Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 183 / Wednesday, September 23, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 48375 

1To view the interim rule, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2008-0124. 

2The delay was put into place in an interim rule 

published in the Federal Register on September 11, 

2008 (73 FR 52775–52777, Docket No. APHIS– 

2008–0068). The interim rule may be viewed on the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ 

component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS2008-0068. 

■ b. Remove the word ‘‘honey,’’ 

wherever the phrase ‘‘wild, rice, nuts of 

any kind (even raw), honey, maple 

syrup,’’ appears. 

§ 249.4 [Amended] 

■ 3. In § 249.4, amend paragraph 

(a)(14)(vii) and the first sentence in 

paragraph (a)(18) by adding the word 

‘‘honey,’’ after ‘‘vegetables,’’. 

■ 4. In § 249.10, amend paragraph 

(b)(2)(ii) by removing the period and 

adding ‘‘; nor’’ at the end of the sentence 

and add a new paragraph (b)(2)(iii) to 

read as follows: 

§ 249.10 Coupon, market, and CSA 

program management. 

* * * * * 

(b)* * * 

(2)* * * 

(iii) Collect tax on SFMNP coupon 

purchases. 

* * * * * 

■ 5. In § 249.25, add a new paragraph (c) 

to read as follows: 

§ 249.25 Other provisions. 

* * * * * 

(c) Exclusion of benefits in 

determining eligibility for other 

programs. The value of any benefit 

provided to any eligible SFMNP 

recipient shall not be considered to be 

income or resources for any purposes 

under any Federal, State or local law. 

Dated: September 4, 2009. 

Julia Paradis, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–22861 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

9 CFR Part 77 

[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0124] 

Tuberculosis in Cattle and Bison; State 

and Zone Designations; New Mexico 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as 

final rule. 

SUMMARY: We are adopting as a final 

rule, without change, an interim rule 

that amended the bovine tuberculosis 

regulations by establishing two separate 

zones with different tuberculosis risk 

classifications for the State of New 

Mexico. Prior to the interim rule, the 

entire State of New Mexico had been 

classified as modified accredited 

advanced; however, all its affected 

herds were located in Curry and 

Roosevelt Counties, NM, along the 

State’s eastern border. The interim rule 

was necessary to relieve restrictions on 

the interstate movement of cattle and 

bison from areas of New Mexico outside 

those two counties. 

DATES: Effective on September 23, 2009, 

we are adopting as a final rule the 

interim rule published at 74 FR 12055– 

12058 on March 23, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

C. William Hench, Senior Staff 

Veterinarian, National Tuberculosis 

Eradication Program, Veterinary 

Services, APHIS, 2150 Centre Ave, Bldg 

B, MSC 3E20, Ft. Collins, CO 80526; 

(970) 494–7378. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Bovine tuberculosis is a contagious 

and infectious granulomatous disease 

caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium 

bovis. Although commonly defined as a 

chronic debilitating disease, bovine 

tuberculosis can occasionally assume an 

acute, rapidly progressive course. While 

any body tissue can be affected, lesions 

are most frequently observed in the 

lymph nodes, lungs, intestines, liver, 

spleen, pleura, and peritoneum. 

Although cattle are considered to be the 

true hosts of M. bovis, the disease has 

been reported in several other species of 

both domestic and nondomestic 

animals, as well as in humans. 

At the beginning of the past century, 

tuberculosis caused more losses of 

livestock than all other livestock 

diseases combined. This prompted the 

establishment in the United States of the 

National Cooperative State/Federal 

Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication 

Program for tuberculosis in livestock. 

In carrying out the national 

eradication program, the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

issues and enforces regulations. The 

regulations require the testing of cattle 

and bison for tuberculosis, define the 

Federal tuberculosis status levels for 

States or zones (accredited-free, 

modified accredited advanced, modified 

accredited, accreditation preparatory, 

and nonaccredited), provide the criteria 

for attaining and maintaining those 

status levels, and contain testing and 

movement requirements for cattle and 

bison leaving States or zones of a 

particular status level. These regulations 

are contained in 9 CFR part 77 (referred 

to below as the regulations) and in the 

Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication 

Uniform Methods and Rules, 1999, 

which is incorporated by reference into 

the regulations. 

