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whether the implementation or expansion of
an eCMS would promote the objectives
identified in Recommendation 1 as well as
the agency’s statutory mission without
impairing the fairness of proceedings or the
participants’ satisfaction with them. This
consideration of the costs and benefits
should include the following non-exclusive
factors:
a. Whether the agency’s budget would
allow for investment in appropriate and
secure technology as well as adequate
training for agency staff.
b. Whether the use of an eCMS would
reduce case processing times and save costs,
including printing of paper and the use of
staff resources to store, track, retrieve, and
maintain paper records.
c. Whether the use of an eCMS would
foster greater accessibility and better public
service.
d. Whether users of an eCMS, such as
administrative law judges, other adjudicators,
other agency staff, parties, witnesses,
attorneys or other party representatives, and
reviewing officials would find the eCMS
beneficial.
e. Whether the experiences of other
agencies’ eCMS implementations provide
insight regarding other factors which may
bear on the manner of an eCMS
implementation.
3. The following possible eCMS features,
currently implemented by some federal
adjudicative agencies, should be considered
by other agencies for their potential benefits:
a. Web access to the eCMS that allows
parties the flexibility to file a claim,
complaint, or petition; submit documents;
and obtain case information at any time.
b. Streamlining of agency tasks in
maintaining a case file, such as sorting and
organizing case files, providing simultaneous
access to files and documents by authorized
users, tracking deadlines and elapsed age of
a case, notifying parties of new activity in a
case, and pre-populating forms with data
from the case file.
c. The comprehensive capture of structured
and unstructured data that allows for robust
data analysis to identify opportunities for
improving an agency’s operations, budget
formulation, and reporting.
d. Streamlined publication of summary
data on agency operations.
4. Federal adjudicative agencies that
decide to implement or expand an eCMS
should plan and manage their budgets and
operations in a way that balances the needs
of a sustainable eCMS with the possibility of
future funding limitations. Those agencies
should also:
a. Consider the costs associated with
building, maintaining, and improving the
eCMS.
b. Consider whether the adoption of an
eCMS requires modifications of an agency’s
procedural rules. This would include
addressing whether the paper or electronic
version of a case file will constitute the
official record of a case and whether filing
methods and deadlines need to be changed.
c. Consider whether to require non-agency
individuals to file claims, complaints,
petitions, and other papers using the eCMS.
Such consideration should include the
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accessibility, suitability, usability, and
burden of the eCMS for its likely user
population, and whether creating exceptions
to electronic filing procedures would assist
in maintaining sufficient public access.
d. Create a map or flow chart of their
adjudicative processes in order to identify
the needs of an eCMS. This involves listing
the tasks performed by employees at each
step in the process to ensure the eCMS
captures all of the activities that occur while
the case is pending, from initial filing to final
resolution. It also includes identifying how
members of the public or other non-agency
users will access and interact with the eCMS.
To the extent practical, this effort should also
involve mapping or flow-charting the legal
and policy requirements to decisional
outcomes.
e. Put in place a management structure
capable of: (1) Restoring normal operations
after an eCMS goes down (incident
management); (2) eliminating recurring
problems and minimizing the impact of
problems that cannot be prevented (problem
management); (3) overseeing a new release of
an eCMS with multiple technical or
functional changes (release management); (4)
handling modifications, improvements, and
repairs to the eCMS to minimize service
interruptions (change management); and (5)
identifying, controlling, and maintaining the
versions of all of the components of the
eCMS (configuration management).
f. Establish a ‘‘service desk,’’ which is a
central hub for reporting issues with the
eCMS, providing support to eCMS users, and
receiving feedback on the resolution of
problems. A service desk should gather
statistics of eCMS issues in order to help
guide future improvements of the eCMS. A
service desk could also enable eCMS users to
offer suggestions for improving the eCMS.
g. Plan adequate and timely training for
staff on the use of the eCMS.
