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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0076]
Fiscal Year 2012 Veterinary Import/
Export, Diagnostic Services, and
Export Certification for Plants and
Plant Products User Fees
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice pertains to user
fees charged for Veterinary Services
animal quarantine and other importand export-related services that we
provide for animals, animal products,
birds, germ plasm, organisms, and
vectors; for certain veterinary diagnostic
services; and for export certification of
plants and plant products. The purpose
of this notice is to remind the public of
the user fees for fiscal year 2012
(October 1, 2011, through September 30,
2012).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on user fee rate
development, contact Mrs. Kris Caraher,
Accountant, Financial Services Branch,
FMD, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 55,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; (301) 734–
0882.
For information on Veterinary
Services animal quarantine and other
import and export program operations,
contact Ms. Carol A. Tuszynski,
Director, Planning, Finance, and
Strategy, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road
Unit 58, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231;
(301) 734–0832.
For information on plant and plant
product export certification program
operations, contact Mr. Marcus
McElvaine, Senior Export Specialist,
Phytosanitary Issues Management, Plant
Health Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700
River Road Unit 50, Riverdale, MD
20737–1231; (301) 734–8414.
For information concerning veterinary
diagnostic program operations, contact
Dr. Elizabeth Lautner, Director, National
Veterinary Services Laboratories, VS,
APHIS, 1800 Dayton Ave., Ames, IA
50010; (501) 663–7301.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
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Veterinary Import/Export User Fees
The regulations in 9 CFR part 130
(referred to below as the regulations) list
user fees for import- and export-related
services provided by the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
for animals, animal products, birds,
germ plasm, organisms, and vectors.
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These user fees are authorized by
section 2509(c)(1) of the Food,
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade
Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C.
136a), which provides that the Secretary
of Agriculture may establish and collect
fees that will cover the cost of providing
import- and export-related services for
animals, animal products, birds, germ
plasm, organisms, and vectors.
The veterinary import/export user
fees are found in §§ 130.2 through
130.11 and §§ 130.20 through 130.30 of
the regulations and cover the following:
• Any service rendered by an APHIS
representative for each animal or bird
receiving standard housing, care, feed,
and handling while quarantined in an
APHIS-owned or -operated animal
import center or quarantine facility;
• Birds or poultry, including zoo
birds or poultry, receiving nonstandard
housing, care, or handling to meet
special requirements while quarantined
in an APHIS-owned or -operated animal
import center or quarantine facility;
• Exclusive use of space at APHIS
Animal Import Centers;
• Processing import permit
applications;
• Any service rendered by an APHIS
representative for live animals
presented for importation or entry into
the United States through a land border
port along the United States-Mexico
border;
• Any service rendered for live
animals at land border ports along the
United States-Canada border;
• Miscellaneous services;
• Pet birds quarantined in an animal
import center or other APHIS-owned or
-supervised quarantine facility;
• The inspection of various import
and export facilities and establishments;
• The endorsement of export health
certificates that do not require the
verification of tests or vaccinations;
• The endorsement of export health
certificates that require the verification
of tests and vaccinations; and
• Hourly rate and minimum user fees.
On October 1, 2011, the veterinary
import/export user fees for fiscal year
2012 will take effect. You may view the
regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which
includes charts showing all of the fiscal
year 2012 veterinary import/export user
fees, on the Internet at: https://
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/
waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html.
Veterinary Diagnostic Services User
Fees
User fees to reimburse APHIS for the
costs of providing veterinary diagnostic
services are also contained in 9 CFR part
130. These user fees are authorized in
section 2509(c) of the Food, Agriculture,
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Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as
amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which
provides that the Secretary of
Agriculture may, among other things,
prescribe regulations and collect fees to
recover the costs of veterinary
diagnostics relating to the control and
eradication of communicable diseases of
livestock and poultry within the United
States.
Veterinary diagnostics is the work
performed in a laboratory to determine
whether a disease-causing organism or
chemical agent is present in body
tissues or cells and, if so, to identify
those organisms or agents. Services in
this category include: (1) Performing
identification, serology, and
pathobiology tests and providing
diagnostic reagents and other veterinary
diagnostic materials and services for the
National Veterinary Services
Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA; and
(2) performing laboratory tests and
providing reagents and other veterinary
diagnostic materials and services at the
NVSL Foreign Animal Disease
Diagnostic Laboratory (NVSL FADDL) in
Greenport, NY.
