Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 64 / Wednesday, April 4, 2007 / Notices 16327 

Dated: March 29, 2007. 

Lloyd C. Day, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–6248 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2007–0012] 

Risk-Based Inspection System 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings on 

risk-based inspection 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection (FSIS) will hold a series of 

public meetings on specific topics 

relating to risk-based inspection in 

processing. The first meeting will focus 

on the algorithm that the Agency 

intends to use to compute risk-based 

inspection levels for processing 

establishments. A second meeting will 

address the issue of attributing illness to 

food. Production volume will be 

discussed at the third meeting, and 

industry data will be the focus of the 

fourth meeting. The expert elicitation 

process will be discussed at the fifth 

meeting. 

DATES: FSIS will hold the meetings on 

the following dates: 

Monday, April 2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 

1 p.m. The first meeting will focus on 

the algorithm the Agency intends to use 

to compute risk-based inspection levels 

for processing establishments. 

Thursday, April 5, 2007 from 8:30 

a.m. to 4 p.m. This meeting will discuss 

the issue of attributing illness to food. 

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 9 

a.m. to 1 p.m. Production volume will 

be discussed at the third meeting. 

Monday, April 30, 2007 from 9 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. The topic of industry data is 

the focus of the fourth meeting. A 

technical meeting on the expert 

elicitation process is also planned as the 

fifth meeting. The date of this meeting 

will be announced at a later time. Any 

changes in meeting dates or times will 

be posted on the FSIS Web site at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held 

in Room 244 at George Mason 

University, 3401 N. Fairfax Drive, 

Arlington, VA 22201. Directions to the 

site, the agenda, and other meeting 

materials will be posted on the FSIS 

Web site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov. 

All meetings will be accessible 

through conference call. Specific 

information concerning connections and 

the telephone number will also be 

posted on the FSIS Web site. Members 

of the public should pre-register for the 

meetings (see Background). Online 

registration information is also located 

on the Web site. 

FSIS welcomes comments on the 

topics to be discussed at the public 

meetings. An issue paper concerning the 

respective topics will be posted on the 

FSIS Web site, http://www.fsis.usda.gov, 

a week prior to each meeting, with the 

exception of the meeting on attribution. 

Comments may be submitted on the 

meeting topics by any of the following 

methods for 30 days from the date of 

completion of each public meeting: 

• Electronic mail: An e-mail box has 

been established specifically for 

comments for RBI. Comments can be 

submitted to: 

riskbasedinspection@fsis.usda.gov. 

• Mail, including floppy disks or CD– 

ROMs: Send to: Ellyn Blumberg, USDA, 

FSIS, Aerospace Building, 3rd floor, 

room 405, 14th and Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250. 

• Hand or courier-delivered items: 

Deliver to: Ellyn Blumberg at 901 D 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024. 

Have security guard call (202) 690–6520 

in order to hand deliver items. 

• Facsimile: Fax comments to: (202) 

690–6519. 

All submissions received must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number FSIS–2007–0012 and meeting 

topic. The comments also will be posted 

on the Agency’s Web site at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sally Fernandez for meeting information 

at (202) 690–6524, Fax (202) 690–6519, 

or e-mail sally.fernandez@fsis.usda.gov. 

Keith Payne for technical information at 

(202) 690–6522 or e-mail at 

keith.payne@fsis.usda.gov. Persons 

requiring a sign language interpreter or 

other special accommodations should 

notify the Agency contacts no later than 

two weeks before the meeting, at the 

numbers above or by e-mail. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

FSIS is the public health regulatory 

agency in the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) responsible for 

ensuring that the nation’s commercial 

supply of meat, poultry, and egg 

products is safe, wholesome, and 

correctly labeled and packaged. 

To better address the food safety and 

public health challenges it faces, FSIS is 

working to make its inspection system 

more risk-based and to continue to 

implement science-based policies. 

Although the Agency acknowledges that 

some types of meat and poultry 

products pose greater health risks than 

others, and some establishments control 

risks better than others, under the 

current system of processing inspection, 

a Consumer Safety Inspector visits every 

plant at least once every shift to perform 

a variety of verification procedures 

scheduled by the Performance Based 

Inspection System (PBIS.) PBIS 

schedules inspection procedures the 

same way in all processing plants, 

regardless of the particular food safety 

hazard associated with the products 

produced or processes performed at one 

plant versus another. 

In July 2004, the Agency outlined the 

basic features of a predictive model that 

would permit FSIS to improve resource 

allocation by considering the inherent 

risks and risk control effectiveness of 

the meat and poultry establishments 

under Federal inspection. Since that 

time, FSIS has continued to develop and 

refine these ideas. In November 2005, 

FSIS addressed the National Advisory 

Committee on Meat and Poultry 

Inspection (NAMCPI) on Agency 

progress toward a Risk-Based Inspection 

System (RBIS). In May 2006, the Agency 

again addressed NAMCPI—this time on 

ideas the Agency has on measuring risk 

control effectiveness for RBI. 

