Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 195 / Friday, October 7, 2011 / Notices 62339 

1To view the notice and the pest risk analysis, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2011-0037. 

comments in writing. Written 

submissions may contain information 

other than that presented at the oral 

presentation. Anyone may submit 

written comments at the meeting. 

Persons submitting written comments at 

the meeting are asked to provide sixteen 

copies. 

Interested persons may visit http:// 

www.ams.usda.gov to view NOSB 

recommendations, meeting agenda, and 

submit and/or view public comments. 

Dated: September 29, 2011. 

David Shipman, 

Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25551 Filed 10–6–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0037] 

Notice of Decision To Allow Interstate 

Movement of Rambutan From Puerto 

Rico 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 allowing the 

interstate movement into the 

continental United States of fresh 

rambutan fruit from Puerto Rico. 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 interstate 

movement of rambutan from Puerto 

Rico. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 7, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Philip Grove, Regulatory Coordinator, 

PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 156, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; (301) 734– 

6280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart— 

Regulated Articles From Hawaii and the 

Territories’’ (7 CFR 318.13–1 through 

318.13–26, 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 interstate 

movement of fruits and vegetables into 

the United States from Hawaii, Puerto 

Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and 

the Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands to prevent plant pests 

and noxious weeds from being 

introduced into and spread within the 

continental United States. (The 

continental United States is defined in 

318.13–2 of the regulations as the 48 

contiguous States, Alaska, and the 

District of Columbia.) 

Section 318.13–4 contains a 

performance-based process for 

approving the interstate movement of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, can be safely 

imported subject to one or more of the 

designated phytosanitary measures 

listed in paragraph (b) of that section. 

Under that process, APHIS publishes a 

notice in the Federal Register 

announcing the availability of the pest 

risk analysis that evaluates the risks 

associated with the interstate movement 

of a particular fruit or vegetable. 

Following the close of the 60-day 

comment period, APHIS may begin 

allowing the interstate movement of the 

fruit or vegetable subject to the 

identified designated measures 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 notice 1 in the Federal 

Register on June 16, 2011 (76 FR 35186– 

35187, Docket No. APHIS–2011–0037), 

in which we announced the availability, 

for review and comment, of a pest risk 

analysis that evaluates the risks 

associated with the interstate movement 

of rambutan fruit (Nephilium 

lappaceum L.) from Puerto Rico into the 

continental United States. We solicited 

comments on the notice for 60 days 

ending on August 15, 2011. We received 

no comments by that date. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in 318.13–4, we are 

announcing our decision to begin 

allowing the interstate movement of 

rambutan from Puerto Rico into the 

continental United States subject to the 

following phytosanitary measures: 

• Inspection and certification by an 

inspector in Puerto Rico that the 

rambutan are free of all quarantine pests 

likely to follow the pathway of interstate 

movement of the rambutan; 

• Movement of the rambutan as 

commercial consignments only; and 

• Distribution of the rambutan only 

within a defined area (a prohibition on 

movement to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, 

or Guam) and marking of the boxes or 

containers in which the rambutan is 

distributed to indicate those distribution 

restrictions. 

These conditions will be listed in the 

Puerto Rico Manual, found on the 

Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

import_export/plants/manuals/ports/ 

downloads/puerto_rico.pdf. In addition 

to those specific measures, rambutan 

from Puerto Rico will be subject to the 

general requirements listed in 318.13–3 

that are applicable to the interstate 

movement of all fruits and vegetables 

from Puerto Rico. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– 

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Dated: Done in Washington, DC, this 3rd 

day of October 2011. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–26050 Filed 10–6–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Domestic Sugar Program—2011-Crop 

Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar Marketing 

Allotments and Company Allocations 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC) is issuing this notice 

to publish the fiscal year (FY) 2012 State 

sugar marketing allotments and 

company allocations to sugarcane and 

sugar beet processors, which apply to all 

domestic sugar marketed for human 

consumption in the United States from 

October 1, 2011, through September 30, 

2012. Although CCC already has 

announced most of the information in 

this notice through a United States 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) news 

release, CCC is required to publish the 

determinations establishing, adjusting, 

or suspending sugar marketing 

allotments in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Fecso, Dairy and Sweeteners 

Analysis Group, Economic and Policy 

Analysis Staff, Farm Service Agency, 

USDA, 1400 Independence Ave, SW., 

Mail Stop 0516, Washington, DC 20250– 

0516; telephone (202) 720–4146; FAX 


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