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As part of this mission, APHIS’ Plant
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APHIS is aware that individual States
enforce phytosanitary regulations and
procedures within their borders to
address pests of concern, and that those
pests are not always also the subject of
an APHIS response program or activity.
To strengthen APHIS’ safeguarding
system to protect agriculture and to
facilitate agriculture trade through
effective management of phytosanitary
measures, APHIS initiated the Federally
Recognized State Managed
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granting Federal recognition to certain
State-managed official control programs
for plant pest eradication or
containment and State-managed pest
exclusion programs. (The FRSMP
Program was previously referred to as
the Official Control Program.) Federal
recognition of a State’s pest control
activities will justify actions by Federal
inspectors at ports of entry to help
exclude pests that are under a
phytosanitary program in a destination
State. This process involves the use of
information collection activities,
including the submission of a petition
for protocol for quarantine pests of
concern, a petition for regulated nonquarantine pests, State cooperative
agreements, and audit review annual
accomplishment reports.
We are asking the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve these information collection
activities for an additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
affected agencies) concerning our
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information collection. These comments
will help us:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, through use, as
appropriate, of automated, electronic,
mechanical, and other collection
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
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Estimate of burden: The public
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 34.7 hours per
response.
Respondents: State plant health
regulatory officials.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 1.
Estimated annual number of
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Estimated annual number of
responses: 7.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 243 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of
February 2023.
Anthony Shea
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS–2022–0034]
National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods;
Membership Nominations
Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice; soliciting nominations.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the provisions of
the rules and regulations of the USDA
and the Federal Advisory Committee
SUMMARY:
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Act (FACA), the USDA is soliciting
nominations for membership on the
National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods
(NACMCF). There are 15 vacancies.
Advisory Committee members serve a
two-year term that will begin September
2023 through September 2025. Members
may be reappointed for one additional
consecutive term at the discretion of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
DATES: All nomination packages must be
received by March 15, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages
should be sent by email to NACMCF@
usda.gov, or mailed to: The Honorable
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Room 1131,
South Building, Attn:
FSIS\OPHS\National Advisory
Committee on Microbiological Criteria
for Foods (John Jarosh), Washington, DC
20250.
Docket: For access to documents, call
(202) 205–0495 to schedule a time to
visit the FSIS Docket Room at 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20250–3700.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Jarosh, Designated Federal Officer, by
telephone at 510–671–4397, by email to
NACMCF@usda.gov or by mail to: John
Jarosh, USDA, FSIS, Office of Public
Health Science, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW, Room 1131, Washington,
DC 20250.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USDA is
seeking NACMCF nominees with
scientific expertise in the fields of
microbiology, risk assessment,
epidemiology, public health, food
science, and other relevant disciplines,
in order to obtain the scientific
perspective, expertise, experience and
point-of-view of all stakeholders. USDA
is seeking nominations for NACMCF
from persons in academia, industry, and
State governments, as well as all other
interested persons with the required
expertise. Members can serve on only
one USDA Advisory Committee at a
time.
All nominees will undergo a USDA
background check. Any member who is
not a Federal government employee will
be appointed to serve as a noncompensated special government
employee (SGE). SGEs will be subject to
appropriate conflict of interest statutes
and standards of ethical conduct.
Applicants that are federally registered
lobbyists will not be considered for
USDA’s NACMCF.
Nominations for membership on the
NACMCF must be addressed to the
Secretary of Agriculture and
accompanied by a cover letter
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addressing the nomination.
Additionally, a resume or curriculum
vitae and a completed USDA Advisory
Committee Membership Background
Information form AD–755 (available
online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/
default/files/documents/ad-755.pdf)
must be included with the nomination.
The resume or curriculum vitae must be
limited to five one-sided pages and
should include educational background,
expertise, and a list of select
publications, if available, that confirm
the nominee’s expertise for the related
work. Any submissions with more than
the prescribed five one-sided pages in
length will have only the first five pages
reviewed. A person may self-nominate,
or a nomination can be made on behalf
of someone else.
Background
The NACMCF provides impartial
scientific advice, and peer reviews to
Federal food safety agencies for use in
the development of an integrated
national food safety systems approach
that assures the safety of domestic,
imported, and exported foods.
The NACMCF is a discretionary
advisory committee that was established
in 1988, by the Secretary of Agriculture,
and after consulting with the Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, in response to the
recommendations of two external
organizations. The National Academy of
Sciences recommended an interagency
approach to microbiological criteria,
since various federal, State, and local
agencies are responsible for food safety.
