Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 227 / Monday, November 25, 2024 / Notices 92887 

1On September 30, 2022, the APHIS Fruits and 

Vegetables Import Requirements (FAVIR) database 

was replaced by the ACIR database. 

Personnel Records, USDA/APHIS–7, 

and removing it from its inventory. This 

system was used to provide State 

supervisors a system for financial and 

manpower management of Animal 

Damage Control programs, record 

disbursement of funds, allow for 

preparation of various statistical reports, 

and maintain records related to 

employees involved in animal damage 

control. 

The Department is rescinding this 

system of records because the records 

previously maintained in the system are 

now maintained within the system of 

records titled ‘‘Wildlife Services 

Information Management System, 

USDA/APHIS–9,’’ which serves as the 

official record of Wildlife Services’ work 

in wildlife damage management 

activities related to agriculture, human 

health and safety, natural resources, and 

human property. 

Rescinding the Animal Damage 

Control Non-Federal Personnel Records 

System will have no adverse impacts on 

individuals as the records are covered 

by and maintained under the Wildlife 

Services Information Management 

System, USDA/APHIS–9. This notice 

hereby rescinds the Animal Damage 

Control Non-Federal Personnel Records 

System of records notice as identified 

below. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Animal Damage Control Non-Federal 

Personnel Records System, USDA/ 

APHIS–7. 

HISTORY: 

Animal Damage Control Non-Federal 

Personnel Records System, USDA/ 

APHIS–7, was published in its entirety 

on February 27, 1987 (52 FR 6031–6038; 

Docket No. 86–408). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

November 2024. 

Michael Watson, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27530 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2020–0032] 

Deregulation of Light Brown Apple 

Moth for the Importation of Fruit From 

New Zealand Into the United States 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have prepared a commodity 

import evaluation document (CIED) 

relative to deregulating light brown 

apple moth (LBAM) requirements for 

fruit imported from New Zealand into 

the United States. Currently, fruit 

imported from New Zealand into the 

United States must be accompanied by 

a phytosanitary certificate with an 

additional declaration stating that the 

fruit is free of LBAM. Based on the 

findings of the CIED, we are proposing 

to remove the requirement for the 

additional declaration. Accordingly, we 

propose to revise the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service Agricultural 

Commodity Import Requirements 

database regarding LBAM requirements 

for fruit imported from New Zealand 

into the United States. These proposed 

changes would harmonize our domestic 

and import requirements. We are 

making the CIED available to the public 

for review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before January 24, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and enter 

APHIS–2020–0032 in the Search field. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2020–0032, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

2C–10.16, 4700 River Road, Unit 25, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at https://

www.regulations.gov by entering 

APHIS–2020–0032 in the Search field, 

or in our reading room, which is located 

in room 1620 of the USDA South 

Building, 14th Street and Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal 

reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Julie Orr, Regulatory Policy Specialist, 

IRM, PPQ, APHIS, USDA, 4700 River 

Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1236; (301) 851–4022; Julie.Orr@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart L— 

Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56– 

1 through 319.56–12, referred to below 

as the regulations), the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

prohibits or restricts the importation of 

fruits and vegetables into the United 

States from certain parts of the world to 

prevent plant pests from being 

introduced into or disseminated within 

the United States. 

Section 319.56–4 of the regulations 

provides the requirements for 

authorizing the importation of fruits and 

vegetables into the United States, as 

well as revising existing requirements 

for the importation of fruits and 

vegetables. Paragraph (c) of that section 

provides that the name and origin of all 

fruits and vegetables authorized 

importation into the United States, as 

well as the requirements for their 

importation, are listed online; they are 

listed on the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s APHIS Agricultural 

Commodity Import Requirements 

(ACIR) database (https://acir.aphis.

usda.gov/s/).1 It also provides that, if the 

Administrator of APHIS determines that 

any of the phytosanitary measures 

required for the importation of a 

particular fruit or vegetable are no 

longer necessary to reasonably mitigate 

the plant pest risk posed by the fruit or 

vegetable, APHIS will publish a notice 

in the Federal Register making its pest 

risk documentation and determination 

available for public comment. 

The light brown apple moth (LBAM), 

Epiphyas postvittana (Tortricidae), is a 

native pest of Australia and is now 

widely distributed in New Zealand, the 

United Kingdom, Ireland, and New 

Caledonia. LBAM is a pest of concern in 

the United States and elsewhere because 

it can damage a wide range of fruits, 

vegetables, and other valuable plants. It 

was reported in Hawaii in the late 1800s 

and detected in Alameda County, 

California in 2007. In response to the 

2007 detection, APHIS conducted 

delimiting surveys and issued a series of 

Federal Orders to establish quarantines 

and host lists and to regulate the 

movement of LBAM hosts from affected 

areas. 

However, since 2007, APHIS has 

developed pest risk assessments (PRAs) 

for a number of LBAM hosts and 

established that standard commercial 

production practices are sufficient to 

remove any risk from the spread of 

LBAM in commercially produced 

commodities. As a result, APHIS has 

determined that due to both the absence 

of significant damage in commercial 

agriculture and the availability of 

effective treatments, Federal 

involvement to regulate LBAM as a pest 

of quarantine significance for these 


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92888 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 227 / Monday, November 25, 2024 / Notices 

2The Federal Order removing domestic 

quarantines and other restrictions imposed by 

previous orders may be viewed at https://

www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/downloads/da2021-29-lbam-deregulation.pdf. 

