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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 117
[Docket No. FDA–2012–N–1258]
Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment of
Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for
Activities (Outside the Farm Definition)
Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on
a Farm; Availability; Extension of the
Comment Period
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
Notification; extension of
comment period.
ACTION:
The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA or we) is
extending the comment period for a
document that we made available for
public comment by notification in the
Federal Register of January 16, 2013.
We are taking this action to make the
comment period for the draft RA
conform to the comment period for
proposed rules entitled ‘‘Current Good
Manufacturing Practice and Hazard
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Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive
Controls for Human Food’’ (the
proposed preventive controls rule) and
‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting,
Packing, and Holding of Produce for
Human Consumption’’ (the proposed
produce safety rule). Elsewhere in this
issue of the Federal Register, we are
announcing a 120-day extension of the
comment period for the proposed
preventive controls rule and the
proposed produce safety rule.
DATES: The comment period for the
document published January 16, 2013,
at 78 FR 3824, reopened March 13,
2013, at 78 FR 15894, is extended.
Submit either electronic or written
comments by September 16, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic
comments to https://
www.regulations.gov. Submit written
comments to Division of Dockets
Management (HFA–305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm.
1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jenny Scott, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition (HFS–300), Food and
Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch
Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 240–
402–2166.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In the Federal Register of January 16,
2013 (78 FR 3824), we published a
notification with a 30-day comment
period announcing the availability of,
and requesting comment on, a
document entitled ‘‘Draft Qualitative
Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/
Food Combinations for Activities
(Outside the Farm Definition)
Conducted in a Facility Co-Located on
a Farm.’’ The purpose of the draft RA is
to provide a science-based risk analysis
of those activity/food combinations that
would be considered low risk.
Interested persons were originally given
until February 15, 2013, to comment on
the draft RA.
We conducted this draft RA to satisfy
requirements of the FDA Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA) (Pub. L.
111–353) to conduct a science-based
risk analysis and to consider the results
of that analysis in rulemaking that is
required by FSMA. In the Federal
Register of January 16, 2013 (78 FR
3824), we announced that we had used
the results of the draft RA to propose to
exempt certain food facilities (i.e., those
that are small or very small businesses
that are engaged only in specific types
of on-farm manufacturing, processing,
packing, or holding activities identified
in the draft RA as low-risk activity/food
combinations) from the proposed
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requirements of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act for hazard analysis
and risk-based preventive controls (the
proposed preventive controls rule).
Interested persons were originally given
until May 16, 2013, to comment on the
proposed preventive controls rule.
We previously received requests to
allow interested persons additional time
to comment on the draft RA. Two
requesters had considered that the
comment period for the draft RA should
conform to the comment period of the
proposed preventive controls rule. (One
of these requesters further requested
that the comment period conform to that
of the proposed produce safety rule,
which published in the Federal Register
of January 16, 2013 (78 FR 3504), and
other major rulemakings that we would
be conducting under FSMA but were
not yet published.) We considered the
requests and reopened the comment
period for the draft RA until May 16,
2013—i.e., the same date as that for the
proposed preventive controls rule and
the proposed produce safety rule
(Federal Register of March 13, 2013, 78
FR 15894).
We have now received comments
requesting an extension of the comment
period on the proposed preventive
controls rule and the proposed produce
safety rule. Each request conveyed
concern that the current 120-day
comment period does not allow
sufficient time to develop a meaningful
or thoughtful response to those
proposed rules. We have considered the
requests and, elsewhere in this issue of
the Federal Register, we are granting a
120-day extension of the comment
period for those proposed rules. We are
extending the comment period for the
draft RA for 120 days to continue to
make the comment period for the draft
RA conform to the comment period for
the proposed preventive controls rule
and the proposed produce safety rule.
II. Request for Comments
Interested persons may submit either
electronic comments regarding the draft
RA to https://www.regulations.gov or
written comments to the Division of
Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES). It
is only necessary to send one set of
comments. Identify comments with the
docket number found in brackets in the
heading of this document. Received
comments may be seen in the Division
of Dockets Management between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and
will be posted to the docket at https://
www.regulations.gov.