Reductions in the number of illnesses 

attributed to the consumption of 

adulterated meat and poultry products 

can be achieved by placing greater 

inspection and verification emphasis on 

establishments whose processes, owing 

to the nature and volume of their 

production, require greater control of 

the risks. FSIS believes that it can 

improve public health by focusing its 

efforts on processing establishments that 

produce products presenting high 

inherent risk and that are less effective 

in controlling risks. At the same time, 

FSIS can focus less on processing 

establishments that produce products 

that present low inherent risk and that 

exercise effective risk control. In both 

cases, establishments will continue to 

be inspected on a per shift basis, 

although the intensity of inspection will 

vary, depending on risk factors. 

In October 2006, FSIS held a public 

meeting to present ideas about how the 

Agency can develop these measures for 

federally-inspected meat and poultry 

processing establishments and to accept 

stakeholder input. 

This series of technical meetings that 

the Agency is announcing will address 

various dimensions of RBI and 

protecting public health, and FSIS is 

seeking input from all stakeholders on 

these matters. Prior to each meeting, 

FSIS will post on its Web site an issue 


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paper on its current thinking concerning 

the respective topic or other relevant 

materials. At the meeting relating to 

attributing illness to food, the agency 

will invite experts to provide 

information and views on the 

definitions of attribution as well as state 

of the art methods in collecting 

attribution data. Each meeting will be 

moderated to ensure that all participants 

have ample opportunity to present their 

views. A transcript of the meetings will 

be taken and made available on the FSIS 

Web site, http://www.fsis.usda.gov. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice will be considered part of the 

public record. 

Members of the public should preregister for the meeting. Online 

registration information is located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that minorities, women and 

persons with disabilities are aware of 

this notice, FSIS will announce it online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 

2007_Notices_Index/. FSIS will also 

make copies of this Federal Register 

publication available through the FSIS 

Constituent Update, which is used to 

provide information regarding FSIS 

policies, procedures, regulations, 

Federal Register notices, FSIS public 

meetings, recalls, and other types of 

information that could affect or would 

be of interests to constituents and 

stakeholders. The update is 

communicated via Listserv, a free 

electronic mail subscription service for 

industry, trade and farm groups, 

consumer interest groups, allied health 

professionals, and other individuals 

who have asked to be included. The 

update is available on the FSIS Web 

page. Through the Listserv and Web 

page, FSIS is able to provide 

information to a much broader and more 

diverse audience. In addition, FSIS 

offers an e-mail subscription service 

which provides automatic and 

customized access to selected food 

safety news and information. This 

service is available at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/ 

email_subscription/. Options range from 

recalls to export information to 

regulations, directives and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

subscriptions themselves and have the 

option to password protect their 

account. 

David P. Goldman, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–1662 Filed 3–30–07; 3:56 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economics and Statistics 

Administration 

Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, 

Economics and Statistics 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463 as amended by Pub. L. 94–409, Pub. 

L. 96–523, Pub. L. 97–375 and Pub. L. 

105–153), we are announcing a meeting 

of the Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Advisory Committee. The meeting’s 

agenda focuses on the various aspects 

involved with the measurement of 

health care in the national economic 

accounts. 

DATES: Friday, May 4, 2007, the meeting 

will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn at 

approximately 3:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the Bureau of Economic Analysis at 

1441 L St., NW., Washington, DC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dorothy Andrake, Communications 

Division Chief, Bureau of Economic 

Analysis, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone number: (202) 606–9630. 

Public Participation: This meeting is 

open to the public. Because of security 

procedures, anyone planning to attend 

the meeting must contact Dorothy 

Andrake of BEA at (202) 606–9630 in 

advance. The meeting is physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for foreign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Dorothy Andrake 

at (202) 606–9630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee was established September 

2, 1999. The Committee advises the 

Director of BEA on matters related to the 

development and improvement of BEA’s 

national, regional, industry, and 

international economic accounts, 

especially in areas of new and rapidly 

growing economic activities arising 

from innovative and advancing 

technologies, and provides 

recommendations from the perspectives 

of the economics profession, business, 

and government. This will be the 

Committee’s fifteenth meeting. 

Dated: March 26, 2007. 

J. Steven Landefeld, 

Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis. 

[FR Doc. E7–6212 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea Marine National 

Monument, Hawai1i; Monument 

Management Plan 

AGENCIES: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (FWS), Interior; National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; Preparation of a 

management plan, and environmental 

assessment. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that NOAA, FWS, and the Department 

of Land and Natural Resources, State of 

Hawai1i (DLNR) intend to prepare a 

Monument Management Plan 

(Monument Plan) and associated 

environmental assessment for the 

Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea Marine National 

Monument in the Northwestern 

Hawaiian Islands and surrounding 

marine areas. The Monument Plan will 

modify NOAA’s existing Northwestern 

Hawaiian Islands Proposed National 

Marine Sanctuary Draft Management 

Plan, and incorporate FWS refuge 

comprehensive conservation planning 

(CCP) requirements, DLNR planning 

needs, and other elements to reflect the 

area’s new status as a national 

monument. 

DATES: Any written comments must be 

received by June 4, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Don Palawski, Monument Plan 

Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Box 

50167, Honolulu, HI 96850–5000; or via 

e-mail to 

PMNM_MMP_Comments@fws.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don 

Palawski, Monument Plan Coordinator, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 300 Ala 

Moana Boulevard, Box 50167, 

Honolulu, HI 96850–5000; phone (808) 

792–9560, or fax (808) 792–9585. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 2006, President George W. Bush 


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