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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. 05–018N]
National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting;
request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces that
the National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods
(NACMCF) will hold public meetings of
the full Committee and subcommittees
on July 12–15, 2005. The Committee
will discuss:
(1) Analytical utility of
Campylobacter methodologies,
(2) Determination of cooking
parameters for safe seafood for
consumers, and
(3) Consumer guidelines for the safe
cooking of poultry products.
DATES: The full Committee and
subcommittees will hold open meetings
on Tuesday, July 12, 2005, from 10:45
a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday and
Thursday, July 13–14, 2005, from 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, July 15, 2005,
from 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas
Circle, NW., Washington, DC 20004;
telephone number 202–842–1300 or
800–424–1140. All documents related to
full Committee meetings will be
available for public inspection in the
Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) Docket Room between 8:30 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
as soon as they become available. The
NACMCF documents will also be
available on the Internet at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/
2005_Notices_Index/.
FSIS will finalize an agenda on or
before the meeting dates and post it on
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the FSIS Internet Web page https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/News/
Meeting_&_Events/.
Also, the official transcripts of the
July 2005 full Committee meeting, when
they become available, will be kept in
the FSIS Docket Room at the above
address and will also be posted on
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/About/
NACMCF_Meetings/.
FSIS invites interested persons to
submit comments on this notice.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
• Mail, including floppy disks or CD–
ROM’s, and hand- or courier-delivered
items: Send to Docket Clerk, United
States Department of Agriculture
(USDA), Food Safety and Inspection
Service, 300 12th Street, SW., Room 102
Cotton Annex, Washington, DC 20250.
All submissions received must
include the Agency name and docket
number 05–018N.
All comments submitted in response
to this notice, as well as research and
background information used by FSIS in
developing this document, will be
available for public inspection in the
FSIS Docket Room at the address listed
above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. The comments
also will be posted on the Agency’s Web
site at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
regulations/2005_Notices_Index/.
See the disclaimer section below
regarding modifications that may be
necessary due to the presentation of the
comments.
The mailing address for the contact
person below, Karen Thomas, is: Food
Safety and Inspection Service, USDA,
Office of Public Health Science,
Aerospace Center, Room 333, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–3700.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Persons interested in making a
presentation, submitting technical
papers, or providing comments should
contact Karen Thomas, phone (202)
690–6620, Fax (202) 690–6334, e-mail
address: karen.thomas@fsis.usda.gov, or
at the mailing address above. Persons
requiring a sign language interpreter or
other special accommodations should
notify Ms. Thomas, by July 8, 2005.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NACMCF was established in
1988, in response to a recommendation
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of the National Academy of Sciences for
an interagency approach to
microbiological criteria for foods, and in
response to a recommendation of the
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations, as
expressed in the Rural Development,
Agriculture, and Related Agencies
Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988.
The Charter for the NACMCF is
available for viewing on the FSIS
Internet Web page at https://
www.fsis.usdas.gov/About/NACMCF
Charter/.
The NACMCF provides scientific
advice and recommendations to the
Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of Health and Human Services
on public health issues relative to the
safety and wholesomeness of the U.S.
food supply, including development of
microbiological criteria and review and
evaluation of epidemiological and risk
assessment data and methodologies for
assessing microbiological hazards in
foods. The Committee also provides
advice to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the Departments of
Commerce and Defense.
Dr. Merle Pierson, Acting Under
Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, is the
Committee Chair; Dr. Robert E. Brackett,
Director of Food and Drug
Administration’s Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), is the
Vice-Chair; and Gerri Ransom, FSIS, is
the Executive Secretariat.
At the meetings the week of July 12–
15, 2005 the Committee will discuss:
• The analytical utility of
Campylobacter methodologies,
• The determination of cooking
parameters for safe seafood for
consumers, and
• Consumer guidelines for the safe
cooking of poultry products.
Documents Reviewed by NACMCF
FSIS intends to make available to the
public all materials that are reviewed
and considered by NACMCF regarding
its deliberations. Generally, these
materials will be made available as soon
as possible after the full Committee
meeting. Further, FSIS intends to make
these materials available in both
electronic formats on the FSIS Web
page, as well as in hard copy format in
the FSIS Docket Room. Often, an
attempt is made to make the materials
available at the start of the full
Committee meeting when sufficient
time is allowed in advance to do so.
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Disclaimer: For electronic copies, all
NACMCF documents and comments are
electronic conversions from a variety of
source formats into HTML that may
have resulted in character translation or
format errors. Readers are cautioned not
to rely on this HTML document. Minor
changes to materials in electronic format
may be necessary in order to meet the
electronic and information technology
accessibility standards contained in
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act in
which graphs, charts, and tables must be
accompanied by a text descriptor in
order for the vision-impaired to be made
aware of the content. FSIS will add
these text descriptors along with a
qualifier that the text is a simplified
interpretation of the graph, chart, or
table. Portable Document Format (PDF)
and/or paper documents of the official
text, figures, and tables can be obtained
from the FSIS Docket Room.
Copyrighted documents will not be
posted on the FSIS web site, but will be
available for inspection in the FSIS
Docket Room.
customers to sign up for subscription
options across eight categories. Options
range from recalls to export information
to regulations, directives, and notices.
