Department of Agriculture November 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-26058
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-30
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Rural Broadband Loans, Loan/Grant Combinations, and Loan Guarantees
Document Number: 2022-25856
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-30
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency), an agency in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Mission area, published an interim rule with comment in the Federal Register on March 12, 2020, to amend its regulation for the Rural Broadband Program, previously referred to as the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program, to implement the Agricultural Act of 2018 (the 2018 Farm Bill). Through this action, RUS is adopting the interim rule as it was published and providing responses to the public comments received.
Electric Program Streamlining and Improvement
Document Number: 2022-25554
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-30
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or Agency), a Rural Development agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is issuing a final rule with comment. The intent of this rule is to revise several regulations to streamline procedures for Electric Program borrowers, including its loan application requirements, approval of work plans and load forecasts, use of approved contracts and system design procedures and reporting requirements.
Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act
Document Number: 2022-26081
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2022-11-30
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
The Agricultural Marketing Service is providing an additional 45 days for submission of comments and information from the public regarding the proposed revisions to the regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 that promote inclusive competition and market integrity in the livestock, meats, poultry, and live poultry markets.
Southern Montana Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-25972
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-29
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Southern Montana Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act, as well as make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Custer Gallatin National Forest, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/custergallatin/workingtogether / advisorycommittees/?cid=stelprd3841767.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-26034
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-29
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Grain Inspection Advisory Committee Meeting
Document Number: 2022-25975
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-29
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this constitutes notice of the upcoming meeting of the Grain Inspection Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee). The Advisory Committee meets no less than once annually to advise the Secretary on the programs and services delivered by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) under the U.S. Grain Standards Act. Recommendations by the Advisory Committee help AMS meet the needs of its customers, who operate in a dynamic and changing marketplace.
Sanders Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-25845
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-28
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Sanders Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act, as well as make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Lolo National Forest, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/lolo/workingtogether/advisoryc ommittees/ ?cid=fsm9_021467.
Sanders Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-25841
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-28
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Sanders Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act, as well as make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Lolo National Forest, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/lolo/workingtogether/advisoryc ommittees/ ?cid=fsm9_021467.
Butte County Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-25838
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-28
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Butte County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with title II of the Act, as well as make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Plumas National Forest, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/pts/specialprojects/racweb.
Increasing Crop Insurance Flexibility for Sugar Beets
Document Number: 2022-25531
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-28
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) amends the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Sugar Beet Crop Insurance Provisions. This rule will reinstate stage guarantees and make the stage removal option permanent to ensure all producers have maximum flexibility to obtain the crop insurance coverage they need for their operation. The changes will be effective for the 2023 and succeeding crop years for counties with a contract change date on or after November 30, 2022, and for the 2024 and succeeding crop years for counties with a contract change date prior to November 30, 2022.
Small Grains and Processing Sweet Corn Crop Insurance Improvements
Document Number: 2022-25529
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-25
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) amends the Common Crop Insurance Regulations, Small Grains Crop Insurance Provisions, Processing Sweet Corn Crop Insurance Provisions, Cabbage Crop Insurance Provisions, and the Fresh Market Tomato (Dollar Plan) Crop Insurance Provisions. The changes will allow revenue coverage for oats and rye under the Small Grains Crop Insurance Provisions and extend the end of the insurance period date for processing sweet corn from September 20 to September 30 in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This will benefit the producers in those states by providing them with an additional 10 days of coverage, consistent with the existing coverage for producers in Iowa. In addition, this final rule will make corrections to the Cabbage Crop Insurance Provisions and the Fresh Market Tomato (Dollar Plan) Crop Insurance Provisions. The changes will be effective for the 2023 and succeeding crop years for crops with a contract change date on or after November 30, 2022, and for the 2024 and succeeding crop years with a contract change date on or after June 30, 2023.
