This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 77, No. 53 

Monday, March 19, 2012 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

9 CFR Parts 307 and 381 

[Docket No. FSIS—2011–0032] 

Additional Changes to the Schedule of 

Operations Regulations 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing 

to amend the meat and poultry products 

regulations pertaining to the schedule of 

operations. FSIS is proposing to amend 

these regulations to define the 8-hour 

workday as including time that 

inspection program personnel need to 

prepare the inspection station, if 

necessary, or retrieve and return lot tally 

sheets; the time necessary for FSIS 

inspection program personnel to 

sharpen knives, if necessary; and the 

time necessary to conduct duties 

scheduled by FSIS, including 

administrative activities. The activities 

are integral and indispensable to 

inspectors’ work and are part of the 

continuous workday as defined by the 

Fair Labor Standards Act. Therefore, 

they are activities that need to be part 

of the Agency’s regulatory definition for 

the 8-hour workday. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

April 18, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: FSIS invites interested 

persons to submit comments on this 

notice. Comments may be submitted by 

one 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 CD–ROMs, etc.: 

Send to Docket Clerk, U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, Food Safety and 

Inspection Service, Patriots Plaza 3, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW., 

Mailstop 3782, Room 8–163A, 

Washington, DC 20250–3700. 

• Hand- or courier-delivered 

submittals: Deliver to Patriots Plaza 3, 

355 E. Street SW., Room 8–163A, 

Washington, DC 20250–3700 

Instructions: All items submitted by 

mail or electronic mail must include the 

Agency name and docket number FSIS– 

2012–0013. 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 Patriots Plaza 

3, 355 E. Street, Room 8–164, 

Washington, DC 20250–3700 between 

8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel L. Engeljohn, Assistant 

Administrator, Office of Policy and 

Program Development, FSIS, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–3700, telephone: 

(202) 205–0495. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Federal Meat Inspection Act 

(FMIA), 21 U.S.C. 601 et seq., and the 

Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA), 

21 U.S.C. 451 et seq., provide for 

mandatory Federal inspection of 

livestock and poultry slaughtered at 

official establishments and of meat and 

poultry products processed at official 

establishments, respectively. FSIS bears 

the cost of mandatory inspection 

provided during non-overtime and nonholiday hours of operation. Official 

establishments pay for inspection 

services performed on holidays or on an 

overtime basis. 

On August 9, 2010, FSIS proposed to 

amend its regulations pertaining to the 

schedule of operations. FSIS proposed 

to define the 8-hour workday as 

including time that inspection program 

personnel need to spend at the 

workplace donning and doffing required 

gear, walking to their workstations after 

donning required gear, and walking 

from their work stations prior to doffing 

required gear. 

On June 10, 2011, FSIS issued the 

final rule that amended the meat, 

poultry products, and egg products 

regulations to define the 8-hour 

workday as including time that 

inspection program personnel need to 

spend at the workplace donning and 

doffing required gear, time spent 

walking to their workstations after 

donning required gear, and time spent 

walking from their work stations prior 

to doffing required gear. 

In connection with our development 

of the 2011 final rule, FSIS determined 

that there are three other activities that 

need to be included as a part of the 

defined workday. The first is the 

sharpening of knives in meat slaughter 

plants, the second is the completion of 

administrative duties (e.g., time and 

attendance), and the third is preparing 

for inspection (e.g., preparing a work 

station or obtaining forms). FSIS 

considers these activities as integral and 

indispensable to the principal work of 

inspection program personnel as 

defined in 29 CFR 790.8, ‘‘Principal’’ 

activities. Therefore, these activities 

need to be part of the Agency’s 

regulatory definition for the 8-hour 

workday. 

Sharpening of Knives 

Livestock carcass inspection includes 

making excisions to cattle carcasses’ 

heads, tongues, and certain organs while 

they are on the slaughter line and 

making cuts to the head of swine 

carcasses while they are on the 

slaughter line to inspect the carcass for 

diseases. Currently, inspection program 

personnel performing on-line inspection 

duties in poultry establishments do not 

use knives. 

Under this proposed rule, if a 

livestock slaughter establishment does 

not offer a knife-sharpening service to 

inspection program personnel, the 

establishment would be required to 

provide time for inspection program 

personnel that perform on-line 

inspection duties to sharpen his or her 

knife. 

