83_FR_48623 83 FR 48437 - Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2019

83 FR 48437 - Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2019

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 186 (September 25, 2018)

Page Range48437-48439
FR Document2018-20772

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing the fee rates for using a tropical disease priority review voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to determine and collect priority review user fees for certain applications for review of drug or biological products when those applications use a tropical disease priority review voucher. These vouchers are awarded to the applicants of certain tropical disease product applications, submitted after September 27, 2007, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount of the fee submitted to FDA with applications using a tropical disease priority review voucher is determined each fiscal year based on the difference between the average cost incurred by FDA to review a human drug application designated as priority review in the previous fiscal year and the average cost incurred in the review of an application that is not subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year. This notice establishes the tropical disease priority review fee rate for FY 2019.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2018-N-0007]


Fee for Using a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher in 
Fiscal Year 2019

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is 
announcing the fee rates for using a tropical disease priority review 
voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration 
Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to determine and collect 
priority review user fees for certain applications for review of drug 
or biological products when those applications use a tropical disease 
priority review voucher. These vouchers are awarded to the applicants 
of certain tropical disease product applications, submitted after 
September 27, 2007, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount 
of the fee submitted to FDA with applications using a tropical disease 
priority review voucher is determined each fiscal year based on the 
difference between the average cost incurred by FDA to review a human 
drug application designated as priority review in the previous fiscal 
year and the average cost incurred in the review of an application that 
is not subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year. This 
notice establishes the tropical disease priority review fee rate for FY 
2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
Lola Olajide, Office of Financial Management, Food and Drug 
Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd., COLE-14541B, Silver Spring, MD 
20993-0002, 240-402-4244.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    Section 1102 of FDAAA (Pub. L. 110-85) added section 524 to the 
FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 360n). In section 524, Congress encouraged 
development of new drug and biological products for prevention and 
treatment of tropical diseases by offering additional incentives for 
obtaining FDA approval of such products. Under section 524, the 
applicant of an eligible human drug application submitted after 
September 27, 2007, for a tropical disease (as defined in section 
524(a)(3) of the FD&C Act) shall receive a priority review voucher upon 
approval of the tropical disease product application (assuming other 
criteria are met). The recipient of a tropical disease priority review 
voucher may either use the voucher with a future submission to FDA 
under section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or 
section 351(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262), or 
transfer (including by sale) the voucher to another party. The voucher 
may be transferred (including by sale) repeatedly until it ultimately 
is used for a human drug application submitted to FDA under section 
505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act or section 351(a) of the Public Health 
Service Act. A priority review is a review conducted with a 
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of 6 months after the 
receipt or filing date, depending upon the type of application. 
Information regarding the PDUFA goals is available at: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/userfees/prescriptiondruguserfee/ucm511438.pdf.
    The applicant that uses a priority review voucher is entitled to a 
priority review but must pay FDA a priority review user fee in addition 
to any other fee required by PDUFA. FDA published guidance on its 
website about how this tropical disease priority review voucher program 
operates (available at: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm080599.pdf).
    This notice establishes the tropical disease priority review fee 
rate for FY 2019 as $2,457,140 and outlines FDA's process for 
implementing the collection of the priority review user fees. This rate 
is effective on October 1, 2018, and will remain in effect through 
September 30, 2019, for applications submitted with a tropical disease 
priority review voucher. The payment of this priority review user fee 
is required in addition to the payment of any other fee that would 
normally apply to such an application under PDUFA before FDA will 
consider the application complete and acceptable for filing.

II. Tropical Disease Priority Review User Fee for FY 2019

    FDA interprets section 524(c)(2) of the FD&C Act as requiring that 
FDA determine the amount of the tropical disease priority review user 
fee each fiscal year based on the difference between the average cost 
incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application subject to 
priority review in the previous fiscal year and the average cost 
incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application that is not 
subject to priority review in the previous fiscal year.
    A priority review is a review conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6 
months after the receipt or filing date, depending on the type of 
application. Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has committed to 
reviewing and acting on 90 percent of the applications granted priority 
review status within this expedited timeframe. Normally, an application 
for a human drug or biological product will qualify for priority review 
if the product is intended to treat a serious condition and, if 
approved, would provide a significant improvement in safety or 
effectiveness. An application that does not receive a priority 
designation receives a standard review. Under the