Inyo National Forest; California; Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Main Lodge Redevelopment
Document Number: 2022-25688
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-25
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (MMSA) has submitted a proposal to the Inyo National Forest (the Forest) to pursue approval of select projects from its 2022 Master Development Plan (MDP) on National Forest System (NFS) lands, in accordance with its existing Special Use Permit (SUP). The Proposed Action includes: new lifts, lift replacements and realignments, additional ski terrain development, new buildings and parking lots for guest and employee use, road reconstruction and construction of a new road, trail construction for pedestrians and bike connectivity, extensions of existing utilities and on-mountain infrastructure, and other infrastructure improvements to support base area development on private parcels. The Inyo National Forest plans to complete a combined environmental impact statement (EIS)/Environmental Impact Report (EIR) with the Town of Mammoth Lakes because a number of projects proposed are entirely on private lands.
Transportation and Marketing Program; Request for Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection
Document Number: 2022-25744
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-25
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget, for extension of a currently approved collection titled ``Local Food Directories and Survey'' (OMB 0581-0169). Under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended, AMS is responsible for conducting research to enhance market access for small and medium sized farmers. The role of the Marketing Services Division (MSD) of AMS is to facilitate distribution of U.S. agricultural products. This information is used to populate USDA's National Farmers Market Directory and periodically market managers are invited to participate in a comprehensive survey assessing the farmers market sector.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25736
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-25
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25731
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-25
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Publication of Depreciation Rates for Telecommunications Plant
Document Number: 2022-25477
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-23
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) administers rural utilities programs, including the Telecommunications Program. RUS announces the depreciation rates for telecommunications plant for the period ending December 31, 2021.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25503
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-23
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Notice of Solicitation of Applications for the Rural Business Development Grant Programs for Fiscal Year 2023
Document Number: 2022-25532
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-23
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Business-Cooperative Service
This notice is given to invite applications for grants under the Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) Program for fiscal year (FY) 2023, subject to the availability of funding. This notice is being issued prior to passage of a FY 2023 Appropriations Act in order to allow applicants sufficient time to leverage financing, prepare and submit their applications, and give the Agency time to process applications within FY 2023. Based on FY 2022 appropriated funding, the Agency estimates that approximately $46,000,000 will be available for FY 2023. Successful applications will be selected by the Agency for funding and subsequently awarded to the extent that funding may ultimately be made available through appropriations. An announcement on the website at https://www.rd.usda.gov/newsroom/federal-funding- opportunities will identify the amount available in FY 2023 for RBDG applications. All applicants are responsible for any expenses incurred in developing their applications.
Use of a Non-Destructive Surface Sampling Device To Sample Domestic Beef Manufacturing Trimmings and Bench Trim
Document Number: 2022-25333
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-22
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service
On February 1, 2023, FSIS intends to stop using the N60 excision sampling method to sample domestic beef manufacturing trimmings and bench trim for adulterant Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) (STEC) and Salmonella. FSIS intends to replace the N60 excision sampling method with a non-destructive surface sampling method that uses a cloth manual sampling device. FSIS has found that the cloth sampling method is as effective as the N60 excision sampling method at recovering organisms in beef manufacturing trimmings. Additionally, the cloth sampling method is faster and safer for FSIS inspection program personnel (IPP) to use because it does not require IPP to use hooks or knives to collect samples. Moreover, the cloth sampling method allows FSIS to sample without destroying product, which reduces food waste.
