81 FR 72125 - Market Dominant Price Adjustment

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 202 (October 19, 2016)

Page Range		72125-72126
FR Document		2016-25207

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service notice of inflation-based rate adjustments affecting market dominant domestic and international products and services, along with numerous proposed classification changes. The adjustments and other changes are scheduled to take effect January 22, 2017. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 202 (Wednesday, October 19, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 202 (Wednesday, October 19, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72125-72126]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25207]


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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. R2017-1; Order No. 3565]


Market Dominant Price Adjustment

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service 
notice of inflation-based rate adjustments affecting market dominant 
domestic and international products and services, along with numerous 
proposed classification changes. The adjustments and other changes are 
scheduled to take effect January 22, 2017. This notice informs the 
public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other 
administrative steps.

DATES: Comments are due: November 1, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments electronically via the Commission's Filing 
Online system at http://www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit comments 
electronically should contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section by telephone for advice on filing 
alternatives.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 
202-789-6820.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents

I. Introduction and Overview
II. Initial Administrative Actions
III. Ordering Paragraphs

I. Introduction and Overview

    On October 12, 2016, the Postal Service filed a notice of 
inflation-based rate adjustments affecting market dominant domestic and 
international products and services, along with numerous proposed 
classification changes.\1\ The intended effective date is January 22, 
2017. Notice at 1.
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    \1\ United States Postal Service Notice of Market Dominant Price 
Adjustment, October 12, 2016 (Notice).
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    Contents of filing. The Postal Service's filing consists of the 
Notice which the

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Postal Service represents addresses the data and information required 
under 39 CFR 3010.12; three attachments (Attachments A-C) to the 
Notice; and six sets of workpapers filed as library references. See id.
    Attachment A presents the proposed rate and classification changes 
to the Mail Classification Schedule (MCS). Id. Attachment A. The other 
attachments address workshare discounts and related information and the 
price cap calculation. See Notice, Attachments B and C, respectively.
    The library references present supporting financial documentation 
for the five classes of mail and for First-Class Mail International. 
See Notice at 6-7. The First-Class Mail International library reference 
was filed under seal.\2\
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    \2\ See Notice of the United States Postal Service of Filing of 
USPS-LR-R2017-1/NP1, October 12, 2016.
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    Planned price adjustments. The Postal Service's planned percentage 
changes by class are, on average:

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                                                               Price
                  Market dominant class                     adjustment
                                                          authority  (%)
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First-Class Mail........................................           0.780
Standard Mail...........................................           0.895
Periodicals.............................................           0.832
Package Services........................................           1.007
Special Services........................................           2.536
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    Notice at 7.
    Most of the planned adjustments entail increases to market dominant 
rates and fees; however, in a few instances, the Postal Service 
proposes either no adjustment or a decrease. In addition, price 
adjustments for products within classes vary from the average, 
sometimes substantially. See, e.g., id. at 15, 24 (Table 5 showing 
range for First-Class Mail products and Table 8 showing range for 
Standard Mail products).
    Proposed classification changes. The Postal Service proposes 
numerous classification changes in its Notice and identifies the impact 
on the MCS in Attachment A. Id. at 56-58; id. Attachment A.

II. Initial Administrative Actions

    The Commission hereby provides public notice of the Postal 
Service's filing and pursuant to 39 CFR 3010.11 establishes Docket No. 
R2017-1 to consider the planned price adjustments in rates and fees for 
market dominant postal products and services, as well as the related 
classification changes, identified in the Postal Service's October 12, 
2016 Notice. The Commission invites comments from interested persons on 
whether the Notice is consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3622 and the 
requirements of 39 CFR part 3010. Comments are due no later than 
November 1, 2016.
    The Commission has posted the public portions of the Postal 
Service's filing on its Web site at http://www.prc.gov. The Commission 
will post revisions to the filing (if any) or other documents the 
Postal Service submits in this docket on its Web site, along with 
related Commission documents, comments, or other submissions, unless 
such filings are the subject of an application for non-public 
treatment. The Commission's policy on access to documents filed under 
seal appears in 39 CFR part 3007.
    Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, the Commission appoints Lauren A. 
D'Agostino to represent the interests of the general public (Public 
Representative) in this proceeding.