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PDUFA goals letter, FDA committed to reviewing and acting on 90 percent 
of standard applications within 10 months of the receipt or filing 
date, depending on the type of application. A priority review involves 
a more intensive level of effort and a higher level of resources than a 
standard review.
    FDA is setting fees for FY 2019, and the previous fiscal year is FY 
2018. However, the FY 2018 submission cohort has not been closed out 
yet, and the cost data for FY 2018 are not complete. The latest year 
for which FDA has complete cost data is FY 2017. Furthermore, because 
FDA has never tracked the cost of reviewing applications that get 
priority review as a separate cost subset, FDA estimated this cost 
based on other data that the Agency has tracked. FDA uses data that the 
Agency estimates and publishes on its website each year--standard costs 
for review. FDA does not publish a standard cost for ``the review of a 
human drug application subject to priority review in the previous 
fiscal year.'' However, we expect all such applications would contain 
clinical data. The standard cost application categories with clinical 
data that FDA does publish each year are: (1) New drug applications 
(NDAs) for a new molecular entity (NME) with clinical data and (2) 
biologics license applications (BLAs).
    The worksheets for standard costs for FY 2017 show a standard cost 
of $5,340,560 for an NME NDA and $4,596,936 for a BLA. Based on these 
standard costs, the total cost to review the 57 applications in these 
two categories in FY 2017 (31 NME NDAs with clinical data and 26 BLAs) 
was $285,077,688. (Note: These numbers exclude the President's 
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief NDAs; no investigational new drug review 
costs are included in this amount.) Of these applications 33 (20 NDAs 
and 13 BLAs) received priority review, which would mean that the 
remaining 24 received standard reviews. Because a priority review 
compresses a review that ordinarily takes 10 months into 6 months, FDA 
estimates that a multiplier of 1.67 (10 months divided by 6 months) 
should be applied to non-priority review costs in estimating the effort 
and cost of a priority review as compared to a standard review. This 
multiplier is consistent with published research on this subject, which 
supports a priority review multiplier in the range of 1.48 to 2.35 
(Ref. 1). Using FY 2017 figures, the costs of a priority and standard 
review are estimated using the following formula:

(33 [alpha] x 1.67) + (24 [alpha]) = $285,077,688

where ``[alpha]'' is the cost of a standard review and ``[alpha] times 
1.67'' is the cost of a priority review. Using this formula, the cost 
of a standard review for NME NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be 
$3,603,561 (rounded to the nearest dollar) and the cost of a priority 
review for NME NDAs and BLAs is 1.67 times that amount, or $6,017,946 
(rounded to the nearest dollar). The difference between these two cost 
estimates, or $2,414,386, represents the incremental cost of conducting 
a priority review rather than a standard review.
    For the FY 2019 fee, FDA will need to adjust the FY 2017 
incremental cost by the average amount by which FDA's average costs 
increased in the 3 years prior to FY 2018, to adjust the FY 2017 amount 
for cost increases in FY 2018. That adjustment, published in the 
Federal Register on August 1, 2018 (83 FR 37504), setting FY 2019 PDUFA 
fees, is 1.7708 percent for the most recent year, not compounded. 
Increasing the FY 2017 incremental priority review cost of $2,414,386 
by 1.7708 percent (or 0.017708) results in an estimated cost of 
$2,457,140 (rounded to the nearest dollar). This is the tropical 
disease priority review user fee amount for FY 2019 that must be 
submitted with a priority review voucher for a human drug application 
in FY 2019, in addition to any PDUFA fee that is required for such an 
application.

III. Fee Schedule for FY 2019

    The fee rate for FY 2019 is set out in table 1:

     Table 1--Tropical Disease Priority Review Schedule for FY 2019
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                                                         Fee rate for FY
                      Fee category                             2019
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Application submitted with a tropical disease priority       $2,457,140
 review voucher in addition to the normal PDUFA fee....
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IV. Implementation of Tropical Disease Priority Review User Fee

