Notice of Determination of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Subtype H5N1 Status of Hungary, 48711-48712 [E9-23129]

Download as PDF srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 184 / Thursday, September 24, 2009 / Notices Children (SMP), OMB Number 0584– 0005 Expiration May 31, 2012 are eligible to receive. The proposed collections are an extension of a currently approved collection for the FNS–806–A and FNS– 806–B. DATES: Written comments must be submitted by November 23, 2009. ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments may be sent to Mrs. Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman, Chief, Program Analysis and Monitoring Branch, Child and Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 640, Alexandria, Virginia 22302. Comments will also be accepted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to https:// www.regulations.gov, and follow the online instructions for submitting comments electronically. All written comment(s) will be open for public inspection at the office of the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 640, Alexandria, Virginia 22302. All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval and will become a matter of public record. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Request for additional information should be directed to Mrs. Lynn Rodgers-Kuperman at (703) 305–2590. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Monthly Claims for Reimbursement. OMB Number: 0584–0284. Expiration Date: February 28, 2010. Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information collection. Abstract: The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP), and School Milk Program (SMP) Claim for Reimbursement, Forms FNS–806–A and VerDate Nov<24>2008 16:27 Sep 23, 2009 Jkt 217001 FNS–806–B, respectively, are used to collect meal and milk data from school food authorities whose participation in these programs are administered directly by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Regional Offices (Regional Office Administered Programs, or ROAP). The FNS Regional Office directly administers the NSLP, SMP, and/or SBP programs in Virginia, Georgia, and Colorado. In order to determine the amount of reimbursement for meals and milk served, the school food authorities are required to complete these forms. The completed forms are either sent to the Child Nutrition Payments Center at the FNS Mid-Atlantic Regional Office where they are entered into a computerized payment system or submitted electronically via the Internet directly into the Child Nutrition Payments Center. The payment system computes earned reimbursement. Earned reimbursement in the NSLP, SBP and SMP is based on performance that is measured as an assigned rate per meal or half pint of milk served. To fulfill the earned reimbursement requirements set forth in NSLP, SBP and SMP regulations issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (7 CFR 210.8 and 220.11; and 215.10), the meal and milk data must be collected on Forms FNS–806–A and FNS–806–B, respectively. These forms are an intrinsic part of the accounting system currently being used by the subject programs to ensure proper reimbursement. Respondents: The respondents are State and local governments participating in the NSLP, SBP and SMP under the auspices of the FNS ROAP. FNS 806–A Estimated Number of Respondents: 273. Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 12. Estimated Hours per Response: 1.5. Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,914. FNS 806–B Estimated Number of Respondents: 273. Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 12. Estimated Hours per Response: .5. Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 1,638. Total Estimated Burden for Reporting: 6,552. Dated: September 15, 2009. Julia Paradis, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. [FR Doc. E9–23048 Filed 9–23–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–30–P PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 48711 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS–2009–0005] Notice of Determination of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Subtype H5N1 Status of Hungary AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: We are advising the public of our determination regarding the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1 status of Hungary following outbreaks in 2006 and 2007. Based on our evaluation of the animal ´ health status of two counties (Bacs´ Kiskun and Csongrad) in Hungary, which we made available to the public for review and comment through a previous notice, the Administrator has determined that the importation of live birds, poultry carcasses, parts or products of poultry carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) of poultry, game birds, and other birds from Hungary presents a low risk of introducing HPAI H5N1 into the United States. DATES: Effective Date: This determination will be effective on October 9, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Javier Vargas, Case Manager, Regionalization Evaluation Services Staff, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; (301) 734–0756. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On June 15, 2009, we published in the Federal Register (74 FR 28217–28218) a notice 1A1 in which we announced the availability for review and comment of an evaluation of the animal health status ´ of two counties (Bacs-Kiskun and ´ Csongrad) in Hungary relative to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1. In the evaluation, titled ‘‘APHIS’ Evaluation of the Status of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus in Hungary’’ (November 2008), we presented the results of our evaluation of the prevalence of HPAI H5N1 in domestic poultry in the two counties in light of the actions taken by Hungary’s Department for Food Chain Safety and Animal Health (DFCSAH) during and since the outbreaks of HPAI 1 To view the notice and the evaluation, go to https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2009-0005. E:\FR\FM\24SEN1.SGM 24SEN1 srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES 48712 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 184 / Thursday, September 24, 2009 / Notices H5N1 that occurred in these two counties in 2006 and 2007. Our evaluation concluded that both ´ ´ counties (Bacs-Kiskun and Csongrad) had adequate detection and control measures in place at the time of the outbreaks, that