Circular Letter No. 412

August 27, 1996

TO: Printing and Publishing Officials of the Federal Government

SUBJECT: Changes in the Cost to Publish in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations

This is to inform you of changes in the page rates charged for publishing in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The Federal Register page rate has not been changed since 1987 and the CFR page rate has not been changed since 1985. It is necessary to implement changes due to paper price increases, wage increases, and other costs. These cost increases have been partially offset by cost reductions due to downsizing and the implementation of new technologies. Discounts are based on reduced costs in the pre-press area resulting from the electronic input of data. Rates prior to January 1, 1997:

	Page Rate	Column Rate	Page Rate Discount
Federal Register:
Manuscript/camera copy (when permitted), graphics	$375	$125	---
Tape, unformatted ASCII, WP (on disk)	300	100	$ 75
Word Perfect using template	282	94	93
Fully Coded, as input to Microcomp, and validated documents (on disk)	264	88	111
Code of Federal Regulations	55	---	---
Rates effective on January 1, 1997:

If you wish to convert to SGML format, please contact your Customer Services Account Representative.

Sincerely,

ROBERT G. COX
Superintendent,
Departmental Account Representative Division

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