Customers can add or delete
subscriptions themselves and have the
option to protect their accounts with
passwords.
Additional Public Notification
Public awareness of all segments of
rulemaking and policy development is
important. Consequently, in an effort to
ensure that the public, and in particular
minorities, women, and persons with
disabilities are aware of this notice,
FSIS will announce it on-line through
the FSIS Web page located at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/
2005_Notices_Index/.
FSIS also will make copies of this
Federal Register publication available
through the FSIS Constituent Update,
which is used to provide information
regarding FSIS policies, procedures,
regulations, Federal Register notices,
FSIS public meetings, recalls, and other
types of information that could affect or
would be of interest to our constituents
and stakeholders. The update is
communicated via Listserv, a free
electronic mail subscription service for
industry, trade, and farm groups,
consumer interest groups, allied health
professionals, scientific professionals,
and other individuals who have
requested to be included. The update
also is available on the FSIS web page.
Through Listserv and the web page,
FSIS is able to provide information to a
much broader, more diverse audience.
In addition, FSIS offers an electronic
mail subscription service which
provides an automatic and customized
notification when popular pages are
updated, including Federal Register
publications and related documents.
This service is available at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/
email_subscription/ and allows FSIS
SUMMARY: The Tuolumne County
Resource Advisory Committee will meet
on July 18, 2005, at the City of Sonora
Fire Department, in Sonora, California.
The purpose of the meeting is to review
15 project submittals based on
presentation made by project
proponents.
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Done at Washington, DC on July 1, 2005.
Bryce Quick,
Acting Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Tuolumne County Resource Advisory
Committee
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
The meetings will be held July
18, 2005, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
DATES:
The meeting will be held at
the City of Sonora Fire Department
located at 201 South Shepherd Street, in
Sonora, California (CA 95370).
ADDRESSES:
Paul
Kaunert, Committee Coordinator,
USDA, Stanislaus National Forest,
19777 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA 95370
(209) 532–3671; e-mail
pkaunert@fs.fed.us.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Agenda
items to be covered include: (1)
Presentation of project submittals by
project proponents, with follow-up
question and answer sessions. Time
allocation for each presentation and
question/answer session is 10 minutes;
(2) public comments on meeting
proceeding. This meeting is open to the
public.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: June 30, 2005.
Tom Quinn,
Forest Supervisor.
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BROADCASTING BOARD OF
GOVERNORS
Sunshine Act Meeting
Wednesday, July 13,
2005, 1–4 p.m.
PLACE: Cohen Building, Room 3321, 330
Independence Ave., SW., Washington,
DC 20237.
CLOSED MEETING: The members of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
will meet in closed session to review
and discuss a number of issues relating
to U.S. Government-funded nonmilitary international broadcasting.
They will address internal procedural,
budgetary, and personnel issues, as well
as sensitive foreign policy issues
relating to potential options in the U.S.
international broadcasting field. This
meeting is closed because if open it
likely would either disclose matters that
would be properly classified to be kept
secret in the interest of foreign policy
under the appropriate executive order (5
U.S.C. 552b.(c)(1)) or would disclose
information the premature disclosure of
which would be likely to significantly
frustrate implementation of a proposed
agency action. (5 U.S.C. 552b.(c)(9)(B)).
In addition, part of the discussion will
relate solely to the internal personnel
and organizational issues of the BBG or
the International Broadcasting Bureau.
(5 U.S.C. 552b.(c)(2) and (6)).
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Persons interested in obtaining more
information should contact either
Brenda Hardnett or Carol Booker at
(202) 203–4545.
DATE AND TIME:
Dated: July 1, 2005.
Carol Booker,
Legal Counsel.
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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Sunshine Act; Meeting
AGENCY:
U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
Friday, July 15, 2005,
9:30 a.m.
PLACE: Rayburn House Office Building,
Room 2226, Washington, DC 20515.
STATUS:
DATE AND TIME:
Agenda
Commission Briefing
I. Brief Plaque Presentation Ceremony
by the National Committee for Employer
Support of the Guard and Reserve to the
Commission.
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. 05-018N]
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) will hold public meetings
of the full Committee and subcommittees on July 12-15, 2005. The
Committee will discuss:
(1) Analytical utility of Campylobacter methodologies,
(2) Determination of cooking parameters for safe seafood for
consumers, and
(3) Consumer guidelines for the safe cooking of poultry products.
DATES: The full Committee and subcommittees will hold open meetings on
Tuesday, July 12, 2005, from 10:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday and
Thursday, July 13-14, 2005, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, July
15, 2005, from 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10
Thomas Circle, NW., Washington, DC 20004; telephone number 202-842-1300
or 800-424-1140. All documents related to full Committee meetings will
be available for public inspection in the Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) Docket Room between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, as soon as they become available. The NACMCF documents
will also be available on the Internet at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
regulations/2005_Notices_Index/.
FSIS will finalize an agenda on or before the meeting dates and
post it on the FSIS Internet Web page https://www.fsis.usda.gov/News/
Meeting_&_Events/.
