Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 180 / Tuesday, September 19, 2023 / Rules and Regulations 64379 

* * * * * 

Robert F. Altneu, 

Director Regulations & Disclosure Law 

Division, Regulations & Rulings, Office of 

Trade U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 

Approved: 

Thomas C. West, Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 

for Tax Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20335 Filed 9–18–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

21 CFR Part 14 

[Docket No. FDA–2023–N–3497] 

Advisory Committee; Board of Tea 

Experts; Termination and Technical 

Amendment to the Citation for the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or the Agency) is 

announcing the termination of the 

Board of Tea Experts by the Federal Tea 

Tasters Repeal Act of 1996. This 

document removes the Board of Tea 

Experts from the Agency’s list of 

standing advisory committees. FDA is 

also updating the statutory citation to 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act to 

reflect recodification. This technical 

change aligns with the desire of 

Congress to incorporate various 

provisions that were enacted separately 

over a period of years; reorganize them; 

conforming style and terminology; 

modernizing obsolete language; and 

correcting drafting errors to remove 

ambiguities, contradictions, and other 

imperfections without changing the 

meaning of or effect of existing law. 

DATES: This rule is effective September 

19, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Ortwerth, Advisory Committee 

Oversight and Management Staff, Food 

and Drug Administration, 10903 New 

Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 32, Rm. 5103, 

Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301– 

796–8220; or ACOMSSubmissions@

fda.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board 

of Tea Experts was established on 

March 2, 1897, by the Tea Importation 

Act of 1897 (Pub. L. 54–358, section 2, 

March 2, 1897, 29 Stat. 604). The Board 

was responsible for making 

recommendations to the Secretary of the 

Treasury to fix and establish uniform 

standards of purity, quality, and fitness 

for consumption of all kinds of teas 

imported into the United States. The 

Board was terminated by the Federal 

Tea Tasters Repeal Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 

104–128, section 3, April 9, 1996, 110 

Stat. 1198). This document aligns FDA’s 

list of standing advisory committees 

with existing law by removing the Board 

of Tea Experts. 

Additionally, with the passage of the 

Act of December 27, 2022 (Pub. L. 117– 

286, 136 Stat. 4196), Congress made 

revisions in title 5 of the U.S. Code, as 

necessary to keep the title current and 

to make technical amendments to 

improve the U.S. Code. In doing so, it 

recodified the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act to chapter 10 of the U.S. 

Code. Thus, the appropriate regulatory 

citation to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act is now 5 U.S.C. 1001 et 

seq. With this final rule, the new 

citation is updated in the authority 

citation of part 14 (21 CFR part 14). 

Under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4)(B) and (d)(3) 

and 21 CFR 10.40(d) and (e), the Agency 

finds good cause to dispense with notice 

and public comment procedures and to 

proceed to an immediate effective date 

on this rule. Notice and public comment 

and a delayed effective date are 

unnecessary and not in the public 

interest as the Board was terminated by 

statute in 1996, and this final rule 

merely removes the name of the Board 

of Tea Experts from the list of standing 

advisory committees in § 14.100 (21 

CFR 14.100) and updates the authority 

citation of 21 CFR part 14 to 

appropriately cite the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.). 

This is a technical amendment to 

conform the citation to the 

recodification enacted on December 27, 

2022, and does not substantively alter 

the legal authority underlying part 14. 

Therefore, the Agency is amending 

the authority citation of part 14 and 

§ 14.100(a) as set forth in the regulatory 

text of this document. 

List of Subjects in 21 CFR Part 14 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Advisory committees, Color 

additives, Drugs, Radiation protection. 

Therefore, under the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act and under 

authority delegated to the Commissioner 

of Food and Drugs, 21 CFR part 14 is 

amended as follows: 

PART 14—PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE 

A PUBLIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 14 is 

revised to read as follows: 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.; 15 U.S.C. 

1451–1461; 21 U.S.C. 41–50, 141–149, 321– 

394, 467f, 679, 821, 1034; 28 U.S.C. 2112; 42 

U.S.C. 201, 262, 263b, 264, 284m, 284m–1; 

Pub. L. 107–109, 115 Stat. 1419. 

§ 14.100 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend § 14.100 by removing 

paragraph (a)(1) and redesignating 

paragraphs (a)(2) through (5) as 

paragraphs (a)(1) through (4). 

Dated: September 12, 2023. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

31 CFR Part 550 

Publication of Ethiopia Sanctions 

Regulations Web General License 4 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Publication of web general 

license. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is publishing one 

general license (GL) issued pursuant to 

the Ethiopia Sanctions Regulations: GL 

4, which was previously made available 

on OFAC’s website. 

DATES: GL 4 was issued on November 

12, 2021. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for additional relevant 

dates. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

OFAC: Assistant Director for Licensing, 

202–622–2480; Assistant Director for 

Regulatory Affairs, 202–622–4855; or 

Assistant Director for Compliance, 202– 

622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available on OFAC’s website: https://

ofac.treasury.gov. 

Background 

On November 12, 2021, OFAC issued 

GL 4 to authorize certain transactions 

otherwise prohibited by Executive 

Order (E.O.) 14046 of September 17, 

2021, ‘‘Imposing Sanctions on Certain 


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