FSIS determined that inspection 

program personnel on the cattle 

slaughter line who work 3 days or less 

a week would need 15 minutes once a 

week to sharpen their knife, if the 

establishment does not sharpen it. 

Inspection program personnel who work 

on the swine slaughter line, regardless 

of the days worked a week, would also 

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their knife, if the establishment does not 

sharpen it, because post-mortem 

inspection procedures for swine require 

less incising with the knife than postmortem inspection procedures for cattle. 

However, inspection program personnel 

on the cattle slaughter line who work 4 

or more days a week would need 15 

minutes twice a week to sharpen their 

knife, if the establishment does not 

sharpen it, because of the increased 

number of carcasses they cut into. 

FSIS is basing its estimate of 15 

minutes to sharpen a knife on an 

Agency CD–ROM training video, 

‘‘Knife-Safety and Sharpening Skills.’’ 

In the video it took an estimated 15 

minutes to sharpen a knife. Assuming 

that the blade is in good condition and 

free of major nicks, it took 6–10 minutes 

to sharpen a knife and 5 minutes for 

preparation and breakdown. To 

determine the number of times a week 

a knife needs to be sharpened, FSIS 

considered a variety of factors, such the 

species being inspected (i.e., cattle or 

swine) and the number of carcasses 

inspected and species. 

FSIS has instructed its inspection 

program personnel that if an 

establishment provides a knife 

sharpening service for inspection 

program personnel, they are to use that 

service. Should this rule become final, 

and if a knife-sharpening service is not 

provided, livestock slaughter 

establishments would need to 

incorporate the times and frequencies 

discussed above for knife sharpening 

into the 8 hours of inspection or request 

that it be done in an overtime period. 

Administrative Activities 

The completion of the AD–3530–4, 

Time and Attendance Report, 

constitutes the most time consuming 

and regularly occurring administrative 

duty that inspection program personnel 

may have to accomplish within the 

8-hour workday. At slaughter 

establishments, FSIS estimates 

inspection program personnel need 1 

minute every day to complete the time 

and attendance report. 

To determine this time estimate, FSIS 

evaluated the time needed to complete 

the actual Time and Attendance Reports 

for inspection program personnel 

performing on-line inspection duties. 

FSIS took into account various 

activities, such as the need to code leave 

and record overtime. Also, the Agency 

included the time needed for inspection 

program personnel to obtain the time 

and attendance record and to gather the 

data to be recorded on the time report. 

Based on its evaluation and the factors 

it considered, FSIS estimates that each 

day inspection program personnel need 

1 minute within the scheduled 8-hour 

workday to allow for completion of the 

time and attendance report. Therefore, 

should this rule become final, slaughter 

establishments would need to provide 

inspection program personnel 1 minute 

everyday to complete the time and 

attendance activity. The 1 minute would 

need to be incorporated into the 8 hours 

of inspection or request that it be done 

in an overtime period. 

Preparation for Inspection 

It is necessary for livestock work 

stations to be set up to include supplies 

needed for post-mortem inspection—for 

example, stamps used to identify 

condemned parts. This preparation can 

be done by the slaughter establishments. 

Should this rule go into effect, and the 

establishment choose not to prepare the 

work station, FSIS will direct its 

supervisory personnel at livestock 

establishments to measure the amount 

of time it takes inspection program 

personnel to don required gear, walk to 

a work station, prepare the work station, 

return from the work station and doff 

required gear. 

Inspection program personnel on 

poultry slaughter lines do not prepare 

the work station. However, they pick up 

and drop off lot tally sheets, which 

capture the number of birds condemned 

on post-mortem inspection, the 

conditions for which birds are 

condemned per lot, and the class of 

poultry for that lot. Should this rule go 

into effect, FSIS will direct its 

supervisory personnel in poultry 

slaughter establishments to measure the 

amount of time it takes inspection 

program personnel to don required gear, 

pick up a lot tally sheet, walk to a work 

station, return from the work station, 

drop off a lot tally sheet, and doff 

required gear. 

Request for Comment and General 

Implementation Plan 

FSIS is not aware of any duties other 

than those discussed above that are 

integral and indispensable work 

activities under the Fair Labor 

Standards Act and, therefore, should be 

included as part of the continuous 

workday. The Agency requests comment 

on whether there are other duties that it 

should consider including. 