5. Federal adjudicative agencies that
decide to implement or expand an eCMS
must do so in such a way that appropriate
protections for privacy, transparency, and
security are preserved by:
a. Ensuring that the agency’s compliance
with the Privacy Act, other statutes
protecting privacy, and the agency’s own
privacy regulations and policies remains
undiminished by the implementation or
expansion of an eCMS.
b. To the extent it is consistent with
Recommendation 5(a) above, making case
information available online to parties and,
when appropriate, the public, taking into
account both the interests of transparency (as
embodied in, for example, the Freedom of
Information Act’s proactive disclosure
requirements) as well as the benefits of
having important adjudicative documents
publicly available.
c. Adopting security measures, such as
encryption, to ensure that information held
in an eCMS cannot be accessed or changed
by unauthorized persons.
d. Ensuring that sensitive information is
not provided to unintended third parties
through private email services, unsecured
data transmission, insider threats, or
otherwise.
e. Keeping track of the evolution of
security technologies and considering the
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adoption of those technologies as they
mature in order to ensure the integrity of
agency information systems.
6. Federal adjudicative agencies that
decide to implement or expand an eCMS
should consider how to analyze and leverage
data that is captured by the eCMS to improve
their adjudicative processes, including
through the use of natural language
processing, machine learning, and predictive
algorithms. Agencies should consider:
a. Evaluating how eCMS features could
generate the types of data that would be
useful for evaluating the effectiveness of their
adjudicative processes and policies.
b. Capturing and analyzing such data about
adjudicative processes and policies to detect
and define problem areas that present
opportunities for improvement.
c. Upon identification of areas for
improvement in the adjudication process,
taking corrective action, refining performance
goals, and measuring performance under the
newly improved process.
d. Hiring staff trained in data science to
facilitate data analysis and giving that staff
access to subject matter experts within
agencies.
e. Collaborating with other agencies on best
practices for data analytics.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Determination of Total Amounts of
Fiscal Year 2019 WTO Tariff-Rate
Quotas for Raw Cane Sugar and
Certain Sugars, Syrups and Molasses
Office of the Secretary, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Office of the Secretary of
the Department of Agriculture (the
Secretary) announces the establishment
of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 (October 1,
2018–September 30, 2019) in-quota
aggregate quantity of raw cane sugar at
1,117,195 metric tons raw value
(MTRV), and the establishment of the
FY 2019 in-quota aggregate quantity of
certain sugars, syrups, and molasses
(also referred to as refined sugar) at
192,000 MTRV.
DATES: These quantities are established
as of June 29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Souleymane Diaby, Import
Policies and Export Reporting Division,
Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Stop 1021,
1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250–1021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Souleymane Diaby, (202) 720–2916,
Souleymane.Diaby@fas.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
provisions of paragraph (a)(i) of the
SUMMARY:
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Additional U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in
the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule
(HTS) authorize the Secretary to
establish the in-quota tariff-rate quota
(TRQ) amounts (expressed in terms of
raw value) for imports of raw cane sugar
and certain sugars, syrups, and molasses
that may be entered under the
subheadings of the HTS subject to the
lower tier of duties during each fiscal
year. The Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative (USTR) is responsible for
the allocation of these quantities among
supplying countries and areas.
Section 359(k) of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended,
requires that at the beginning of the
quota year the Secretary of Agriculture
establish the TRQs for raw cane sugar
and refined sugars at the minimum
levels necessary to comply with
obligations under international trade
agreements, with the exception of
specialty sugar.
The Secretary’s authority under
paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional U.S.
Note 5, Chapter 17 in the U.S.
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) and
Section 359(k) of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended,
has been delegated to the Under
Secretary for Trade and Foreign
Agricultural Affairs (7 CFR 2.26).
Notice is hereby given that I have
determined, in accordance with
paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional U.S.
Note 5, Chapter 17 in the HTS and
section 359(k) of the 1938 Act, that an
aggregate quantity of up to 1,117,195
MTRV of raw cane sugar may be entered
or withdrawn from warehouse for
consumption during FY 2019. This is
the minimum amount to which the
United States is committed under the
WTO Uruguay Round Agreements. I
have further determined that an
aggregate quantity of 192,000 MTRV of
sugars, syrups, and molasses may be
entered or withdrawn from warehouse
for consumption during FY 2019. This
quantity includes the minimum amount
to which the United States is committed
under the WTO Uruguay Round
Agreements, 22,000 MTRV, of which
20,344 MTRV is established for any
sugars, syrups and molasses, and 1,656
MTRV is reserved for specialty sugar.
An additional amount of 170,000 MTRV
is added to the specialty sugar TRQ for
a total of 171,656 MTRV.
