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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 65, No. 220

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

[Docket No. DA–98–03]

United States Standards for Dry Whey

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service,

USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This document gives notice of

the availability of revisions to the

United States Standards for Dry Whey.

The changes will: lower the bacterial

estimate of not more than 50,000 per

gram to not more than 30,000 per gram;

incorporate maximum scorched particle

content as a requirement for U.S. grade;

expand the ‘‘Test Methods’’ section to

allow product evaluation using the

latest methods included in the Standard

Methods for Examination of Dairy

Products, in the Official Methods of

Analysis of the Association of Official

Analytical Chemists, and in standards

developed by the International Dairy

Federation; reference the Food and Drug

Administration’s requirements for dry

whey; and make editorial changes that

would provide consistency with other

U.S. grade standards for dairy products.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice is effective

December 14, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The revised Standards are

available from Duane R. Spomer, Chief,

Dairy Standardization Branch, Dairy

Programs, Agricultural Marketing

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Room 2746, South Building, Stop 0230,

P.O. Box 96456, Washington, DC 20090–

6456 or at www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/

stand.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Duane R. Spomer, (202) 720–7473.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

203(c) of the Agricultural Marketing Act

of 1946, as amended, directs and

authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture

‘‘to develop and improve standards of

quality, condition, quantity, grade, and

packaging and recommend and

demonstrate such standards in order to

encourage uniformity and consistency

in commercial practices * * *.’’ AMS is

committed to carrying out this authority

in a manner that facilitates the

marketing of agricultural commodities

and will make copies of official

standards available upon request. The

United States Standards for Dry Whey

no longer appear in the Code of Federal

Regulations (CFR); however, they are

maintained by USDA.

AMS is revising the United States

Standards for Dry Whey using the

procedures it published in the August

13, 1997, Federal Register and that

appear in Parts 36 of Title 7 of the CFR.

The notice, which included a request

for comments on the proposed changes,

was published in the Federal Register

on June 20, 2000 (65 FR 38235–38239),

and a correction to the notice was

published in the Federal Register on

July 17, 2000 (65 FR 44024–44025).

The current United States Standards

for Dry Whey have been in effect since

October 1, 1990. AMS initiated a review

of this standard and discussed possible

changes with the dairy industry. The

American Dairy Products Institute, a

trade association representing the dry

whey industry, provided specific

suggestions, including a suggestion to

lower the maximum bacterial content

requirement. AMS proposed other

changes to reflect improvements in the

quality of dry whey that have occurred

since the standards were last revised

and to promote greater uniformity and

consistency in the application of this

standard.

AMS published the notice in the

Federal Register with an outline of the

specific proposed changes and provided

a comment period of 60 days, which

ended on August 21, 2000.

The American Dairy Products

Institute filed a comment supporting the

proposed changes. No other comments

were received.

AMS discovered a typographical error

in the ZIP code for the Association of

Official Analytical Chemists. The ZIP

code that appears in the ‘‘Test Methods’’

section of the revised standard should

read 20877–2417. Accordingly, the

notice revising the United States

Standards for Dry Whey published in

the Federal Register at 65 FR 38235–

38239 on June 20, 2000, the notice of

correction published in the Federal

Register at 65 FR 44024–44025 on July

17, 2000, and the correction to the ZIP

code as made above are incorporated in

the revised United States Standards for

Dry Whey.

The revised United States Standards

for Dry Whey are available either

through the above address or by

accessing AMS Home Page on the

Internet at www.ams.usda.gov/dairy/

stand.htm.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627.

Dated: November 7, 2000.

Kenneth C. Clayton,

Associate Administrator, Agricultural

Marketing Service.

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BILLING CODE 3410–02–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Office of the Under Secretary,

Research, Education, and Economics;

Notice of the Advisory Committee on

Agricultural Biotechnology Meeting

AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service,

Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5

U.S.C. App., the United States

Department of Agriculture announces a

meeting of the Advisory Committee on

Agricultural Biotechnology (ACAB).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The third

meeting of the ACAB has been

scheduled for November 29–30, 2000.

The topics to be discussed will include:

(1) The USDA’s public seed breeding

program and plant germplasm

repositories; (2) impacts of gene flow

from transgenic crops to other plants

and current and potential USDA roles in

addressing them; and (3) biotechnology

budget priorities for FY 2002. There will

in addition be several updates on

current biotechnology developments,

including the Starlink corn situation,

and on ongoing USDA biotechnologyrelated activities.

Background information regarding the

work of the ACAB is available on the

USDA web site at http://www.usda.gov/

agencies/biotech/acab.html. Members of

the public who wish to make oral

statements should also inform Dr.

Schechtman in writing or via E-mail at

the indicated addresses at least three

business days before the meeting. On