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Vol. 77, No. 46 

Thursday, March 8, 2012 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2011–0033] 

Notice of Availability and Opportunity 

for Comments (Establishment 

Guidance for the Selection of a 

Commercial or Private Microbiological 

Testing Laboratory) 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

opportunity for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing 

the availability of policy guidance for 

federally inspected establishments in 

the selection of commercial and private 

microbiological testing laboratories. 

FSIS has posted this policy guidance on 

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

Regulations_&_Policies/ 

Compliance_Guides_Index/ 

index.asp#Micro. 

FSIS encourages establishments that 

prepare meat, poultry, or processed egg 

products to follow the criteria in the 

guidelines in selecting commercial or 

private microbiological testing 

laboratories and in determining their 

capability to provide accurate and 

reliable results. Regulated 

establishments are required to enter into 

commerce food products that are safe 

and not adulterated or misbranded. 

Establishments that select laboratories 

that do not apply appropriate testing 

methods or maintain effective Quality 

Control or Quality Assurance (QC/QA) 

practices may not receive reliable or 

useful test results from the laboratory 

and run the risk of producing food that 

is unsafe. 

DATES: Written comments may be 

submitted until May 7, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: FSIS invites interested 

persons to submit comments regarding 

any aspect of this document, including 

but not limited to: Content, readability, 

applicability, and accessibility, and will 

revise the guidance document as 

warranted. Comments may be submitted 

by either of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

Web site provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field on this Web page or 

attach a file for lengthier comments. Go 

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

the on-line instructions at that site for 

submitting comments. 

Mail, including floppy disks or CD– 

ROMs, and hand- or courier-delivered 

items: Send to Docket Clerk, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), 

FSIS, OPPD, RIMD, Docket Unit, 

Patriots Plaza 3, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., Mail Stop 3782, 8–163A, 

Washington, DC 20250–3700. 

Instructions: All items submitted by 

mail or electronic mail must include the 

Agency name and docket number FSIS– 

2011–0033. Comments received in 

response to this docket will be made 

available for public inspection and 

posted without change, including any 

personal information, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to background 

documents or comments received, go to 

the FSIS Docket Room at the address 

listed above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Evelyne Mbandi, Deputy Director, Risk, 

Innovations, and Management Division, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food 

Safety and Inspection Service, Patriots 

Plaza 3, 355 E. Street SW., Mail Stop 

3782, Washington, DC 20250–3700; 

email: evelyne.mbandi@fsis.usda.gov; 

phone: (301) 504–0897. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

FSIS is issuing a guidance document 

to provide criteria to establishments 

producing meat, poultry, and processed 

egg products for selecting a commercial 

or private laboratory to analyze 

establishments’ samples. Regulated 

establishments are ultimately 

responsible for the laboratory’s testing 

methodologies and practices performed 

on their behalf. 

An FSIS-regulated establishment may 

perform microbiological testing for 

various reasons, including, but not 

limited to the following: Fulfilling 

regulatory requirements, supporting ongoing verification of the establishment’s 

HACCP plan, supporting decisions 

made in the establishment’s hazard 

analysis, evaluating the effectiveness of 

the establishment’s sanitation program, 

or complying with purchase 

specifications or requirements. 

FSIS encourages establishments to use 

this guidance for selecting commercial 

or private laboratories and for ensuring 

that microbiological testing performed 

on their behalf meets their food safety 

needs. FSIS also welcomes comment on 

this compliance guideline, which will 

be revised as needed. 

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, gender, 

religion, age, disability, political beliefs, 

sexual orientation, and marital or family 

status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to 

all programs.) Persons with disabilities 

who require alternative means for 

communication of program information 

(Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) 

should contact USDA’s Target Center at 

202–720–2600 (voice and TTY). 

To file a written complaint of 

discrimination, write USDA, Office of 

the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410 or call 

202–720–5964 (voice and TTY). USDA 

is an equal opportunity provider and 

employer. 

Additional Public Notification 

FSIS will announce this notice online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

regulations_&_policies/ 

Federal_Register_Notices/index.asp. 

FSIS will also make copies of this 

Federal Register publication available 

through the FSIS Constituent Update, 

which is used to provide information 

regarding FSIS policies, procedures, 

regulations, Federal Register notices, 

FSIS public meetings, and other types of 

information that could affect or would 

be of interest to constituents and 

stakeholders. The Update is 

communicated via Listserv, a free 

electronic mail subscription service for 

industry, trade groups, consumer 

interest groups, health professionals, 

and other individuals who have asked 

to be included. The Update is also 

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automatic and customized access to 

selected food safety news and 

information. This service is available at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

News_&_Events/Email_Subscription/. 

Options range from recalls to export 

information to regulations, directives, 

and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

subscriptions themselves, and have the 

option to password protect their 

accounts. 

Done at Washington, DC, on: March 5, 

2012. 