Agency Information Collection Activities: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Emergency Allotments (COVID-19)
Document Number: 2022-25410
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-22
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This collection is an extension, without change, of a currently approved collection for activities associated with administering emergency allotments (EA) waivers. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020, enacted March 18, 2020, includes a general provision that allows the Department of Agriculture to issue EA waivers based on a public health emergency declaration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act related to an outbreak of COVID-19 when a State has also issued an emergency or disaster declaration.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25414
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-22
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages
Document Number: 2022-24705
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2022-11-21
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
This rulemaking proposes to revise regulations governing the WIC food packages to align them with the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans and reflect recommendations made by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) in its 2017 report, ``Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice,'' while promoting nutrition security and equity and taking into account program administration considerations. The proposed changes are intended to provide WIC participants with a wider variety of foods that align with the latest nutritional science; provide WIC State agencies with greater flexibility to prescribe and tailor food packages that accommodate participants' special dietary needs and personal and cultural food preferences; provide more equitable access to supplemental foods; and better promote and support individual breastfeeding goals of participants to help establish successful long-term breastfeeding.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25255
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-21
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Request for Public Input About Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act Funding
Document Number: 2022-25292
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-21
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) requests public input for NRCS to use to inform how NRCS will implement funds received under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to fund the deployment of climate-smart practices on US farms, ranches, and forestlands through four Farm Bill conservation programs. NRCS is also requesting input on funding to quantify carbon sequestration and carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions at the field scale. NRCS is specifically interested in public input and recommendations that NRCS can use to improve, expand, and/or build on scientifically-designed quantification systems to monitor and quantify improvements in soil carbon, reductions in nitrogen losses, and the reduction, capture, avoidance, or sequestration of carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions, associated with agricultural production. In implementing the IRA, NRCS is interested in supporting program implementation and improving program delivery by effectively leveraging partners to increase outreach and expand access to underserved producers. This effort will help NRCS identify and prioritize process improvements for the delivery of funding made available under IRA and the overall administration of the NRCS conservation programs. NRCS will look to identify immediate changes that can be implemented for funding available for fiscal year (FY) 2023 and will continue to identify and adopt additional changes in future years.
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Husky 1 North Dry Ridge Phosphate Mine, Caribou County, ID
Document Number: 2022-25048
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS) Caribou-Targhee National Forest (CTNF), announce the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Husky 1 North Dry Ridge Phosphate Mine (Project).
Information Collection Request; Organic Certification Cost Share Program
Document Number: 2022-25086
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is requesting comments from all interested individuals and organizations on an extension of a current information collection request associated with the Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP). OCCSP provides cost share assistance to producers and handlers of agricultural products who are obtaining or renewing their certification under the National Organic Program (NOP). Certified operations may receive up to 50 percent of their certification costs paid, up to a maximum of $500 for each of the following scopes: crops, wild crops, livestock, processing/handling, and State organic program fees. Certain State agencies also submit applications to FSA to administer OCCSP in their States.
Information Collection Renewal for Country of Origin Labeling
Document Number: 2022-25079
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request approval, from the Office of Management and Budget, for an extension of and revision to the currently approved information collection for Country of Origin Labeling.
Pecans Grown in Multiple States; Request for Extension and Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection
Document Number: 2022-25076
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) intention to request an extension for and revision to a currently approved information collection for Pecans Grown in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas, Marketing Order No. 986.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25143
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Expansion of FSIS Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Testing to Additional Raw Beef Products
Document Number: 2022-25140
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that on February 1, 2023, the Agency will expand its routine verification testing for six Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli that are adulterants (non-O157 STEC; O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, or O145), in addition to the adulterant Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7, to ground beef, bench trim, and other raw ground beef components in addition to raw beef manufacturing trimmings in official establishments. The raw ground beef components to be tested for these six non-O157 STEC, hereafter ``other raw ground beef components,'' are: head meat, cheek meat, weasand (esophagus) meat, product from advanced meat recovery (AMR) systems, partially defatted chopped beef and partially defatted beef fatty tissue, low temperature rendered lean finely textured beef, and heart meat. Currently, FSIS tests only its beef manufacturing trimmings samples for these six non- O157 STEC and E. coli O157:H7. Otherwise, all other raw beef products are tested only for E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella. FSIS also will begin testing for these non-O157 STEC in ground beef samples that it collects at retail stores and in applicable samples it collects of imported raw beef products. Additionally, FSIS is responding to comments regarding the STEC testing expansion and the costs and benefits analysis (CBA), as well as its updated STEC laboratory testing criteria for determining whether a result is positive.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25146
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture
The Northwest Forest Plan Area Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-25184
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Forest Service intends to establish the Northwest Forest Plan Area Advisory Committee (the Committee), subject to the Secretary of Agriculture's approval. In accordance with provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the Committee is being established to provide advice and recommendations on landscape management approaches that promote sustainability, climate change adaptations, and wildfire resilience while providing for increasing use of and demands from National Forest System lands in the Northwest Forest Plan area. The Committee is necessary and in the public interest. Therefore, the Secretary of Agriculture is also seeking nominations for individuals to be considered as committee members. DATES: Written nominations must be submitted electronically or post-marked by January 17, 2023. Nominations must contain a completed application packet that includes the cover letter, resume, references, and completed form AD-755 (Advisory Committee Membership Background Information). The form AD-755 may be obtained from the Forest Service contact person or from the following website: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ ad-755.pdf. The package must be sent to either the email address or mailing address listed in the ADRESSESS. Electronic submission is preferred.