they have been able to effectively control and eradicate HPAI H5N1 in their domestic poultry populations since that time, and that Hungary’s DFCSAH has control measures in place to rapidly identify, control, and eradicate the disease should it be reintroduced into Hungary in either wild birds or domestic poultry. In our June 2009 notice we stated that if, after the end of the comment period, we could identify no additional risk factors that would indicate that ´ domestic poultry in Bacs-Kiskun and ´ Csongrad Counties continue to be affected with HPAI H5N1, we would conclude that the importation of live birds, poultry carcasses, parts of carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) of poultry, game birds, or other birds from Hungary presents a low risk of introducing HPAI H5N1 into the United States. We solicited comments on the notice for 30 days ending on July 15, 2009. We received no comments during the comment period. Therefore, we are removing our prohibition on the importation of these products from Hungary into the United States. Specifically: • We are no longer requiring that processed poultry products from Hungary be accompanied by a Veterinary Services import permit and government certification confirming that the products have been treated according to APHIS requirements; • We are allowing unprocessed poultry products from Hungary to enter the United States in passenger luggage; and • We are removing restrictions ´ regarding the counties (Bacs-Kiskun and ´ Csongrad) in Hungary from which processed poultry products may originate in order to be allowed entry into the United States in passenger luggage. ´ However, live birds from Bacs-Kiskun ´ and Csongrad Counties in Hungary are still subject to the port-of-entry inspections and post-importation quarantines set forth in 9 CFR part 93, unless granted an exemption by the Administrator or destined for diagnostic purposes and accompanied by a limited permit. VerDate Nov<24>2008 17:40 Sep 23, 2009 Jkt 217001 Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of September 2009. Kevin Shea, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. E9–23129 Filed 9–23–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–34–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Plumas National Forest; California; Flea Project (Renamed Concow Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project) Forest Service, USDA. Corrected notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: With the decline of forestland density reduction treatments, overcrowded conditions have increased, forestland diversity has declined, California’s wildfires have gotten larger, firefighting costs have skyrocketed, and resource and property damage have increased. In 2008, the Butte Lightning Complex burned about 6,190 acres within the 8,170 acre Concow Project Area. In response, the USDA Forest Service, Feather River District Ranger of the Plumas National Forest, 875 Mitchell Avenue, Oroville, CA 95965, and the USDI Bureau of Land Management, Northern California Redding Field Office Manager, 355 Hemsted Drive, Redding, CA 96002, are cooperating to prepare the Concow Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project Environmental impact Statement. The USDA, Forest Service. Feather River Ranger District of the Plumas National Forest is the lead agency preparing a draft EIS on a proposal to establish, develop and maintain an irregularly shaped network of up to 1⁄2 mile wide Defensible Fuels Profile Zones (DFPZs) on USDA Forest Service (1,478 acres) and USDI Bureau of Land Management (32 acres) administered land, within the Wildiand Urban Interface. The Concow Project aims to establish Defensible Fuels Profile Zones (DFPZs), implement forestland density reduction treatments and post-fire dead and dying hazardous tree removal, while simultaneously improving local economic health by employing area workers. The DFPZs would be located within and west of the 2008 Butte Lightning Complex Fire perimeter, designed to improve the capacity of effective, traditional approaches to fire suppression and firefighting readiness, along with facilitating private land efforts. DFPZs would connect existing and proposed PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Federal and private land fuel breaks and parallel residential evacuation routes and primary fire suppression access routes. Additionally, treatments would integrate the enhancement of degraded oak woodlands and reforestation of firedamaged plantations. DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received within 45 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register. The draft environmental impact statement is expected November 2009 and the fmal environmental impact statement is expected January 2010. ADDRESSES: Send written comments to the USDA Forest Service, Feather River Ranger District, 875 Mitchell Avenue, Oroville, CA 95965. Comments may also be sent via e-mail to cspinos@fs.fed.us, electronically mailed to commentspacificsouthwest-plumas@fs.fed.us or via facsimile to (530) 532–1210. It is important that reviewers provide their comments at such times and in such a way that they are useful to the Agency’s preparation of the EIS. Therefore, comments should be provided prior to the close of the comment period and should clearly articulate the reviewer’s concerns and contentions. Comments received in response to this solicitation including names and addresses of those who comment, will be part of the public record for this proposed action. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered, however. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Spinos, Interdisciplinary Team Leader at (530) 534–6500 or (530) 532– 8932. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice of intent to prepare an EIS for the Flea Project, designed to fulfill the Herger Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act of 1988, was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, August 30, 2007 (Vol. 72, No.168, pp. 50096–50098). In June, 2008, a series of lightning strikes ignited numerous forest fires, which over several months merged, burning through the central and eastern portions of the Flea Project Area. This complex of fires, subsequently referred to as the Butte Lightning Complex, dramatically changed the landscape for the long-term. In September 2008, the Feather River Ranger District, of the Plumas National Forest, began the process to determine E:\FR\FM\24SEN1.SGM 24SEN1

