Department of Agriculture March 17, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Community Facilities Grant Program
This rule sets forth the regulation changes for the Community Facilities Grant program, which is available to rural communities impacted by a Presidentially declared disaster. The rule establishes the requirements to qualify for additional funding. This rule is being issued on an emergency basis due to the severe economic and social conditions caused by disasters, which occur every year in rural America. In order to prepare for these disasters, this rule is being published before the Spring/Summer disasters strike. This will allow USDA to target limited funds to the most devastated communities/counties in rural areas. The revisions will allow USDA to increase potential funding for several essential community facilities in rural communities already designated as a Presidential disaster area.
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages; Delay of Implementation Date
This document delays from August 5, 2009 until October 1, 2009 the implementation date of the interim final rule entitled Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages, which was published in the Federal Register on December 6, 2007, 72 FR 68966, and became effective on February 4, 2008. The interim rule revises regulations governing the WIC food packages to align the WIC food packages with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and current infant feeding practice guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics, better promote and support the establishment of successful long-term breastfeeding, provide WIC participants with a wider variety of food, and provide WIC State agencies with greater flexibility in prescribing food packages to accommodate participants with cultural food preferences. Many State agencies issue food instruments on a bi or tri-monthly basis based on the first of the month. As such, the August 5, 2009 date poses administrative and management information system challenges for State agencies. The new implementation date of October 1, 2009 uses the first date of the month and also corresponds with the beginning of the Federal fiscal year. This change is intended to result in more effective and efficient implementation of the new requirements, and enable State agencies to better manage any cost adjustments arising from the changes.
Black Hills National Forest, Northern Hills Ranger District, South Dakota, Telegraph Forest Management Project
The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal to implement multiple resource management actions within the Telegraph Forest Management Project Area to implement the Black Hills National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. The Telegraph Project Area covers approximately 56,172 acres of National Forest System land and approximately 7,436 acres of interspersed private land about five miles directly south of Lead, South Dakota. Proposed actions include a combination of vegetation and fuels treatments to limit the spread of mountain pine beetle and further reduce the risk of infestation. Actions are also intended to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire and to improve vegetative and structural diversity. Treatments are proposed for approximately 31,722 acres of National Forest System Lands. Approximately 83 miles of new road construction would be necessary to carry out the proposed treatments.
Milk in the Appalachian, Florida and Southeast Marketing Areas; Interim Order Amending the Orders
This order adjusts the Class I pricing surface of the Appalachian, Southeast and Florida Federal milk marketing orders on an interim basis. In addition, this order amends on an interim basis certain features of the diversion limit, touch-base standards and transportation credit provisions for the Appalachian and Southeast Federal milk marketing orders. More than the required producers approved the issuance of the interim order as amended.
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