Solicitation of Nominations for Members of the USDA Grain Inspection Advisory Committee, 33633-33634 [2021-13504]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS–SC–21–0001; SC21–996–1]
Request for Peanut Standards Board
Nominations
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for nominations.
AGENCY:
The Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Bill)
requires the Secretary of Agriculture
(Secretary) to establish a Peanut
Standards Board (Board) for the purpose
of advising the Secretary on quality and
handling standards for domestically
produced and imported peanuts. The
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
is seeking nominations for individuals
to be considered for selection as Board
members for a term of office ending June
30, 2024. Meetings are held virtually or
in a hybrid style with participants
having a choice whether to attend in
person or virtually.
DATES: Written nominations must be
received on or before August 9, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent
to Steven W. Kauffman of the Southeast
Marketing Field Office, Marketing Order
and Agreement Division, Specialty
Crops Program, AMS, USDA, 1124 1st
Street South, Winter Haven, FL 33880;
Telephone: (863) 324–3375; Fax: (863)
291–8614; Email: Steven.Kauffman@
usda.gov.
SUMMARY:
Section
1308 of the 2002 Farm Bill requires the
Secretary establish and consult with the
Board for the purpose of advising the
Secretary regarding the establishment of
quality and handling standards for all
domestic and imported peanuts
marketed in the United States.
The 2002 Farm Bill, as amended by
§ 12502 of the Agriculture Improvement
Act of 2018, provides the Board’s
makeup will include three producers
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and three peanut industry
representatives from States specified in
each of the following producing regions:
Southeast (Alabama, Georgia, and
Florida); Southwest (Texas, Oklahoma,
and New Mexico); and Virginia/Carolina
(Virginia, North Carolina, and South
Carolina). The Board consists of 18
members with representation equally
divided between peanut producers and
industry representatives. Each term of
office is for a period of three years. The
terms of office are staggered in order to
replace one third of the Board each year.
The term ‘‘peanut industry
representatives’’ includes, but is not
limited to, representatives of shellers,
manufacturers, buying points, marketing
associations and marketing
cooperatives. The 2002 Farm Bill
exempted the appointment of the Board
from the requirements of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act.
USDA invites individuals,
organizations, and groups affiliated with
the categories listed above to nominate
individuals for membership on the
Board. All qualified nominees are
forwarded for consideration as the Farm
Bill does not provide for any voting.
Appointees sought by this action will
fill two positions in the Southeast
region, two positions in the Southwest
region, and two positions in the
Virginia/Carolina region.
Nominees should complete an
Advisory Committee or Research and
Promotion Background Information
form (AD–755) and submit it to Steven
W. Kauffman at the address provided in
the ADDRESSES section above. Copies of
this form may be obtained at the
internet site https://www.ams.usda.gov/
about-ams/facas-advisory-councils/
peanut-board, or from the Southeast
Marketing Field Office. USDA seeks a
diverse group of members representing
the peanut industry.
Equal opportunity practices will be
followed in all appointments to the
Board in accordance with USDA
policies. To ensure the
recommendations of the Board have
considered the needs of the diverse
groups within the peanut industry,
membership shall include, to the extent
practicable, individuals with
demonstrated abilities to represent
minorities, women, persons with
disabilities, and limited resource
agriculture producers.
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7958.
Erin Morris,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS–FGIS–21–0018]
Solicitation of Nominations for
Members of the USDA Grain Inspection
Advisory Committee
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice to solicit nominees.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking
nominations for individuals to serve on
the USDA Grain Inspection Advisory
Committee (Advisory Committee). The
Advisory Committee meets no less than
once annually to advise AMS on the
programs and services it delivers under
the U.S. Grain Standards Act (USGSA).
Meetings are held virtually or in a
hybrid style with participants having a
choice whether to attend in person or
virtually. Recommendations by the
Advisory Committee help AMS better
meet the needs of its customers who
operate in a dynamic and changing
marketplace.
