue to allow the collection of the fees beyond that date.