40382 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 145 /Wednesday, July 29, 1998 / Proposed Rules

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and

Inspection Service (FSIS) is making

available for comment a paper that lists

two categories of livestock and poultry

diseases and conditions observed at

post-mortem inspection. One category is

comprised of diseases and conditions

that the Agency believes pose food

safety risks or hazards. The other

category is comprised of diseases and

conditions that present other consumer

protection issues. FSIS has developed

the list as part of its HACCP-Based

Inspection Models Project.

DATES: To receive full consideration,

comments should be received by

September 28, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The document ‘‘HACCPBased Inspection Models Project:

Diseases and Conditions Observable in

Meat and Poultry’’ may be viewed at the

FSIS Docket Room, Room 102 Cotton

Annex Building, 300 12th Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–3700. An

electronic version of the document is

available on-line at FSIS’s homepage at

http://www.fsis.usda.gov. Written

comments on the document may be sent

in triplicate to FSIS Docket Clerk,

DOCKET #98–009N, Room 102 Cotton

Annex Building, 300 12th Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20250–3700.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patricia F. Stolfa, Assistant Deputy

Administrator, Office of Policy, Program

Development and Evaluation, Food

Safety and Inspection Service, U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Washington,

DC 20250–3700; (202) 205–0699.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

FSIS is carrying out a project to

develop and test new methods for the

inspection during slaughter of certain

market classes of animals and their meat

and poultry products produced under

the Agency’s ‘‘Pathogen Reduction;

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control

Point Systems’’ (PR/HACCP) final rule

(61 FR 38806; July 25, 1996). This

project is designed to develop, in plants,

these approaches to slaughtering

inspection of young, healthy and

uniform animals and birds that are

consistent with the HACCP/PR

regulation, and to explore the possibility

of redeployment of some inspection

resources from these plants in ways that

will enhance food safety protection all

along the farm-to-table continuum. It

will also help define the respective

responsibilities of FSIS and the

regulated industry in slaughter and

processing establishments, and in

distribution channels outside of

inspected establishments.

In a June 10, 1997, Federal Register

notice, ‘‘HACCP-Based Meat and

Poultry Inspection Concepts,’’ FSIS

requested public comment on the design

and development of new inspection

models for slaughter and processing in

a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control

Point (HACCP) environment (62 FR

31553). This notice summarized the

National Academy of Sciences and

General Accounting Office’s

recommendations that FSIS reduce its

reliance on organoleptic (sensory)

inspection and redeploy its resources to

utilize regulatory approaches that are

based on risks. To accomplish these

objectives, new inspection models or

methods must be developed, and these

must be consistent with the meat and

poultry inspection laws as well as

systems put in place by the PR/HACCP

final rule.

A June 24–25, 1997, public meeting,

which the notice announced, provided

a forum for dialogue between FSIS and

all parties interested in the project. This

project has also been discussed at the

September 9–11, 1997, January 13–14,

1998, and May 12–14, 1998, meetings of

the National Advisory Committee on

Meat and Poultry Inspection. It will also

be discussed at FSIS’ July 27 public

meeting on its HACCP-based Inspection

Models Project for Slaughtering

establishments.

Diseases and Conditions that Pose Food

Safety Risks vs. Ones That Pose Other

Consumer Protection Issues

As part of the development of new

inspection models or methods that are

consistent with the meat and poultry

inspection laws and with systems put in

place by the PR/HACCP final rule,

animal diseases and conditions

observable at post-mortem inspection

that pose food-safety hazards or risks

need to be distinguished from diseases

and conditions that present other

consumer protection issues. In the past,

the Agency has not made this

distinction because, under the

traditional approach to inspection,

resources are not assigned according to

public-health risk.

HACCP, however, focuses on hazards.

The diseases and conditions listed in

the paper are examples of potential

hazards that, in the future,

establishments might consider when

conducting their hazard analyses and in

developing their HACCP plans or, with

respect to the non-food-safety-related

conditions, in developing slaughter

process control programs.

The first category of diseases and

conditions listed in the paper is

comprised of diseases and conditions

that pose food-safety hazards or risks

(within the meaning of 9 CFR 417.1 and

417.2(a)); the second is comprised of

animal diseases and conditions that

pose other consumer protection issues.

Meat and poultry products affected by

diseases and conditions in either

category are to be removed from the

human food supply in the interests of

consumers, because diseases and

conditions in either category would

adulterate the food.

Because FSIS has not previously

delineated these categories, and because

establishments are not now expected to

have categorized diseases and

conditions in this manner, FSIS

determined that it would be useful to

have a broad base of comments on the

list. The list was developed by Agency

experts based, in part, on informal

consultations with their colleagues

outside the Agency and the

Government.

In the course of the HACCP-Based

Inspection Models project, the volunteer

establishments will decide how best to

remove adulterated carcasses and parts

from the food supply, and FSIS will

decide how best to verify that only safe,

wholesome products are entering

commerce. These decisions will

depend, in part, on knowing which

diseases and conditions affect food

safety (controlled by HACCP systems)

and which are aesthetic conditions (but

are subject to slaughter process

controls). The paper, ‘‘HACCP-Based

Inspection Models Project: Diseases and

Conditions to be Removed from Meat

and Poultry’’ is intended to inform

project participants and the public of

the Agency’s views on this subject. The

paper is available for review at the

location indicated above in ADDRESSES.

Done at Washington, DC, on: July 22, 1998.

