Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 24, 2021 / Notices 11219 

Therefore, in accordance with 

§§ 93.438(b) and 93.441(b), we are 

announcing the availability of our 

evaluations of Canada for bovine 

tuberculosis and brucellosis 

classification, for public review and 

comment. We are also announcing the 

availability of an environmental 

assessment (EA) that has been prepared 

in accordance with: (1) The National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provision 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

The evaluations and EA may be 

viewed on the Regulations.gov website 

or in our reading room. (Instructions for 

accessing Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room are provided under the 

heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of 

this notice.) The documents are also 

available by contacting the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Information submitted in support of 

Canada’s request is available by 

contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our final 

determination regarding classification of 

Canada with respect to bovine 

tuberculosis and brucellosis in a 

subsequent notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317; 

21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 

CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

February 2021. 

Michael Watson, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03773 Filed 2–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2020–0070] 

Classify the State of Sonora, Mexico, 

as Level I for Brucellosis 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we are proposing to classify the 

State of Sonora, Mexico as Level 1 for 

brucellosis. This proposed recognition 

is based on an evaluation we have 

prepared in connection with this action, 

which we are making available for 

review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before April 26, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2020–0070 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2020–0070, 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 regulations.gov or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

Room 1620 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: Dr. 

Kelly Rhodes, Senior Staff Veterinarian, 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

Strategy and Policy, VS, APHIS, USDA, 

4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, 

MD 20737–1231; AskRegionalization@

usda.gov; (301) 851–3315. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 9 CFR part 93, subpart D 

(§§ 93.400 through 93.442, referred to 

below as part 93 or the subpart), contain 

requirements for the importation of 

ruminants into the United States to 

address the risk of introducing or 

disseminating diseases of livestock 

within the United States. Part 93 

currently contains provisions that 

address the risk that imported bovines 

(cattle or bison) may introduce or 

disseminate brucellosis within the 

United States. Within part 93, § 93.440 

contains the requirements for 

classification of foreign regions for 

brucellosis and § 93.441 contains the 

process for requesting regional 

classification for brucellosis. 

In accordance with § 93.440(d), the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) maintains lists of all 

Level I, Level II, and Level III regions for 

brucellosis and adds foreign regions 

classified in accordance with § 93.441 to 

these lists. 

Section 93.441(b) states that if, after 

reviewing and evaluating the request for 

classification, APHIS believes the 

request can be safely granted, APHIS 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register indicating the proposed 

classification and make its evaluation 

available for public comment. Following 

the close of the comment period, APHIS 

will review all comments received and 

will make a final determination 

regarding the request that will be 

detailed in another document published 

in the Federal Register. 

The Government of Mexico has 

requested that APHIS evaluate and 

classify the State of Sonora for 

brucellosis. In response to Mexico’s 

request, we have prepared an 

evaluation, titled ‘‘APHIS Evaluation of 

the State of Sonora, Mexico for Bovine 

Brucellosis Classification’’ (September 

2017). The evaluation concludes that 

the State of Sonora meets the conditions 

to be classified as Level I for brucellosis, 

which supports adding the State of 

Sonora to the web-based list of Level I 

regions for brucellosis. 

Therefore, in accordance with 

§ 93.441(b), we are announcing the 

availability of our evaluation of Sonora, 

Mexico for brucellosis, for public review 

and comment. We are also announcing 

the availability of an environmental 

assessment (EA) which has been 

prepared in accordance with: (1) The 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provision 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

The evaluation and EA may be 

viewed on the Regulations.gov website 

or in our reading room. (Instructions for 

accessing Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room are provided under the 

heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of 

this notice.) The documents are also 

available by contacting the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Information submitted in support of 

Mexico’s request is available by 

contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our final 

determination regarding classification of 

the State of Sonora, Mexico with respect 

to brucellosis in a subsequent notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317; 

21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 

CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 


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11220 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 24, 2021 / Notices 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

February 2021. 

Michael Watson, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03771 Filed 2–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Small Business 

Timber Sale Set-Aside Program; 

Appeal Procedures on Recomputation 

of Shares 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the extension with no 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection, Small Business 

Timber Sale Set-Aside Program; Appeal 

Procedures on Recomputation of 

Shares. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before April 26, 2021 to 

be assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be submitted by email to 

glen.vanzandt@usda.gov. Comments 

may also be submitted by mail, 

addressed to Director, Forest 

Management, Mail Stop 1103, Forest 

Service, USDA, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice may be made available to the 

public through relevant websites and 

upon request. For this reason, please do 

not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such as sensitive personal information 

or proprietary information. If you send 

an email comment, your email address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the internet. Please note 

that responses to this public comment 

request containing any routine notice 

about the confidentiality of the 

communication will be treated as public 

comments that may be made available to 

the public notwithstanding the 

inclusion of the routine notice. 