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2009-0005]


Notice of Determination of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza 
Subtype H5N1 Status of Hungary

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We are advising the public of our determination regarding the 
highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1 status of Hungary 
following outbreaks in 2006 and 2007. Based on our evaluation of the 
animal health status of two counties (B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and 
Csongr[aacute]d) in Hungary, which we made available to the public for 
review and comment through a previous notice, the Administrator has 
determined that the importation of live birds, poultry carcasses, parts 
or products of poultry carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) 
of poultry, game birds, and other birds from Hungary presents a low 
risk of introducing HPAI H5N1 into the United States.

DATES: Effective Date: This determination will be effective on October 
9, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Javier Vargas, Case Manager, 
Regionalization Evaluation Services Staff, National Center for Import 
and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1231; (301) 734-0756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 15, 2009, we published in the Federal Register (74 FR 
28217-28218) a notice 1A\1\ in which we announced the availability for 
review and comment of an evaluation of the animal health status of two 
counties (B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and Csongr[aacute]d) in Hungary relative 
to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1. In the 
evaluation, titled ``APHIS' Evaluation of the Status of High 
Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus in Hungary'' (November 2008), 
we presented the results of our evaluation of the prevalence of HPAI 
H5N1 in domestic poultry in the two counties in light of the actions 
taken by Hungary's Department for Food Chain Safety and Animal Health 
(DFCSAH) during and since the outbreaks of HPAI

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H5N1 that occurred in these two counties in 2006 and 2007.
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    \1\ To view the notice and the evaluation, go to https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2009-0005.
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    Our evaluation concluded that both counties (B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and 
Csongr[aacute]d) had adequate detection and control measures in place 
at the time of the outbreaks, that they have been able to effectively 
control and eradicate HPAI H5N1 in their domestic poultry populations 
since that time, and that Hungary's DFCSAH has control measures in 
place to rapidly identify, control, and eradicate the disease should it 
be reintroduced into Hungary in either wild birds or domestic poultry.
    In our June 2009 notice we stated that if, after the end of the 
comment period, we could identify no additional risk factors that would 
indicate that domestic poultry in B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and 
Csongr[aacute]d Counties continue to be affected with HPAI H5N1, we 
would conclude that the importation of live birds, poultry carcasses, 
parts of carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) of poultry, 
game birds, or other birds from Hungary presents a low risk of 
introducing HPAI H5N1 into the United States.
    We solicited comments on the notice for 30 days ending on July 15, 
2009. We received no comments during the comment period.
    Therefore, we are removing our prohibition on the importation of 
these products from Hungary into the United States. Specifically:
     We are no longer requiring that processed poultry products 
from Hungary be accompanied by a Veterinary Services import permit and 
government certification confirming that the products have been treated 
according to APHIS requirements;
     We are allowing unprocessed poultry products from Hungary 
to enter the United States in passenger luggage; and
     We are removing restrictions regarding the counties 
(B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and Csongr[aacute]d) in Hungary from which 
processed poultry products may originate in order to be allowed entry 
into the United States in passenger luggage.
    However, live birds from B[aacute]cs-Kiskun and Csongr[aacute]d 
Counties in Hungary are still subject to the port-of-entry inspections 
and post-importation quarantines set forth in 9 CFR part 93, unless 
granted an exemption by the Administrator or destined for diagnostic 
purposes and accompanied by a limited permit.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of September 2009.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E9-23129 Filed 9-23-09; 8:45 am]
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