Addition of Belarus to the List of Regions Affected With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, 75538 [2023-24347]
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Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC) Breastfeeding Award of
Excellence.
OMB Control Number: 0584–0591.
Summary of Collection: The Healthy,
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA)
(Pub. L. 111–296, Sec 231) requires the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
to implement a program to recognize
exemplary breastfeeding support
practices at Women, Infants, and
Children (WIC) local agencies and
clinics. The WIC program, of which the
breastfeeding award of excellence is a
part, is authorized by the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1787).
The WIC Program provides
breastfeeding promotion and support for
pregnant and postpartum mothers as a
part of its mission to improve the health
of the approximately 6 million
Americans it serves each month.
Breastfeeding is a priority in WIC and
WIC mothers are strongly encouraged to
breastfeed their infants unless medically
contraindicated.
Need and Use of the Information:
While HHFKA mandates that the USDA
provide a program to recognize
exemplary breastfeeding support
practices, it is voluntary for the WIC
local agencies and clinics to apply for
an award. Information is collected from
the WIC local agencies to apply for an
award and used by the WIC state
agencies to evaluate the applications.
The award application period is open
once annually and has been designed to
allow local WIC agencies at different
stages of progress in breastfeeding
promotion and support program
development to apply for an award. The
information collection will meet the
HHFKA requirement to implement a
program to recognize exemplary
breastfeeding support practices at WIC
local agencies and clinics. The
information collected through this
program will be used to evaluate
components of existing breastfeeding
programs and support within WIC local
agencies, to recognize local WIC
agencies that provide exemplary
breastfeeding programs and support
services, and to provide examples of
model programs to motivate local
agencies and clinics to strengthen their
breastfeeding promotion and support
activities.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 239.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
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Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2023–0068]
Addition of Belarus to the List of
Regions Affected With Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public
that we added Belarus to the list of
regions that the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service considers to
be affected by highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI). This action follows
our imposition of HPAI-related
restrictions on avian commodities
originating from or transiting Belarus, as
a result of reports of HPAI in that
country.
SUMMARY:
Belarus was added to the list of
regions APHIS considers to be affected
with HPAI, effective on August 22,
2023.
DATES:
Dr.
Heather Sriranganathan, APHIS
Veterinary Services, Regionalization
Evaluation Services, 4700 River Road,
Riverdale, MD 20747; phone: (717) 818–
3582; email: AskRegionalization@
usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
regulations in 9 CFR part 94 (referred to
below as the regulations) govern the
importation of certain animals and
animal products into the United States
to prevent the introduction of various
animal diseases, including Newcastle
disease and highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI). The regulations
prohibit or restrict the importation of
live poultry, poultry meat, and other
poultry products from regions where
these diseases are considered to exist.
Section 94.6 of the regulations
contains requirements governing the
importation into the United States of
carcasses, meat, parts or products of
carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching
eggs) of poultry, game birds, or other
birds from regions of the world where
HPAI exists or is reasonably believed to
exist. HPAI is an extremely infectious
and potentially fatal form of avian
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influenza in birds and poultry that, once
established, can spread rapidly from
flock to flock. The Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
maintains a list of restricted regions it
considers affected with HPAI of any
subtype on the APHIS website at
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/
ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-andanimal-product-import-information/
animal-health-status-of-regions.
APHIS receives notice of HPAI
outbreaks from veterinary officials of the
exporting country, from the World
Organization for Animal Health
(WOAH),1 or from other sources the
Administrator determines to be reliable.
On August 22, 2023, APHIS added
Belarus to the list of regions where
HPAI exists based on credible media
and interagency reports of HPAI
outbreaks in poultry in Belarus. On that
same day, APHIS issued an import alert
notifying stakeholders that APHIS
imposed restrictions on the importation
of poultry, commercial birds, ratites,
avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian
products and byproducts, and certain
fresh poultry commodities from Belarus
to mitigate risk of HPAI introduction
into the United States.
With the publication of this notice,
we are informing the public that we
added Belarus to the list of regions
APHIS considers affected with HPAI of
any subtype, effective August 22, 2023.
This notice serves as an official record
and public notification of this action.
Congressional Review Act
Pursuant to the Congressional Review
Act (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
designated this action as not a major
rule, as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1633, 7701–7772,
7781–7786, and 8301–8317; 21 U.S.C.
136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR
2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.
Done in Washington, DC, this 30th day of
October 2023.
Michael Watson,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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1 The World Organization for Animal Health
internationally follows a British English spelling of
‘‘organisation’’ in its name; also, it was formerly the
Office International des Epizooties, or OIE, but on
May 28, 2022, the Organization announced that the
acronym was changed from OIE to WOAH.
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