Also, the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations made a
similar recommendation in the Rural
Development, Agriculture, and Related
Agencies Appropriation Bill for fiscal
year 1988. The charter for the NACMCF
is available for viewing at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/policy/advisorycommittees/national-advisorycommittee-microbiological-criteriafoods-nacmcf. The NACMCF provides
scientific advice and recommendations
to the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of Health and Human Services
on public health issues relative to the
safety and wholesomeness of the U.S.
food supply, including development of
microbiological criteria and review and
evaluation of epidemiological and risk
assessment data and methodologies for
assessing microbiological hazards in
foods. The Committee also provides
scientific advice and recommendations
to the U.S. Departments of Commerce
and Defense. For example, one of the
most recent efforts of the Committee
was to provide the best scientific
information available on ‘Enhancing
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Salmonella Control in Poultry.’ The
Committee is currently addressing
‘Cronobacter spp. In Powdered Infant
Formula’ and anticipates an FSIS charge
related to the benefits of genomic
characterization of pathogens.
The Committee reports to the
Secretary of Agriculture through the
Under Secretary for Food Safety, the
Committee’s Chair, and to the Secretary
of Health and Human Services through
the Assistant Secretary for Health, the
Committee’s Vice-Chair. Currently, Dr.
Jose´ Emilio Esteban, Under Secretary for
Food Safety, USDA, is the Committee
Chair; Dr. Susan T. Mayne, Director of
the Food and Drug Administration’s
Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN), is the Vice-Chair;
and Mr. John J. Jarosh, FSIS, is the
Director of the NACMCF Secretariat and
Designated Federal Officer.
Appointments to the Committee will
be made by the Secretary of Agriculture
after consultation with the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to ensure
that recommendations made by the
Committee take into account the needs
of the diverse groups served by the
USDA.
The full Committee expects to meet at
least once a year, virtually or in person,
and the meetings will be announced in
advance in the Federal Register.
NACMCF holds subcommittee meetings
in order to accomplish the work of the
Committee; all subcommittee work is
reviewed and approved during a public
meeting of the full Committee, as
announced in the Federal Register. The
subcommittees will meet as deemed
necessary by the subcommittee
chairperson in an open public forum.
Subcommittees may also meet virtually.
The subcommittee meetings will not be
announced in the Federal Register;
however, FSIS will announce the
agenda and subcommittee meetings
through the FSIS Constituent Update,
available online at: https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/cu. Subcommittees
may invite technical experts to present
information for consideration by the
subcommittee. All data and records
available to the full Committee are
expected to be available to the public
after the full Committee has reviewed
and approved the work of the
subcommittee.
Advisory committee members are
expected to attend all scheduled
meetings during their two-year term to
ensure the smooth functioning of the
advisory committee. Members must be
prepared to work outside of scheduled
Committee and subcommittee meetings
and may be required to assist in
document preparation. Committee
members serve on a voluntary basis;
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however, travel expenses and per diem
reimbursements are available when in
person meetings occur.
Regarding Nominees Who Are Selected
All SGE and Federal government
employee nominees who are selected
must complete the Office of Government
Ethics (OGE) 450 Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report before rendering any
advice or before their first meeting. All
Committee members will be reviewed
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 208 for conflicts
of interest relating to specific NACMCF
work charges, and financial disclosure
updates will be required annually.
Members subject to financial disclosure
must report any changes in financial
holdings requiring additional
disclosure. OGE 450 forms are available
on-line at: https://www.oge.gov/web/
oge.nsf/ethicsofficials_financial-disc.
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Documents and Comments
NACMCF documents and comments
posted on the FSIS website are
electronic conversions from a variety of
source formats. In some cases,
document conversion may result in
character translation or formatting
errors. The original document is the
official, legal copy. To meet the
electronic and information technology
accessibility standards in section 508 of
the Rehabilitation Act, NACMCF may
add alternate text descriptors for nontext elements (graphs, charts, tables,
multimedia, etc.). These modifications
only affect the internet copies of the
documents. Copyrighted documents
will not be posted on FSIS’ website but
will be available for inspection in the
FSIS Docket Room.
Additional Public Notification
Public awareness of all segments of
rulemaking and policy development is
important. Consequently, FSIS will
announce this Federal Register
publication on-line through the FSIS
web page located at: https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/federal-register.
FSIS will also announce and provide
a link to it through the FSIS Constituent
Update, which is used to provide
information regarding FSIS policies,
procedures, regulations, Federal
Register notices, FSIS public meetings,
and other types of information that
could affect or would be of interest to
our constituents and stakeholders. The
Constituent Update is available on the
FSIS web page. Through the web page,
FSIS is able to provide information to a
much broader, more diverse audience.
In addition, FSIS offers an email
subscription service which provides
automatic and customized access to
selected food safety news and
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information. This service is available at:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/subscribe.
Options range from recalls to export
information, regulations, directives, and
notices. Customers can add or delete
subscriptions themselves and have the
option to password protect their
accounts.
USDA is an equal opportunity
provider, employer, and lender.