Because the specialty sugar TRQ is
first-come, first-served, tranches are
needed to allow for orderly marketing
throughout the year. The FY 2019
specialty sugar TRQ will be opened in
five tranches. The first tranche, totaling
1,656 MTRV, will open October 1, 2018.
All specialty sugars are eligible for entry
under this tranche. The second tranche
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will open on October 10, 2018, and be
equal to 50,000 MTRV. The third
tranche of 50,000 MTRV will open on
January 23, 2019. The fourth tranche of
35,000 MTRV will open on April 17,
2019. The fifth tranche will open on
July 17, 2019, and be equal to 35,000
MTRV. The second, third, fourth, and
fifth tranches will be reserved for
organic sugar and other specialty sugars
not currently produced commercially in
the United States or reasonably
available from domestic sources.
* Conversion factor: 1 metric ton =
1.10231125 short tons.
Dated: June 25, 2018.
Jason Hafemeister,
Acting Under Secretary, Trade and Foreign
Agricultural Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Determination of Total Amounts of Fiscal Year 2019 WTO Tariff-
Rate Quotas for Raw Cane Sugar and Certain Sugars, Syrups and Molasses
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture
(the Secretary) announces the establishment of the Fiscal Year (FY)
2019 (October 1, 2018-September 30, 2019) in-quota aggregate quantity
of raw cane sugar at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), and the
establishment of the FY 2019 in-quota aggregate quantity of certain
sugars, syrups, and molasses (also referred to as refined sugar) at
192,000 MTRV.
DATES: These quantities are established as of June 29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Souleymane Diaby, Import Policies and Export Reporting
Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Stop 1021, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-1021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Souleymane Diaby, (202) 720-2916,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The provisions of paragraph (a)(i) of the
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Additional U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the U.S. Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) authorize the Secretary to establish the in-quota
tariff-rate quota (TRQ) amounts (expressed in terms of raw value) for
imports of raw cane sugar and certain sugars, syrups, and molasses that
may be entered under the subheadings of the HTS subject to the lower
tier of duties during each fiscal year. The Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative (USTR) is responsible for the allocation of these
quantities among supplying countries and areas.
Section 359(k) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
amended, requires that at the beginning of the quota year the Secretary
of Agriculture establish the TRQs for raw cane sugar and refined sugars
at the minimum levels necessary to comply with obligations under
international trade agreements, with the exception of specialty sugar.
The Secretary's authority under paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional
U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS)
and Section 359(k) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
amended, has been delegated to the Under Secretary for Trade and
Foreign Agricultural Affairs (7 CFR 2.26).
Notice is hereby given that I have determined, in accordance with
paragraph (a)(i) of the Additional U.S. Note 5, Chapter 17 in the HTS
and section 359(k) of the 1938 Act, that an aggregate quantity of up to
1,117,195 MTRV of raw cane sugar may be entered or withdrawn from
warehouse for consumption during FY 2019. This is the minimum amount to
which the United States is committed under the WTO Uruguay Round
Agreements. I have further determined that an aggregate quantity of
192,000 MTRV of sugars, syrups, and molasses may be entered or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during FY 2019. This quantity
includes the minimum amount to which the United States is committed
under the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements, 22,000 MTRV, of which 20,344
MTRV is established for any sugars, syrups and molasses, and 1,656 MTRV
is reserved for specialty sugar. An additional amount of 170,000 MTRV
is added to the specialty sugar TRQ for a total of 171,656 MTRV.
Because the specialty sugar TRQ is first-come, first-served,
tranches are needed to allow for orderly marketing throughout the year.
The FY 2019 specialty sugar TRQ will be opened in five tranches. The
first tranche, totaling 1,656 MTRV, will open October 1, 2018. All
specialty sugars are eligible for entry under this tranche. The second
tranche will open on October 10, 2018, and be equal to 50,000 MTRV. The
third tranche of 50,000 MTRV will open on January 23, 2019. The fourth
tranche of 35,000 MTRV will open on April 17, 2019. The fifth tranche
will open on July 17, 2019, and be equal to 35,000 MTRV. The second,
third, fourth, and fifth tranches will be reserved for organic sugar
and other specialty sugars not currently produced commercially in the
United States or reasonably available from domestic sources.
* Conversion factor: 1 metric ton = 1.10231125 short tons.
Dated: June 25, 2018.
Jason Hafemeister,
Acting Under Secretary, Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs.
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