Addition of Kosovo and Mozambique to the List of Regions Affected With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, 22663-22664 [2024-06942]
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Title: Emergency Relief Program 2022
(ERP 2022).
OMB Control Number: 0560–0316.
Summary of Collection: Title I of the
Disaster Relief Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2023 (Division N of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2023; Pub. L. 117–328) provides
$3.741715 billion for necessary
expenses related losses of revenue,
quality, or production of crops
(including milk, on-farm stored
commodities, crops prevented from
planting in 2020 and 2021, and
harvested adulterated wine grapes),
trees, bushes, and vines, as a
consequence of droughts, wildfires,
hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, derechos,
excessive heat, winter storms, freeze,
including a polar vortex, smoke
exposure, quality losses of crops, and
excessive moisture occurring in
calendar year 2022. FSA is directed by
USDA to use part of this funding to
provide assistance to eligible crop
producers through ERP 2022.
Need and Use of the Information: The
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used by FSA to determine eligibility and
issue payments to eligible applicants
under ERP 2022. ERP Track 1 uses a
streamlined application process for
losses for which data is already on file
with FSA and RMA. Producers certify
on the application that the loss was due,
in whole or in part, to a qualifying
disaster event and indicate that they
agree to obtain crop insurance or NAP
coverage for the next two available crop
years, which is a statutory requirement
for payment eligibility. Producers with
a Whole Farm Revenue Protection
policy or whole-farm unit must also
indicate the percentage attributed to
specialty crops to implement payment
limitation provisions as required by law.
Track 2 assists producers for other
eligible crop losses through a revenuebased approach. Track 2 applicants
complete an application form to
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year revenue, and percentage from
specialty crops. Track 2 producers must
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and/or NAP Coverage Agreement, to
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benchmark and disaster year revenue.
Using a revenue-based approach also
reflects losses of production and quality
of crops without requiring the more
extensive calculations and
documentation required under some
previous programs addressing
individual crop losses due to disaster
events. Using a decrease in gross
revenue in the calculation of Track 2
payments also captures a producer’s
loss due to a qualifying disaster event
regardless of whether the loss occurs
before harvest or after harvest while the
crop is in storage, further streamlining
the delivery of assistance.
Producers may also need to submit
additional forms if not already on file
with FSA, including forms to establish
their eligibility for a higher payment
limitation or payment rate, if applicable.
Description of Respondents: Farms.
Number of Respondents: 230,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting;
Other (one-time).
Total Burden Hours: 100,072.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Acting Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2023–0087]
Addition of Kosovo and Mozambique
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 have added Kosovo and
Mozambique to the list of regions that
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service considers to be affected by
highly pathogenic avian influenza
(HPAI). These actions follow our
imposition of HPAI-related restrictions
on avian commodities originating from
or transiting Kosovo or Mozambique, as
a result of the confirmation of HPAI in
these countries.
DATES: Kosovo and Mozambique were
added to the list of regions APHIS
considers to be affected with HPAI,
SUMMARY:
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effective respectively on September 29,
2023, and October 20, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
the Kosovo listing, contact Dr. Heather
Sriranganathan, APHIS Veterinary
Services, Regionalization Evaluation
Services, 4700 River Road, Riverdale,
MD 20737; phone (717) 818–3582;
email: AskRegionalization@usda.gov.
For the Mozambique listing, contact
Dr. La’Toya Lane, APHIS Veterinary
Services, Regionalization Evaluation
Services, 920 Main Campus Drive, Suite
300, Raleigh, NC 27606; phone: (301)
550–1671; email: AskRegionalization@
usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
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 21, 2023, APHIS became
aware of a European Food Safety
Authority document reporting outbreaks
of HPAI in Kosovo in 2022. On
September 25, 2023, the Kosovo Food
and Veterinary Authority confirmed the
detection of HPAI in 2021 and 2022. In
response to these reports, on September
29, 2023, APHIS added Kosovo to the
list of regions where HPAI exists or is
considered to exist, in compliance with
§ 94.6(a)(2)(ii). On that same date,
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 originating
from or transiting Kosovo to mitigate
risk of HPAI introduction in the United
States.
On October 17, 2023, the veterinary
authorities of Mozambique reported to
the WOAH the occurrence of HPAI in
that country. In response to that report,
on October 20, 2023, after confirming
that HPAI occurred in commercial birds
and poultry, APHIS added Mozambique
to the list of regions where HPAI exists
or is considered to exist, in compliance
with § 94.6(a)(2)(ii). 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 originating
from or transiting Mozambique to
mitigate risk of HPAI introduction into
the United States.
