Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 169 / Wednesday, August 31, 2011 / Notices 54193 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0076] 

Fiscal Year 2012 Veterinary Import/ 

Export, Diagnostic Services, and 

Export Certification for Plants and 

Plant Products User Fees 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice pertains to user 

fees charged for Veterinary Services 

animal quarantine and other importand export-related services that we 

provide for animals, animal products, 

birds, germ plasm, organisms, and 

vectors; for certain veterinary diagnostic 

services; and for export certification of 

plants and plant products. The purpose 

of this notice is to remind the public of 

the user fees for fiscal year 2012 

(October 1, 2011, through September 30, 

2012). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on user fee rate 

development, contact Mrs. Kris Caraher, 

Accountant, Financial Services Branch, 

FMD, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 55, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; (301) 734– 

0882. 

For information on Veterinary 

Services animal quarantine and other 

import and export program operations, 

contact Ms. Carol A. Tuszynski, 

Director, Planning, Finance, and 

Strategy, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road 

Unit 58, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; 

(301) 734–0832. 

For information on plant and plant 

product export certification program 

operations, contact Mr. Marcus 

McElvaine, Senior Export Specialist, 

Phytosanitary Issues Management, Plant 

Health Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 

River Road Unit 50, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1231; (301) 734–8414. 

For information concerning veterinary 

diagnostic program operations, contact 

Dr. Elizabeth Lautner, Director, National 

Veterinary Services Laboratories, VS, 

APHIS, 1800 Dayton Ave., Ames, IA 

50010; (501) 663–7301. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Veterinary Import/Export User Fees 

The regulations in 9 CFR part 130 

(referred to below as the regulations) list 

user fees for import- and export-related 

services provided by the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

for animals, animal products, birds, 

germ plasm, organisms, and vectors. 

These user fees are authorized by 

section 2509(c)(1) of the Food, 

Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 

Act of 1990, as amended (21 U.S.C. 

136a), which provides that the Secretary 

of Agriculture may establish and collect 

fees that will cover the cost of providing 

import- and export-related services for 

animals, animal products, birds, germ 

plasm, organisms, and vectors. 

The veterinary import/export user 

fees are found in §§ 130.2 through 

130.11 and §§ 130.20 through 130.30 of 

the regulations and cover the following: 

• Any service rendered by an APHIS 

representative for each animal or bird 

receiving standard housing, care, feed, 

and handling while quarantined in an 

APHIS-owned or -operated animal 

import center or quarantine facility; 

• Birds or poultry, including zoo 

birds or poultry, receiving nonstandard 

housing, care, or handling to meet 

special requirements while quarantined 

in an APHIS-owned or -operated animal 

import center or quarantine facility; 

• Exclusive use of space at APHIS 

Animal Import Centers; 

• Processing import permit 

applications; 

• Any service rendered by an APHIS 

representative for live animals 

presented for importation or entry into 

the United States through a land border 

port along the United States-Mexico 

border; 

• Any service rendered for live 

animals at land border ports along the 

United States-Canada border; 

• Miscellaneous services; 

• Pet birds quarantined in an animal 

import center or other APHIS-owned or 

-supervised quarantine facility; 

• The inspection of various import 

and export facilities and establishments; 

• The endorsement of export health 

certificates that do not require the 

verification of tests or vaccinations; 

• The endorsement of export health 

certificates that require the verification 

of tests and vaccinations; and 

• Hourly rate and minimum user fees. 

On October 1, 2011, the veterinary 

import/export user fees for fiscal year 

2012 will take effect. You may view the 

regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which 

includes charts showing all of the fiscal 

year 2012 veterinary import/export user 

fees, on the Internet at: http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html. 