Should this rule become final, as with 

the provisions for donning, doffing, and 

the associated walk time, establishments 

will need to either incorporate the time 

for inspection program personnel 

performing on-line inspection duties to 

conduct knife sharpening, to complete 

the time and attendance reporting, and 

to prepare for inspection into their 

hours of operation or request overtime 

charges. The regulations provide that 

FSIS bills overtime in 15 minute 

increments (9 CFR 307.6 and 381.39). 

Therefore, in situations where 

establishments have requested overtime, 

FSIS, when possible, will instruct 

inspection program personnel 

performing on-line inspection duties to 

do the activities addressed in this 

proposed rule during any time that 

remains within 15 minutes of requested 

overtime. 

Proposed Amendment to 9 CFR 307.4(c) 

and 381.37(c) 

For the reasons discussed above, FSIS 

is proposing to amend the meat and 

poultry products regulations to provide 

that the 8 hours of inspection service 

provided to establishments free of 

charge will include activities necessary 

to fully carry out an inspection program, 

including time for inspection program 

personnel to prepare the work station, if 

necessary, or retrieve and return lot tally 

sheets; the time necessary for FSIS 

inspection program personnel to 

sharpen knives, if necessary; and the 

time necessary to conduct duties 

scheduled by FSIS, including 

administrative duties. 

Executive Order 12866 and the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This rule was reviewed by the Office 

of Management and Budget under 

Executive Order 12866 and was 

determined to be non-significant. 

Executive Orders 13563 and 12866 

direct agencies to assess all costs and 

benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). Executive Order 13563 

emphasizes the importance of 

quantifying both costs and benefits, of 

reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, 

and of promoting flexibility. This rule 

has been designated non-significant 

under section 3(f) of Executive Order 

12866. Accordingly, the rule has not 

been reviewed by the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

Cost to the Industry 

Under this proposed rule, the most 

direct cost to the industry will be the 

overtime fee that the Agency will need 

to charge slaughter establishments for 

the time inspection program personnel 

spend in three groups of activities: (1) 

Sharpening knives, (2) completing 

administrative activities, and (3) 

preparing for inspection. As we 

explained in the cost analysis of the 


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1This regulatory change should not impact the 

schedule of operations for meat and poultry 

processing establishments and egg product plants 

because those establishments can begin operations 

without FSIS inspection program personnel being at 

an on-line inspection work station. 

2As of November 2011. 

3Survey date is March 2011. 

4We count the inspection program personnel in 

combined meat and poultry as meat inspectors so 

not to underestimate the cost, as poultry slaughter 

inspectors do not currently have to sharpen knives. 

5OFO conducted the query in November 2011. 

6Summary of the Animal (except Poultry) 

Slaughtering Industry in the U.S. and its 

International Trade [2010 edition,] Supplier 

Relations US, LLC. http://www.htrends.com/report2700858-Animal_except_Poultry_Slaughtering_

Industry_in_the_U_S_and_its_International_Trade_

Edition.html, as of 11/16/2011. 

7 Livestock, Dairy, & Poultry Outlook/LDP–M– 

209/November 16, 2011; Economic Research 

Service, USDA. 

Final Rule on Changes to the Schedule 

of Operations Regulations (76 FR page 

33979), if meat and poultry slaughter 

establishments want to maintain their 

normal shift length of operating for 8 

hours, they would incur some overtime 

fees.1 Although the choice is voluntary, 

should this rule become final, the 

Agency expects that most meat and 

poultry slaughter establishments will 

choose to maintain their current shifttime, as shortening the shift-time will 

decrease production and revenue while 

idling existing capacity. However, FSIS 

expects the overtime fee from these 

three groups of activities will not be 

significant because (1) the 

establishments have options, as we will 

discuss later, besides paying overtime 

for some of these activities, and (2) the 

time for carrying out administrative 

activities and preparing for inspection 

(including preparing an inspection 

station and picking up and dropping off 

lot tally sheets) is small (one minute or 

two per day) tand will probably not 

push the overtime over the 15 minutes 

threshold to incur more over-time 

charge than are currently assessed for 

donning and doffing activities. 

Similar to donning and doffing, the 

actual time FSIS inspection program 

personnel will take to perform these 

activities will vary in each meat and 

poultry slaughter establishment 

depending on plant-specific variables. 

