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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: Requirements to Notify FSIS of
Adulterated or Misbranded Product,
Prepare and Maintain Written Recall
Procedures and Document Certain
HACCP Reassessments.
OMB Control Number: 0583–0144.
Summary Of Collection: The Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has
been delegated the authority to exercise
the functions of the Secretary as
provided in the Federal Meat Inspection
Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and
the Poultry Products Inspection Act
(PPIA) (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.). These
statutes mandate that FSIS protect the
public by verifying that meat and
poultry products are safe, wholesome,
unadulterated, and properly labeled and
packaged. Section 11017 of the Food,
Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
(Pub. L No. 110–246, 112 Stat 1651,
448–49), amended the FMIA and the
PPIA by adding sections 12 and 13 to
the FMIA and by amending section 10
of the PPIA (21 U.S.C. 459). These
sections require official establishments
that believe, that product they have
shipped or received, that may be
misbranded or adulterated and has
entered into commerce are required to
notify the Secretary of Agriculture.
Need and Use of the Information:
Official establishments are to document
each time they reassess their HACCP
plans and make the reassessments
available to FSIS officials for review and
copying. Official establishments are to
notify the FSIS District Office that they
have received or have shipped into
commerce misbranded or adulterated
product. The information collected will
permit FSIS officials to monitor closely
establishments HACCP plan
reassessments and to facilitate recalls or
adulterated or misbranded product.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 6,300.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 47,475.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2015–0046]
Notice of Availability of Treatment
Evaluation Documents and
Supplemental Environmental
Assessment for Pesticide Use for the
Imported Fire Ant Program
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public
that we have determined that it is
necessary to add to the Plant Protection
and Quarantine Treatment Manual two
treatment options for use in controlling
imported fire ant. We have prepared
treatment evaluation documents that
describe the new treatment options and
provide justification as to why they are
effective at neutralizing imported fire
ant. In addition, we have prepared a
supplemental environmental assessment
to update the existing environmental
assessment for imported fire ant
treatments. We are making the treatment
evaluation documents and the
supplemental environmental assessment
available for review and comment.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before October 13,
2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2015-0046.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2015–0046, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Supporting documents and any
comments we receive on this docket
may be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2015-0046 or
in our reading room, which is located in
room 1141 of the USDA South Building,
14th Street and Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading
room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except
holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 799–7039
before coming.
SUMMARY:
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Mr.
Charles L. Brown, Imported Fire Ant
Quarantine Policy Manager, Plant
Health Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700
River Road Unit 39, Riverdale, MD
20737; (301) 851–2119.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
regulations in 7 CFR chapter III are
intended, among other things, to
prevent the introduction or
dissemination of plant pests and
noxious weeds into or within the United
States. Under the regulations, certain
plants, fruits, vegetables, and other
articles must be treated before they may
be moved into the United States or
interstate. The phytosanitary treatments
regulations contained in part 305 of 7
CFR chapter III (referred to below as the
regulations) set out standards for
treatments required in parts 301, 318,
and 319 of 7 CFR chapter III for fruits,
vegetables, and other articles.
Section 305.3 of the regulations sets
forth a notice-based process for adding,
revising, and removing the treatments
from the Plant Protection and
Quarantine (PPQ) 1 Treatment Manual.
In that section, paragraph (b) sets out
the process for adding, revising, or
removing treatment schedules when
there is an immediate need to make a
change. The circumstances in which an
immediate need exists are described in
§ 305.3(b)(1).
• PPQ has determined that an
approved treatment schedule is
ineffective at neutralizing the targeted
plant pest(s);
• PPQ has determined that, in order
to neutralize the targeted plant pest(s),
the treatment schedule must be
administered using a different process
than was previously used;
• PPQ has determined that a new
treatment schedule is effective, based on
efficacy data, and that ongoing trade in
an article or articles may be adversely
impacted unless the new treatment
schedule is approved for use; or
• The use of a treatment schedule is
no longer authorized by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency or by
any other Federal entity.
In order to limit the artificial spread
of the imported fire ant (IFA), domestic
movement of all nursery stock
(containerized or balled-and-burlapped)
and grass sod from IFA-infested areas of
the United States to uninfested areas is
regulated under 7 CFR 301.81–2.