Veterinary Diagnostic Services User 

Fees 

User fees to reimburse APHIS for the 

costs of providing veterinary diagnostic 

services are also contained in 9 CFR part 

130. These user fees are authorized in 

section 2509(c) of the Food, Agriculture, 

Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, as 

amended (21 U.S.C. 136a), which 

provides that the Secretary of 

Agriculture may, among other things, 

prescribe regulations and collect fees to 

recover the costs of veterinary 

diagnostics relating to the control and 

eradication of communicable diseases of 

livestock and poultry within the United 

States. 

Veterinary diagnostics is the work 

performed in a laboratory to determine 

whether a disease-causing organism or 

chemical agent is present in body 

tissues or cells and, if so, to identify 

those organisms or agents. Services in 

this category include: (1) Performing 

identification, serology, and 

pathobiology tests and providing 

diagnostic reagents and other veterinary 

diagnostic materials and services for the 

National Veterinary Services 

Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA; and 

(2) performing laboratory tests and 

providing reagents and other veterinary 

diagnostic materials and services at the 

NVSL Foreign Animal Disease 

Diagnostic Laboratory (NVSL FADDL) in 

Greenport, NY. 

The veterinary diagnostic services 

user fees are found in §§ 130.14 through 

130.19 and cover the following: 

• Bacteriology isolation and 

identification tests performed at NVSL 

(excluding FADDL) or other authorized 

sites; 

• Virology identification tests 

performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) 

or other authorized sites; 

• Bacteriology serology tests 

performed at NVSL (excluding FADDL) 

or other authorized sites; 

• Virology serology tests performed at 

NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other 

authorized sites; 

• Veterinary diagnostic tests 

performed at the Pathobiology 

Laboratory at NVSL (excluding FADDL) 

or other authorized sites; 

• Bacteriology reagents produced by 

the Diagnostic Bacteriology Laboratory 

at NVSL (excluding FADDL) or other 

authorized sites; 

• Virology reagents produced by the 

Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at NVSL 

(excluding FADDL) or other authorized 

sites; and 

• Other veterinary diagnostic services 

or materials available from NVSL 

(excluding FADDL). 

On October 1, 2011, the veterinary 

diagnostic services user fees for fiscal 

year 2012 will take effect. You may view 

the regulations in 9 CFR part 130, which 

includes charts showing all of the fiscal 

year 2012 veterinary import/export user 

fees, on the Internet at: http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_11/9cfr130_11.html. 


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54194 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 169 / Wednesday, August 31, 2011 / Notices 

User Fees for Export Certification of 

Plants and Plant Products 

User fees for the issuance of export 

certificates for plants and plant products 

are contained in 7 CFR part 354. Export 

certificates issued in accordance with 

the regulations certify agricultural 

products as being considered free from 

plant pests, according to the 

phytosanitary requirements of the 

foreign countries to which the plants 

and plant products may be exported. 

Export certificates are also issued to 

certify that reexported plants or plant 

products conform to the most current 

phytosanitary requirements of the 

importing country and that, during 

storage in the United States, the 

consignment has not been subjected to 

risk of infestation or infection. These 

export certificates must be issued in 

accordance with 7 CFR part 353 to be 

accepted in international commerce. 

In a final rule published in the 

Federal Register on July 8, 2009 (74 FR 

32391–32400, Docket No. APHIS–2006– 

0137), and effective October 1, 2009, we 

established, for fiscal years 2007 

through 2012 and beyond, user fees 

charged for export certification of plants 

and plant products. Services for this 

category include: (1) Certification for 

export or reexport of a commercial 

shipment; (2) certification for export or 

reexport of a low-value commercial or 

noncommercial shipment; and (3) 

replacement of any certificate for export 

or reexport. 

The user fees charged for export 

certification of plants and plant 

products are found in § 354.3(g) and 

cover the following: 

• Administrative fee for exporters 

who receive a certificate issued on 

behalf of APHIS by a designated State or 

county inspector; 

• Fee for export or reexport 

certification of a commercial shipment; 

• Fee for export or reexport 

certification of a low-value commercial 

shipment; 

• Fee for export or reexport 

certification of a noncommercial 

shipment; and 

• Fee for replacing any certificate. 