III. Ordering Paragraphs

    It is ordered:
    1. The Commission establishes Docket No. R2017-1 to consider 
planned price adjustments in rates and fees for market dominant postal 
products and services and related classification changes identified in 
the Postal Service's October 12, 2016 Notice.
    2. Comments on the planned price adjustments and related 
classification changes are due no later than November 1, 2016.
    3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Lauren A. D'Agostino is appointed to 
serve as an officer of the Commission (Public Representative) to 
represent the interests of the general public in this proceeding.
    4. The Commission directs the Secretary of the Commission to 
arrange for prompt publication of this notice in the Federal Register.

    By the Commission.
Stacy L. Ruble,
Secretary.
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• Mail to: Elizabeth Pentecost, RE: [astronomy and astrophysics decadal least one week in advance of the
Green Bank Observatory, National survey] science goals as the higher- meeting if you would like to request
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., ranked facilities.’’ In response to these special accommodations (i.e., sign
Suite 1045, Arlington, VA 22230. recommendations, in 2016, NSF language interpretation, etc.).
EIS INFORMATION: Information will be completed a feasibility study to inform Dated: October 13, 2016.
posted, throughout the EIS process, at and define options for the Observatory’s Suzanne H. Plimpton,
www.nsf.gov/AST. future disposition that would involve
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For significantly decreasing or eliminating Foundation.
further information regarding the EIS NSF funding of Green Bank
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process or Section 106 consultation, Observatory. Alternatives to be
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contact: Elizabeth Pentecost, National evaluated in the EIS will be refined
Science Foundation, Division of through public input, with preliminary
Astronomical Sciences, 4201 Wilson proposed alternatives that include the
following: POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
Blvd., Suite 1045, Arlington, VA 22230;
telephone: (703) 292–4907; email: • Continued NSF investment for [Docket No. R2017–1; Order No. 3565]
epenteco@nsf.gov. science-focused operations (No-
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Green Action Alternative) Market Dominant Price Adjustment
Bank Observatory (GBO) is located in • Collaboration with interested parties
AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.
Pocahontas County, West Virginia for science- and education-focused
operations with reduced NSF-funded ACTION: Notice.
adjacent to the Monongahela National
Forest. NSF owns the GBO land, which scope SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a
consists of numerous parcels acquired • Collaboration with interested parties recently-filed Postal Service notice of
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in for operation as a technology and inflation-based rate adjustments
the 1950s, when GBO was formed as the education park affecting market dominant domestic and
first (and then, only) site of the National • Mothballing of facilities (suspension international products and services,
Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). of operations in a manner such that along with numerous proposed
The Allegheny Trail passes through operations could resume efficiently at classification changes. The adjustments
portions of the NRAO property along some future date) and other changes are scheduled to take
the Little Mountain ridgeline. GBO is • Deconstruction and site restoration effect January 22, 2017. This notice
the anchor and administrative site of the The purpose of the public scoping informs the public of the filing, invites
13,000-square-mile National Radio process is to determine relevant issues public comment, and takes other