The veterinary diagnostic services
user fees are found in §§ 130.14 through
130.19 and cover the following:
• Bacteriology isolation and
identification tests performed at NVSL
(excluding FADDL) or other authorized
sites;
• Virology identification tests
performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL)
or other authorized sites;
• Bacteriology serology tests
performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL)
or other authorized sites;
• Virology serology tests performed at
NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other
authorized sites;
• Veterinary diagnostic tests
performed at the Pathobiology
Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL)
or other authorized sites;
• Bacteriology reagents produced by
the Diagnostic Bacteriology Laboratory
at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other
authorized sites;
• Virology reagents produced by the
Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at NVSL
(excluding FADDL) or other authorized
sites; and
• Other veterinary diagnostic services
or materials available from NVSL
(excluding FADDL).
On October 1, 2011, the veterinary
diagnostic services user fees for fiscal
year 2012 will take effect. You may view
the regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which
includes charts showing all of the fiscal
year 2012 veterinary import/export user
fees, on the Internet at: https://
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/
waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html.
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User Fees for Export Certification of
Plants and Plant Products
User fees for the issuance of export
certificates for plants and plant products
are contained in 7 CFR part 354. Export
certificates issued in accordance with
the regulations certify agricultural
products as being considered free from
plant pests, according to the
phytosanitary requirements of the
foreign countries to which the plants
and plant products may be exported.
Export certificates are also issued to
certify that reexported plants or plant
products conform to the most current
phytosanitary requirements of the
importing country and that, during
storage in the United States, the
consignment has not been subjected to
risk of infestation or infection. These
export certificates must be issued in
accordance with 7 CFR part 353 to be
accepted in international commerce.
In a final rule published in the
Federal Register on July 8, 2009 (74 FR
32391–32400, Docket No. APHIS–2006–
0137), and effective October 1, 2009, we
established, for fiscal years 2007
through 2012 and beyond, user fees
charged for export certification of plants
and plant products. Services for this
category include: (1) Certification for
export or reexport of a commercial
shipment; (2) certification for export or
reexport of a low-value commercial or
noncommercial shipment; and (3)
replacement of any certificate for export
or reexport.
The user fees charged for export
certification of plants and plant
products are found in § 354.3(g) and
cover the following:
• Administrative fee for exporters
who receive a certificate issued on
behalf of APHIS by a designated State or
county inspector;
• Fee for export or reexport
certification of a commercial shipment;
• Fee for export or reexport
certification of a low-value commercial
shipment;
• Fee for export or reexport
certification of a noncommercial
shipment; and
• Fee for replacing any certificate.
On October 1, 2011, the user fees
charged for export certificates for plants
and plant products for fiscal year 2012
will take effect. You may view the
regulations in 7 CFR part 354, which
includes charts showing all of the fiscal
year 2012 user fees charged for export
certificates for plants and plant
products, on the Internet at: https://
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/
waisidx_11/7cfr354_11.html.
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Done in Washington, DC, this 25th day of
August 2011.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS–2011–0013]
Availability of Final Compliance Guide
for the Use of Video or Other
Electronic Monitoring or Recording
Equipment in Federally Inspected
Establishments
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the availability of the final compliance
guide on the use of video or other
electronic monitoring or recording
equipment in federally inspected
establishments. FSIS has received Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval of information collection
under the Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) related to Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point (HACCP) and
Sanitation Standard Operating
Procedures (Sanitation SOP) video
records. FSIS made changes to the final
compliance guide based on comments
received on the draft guide. FSIS has
posted this final compliance guide on
its Significant Guidance Documents
Web page (https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
Significant_Guidance/index.asp).
DATES: Effective Date: August 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Isabel Arrington, U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), FSIS, by phone at
(402) 344–5000 or by e-mail at
Isabel.Arrington@fsis.usda.gov.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 15, 2010 (75 FR 63434),
FSIS posted on its Web site a draft guide
on the use of video or other electronic
monitoring or recording equipment in
federally inspected establishments. The
Agency issued the document as a draft
guide because it needed Office of
Management and Budget PRA approval
on the information collection and stated
that when it received OMB approval on
the information collection, it would
issue a final guide. FSIS also solicited
comments on the compliance guide.