3The document may be viewed at https://

www.fao.org/3/a-y5721e.pdf. 

commodities appears to be no longer 

necessary.2

Currently, fruit from New Zealand 

imported into the United States must be 

accompanied by a phytosanitary 

certificate with an additional 

declaration that the fruit is free of 

LBAM. However, under International 

Standards for Phytosanitary Measures 

20,3 APHIS cannot regulate an imported 

commodity for a specific pest more 

stringently than it regulates the 

commodity domestically unless this 

discrepancy is technically justified. 

However, based on the findings of PRAs 

cited in the commodity import 

evaluation document (CIED), APHIS has 

concluded that there is no technical 

basis for such a discrepancy, and 

consignments of commercially 

produced fresh fruit from New Zealand 

may safely be imported to the United 

States without significant risk of 

introducing LBAM. We propose, then, 

to no longer require the additional 

declaration of LBAM freedom for the 

following commodities imported from 

New Zealand into the United States: 

New Zealand: 

Apple—Malus domestica 

Apricot—Prunus armeniaca 

Avocado—Persea americana 

Blackberry—Rubus sp. 

Blueberry—Vaccinium angustifolium, 

Vaccinium ashei, Vaccinium 

corymbosum, Vaccinium virgatum 

Cherry—Prunus avium 

Currant—Ribes spp. 

Feijoa—Acca sellowiana 

Grapes—Vitis vinifera 

Kiwi—Actinidia spp. (A. deliciosa, A. 

arguta, A. chinensis, A. kolomikta, A. 

melanandra, A. polygama, A. 

rubricaulis var. coriacea 

Loquat—Eriobotrya japonica (Into Guam 

and CNMI) 

Nectarine—Prunus persica nucipersica 

Peach—Prunus persica var. persica 

Pear—Pyrus communis 

Plum—Prunus domestica ssp. 

domestica 

Raspberry—Rubus sp. 

Sand Pear—Pyrus pyrifolia var. culta 

Strawberry—Fragaria x ananassa 

Phytosanitary Certificate: If the 

consignment is not precleared, the 

consignment must be accompanied by a 

phytosanitary certificate issued by the 

National Plant Protection Organization 

(NPPO) of New Zealand. 

Citrus spp. 

Persimmon Diospyros kaki 

Phytosanitary Certificate: Citrus (or 

Persimmon) consignments must be 

accompanied by a phytosanitary 

certificate issued by the NPPO of New 

Zealand with an additional declaration 

stating the fruit is free of Cnephasia 

jactatana, Coscinoptycha improbana, 

Ctenopseustis obliquana, Pezothrips 

kellyanus, and Planotortrix excessana. 

In accordance with § 319.56–4(c)(3), 

we are announcing the availability of 

our CIED for public review and 

comment. This document, as well as a 

description of the economic 

considerations associated with 

removing the LBAM declaration 

requirement for fruit imported from 

New Zealand into the United States, 

may be viewed on the Regulations.gov 

website or in our reading room (see 

ADDRESSES above for a link to 

Regulations.gov and information on the 

location and hours of the reading room). 

You may request paper copies of these 

documents by calling or writing to the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the 

subject of the analysis you wish to 

review when requesting copies. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our decision 

regarding whether to remove the 

declaration requirement for LBAM 

freedom for the importation of fruit from 

New Zealand in a subsequent notice. If 

the overall conclusions of our analysis 

and the Administrator’s determination 

of risk remain unchanged following our 

consideration of the comments, then we 

will remove the requirement for the 

importation of fruit from New Zealand 

as described in this notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1633, 7701–7772, 

and 7781–7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 

7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

November 2024. 

Michael Watson, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27563 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Newspapers Used for Publication of 

Legal Notices in the Southwestern 

Region, Which Includes Arizona, New 

Mexico, and Parts of Oklahoma and 

Texas 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice lists the 

newspapers that will be used by all 

Ranger Districts, Grasslands, Forests, 

and the Regional Office of the 

Southwestern Region to publish legal 

notices. The intended effect of this 

action is to inform interested members 

of the public which newspapers the 

Forest Service will use to publish 

notices of proposed actions, notices of 

decision, and notices of opportunity to 

file an objection. This will provide the 

public with constructive notice of Forest 

Service proposals and decisions, 

provide information on the procedures 

to comment or object, and establish the 

date that the Forest Service will use to 

determine if comments or objections 

were timely. 

DATES: Publication of legal notices in 

the listed newspapers will begin on the 

date of this publication and continue 

until further notice. 

ADDRESSES: Roxanne Turley, Regional 

Administrative Review Coordinator, 

Forest Service, Southwestern Region; 

333 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM 

87102–3498. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roxanne Turley, Regional 

Administrative Review Coordinator; 

(505) 526–0020 or by email 

roxanne.turley@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

administrative procedures at 36 CFR 

parts 218 and 219 require the Forest 

Service to publish notices in a 

newspaper of general circulation. The 

content of the notices is specified in 36 

CFR parts 218 and 219. In general, the 

notices will identify: the decision or 

project, by title or subject matter; the 

name and title of the official making the 

decision; how to obtain additional 

information; and where and how to file 

comments or objections. The date the 

notice is published will be used to 

establish the official date for the 

beginning of the comment or objection 

period. Where more than one 

newspaper is listed for any unit, the first 

newspaper listed is the primary 

newspaper of record of which 

publication date shall be used for 

calculating the time period to file 

comment or an objection. 

Southwestern Regional Office 

Regional Forester 

Notices of Availability for Comment 

and Decisions and Objections affecting 

New Mexico Forests:—‘‘Albuquerque 

Journal’’, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for 

National Forest System lands in the 

State of New Mexico for any projects of 

Region-wide impact, or for any projects 

affecting more than one National Forest 

or National Grassland in New Mexico. 


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