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Federal Reserve Bank
OF DALLAS
HELEN E. H OLC OM B
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

DALLAS, TEXAS

November 1 1996

752 6 5 -59 0 6

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Notice 96-114
TO:

The Chief Operating Officer of
each financial institution in the
Eleventh Federal Reserve District
SUBJECT
1997 Fee Schedules for Services
DETAILS

The Board of Governors has announced the 1997 fee schedules for services
provided by the Reserve Banks. The fee schedules apply to automated clearinghouse
(ACH), transfer of funds and net settlement, noncash collection (through the Jackson­
ville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), book-entry securities, and elec­
tronic connections to the Federal Reserve.
Changes in existing check collection and electronic check services fees are
included with this announcement. If a check service is not listed, there will be no change
in the fee. A complete list of products, deadlines, and availability will be distributed
later in November.
There will be no change in the fee charged by the El Paso and San Antonio
Offices for registered mail shipment of currency and coin at this time.
ATTACHMENTS
The 1997 fee schedules for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas are attached.

For additional copies, bankers and others are encouraged to use one of the following toll-free numbers in contacting the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas: Dallas Office (800) 333 -4460; El Paso Branch Intrastate (800) 592-1631, Interstate (800) 351-1012; Houston
Branch Intrastate (800) 392-4162, Interstate (800) 221-0363; San Antonio Branch Intrastate (800) 292-5810.

This publication was digitized and made available by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Historical Library (FedHistory@dal.frb.org)

MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions regarding the 1997 fee schedules, please contact the
persons listed below.
For additional copies of this Bank’s notice, please contact the Public Affairs
Department at (214) 922-5254.
Sincerely,

SERVICE

CONTACT PERSON
& PHONE NUMBER

OFFICE

Automated Clearinghouse

Billy Musgrave (214) 922-6488

All Offices

Transfer of Funds

Nancy Barton (214) 922-6746

All Offices

Book-entry Securities

Nancy Barton (214) 922-6746

Dallas

Electronic Connections

Robert Boyanton (214) 922-5450

All Offices

Noncash Collection

Chris Oakley (904) 632-1003

Jacksonville

Check Collection and
Net Settlement

Terry Campbell (214) 922-6603
Eloise Guinn (915) 521-8201
Luke Richards (713) 652-1544
Herb Barbee (210) 978-1402

Dallas
El Paso
Houston
San Antonio

ELEVENTH FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT
Dallas
Houston

El Paso
San Antonio

1997
FEE SCHEDULES FOR:

Automated Clearinghouse
Check Collection and Electronic Check Services
Transfer of Funds and Net Settlement
Book-Entry Securities
Electronic Connections
and
SIXTH FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT
Jacksonville Branch

1997
FEE STRUCTURE FOR:
Noncash Collection

Automated Clearinghouse Fee Schedule
Effective January 2, 1997

Origination (per item or record):
Unsorted deposit
Presorted deposit
Addenda record
Return item surcharge
Premium cycle surcharge

Fees
$0,010
$0,009
$0,003
$0,040
$0,005

Receipt (per item or record):
Item
Addenda record
Return item surcharge

$0,010
$0,003
$0,040

Input File Processing (per file)

$ 1.75

Account Servicing Fee (per month per routing number)

$25.00

Return Item/Notification of Change (NOC) Fees (origination)1
Paper return/NOC
Government paper NOC
Telephone return service
Voice response return/NOC

$15.00
$15.00
$15.00
$ 2.00

Telephone Advice
Including the first ten pieces of information
Each additional piece of information

$10.00
$ 0.05

Non-electronic Input/Output Fees2
Tape input/output
Paper output
Diskette output

$25.00
$15.00
$15.00

‘The fee includes the transaction fee and the return item surcharge (for returns
only) in addition to the conversion or voice response fee.
2These input/output methods are used in contingency situations only.

CHANGES IN FORWARD AND RETURN COLLECTION AND
ELECTRONIC CHECK SERVICES FEES
ELEVENTH FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT OFFICES
(Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio)

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1,1997
OFFICE NAME

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Dallas & San Antonio
Dallas & San Antonio
Dallas & San Antonio
Houston
Houston
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso
El Paso

All Cash Letter Fees (Except Fine Sort)
Intradistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
Interdistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
Intradistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
Interdistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
All Cash Letter Fees (Except Mixed,Fine Sort, & HDGS)
Intradistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
Interdistrict City & RCPC Fine Sort Cash Letter Fees
Intradistrict Mixed Cash Letter Fee
Interdistrict Mixed Cash Letter Fee
Intradistrict High Dollar Group Sort Cash Letter Fees
Interdistrict High Dollar Group Sort Cash Letter Fees
Interdistrict & Intradistrict High Dollar Group Sort per item fee

OFFICE NAME

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Dallas
Dallas
All Eleventh
All Eleventh
All Eleventh
All Eleventh
El Paso
San Antonio
San Antonio
Houston
Houston
Dallas
Dallas

MICR Present. Plus Return Item-Fedline
Truncation Return Item-Fedline
MICR Information-Min Daily Fee
MICR Presentment, Plus, & Trunc-Min
Off-Peak MICR Presentment-Min
Unbundled Basic Image Capture
Incoming Relay-Min Daily Fee
Incoming Relay
Incoming Relay-per item fee
Truncation Retrieval-Fedline
Truncation Retrieval-Fax
Image export per item fee
Account post sort per item fee

