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Vol. 83, No. 128 

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0033] 

Oral Rabies Vaccine Trial; Availability 

of a Supplemental Environmental 

Assessment 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service has prepared a 

supplemental environmental assessment 

(EA) relative to an oral rabies 

vaccination field trial in New 

Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, 

and West Virginia. The supplemental 

EA analyzes expanding the field trial for 

an experimental oral rabies vaccine for 

wildlife to additional areas in Ohio and 

West Virginia. The proposed field trial 

is necessary to evaluate whether the 

wildlife rabies vaccine will produce 

sufficient levels of population immunity 

against raccoon rabies. We are making 

the supplemental EA available to the 

public for review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before August 2, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0033. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2018–0033, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

The supplemental environmental 

assessment and any comments we 

receive may be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0033 or in our 

reading room, which is located in room 

1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th 

Street and Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC. Normal reading room 

hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. To be 

sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 799–7039 before 

coming. 

This notice and the supplemental 

environmental assessment are also 

posted on the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service website at http://

www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/ws/ws_

nepa_environmental_documents.shtml. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Richard Chipman, Rabies Program 

Coordinator, Wildlife Services, APHIS, 

59 Chennell Drive, Suite 7, Concord, NH 

03301; (603) 223–9623, email: 

richard.b.chipman@aphis.usda.gov. To 

obtain copies of the supplemental 

environmental assessment, contact Ms. 

Beth Kabert, Staff Wildlife Biologist, 

Wildlife Services, 140–C Locust Grove 

Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867; (908) 735– 

5654, fax (908) 735–0821; email: 

beth.e.kabert@aphis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Wildlife Services (WS) program in the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) cooperates with 

Federal agencies, State and local 

governments, and private individuals to 

research and implement the best 

methods of managing conflicts between 

wildlife and human health and safety, 

agriculture, property, and natural 

resources. Wildlife-borne diseases that 

can affect domestic animals and humans 

are among the types of conflicts that 

APHIS–WS addresses. Wildlife is the 

dominant reservoir of rabies in the 

United States. 

APHIS–WS conducts an oral rabies 

vaccination (ORV) program to control 

the spread of rabies. The ORV program 

has utilized a vaccinia-rabies 

glycoprotein (V–RG) vaccine. APHIS– 

WS’ use of the V–RG vaccine has 

resulted in several notable 

accomplishments, including the 

elimination of canine rabies from 

sources in Mexico, the successful 

control of gray fox rabies virus variant 

in western Texas, and the prevention of 

any appreciable spread of raccoon rabies 

in the eastern United States. While the 

prevention of any appreciable spread of 

raccoon rabies in the eastern United 

States represents a major 

accomplishment in rabies management, 

the V–RG vaccine has not been effective 

in eliminating raccoon rabies from highrisk spread corridors. This fact 

prompted APHIS–WS to evaluate rabies 

vaccines capable of producing higher 

levels of population immunity against 

raccoon rabies to better control the 

spread of this disease. 

Since 2011, APHIS–WS has been 

conducting field trials to study the 

immunogenicity and safety of an 

experimental oral rabies vaccine, a 

human adenovirus type 5 rabies 

glycoprotein recombinant vaccine called 

ONRAB (produced by Artemis 

Technologies Inc., Guelph, Ontario, 

Canada). The field trials began in 

portions of West Virginia, including 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest 

Service National Forest System lands. 

Beginning in 2012, APHIS–WS has 

expanded the field trials into portions of 

New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, 

Vermont, and new areas of West 

Virginia, including National Forest 

System lands, in order to further assess 

the immunogenicity of ONRAB in 

raccoons and skunks for raccoon rabies 

virus variant. 

APHIS–WS is now proposing to add 

Belmont and Monroe Counties in Ohio, 

and Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, and 

Ohio Counties in West Virginia to the 

field trial bait zone. Based on favorable 

results from previous U.S. ONRAB field 

trials and pressure from rabies cases in 

Pennsylvania and the West Virginia 

panhandle, we determined the need to 

use ONRAB vaccine baits in the 

remaining areas of the Ohio and West 

Virginia where rabies cases may still 

persist. 

APHIS–WS has prepared a 

supplemental environmental assessment 

(EA) in which we analyze expanding the 

area of the field trial zone in Ohio and 

West Virginia. We are making the 

supplemental EA available to the public 

for review and comment. We will 

consider all comments that we receive 

on or before the date listed under the 

heading DATES at the beginning of this 

notice. 

The supplemental EA may be viewed 

on the Regulations.gov website or in our 

reading room (see ADDRESSES above for 

instructions for accessing 

Regulations.gov and information on the 

location and hours of the reading room). 

