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.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 80, No. 25 

Friday, February 6, 2015 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

7 CFR Parts 318 and 319 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0082] 

RIN 0579–AD71 

Establishing a Performance Standard 

for Authorizing the Importation and 

Interstate Movement of Fruits and 

Vegetables 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: We are reopening the 

comment period for our proposed rule 

that would amend our regulations 

governing the importation and interstate 

movement of fruits and vegetables by 

broadening our existing performance 

standard to provide for approval of all 

new fruits and vegetables for 

importation or interstate movement into 

or within the United States using a 

notice-based process. This action will 

allow interested persons additional time 

to prepare and submit comments. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published on September 

9, 2014 (79 FR 53346–53352) is 

reopened. We will consider all 

comments that we receive on or before 

March 10, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2010-0082. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2010–0082, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2010-0082 or 

in our reading room, which is located in 

Room 1141 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. 

Nicole L. Russo, Assistant Director, 

Regulatory Coordination and 

Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1231; (301) 851–2159. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 9, 2014, we published in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 53346–53352) a 

proposal to amend our regulations 

governing the importations of fruits and 

vegetables by broadening our existing 

performance standard to provide for 

approval of all new fruits and vegetables 

for importation into the United States 

using a notice-based process. We also 

proposed to remove the region- or 

commodity-specific phytosanitary 

requirements currently found in these 

regulations. Likewise, we proposed an 

equivalent revision of the performance 

standard in our regulations governing 

the interstate movement of fruits and 

vegetables from Hawaii and the U.S. 

territories (Guam, Northern Mariana 

Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin 

Islands) and the removal of commodityspecific phytosanitary requirements 

from those regulations. This proposal 

would allow for the approval of requests 

to authorize the importation or 

interstate movement of new fruits and 

vegetables in a manner that enables a 

more flexible and responsive regulatory 

approach to evolving pest situations in 

both the United States and exporting 

countries. It would not however, alter 

the science-based process in which the 

risk associated with importation or 

interstate movement of a given fruit or 

vegetable is evaluated or the manner in 

which risks associated with the 

importation or interstate movement of a 

fruit or vegetable are mitigated. 

Comments on the proposed rule were 

required to be received on or before 

November 10, 2014. On December 4, 

2014, we published in the Federal 

Register (79 FR 71973) a notice of 

reopening of the comment period for an 

additional 60 days. Comments were 

required to be received on or before 

January 9, 2015. 

We are reopening the comment period 

on Docket No. APHIS–2010–0082 for an 

additional 60 days. We will also accept 

all comments received between January 

10, 2015 (the day after the close of the 

initial extended comment period) and 

the date of this notice. This action will 

allow interested persons additional time 

to prepare and submit comments. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 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 2nd day of 

February 2015. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02404 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

19 CFR Parts 201, 206, 208, and 213, 

and Chapter II 

Rules of General Application; 

Investigations Relating to Global and 

Bilateral Safeguard Actions, Market 

Disruption, Trade Diversion, and 

Review of Relief Actions; 

Investigations With Respect to 

Commercial Availability of Textile 

Fabric and Yarn in Sub-Saharan 

African Countries; Trade Remedy 

Assistance 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

retrospective analysis of rules. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

International Trade Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) proposes to amend 

provisions of its Rules of Practice and 

Procedure concerning the Freedom of 

Information Act, the Privacy Act, the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, 

certain investigations, and trade remedy 

assistance. The proposed amendments 

are part of the agency’s retrospective 

analysis of its Rules that attempts to 

determine whether rules should be 

modified, streamlined, expanded, or 

repealed so as to make the agency’s 

regulatory program more effective or 

less burdensome in achieving regulatory 

objectives. The Commission requests 

public comment both on the proposed 

amendments and on its rules in general. 


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