17849 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 62 / Tuesday, March 31, 2020 / Notices 
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received, go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket
Detail;D=APHIS-2008-0119. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service 
[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0119] 
Implementation of Revised Lacey Act Provisions 
AGENCY : Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, USDA. 
ACTION : Notice. 
SUMMARY : The Food, Conservation, and 
Energy Act of 2008 amended the Lacey Act to provide, among other things, that importers submit a declaration at the time of importation for certain plants and plant products. Enforcement of the declaration requirement began on April 1, 2009, and products requiring a declaration are being phased-in. The purpose of this notice is to inform the public of another phase of the Federal Government’s enforcement schedule. 
DATES : We will consider all comments 
that we receive on or before June 1, 2020. 
ADDRESSES : You may submit comments 
by either of the following methods: 
•Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2008-0119. 
•Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 
Send your comment to Docket No. APHIS–2008–0119, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 
Supporting documents and any 
comments we receive on this docket may be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2008-0119 or in our 
reading room, which is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 799–7039 before coming. 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Ms. 
Dorothy Wayson, National Policy Manager, Lacey Act Program, Compliance and Environmental Coordination Branch, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 150, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851–2036. 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : 
Background 
The Lacey Act (16 U.S.C. 3371 et 
seq.), first enacted in 1900 and significantly amended in 1981, is the United States’ oldest wildlife protection statute. The Act combats trafficking in illegally taken wildlife, fish, or plants. 
The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, effective May 22, 2008, amended the Lacey Act by expanding its protection to a broader range of plants and plant products (Section 8204, Prevention of Illegal Logging Practices). The Lacey Act now makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce any plant, with some limited exceptions, taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law of the United States or an Indian tribe, or in violation of any State or foreign law that protects plants or that regulates certain specified plant- related activities. The Lacey Act also now makes it unlawful to make or submit any false record, account, or 
label for, or any false identification of, any plant. 
In addition, Section 3 of the Lacey 
Act, as amended, makes it unlawful, beginning December 15, 2008, to import certain plants, including plant products, without an import declaration. The declaration must contain the scientific name of the plant, value of the importation, quantity of the plant, and name of the country from which the plant was harvested. For paper and paperboard products containing recycled content, the declaration also must include the average percent of recycled content without regard for species or country of harvest. The plant import declaration requirement does not apply to plants used exclusively as packaging material to support, protect, or carry another item, unless the packaging material itself is the item being imported. Currently, enforcement of the declaration requirement is being phased in, as described in three notices we published in the Federal Register,
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the first on February 3, 2009 (74 FR 5911–5913, Docket No. APHIS–2008– 0119), the second on September 2, 2009 (74 FR 45415–45418, Docket No. APHIS–2008–0119), and the third on February 6, 2015 (80 FR 6681–6683, Docket No. APHIS–2008–0119). 
In our February 2009 notice, we 
committed to providing affected individuals and industry with at least 6 months’ notice for any products that would be added to the phase-in schedule. The phased-in enforcement schedule began April 1, 2009. The most recent phase (V) began on August 6, 2015. The enforcement schedule is available on the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ plant_ health/lacey_ act/. We continue to 
consider the applicability of the declaration requirement to products not included in the current phase-in schedule and we invite public comment on how the declaration requirement should be enforced as to these products. 
Phase VI of the enforcement schedule, 
which would begin on October 1, 2020, is described below. We invite public comment on the products covered under this phase of the plan, as well as on whether any additional Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) chapters should be included in the current phase-in schedule. Should there be additions to phase VI, we intend to provide at least 6 months’ notice to persons and industries affected by those changes to facilitate compliance with the new requirements. Changes will be announced in the Federal Register. 
Ch. 33 Headings (Essential Oils) 
•3301295109-essential oils of 
cedarwood 
•3301295121-essential oils of linaloe or 
bois de rose 
•3301295139-essential oils of 
sandalwood 
•3301295150-essential oils of ‘‘other’’ 
Ch. 42 Headings (Trunks, Cases, 
Suitcases) 
•4202292000-trunks, cases, and 
suitcases of wood 
•4202992000-other, of wood, not lined 
•4202993000-other, of wood, lined 
Ch. 44 Headings (Wood and Articles of 
Wood) 
•441012-oriented strand board (OSB) 
•4415-cases, boxes, crates, drums, 
containers, pallets, box-pallets, etc. 