SUMMARY:
AMS will consider nominations
received by August 9, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit nominations for the
Advisory Committee by completing
Form AD–755 and sending it by email
to: Kendra.C.Kline@usda.gov.
Form AD–755 may be obtained via
USDA’s website: https://
www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/facasadvisory-councils/giac.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kendra Kline, Telephone: (202) 690–
2410 or email: Kendra.C.Kline@
usda.gov.
DATES:
As
required by section 21 of the USGSA (7
U.S.C. 87j), as amended, the Secretary of
Agriculture (Secretary) established the
Advisory Committee on September 29,
1981, to provide advice to the AMS
Administrator on implementation of the
USGSA. As specified in the USGSA, no
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member may serve successively for
more than 2 terms.
The Advisory Committee consists of
15 members, appointed by the
Secretary, who represent the interests of
grain producers, processors, handlers,
merchandisers, consumers, exporters,
and scientists with expertise in research
related to the policies in section 2 of the
USGSA (7 U.S.C. 74). While members of
the Advisory Committee serve without
compensation, USDA reimburses them
for travel expenses, including per diem
in lieu of subsistence, for travel away
from their homes or regular places of
business in performance of Advisory
Committee service (see 5 U.S.C. 5703).
A list of current Advisory Committee
members and other relevant information
are available on the USDA website at:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/
facas-advisory-councils/giac.
The grain industry that utilizes
Official Inspection and Weighing
services for barley, canola, corn,
flaxseed, oats, rye, soybeans, sorghum,
sunflower seed, triticale, wheat, and
mixed grain is diverse. AMS is seeking
nominations for the Advisory
Committee that will reflect the diversity
of the grain industry, including, but not
limited to, grain producers, processors,
handlers, merchandisers, consumers,
exporters, and scientists. Therefore,
when making recommendations for
appointments, the industry must
consider the diversity of the population
served and the knowledge, skills, and
abilities of the members to serve a
diverse population.
Nominations are open to all
individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, gender, national origin,
age, mental or physical disability,
marital status, or sexual orientation. To
ensure that recommendations of the
Advisory Committee take into account
the needs of the diverse groups served
by the USDA, membership shall
include, to the extent practicable,
individuals with demonstrated ability to
represent minorities, women, and
persons with disabilities.
Final selection of Advisory
Committee members is made by the
Secretary.
Dated: June 16, 2021.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0101]
Importation of Plants in Approved
Growing Media Into the United States;
Availability of a Final Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public
that a final environmental assessment
and finding of no significant impact
have been prepared by the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service for the
importation of plants in approved
growing media. The environmental
assessment documents our review and
analysis of the environmental impacts
associated with, and alternatives to, the
importation of plants in approved
growing media. Based on its finding of
no significant impact, we have
determined that an environmental
impact statement need not be prepared.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Lydia E. Colo´n, Senior Regulatory
Policy Specialist, Plant Health
Programs, Plant Protection and
Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, 4700 River Road
Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737–1237;
Lydia.E.Colon@usda.gov; (301) 851–
2302.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The requirements for importing plants
in growing media (PIGM) consist of
overlapping phytosanitary risk
mitigation measures that together
comprise a ‘‘systems approach.’’ The
systems approach is designed to protect
imported PIGM against pests and
diseases during all stages of
international trade from the greenhouse
to final product delivery. The goal of the
systems approach is to minimize the
likelihood that any quarantine pest
species enter the United States on the
commodity proposed for import.
The pest mitigation measures the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) proposes for most
PIGM import requests are markedly
similar from one request to the next, and
for this reason we determined that a
single programmatic environmental
assessment (EA) would reduce the need
for repetitive documentation of
comparable risks for the majority of
PIGM import requests we receive.
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On April 10, 2019, we published in
the Federal Register (84 FR 14340,
Docket No. APHIS–2018–0101) for
public comment a notice of availability 1
of a draft programmatic EA for the
importation of plants in approved
growing media, which considers the
potential environmental effects of a
standardized set of pest risk mitigations
for routine market requests to import
plants in approved growing media.