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Dated: April 22, 2013.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
Executive Summary
I. Purpose of the Regulatory Action
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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32 CFR Part 60
[Docket ID DOD–2008–OS–0128]
RIN 0790–AI40
Family Advocacy Command
Assistance Team (FACAT)
Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness,
DoD.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
This part updates Department
of Defense (DoD) policy and
responsibilities and prescribes
procedures for the implementation and
use of the FACAT in accordance with 10
U.S.C. 1794. It is DoD policy to provide
a safe and secure environment for DoD
personnel and their families by
promoting the prevention, early
identification, and intervention in all
allegations of child abuse and neglect.
DATES: Comments must be received by
June 25, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
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To establish DoD policy, assign
responsibilities, and prescribe
procedures for implementation and use
of the multi-disciplinary Family
Advocacy Command Assistant Team to
respond to allegations of child sexual
abuse in DoD-sanctioned childcare and
youth activities.
a. The need for the regulatory action
and how the action will meet that need.
Child sexual abuse allegations in
DoD-sanctioned childcare and youth
activities require a coordinated
community response between law
enforcement, child protection agencies,
and the setting from which the
allegation arose. Local teams who may
not be sufficiently resourced to conduct
large scale investigations and coordinate
an effective multi-level response can
request the deployment and support of
the FACAT to foster cooperation among
the DoD, other Federal agencies, and
responsible civilian authorities when
addressing allegations of child sexual
abuse in DoD-sanctioned activities;
promote timely and comprehensive
reporting of all allegations; and actively
seek prosecution of alleged perpetrators
to the fullest extent of the law.
b. Succinct statement of legal
authority for the regulatory action
(explaining, in brief, the legal authority
laid out later in the preamble).
Section 1794 of title 10, United States
Code (U.S.C.) requires the Secretary of
Defense to maintain a special task force
to respond to allegations of widespread
child abuse at a military installation.
The task force shall be composed of
personnel from appropriate disciplines,
including, medicine, psychology, and
child development. This task force will
provide assistance to the commander of
the installation, and to parents at the
installation, to effectively deal with the
allegations.
II. Summary of the Major Provisions of
the Regulatory Action in Question
a. This regulatory action establishes a
DoD multi-disciplinary Family
Advocacy Command Assistant Team
(FACAT) to support local installation
personnel in responding to extrafamilial
child sexual abuse allegations in DoD
sanctioned childcare and youth
activities.
b. The deployment of the FACAT
provides a coordinated and
comprehensive DoD response to assist
the Military Department upon DoD
Component request to address
allegations when local resources are
limited.
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c. The goal of the FACAT is to foster
cooperation among the DoD, other
Federal agencies, and responsible
civilian authorities when addressing
allegations of extrafamilial child sexual
abuse in DoD-sanctioned activities, to
ensure the timely and comprehensive
reporting of all incidents to the
appropriate authorities, and to seek
prosecution of alleged perpetrators to
the fullest extent of the law when
appropriate.
III. Costs and Benefits
The benefit to the Department and to
the public is to provide safe and secure
environments for children of DoD
personnel and their families by
promoting a coordinated community
response to allegations of child sexual
abuse arising in DoD-sanctioned
childcare and youth activities settings.
The deployment of the FACAT to
support local communities ensures that
alleged offenders are identified,
assessed, investigated, and prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. Further, the
multidisciplinary and well-coordinated
approach promotes the identification of
all potential child victims and provides
a safe and secure setting for these
children to be interviewed, assessed,
and supported. Per Section 1794 of Title
10, United States Code, this rule has an
internal reporting requirement that will
cost the Department of Defense $600
annually. Costs for this program include
salaries of government employees,
training costs of approximately $30,000
every three years, and up to $15,000 to
deploy a FACAT of five team members
per response. There were no FACATs
deployed in FY 2011, and there was one
FACAT deployed in FY 2010. The cost
of the FY 2010 deployment was
approximately $7,500.
