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Notices Federal Register

64418

Vol. 65, No. 209

Friday, October 27, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service

[Docket No. 00–044N]

Codex Alimentarius: Meetings of the

Codex Committee on Food Import and

Export Inspection and Certification

Systems

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary

for Food Safety, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings,

request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Office of the Under

Secretary for Food Safety, U.S.

Department of Agriculture (USDA), the

Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

and the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services (HHS), are sponsoring

two public meetings, on November 7

and November 21, 2000, to provide

information and receive public

comments on agenda items that will be

discussed at the Codex Committee on

Food Import and Export Inspection and

Certification Systems (CCFICS), which

will be held in Perth, Australia, on

December 11–15, 2000. The Under

Secretary and FDA recognize the

importance of of CCFICS and to address

items on the Agenda. providing

interested parties the opportunity to

obtain background information on the

Seventh Session

DATES: The public meetings are

scheduled for Friday, November 7, 2000

from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., and

Tuesday, November 21, 2000 from 1:00

p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The public meetings will be

held in Conference Room 1409, Federal

Office Building 8, Food and Drug

Administration, 200 C Street, SW.,

Washington, DC. Submit one original

and two copies of written comments to

the FSIS Docket Room, Docket # 00–

044N, U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Food Safety and Inspection Service,

Room 102, Cotton Annex, 300 12th

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20250–

3700. To receive copies of the

documents referenced in this notice,

contact the FSIS Docket Room at the

above address. The documents will also

be accessible via the World Wide Web

at the following address: http://

www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/

ECONOMIC/esn/codex/ccfics9/

fc00_01e.htm.

All comments received in response to

this notice will be considered part of the

public record and will be available for

viewing in the Docket Room between

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

through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick J. Clerkin, Associate U.S.

Manager for Codex, U.S. Codex Office,

FSIS, Room 4861, South Building, 1400

Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–3700, telephone

(202) 205–7760; Fax: (202) 720–3157.

Persons requiring a sign language

interpreter or other special

accommodations should notify Mr.

Patrick J. Clerkin at the above phone

number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Codex Alimentarius Commission

(Codex) was established in 1962 by two

United Nations organizations, the Food

and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and

the World Health Organization (WHO).

Codex is the major international

organization for encouraging fair

international trade in food and

protecting the health and economic

interests of consumers. Through

adoption of food standards, codes of

practice, and other guidelines

developed by its committees, and by

promoting their adoption and

implementation by governments, Codex

seeks to ensure that the world’s food

supply is sound, wholesome, free from

adulteration, and correctly labeled.

CCFICS was established to develop

principles and guidelines for: Food

import and export inspection and

certification systems, the application of

measures by competent authorities of

importing and exporting countries to

provide assurance that foods comply

with essential requirements, the

utilization of quality assurance systems,

and the format and content of official

certificates.

Issues To Be Discussed at the Public

Meeting

The following issues and referenced

documents will be discussed during the

public meetings:

• Matters Referred from Other Codex

Committees, DOCUMENT CX/FICS

00/2

• Draft Guidelines for Generic Official

Certificate Formats and the

Production and Issuance of

Certificates, Comments at Step 6,

DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/3,

DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/3–Add.1

• Proposed Draft Guidelines for Food

Import Control Systems, Comments at

Step 3, DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/4,

DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/4–Add.1

• Proposed Draft Guidelines for the

Utilization and Promotion of Quality

Assurance Systems to Meet

Requirements in Relation to Food,

Comments at Step 3, DOCUMENT

CX/FICS 00/5, DOCUMENT CX/FICS

00/5–Add.1

• Proposed Draft Guidelines on the

Judgement of Equivalence of Sanitary

Measures Associated with Food

Inspection and Certification Systems,

Comments at Step 3, DOCUMENT

CX/FICS 00/6, DOCUMENT CX/FICS

00/6–Add.1

• Proposed Draft Guidelines on the

Judgement of Equivalence of

Technical Regulations Associated

with Food Inspection and

Certification Systems, Comments at

Step 3, DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/7,

DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/7–Add.1

• Discussion Paper on Risk

Management Guidelines for Food

Control Emergency Situations

Involving International Trade,

DOCUMENT CX/FICS 00/8

• Discussion Paper on Food Export

Control Systems, DOCUMENT CX/

FICS 00/9

In advance of the meetings, the U.S.