Comments on the notice were required
to be received on or before May 10,
2019, but we reopened the comment
period for an additional 45 days to June
24, 2019, to ensure that all interested
persons had an opportunity to
comment.
During the public comment period
APHIS received six comments. They
were from producer organizations and
private citizens. After reviewing the
comments, we revised the EA to address
issues raised by commenters, but also
determined that none of the comments
received necessitated changes to either
the approach or the conclusions of the
draft EA. The final programmatic EA
addresses the issues raised in the public
comments.
Accordingly, we are advising the
public that we have adopted the draft
EA as a final programmatic EA entitled
‘‘Importation of Plants in Approved
Growing Media (PIGM) into the United
States’’ (January 2020) and have
prepared a finding of no significant
impact (FONSI) regarding the
conclusions of the EA.
The final EA and FONSI may be
viewed on the Regulations.gov website 2
or in our reading room, which is located
in room 1620 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. You may request paper
copies of the final EA and FONSI by
calling or writing to the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the
final EA when requesting copies.
The final EA and FONSI have been
prepared in accordance with: (1) The
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the
Council on Environmental Quality for
implementing the procedural provisions
of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3)
USDA regulations implementing NEPA
1 The notice, programmatic EA, public comments,
and FONSI can be viewed at www.regulations.gov.
Enter APHIS–2018–0101 in the Search field.
2 See footnote 1.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS-FGIS-21-0018]
Solicitation of Nominations for Members of the USDA Grain
Inspection Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice to solicit nominees.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the
USDA Grain Inspection Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee). The
Advisory Committee meets no less than once annually to advise AMS on
the programs and services it delivers under the U.S. Grain Standards
Act (USGSA). Meetings are held virtually or in a hybrid style with
participants having a choice whether to attend in person or virtually.
Recommendations by the Advisory Committee help AMS better meet the
needs of its customers who operate in a dynamic and changing
marketplace.
DATES: AMS will consider nominations received by August 9, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit nominations for the Advisory Committee by completing
Form AD-755 and sending it by email to: [email protected].
Form AD-755 may be obtained via USDA's website: https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/facas-advisory-councils/giac.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kendra Kline, Telephone: (202) 690-
2410 or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As required by section 21 of the USGSA (7
U.S.C. 87j), as amended, the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary)
established the Advisory Committee on September 29, 1981, to provide
advice to the AMS Administrator on implementation of the USGSA. As
specified in the USGSA, no
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member may serve successively for more than 2 terms.
The Advisory Committee consists of 15 members, appointed by the
Secretary, who represent the interests of grain producers, processors,
handlers, merchandisers, consumers, exporters, and scientists with
expertise in research related to the policies in section 2 of the USGSA
(7 U.S.C. 74). While members of the Advisory Committee serve without
compensation, USDA reimburses them for travel expenses, including per
diem in lieu of subsistence, for travel away from their homes or
regular places of business in performance of Advisory Committee service
(see 5 U.S.C. 5703).
A list of current Advisory Committee members and other relevant
information are available on the USDA website at: https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/facas-advisory-councils/giac.
The grain industry that utilizes Official Inspection and Weighing
services for barley, canola, corn, flaxseed, oats, rye, soybeans,
sorghum, sunflower seed, triticale, wheat, and mixed grain is diverse.
AMS is seeking nominations for the Advisory Committee that will reflect
the diversity of the grain industry, including, but not limited to,
grain producers, processors, handlers, merchandisers, consumers,
exporters, and scientists. Therefore, when making recommendations for
appointments, the industry must consider the diversity of the
population served and the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the
members to serve a diverse population.
Nominations are open to all individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, gender, national origin, age, mental or physical
disability, marital status, or sexual orientation. To ensure that
recommendations of the Advisory Committee take into account the needs
of the diverse groups served by the USDA, membership shall include, to
the extent practicable, individuals with demonstrated ability to
represent minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.
Final selection of Advisory Committee members is made by the
Secretary.
Dated: June 16, 2021.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
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