Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 180 / Friday, September 17, 2010 / Notices 56981 

1To view the notice, the pest risk analysis, and 

the comment we received, go to (http:// 

www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2010-0058). 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS-2010-0058] 

Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for 

the Importation of Sweet Limes From 

Mexico Into the Continental United 

States 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our decision to begin issuing permits for 

the importation into the continental 

United States of sweet limes from 

Mexico. Based on the findings of a pest 

risk analysis, which we made available 

to the public for review and comment 

through a previous notice, we believe 

that the application of one or more 

designated phytosanitary measures will 

be sufficient to mitigate the risks of 

introducing or disseminating plant pests 

or noxious weeds via the importation of 

sweet limes from Mexico. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 17, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David Lamb, Import Specialist, 

Regulatory Coordination and 

Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; 

(301) 734-0627. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart— 

Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56-1 

through 319.56-50, referred to below as 

the regulations), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

prohibits or restricts the importation of 

fruits and vegetables into the United 

States from certain parts of the world to 

prevent plant pests from being 

introduced into and spreading within 

the United States. Under that process, 

APHIS may publish a notice in the 

Federal Register announcing the 

availability of a pest risk analysis that 

evaluates the risks associated with the 

importation of a particular fruit or 

vegetable. Following the close of the 60- 

day comment period, APHIS may begin 

issuing permits for importation of the 

fruit or vegetable subject to the riskmitigation measures identified in the 

pest risk analysis if: (1) No comments 

were received on the pest risk analysis; 

(2) the comments on the pest risk 

analysis revealed that no changes to the 

pest risk analysis were necessary; or (3) 

changes to the pest risk analysis were 

made in response to public comments, 

but the changes did not affect the 

overall conclusions of the analysis and 

the Administrator’s determination of 

risk. 

In accordance with that process, we 

published a notice1 in the Federal 

Register on June 10, 2010 (75 FR 32900- 

32901, Docket No. APHIS-2010-0058), 

in which we announced the availability, 

for review and comment, of a pest risk 

analysis evaluating the risks associated 

with the importation into the 

continental United States of sweet limes 

from Mexico. We solicited comments on 

the notice for 60 days ending on August 

9, 2010. We received one comment by 

that date, from a State agricultural 

agency. The commenter concurred with 

the findings of our pest risk analysis. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in § 319.56-4(c)(2)(ii), we are 

announcing our decision to begin 

issuing permits for the importation into 

the continental United States of sweet 

limes from Mexico provided that: 

∑ The sweet limes may be imported 

into the United States in commercial 

consignments only. 

∑ The sweet limes must be irradiated 

in accordance with 7 CFR part 305 with 

a minimum absorbed dose of 150 Gy. 

∑ Each shipment of sweet limes must 

be inspected by the Mexican national 

plant protection organization and 

accompanied by a phytosanitary 

certificate attesting that the fruit 

received the required irradiation 

treatment and bearing an additional 

declaration that states that the fruit was 

inspected in the packinghouse and 

found free of Brevipalpus californicus, 

B. phoenicus, Diaphorina citri, and 

Coniothecium scabrum. 

These conditions will be listed in the 

Fruits and Vegetables Import 

Requirements database (available at 

(http://www.aphis.usda.gov/favir)). In 

addition to these specific measures, 

sweet limes from Mexico will be subject 

to the general requirements listed in 

§ 319.56-3 that are applicable to the 

importation of all fruits and vegetables. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701-7772, and 

7781-7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 

2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 13th day 

of September 2010. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23238 Filed 9–16–10; 11:25 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Precanvass Operation for the 

2012 Economic Census Commodity 

Flow Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0921. 

Form Number(s): CFS–0001(2012). 

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with 

change of an expired collection. 

Burden Hours: 8,333. 

Number of Respondents: 100,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau plans to conduct the 2012 

Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) as a part 

of the quinquennial Economic Census. 

In advance of the 2012 CFS, we will 

conduct a Precanvass (Advance 

Mailing), which is the subject of this 

request. The information collected in 

the 2012 CFS Precanvass will be used to 

improve the 2012 CFS universe and 

sampling quality and efficiency, and 

provide contact information for the 

selected establishments, reducing the 

cost and improving the timeliness of 

data collection for the 2012 CFS. 

The CFS, a component of the 

Economic Census, is the only 

comprehensive source of multi-modal, 

system-wide data on the volume and 

pattern of goods movement in the 

United States. The CFS is conducted in 

partnership with the Bureau of 

Transportation Statistics (BTS), 

Research and Innovative Technologies 

(RITA), U.S. Department of 

Transportation. The 2012 CFS will be 

the subject of a separate Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

clearance submission in the Spring of 

2011. 

The 2012 CFS Precanvass will be 

mailed to auxiliary establishments, and 

establishments expected to be selected 

with certainty in the 2012 CFS. It will 

also include selected small 

establishments from industries with a 

high incidence of non-shipping 

locations. 

All information collected in the 

Precanvass will be used internally to 

improve the 2012 CFS universe and 

mail-out processing. Each establishment 

in the Precanvass is asked to verify 

shipping activity for that particular 

physical location. The Precanvass 


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