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6NAPPO work program: https://nappo.org/ 

english/governance/work-program. 

7To sign up for the Stakeholder Registry, go to: 

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/ 

USDAAPHIS/subscriber/new. 

8For more information on the IPPC draft ISPM 

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

ourfocus/planthealth/international/sa_

phytostandards/ct_draft_standards. 

9NAPPO website: http://nappo.org. 

Because of the COVID–19 pandemic, 

there was no annual meeting held in 

2020. Despite the pandemic, NAPPO’s 

Secretariat and its member countries, 

including regulatory, plant health, and 

industry officials, continue to actively 

progress on projects and initiatives 

under the NAPPO work program, taking 

advantage of teleconferencing and other 

virtual meeting tools. NAPPO 

governance committees, including 

NAPPO’s Executive Committee and the 

Advisory and Management Committee, 

as well as expert groups, continue to 

communicate and meet virtually on a 

regular basis to actively progress on 

NAPPO strategic and work program 

initiatives. The PPQ Deputy 

Administrator is the U.S. member of the 

NAPPO Executive Committee. The 

NAPPO Executive Committee adopted 

three regional standards between 

October 1, 2020, and September 30, 

2021: Revisions to RSPM 9 

(Authorization of labs for phytosanitary 

testing), Revisions to RSPM 5 (NAPPO 

Glossary of phytosanitary terms), and 

Science and Technology Document 7 

(Risks associated with the introduction 

of exotic tussock moth species 

(Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) of 

potential concern to the NAPPO region). 

NAPPO’s Advisory and Management 

Committee continued working during 

the pandemic by virtually approving 

draft standards for consultation, 

selecting and onboarding experts to 

newly launched NAPPO expert groups, 

and addressing pending work program 

initiatives. 

The NAPPO expert groups, including 

member countries’ subject matter 

experts, in collaboration with NAPPO’s 

Secretariat, significantly progressed or 

finalized the following regional 

standards from October 2020 through 

September 2021: 

• Completed the development or 

revision and consultation of the 

following five regional standards: 

Revision of RSPM 22: Guidelines for 

construction and operation of a 

containment facility for insects and 

mites used as biological control agents; 

Revision of RSPM 35: Guidelines for the 

movement of propagative plant material 

of stone fruit, pome fruit, and grapevine 

into a NAPPO member country; 

Revision of RSPM 38: Importation of 

certain wooden and bamboo 

commodities into a NAPPO member 

country; Science & Technology 

document on Contaminating organisms 

affecting trade in wood commodities 

and forestry products; and a Position 

Document on Asian gypsy moth 

specified risk periods in Japan, Russia, 

Republic of Korea, and China. 

• Issued via NAPPO’s Phytosanitary 

Alert System: 24 Official Pest Reports 

from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 

2021. 

New NAPPO Standard-Setting 

Initiatives, Including Those in 

Development 

The 2021 work program 6 includes 

topics being worked on by NAPPO 

expert groups and NAPPO’s Advisory 

and Management Committee. APHIS 

actively and fully participates in the 

development and approval of the 

NAPPO work program. The APHIS 

position on each topic is guided and 

informed by the best technical and 

scientific information available, as well 

as on relevant input from stakeholders. 

The United States will consider its 

position on any draft standard after it 

reviews a prepared draft. 

The information in this notice 

contains all the information available to 

APHIS PPQ on NAPPO standards or 

projects under development or 

consideration. For updates on meeting 

times and for information on the expert 

groups that may become available 

following publication of this notice, 

visit the NAPPO website or contact Ms. 

Stephanie Dubon (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT above). 

PPQ actively works to achieve broad 

participation by States, industry, and 

other stakeholders in the development 

and use of international and regional 

plant health standards, including 

through the use of APHIS Stakeholder 

Registry notices 7 and the APHIS public 

website. Plant health stakeholders are 

strongly encouraged to comment on 

draft standards, documents, and 

specifications during consultation 

periods. APHIS posts links to draft 

standards on its website as they become 

available and provides information on 

the due dates for comments.8 Additional 

information on NAPPO standards 

(including the NAPPO work program, 

calls for projects, expert groups, the 

standard-setting process, and adopted 

standards) is available on the NAPPO 

website.9

For the most current information on 

official U.S. participation in NAPPO 

activities, including U.S. positions on 

standards being considered, contact Ms. 

Stephanie Dubon (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT above). Those 

wishing to provide comments on any of 

the areas of work being undertaken at 

NAPPO may do so at any time by 

responding to this notice (see 

ADDRESSES above) or by providing 

comments through Ms. Dubon. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of 

June 2022. 