The public may request an electronic 

copy of the draft supporting statement 

and/or any comments received. 

Requests should be emailed to 

glen.vanzandt@usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Glen 

Van Zandt, Forest Management Staff, by 

phone (202) 617–1095 or by email at 

glen.vanzandt@usda.gov. Individuals 

who use telecommunication devices for 

the hearing-impaired (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339 twenty-four hours a day, 

every day of the year, including 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program; Appeal Procedures on 

Recomputation of Shares. 

OMB Number: 0596–0141. 

Expiration Date of Approval: June 30, 

2021. 

Type of Request: Extension with no 

Revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: The Forest Service adopted 

the Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program (Set-Aside Program) on 

July 26, 1990 (55 FR 30485). The 

Agency administers the Set-Aside 

Program in cooperation with the Small 

Business Administration (SBA) under 

the authorities of the Small Business 

Act (15 U.S.C. 631), the National Forest 

Management Act of 1976, and SBA 

regulations in 13 CFR part 121. The SetAside Program is designed to ensure 

that small business timber purchasers 

have the opportunity to purchase a fair 

proportion of National Forest System 

timber offered for sale. 

Under the Set-Aside Program, the 

Forest Service must recompute the 

shares of timber sales to be set aside for 

qualifying small businesses every 5 

years based on the actual volume of 

sawtimber that has been purchased by 

small businesses. Additionally, shares 

must be recomputed if there is a change 

in manufacturing capability, if the 

purchaser size class changes, or if 

certain purchasers discontinue 

operations. 

In 1992, the Agency adopted new 

administrative appeal procedures (36 

CFR part 215), which excluded the SetAside Program. Prior to adoption of 36 

CFR part 215, the Agency accepted 

appeals of recomputation decisions 

under 36 CFR part 217, and therefore 

decided to establish procedures for 

providing notice to affected purchasers 

offering an opportunity to comment on 

the recomputation of shares (61 FR 

7468). The Conference Report 

accompanying the 1997 Omnibus 

Appropriation Act (Pub. L. 104–208) 

directed the Forest Service to reinstate 

an appeals process for decisions 

concerning recomputation of Small 

Business Set-Aside shares, structural 

recomputations of SBA shares, or 

changes in policies impacting the SetAside Program prior to December 31, 

1996. The Small Business Timber Sale 

Set-Aside Program, Appeal Procedures 

on Recomputation of Shares (36 CFR 

223.118; 64 FR 411, January 5, 1999), 

outlines the types of decisions that are 

subject to appeal, who may appeal 

decisions, the procedures for appealing 

decisions, the timelines for appeal, and 

the contents of the notice of appeal. 

The Forest Service provides 

qualifying timber sale purchasers 30- 

days for pre-decisional review and 

comment on draft decisions to reallocate 

shares, including the data used in 

making the proposed recomputation 

decision. Within 15 days after the close 

of the 30-day pre-decisional review 

period, an Agency official makes a 

decision on the shares to be set aside for 

small businesses and gives written 

notice of the decision to all parties on 

the national forest timber sale bidders 

list for the affected area. The written 

notice provides the date by which the 

appeal may be filed and how to obtain 

information on appeal procedures. 

Only those timber sale purchasers, or 

their representatives, who are affected 

by small business share timber sale setaside recomputation decisions and who 

have submitted pre-decisional 

comments, may appeal recomputation 

decisions. The appellant must file a 

notice of appeal with the appropriate 

Forest Service official within 20 days of 

the date on the notice of decision. The 

notice of appeal must include: 

1. The appellant’s name, mailing 

address, and daytime telephone 

number; 

2. The title or type of recomputation 

decision involved and date of the 

decision; 

3. The name of the responsible Forest 

Service official; 

4. A brief description and date of the 

decision being appealed; 

5. A statement of how the appellant 

is adversely affected by the decision 

being appealed; 

6. A statement of facts in dispute 

regarding the issue(s) raised by the 

appeal; 

7. Specific references to law, 

regulation, or policy that the appellant 

believes have been violated (if any) and 

the basis for such an allegation; 

8. A statement as to whether and how 

the appellant has tried to resolve the 

appeal issues with the responsible 

Forest Service official, including 

evidence of submission of written 

comments at the pre-decisional stage; 

and 

9. A statement of the relief the 

appellant seeks. 


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