Alfred V. Almanza, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5664 Filed 3–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 12–2012] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 189—Kent, 

Ottawa, and Muskegon Counties, MI; 

Application for Reorganization Under 

Alternative Site Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board 

(the Board) by the Kent-OttawaMuskegon Foreign-Trade Zone 

Authority, grantee of FTZ 189, 

requesting authority to reorganize the 

zone under the alternative site 

framework (ASF) adopted by the Board 

(74 FR 1170, 1/12/09 (correction 74 FR 

3987, 1/22/09); 75 FR 71069–71070, 11/ 

22/10). The ASF is an option for 

grantees for the establishment or 

reorganization of general-purpose zones 

and can permit significantly greater 

flexibility in the designation of new 

‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites for operators/ 

users located within a grantee’s ‘‘service 

area’’ in the context of the Board’s 

standard 2,000-acre activation limit for 

a general-purpose zone project. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the 

regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 

400). It was formally filed on March 1, 

2012. 

FTZ 189 was approved by the Board 

on January 15, 1993 (Board Order 616, 

58 FR 6614, 2/1/1993). The current zone 

project includes the following sites: Site 

1 (8 acres)—44th Street and Clay 

Avenue, Wyoming, Kent County; Site 2 

(18 acres)—1920 Lakeshore Drive, 

Muskegon, Muskegon County; Site 3 (64 

acres)—5353 52nd Street, Cascade 

Township, Kent County; Site 4 (40 

acres)—500 Mart Street, Muskegon, 

Muskegon County; Site 5 (5 acres)—449 

Howard Avenue, Holland Township, 

Ottawa County; Site 6 (80 acres)—48th 

& Thornapple River Drive, Cascade 

Township, Kent County; Site 7 (1.15 

acres)—1210 & 1218 East Pontaluna 

Road, Norton Shores, Muskegon County; 

Site 8 (15 acres)—900 Hall Street SW., 

Grand Rapids, Kent County; and Site 9 

(6 acres)—2900 Dixie Street, Grandville, 

Kent County. 

The grantee’s proposed service area 

under the ASF would be Kent, Ottawa 

and Muskegon Counties, Michigan, as 

described in the application. If 

approved, the grantee would be able to 

serve sites throughout the service area 

based on companies’ needs for FTZ 

designation. The proposed service area 

is within and adjacent to the Grand 

Rapids Customs and Border Protection 

port of entry. 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to reorganize its existing zone project to 

include all of the existing sites as 

‘‘magnet’’ sites. The ASF allows for the 

possible exemption of one magnet site 

from the ‘‘sunset’’ time limits that 

generally apply to sites under the ASF, 

and the applicant proposes that Site 9 

be so exempted. No usage-driven sites 

are being requested at this time. Because 

the ASF only pertains to establishing or 

reorganizing a general-purpose zone, the 

application would have no impact on 

FTZ 189’s authorized subzones. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of the 

FTZ Staff is designated examiner to 

evaluate and analyze the facts and 

information presented in the application 

and case record and to report findings 

and recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address below. The closing period for 

their receipt is May 7, 2012. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period to May 22, 2012. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230–0002, and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site, 

which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ 

ftz. For further information, contact 

Elizabeth Whiteman at 

Elizabeth.Whiteman@trade.gov or (202) 

482–0473. 

Dated: March 1, 2012. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5688 Filed 3–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket T–3–2012] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 126—Reno, NV; 

Application for Temporary/Interim 

Manufacturing Authority, Brightpoint 

North America L.P. (Cell Phone Kitting 

and Distribution), Reno, NV 

An application has been submitted to 

the Executive Secretary of the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) by the 

Economic Development Authority of 

Western Nevada, grantee of FTZ 126, 

requesting temporary/interim 

manufacturing (T/IM) authority within 

126 at the Brightpoint North America 

L.P. (Brightpoint) facility, located in 

Reno, Nevada. The application was filed 

on March 2, 2012. 

The Brightpoint facility (80 

employees, 5.87 acres, 20 million units 

annual capacity) is located at 1025 

Sandhill Road, Reno (Site 23). Under T/ 

IM procedures, the company has 

requested authority to produce cell 

phone kits (HTSUS 8517.12, 8517.69, 

duty free). Foreign components that 

would be used in production 

(representing 70–90% of the value of the 

finished product) include power 

supplies (8504.40, 8504.50, 8504.90), 

nicad batteries (8507.80), lithium 

batteries (8507.30), cellular phone sets 

(8517.11), video phones (8517.18), base 

stations (8517.61), voice, data and image 

regeneration machines (8517.62), 

microphones (8518.10), answering 

machines (8519.50), video recorders 

(8521.10, 8521.90), answering machine 

and video recorder components 

(8522.10, 8522.90), transceivers 

(8525.60), monitors and projectors 

(8528.41, 8528.49, 8528.51, 8528.59, 

8528.71, 8528.72, 8528.73), transceiver, 

monitor and projector parts and 

accessories (8529.10, 8529.90), 

thermionic, cathode and photocathode 

tubes (8540.11, 8540.12, 8540.20, 

8540.40, 8540.50, 8540.60, 8540.71, 

8540.72, 8540.79, 8540.81, 8540.89, 

8540.91, 8540.99), cables (8544.42), 

connectors and plugs (8536.69), decals 

(3919.90), plastic holsters (3926.90), 

leather carrying cases (4202.31), leather 

pouches (4202.91), plastic carrying 

cases (4202.92), leather straps (4205.00), 

wrist straps (6307.90), key pads with 

connectors (8537.10), external speaker 

sets (8518.22), headsets with 


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