Specifically, the Animal and Plant
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
1 The PPQ Treatment Manual is available at
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/
manuals/index.shtml or by contacting the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant
Protection and Quarantine, Manuals Unit, 92
Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD
21702.
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Health Inspection Service (APHIS) uses
ant bait products in conjunction with
chemical treatment to prevent the
artificial spread and dissemination of
IFA. The quarantine requirements
involve the use of chemical treatments
on commodities to insure that
shipments from nurseries, sod farms,
and field-growing nursery facilities are
free of IFA. Changes in availability of
insecticides that are effective against
IFA, as well as ensuring a range of pest
management options, requires APHIS to
periodically evaluate new treatment
options.
Currently, ant bait products are used
in conjunction with the application of a
chlorpyrifos (insecticide) drench
treatment to prevent the artificial spread
of IFA. Although effective, we have
determined that it is necessary to
modify the technique used to apply
drench treatment to increase the
effectiveness of the treatment. In
addition, we are adding two options to
the list of insecticidal baits that are
already approved for use for IFA. The
additional insecticidal baits are being
added to provide a broader range of
chemical treatment options and are not
being proposed as additional treatments
beyond what is currently required in the
quarantine program. Both products have
commercial uses in nurseries and will
give growers additional options for the
bait treatment of field grown nursery
stock or for use in the imported fire ant
detection, control, exclusion, and
enforcement program for nurseries
producing containerized plants (7 CFR
301.81–11).
Therefore, APHIS has added two
additional insecticidal baits, Abamectin
and Metaflumizone, to the list of
chemicals already allowed in the IFA
program and modified a drench
treatment (Chlorpyrifos) for balled-andburlapped nursery stock for use in
control of IFA.
The reasons for these changes are
further described in two treatment
evaluation documents (TEDs) we have
prepared to support this action. In
addition, we have prepared a
supplemental environmental assessment
(EA) to include the human and
environmental impacts that can be
reasonably expected to occur as a result
of the new treatment options available
for controlling IFA; as described in the
new treatment evaluation documents.
The TEDs and supplemental EA may be
viewed on the Regulations.gov Web site
or in our reading room (see ADDRESSES
above for a link to Regulations.gov and
information on the location and hours of
the reading room). You may also request
paper copies of the TEDs and EA by
calling or writing to the person listed
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under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
After the close of the comment period,
APHIS will publish a notice announcing
our final determination and, if
appropriate, any changes we made as a
result of the comments.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781–
7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22,
2.80, and 371.3.
Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of
August 2015.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0031]
Feral Swine Damage Management
Final Environmental Impact Statement;
Record of Decision
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice advises the public
of the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service’s record of decision
for the final environmental impact
statement titled ‘‘Feral Swine Damage
Management: A National Approach.’’
DATES: Effective August 11, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may read the final
environmental impact statement and the
record of decision in our reading room.
The reading room is located in room
1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th
Street and Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC. Normal reading room
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except holidays. To be
sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 799–7039 before
coming.
The record of decision, final
environmental impact statement, and
supporting information may also be
found by visiting the APHIS feral swine
environmental impact statement Web
page at www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlifedamage/fseis. To obtain copies of the
documents, contact the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUMMARY:
Dr.
Kimberly Wagner, USDA–APHIS
Wildlife Services, 732 Lois Drive, Sun
Prairie, WI; (608) 837–2737;
kimberly.k.wagner@aphis.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2015-0046]
Notice of Availability of Treatment Evaluation Documents and
Supplemental Environmental Assessment for Pesticide Use for the
Imported Fire Ant Program
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that we have determined that it is
necessary to add to the Plant Protection and Quarantine Treatment
Manual two treatment options for use in controlling imported fire ant.
We have prepared treatment evaluation documents that describe the new
treatment options and provide justification as to why they are
effective at neutralizing imported fire ant. In addition, we have
prepared a supplemental environmental assessment to update the existing
environmental assessment for imported fire ant treatments. We are
making the treatment evaluation documents and the supplemental
environmental assessment available for review and comment.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
October 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2015-0046.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2015-0046, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1238.
Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may
be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2015-
0046 or in our reading room, which is located in room 1141 of the USDA
South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington,
DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Charles L. Brown, Imported Fire
Ant Quarantine Policy Manager, Plant Health Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700
River Road Unit 39, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-2119.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations in 7 CFR chapter III are
intended, among other things, to prevent the introduction or
dissemination of plant pests and noxious weeds into or within the
United States. Under the regulations, certain plants, fruits,
vegetables, and other articles must be treated before they may be moved
into the United States or interstate. The phytosanitary treatments
regulations contained in part 305 of 7 CFR chapter III (referred to
below as the regulations) set out standards for treatments required in
parts 301, 318, and 319 of 7 CFR chapter III for fruits, vegetables,
and other articles.
Section 305.3 of the regulations sets forth a notice-based process
for adding, revising, and removing the treatments from the Plant
Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) \1\ Treatment Manual. In that section,
paragraph (b) sets out the process for adding, revising, or removing
treatment schedules when there is an immediate need to make a change.
The circumstances in which an immediate need exists are described in
Sec. 305.3(b)(1).
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\1\ The PPQ Treatment Manual is available at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/manuals/index.shtml or by
contacting the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant
Protection and Quarantine, Manuals Unit, 92 Thomas Johnson Drive,
Suite 200, Frederick, MD 21702.
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PPQ has determined that an approved treatment schedule is
ineffective at neutralizing the targeted plant pest(s);
PPQ has determined that, in order to neutralize the
targeted plant pest(s), the treatment schedule must be administered
using a different process than was previously used;
PPQ has determined that a new treatment schedule is
effective, based on efficacy data, and that ongoing trade in an article
or articles may be adversely impacted unless the new treatment schedule
is approved for use; or
The use of a treatment schedule is no longer authorized by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or by any other Federal
entity.
In order to limit the artificial spread of the imported fire ant
(IFA), domestic movement of all nursery stock (containerized or balled-
and-burlapped) and grass sod from IFA-infested areas of the United
States to uninfested areas is regulated under 7 CFR 301.81-2.
Specifically, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
uses ant bait products in conjunction with chemical treatment to
prevent the artificial spread and dissemination of IFA. The quarantine
requirements involve the use of chemical treatments on commodities to
insure that shipments from nurseries, sod farms, and field-growing
nursery facilities are free of IFA. Changes in availability of
insecticides that are effective against IFA, as well as ensuring a
range of pest management options, requires APHIS to periodically
evaluate new treatment options.
Currently, ant bait products are used in conjunction with the
application of a chlorpyrifos (insecticide) drench treatment to prevent
the artificial spread of IFA. Although effective, we have determined
that it is necessary to modify the technique used to apply drench
treatment to increase the effectiveness of the treatment. In addition,
we are adding two options to the list of insecticidal baits that are
already approved for use for IFA. The additional insecticidal baits are
being added to provide a broader range of chemical treatment options
and are not being proposed as additional treatments beyond what is
currently required in the quarantine program. Both products have
commercial uses in nurseries and will give growers additional options
for the bait treatment of field grown nursery stock or for use in the
imported fire ant detection, control, exclusion, and enforcement
program for nurseries producing containerized plants (7 CFR 301.81-11).
Therefore, APHIS has added two additional insecticidal baits,
Abamectin and Metaflumizone, to the list of chemicals already allowed
in the IFA program and modified a drench treatment (Chlorpyrifos) for
balled-and-burlapped nursery stock for use in control of IFA.
The reasons for these changes are further described in two
treatment evaluation documents (TEDs) we have prepared to support this
action. In addition, we have prepared a supplemental environmental
assessment (EA) to include the human and environmental impacts that can
be reasonably expected to occur as a result of the new treatment
options available for controlling IFA; as described in the new
treatment evaluation documents. The TEDs and supplemental EA may be
viewed on the Regulations.gov Web site or in our reading room (see
ADDRESSES above for a link to Regulations.gov and information on the
location and hours of the reading room). You may also request paper
copies of the TEDs and EA by calling or writing to the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
After the close of the comment period, APHIS will publish a notice
announcing our final determination and, if appropriate, any changes we
made as a result of the comments.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701-7772 and 7781-7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and
136a; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3.
Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of August 2015.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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