Delegate to CCFICS will have assigned

responsibility for development of U.S.

positions on these issues to members of

the U.S. government. The individuals

assigned responsibility will be named at

the meetings and will take comments

and develop draft U.S. positions. All

interested parties are invited to provide

information and comments on the above

issues, or on any other issues that may

be brought before CCFICS.

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Public Meetings

At the November 3rd public meeting,

the issues will be described and

discussed, and attendees will have the

opportunity to pose questions and offer

comments. At the November 21 public

meeting, draft United States positions

on the issues will be described and

discussed, and attendees will have the

opportunity to pose questions and offer

comments.

Please state that your comments relate

to CCFICS activities and specify which

issues your comments address.

Additional Public Notification

Public awareness of all segments of

rulemaking and policy development is

important. Consequently, in an effort to

better ensure that minorities, women,

and persons with disabilities are aware

of this notice, FSIS will announce it and

provide copies of this Federal Register

publication in the FSIS Constituent

Update. FSIS provides a weekly FSIS

Constituent Update, which is

communicated via fax to over 300

organizations and individuals. In

addition, the update is available on-line

through the FSIS web page located at

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. The update is

used to provide information regarding

FSIS policies, procedures, regulations,

Federal Register notices, FSIS public

meetings, recalls, and any other types of

information that could effect or would

be of interest to our constituents/

stakeholders. The constituent fax list

consists of industry, trade, farm, and

consumer interest groups, allied health

professionals and scientific

professionals, and other individuals that

have requested to be included. Through

these various channels, FSIS is able to

provide information to a much broader,

more diverse audience. For more

information and to be added to the

constituent fax list, fax your request to

the FSIS Congressional and Public

Affairs Office, at (202) 720–5704.

Done at Washington, DC on: October 23,

2000.

F. Edward Scarbrough,

U.S. Manager for Codex.

[FR Doc. 00–27617 Filed 10–26–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Olympic Provincial Interagency

Executive Committee (PIEC) Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Olympic PIEC Advisory

Committee will meet on November 17,

2000. The meeting will be held at the

Olympic National Forest Headquarters

office at 1835 Black Lake Blvd.,

Olympia, Washington. The meeting will

begin at 9:00 AM and end at

approximately 3:30 PM.

Agenda topics are: (1) Welcome and

introduction of new committee

members and brief Forest update; (2) Sol

Duc Adaptive Management Area

Process; (3) Road Management Strategy

Update; (4) Northwest Forest Plan

Monitoring Report; (5) Olympic

Province Advisory Committee work

plan and goals; (6) Open forum; and (7)

Public comments.

All Olympic Province Advisory

Committee Meetings are open to the

public. Interested citizens are

encouraged to attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions regarding this meeting

to Ken Eldredge, Province Liaison,

USDA, Olympic National Forest

Headquarters, 1835 Black Lake Blvd.,

Olympia, WA 98512–5623, (360) 956–

2323 or Dale Hom, Forest Supervisor, at

(360) 956–2301.

Dated: October 17, 2000.

Kenneth C. Eldredge,

Acting Forest Supervisor, Olympic National

Forest.

[FR Doc. 00–27518 Filed 10–26–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List; Additions

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Additions to the Procurement

List.

SUMMARY: This action adds to the

Procurement List a commodity and

services to be furnished by nonprofit

agencies employing persons who are

blind or have other severe disabilities.

EFFECTIVE DATES: November 27, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800,

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Louis R. Bartalot (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August

11, September 1 and September 8, 2000

the Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled published notices (65 FR

49218, 53267 and 54480) of proposed

additions to the Procurement List.

After consideration of the material

presented to it concerning capability of

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide

the commodity and services and impact

of the additions on the current or most

recent contractors, the Committee has

determined that the commodity and

services listed below are suitable for

procurement by the Federal Government

under 41 U.S.C. 46–48c and 41 CFR 51–

2.4.

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

commodity and services to the

Government.

2. The action will not have a severe

economic impact on current contractors

for the commodity and services.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodity and services to the

Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46—48c) in

connection with the commodity and

services proposed for addition to the

Procurement List.

Accordingly, the following

commodity and services are hereby

added to the Procurement List:

Commodity

Kitchen, Utensils

M.R. 870

M.R. 874

M.R. 875

M.R. 892

M.R. 893

M.R. 894

M.R. 895

M.R. 897

M.R. 898

Services

Microfilming, GPO Program B510–S,

Washington, DC

Ventilation Duct Cleaning Services, Puget

Sound Naval Shipyard, Building 435

Cafeteria, Bremerton, Washington

This action does not affect current

contracts awarded prior to the effective