Executive Order 12866, ‘‘Regulatory
Planning and Review’’ and Executive
Order 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation
and Regulatory Review’’
It has been certified that 32 CFR part
60 does not:
(1) Have an annual effect on the
economy of $100 million or more or
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productivity; competition; jobs; the
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 117
[Docket No. FDA-2012-N-1258]
Draft Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food
Combinations for Activities (Outside the Farm Definition) Conducted in
a Facility Co-Located on a Farm; Availability; Extension of the Comment
Period
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notification; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is extending the
comment period for a document that we made available for public comment
by notification in the Federal Register of January 16, 2013. We are
taking this action to make the comment period for the draft RA conform
to the comment period for proposed rules entitled ``Current Good
Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive
Controls for Human Food'' (the proposed preventive controls rule) and
``Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of
Produce for Human Consumption'' (the proposed produce safety rule).
Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, we are announcing a
120-day extension of the comment period for the proposed preventive
controls rule and the proposed produce safety rule.
DATES: The comment period for the document published January 16, 2013,
at 78 FR 3824, reopened March 13, 2013, at 78 FR 15894, is extended.
Submit either electronic or written comments by September 16, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit electronic comments to https://www.regulations.gov.
Submit written comments to Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305),
Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville,
MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jenny Scott, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition (HFS-300), Food and Drug Administration, 5100
Paint Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2166.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In the Federal Register of January 16, 2013 (78 FR 3824), we
published a notification with a 30-day comment period announcing the
availability of, and requesting comment on, a document entitled ``Draft
Qualitative Risk Assessment of Risk of Activity/Food Combinations for
Activities (Outside the Farm Definition) Conducted in a Facility Co-
Located on a Farm.'' The purpose of the draft RA is to provide a
science-based risk analysis of those activity/food combinations that
would be considered low risk. Interested persons were originally given
until February 15, 2013, to comment on the draft RA.
We conducted this draft RA to satisfy requirements of the FDA Food
Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) (Pub. L. 111-353) to conduct a science-
based risk analysis and to consider the results of that analysis in
rulemaking that is required by FSMA. In the Federal Register of January
16, 2013 (78 FR 3824), we announced that we had used the results of the
draft RA to propose to exempt certain food facilities (i.e., those that
are small or very small businesses that are engaged only in specific
types of on-farm manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding
activities identified in the draft RA as low-risk activity/food
combinations) from the proposed requirements of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act for hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls
(the proposed preventive controls rule). Interested persons were
originally given until May 16, 2013, to comment on the proposed
preventive controls rule.
We previously received requests to allow interested persons
additional time to comment on the draft RA. Two requesters had
considered that the comment period for the draft RA should conform to
the comment period of the proposed preventive controls rule. (One of
these requesters further requested that the comment period conform to
that of the proposed produce safety rule, which published in the
Federal Register of January 16, 2013 (78 FR 3504), and other major
rulemakings that we would be conducting under FSMA but were not yet
published.) We considered the requests and reopened the comment period
for the draft RA until May 16, 2013--i.e., the same date as that for
the proposed preventive controls rule and the proposed produce safety
rule (Federal Register of March 13, 2013, 78 FR 15894).
We have now received comments requesting an extension of the
comment period on the proposed preventive controls rule and the
proposed produce safety rule. Each request conveyed concern that the
current 120-day comment period does not allow sufficient time to
develop a meaningful or thoughtful response to those proposed rules. We
have considered the requests and, elsewhere in this issue of the
Federal Register, we are granting a 120-day extension of the comment
period for those proposed rules. We are extending the comment period
for the draft RA for 120 days to continue to make the comment period
for the draft RA conform to the comment period for the proposed
preventive controls rule and the proposed produce safety rule.
II. Request for Comments
Interested persons may submit either electronic comments regarding
the draft RA to https://www.regulations.gov or written comments to the
Division of Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES). It is only necessary to
send one set of comments. Identify comments with the docket number
found in brackets in the heading of this document. Received comments
may be seen in the Division of Dockets Management between 9 a.m. and 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, and will be posted to the docket at https://www.regulations.gov.
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Dated: April 22, 2013.
Leslie Kux,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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