On October 1, 2011, the user fees 

charged for export certificates for plants 

and plant products for fiscal year 2012 

will take effect. You may view the 

regulations in 7 CFR part 354, which 

includes charts showing all of the fiscal 

year 2012 user fees charged for export 

certificates for plants and plant 

products, on the Internet at: http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_11/7cfr354_11.html. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 25th day of 

August 2011. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–22242 Filed 8–30–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2011–0013] 

Availability of Final Compliance Guide 

for the Use of Video or Other 

Electronic Monitoring or Recording 

Equipment in Federally Inspected 

Establishments 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing 

the availability of the final compliance 

guide on the use of video or other 

electronic monitoring or recording 

equipment in federally inspected 

establishments. FSIS has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of information collection 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

(PRA) related to Hazard Analysis and 

Critical Control Point (HACCP) and 

Sanitation Standard Operating 

Procedures (Sanitation SOP) video 

records. FSIS made changes to the final 

compliance guide based on comments 

received on the draft guide. FSIS has 

posted this final compliance guide on 

its Significant Guidance Documents 

Web page (http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

Significant_Guidance/index.asp). 

DATES: Effective Date: August 31, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Isabel Arrington, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), FSIS, by phone at 

(402) 344–5000 or by e-mail at 

Isabel.Arrington@fsis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 15, 2010 (75 FR 63434), 

FSIS posted on its Web site a draft guide 

on the use of video or other electronic 

monitoring or recording equipment in 

federally inspected establishments. The 

Agency issued the document as a draft 

guide because it needed Office of 

Management and Budget PRA approval 

on the information collection and stated 

that when it received OMB approval on 

the information collection, it would 

issue a final guide. FSIS also solicited 

comments on the compliance guide. 

FSIS now has OMB approval. The OMB 

approval number is 0583–0103. The 

guide is final, and establishments can 

use the recommendations in this guide 

on the use of video or other electronic 

monitoring or recording equipment for 

monitoring operations and facilities. 

The final compliance guide reflects 

comments received. 

This compliance guide provides 

information to industry to help it 

maintain compliance with Federal 

regulations, including humane 

treatment of livestock and the use of 

good commercial practices in poultry. 

FSIS is providing this guide to advise 

establishments that video or other 

electronic monitoring or recording 

equipment can be used in federally 

inspected establishments. This guide 

informs establishments of the Agency’s 

expectations if they decide to use this 

type of equipment to create records to 

meet the requirements of the HACCP 

regulations, or the regulations governing 

Sanitation SOPs. In addition, this guide 

provides information on issues 

establishments should consider if they 

use this equipment for any other 

purpose, such as part of their food 

defense plans. 

Comments 

FSIS received a total of 1,217 

comments on the draft compliance 

guide. Of those comments, 813 were a 

letter campaign form requesting that the 

use of video be mandated in 

establishments. In addition, 400 of them 

were general statements that video use 

should be made mandatory in 

establishments or expressed concerns 

about humane handling and worker 

safety. Another individual commented 

that FSIS should also require an 

accredited third party to audit the 

required video use in establishments. 

Requiring video cameras in 

establishments is not necessary to 

ensure that animals are handled 

humanely in conjunction with 

slaughter. FSIS inspection program 

personnel (IPP) verify that 

establishments are meeting regulatory 

requirements for humane handling in 

livestock slaughter and good 

commercial practices in poultry 

slaughter. Worker safety issues are 

outside the scope of the compliance 

guide. Establishments that have video or 

electronic monitoring or recording 

equipment may choose to have a third 

party audit their use of such equipment. 

Additionally, one meat and poultry 

trade association and one video 

company, recommended the guide state 

more clearly that the following video 

records are not subject to routine access 

by FSIS: Video records not designated 

by establishments for use in their 


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