This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 72, No. 90 

Thursday, May 10, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

9 CFR Part 381 

[Docket No. FSIS–2007–0016] 

Eligibility of Chile To Export Poultry 

and Poultry Products to the United 

States: Proposed Rule Comment 

Period Extension and Notice of New 

Information 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; supplemental 

information. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing 

additional information about the basis 

on which it has tentatively concluded 

that Chile’s inspection system for 

poultry and poultry products is 

equivalent to that of the United States. 

FSIS published a proposed rule (FSIS– 

2006–0030) in the Federal Register of 

February 26, 2007 (72 FR 8293–8296), 

that would add Chile to the list of 

countries eligible to export poultry and 

poultry products to the United States. A 

comment on the proposal noted a 

deficiency that FSIS found in its onsite 

audit of Chile’s inspection system and 

questioned how, given that deficiency, 

FSIS could find Chile’s system 

equivalent. FSIS is addressing this 

concern in this supplement to the 

proposed rule. Given that FSIS is 

providing additional information to 

explain the basis for its tentative finding 

of equivalency, FSIS is re-opening the 

comment period on the proposed rule to 

May 25, 2007. 

DATES: Submit comments by May 25, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: FSIS invites interested 

persons to submit comments on the 

proposed rule referenced in this 

document. Comments may be submitted 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

Web site provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field on this Web page or 

attach a file for lengthier comments. 

FSIS prefers to receive comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. 

Go to http://www.regulations.gov and, 

in the ‘‘Search for Open Regulations’’ 

box, select ‘‘Food Safety and Inspection 

Service’’ and ‘‘Proposed Rules’’ from the 

agency drop-down menu and then click 

on ‘‘Submit.’’ In the Docket ID column, 

select the FDMS Docket Number to 

submit or view public comments and to 

view supporting and related materials 

available electronically. After the close 

of the comment period, the docket can 

be viewed using the ‘‘Advanced Search’’ 

function in Regulations.gov. 

• Mail, including floppy disks or CD– 

ROM’s, and hand- or courier-delivered 

items: Send to Docket Clerk, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Food Safety 

and Inspection Service, 300 12th Street, 

SW., Room 102 Cotton Annex, 

Washington, DC 20250. 

• Electronic mail: 

RiskBasedInspection@fsis.usda.gov. 

All submissions received must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number FSIS–2006–0030. 

All comments submitted in response 

to this proposed rule will be posted to 

the regulations.gov Web site. Comments 

will also be available for public 

inspection in the FSIS Docket Room at 

the address listed above between 8:30 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Daniel 

Engeljohn, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant 

Administrator for Office of Policy, 

Program and Employee Development, 

FSIS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Room 3147, South Building, 14th and 

Independence, SW., Washington, DC 

20250–3700; telephone (202) 205–0495, 

fax (202) 401–1760, 

daniel.engeljohn@usda.fsis.gov. 

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. Under 

the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 

U.S.C. 466), FSIS must evaluate a 

foreign country’s inspection system 

before determining that country is 

eligible to export poultry or poultry 

products. This evaluation consists of 

two parts: A document review and an 

on-site review. The document review is 

an evaluation of the laws, regulations, 

and other written materials used by the 

country to effect its inspection program. 

If the document review is satisfactory, 

the on-site review is scheduled. It is 

conducted by a multi-disciplinary team 

that evaluates all aspects of the 

country’s inspection program, including 

its laboratories and individual 

establishments within the country. The 

process of determining equivalence is 

described fully on the FSIS Web site at 

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

&_policies/equivalence_process/ 

index.asp. 

The FSIS review of Chile’s poultry 

inspection system found that Chile’s 

requirements are equivalent to the 

relevant provisions of the PPIA and the 

regulations that implement that statute. 

The FSIS on-site review of Chile’s 

poultry inspection system in August 

2005 found, however, that Chile was not 

conducting species verification testing 

as required. 

Chile immediately committed to 

remedying this deficiency and has 

documented the steps that it has taken 

to implement species verification 

testing. FSIS has evaluated the 

documentation provided by Chile and is 

confident that Chile has sufficient 

controls in place to ensure that species 

verification testing is being performed. 

