Circular Letter No. 436

December 8, 1998

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 effective January 1, 1999. Most of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) pre-press work is eliminated when processing agency submissions of fully coded and validated documents that meet requirements for input to GPO's MicroComp composition software. Because of this, we will offer a special rate which will be in effect until GPO becomes fully operational with SGML-structured documents. At that time, the higher rate* for files not SGML- structured will be placed in effect due to the conversions that will be required to arrive at SGML-compliant documents. A circular letter will be issued in advance of implementation of the higher rates.

Effective January 1, 1999, the following rates will be implemented:

Billing Code	Description	Page Rate	Column Rate
M	Manuscript................................................................................................	$456	152
C	Camera Copy.............................................................................................	$456	152
D	Magnetic Tape...........................................................................................	$426	142
U	Unformatted, ASCII..................................................................................	$426	142
P	Word Perfect, diskette...............................................................................	$426	142
W	Word Perfect from templates.....................................................................	$426	142
F	Fully coded and validated (Microcomp)..................................................	$321	107
	When SGML implemented*.....................................................................	$393	131
S	SGML-coded and validated......................................................................	$300	100
CFRs	..................................................................................................................	$71	n/a

If you require assistance in making the conversion to more economical formats, or have any other technical questions, please contact the Graphic Systems Development Division on 202-512-0676. For other questions, please contact your GPO Account Representative.

Sincerely,

ROBERT G. COX
Superintendent,
Departmental Account Representative Division

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