    Under section 524(c)(4)(A) of the FD&C Act, the priority review 
user fee is due upon submission of a human drug application for which 
the priority review voucher is used. Section 524(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C 
Act specifies that the application will be considered incomplete if the 
priority review user fee and all other applicable user fees are not 
paid in accordance with FDA payment procedures. In addition, FDA may 
not grant a waiver, exemption, reduction, or refund of any fees due and 
payable under section 524 of the FD&C Act (see section 524(c)(4)(C)), 
and FDA may not collect priority review voucher fees ``except to the 
extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts.'' (Section 
524(c)(5)(B) of the FD&C Act.)
    The tropical disease priority review fee established in the new fee 
schedule must be paid for any application that is received on or after 
October 1, 2018, and submitted with a priority review voucher. This fee 
must be paid in addition to any other fee due under PDUFA. Payment 
should be made in U.S. currency by electronic check, check, bank draft, 
wire transfer, credit card, or U.S. postal money order payable to the 
order of the Food and Drug Administration. The preferred payment method 
is online using electronic check (Automated Clearing House (ACH) also 
known as eCheck). Secure electronic payments can be submitted using the 
User Fees Payment Portal at https://userfees.fda.gov/pay. (Note: only 
full payments are accepted. No partial payments can be made online). 
Once you search for your invoice, select ``Pay Now'' to be redirected 
to Pay.gov. Note that electronic payment options are based on the 
balance due. Payment by credit card is available for balances that are 
less than $25,000. If the balance exceeds this amount, only the ACH 
option is available. Payments should be made using U.S bank accounts as 
well as U.S. credit cards.
    FDA has partnered with the U.S. Department of the Treasury to use 
Pay.gov, a web-based payment application, for online electronic 
payment. The Pay.gov feature is available on the FDA website after the 
user fee identification (ID) number is generated.
    If paying with a paper check, the user fee ID number should be 
included on the check, followed by the words ``Tropical Disease 
Priority Review.'' All paper checks should be in U.S. currency from a 
U.S. bank made payable and

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mailed to: Food and Drug Administration, P.O. Box 979107, St. Louis, MO 
63197-9000.
    If checks are sent by a courier that requests a street address, the 
courier can deliver the checks to: U.S. Bank, Attention: Government 
Lockbox 979107, 1005 Convention Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63101. (Note: This 
U.S. Bank address is for courier delivery only.) If you have any 
questions concerning courier delivery, contact the U.S. Bank at 314-
418-4013. (This telephone number is only for questions about courier 
delivery.) The FDA post office box number (P.O. Box 979107) must be 
written on the check. If needed, FDA's tax identification number is 53-
0196965.
    If paying by wire transfer, please reference your unique user fee 
ID number when completing your transfer. The originating financial 
institution may charge a wire transfer fee. If the financial 
institution charges a wire transfer fee, it is required to add that 
amount to the payment to ensure that the invoice is paid in full. The 
account information is as follows: U.S. Dept. of Treasury, TREAS NYC, 
33 Liberty St., New York, NY 10045, Account Number: 75060099, Routing 
Number: 021030004, SWIFT: FRNYUS33.

V. Reference

    The following reference is on display with the Dockets Management 
Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 
1061, Rockville, MD 20852, and is available for viewing by interested 
persons between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; it is not 
available electronically at https://www.regulations.gov as this 
reference is copyright protected. FDA has verified the website address, 
as of the date this document publishes in the Federal Register, but 
websites are subject to change over time.

1. Ridley, D.B., H.G. Grabowski, and J.L. Moe, ``Developing Drugs 
for Developing Countries,'' Health Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 313-
324, 2006, available at: https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~willm/
HSM_RA/Documents/HA2006_Ridley_Vouchers.pdf.