FSIS has developed preliminary 

estimates on the amount of time it takes 

for inspection program personnel to 

perform these activities and is 

requesting from all interested parties 

input on FSIS’ estimates. 

Knife-sharpening: 

a. Two 15-minute periods per week 

for inspection program personnel who 

perform on-line inspection duties in 

beef slaughter operations for 4 or more 

days per week. 

b. One 15 minute period per week for 

inspection program personnel on the 

beef slaughter line for 3 days or less per 

week or in a swine slaughter 

establishment. 

• One minute per day to complete 

administrative activities. 

• Two minutes or less for preparing 

for inspection. 

Agency personnel data 2 show that 

there are 3,053 inspection program 

personnel performing on-line inspection 

duties in the poultry and meat slaughter 

establishments—2,037 in poultry, 1,000 

in meat, and 16 in establishments that 

slaughter both meat and poultry. Data 3

from a recent Agency survey indicate 

that among the meat slaughtering 

inspectors, 56 percent work in beef 

establishments that operate 4 or 5 days 

per week, 4 percent work in beef 

establishments that operate less than 4 

days per week, 36 percent work in 

swine establishments, and 4 percent 

work in lamb, sheep, and goat 

establishments. Because lamb, sheep, 

and goat establishments are small or 

very small establishments, inspection 

program personnel would be able to 

complete the activities addressed in this 

proposed rule within the 8-hour day, 

and, therefore, there are no related cost 

calculations for these establishments in 

this proposed rule. Applying the 

percentages to the total of 1,016 meat 

slaughter inspectors,4 573 inspection 

program personnel are in beef 

establishments that operate 4 or 5 days 

per week, and 409 are in either beef 

establishments that operate less than 4 

days per week or in swine 

establishments. The overtime fee that 

the Agency charges for each 15 minute 

interval is $17.08 for FY 2012. 

Multiplying this number by the Agencyestimated knife-sharpening time, we 

estimated the annual cost for knife 

sharpening time to be about $1,776.3 

($17.08 per quarter-hour × 2 knifesharpening period per week × 52 weeks 

per year) per inspection program 

personnel in beef slaughter 

establishments that operate more for 4 

days or more a week, and $888.2 ($17.08 

per quarter-hour × 52 weeks per year) 

per inspection program personnel in 

beef slaughter establishments that 

operate 3 days or less or in swine 

establishments (FY 2012 rate). If the 

industry had to pay all the meat 

slaughter inspectors to sharpen their 

knives, the total cost to the industry 

would be about $1.38 million ($1776.3 

× 573) + ($888.2 × 409). However, the 

actual impact would be much less 

because the industry can offer knifesharpening services to Agency 

inspection program personnel instead of 

paying overtime for it. 

If an establishment provides a knifesharpening service, FSIS will instruct 

inspection program personnel to use 

that service. A preliminary Agency 

query 5 found that the majority of the 

meat-slaughter establishments are 

offering knife sharpening to their 

employees, and about 91% of those also 

offer the service to Agency inspection 

program personnel as well. We expect 

that many other establishments will 

start offering the service to avoid paying 

overtime charges should this rule 

become effective. 

As for the other two groups of 

activities, the time they take is minimal. 

According to the Agency’s estimates 

mentioned above, these activities 

combined will be at most 3 minutes per 

day. In addition, FSIS will permit the 

establishment to take on the 

responsibility of preparing the 

inspection station for inspection 

program personnel in livestock 

slaughter establishments. Given that the 

Agency charges overtime in 15 minute 

increments, and that it believes the 

donning, doffing, and walking time to 

be usually less than 15 minutes, time for 

these additional activities can be 

absorbed in the overtime period for 

donning, doffing, and walking time in 

most cases, thus not causing any 

additional overtime. In the unlikely, 

worst-case scenario where these 

activities push the daily overtime 

beyond the first 15 minute interval, the 

establishments would pay each 

inspection program personnel another 

$4,441 ($17.08 per inspector × 5 days 

per week × 52 weeks per year) annually. 

However, the Agency believes this 

scenario would apply to only a very 

small percentage of the inspection 

program personnel. 

Comparing the cost to the annual 

revenue of the meat slaughtering 

industry alone, which is about $67.2 

billion,6 the costs of this rule to the 

industry would not be significant. 

