Department of Agriculture May 16, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposed action to implement 36 CFR parts 212, 251, 261, and 295; Travel Management: Designated Routes and Areas for Motor Vehicle Use; Final Rule (Travel Management Rule). The Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Crooked River National Grassland propose to prohibit motorized travel \1\ outside of 300' of the centerline of those existing designated routes (roads and trails) and areas that currently allow motorized use and that are not otherwise restricted or prohibited for such use by law, regulation, policy, order, Land and Resource Management Plans (Forest Plans), or other past administrative decisions. Class of vehicles (highway licensed and/or non-highway licensed) and season(s) of use that motorized access to dispersed campsites would be allowed would match the adjacent designated route classification and seasonal use period. Special provisions for motorized access only to designated, defined, or existing campsites, and/or prohibitions from motorized access would be applied adjacent to routes and within areas specified on the Proposed Action maps. Identification of routes with special provisions and/or prohibitions and would be based on a set of criteria for establishing exceptions to the general provision for 300' motorized access adjacent to designated routes in the proposed action. No new motorized access to areas currently prohibited to motorized access would be included in the proposed action.

We are proposing to amend the fruits and vegetables regulations to allow the importation into the continental United States of baby squash and baby courgettes from Zambia. As a condition of entry, both commodities would have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach that would include requirements for pest exclusion at the production site, fruit fly trapping inside and outside the production site, and pest-excluding packinghouse procedures. Both commodities would also be required to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration stating that the baby squash or baby courgettes have been produced in accordance with the proposed requirements. This action would allow for the importation of baby squash and baby courgettes from Zambia into the United States while continuing to provide protection against the introduction of quarantine pests.

Notice is hereby given that the comment period for the proposed notice to revise the United States Standards for Grades of Frozen Okra is being reopened and extended.