Also, the official transcripts of the July 2005 full Committee
meeting, when they become available, will be kept in the FSIS Docket
Room at the above address and will also be posted on https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/About/NACMCF_Meetings/.
FSIS invites interested persons to submit comments on this notice.
Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Mail, including floppy disks or CD-ROM's, and hand- or
courier-delivered items: Send to Docket Clerk, United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service, 300 12th
Street, SW., Room 102 Cotton Annex, Washington, DC 20250.
All submissions received must include the Agency name and docket
number 05-018N.
All comments submitted in response to this notice, as well as
research and background information used by FSIS in developing this
document, will be available for public inspection in the FSIS Docket
Room at the address listed above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. The comments also will be posted on the Agency's
Web site at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/2005_Notices_Index/.
See the disclaimer section below regarding modifications that may
be necessary due to the presentation of the comments.
The mailing address for the contact person below, Karen Thomas, is:
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA, Office of Public Health
Science, Aerospace Center, Room 333, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250-3700.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons interested in making a
presentation, submitting technical papers, or providing comments should
contact Karen Thomas, phone (202) 690-6620, Fax (202) 690-6334, e-mail
address: karen.thomas@fsis.usda.gov, or at the mailing address above.
Persons requiring a sign language interpreter or other special
accommodations should notify Ms. Thomas, by July 8, 2005.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NACMCF was established in 1988, in response to a recommendation
of the National Academy of Sciences for an interagency approach to
microbiological criteria for foods, and in response to a recommendation
of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, as
expressed in the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies
Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988. The Charter for the NACMCF is
available for viewing on the FSIS Internet Web page at https://
www.fsis.usdas.gov/About/NACMCF Charter/.
The NACMCF provides scientific advice and recommendations to the
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services
on public health issues relative to the safety and wholesomeness of the
U.S. food supply, including development of microbiological criteria and
review and evaluation of epidemiological and risk assessment data and
methodologies for assessing microbiological hazards in foods. The
Committee also provides advice to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Departments of Commerce and Defense.
Dr. Merle Pierson, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, is
the Committee Chair; Dr. Robert E. Brackett, Director of Food and Drug
Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN),
is the Vice-Chair; and Gerri Ransom, FSIS, is the Executive
Secretariat.
At the meetings the week of July 12-15, 2005 the Committee will
discuss:
The analytical utility of Campylobacter methodologies,
The determination of cooking parameters for safe seafood
for consumers, and
Consumer guidelines for the safe cooking of poultry
products.
Documents Reviewed by NACMCF
FSIS intends to make available to the public all materials that are
reviewed and considered by NACMCF regarding its deliberations.
Generally, these materials will be made available as soon as possible
after the full Committee meeting. Further, FSIS intends to make these
materials available in both electronic formats on the FSIS Web page, as
well as in hard copy format in the FSIS Docket Room. Often, an attempt
is made to make the materials available at the start of the full
Committee meeting when sufficient time is allowed in advance to do so.
[[Page 39234]]
Disclaimer: For electronic copies, all NACMCF documents and
comments are electronic conversions from a variety of source formats
into HTML that may have resulted in character translation or format
errors. Readers are cautioned not to rely on this HTML document. Minor
changes to materials in electronic format may be necessary in order to
meet the electronic and information technology accessibility standards
contained in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act in which graphs,
charts, and tables must be accompanied by a text descriptor in order
for the vision-impaired to be made aware of the content. FSIS will add
these text descriptors along with a qualifier that the text is a
simplified interpretation of the graph, chart, or table. Portable
Document Format (PDF) and/or paper documents of the official text,
figures, and tables can be obtained from the FSIS Docket Room.
Copyrighted documents will not be posted on the FSIS web site, but
will be available for inspection in the FSIS Docket Room.
Additional Public Notification
Public awareness of all segments of rulemaking and policy
development is important. Consequently, in an effort to ensure that the
public, and in particular minorities, women, and persons with
disabilities are aware of this notice, FSIS will announce it on-line
through the FSIS Web page located at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
regulations/2005_Notices_Index/.
FSIS also will make copies of this Federal Register publication
available through the FSIS Constituent Update, which is used to provide
information regarding FSIS policies, procedures, regulations, Federal
Register notices, FSIS public meetings, recalls, and other types of
information that could affect or would be of interest to our
constituents and stakeholders. The update is communicated via Listserv,
a free electronic mail subscription service for industry, trade, and
farm groups, consumer interest groups, allied health professionals,
scientific professionals, and other individuals who have requested to
be included. The update also is available on the FSIS web page. Through
Listserv and the web page, FSIS is able to provide information to a
much broader, more diverse audience.
In addition, FSIS offers an electronic mail subscription service
which provides an automatic and customized notification when popular
pages are updated, including Federal Register publications and related
documents. This service is available at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/news_
and_events/email_subscription/ and allows FSIS customers to sign up
for subscription options across eight categories. Options range from
recalls to export information to regulations, directives, and notices.
Customers can add or delete subscriptions themselves and have the
option to protect their accounts with passwords.
Done at Washington, DC on July 1, 2005.
Bryce Quick,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 05-13330 Filed 7-6-05; 8:45 am]
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