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Vol. 88, No. 206 

Thursday, October 26, 2023 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Performance Review Board 

Membership 

AGENCY: Departmental Administration, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Performance Review 

Board appointments. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

members of the Senior Executive 

Service (SES) and Senior Level (SL) and 

Scientific and Professional (ST) 

Performance Review Boards (PRB). 

Agriculture has two PRBs with 

representatives from each USDA 

Mission Area. The PRBs are comprised 

of the Chairpersons and a mix of career 

and noncareer senior executives and 

senior professionals that meet annually 

to review and evaluate performance 

appraisal documents. The PRB provides 

a written recommendation to the 

Secretary for final approval of each 

executive’s performance rating, 

performance-based pay adjustment, and 

performance award. The PRBs are 

advised by the Office of Human 

Resources Management, Office of 

General Counsel, and Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights to 

ensure compliance with laws and 

regulations. 

DATES: The board membership is 

applicable beginning on October 23, 

2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Long, Acting Deputy Chief 

Human Capital Officer, Office of Human 

Resources Management, telephone: 

(202) 941–4075, or Rhonda C. Carr,

Director, Human Resources Operations

Division, telephone: (202) 720–3967.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Membership 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

4314(c)(4), the USDA Performance 

Review Board members are named 

below: 

BAILEY, MELISSA 

BENDER, STUART 

BENNETT PATRICIA 

BUCKNALL, JANET 

CROCKETT, JOHN 

EICHHORST, JOHN 

ERHAN, SEVIM 

FANTINATO, JESSICA 

FRENCH, GERALDINE 

HAMER, HUBERT 

HEATH, LINDA 

JACKSON, KIMBERLY 

JAMES, ROSALIND 

MANZANO, HEATHER 

MCCROSSON, TIMOTHY 

MCHUGH, TARA 

MOORE, MELISSA 

NEAL, ARTHUR 

NICKERSON, CYNTHIA 

PARK, JOON 

PARSONS, JOSEPH 

RAMIREZ, LISA 

RATER, BARBARA 

RIPLEY, INGRID 

SHEA, JOHN 

SLUPEK, MARK 

SMITH, GREGORY 

THARP, MELISSA 

TUCKER, JENNIFER 

WATSON, MICHAEL 

WHITLEY, DANIEL 

WILLIAMS, DUANE 

XU, WEIHUAN 

The Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas 

J. Vilsack, having reviewed and

approved this document, is delegating

the authority to electronically sign this

document to Anita Adkins, Chief

Human Capital Officer, for purposes of

publication in the Federal Register.

Michelle Long, 

Acting Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23622 Filed 10–25–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–96–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[FSIS–2023–0024] 

National Advisory Committee on 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods: 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service (FSIS), Department of 

Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice is announcing 

that the National Advisory Committee 

on Microbiological Criteria for Foods 

(NACMCF) will hold a virtual public 

meeting from November 14, 2023, 

through November 16, 2023. The 

NACMCF Secretariat will introduce 

newly appointed members for the 2023– 

2025 Committee term and introduce a 

new charge from FSIS on genomic 

characterization of pathogens. Also, the 

Committee will continue working on the 

response to the U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration’s (FDA) Cronobacter 

spp. in Powdered Infant Formula 

charge. 

DATES: The full Committee will hold a 

virtual public plenary meeting on 

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, from 

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Concurrent 

virtual public subcommittee meetings 

will be held on Tuesday, November 14, 

2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. As 

well as on Wednesday, November 15, 

2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 

Thursday, November 16, 2023, from 

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., respectively. 

Attendance is free but pre-registration 

by Wednesday, November 8, 2023, is 

requested. 

The deadline to submit written 

comments is Wednesday, November 8, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: The plenary and 

subcommittee meetings will be held 

virtually using Webex. Attendees must 

pre-register at https://ems8.intellor.com/ 

?do=register&t=1&p=849304 to receive a 

join link, dial-in number, access code, 

and unique Attendee ID for the plenary 

and subcommittee meetings. Persons 

interested in providing comments at the 

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, plenary 

meeting should indicate so when 

registering. Comments will be limited to 

three minutes per speaker. 

An American Sign Language 

interpreter will be present during the 

meeting and attendees will also have the 

option to turn on closed captions. 

Written comments may be submitted 

by one of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

website provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field on the web page or attach 

a file for lengthier comments. Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions at that site for 

submitting comments. 

Mail: Send to Docket Clerk, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Food Safety 

and Inspection Service, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Mailstop 

3758, Washington, DC 20250–3700. 

Hand- or Courier-Delivered 

Submittals: Deliver to 1400 


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