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1The notice, programmatic EA, public comments, 

and FONSI can be viewed at www.regulations.gov. 

Enter APHIS–2018–0101 in the Search field. 

2See footnote 1. 

member may serve successively for 

more than 2 terms. 

The Advisory Committee consists of 

15 members, appointed by the 

Secretary, who represent the interests of 

grain producers, processors, handlers, 

merchandisers, consumers, exporters, 

and scientists with expertise in research 

related to the policies in section 2 of the 

USGSA (7 U.S.C. 74). While members of 

the Advisory Committee serve without 

compensation, USDA reimburses them 

for travel expenses, including per diem 

in lieu of subsistence, for travel away 

from their homes or regular places of 

business in performance of Advisory 

Committee service (see 5 U.S.C. 5703). 

A list of current Advisory Committee 

members and other relevant information 

are available on the USDA website at: 

https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/ 

facas-advisory-councils/giac. 

The grain industry that utilizes 

Official Inspection and Weighing 

services for barley, canola, corn, 

flaxseed, oats, rye, soybeans, sorghum, 

sunflower seed, triticale, wheat, and 

mixed grain is diverse. AMS is seeking 

nominations for the Advisory 

Committee that will reflect the diversity 

of the grain industry, including, but not 

limited to, grain producers, processors, 

handlers, merchandisers, consumers, 

exporters, and scientists. Therefore, 

when making recommendations for 

appointments, the industry must 

consider the diversity of the population 

served and the knowledge, skills, and 

abilities of the members to serve a 

diverse population. 

Nominations are open to all 

individuals without regard to race, 

color, religion, gender, national origin, 

age, mental or physical disability, 

marital status, or sexual orientation. To 

ensure that recommendations of the 

Advisory Committee take into account 

the needs of the diverse groups served 

by the USDA, membership shall 

include, to the extent practicable, 

individuals with demonstrated ability to 

represent minorities, women, and 

persons with disabilities. 

Final selection of Advisory 

Committee members is made by the 

Secretary. 

Dated: June 16, 2021. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13504 Filed 6–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0101] 

Importation of Plants in Approved 

Growing Media Into the United States; 

Availability of a Final Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that a final environmental assessment 

and finding of no significant impact 

have been prepared by the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service for the 

importation of plants in approved 

growing media. The environmental 

assessment documents our review and 

analysis of the environmental impacts 

associated with, and alternatives to, the 

importation of plants in approved 

growing media. Based on its finding of 

no significant impact, we have 

determined that an environmental 

impact statement need not be prepared. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lydia E. Colo ́n, Senior Regulatory 

Policy Specialist, Plant Health 

Programs, Plant Protection and 

Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, 4700 River Road 

Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737–1237; 

Lydia.E.Colon@usda.gov; (301) 851– 

2302. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The requirements for importing plants 

in growing media (PIGM) consist of 

overlapping phytosanitary risk 

mitigation measures that together 

comprise a ‘‘systems approach.’’ The 

systems approach is designed to protect 

imported PIGM against pests and 

diseases during all stages of 

international trade from the greenhouse 

to final product delivery. The goal of the 

systems approach is to minimize the 

likelihood that any quarantine pest 

species enter the United States on the 

commodity proposed for import. 

The pest mitigation measures the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) proposes for most 

PIGM import requests are markedly 

similar from one request to the next, and 

for this reason we determined that a 

single programmatic environmental 

assessment (EA) would reduce the need 

for repetitive documentation of 

comparable risks for the majority of 

PIGM import requests we receive. 

On April 10, 2019, we published in 

the Federal Register (84 FR 14340, 

Docket No. APHIS–2018–0101) for 

public comment a notice of availability 1

of a draft programmatic EA for the 

importation of plants in approved 

growing media, which considers the 

potential environmental effects of a 

standardized set of pest risk mitigations 

for routine market requests to import 

plants in approved growing media. 

Comments on the notice were required 

to be received on or before May 10, 

2019, but we reopened the comment 

period for an additional 45 days to June 

24, 2019, to ensure that all interested 

persons had an opportunity to 

comment. 

During the public comment period 

APHIS received six comments. They 

were from producer organizations and 

private citizens. After reviewing the 

comments, we revised the EA to address 

issues raised by commenters, but also 

determined that none of the comments 

received necessitated changes to either 

the approach or the conclusions of the 

draft EA. The final programmatic EA 

addresses the issues raised in the public 

comments. 

Accordingly, we are advising the 

public that we have adopted the draft 

EA as a final programmatic EA entitled 

‘‘Importation of Plants in Approved 

Growing Media (PIGM) into the United 

States’’ (January 2020) and have 

prepared a finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) regarding the 

conclusions of the EA. 