According to the regulations, if bovine 

tuberculosis is detected in a portion of 

a State, the State may request split-State 

status via partitioning into specific 

geographic regions or zones with 

differential status designations. With 

regard to cattle and bison, State animal 

health officials in New Mexico 

demonstrated to APHIS that New 

Mexico, excluding Curry and Roosevelt 

Counties, meets the criteria for 

accredited-free status set forth in the 

definition of accredited-free State or 

zone in § 77.5 of the regulations. 

Therefore, we amended the 

regulations in an interim rule 1 effective 

and published in the Federal Register 

on March 23, 2009 (74 FR 12055–12058, 

Docket No. APHIS–2008–0124), by 

removing New Mexico from the list of 

modified accredited States in § 77.9(a), 

adding an area consisting of Curry and 

Roosevelt Counties, NM, to the list of 

modified accredited advanced zones in 

§ 77.9(b), and adding the remainder of 

the State to the list of accredited-free 

zones in § 77.7(b). 

Comments on the interim rule were 

required to be received on or before May 

22, 2009. We did not receive any 

comments by that date. Therefore, for 

the reasons given in the interim rule, we 

are adopting the interim rule as a final 

rule without change. 

We note that the indefinite delay 2 in 

compliance with certain identification 

and certification requirements in § 77.10 

of the regulations will continue to apply 

with respect to Curry and Roosevelt 

Counties, NM, which continue to hold 

modified accredited advanced status. 

The specific provisions of § 77.10 for 

which we delayed the compliance date 

were as follows: 

• The identification of sexually intact 

heifers moving to approved feedlots and 

steers and spayed heifers moving to any 

destination (§ 77.10(b)); 

• The identification requirements for 

sexually intact heifers moving to 

feedlots that are not approved feedlots 

(§ 77.10(d)); and 

• Because identification is required 

for certification, the certification 

requirements for sexually intact heifers 

moving to unapproved feedlots 

(§ 77.10(d)). 

This action also affirms the 

information contained in the interim 

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48376 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 183 / Wednesday, September 23, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 

1 15 U.S.C. 80a. Unless otherwise noted, all 

references to statutory sections are to the 

Investment Company Act, and all references to 

rules under the Investment Company Act, including 

rule 2a–7, will be to Title 17, Part 270 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations [17 CFR 270]. 

2See generally Valuation of Debt Instruments and 

Computation of Current Price Per Share by Certain 

Open-End Investment Companies (Money Market 

Funds), Investment Company Act Release No. 

13380 (July 11, 1983) [48 FR 32555 (July 18, 1983)]. 

Most money market funds seek to maintain a stable 

net asset value per share of $1.00, but a few seek 

to maintain a stable net asset value per share of a 

different amount, e.g., $10.00. For convenience, 

throughout this release, the discussion will simply 

refer to the stable net asset value of $1.00 per share. 3Our staff estimates that approximately 79 

percent of money market funds participated in the 

Guarantee Program, and that the money market 

funds that did not participate in the program were 

mostly funds that invest predominately in U.S. 

Treasury and U.S. Government securities. 4See Press Release, U.S. Department of the 

Treasury, Treasury Announces Guaranty Program 

for Money Market Funds (Sept. 19, 2008), available 

at http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1147.htm. 5See Press Release, U.S. Department of the 

Treasury, Treasury Announces Extension of 

Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market 

Funds (Nov. 24, 2008), available at http:// 

www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1290.htm; Press 

Release, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Treasury 

Announces Extension of Temporary Guarantee 

Program for Money Market Funds (Mar. 31, 2009), 

available at http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/ 

tg76.htm. 6See section 5(b) of the Guarantee Agreement that 

money market funds participating in the Treasury’s 

Guarantee Program were required to sign 

(‘‘Guarantee Agreement’’), available at http:// 

www.treas.gov/offices/domestic-finance/keyinitiatives/money-market-docs/GuaranteeAgreement_form.pdf (requiring a fund to submit 

reports when their market-based net asset value is 

less than $.9975). 

rule concerning Executive Order 12866 

and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 

Executive Orders 12372, and the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

Further, for this action, the Office of 

Management and Budget has waived its 

review under Executive Order 12866. 

