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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 26 (Monday, February 10, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 9187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02412]

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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 26 / Monday, February 10, 2025 / 
Rules and Regulations

[[Page 9187]]

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

7 CFR Part 58

[Doc. No. AMS-DA-22-0064]
RIN 0581-AE20

Plant Records To Include Grade Label Butterfat Testing

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: This document delays the effective date of the January 16, 
2025, final rule that adopted amendments to the plant records 
requirement for the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Grading 
and Inspection Program. The amendments allow butterfat tests to be 
performed at an in-house or approved third party laboratory and add a 
requirement for plants to maintain and make such records available for 
examination by a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
inspector. These amendments increase efficiency by conforming to 
current industry practice.

DATES: As of February 10, 2025, the effective date of the final rule 
amending 7 CFR part 58, published on January 16, 2025 (90 FR 4585), is 
delayed until March 21, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Whitney Rick, Grading and 
Standardization Division, Dairy Program, Agricultural Marketing 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 2530-South Building, Mail 
Stop 0225, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-0230: 
Telephone: (202) 236-8241; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the memorandum of January 
20, 2025, from the President to executive departments and agencies, 
entitled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ this document 
temporarily delays the effective date of the rule titled, ``Plant 
Records to Include Grade Label Butterfat Testing,'' which was published 
in the Federal Register on January 16, 2025 (90 FR 4585). The rule 
adopted amendments to the plant records requirement for the 
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Grading and Inspection 
Program. The amendments allow butterfat tests to be performed at an in-
house or approved third party laboratory and add a requirement for 
plants to maintain and make such records available for examination by a 
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector. These 
amendments increase efficiency by conforming to current industry 
practice.
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    \1\ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/.
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    This action is exempt from notice and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553 
and is applicable immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, 
based on the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3), 
respectively. Seeking public comment is impracticable, unnecessary, and 
contrary to the public interest. The temporary delay in effective date 
is necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further 
review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the 
President's memorandum of January 20, 2025. Given the imminence of the 
effective date, seeking prior public comment on this temporary delay 
would have been impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest 
in the orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations. The 
imminence of the effective date is also good cause for making this 
action effective immediately upon publication.

Erin Morris,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-02412 Filed 2-6-25; 8:45 am]
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