Anthony Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13530 Filed 6–23–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2021–0007] 

Concurrence With WOAH Risk 

Designations for Bovine Spongiform 

Encephalopathy 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our decision to concur with the World 

Organization for Animal Health’s 

(WOAH) bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations 

for Bolivia and the United Kingdom’s 

zone of Jersey. WOAH recognizes the 

country of Bolivia and the United 

Kingdom’s zone of Jersey as being of 

negligible risk for BSE. We are taking 

this action based on our review of 

information supporting the WOAH’s 

risk designations for these regions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Javier Vargas, Senior Staff Officer, 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

Strategy and Policy, Veterinary Services, 

APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 38, 

Riverdale, MD 20737; (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 


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1The World Organization for Animal Health 

internationally follows a British English spelling of 

‘‘organisation’’ in its name; it was formerly the 

Office International des Epizooties, or OIE, but on 

May 28, 2022, the Organization announced that the 

acronym was changed from OIE to WOAH. 

2To view the notice, go to www.regulations.gov 

and enter APHIS–2021–0007 in the Search field. 

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-animal-product-importinformation/animal-health-status-ofregions. The list can also be obtained by 

writing to APHIS at Regionalization 

Evaluation Services, 4700 River Road 

Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737. 

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 (WOAH) 1 to request 

classification by APHIS. The other way 

is for APHIS to concur with the 

classification given to a country or 

region by WOAH. 

If WOAH has classified a region as 

either BSE negligible risk or BSE 

controlled risk, APHIS will seek 

information to support concurrence 

with the WOAH classification. This 

information may be publicly available 

information, or APHIS may request that 

regions supply the same information 

given to WOAH. APHIS will announce 

in the Federal Register, subject to 

public comment, its intent to concur 

with a WOAH classification. 

In accordance with this process, we 

published a notice 2 in the Federal 

Register on June 25, 2021 (86 FR 33635, 

Docket No. APHIS 2021–0007), in 

which we announced our intent to 

concur with the WOAH risk 

classifications of the following regions: 

• Country of negligible risk for BSE: 

Bolivia. 

• Zone of negligible risk for BSE: 

United Kingdom’s zone of Jersey. 

We solicited comments on the notice 

for 60 days ending on August 24, 2021. 

We did not receive any comments by 

this date. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in § 92.5, we are announcing 

our decision to concur with the WOAH 

risk classifications for Bolivia and the 

United Kingdom’s zone of Jersey. 

Pursuant to the Congressional Review 

Act (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

designated this action as not a major 

rule, as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). 

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 13th day of 

June 2022. 

Anthony Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13529 Filed 6–23–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request—EmpowHR/Person 

Model Non-Employee Data Sheet— 

FNS–775 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

This is an existing collection in use 

without an OMB control number. The 

purpose of this information collection 

request is to continue the use of the 

form FNS–775, to automate the form, 

and to revise the title from ‘‘Background 

Investigation Request for Contractor 

Employees’’ to ‘‘EmpowHR/Person 

Model Non-Employee Data Sheet.’’ This 

form will continue to provide for the 

collection of Personal Identifiable 

Information (PII) required to conduct 

background investigation which is a 

pre-requisite for all non-FNS employees 

(contractor, intern, volunteers, etc.) to 

be granted a security clearance for 

employment at all FNS locations. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before August 23, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to: 

Lawrence Laurato, Food and Nutrition 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 

22314. Comments may be sent via email 

to lawrence.laurato@usda.gov. 

Comments will also be accepted through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. All responses 

to this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval. All 

comments will be a matter of public 

record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of this information collection 

should be directed to Lawrence Laurato 

at 703–305–2411. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments 

are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions that were 

used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Title: EmpowHR/Person Model NonEmployee Data Sheet. 

Form Number: FNS–775. 

OMB Number: 0584–NEW. 

Expiration Date: Not Yet Determined. 

Type of Request: This is an existing 

collection in use without an OMB 

control number. 

Abstract: The data collected for FNS– 

775 titled EmpowHR/Person Model 

Non-Employee Data Sheet is used to 

input the USDA, Food and Nutrition 

Service’s non-employee (contractor, 

intern, volunteer, etc.) information into 

EmpowHR/Person Model. The data 

collected is for the specific purpose of 

sponsorship for the agency’s Personal 

Identity Verification (PIV) credential 

and background investigation required 

for access to agency facilities, systems, 

and information. 

Affected Public: (a) Individual/ 

Households; (b) Business or Other For 

Profit; (e) Federal Government; 

Respondent type: All USDA FNS nonemployee affiliates. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

750. 

The respondents are agency nonemployee affiliates at all FNS locations 

across the nation, inclusive of the FNS 

Headquarters in Alexandria, VA and at 

the seven (7) FNS regional offices across 

the USA. The estimated annual number 

of respondents who will be required to 

provide personal data for the FNS–775 

for a requisite background investigation 

request are 750. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

750. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.167 

of an hour. Each respondent takes 


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