Department of Agriculture May 21, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction: Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Interchange Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, CA
On October 22, 2012, and March 18, 2013, respectively, the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Navy, Energy, Installations & Environment and the Secretary of Agriculture signed a joint interchange order authorizing the transfer of administrative jurisdiction from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Navy for 346.49 acres, more or less located in Mono County, California and generally described as: Portions of Sections 13, 23, and 24, Township 6 North, Range 22 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, lying within the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and more particularly described according to the map and legal description on file in the Forest Service office noted below. Furthermore, the order transfers jurisdiction from the Department of the Navy to the Department of Agriculture for inclusion in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, being 240 acres, more or less located in Mono County, California and generally described as: Portions of Section 14 and 15, Township 7 North, Range 22 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, within the proclamation boundaries of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, and more particularly described according to the map and legal description on file in the Forest Service office noted below.
Availability of an Environmental Assessment for Field Testing a Canine Lymphoma Vaccine, DNA
We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared an environmental assessment concerning authorization to ship for the purpose of field testing, and then to field test, an unlicensed Canine Lymphoma Vaccine, DNA. The environmental assessment, which is based on a risk analysis prepared to assess the risks associated with the field testing of this vaccine and related information, examines the potential effects that field testing this veterinary vaccine could have on the quality of the human environment. Based on the risk analysis and other relevant data, we have reached a preliminary determination that field testing this veterinary vaccine will not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment, and that an environmental impact statement need not be prepared. We intend to authorize shipment of this vaccine for field testing following the close of the comment period for this notice unless new substantial issues bearing on the effects of this action are brought to our attention. We also intend to issue a U.S. Veterinary Biological Product license for this vaccine, provided the field test data support the conclusions of the environmental assessment and the issuance of a finding of no significant impact and the product meets all other requirements for licensing.
Forfeiture Procedures Under the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act Amendments
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is one of the agencies that administers the provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), and the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981, as amended, that pertain to plants. We are proposing to update our regulations that set forth our forfeiture procedures with regard to plants or plant products seized under the authority of the ESA and the Lacey Act. The proposed changes would make our regulations conform to the requirements of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000, increase the monetary threshold of those cases proceeding through judicial forfeiture, provide for the assessment of storage costs of seized property, and make the regulations easier to understand.
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