Federal Fee and USDA Administrative Fee

PCIT provides functionality for collecting the USDA Administrative Fee when States and Counties issue Federal certificates. PCIT provides optional functionality to collect the fees charged by States and Counties for their efforts when issuing Federal certificates. If State certificates are issued within PCIT, PCIT can also collect the associated fees.

Headquarter users with Administrative privileges can setup Federal Fees and USDA Administrative Fees for Federal certificates.

Federal charges apply if the assigned duty station is a Federal duty station at the time the certificate is issued.

NOTE: The Admin Fee should not be charged when the certificate is being replaced due to ACO error.

The USDA Administrative Fee is only collected for federal certificates. The fee charges is based on the effective fee at the time an application is submitted or the date a post issuance activity was initiated.

The Federal Fee and USDA Admin fee charge for...	are based on...
'Original' Certificates	the Submit date. For example, if the USDA Admin Fee goes into effect October 1st, an application is submitted on October 29th and issued on November 2nd, the USDA Admin Fee will not be charged.
Certificates created via the Replace Process	the Submit date of the original certificate.
Certificates created via the Reuse Process	the date the reuse was initiated.
Certificates created via the Split Process	the date the split was initiated.
Certificates created via the Combine Process	the date the combine was initiated.

NOTE: When an application is returned to the applicant and is subsequently re-submitted, the submit date is the date of the resubmission.