Department of Agriculture November 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Importation of Phalaenopsis Spp. Orchid Plants for Planting in Approved Growing Media From Germany and the Netherlands Into the United States
Document Number: 2024-25740
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-06
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
We are proposing to authorize the importation of Phalaenopsis spp. orchid plants from Germany and the Netherlands in approved growing media into the United States. As a condition of entry, Phalaenopsis spp. orchid plants in approved growing media from Germany and the Netherlands would have to meet all relevant requirements included in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Plants for Planting Manual and detailed in a bilateral workplan. This proposed action would allow for the importation of Phalaenopsis spp. orchid plants for planting from Germany and the Netherlands in approved growing media while providing protection against the introduction of plant pests.
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
Document Number: 2024-25814
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-06
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is issuing a public notice of its intent to rescind an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Privacy Act system of records notice, Brucellosis Information System and Brucellosis Recording and Reporting System, USDA/APHIS-6. This system was created to maintain information on herds and individual animals tested, studied, or restricted under the brucellosis program; epidemiologic studies; State and Federal personnel; contractual personnel; livestock markets; slaughtering establishments; milk processing plants; livestock dealers (including agents and brokers); and laboratories engaged in or affected by brucellosis program activities. This system of records notice is rescinded because it has been superseded by another system of records published by the Department.
Clarification on the Requirement To Record the Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program Deed Restriction
Document Number: 2024-25713
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2024-11-05
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), proposes to amend the current regulation for the Multifamily Housing (MFH) Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program (GRRHP). The intent of this proposed rule is to codify the restrictive use language within the GRRHP regulation to clarify that a separate deed restriction must be recorded. This change will allow the Agency to maintain and preserve affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2024-25675
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-05
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board
Document Number: 2024-24408
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-05
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board will hold a public meeting according to the details shown below. The committee is authorized under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the Federal Public Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations on a broad range of forest issues such as forest plan revisions or amendments; forest health including fire, insects, and disease; travel management; forest monitoring and evaluation; recreation fees, and site-specific projects having forest-wide implications.
Notice of Availability of Record of Decisions for Etowah River, Georgia; Pocasset River, Rhode Island; Odessa Subarea Special Study Project in Washington; and Cart Creek Site 1 of the North Branch Park River Watershed in North Dakota
Document Number: 2024-25582
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-04
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has prepared a Notice of Availability for Record of Decisions (ROD) for Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for Etowah River Watershed Dam No.13-A (Russel Creek Reservoir Multipurpose Project) in Dawson County, Georgia; Pocasset River, Rhode Island; Odessa Subarea Special Study Project in Adams, Franklin, Grant, and Lincoln counties, Washington; and Cart Creek Site 1 of the North Branch Park River Watershed in North Dakota.
Virginia Resource Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2024-24410
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-04
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Virginia 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 George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, consistent with the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.
Information Collection Request; Request for Geospatial Products and Services
Document Number: 2024-25279
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-01
Agency: Department of Agriculture
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act requirement, the Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Business Center (BC) is requesting comments from all interested individuals and organizations on a revision and an extension of a currently approved information collection associated with Request for Geospatial Products and Service under the FPAC Geospatial Enterprise Operations (GEO) Program (formerly FSA Aerial Photography Program). GEO uses the information from the forms to collect the customer and product information needed to produce and ship the various geospatial and photographic products ordered.
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2024-25484
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-01
Agency: Department of Agriculture
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Document Number: 2024-25479
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-11-01
Agency: Department of Agriculture
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