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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 76, No. 12 

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 

1To view the notice, the pest risk analysis, and 

the comment we received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS–2010–0061. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0061] 

Notice of Decision to Allow Interstate 

Movement of Guavas From Hawaii Into 

the Continental United States 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our decision to begin allowing the 

interstate movement into the 

continental United States of fresh guava 

fruit from Hawaii. Based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, which we made 

available to the public for review and 

comment through a previous notice, we 

believe that the application of one or 

more designated phytosanitary 

measures will be sufficient to mitigate 

the risks of introducing or disseminating 

plant pests or noxious weeds via the 

interstate movement of guavas from 

Hawaii. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 19, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David Lamb, Import Specialist, PPQ, 

APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301) 734– 

0627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart— 

Regulated Articles From Hawaii and the 

Territories’’ (7 CFR 318.13–1 through 

318.13–26, referred to below as the 

regulations), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

prohibits or restricts the interstate 

movement of fruits and vegetables into 

the United States from Hawaii, Puerto 

Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and 

the Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands to prevent plant pests 

and noxious weeds from being 

introduced into and spread within the 

continental United States. (The 

continental United States is defined in 

§ 318.13–2 of the regulations as the 48 

contiguous States, Alaska, and the 

District of Columbia.) 

Section 318.13–4 contains a 

performance-based process for 

approving the interstate movement of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, can be safely 

imported subject to one or more of the 

designated phytosanitary measures 

listed in paragraph (b) of that section. 

Under that process, APHIS publishes a 

notice in the Federal Register 

announcing the availability of the pest 

risk analysis that evaluates the risks 

associated with the interstate movement 

of a particular fruit or vegetable. 

Following the close of the 60-day 

comment period, APHIS may begin 

allowing the interstate movement of the 

fruit or vegetable subject to the 

identified designated measures if: (1) No 

comments were received on the pest 

risk analysis; (2) the comments on the 

pest risk analysis revealed that no 

changes to the pest risk analysis were 

necessary; or (3) changes to the pest risk 

analysis were made in response to 

public comments, but the changes did 

not affect the overall conclusions of the 

analysis and the Administrator’s 

determination of risk. 

In accordance with that process, we 

published a notice 1 in the Federal 

Register on August 25, 2010 (75 FR 

52304–52305, Docket No. APHIS–2010– 

0061), in which we announced the 

availability, for review and comment, of 

a pest risk analysis that evaluates the 

risks associated with the interstate 

movement of guavas (Psidium guajava 

L.) from Hawaii into the continental 

United States. We solicited comments 

on the notice for 60 days ending on 

October 25, 2010. We received one 

comment by that date, from a State 

department of agriculture. The 

commented supported the action 

described in the notice. Therefore, in 

accordance with the regulations in 

§ 318.13–4, we are announcing our 

decision to begin allowing the interstate 

movement of guavas from Hawaii into 

the continental United States subject to 

the following phytosanitary measures: 

• The guavas must be irradiated in 

accordance with 7 CFR part 305 with a 

minimum absorbed dose of 400 Gy. 

• The guavas must be inspected by an 

inspector in Hawaii and found free of 

Eutetranychus orientalis and 

Oligonychus biharensis. 

• The guavas may be moved in as 

commercial consignments only. 

These conditions will be listed in the 

Hawaii Fruits and Vegetables Manual 

(available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

import_export/plants/manuals/ports/ 

downloads/hawaii.pdf). In addition to 

those specific measures, guavas from 

Hawaii will be subject to the general 

requirements listed in § 318.13–3 that 

are applicable to the interstate 

movement of all fruits and vegetables 

from Hawaii. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– 

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of 

January 2011. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–985 Filed 1–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0126] 

Availability of an Environmental 

Assessment for Field Testing Feline 

Leukemia Vaccine, Live Canarypox 

Vector 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 Feline Leukemia Vaccine, 

Live Canarypox Vector. The 

environmental assessment, which is 

based on a risk analysis prepared to 

assess the risks associated with the field 

testing of this vaccine, examines the 

potential effects that field testing this 

veterinary vaccine could have on the 

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