List of Subjects in 9 CFR Part 77 

Animal diseases, Bison, Cattle, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Transportation, 

Tuberculosis. 

PART 77—TUBERCULOSIS 

■ Accordingly, we are adopting as a 

final rule, without change, the interim 

rule that amended 9 CFR part 77 and 

that was published at 74 FR 12055– 

12058 on March 23, 2009. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

September 2009. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–22960 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

17 CFR Part 270 

[Release No. IC–28903; File No. S7–20–09] 

RIN 3235–AK33 

Disclosure of Certain Money Market 

Fund Portfolio Holdings 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

ACTION: Interim final temporary rule; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘SEC’’) 

is adopting an interim final temporary 

rule under the Investment Company Act 

of 1940 to require a money market fund 

to report its portfolio holdings and 

valuation information to the 

Commission under certain 

circumstances. The new reporting 

requirement is designed to provide 

information substantially similar to that 

submitted by certain money market 

funds under the Temporary Guarantee 

Program for Money Market Funds 

established by the Department of the 

Treasury (‘‘Treasury Department’’), 

which will expire on September 18, 

2009. 

DATES: Effective Date: September 18, 

2009 through September 17, 2010. 

Comment Date: Comments should be 

received on or before October 26, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/final.shtml); or 

• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

Number S7–20–09 on the subject line; 

or 

• Use the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

(http://www.regulations.gov). Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number S7–20–09. This file number 

should be included on the subject line 

if e-mail is used. To help us process and 

review your comments more efficiently, 

please use only one method. The 

Commission will post all comments on 

the Commission’s Internet Web site 

(http://www.sec.gov/rules/final.shtml). 

Comments are also available for public 

inspection and copying in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549, on official business days 

between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change; we do not edit personal 

identifying information from 

submissions. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about the rule, 

please contact one of the following 

members of the staff in the Division of 

Investment Management, at the 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20549–8549: Adam B. Glazer, Senior 

Counsel, or Hunter Jones, Assistant 

Director at (202) 551–6792; for technical 

questions related to the submission of 

portfolio information to the 

Commission, in the Office of 

Information Technology, Rick Heroux, 

at (202) 551–8168. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission is adopting new rule 30b1– 

6T under the Investment Company Act 

of 1940 (‘‘Investment Company Act’’ or 

‘‘Act’’) 1 as an interim final temporary 

rule. We are soliciting comments on all 

aspects of the interim final temporary 

rule. We will carefully consider the 

comments that we receive and intend to 

respond to them in a subsequent release. 

I. Background 

Money market funds are open-end 

management investment companies that 

invest in short-term obligations and 

have a principal investment objective of 

maintaining a net asset value of $1.00 

per share.2 Since October 2008, most 

money market funds have participated 

in the Treasury Department’s 

Temporary Guarantee Program for 

Money Market Funds (‘‘Guarantee 

Program’’), which has guaranteed the 

$1.00 share value of accounts held by 

investors as of September 19, 2008 in 

participating money market funds.3 The 

Guarantee Program was established to 

help stabilize money market funds 

following a period of substantial 

redemptions that threatened the ability 

of some money market funds to 

maintain the $1.00 share value.4 The 

program will expire on September 18, 

2009.5

Money market funds participating in 

the Guarantee Program have been 

required, in certain circumstances, to 

submit their portfolio schedules and 

related information each week to the 

Treasury Department and the 

Commission.6 The Commission has 

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