Dated: February 1, 2023.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023–02395 Filed 2–3–23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P
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rights law and USDA civil rights
regulations and policies, USDA, its
Mission Areas, agencies, staff offices,
employees, and institutions
participating in or administering USDA
programs are prohibited from
discriminating based on race, color,
national origin, religion, sex, gender
identity (including gender expression),
sexual orientation, disability, age,
marital status, family/parental status,
income derived from a public assistance
program, political beliefs, or reprisal or
retaliation for prior civil rights activity,
in any program or activity conducted or
funded by USDA (not all bases apply to
all programs). Remedies and complaint
filing deadlines vary by program or
incident.
Program information may be made
available in languages other than
English. Persons with disabilities who
require alternative means of
communication to obtain program
information (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, American Sign Language)
should contact the responsible Mission
Area, agency, or staff office; the USDA
TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600
(voice and TTY); or the Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877–8339.
To file a program discrimination
complaint, a complainant should
complete a Form AD–3027, USDA
Program Discrimination Complaint
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calling (866) 632–9992, or by writing a
letter addressed to USDA. The letter
must contain the complainant’s name,
address, telephone number, and a
written description of the alleged
discriminatory action in sufficient detail
to inform the Assistant Secretary for
Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature
and date of an alleged civil rights
violation. The completed AD–3027 form
or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
(1) Mail: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20250–9410; or
(2) Fax: (833) 256–1665 or (202) 690–
7442; or
(3) Email: program.intake@usda.gov.
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Southern Arizona Resource Advisory
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ACTION:
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will hold a public meeting according to
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is authorized under the Secure Rural
Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act (the Act) and
operates in compliance with the Federal
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purpose of the committee is to improve
collaborative relationships and to
provide advice and recommendations to
the Forest Service concerning projects
and funding consistent with Title II of
the Act, as well as make
recommendations on recreation fee
proposals for sites on the Coronado
National Forest, consistent with the
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Act. General information and meeting
details can be found at the following
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coronado/workingtogether/advisory
committees.
SUMMARY:
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March 17, 2023, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Mountain Standard Time. All RAC
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS-2022-0034]
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for
Foods; Membership Nominations
AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice; soliciting nominations.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of the rules and regulations of the
USDA and the Federal Advisory Committee
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Act (FACA), the USDA is soliciting nominations for membership on the
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods
(NACMCF). There are 15 vacancies. Advisory Committee members serve a
two-year term that will begin September 2023 through September 2025.
Members may be reappointed for one additional consecutive term at the
discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture.
DATES: All nomination packages must be received by March 15, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Nomination packages should be sent by email to
[email protected], or mailed to: The Honorable Thomas Vilsack, Secretary,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Room 1131,
South Building, Attn: FSIS\OPHS\National Advisory Committee on
Microbiological Criteria for Foods (John Jarosh), Washington, DC 20250.
Docket: For access to documents, call (202) 205-0495 to schedule a
time to visit the FSIS Docket Room at 1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250-3700.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Jarosh, Designated Federal
Officer, by telephone at 510-671-4397, by email to [email protected] or
by mail to: John Jarosh, USDA, FSIS, Office of Public Health Science,
1400 Independence Avenue SW, Room 1131, Washington, DC 20250.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USDA is seeking NACMCF nominees with
scientific expertise in the fields of microbiology, risk assessment,
epidemiology, public health, food science, and other relevant
disciplines, in order to obtain the scientific perspective, expertise,
experience and point-of-view of all stakeholders. USDA is seeking
nominations for NACMCF from persons in academia, industry, and State
governments, as well as all other interested persons with the required
expertise. Members can serve on only one USDA Advisory Committee at a
time.
All nominees will undergo a USDA background check. Any member who
is not a Federal government employee will be appointed to serve as a
non-compensated special government employee (SGE). SGEs will be subject
to appropriate conflict of interest statutes and standards of ethical
conduct. Applicants that are federally registered lobbyists will not be
considered for USDA's NACMCF.
Nominations for membership on the NACMCF must be addressed to the
Secretary of Agriculture and accompanied by a cover letter addressing
the nomination. Additionally, a resume or curriculum vitae and a
completed USDA Advisory Committee Membership Background Information
form AD-755 (available online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-755.pdf) must be included with the nomination. The
resume or curriculum vitae must be limited to five one-sided pages and
should include educational background, expertise, and a list of select
publications, if available, that confirm the nominee's expertise for
the related work. Any submissions with more than the prescribed five
one-sided pages in length will have only the first five pages reviewed.
A person may self-nominate, or a nomination can be made on behalf of
someone else.
Background
The NACMCF provides impartial scientific advice, and peer reviews
to Federal food safety agencies for use in the development of an
integrated national food safety systems approach that assures the
safety of domestic, imported, and exported foods.
