75538 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 / Notices 

1The World Organization for Animal Health 

internationally follows a British English spelling of 

‘‘organisation’’ in its name; also, it was formerly the 

Office International des Epizooties, or OIE, but on 

May 28, 2022, the Organization announced that the 

acronym was changed from OIE to WOAH. 

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number. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: Special Supplemental Nutrition 

Program for Women, Infants, and 

Children (WIC) Breastfeeding Award of 

Excellence. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0591. 

Summary of Collection: The Healthy, 

Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) 

(Pub. L. 111–296, Sec 231) requires the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

to implement a program to recognize 

exemplary breastfeeding support 

practices at Women, Infants, and 

Children (WIC) local agencies and 

clinics. The WIC program, of which the 

breastfeeding award of excellence is a 

part, is authorized by the Child 

Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1787). 

The WIC Program provides 

breastfeeding promotion and support for 

pregnant and postpartum mothers as a 

part of its mission to improve the health 

of the approximately 6 million 

Americans it serves each month. 

Breastfeeding is a priority in WIC and 

WIC mothers are strongly encouraged to 

breastfeed their infants unless medically 

contraindicated. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

While HHFKA mandates that the USDA 

provide a program to recognize 

exemplary breastfeeding support 

practices, it is voluntary for the WIC 

local agencies and clinics to apply for 

an award. Information is collected from 

the WIC local agencies to apply for an 

award and used by the WIC state 

agencies to evaluate the applications. 

The award application period is open 

once annually and has been designed to 

allow local WIC agencies at different 

stages of progress in breastfeeding 

promotion and support program 

development to apply for an award. The 

information collection will meet the 

HHFKA requirement to implement a 

program to recognize exemplary 

breastfeeding support practices at WIC 

local agencies and clinics. The 

information collected through this 

program will be used to evaluate 

components of existing breastfeeding 

programs and support within WIC local 

agencies, to recognize local WIC 

agencies that provide exemplary 

breastfeeding programs and support 

services, and to provide examples of 

model programs to motivate local 

agencies and clinics to strengthen their 

breastfeeding promotion and support 

activities. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 239. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 514. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2023–0068] 

Addition of Belarus to the List of 

Regions Affected With Highly 

Pathogenic Avian Influenza 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we added Belarus to the list of 

regions that the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service considers to 

be affected by highly pathogenic avian 

influenza (HPAI). This action follows 

our imposition of HPAI-related 

restrictions on avian commodities 

originating from or transiting Belarus, as 

a result of reports of HPAI in that 

country. 

DATES: Belarus was added to the list of 

regions APHIS considers to be affected 

with HPAI, effective on August 22, 

2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Heather Sriranganathan, APHIS 

Veterinary Services, Regionalization 

Evaluation Services, 4700 River Road, 

Riverdale, MD 20747; phone: (717) 818– 

3582; email: AskRegionalization@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 9 CFR part 94 (referred to 

below as the regulations) govern the 

importation of certain animals and 

animal products into the United States 

to prevent the introduction of various 

animal diseases, including Newcastle 

disease and highly pathogenic avian 

influenza (HPAI). The regulations 

prohibit or restrict the importation of 

live poultry, poultry meat, and other 

poultry products from regions where 

these diseases are considered to exist. 

Section 94.6 of the regulations 

contains requirements governing the 

importation into the United States of 

carcasses, meat, parts or products of 

carcasses, and eggs (other than hatching 

eggs) of poultry, game birds, or other 

birds from regions of the world where 

HPAI exists or is reasonably believed to 

exist. HPAI is an extremely infectious 

and potentially fatal form of avian 

influenza in birds and poultry that, once 

established, can spread rapidly from 

flock to flock. The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

maintains a list of restricted regions it 

considers affected with HPAI of any 

subtype on the APHIS website at 

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ 

ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-andanimal-product-import-information/ 

animal-health-status-of-regions. 

APHIS receives notice of HPAI 

outbreaks from veterinary officials of the 

exporting country, from the World 

Organization for Animal Health 

(WOAH),1 or from other sources the 

Administrator determines to be reliable. 

On August 22, 2023, APHIS added 

Belarus to the list of regions where 

HPAI exists based on credible media 

and interagency reports of HPAI 

outbreaks in poultry in Belarus. On that 

same day, APHIS issued an import alert 

notifying stakeholders that APHIS 

imposed restrictions on the importation 

of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, 

avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian 

products and byproducts, and certain 

fresh poultry commodities from Belarus 

to mitigate risk of HPAI introduction 

into the United States. 

With the publication of this notice, 

we are informing the public that we 

added Belarus to the list of regions 

APHIS considers affected with HPAI of 

any subtype, effective August 22, 2023. 

This notice serves as an official record 

and public notification of this action. 

Congressional Review Act 

Pursuant to the Congressional Review 

Act (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

designated this action as not a major 

rule, as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1633, 7701–7772, 

7781–7786, and 8301–8317; 21 U.S.C. 

136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 

2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 30th day of 

October 2023. 

Michael Watson, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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