Decrease of Assessment Rate for Texas Oranges and Grapefruit
Document Number: 2022-25123
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
This proposed rule would implement a recommendation from the Texas Valley Citrus Committee to decrease the assessment rate established for the 2022-23 and subsequent fiscal periods. The proposed assessment rate would remain in effect indefinitely unless modified, suspended, or terminated.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2022-25171
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-18
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Jefferson National Forest; Monroe County, West Virginia; Giles and Montgomery County, Virginia. Mountain Valley Pipeline and Equitrans Expansion Project Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
Document Number: 2022-24994
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-17
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) is preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to the 2017 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and Equitrans Expansion Project and its subsequent 2020 Forest Service Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (2020 FSEIS). The MVP project proposed action that is specific to National Forest System (NFS) lands is to construct and operate a buried 42-inch natural gas pipeline across approximately 3.5 miles of the Jefferson National Forest (JNF). The Forest Service, as the lead agency, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as the Federal cooperating agency, have decisions to be made based on a review of the 2017 FERC FEIS, the 2020 FSEIS, and this supplemental analysis.
Determination of the Primary Purpose of the New York Suffolk County Septic Improvement Program (SIP)
Document Number: 2022-24937
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-16
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
USDA is providing public notice that the Secretary of Agriculture has determined that cost share payments made by the New York Suffolk County SIP are primarily for the purpose of conserving soil and water resources or protecting and restoring the environment. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) was assigned technical and administrative responsibility for reviewing the New York Suffolk County SIP and for making appropriate recommendations for the Secretary's determination of primary purpose. The Secretary's determination permits recipients of cost share payments to exclude such payments from gross income to the extent allowed by the Internal Revenue Service.
Gallatin Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-24975
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-16
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Gallatin Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act as well as to make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Custer Gallatin National Forest, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/custergallatin/workingtogether / advisorycommittees/?cid=STELPRDB5304491.
Trinity County Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2022-24974
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-16
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Trinity County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self- Determination Act (the Act) and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act as well as to make recommendations on recreation fee proposals for sites on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act. General information and meeting details can be found at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ detail/stnf/workingtogether/advisorycommittees/?cid=fseprd931 588.
Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP); Correction
Document Number: 2022-24797
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-15
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation, Rural Business-Cooperative Service
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and the Rural Business- Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency) published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) in the Federal Register of August 23, 2022, entitled Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) to announce that it was accepting applications for fiscal year 2022 (FY 22) and the availability of approximately $100 million in competitive grants. In addition, the FOA defined requirements that are determined at the time a funding announcement is published, as outlined in the regulation. The FOA omitted clarifying information regarding eligible applicants for the funding. The Eligible Applicants section is being updated to clarify that hybrid applications, or those including transportation fueling facility implementation activities and fuel distribution facilities implementation activities, are ineligible. This Notice clarifies that applicants can only apply for one of the two applicant types and those successful applicants will only receive the funding associated with one applicant type.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirement for Interstate Data Matching To Prevent Duplicate Issuances
Document Number: 2022-24433
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-15
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service is delaying the effective date for the interim final rule published in the Federal Register on October 3, 2022, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirement for Interstate Data Matching to Prevent Duplicate Issuances.