Ch. 92 Headings (Musical Instruments) •9205902000-wind musical 
instruments: bagpipes 
•9205904020-clarinets 
•9205904080-other (woodwind 
instruments) 
•9205904060-flutes and piccolos 
•9206002000-drums 
•9207900040-musical instruments 
(fretted string instruments) 
•9209.92-parts and accessories for 
musical instruments of heading 9202 
•9209928000-parts and accessories for 
musical instruments 
•9209992000-parts and accessories for 
bagpipes 
•9209994040-parts and accessories for 
other woodwind instruments 
•9209998000-parts and accessories for 
musical instruments of heading 9202, 
other 
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Ch. 96 Headings (Miscellaneous 
Manufactured Articles) 
•9620005500-monopods, bipods, 
tripods and similar articles of wood 
Additional Information 
APHIS will continue to provide the 
latest information regarding the Lacey 
Act on our website, http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_ health/ 
lacey_ act/. The website currently 
contains the Lacey Act, as amended; a slideshow covering background and context, requirements, commodities and products covered, information on prohibitions, and the current status of implementation of the declaration requirement of the Lacey Act; frequently asked questions; the phase-in implementation plan; a link to the Lacey Act Web Governance System (LAWGS); and the paper declaration form. The website will be updated as new 
materials become available. We encourage persons interested in receiving timely updates on APHIS’ Lacey Act efforts to register for our stakeholder registry at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/ USDAAPHIS/subscriber/new/ and select 
‘‘Lacey Act Declaration’’ as a topic of interest. 
Paperwork Reduction Act 
This notice contains no new 
information collection or recordkeeping 
requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The information collection activities included in this notice are approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 0579– 0349. 
E-Government Act Compliance 
The Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service is committed to 
compliance with the E-Government Act to promote the use of the internet and other information technologies, to provide increased opportunities for citizen access to Government information and services, and for other purposes. For information pertinent to E-Government Act compliance related to this notice, please contact Mr. Joseph Moxey, APHIS’ Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851–2483. 
Done in Washington, DC, this 26th day of 
March 2020. 
Mark Davidson, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service. 
[FR Doc. 2020–06695 Filed 3–30–20; 8:45 am] 
BILLING CODE 3410–34–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service 
[Docket No. APHIS–2019–0049] 
Import Requirements for the Importation of Fresh Blueberries From Chile Into the United States 
AGENCY : Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service, USDA. 
ACTION : Notice. 
SUMMARY : We are advising the public 
that we have prepared a commodity import evaluation document (CIED) relative to the importation into the United States of blueberries from Chile. Currently, blueberries from Chile imported into the United States from an area in which European grapevine moth is known to exist must be fumigated with methyl bromide. Based on the findings of the CIED, we are proposing to also allow the importation of such blueberries under the provisions of a systems approach. We are making the CIED available to the public for review and comment. 
DATES : We will consider all comments 
that we receive on or before June 1, 2020. 
ADDRESSES : You may submit comments 
by either of the following methods: 
•Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0049. 
•Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 
Send your comment to Docket No. APHIS–2019–0049, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 
Supporting documents and any 
comments we receive on this docket may be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0049 or in our 
reading room, which is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 799–7039 before coming. 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Mr. 
Tony Roman, Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist, RCC, IRM, PHP, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301) 851–2242. 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : 
Background 
Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart L– 
Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56– 1 through 319.56–12, referred to below 
as the regulations), the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) prohibits or restricts the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the world to prevent plant pests from being introduced into or disseminated within the United States. 
Section 319.56–4 of the regulations 
provides the requirements for authorizing the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United States, as well as revising existing requirements for the importation of fruits and vegetables. Paragraph (c) of that section provides that the name and origin of all fruits and vegetables authorized importation into the United States, as well as the requirements for their importation, are listed on the internet in APHIS’ Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements database, or FAVIR (https://epermits.aphis.usda.gov/ manual). It also provides that, if the Administrator of APHIS determines that any of the phytosanitary measures required for the importation of a particular fruit or vegetable are no longer necessary to reasonably mitigate the plant pest risk posed by the fruit or vegetable, APHIS will publish a notice in the Federal Register making its pest risk documentation and determination available for public comment. 
Currently, blueberries from Chile are 
listed in FAVIR as a fruit authorized importation into the United States. Blueberries from a region of Chile in which European grapevine moth (Lobesia botrana, EGVM) is known to exist (Regions VI, VII, VIII, or XVI) must be fumigated with methyl bromide. 
The national plant protection 
organization (NPPO) of Chile stated that areas of low pest prevalence for EGVM exist in Regions VIII and XVI of Chile, and asked that we evaluate whether blueberries from these two regions could be authorized importation into the United States under a systems approach in lieu of fumigation with 
methyl bromide. In response to this request, we have prepared a commodity import evaluation document (CIED). The CIED determined that a systems approach consisting of the following measures reasonably mitigates the plant pest risk associated with blueberries from Regions VIII and XVI: 
•The NPPO of Chile would have to 
enter into an operational workplan with APHIS that details the activities and responsibilities that the NPPO would carry out in order to meet the requirements of the systems approach. APHIS would have to approve the workplan prior to implementation of the systems approach. 
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