Quiet Zone (NRQZ). GBO is located on that will influence the scope of the administrative steps.
approximately 2,200 acres in the NRQZ, environmental analysis, including DATES: Comments are due: November 1,
where all radio transmissions are identifying viable alternatives. At 2016.
limited. Having telescopes within the present, NSF has identified the ADDRESSES: Submit comments
NRQZ allows for detection of faint following preliminary resource areas to electronically via the Commission’s
scientific signals that would otherwise analyze potential impacts: Air quality, Filing Online system at http://
be drowned-out by man-made signals. biological resources, cultural resources, www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit
The GBO facilities include the Robert C. geological resources, solid waste comments electronically should contact
Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the largest generation, health and safety, the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
fully steerable radio telescope in the socioeconomics, traffic, and INFORMATION CONTACT section by
world; the 43-meter Telescope; the groundwater resources. NSF will telephone for advice on filing
Green Bank Solar Radio Burst consult under section 106 of the alternatives.
Spectrometer; the 20-meter Geodetic National Historic Preservation Act and
Telescope; the 40-foot Telescope; the section 7 of the Endangered Species Act FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Interferometer Range; and previously in coordination with this EIS process, as David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
operational telescopes. appropriate. Federal, state, and local 202–789–6820.
The NSF Directorate for Mathematical agencies, along with other stakeholders SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
and Physical Sciences, Division of that may be interested or affected by Table of Contents
Astronomical Sciences, through a series NSF’s decision on this Proposed Action
of academic community-based reviews, are invited to participate in the scoping I. Introduction and Overview
has identified the need to divest several process and, if eligible, may request to II. Initial Administrative Actions
facilities from its portfolio. This would participate as a cooperating agency. III. Ordering Paragraphs
allow NSF to retain the balance of Scoping Meetings: NSF will host two I. Introduction and Overview
capabilities needed to deliver the best public scoping meetings.
On October 12, 2016, the Postal
performance on emerging and key • Afternoon meeting: November 9,
Service filed a notice of inflation-based
science technology of the present 2016, at 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Green
rate adjustments affecting market
decade and beyond. In 2012, NSF’s Bank Science Center, 155 Observatory
dominant domestic and international
Division of Astronomical Sciences’ Road, Green Bank, WV 24915,
products and services, along with
(AST’s) portfolio review committee Telephone: (304) 456–2011.
numerous proposed classification
recommended divestment of the Green • Evening meeting: November 9,
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changes.1 The intended effective date is
Bank Telescope (GBT) from the AST 2016, at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Green
January 22, 2017. Notice at 1.
portfolio, stating the following: ‘‘The Bank Science Center, 155 Observatory
Contents of filing. The Postal Service’s
GBT is the world’s most sensitive Road, Green Bank, WV 24915,
filing consists of the Notice which the
single-dish radio telescope at Telephone: (304) 456–2011.
wavelengths shorter than 10 cm; Oral comments provided at the 1 United States Postal Service Notice of Market
however, its capabilities are not as scoping meetings will be transcribed by Dominant Price Adjustment, October 12, 2016
critical to New World New Horizons a court reporter. Please contact NSF at (Notice).