FSIS now has OMB approval. The OMB
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approval number is 0583–0103. The
guide is final, and establishments can
use the recommendations in this guide
on the use of video or other electronic
monitoring or recording equipment for
monitoring operations and facilities.
The final compliance guide reflects
comments received.
This compliance guide provides
information to industry to help it
maintain compliance with Federal
regulations, including humane
treatment of livestock and the use of
good commercial practices in poultry.
FSIS is providing this guide to advise
establishments that video or other
electronic monitoring or recording
equipment can be used in federally
inspected establishments. This guide
informs establishments of the Agency’s
expectations if they decide to use this
type of equipment to create records to
meet the requirements of the HACCP
regulations, or the regulations governing
Sanitation SOPs. In addition, this guide
provides information on issues
establishments should consider if they
use this equipment for any other
purpose, such as part of their food
defense plans.
Comments
FSIS received a total of 1,217
comments on the draft compliance
guide. Of those comments, 813 were a
letter campaign form requesting that the
use of video be mandated in
establishments. In addition, 400 of them
were general statements that video use
should be made mandatory in
establishments or expressed concerns
about humane handling and worker
safety. Another individual commented
that FSIS should also require an
accredited third party to audit the
required video use in establishments.
Requiring video cameras in
establishments is not necessary to
ensure that animals are handled
humanely in conjunction with
slaughter. FSIS inspection program
personnel (IPP) verify that
establishments are meeting regulatory
requirements for humane handling in
livestock slaughter and good
commercial practices in poultry
slaughter. Worker safety issues are
outside the scope of the compliance
guide. Establishments that have video or
electronic monitoring or recording
equipment may choose to have a third
party audit their use of such equipment.
Additionally, one meat and poultry
trade association and one video
company, recommended the guide state
more clearly that the following video
records are not subject to routine access
by FSIS: Video records not designated
by establishments for use in their
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2011-0076]
Fiscal Year 2012 Veterinary Import/Export, Diagnostic Services,
and Export Certification for Plants and Plant Products User Fees
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice pertains to user fees charged for Veterinary
Services animal quarantine and other import- and export-related
services that we provide for animals, animal products, birds, germ
plasm, organisms, and vectors; for certain veterinary diagnostic
services; and for export certification of plants and plant products.
The purpose of this notice is to remind the public of the user fees for
fiscal year 2012 (October 1, 2011, through September 30, 2012).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on user fee rate
development, contact Mrs. Kris Caraher, Accountant, Financial Services
Branch, FMD, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 55, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231;
(301) 734-0882.
For information on Veterinary Services animal quarantine and other
import and export program operations, contact Ms. Carol A. Tuszynski,
Director, Planning, Finance, and Strategy, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road
Unit 58, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-0832.
For information on plant and plant product export certification
program operations, contact Mr. Marcus McElvaine, Senior Export
Specialist, Phytosanitary Issues Management, Plant Health Programs,
PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 50, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301)
734-8414.
For information concerning veterinary diagnostic program
operations, contact Dr. Elizabeth Lautner, Director, National
Veterinary Services Laboratories, VS, APHIS, 1800 Dayton Ave., Ames, IA
50010; (501) 663-7301.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Veterinary Import/Export User Fees
The regulations in 9 CFR part 130 (referred to below as the
regulations) list user fees for import- and export-related services
provided by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for
animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors.
These user fees are authorized by section 2509(c)(1) of the Food,
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C.
136a), which provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may establish
and collect fees that will cover the cost of providing import- and
export-related services for animals, animal products, birds, germ
plasm, organisms, and vectors.
The veterinary import/export user fees are found in Sec. Sec.
130.2 through 130.11 and Sec. Sec. 130.20 through 130.30 of the
regulations and cover the following:
Any service rendered by an APHIS representative for each
animal or bird receiving standard housing, care, feed, and handling
while quarantined in an APHIS-owned or -operated animal import center
or quarantine facility;
Birds or poultry, including zoo birds or poultry,
receiving nonstandard housing, care, or handling to meet special
requirements while quarantined in an APHIS-owned or -operated animal
import center or quarantine facility;
Exclusive use of space at APHIS Animal Import Centers;
Processing import permit applications;
Any service rendered by an APHIS representative for live
animals presented for importation or entry into the United States
through a land border port along the United States-Mexico border;
Any service rendered for live animals at land border ports
along the United States-Canada border;
Miscellaneous services;
Pet birds quarantined in an animal import center or other
APHIS-owned or -supervised quarantine facility;
The inspection of various import and export facilities and
establishments;
The endorsement of export health certificates that do not
require the verification of tests or vaccinations;
The endorsement of export health certificates that require
the verification of tests and vaccinations; and
Hourly rate and minimum user fees.