Notice of Request for Revision To and Extension of Approval of an Information Collection; Domestic Quarantine Regulations
Document Number: 2022-24733
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-15
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a revision to and extension of approval of an information collection associated with the domestic quarantine regulations for preventing the spread of plant pests and diseases within the United States.
Amendments to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances per October 2020 and April 2021 NOSB Recommendations (Handling, Crops)
Document Number: 2022-24111
Type: Rule
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
This rule amends the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List) section of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) organic regulations to implement recommendations submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). This rule allows low-acyl gellan gum, a food additive used as a thickener, gelling agent, and stabilizer, as an ingredient in processed organic products. This rule also allows paper- based crop planting aids for organic crop production. Finally, this rule replaces the term ``wood resin'' on the National List with the term ``wood rosin'' to reflect the popular spelling of the substance.
Boundary Establishment for Fifteenmile Creek National Wild and Scenic River, Mt. Hood National Forest, Hood River and Wasco Counties, Oregon
Document Number: 2022-24625
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with Section 3(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final boundary of Fifteenmile Creek National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. The Fifteenmile Creek Wild and Scenic River boundary description is available for review on https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/ mthood/landmanagement/planning.
Comprehensive River Management Plan for the Red Wild and Scenic River on Daniel Boone National Forest, Forest Service, Menifee, Wolfe and Powell Counties, Kentucky
Document Number: 2022-24624
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with Section 3(d)(1) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service announces the completion and availability of a comprehensive river management plan (CRMP) for the Red Wild and Scenic River. A 19.4 mile segment of the Red River was designated by Congress in the Red River Designation Act of 1993, as a national wild and scenic river and managed by the Forest Service.
Boundary Establishment for Collawash National Wild and Scenic River, Mt. Hood National Forest, Clackamas and Marion Counties, Oregon
Document Number: 2022-24633
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with Section 3(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final boundary of Collawash National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. The Collawash Wild and Scenic River boundary description is available for review at the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/ mthood/landmanagement/planning.
Boundary Establishment for South Fork Roaring River National Wild and Scenic River, Mt. Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, Oregon
Document Number: 2022-24628
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final boundary of South Fork Roaring River National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. The South Fork Roaring River Wild and Scenic River boundary description is available for review on https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mthood/ landmanagement/planning.
Boundary Establishment for Salmon National Wild and Scenic River, Mt. Hood National Forest and Bureau of Land Management, Salem District, Clackamas, Hood River, and Wasco Counties, Oregon
Document Number: 2022-24627
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with Section 3(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final boundary of Salmon National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. The Salmon Wild and Scenic River boundary description is available for review on https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mthood/landmanagement/planning.
Boundary Establishment for Middle Fork Hood River National Wild and Scenic River, Mt. Hood National Forest, Hood River County, Oregon
Document Number: 2022-24626
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-14
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
In accordance with Section 3(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, is transmitting the final boundary of Middle Fork Hood River National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. The Middle Fork Hood River Wild and Scenic River boundary description is available for review on https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/ mthood/landmanagement/planning.
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment for Determination of Nonregulated Status for Blight-Tolerant Darling 58 American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Developed Using Genetic Engineering
Document Number: 2022-24360
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-10
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and draft plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) evaluating the potential environmental impacts and plant pest risk that may result from the approval of a petition for nonregulated status for blight- tolerant Darling 58 American chestnut (Castanea dentata) from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The trees have been developed using genetic engineering to express an oxalate oxidase enzyme from wheat as a defense against the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, making Darling 58 American chestnut tolerant to chestnut blight. We are making the draft EIS and draft PPRA available for public review and comment.
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