The final EA and FONSI may be 

viewed on the Regulations.gov website 2

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. You may request paper 

copies of the final EA and FONSI by 

calling or writing to the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the 

final EA when requesting copies. 

The final EA and FONSI have been 

prepared in accordance with: (1) The 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3) 

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(7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of 

June 2021. 

Mark Davidson, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13497 Filed 6–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2021–0007] 

Concurrence With OIE Risk 

Designation for Bovine Spongiform 

Encephalopathy 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our preliminary concurrence with the 

World Organization for Animal Health’s 

(OIE) bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy (BSE) risk designation 

for Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s 

zone of Jersey. The OIE recognizes this 

country and this zone as being of 

negligible risk for BSE. We are taking 

this action based on our review of 

information supporting the OIE’s risk 

designation for Bolivia and the United 

Kingdom’s zone of Jersey. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before August 24, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2021–0007 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2021–0007, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Any comments we receive on this 

docket may be viewed at regulations.gov 

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: Mr. 

Javier Vargas, Senior Staff Officer, 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

Veterinary Services, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1231; (301) 851–3316; email: 

AskRegionalization@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 9 CFR part 92 subpart B, 

‘‘Importation of Animals and Animal 

Products; Procedures for Requesting 

BSE Risk Status Classification With 

Regard To Bovines’’ (referred to below 

as the regulations), set forth the process 

by which the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) classifies 

regions for bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy (BSE) risk. Section 92.5 

of the regulations provides that all 

countries of the world are considered by 

APHIS to be in one of three BSE risk 

categories: Negligible risk, controlled 

risk, or undetermined risk. These risk 

categories are defined in § 92.1. Any 

region that is not classified by APHIS as 

presenting either negligible risk or 

controlled risk for BSE is considered to 

present an undetermined risk. The list 

of those regions classified by APHIS as 

having either negligible risk or 

controlled risk can be accessed on the 

APHIS website at https://

www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/ 

animalhealth/animal-and-animalproduct-import-information/animalhealth-status-of-regions. The list can 

also be obtained by writing to APHIS at 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, 

MD 20737–1238. 

Under the regulations, APHIS may 

classify a region for BSE in one of two 

ways. One way is for regions that have 

not received a risk classification from 

the World Organization for Animal 

Health (OIE) to request classification by 

APHIS. The other way is for APHIS to 

concur with the classification given to a 

country or region by the OIE. 

If the OIE has classified a region as 

either BSE negligible risk or BSE 

controlled risk, APHIS will seek 

information to support concurrence 

with the OIE classification. This 

information may be publicly available 

information, or APHIS may request that 

regions supply the same information 

given to the OIE. APHIS will announce 

in the Federal Register, subject to 

public comment, its intent to concur 

with an OIE classification. 

In accordance with this process, we 

are giving notice in this document that 

APHIS intends to concur with the OIE 

risk classification of the country of 

Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s zone 

of Jersey as regions of negligible risk for 

BSE. 

The OIE recommendation regarding 

Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s zone 

of Jersey can be viewed at https://

www.oie.int/en/disease/bovinespongiform-encephalopathy/. The 

conclusions of the OIE scientific 

commission for Bolivia and the United 

Kingdom’s zone of Jersey can be viewed 

at https://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/ 

eng/Internationa_Standard_Setting/ 

docs/pdf/SCAD/A_SCAD_Feb2020.pdf 

(pages 53 for Bolivia and 56 for the 

United Kingdom’s zone of Jersey). 

After reviewing any comments that 

we receive, we will announce our final 

determination regarding the BSE 

classification of Bolivia and the United 

Kingdom’s zone of Jersey in the Federal 

Register, along with a discussion of and 

response to pertinent issues raised by 

commenters. If APHIS recognizes 

Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s zone 

of Jersey as negligible risk for BSE, the 

Agency will include this country and 

zone on the list of regions of negligible 

risk for BSE that is available to the 

public on the Agency’s website at 

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ 

ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-andanimal-product-import-information/ 

animal-health-status-of-regions. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317; 

21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 

CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of 

June 2021. 

Jack Shere, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13552 Filed 6–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Shasta County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Shasta County Resource 

Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet 

virtually via Microsoft Teams. The 

committee is authorized under the 

Secure Rural Schools and Community 

Self-Determination Act (the Act) and 

operates in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

of the committee is to improve 

collaborative relationships and to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the Forest Service concerning projects 

and funding consistent with Title II of 

the Act. RAC information can be found 

at the following website: https://

www.fs.usda.gov/main/stnf/ 

workingtogether/advisorycommittees. 

DATES: The meetings will be held on: 


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