It is noteworthy that FSIS audited 

Chile’s beef slaughter inspection system 

in March–April 2006 and found that 

species verification testing is being 

performed by the Chilean government in 

the beef slaughter establishments 

certified to export to the United States. 

FSIS documentation of the materials 

submitted by Chile to satisfy the species 

verification requirement for poultry can 

be found online as an addendum to the 

2005 FSIS audit of Chile’s poultry 

inspection system at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&

_policies/Foreign_Audit_Reports/ 

index.asp. 

FSIS is re-opening the comment 

period for this proposed rule so that the 

public can have an opportunity to 

comment on the new information that 

the Agency is making available. 

Comments must be received by May 25, 

2007. 


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Under this proposed rule, poultry and 

poultry products processed in certified 

Chilean establishments may be exported 

to the United States. All such products 

will be subject to re-inspection at 

United States ports-of-entry by FSIS 

inspectors. 

E-Government Act Compliance 

The Food Safety and Inspection 

Service is committed to complying 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. 

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 document, FSIS will announce it 

on-line through the FSIS Web page 

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

regulations_&_policies/2007_Proposed_

Rules_Index/index.asp. 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 interest 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. 

Done at Washington, DC, on April 30, 

2007. 

David P. Goldman, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–2202 Filed 5–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 72 

RIN 3150—AI13 

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks: NAC-MPC Revision 5 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is proposing to 

amend its regulations revising the NAC 

International, Inc., NAC-Multi-Purpose 

Canister (MPC) system listing within the 

‘‘List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks’’ to include Amendment No. 5 to 

Certificate of Compliance (CoC) Number 

1025. Amendment No. 5 would modify 

the CoC by revising the Technical 

Specifications (TS) to incorporate 

changes to the reporting and monitoring 

requirements to allow for visual 

inspection of the air inlet and outlet 

vents instead of thermal monitoring, 

revising the TS to incorporate guidance 

from NRC Interim Staff Guidance-22 

and replace all references to backfilling 

the cask with air to backfilling with 

inert gas, revising the CoC description to 

remove the requirement for tamperindicating devices on the Vertical 

Concrete Casks, and including several 

editorial changes to improve the clarity 

of the documents associated with the 

NAC-MPC system, under the general 

provisions that govern licensing 

requirements for the independent 

storage of spent nuclear fuel, high level 

radioactive waste, and reactor-related 

greater than Class C waste. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed rule 

must be received on or before June 11, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include the following number 

(RIN 3150–AI13) in the subject line of 

your comments. Comments on 

rulemakings submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be made available 

for public inspection. Because your 

comment will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

personal information such as social 

security numbers and birth dates in 

your submission. 

Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

E-mail comments to: SECY@nrc.gov. If 

you do not receive a reply e-mail 

confirming that we have received your 

comments, contact us directly at (301) 

415–1966. You may also submit 

comments via the NRC’s rulemaking 

Web site at http://rulemaking.llnl.gov. 

Address questions about our rulemaking 

Web site to Carol Gallagher (301) 415–

5905; e-mail cag@nrc.gov. Comments 

can also be submitted via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

Federal workdays [telephone (301) 415–

1966]. 

Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 

415–1101. 

Publicly available documents related 

to this rulemaking may be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

at the NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR), O–1F21, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. Selected documents, 

including comments, can be viewed and 

downloaded electronically via the NRC 

rulemaking Web site at http:// 

ruleforum.llnl.gov. 

Publicly available documents created 

or received at the NRC after November 

1, 1999, are available electronically at 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/ 

index.html. From this site, the public 

can gain entry into the NRC’s 

Agencywide Document Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

PDR Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov. An electronic copy of the 

proposed CoC No. 1025, the proposed 

TS, and the preliminary safety 

evaluation report (SER) for Amendment 

5 can be found under ADAMS 

Accession Nos. ML063520431, 

ML063520434, and ML063520440. 

The proposed CoC No. 1025, the 

proposed TS, the preliminary SER for 

Amendment No. 5, and the 

environmental assessment are available 

for inspection at the NRC PDR, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville MD. Single 

copies of these documents may be 

obtained from Jayne M. McCausland, 


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