On October 1, 2011, the veterinary import/export user fees for
fiscal year 2012 will take effect. You may view the regulations in 9
CFR part 130, which includes charts showing all of the fiscal year 2012
veterinary import/export user fees, on the Internet at: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html.
Veterinary Diagnostic Services User Fees
User fees to reimburse APHIS for the costs of providing veterinary
diagnostic services are also contained in 9 CFR part 130. These user
fees are authorized in section 2509(c) of the Food, Agriculture,
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which
provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may, among other things,
prescribe regulations and collect fees to recover the costs of
veterinary diagnostics relating to the control and eradication of
communicable diseases of livestock and poultry within the United
States.
Veterinary diagnostics is the work performed in a laboratory to
determine whether a disease-causing organism or chemical agent is
present in body tissues or cells and, if so, to identify those
organisms or agents. Services in this category include: (1) Performing
identification, serology, and pathobiology tests and providing
diagnostic reagents and other veterinary diagnostic materials and
services for the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in
Ames, IA; and (2) performing laboratory tests and providing reagents
and other veterinary diagnostic materials and services at the NVSL
Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NVSL FADDL) in Greenport,
NY.
The veterinary diagnostic services user fees are found in
Sec. Sec. 130.14 through 130.19 and cover the following:
Bacteriology isolation and identification tests performed
at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites;
Virology identification tests performed at NVSL (excluding
FADDL) or other authorized sites;
Bacteriology serology tests performed at NVSL (excluding
FADDL) or other authorized sites;
Virology serology tests performed at NVSL (excluding
FADDL) or other authorized sites;
Veterinary diagnostic tests performed at the Pathobiology
Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites;
Bacteriology reagents produced by the Diagnostic
Bacteriology Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized
sites;
Virology reagents produced by the Diagnostic Virology
Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other authorized sites; and
Other veterinary diagnostic services or materials
available from NVSL (excluding FADDL).
On October 1, 2011, the veterinary diagnostic services user fees
for fiscal year 2012 will take effect. You may view the regulations in
9 CFR part 130, which includes charts showing all of the fiscal year
2012 veterinary import/export user fees, on the Internet at: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html.
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User Fees for Export Certification of Plants and Plant Products
User fees for the issuance of export certificates for plants and
plant products are contained in 7 CFR part 354. Export certificates
issued in accordance with the regulations certify agricultural products
as being considered free from plant pests, according to the
phytosanitary requirements of the foreign countries to which the plants
and plant products may be exported. Export certificates are also issued
to certify that reexported plants or plant products conform to the most
current phytosanitary requirements of the importing country and that,
during storage in the United States, the consignment has not been
subjected to risk of infestation or infection. These export
certificates must be issued in accordance with 7 CFR part 353 to be
accepted in international commerce.
In a final rule published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2009
(74 FR 32391-32400, Docket No. APHIS-2006-0137), and effective October
1, 2009, we established, for fiscal years 2007 through 2012 and beyond,
user fees charged for export certification of plants and plant
products. Services for this category include: (1) Certification for
export or reexport of a commercial shipment; (2) certification for
export or reexport of a low-value commercial or noncommercial shipment;
and (3) replacement of any certificate for export or reexport.
The user fees charged for export certification of plants and plant
products are found in Sec. 354.3(g) and cover the following:
Administrative fee for exporters who receive a certificate
issued on behalf of APHIS by a designated State or county inspector;
Fee for export or reexport certification of a commercial
shipment;
Fee for export or reexport certification of a low-value
commercial shipment;
Fee for export or reexport certification of a
noncommercial shipment; and
Fee for replacing any certificate.
On October 1, 2011, the user fees charged for export certificates
for plants and plant products for fiscal year 2012 will take effect.
You may view the regulations in 7 CFR part 354, which includes charts
showing all of the fiscal year 2012 user fees charged for export
certificates for plants and plant products, on the Internet at: https://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_11/7cfr354_11.html.
Done in Washington, DC, this 25th day of August 2011.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-22242 Filed 8-30-11; 8:45 am]
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