Thomas J. Billy,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 98–20172 Filed 7–28–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 21

Existence of Proposed Airworthiness

Design Standards for Acceptance

Under the Primary Category Rule

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Proposed airworthiness

standards for acceptance under the

primary category rule; request for

comments.
Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 145 /Wednesday, July 29, 1998 / Proposed Rules 40383

SUMMARY: This document announces the

existence of and requests comments on

proposed airworthiness design

standards for acceptance of the Model

Deland Travelaire airplane under FAA’s

rules on designation of applicable

regulations for primary category aircraft.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before August 28, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Send all comments to the

FAA, Standards Office, Small Airplane

Directorate (ACE–110), Aircraft

Certification Service, 601 East 12th

Street, Kansas City, MO 64106.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim

Smyth, Aerospace Engineer, Standards

Office (ACE–111), Small Airplane

Directorate, Aircraft Certification

Service, FAA; telephone number (816)

426–6941, fax number (816) 426–2169.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any

person may obtain a copy of this

information by contacting the person

named above under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

Comments Invited

We invite interested parties to submit

comments on the proposed

airworthiness standards to the address

specified above. Commenters must

identify the design standards

(Department of Commerce Aeronautics

Bulletin 7A, as amended October 1,

1934, as the design standard for the

unmodified airplane structure and

Transport Canada’s TP10141E Ultralight

(Sportplane) design standard for all

modifications) and submit comments to

the address specified above. The FAA

will consider all communications

received on or before the closing date

before issuing the final acceptance. The

proposed airworthiness design

standards and comments received may

be inspected at the FAA, Small Airplane

Directorate, Aircraft Certification

Service, Standards Office (ACE–110),

1201 Walnut, Room 900, Kansas City,

MO 64106, between the hours of 7:30

a.m. and 4:00 p.m. weekdays, except

Federal holidays.

Background

The ‘‘primary’’ category for aircraft

was created specifically for the simple,

low performance personal aircraft.

Section 21.17(f) provides a means for

applicants to propose airworthiness

standards for their particular primary

category aircraft. The FAA procedure

establishing appropriate airworthiness

standards includes reviewing and

possibly revising the applicant’s

proposal, publication of the submittal in

the Federal Register for public review

and comment, and addressing the

comments. After all necessary revisions,

the standards are published as approved

FAA airworthiness standards.

Accordingly, the applicant, Orlando

Helicopter Airways, Inc., has submitted

a request to the FAA to include the

Department of Commerce Aeronautics

Bulletin 7A, as amended October 1,

1934, as the design standard for the

unmodified airplane structure and

Transport Canada’s TP10141E Ultralight

(Sportplane) design standard for all

modifications. The Department of

Commerce Aeronautics Bulletin 7A was

used in the original certification in

March 1928 of the Curtiss Travel Aire

2000; therefore, the FAA considers this

standard as continuing to be valid for

the unmodified parts of the Deland

Travelaire.

The authority citation for the

proposed airworthiness standards is as

follows:

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7572; 49 U.S.C.

106(g), 40105, 40113, 44701–44702, 44707,

44709, 44711, 44713, 44715, 45303.

Proposed Airworthiness Standards for

Acceptance Under the Primary

Category Rule

The FAA is requiring 500 hours of

operational aviation service history of

the derivative V8 engine/woodpropeller combination on an airplane

rather than the 200 hours offered by the

applicant. The applicant has agreed to

this position; therefore, the certification

basis for the Deland Travelaire will be

the Primary Category Rule (part 21,

21.24) with Department of Commerce

Aeronautics Bulletin 7A, as amended

October 1, 1934, as the design standard

of the unmodified airplane structure

and Transport Canada’s TP10141E

Ultralight (Sportplane) Design Standard

will be used for all modifications.

Compliance with the acoustical

standards of the latest amendment to 14

CFR part 36 at the time of certification

will be required.

Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 8,

1998.

Michael Gallagher,

Manager, Small Airplane Directorate, Aircraft

Certification Service.

[FR Doc. 98–20112 Filed 7–28–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

26 CFR Part 1

[REG–110332–98]

RIN 1545–AW43

Conversion to the Euro

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS),

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking

by cross-reference to temporary

regulations and notice of public hearing.

SUMMARY: In the Rules and Regulations

of this issue of the Federal Register, the

IRS is issuing temporary regulations

relating to the change to the euro. The

text of those temporary regulations also

serves as the text of these proposed

regulations. This document also

provides a notice of public hearing on

these proposed regulations.

DATES: Written comments must be

received by October 1, 1998. Requests to

speak and outlines of oral comments to

be discussed at the public hearing

scheduled for October 20, at 10 a.m.,

must be received by September 29,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Send submissions to:

CC:DOM:CORP:R (REG–110332–98),

room 5226, Internal Revenue Service,

POB 7604, Ben Franklin Station,

Washington, DC 20044. Submissions

may be hand delivered between the

hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to:

CC:DOM:CORP:R (REG–110332–98)

Courier’s Desk, Internal Revenue

Service, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW.,

Washington, DC. Alternatively,

taxpayers may submit comments

electronically via the Internet by

selecting the ‘‘Tax Regs’’ option of the

IRS Home Page, or by submitting

comments directly to the IRS Internet

site at: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/

taxlregs/comments.html. The public

hearing will be held in room 2615,

Internal Revenue Building, 1111

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,

DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Concerning the regulations, Howard

Wiener, (202) 622–3870 or Thomas

Preston, (202) 622–3930; concerning

submissions and the hearing, LaNita

VanDyke, 202–622–7190 (not toll-free

numbers).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Temporary regulations in the Rules

and Regulations section of this issue of

the Federal Register amend the Income

Tax Regulations (26 CFR part 1) relating