The NACMCF is a discretionary advisory committee that was
established in 1988, by the Secretary of Agriculture, and after
consulting with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, in response to the recommendations of two external
organizations. The National Academy of Sciences recommended an
interagency approach to microbiological criteria, since various
federal, State, and local agencies are responsible for food safety.
Also, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations
made a similar recommendation in the Rural Development, Agriculture,
and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988. The
charter for the NACMCF is available for viewing at https://www.fsis.usda.gov/policy/advisory-committees/national-advisory-committee-microbiological-criteria-foods-nacmcf. The NACMCF provides
scientific advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public health issues
relative to the safety and wholesomeness of the U.S. food supply,
including development of microbiological criteria and review and
evaluation of epidemiological and risk assessment data and
methodologies for assessing microbiological hazards in foods. The
Committee also provides scientific advice and recommendations to the
U.S. Departments of Commerce and Defense. For example, one of the most
recent efforts of the Committee was to provide the best scientific
information available on `Enhancing Salmonella Control in Poultry.' The
Committee is currently addressing `Cronobacter spp. In Powdered Infant
Formula' and anticipates an FSIS charge related to the benefits of
genomic characterization of pathogens.
The Committee reports to the Secretary of Agriculture through the
Under Secretary for Food Safety, the Committee's Chair, and to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services through the Assistant Secretary
for Health, the Committee's Vice-Chair. Currently, Dr. Jos[eacute]
Emilio Esteban, Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, is the Committee
Chair; Dr. Susan T. Mayne, Director of the Food and Drug
Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN),
is the Vice-Chair; and Mr. John J. Jarosh, FSIS, is the Director of the
NACMCF Secretariat and Designated Federal Officer.
Appointments to the Committee will be made by the Secretary of
Agriculture after consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to ensure that recommendations made by the Committee take into
account the needs of the diverse groups served by the USDA.
The full Committee expects to meet at least once a year, virtually
or in person, and the meetings will be announced in advance in the
Federal Register. NACMCF holds subcommittee meetings in order to
accomplish the work of the Committee; all subcommittee work is reviewed
and approved during a public meeting of the full Committee, as
announced in the Federal Register. The subcommittees will meet as
deemed necessary by the subcommittee chairperson in an open public
forum. Subcommittees may also meet virtually. The subcommittee meetings
will not be announced in the Federal Register; however, FSIS will
announce the agenda and subcommittee meetings through the FSIS
Constituent Update, available online at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/cu.
Subcommittees may invite technical experts to present information for
consideration by the subcommittee. All data and records available to
the full Committee are expected to be available to the public after the
full Committee has reviewed and approved the work of the subcommittee.
Advisory committee members are expected to attend all scheduled
meetings during their two-year term to ensure the smooth functioning of
the advisory committee. Members must be prepared to work outside of
scheduled Committee and subcommittee meetings and may be required to
assist in document preparation. Committee members serve on a voluntary
basis;
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however, travel expenses and per diem reimbursements are available when
in person meetings occur.
Regarding Nominees Who Are Selected
All SGE and Federal government employee nominees who are selected
must complete the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) 450 Confidential
Financial Disclosure Report before rendering any advice or before their
first meeting. All Committee members will be reviewed pursuant to 18
U.S.C. 208 for conflicts of interest relating to specific NACMCF work
charges, and financial disclosure updates will be required annually.
Members subject to financial disclosure must report any changes in
financial holdings requiring additional disclosure. OGE 450 forms are
available on-line at: https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/ethicsofficials_financial-disc.
Documents and Comments
NACMCF documents and comments posted on the FSIS website are
electronic conversions from a variety of source formats. In some cases,
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descriptors for non-text elements (graphs, charts, tables, multimedia,
etc.). These modifications only affect the internet copies of the
documents. Copyrighted documents will not be posted on FSIS' website
but will be available for inspection in the FSIS Docket Room.
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Public awareness of all segments of rulemaking and policy
development is important. Consequently, FSIS will announce this Federal
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USDA Non-Discrimination Statement
In accordance with Federal civil rights law and USDA civil rights
regulations and policies, USDA, its Mission Areas, agencies, staff
offices, employees, and institutions participating in or administering
USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color,
national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender
expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status,
family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance
program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil
rights activity, in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA
(not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing
deadlines vary by program or incident.
Program information may be made available in languages other than
English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of
communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, American Sign Language) should contact the
responsible Mission Area, agency, or staff office; the USDA TARGET
Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY); or the Federal Relay Service
at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a complainant should
complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form,
which can be obtained online at https://www.ocio.usda.gov/document/ad-3027, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a
letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant's
name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the
alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date
of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or
letter must be submitted to USDA by:
(1) Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC
20250-9410; or
(2) Fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
(3) Email: [email protected].
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
Dated: February 1, 2023.
Cikena Reid,
USDA Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-02395 Filed 2-3-23; 8:45 am]
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