In addition, paper copies may be 

obtained by calling or writing to the 


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individual listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

The EA has been prepared in 

accordance with: (1) The National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

June 2018. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14307 Filed 7–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based 

Safeguard Trigger Levels 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of product coverage and 

trigger levels for safeguard measures 

provided for in the World Trade 

Organization (WTO) Agreement on 

Agriculture. 

SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated 

quantity-based trigger levels for 

products which may be subject to 

additional import duties under the 

safeguard provisions of the WTO 

Agreement on Agriculture. This notice 

also includes the relevant period 

applicable for the trigger levels on each 

of the listed products. 

DATES: July 3, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Safeguard Staff, Import 

Policies and Export Reporting Division, 

Office of Trade Programs, Foreign 

Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Stop 1020, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–1020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Souleymane Diaby, (202) 720–0638, 

Souleymane.Diaby@fas.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 

of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture 

provides that additional import duties 

may be imposed on imports of products 

subject to tariffication as a result of the 

Uruguay Round, if certain conditions 

are met. The agreement permits 

additional duties to be charged if the 

price of an individual shipment of 

imported products falls below the 

average price for similar goods imported 

during the years 1986–88 by a specified 

percentage. It also permits additional 

duties when the volume of imports of 

that product exceeds the sum of (1) a 

base trigger level multiplied by the 

average of the last three years of 

available import data and (2) the change 

in yearly consumption in the most 

recent year for which data are available 

(provided that the final trigger level is 

not less than 105 percent of the threeyear import average). The base trigger 

level is set at 105, 110, or 125 percent 

of the three-year import average, 

depending on the percentage of 

domestic consumption that is 

represented by imports. These 

additional duties may not be imposed 

on quantities for which minimum or 

current access commitments were made 

during the Uruguay Round negotiations, 

and only one type of safeguard, price or 

quantity, may be applied at any given 

time to an article. Section 405 of the 

Uruguay Round Agreements Act 

requires that the President cause to be 

published in the Federal Register 

information regarding the price and 

quantity safeguards, including the 

quantity trigger levels, which must be 

updated annually based upon import 

levels during the most recent 3 years. 

The President delegated this duty to the 

Secretary of Agriculture in Presidential 

Proclamation No. 6763, dated December 

23, 1994, 60 FR 1005 (Jan. 4, 1995). The 

Secretary of Agriculture further 

delegated this duty, which lies with the 

Administrator of the Foreign 

Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)). 

The Annex to this notice contains the 

updated quantity trigger levels, which 

are set at 125 percent of the most recent 

3-year average level of imports for each 

commodity, consistent with the 

provisions of Article 5. 

Additional information on the 

products subject to safeguards and the 

additional duties which may apply can 

be found in subchapter IV of Chapter 99 

of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 

the United States (2018) and in the 

Secretary of Agriculture’s Notice of 

Uruguay Round Agricultural Safeguard 

Trigger Levels, published in the Federal 

Register at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995). 

Notice: As provided in Section 405 of 

the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, 

consistent with Article 5 of the WTO 

Agreement on Agriculture, the safeguard 

quantity trigger levels previously 

notified are superseded by the levels 

indicated in the Annex to this notice. 

The definitions of these products were 

provided in the Notice of Safeguard 

Action published in the Federal 

Register, at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995). 

Issued at Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

June 2018. 

Ken Isley, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

Product 

Quantity-based safeguard trigger 

Trigger 

level Unit Period 

Beef ........................................................................................... 298,248 MT ........................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Mutton ....................................................................................... 5,103 MT ........................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Cream ....................................................................................... 1,323,021 Liters ....................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Evaporated or Condensed Milk ................................................ 3,867,417 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Nonfat Dry Milk ......................................................................... 1,267,208 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Dried Whole Milk ....................................................................... 12,116,875 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Dried Cream .............................................................................. 10,167 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Dried Whey/Buttermilk .............................................................. 245,833 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Butter 1 ...................................................................................... 29,959,300 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Butteroil ..................................................................................... 8,183,833 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Chocolate Crumb ...................................................................... 10,487,292 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Lowfat Chocolate Crumb .......................................................... 163,000 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Animal Feed Containing Milk .................................................... 1,154,583 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Ice Cream ................................................................................. 5,925,091 Liters ....................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Dairy Mixtures ........................................................................... 18,623,423 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Infant Formula Containing Oligosaccharides ............................ 3,909,000 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Blue Cheese ............................................................................. 4,179,292 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 

Cheddar Cheese ....................................................................... 11,799,917 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018. 


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