Cost to the Consumer 

The industry is likely to pass the 

increased costs on to consumers because 

of the inelastic nature of the consumer 

demand for meat and poultry products. 

However, given that the total volume of 

meat and poultry slaughtered under 

Federal inspection in 2010 was about 92 

billion pounds,7 the increased cost per 

pound due to the overtime fee will be 

less than $0.0001 on average. 

Benefits of the Rule 

This proposed rule will include 

integral and indispensible work 

activities (as defined by the Fair Labor 


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Standards Act) into the defined 

inspector ‘‘workday.’’ Therefore, if 

finalized, this proposed rule will help 

ensure compliance with the law and the 

improved use of Agency resources. 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

The FSIS Administrator has made a 

preliminary determination that this 

proposed rule will not have a significant 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities, as defined by the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601). There are 

263 small and 566 very small meat and 

poultry slaughter establishments (by 

Small Business Administration 

standard). In small and very small 

establishments, inspection program 

personnel typically have adequate time 

during their tour of duty to sharpen 

their knives as well as conduct the other 

activities under this proposed rule, 

because they do not have to be on-line 

for 8 hours. Therefore, the impact will 

not be significant. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

This proposed rule has been reviewed 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act and 

imposes no new paperwork or 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Executive Order 13175 

This final rule has been reviewed in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Executive Order 13175, Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments. The review reveals that 

this regulation will not have substantial 

and direct effects on Tribal governments 

and will not have significant Tribal 

implications. 

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement 

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(USDA) prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, gender, 

religion, age, disability, political beliefs, 

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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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Through the Listserv and Web page, 

FSIS is able to provide information to a 

much broader and more diverse 

audience. In addition, FSIS offers an 

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List of Subjects 

9 CFR Part 307 

Government employees, Meat 

inspection. 

9 CFR Part 381 

Government employees, Poultry 

products inspection. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, FSIS is proposing to amend 

9 CFR Chapter III as follows: 

PART 307—FACILITIES FOR 

INSPECTION 

1. The authority citation for part 307 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 394; 21 U.S.C. 601– 

695; 7 CFR 2.17, 2.55. 

2. In § 307.4(c), remove the second 

sentence and add two sentences in its 

place to read as follows: 

§ 307.4 Schedule of operations. 

* * * * * 

(c) * * * The basic workweek shall 

consist of 5 consecutive 8- hour days 

within the administrative workweek 

Sunday through Saturday, except that, 

when possible, the Department shall 

schedule the basic workweek so as to 

consist of 5 consecutive 8-hour days 

Monday through Friday. The 8-hour day 

excludes the lunch period, but shall 

include activities deemed necessary by 

the Agency to fully carry out an 

inspection program, including the time 

for FSIS inspection program personnel 

to put on required gear and to walk to 

a work station; to prepare the work 

station; to return from a work station 

and remove required gear; to sharpen 

knives, if necessary; and to conduct 

duties scheduled by FSIS, including 

administrative duties. * * * 

* * * * * 

PART 381—POULTRY PRODUCTS 

INSPECTION REGULATIONS 

3. The authority citation for part 381 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 138f, 450; 21 U.S.C. 

451–470; 7 CFR 2.7, 2.18, 2.53. 

4. In § 381.37(c), remove the second 

sentence and add two sentences in its 

place to read as follows: 

§ 381.37 Schedule of operations. 

* * * * * 

(c) * * * The basic workweek shall 

consist of 5 consecutive 8- hour days 

within the administrative workweek 

Sunday through Saturday, except that, 

when possible, the Department shall 

schedule the basic workweek so as to 

consist of 5 consecutive 8-hour days 

Monday through Friday. The 8-hour day 

excludes the lunch period, but shall 

include activities deemed necessary by 

the Agency to fully carry out an 

inspection program, including the time 

for FSIS inspection program personnel 

to put on required gear, pick up 

required forms and walk to a work 

station; and the time for FSIS inspection 

program personnel to return from a 

work station, drop off required forms, 

and remove required gear; and to 

conduct duties scheduled by FSIS, 

including administrative duties. * * * 

* * * * * 

Done at Washington, DC, on: March 9, 

2012. 

Alfred Almanza, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6372 Filed 3–16–12; 8:45 am] 

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