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Postal Service represents addresses the interested persons on whether the notice informs the public of the filing,
data and information required under 39 Notice is consistent with 39 U.S.C. 3622 invites public comment, and takes other
CFR 3010.12; three attachments and the requirements of 39 CFR part administrative steps.
(Attachments A–C) to the Notice; and 3010. Comments are due no later than DATES: Comments are due: October 21,
six sets of workpapers filed as library November 1, 2016. 2016 (Comment due date applies to all
references. See id. The Commission has posted the Docket Nos. listed above)
Attachment A presents the proposed public portions of the Postal Service’s ADDRESSES: Submit comments
rate and classification changes to the filing on its Web site at http:// electronically via the Commission’s
Mail Classification Schedule (MCS). Id. www.prc.gov. The Commission will post Filing Online system at http://
Attachment A. The other attachments revisions to the filing (if any) or other www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit
address workshare discounts and documents the Postal Service submits in comments electronically should contact
related information and the price cap this docket on its Web site, along with the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
calculation. See Notice, Attachments B related Commission documents, INFORMATION CONTACT section by
and C, respectively. comments, or other submissions, unless telephone for advice on filing
The library references present such filings are the subject of an alternatives.
supporting financial documentation for application for non-public treatment.
the five classes of mail and for First- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The Commission’s policy on access to David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
Class Mail International. See Notice at documents filed under seal appears in
6–7. The First-Class Mail International 202–789–6820.
39 CFR part 3007.
library reference was filed under seal.2 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, the
Planned price adjustments. The Postal Commission appoints Lauren A. Table of Contents
Service’s planned percentage changes D’Agostino to represent the interests of
by class are, on average: I. Introduction
the general public (Public II. Docketed Proceeding(s)
Representative) in this proceeding.
Price
adjustment III. Ordering Paragraphs I. Introduction
Market dominant class authority
(%) It is ordered: The Commission gives notice that the
1. The Commission establishes Docket Postal Service filed request(s) for the
First-Class Mail ..................... 0.780 No. R2017–1 to consider planned price Commission to consider matters related
Standard Mail ....................... 0.895
adjustments in rates and fees for market to negotiated service agreement(s). The
Periodicals ............................ 0.832 request(s) may propose the addition or
Package Services ................. 1.007 dominant postal products and services removal of a negotiated service
Special Services ................... 2.536 and related classification changes agreement from the market dominant or
identified in the Postal Service’s
the competitive product list, or the
Notice at 7. October 12, 2016 Notice.
Most of the planned adjustments modification of an existing product
2. Comments on the planned price
entail increases to market dominant currently appearing on the market
adjustments and related classification
rates and fees; however, in a few dominant or the competitive product
changes are due no later than November
instances, the Postal Service proposes list.
1, 2016.
Section II identifies the docket
either no adjustment or a decrease. In 3. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Lauren
number(s) associated with each Postal
addition, price adjustments for products A. D’Agostino is appointed to serve as
Service request, the title of each Postal
within classes vary from the average, an officer of the Commission (Public
Service request, the request’s acceptance
sometimes substantially. See, e.g., id. at Representative) to represent the
date, and the authority cited by the
15, 24 (Table 5 showing range for First- interests of the general public in this
Postal Service for each request. For each
Class Mail products and Table 8 proceeding.
request, the Commission appoints an
showing range for Standard Mail 4. The Commission directs the
officer of the Commission to represent
products). Secretary of the Commission to arrange
Proposed classification changes. The the interests of the general public in the
for prompt publication of this notice in
Postal Service proposes numerous proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505
the Federal Register.
classification changes in its Notice and (Public Representative). Section II also
By the Commission. establishes comment deadline(s)
identifies the impact on the MCS in
Attachment A. Id. at 56–58; id.
Stacy L. Ruble, pertaining to each request.
Secretary. The public portions of the Postal
Attachment A.
[FR Doc. 2016–25207 Filed 10–18–16; 8:45 am] Service’s request(s) can be accessed via
II. Initial Administrative Actions BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P
the Commission’s Web site (http://
The Commission hereby provides www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of
public notice of the Postal Service’s the Postal Service’s request(s), if any,
filing and pursuant to 39 CFR 3010.11 POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION can be accessed through compliance
establishes Docket No. R2017–1 to with the requirements of 39 CFR
[Docket Nos. CP2017–7; CP2017–8; 3007.40.
consider the planned price adjustments CP2017–9; and CP2017–10]
in rates and fees for market dominant The Commission invites comments on
postal products and services, as well as whether the Postal Service’s request(s)
New Postal Products
in the captioned docket(s) are consistent
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the related classification changes,
identified in the Postal Service’s AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. with the policies of title 39. For
October 12, 2016 Notice. The ACTION: Notice. request(s) that the Postal Service states
Commission invites comments from concern market dominant product(s),
SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing applicable statutory and regulatory
2 See Notice of the United States Postal Service
recent Postal Service filings for the requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39
of Filing of USPS–LR–R2017–1/NP1, October 12, Commission’s consideration concerning U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3010, and 39
2016. negotiated service agreements. This CFR part 3020, subpart B. For request(s)

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Comments are due: November 1, 2016.
Contact		David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 202-789-6820.
FR Citation		81 FR 72125