    Dated: September 19, 2018.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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                                               Transparency and Communication for                      Act), as amended by the Food and Drug                 6 months after the receipt or filing date,
                                               NME (New Molecular Entity) NDAs and                     Administration Amendments Act of                      depending upon the type of application.
                                               Original BLAs, and risk evaluation and                  2007 (FDAAA), authorizes FDA to                       Information regarding the PDUFA goals
                                               mitigation strategies.                                  determine and collect priority review                 is available at: https://www.fda.gov/
                                                  In addition, the draft guidance has                  user fees for certain applications for                downloads/forindustry/userfees/
                                               been consolidated to focus on the                       review of drug or biological products                 prescriptiondruguserfee/
                                               fundamental values and operational                      when those applications use a tropical                ucm511438.pdf.
                                               principles that serve as the foundation                 disease priority review voucher. These                   The applicant that uses a priority
                                               for the GRMPs. Details of the review                    vouchers are awarded to the applicants                review voucher is entitled to a priority
                                               process are covered in other documents                  of certain tropical disease product                   review but must pay FDA a priority
                                               referenced by this guidance.                            applications, submitted after September               review user fee in addition to any other
                                               Fundamental values and operational                      27, 2007, upon FDA approval of such                   fee required by PDUFA. FDA published
                                               principles should remain relatively                     applications. The amount of the fee                   guidance on its website about how this
                                               constant over time, while processes                     submitted to FDA with applications                    tropical disease priority review voucher
                                               must be able to adapt and respond to                    using a tropical disease priority review              program operates (available at: https://
                                               scientific advances in product                          voucher is determined each fiscal year                www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/
                                               development and evolving public health                  based on the difference between the                   GuidanceComplianceRegulatory
                                               needs.                                                  average cost incurred by FDA to review                Information/Guidances/
                                                  This draft guidance is being issued                  a human drug application designated as                ucm080599.pdf).
                                               consistent with FDA’s good guidance                     priority review in the previous fiscal                   This notice establishes the tropical
                                               practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115).                   year and the average cost incurred in the             disease priority review fee rate for FY
                                               The draft guidance, when finalized, will                review of an application that is not                  2019 as $2,457,140 and outlines FDA’s
                                               represent the current thinking of FDA                   subject to priority review in the                     process for implementing the collection
                                               on GRMPs for NDAs and BLAs. It does                     previous fiscal year. This notice                     of the priority review user fees. This rate
                                               not establish any rights for any person                 establishes the tropical disease priority             is effective on October 1, 2018, and will
                                               and is not binding on FDA or the public.                review fee rate for FY 2019.                          remain in effect through September 30,
                                               You can use an alternative approach if                                                                        2019, for applications submitted with a
                                                                                                       FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                               it satisfies the requirements of the                                                                          tropical disease priority review voucher.
                                                                                                       Lola Olajide, Office of Financial                     The payment of this priority review user
                                               applicable statutes and regulations. This               Management, Food and Drug
                                               guidance is not subject to Executive                                                                          fee is required in addition to the
                                                                                                       Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd.,                  payment of any other fee that would
                                               Order 12866.                                            COLE–14541B, Silver Spring, MD                        normally apply to such an application
                                               II. Electronic Access                                   20993–0002, 240–402–4244.                             under PDUFA before FDA will consider
                                                  Persons with access to the internet                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                            the application complete and acceptable
                                               may obtain the draft guidance at https://               I. Background                                         for filing.
                                               www.fda.gov/Drugs/Guidance
                                                                                                          Section 1102 of FDAAA (Pub. L. 110–                II. Tropical Disease Priority Review
                                               ComplianceRegulatoryInformation/
                                                                                                       85) added section 524 to the FD&C Act                 User Fee for FY 2019
                                               Guidances/default.htm, https://
                                               www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/                     (21 U.S.C. 360n). In section 524,                        FDA interprets section 524(c)(2) of the
                                               GuidanceComplianceRegulatory                            Congress encouraged development of                    FD&C Act as requiring that FDA
                                               Information/default.htm, or https://                    new drug and biological products for                  determine the amount of the tropical
                                               www.regulations.gov.                                    prevention and treatment of tropical                  disease priority review user fee each
                                                                                                       diseases by offering additional                       fiscal year based on the difference
                                                 Dated: September 19, 2018.
                                                                                                       incentives for obtaining FDA approval                 between the average cost incurred by
                                               Leslie Kux,                                             of such products. Under section 524, the              FDA in the review of a human drug
                                               Associate Commissioner for Policy.                      applicant of an eligible human drug                   application subject to priority review in
                                               [FR Doc. 2018–20789 Filed 9–24–18; 8:45 am]             application submitted after September                 the previous fiscal year and the average
                                               BILLING CODE 4164–01–P                                  27, 2007, for a tropical disease (as                  cost incurred by FDA in the review of
                                                                                                       defined in section 524(a)(3) of the FD&C              a human drug application that is not
                                                                                                       Act) shall receive a priority review                  subject to priority review in the
                                               DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                                voucher upon approval of the tropical                 previous fiscal year.
                                               HUMAN SERVICES                                          disease product application (assuming                    A priority review is a review
                                                                                                       other criteria are met). The recipient of             conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6
                                               Food and Drug Administration
                                                                                                       a tropical disease priority review                    months after the receipt or filing date,
                                               [Docket No. FDA–2018–N–0007]                            voucher may either use the voucher                    depending on the type of application.
                                                                                                       with a future submission to FDA under                 Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has
                                               Fee for Using a Tropical Disease                        section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act (21                 committed to reviewing and acting on
                                               Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year                  U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or section 351(a) of the            90 percent of the applications granted
                                               2019                                                    Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.                  priority review status within this
                                               AGENCY:    Food and Drug Administration,                262), or transfer (including by sale) the             expedited timeframe. Normally, an
                                               HHS.                                                    voucher to another party. The voucher                 application for a human drug or
                                               ACTION:   Notice.                                       may be transferred (including by sale)                biological product will qualify for
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                                                                                                       repeatedly until it ultimately is used for            priority review if the product is
                                               SUMMARY:    The Food and Drug                           a human drug application submitted to                 intended to treat a serious condition
                                               Administration (FDA or the Agency) is                   FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the                    and, if approved, would provide a
                                               announcing the fee rates for using a                    FD&C Act or section 351(a) of the Public              significant improvement in safety or
                                               tropical disease priority review voucher                Health Service Act. A priority review is              effectiveness. An application that does
                                               for fiscal year (FY) 2019. The Federal                  a review conducted with a Prescription                not receive a priority designation
                                               Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C                      Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of                receives a standard review. Under the