With the publication of this notice,
we are informing the public that we
have added Kosovo to the list of regions
APHIS considers affected with HPAI of
any subtype, effective September 29,
2023; and Mozambique to the list of
regions APHIS considers affected with
HPAI of any subtype, effective October
20, 2023. This notice serves as an
official record and public notification of
these actions.
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 26th day of
March 2024.
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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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket No. 240326–0089]
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for
Prosperity Clean Economy Investor
Forum Solicitation of Applications for
Participation
International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of withdrawal;
reissuance of request for applications.
AGENCY:
The International Trade
Administration (ITA) seeks applications
for the Department to consider
recommending to the Government of
Singapore (Singapore) for participation
in the Indo-Pacific Economic
Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Clean
Economy Investor Forum (Forum)
hosted by Singapore on June 5–6, 2024.
The Forum was announced on
November 16, 2023, in the Joint
Statement following an IPEF Ministerial
meeting. The Forum participants will
help advance the climate objectives of
the proposed IPEF Clean Economy
Agreement by helping facilitate
investments in climate-related projects
in the Indo-Pacific region. ITA is
seeking applications from the U.S.
private sector for ITA to consider
recommending to Singapore. This notice
withdraws and supersedes a notice and
request for applications published
March 28, 2024.
DATES: The IPEF Clean Economy
Investor Forum will take place on
Thursday and Friday, June 5–6, 2024.
Applications for participation should
be submitted by 5 p.m. EST on April 16,
2024. Applications submitted in
response to the notice published March
28, 2024 need not be resubmitted.
ADDRESSES: Interested companies
should submit their applications for
immediate consideration to ITA at
IPEFInvestorForum@trade.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ava
Jamerson, Policy Advisor, Office of the
Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230;
email: ava.jamerson@trade.gov;
telephone: 202.823.0686. For additional
information about IPEF, please visit:
https://www.commerce.gov/ipef. You
can find the latest information about the
Clean Economy Pillar at: https://
www.commerce.gov/ipef/pillar-iii and at
https://www.commerce.gov/sites/
default/files/2023-11/US-Factsheet-SFPillar-III.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2023-0087]
Addition of Kosovo and Mozambique to the List of Regions Affected
With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that we have added Kosovo and
Mozambique to the list of regions that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service considers to be affected by highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI). These actions follow our imposition of HPAI-related
restrictions on avian commodities originating from or transiting Kosovo
or Mozambique, as a result of the confirmation of HPAI in these
countries.
DATES: Kosovo and Mozambique were added to the list of regions APHIS
considers to be affected with HPAI,
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effective respectively on September 29, 2023, and October 20, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the Kosovo listing, contact Dr.
Heather Sriranganathan, APHIS Veterinary Services, Regionalization
Evaluation Services, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, MD 20737; phone (717)
818-3582; email: [email protected].
For the Mozambique listing, contact Dr. La'Toya Lane, APHIS
Veterinary Services, Regionalization Evaluation Services, 920 Main
Campus Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27606; phone: (301) 550-1671;
email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 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-and-animal-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.
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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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On August 21, 2023, APHIS became aware of a European Food Safety
Authority document reporting outbreaks of HPAI in Kosovo in 2022. On
September 25, 2023, the Kosovo Food and Veterinary Authority confirmed
the detection of HPAI in 2021 and 2022. In response to these reports,
on September 29, 2023, APHIS added Kosovo to the list of regions where
HPAI exists or is considered to exist, in compliance with Sec.
94.6(a)(2)(ii). On that same date, 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 originating from or transiting Kosovo to mitigate risk of
HPAI introduction in the United States.
On October 17, 2023, the veterinary authorities of Mozambique
reported to the WOAH the occurrence of HPAI in that country. In
response to that report, on October 20, 2023, after confirming that
HPAI occurred in commercial birds and poultry, APHIS added Mozambique
to the list of regions where HPAI exists or is considered to exist, in
compliance with Sec. 94.6(a)(2)(ii). 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 originating from or transiting Mozambique to
mitigate risk of HPAI introduction into the United States.
With the publication of this notice, we are informing the public
that we have added Kosovo to the list of regions APHIS considers
affected with HPAI of any subtype, effective September 29, 2023; and
Mozambique to the list of regions APHIS considers affected with HPAI of
any subtype, effective October 20, 2023. This notice serves as an
official record and public notification of these actions.
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 26th day of March 2024.
Michael Watson,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-06942 Filed 4-1-24; 8:45 am]
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