JANUARY 1, JANUARY 1,
1996 FEE
1997 FEE

CHANGE IN
DOLLARS

Forward and Return Collection Fees
0.5000
1.5000
1.5000

5.0000
7.0000
5.0000
7.0000

6.5000
8.5000
6.0000
8.0000

4.0000
6.0000
2.0000
4.0000
15.0000
17.0000
0.1500

6.5000
8.5000
3.0000
5.0000
12.0000
14.0000
0.0750

-3.0000
-3.0000
-0.0750

JANUARY 1, JANUARY 1,
1996 FEE
1997 FEE

CHANGE IN
DOLLARS

1.0000
1.0000

1.5000
2.5000
2.5000
1.0000
1.0000

Electronic Check Service Fees
District
District
District
District

Offices
Offices
Offices
Offices

0.7500
0.7500
8.0000
5.0000
3.0000
0.0020
2.0000
0.0010
1.0000
0.5000
1.7500
0.0050
0.0100

0.6500
0.6500
10.0000
6.0000
4.0000
0.0040
3.0000
0.0020
2.0000
1.0000
1.2500
0.0060
0.0150

-0.1000
-0.1000
2.0000
1.0000
1.0000
0.0020
1.0000
0.0010
1.0000
0.5000
-0.5000
0.0010
0.0050

-3 Transfer of Funds and Net Settlement Fee Schedules
Effective January 2, 1997
Transfer of Funds:
Basic transfer originated

$ 0.45

Basic transfer received

$ 0.45

Off-line origination surcharge

$10.00

Telephone advice surcharge

$10.00

Net Settlement:1
Settlement entry

$ 1.00

Off-line settlement statement surcharge

$10.00

Telephone advice surcharge

$10.00

Tn cases where net settlement arrangements result in higher operating costs than
those incurred for standard arrangements, special settlement fees may be charged.

-4 Noncash Collection Fee Structure
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Jacksonville Branch
Effective January 2, 1997
Coupon Fees
Coupon Collection

Fees

Cash Letters
with 5 or fewer coupon envelopes
with 6 to 50 coupon envelopes

$ 7.50
$15.00

Coupon Envelopes Paid Locally
5 or fewer
6 to 50

$ 4.75
$ 3.00

Coupon Envelopes Paid Interregional
5 or fewer
6 to 50

$ 6.75
$ 5.00

Return Items

$15.00

Clearinghouse Coupon Envelopes

$ 3.00

Bond Collection

'Plus actual shipping expense.

$50.00*

-5 Book-Entry Securities and
Purchase and Sale Fee Schedule
Effective January 2, 1997
Book-Entry Securities:
On-line transfer originated
On-line reversal received
Off-line transfer originated or received1
Off-line reversal received

$ 2.25
$ 2.25
$10.00
$10.00

Account maintenance (per month/per account)
$15.00
Issues maintained (per month/per issue/per account $ 0.45

Purchase or Sale Transaction2

$34.00

1Account switch transfers, which move securities between accounts of the same insti­
tution, are only assessed one fee for the withdrawal of the securities from one of the
depository institution’s accounts. No separate fee is assessed for the deposit of the
securities into the institution’s other account.
2The purchase and sale activity consists of receiving and placing secondary market
purchase and sale orders of Treasury and Government agency securities and
municipal government securities for depository institutions. This service is offered
only though the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

-6 Electronic Access Connection Fee Schedule
Effective January 2, 1997
Connection Types:

Fees

Dial - Receive only (FLASH-Lig/i/)
Dial - Receive and send (Fedline)
High speed dial @ 56 kbps
Multi-drop leased line
Dedicated leased line (up to 9.6 kbps)
High speed leased line at 19.2 kbps
High speed leased line at 56 kbps
High speed leased line at 128 kbps
High speed leased line at 256 kbps
Cross-District

$ 30 per month
$ 75 per month
$ 350 per month
$ 450 per month
$ 750 per month
$ 850 per month
$1,000 per month
$1,800 per month
$2,000 per month
Actual cost1

Contingency Testing Options:. 2
Basic dedicated dial test connection
Premium dedicated dial test connection
Shared dial test connection
Third-party contingency site dial test connection

$
$
$
$

250 per month
500 per month
150 per month
45 per month

Contingency Hardware:
Additional back-up modem/DSU
Additional back-up link encryptor

$ 25 per month
$ 20 per month

1Customer pays the actual cost of the circuit and line equipment (e.g., modems,
link encryptors) plus a share of the costs for network support equipment and
customer support. This fee must be, at a minimum, equal to the standard fee for
the particular type of leased lined connection.
2Use of Dial Test connections should not exceed 60 hours per month for the
Premium service and 120 hours per year for the Basic and Shared services.
Customers exceeding this guideline should be asked to establish a Dedicated Leased
Line connection for testing.

-7 Electronic Access Connection (continued)
Start-up Fees
Installation3
FLASH-Lig/if
Fedline
Computer interface

$
$
$

100
300
800

Training
New Fedline customer training
Retraining (Fedline)

$
$

150
150

Encryption
Software Certification

Actual cost4
$0-8,0005

installation fees for Fedline and computer interface gateway connections of $300
and $800, respectively, are assessed by each Reserve Bank that is involved in the
connection.
4Customer pays for actual cost of the hardware and any administrative cost associated
with supplying the hardware.
5A software certification fee may be assessed by each Reserve Bank involved in a
gateway connection.