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                                               PDUFA goals letter, FDA committed to                       The worksheets for standard costs for              NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be
                                               reviewing and acting on 90 percent of                   FY 2017 show a standard cost of                       $3,603,561 (rounded to the nearest
                                               standard applications within 10 months                  $5,340,560 for an NME NDA and                         dollar) and the cost of a priority review
                                               of the receipt or filing date, depending                $4,596,936 for a BLA. Based on these                  for NME NDAs and BLAs is 1.67 times
                                               on the type of application. A priority                  standard costs, the total cost to review              that amount, or $6,017,946 (rounded to
                                               review involves a more intensive level                  the 57 applications in these two                      the nearest dollar). The difference
                                               of effort and a higher level of resources               categories in FY 2017 (31 NME NDAs                    between these two cost estimates, or
                                               than a standard review.                                 with clinical data and 26 BLAs) was                   $2,414,386, represents the incremental
                                                                                                       $285,077,688. (Note: These numbers                    cost of conducting a priority review
                                                  FDA is setting fees for FY 2019, and                 exclude the President’s Emergency Plan
                                               the previous fiscal year is FY 2018.                                                                          rather than a standard review.
                                                                                                       for AIDS Relief NDAs; no
                                               However, the FY 2018 submission                                                                                  For the FY 2019 fee, FDA will need
                                                                                                       investigational new drug review costs
                                               cohort has not been closed out yet, and                                                                       to adjust the FY 2017 incremental cost
                                                                                                       are included in this amount.) Of these
                                               the cost data for FY 2018 are not                       applications 33 (20 NDAs and 13 BLAs)                 by the average amount by which FDA’s
                                               complete. The latest year for which FDA                 received priority review, which would                 average costs increased in the 3 years
                                               has complete cost data is FY 2017.                      mean that the remaining 24 received                   prior to FY 2018, to adjust the FY 2017
                                               Furthermore, because FDA has never                      standard reviews. Because a priority                  amount for cost increases in FY 2018.
                                               tracked the cost of reviewing                           review compresses a review that                       That adjustment, published in the
                                               applications that get priority review as                ordinarily takes 10 months into 6                     Federal Register on August 1, 2018 (83
                                               a separate cost subset, FDA estimated                   months, FDA estimates that a multiplier               FR 37504), setting FY 2019 PDUFA fees,
                                               this cost based on other data that the                  of 1.67 (10 months divided by 6 months)               is 1.7708 percent for the most recent
                                               Agency has tracked. FDA uses data that                  should be applied to non-priority                     year, not compounded. Increasing the
                                               the Agency estimates and publishes on                   review costs in estimating the effort and             FY 2017 incremental priority review
                                               its website each year—standard costs for                cost of a priority review as compared to              cost of $2,414,386 by 1.7708 percent (or
                                               review. FDA does not publish a                          a standard review. This multiplier is                 0.017708) results in an estimated cost of
                                               standard cost for ‘‘the review of a                     consistent with published research on                 $2,457,140 (rounded to the nearest
                                               human drug application subject to                       this subject, which supports a priority               dollar). This is the tropical disease
                                               priority review in the previous fiscal                  review multiplier in the range of 1.48 to             priority review user fee amount for FY
                                               year.’’ However, we expect all such                     2.35 (Ref. 1). Using FY 2017 figures, the             2019 that must be submitted with a
                                               applications would contain clinical                     costs of a priority and standard review               priority review voucher for a human
                                               data. The standard cost application                     are estimated using the following                     drug application in FY 2019, in addition
                                               categories with clinical data that FDA                  formula:                                              to any PDUFA fee that is required for
                                               does publish each year are: (1) New                     (33 a × 1.67) + (24 a) = $285,077,688                 such an application.
                                               drug applications (NDAs) for a new                      where ‘‘a’’ is the cost of a standard                 III. Fee Schedule for FY 2019
                                               molecular entity (NME) with clinical                    review and ‘‘a times 1.67’’ is the cost of
                                               data and (2) biologics license                          a priority review. Using this formula,                  The fee rate for FY 2019 is set out in
                                               applications (BLAs).                                    the cost of a standard review for NME                 table 1:

