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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  In 
 DA-  05-  2086 
 July  27,  2005 


 Credit  Card  Payment  Limits 
 The  U.  S.  Treasury  is  rejecting  the  processing  of  Credit  Card  transactions  greater  than  $99,999.99.  The  U.  S.  Treasury  has  published  Bulletin  No.  2005-  03 
 (http://  www.  fms.  treas.  gov/  tfm/  vol1/  bull.  html),  in  which  Agencies  are  directed  to  limit  plastic  card  collections  amounts  not  to  exceed  $99,999.99. 


 In  addition,  the  U.  S.  Treasury  will  reject  multiple  Credit  Card  transactions  from  a  single  credit  card  in  a  single  day  that  accumulate  to  more  than  the  $99,999.99  limit.  Transactions  that  go  over 
 the  limit  will  reject,  the  transactions  are  below  the  limit  will  process. 


 The  FCC  will  institute  policies  that  will  conform  to  the  U.  S.  Treasury  policy.  Entities  needing  to  remit  amounts  of  $100,000.00  or  greater  need  to  use  alternative  methods  of  payment;  check, 
 ACH  or  Fed  Wire.  Additional  information  can  be  found  at  http://  www.  fcc.  gov/  fees. 
 The  FCC  will  post  warnings  on  various  FCC  websites  to  remind  entities  making  payments  to  the  FCC  of  the  U.  S.  Treasury  policy  of  rejecting  credit  card  transactions  that  exceed  this  single  day 
 limit  of  $99,999.99  per  credit  card  per  day. 
 Regulatory  Fee  payments  that  violate  the  Treasury  limit  and  are  rejected  by  Treasury  causing  a  payment  not  to  meet  specified  payment  window  requirements  will  be  subject  to  a  25%  penalty. 
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