                                                                               TABLE 1—TROPICAL DISEASE PRIORITY REVIEW SCHEDULE FOR FY 2019
                                                                                                                                                                                                Fee rate for
                                                                                                                Fee category                                                                     FY 2019

                                               Application submitted with a tropical disease priority review voucher in addition to the normal PDUFA fee ....................................   $2,457,140



                                               IV. Implementation of Tropical Disease                    The tropical disease priority review                redirected to Pay.gov. Note that
                                               Priority Review User Fee                                fee established in the new fee schedule               electronic payment options are based on
                                                                                                       must be paid for any application that is              the balance due. Payment by credit card
                                                  Under section 524(c)(4)(A) of the                    received on or after October 1, 2018, and             is available for balances that are less
                                               FD&C Act, the priority review user fee                  submitted with a priority review                      than $25,000. If the balance exceeds this
                                               is due upon submission of a human                       voucher. This fee must be paid in                     amount, only the ACH option is
                                               drug application for which the priority                 addition to any other fee due under                   available. Payments should be made
                                               review voucher is used. Section                         PDUFA. Payment should be made in                      using U.S bank accounts as well as U.S.
                                               524(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C Act specifies                  U.S. currency by electronic check,                    credit cards.
                                               that the application will be considered                 check, bank draft, wire transfer, credit                 FDA has partnered with the U.S.
                                               incomplete if the priority review user                  card, or U.S. postal money order                      Department of the Treasury to use
                                               fee and all other applicable user fees are              payable to the order of the Food and                  Pay.gov, a web-based payment
                                               not paid in accordance with FDA                         Drug Administration. The preferred                    application, for online electronic
                                               payment procedures. In addition, FDA                    payment method is online using                        payment. The Pay.gov feature is
                                               may not grant a waiver, exemption,                      electronic check (Automated Clearing                  available on the FDA website after the
                                               reduction, or refund of any fees due and                House (ACH) also known as eCheck).                    user fee identification (ID) number is
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                                               payable under section 524 of the FD&C                   Secure electronic payments can be                     generated.
                                                                                                       submitted using the User Fees Payment                    If paying with a paper check, the user
                                               Act (see section 524(c)(4)(C)), and FDA
                                                                                                       Portal at https://userfees.fda.gov/pay.               fee ID number should be included on
                                               may not collect priority review voucher                                                                       the check, followed by the words
                                                                                                       (Note: only full payments are accepted.
                                               fees ‘‘except to the extent provided in                 No partial payments can be made                       ‘‘Tropical Disease Priority Review.’’ All
                                               advance in appropriation Acts.’’                        online). Once you search for your                     paper checks should be in U.S. currency
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Document Created: 2018-09-25 00:22:03
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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
ContactLola Olajide, Office of Financial Management, Food and Drug Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd., COLE-14541B, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 240-402-4244.
FR Citation83 FR 48437 

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