Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 36 / Friday, February 23, 2007 / Rules and Regulations 8111 

4. All land border ports in the state of 

Alaska. 

Dated: February 20, 2007. 

Deborah J. Spero, 

Acting Commissioner, Customs and Border 

Protection. 

[FR Doc. 07–829 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

21 CFR Parts 71 and 171 

[Docket No. 1995N–0220 (formerly 95N–

0220)] 

Substances Approved for Use in the 

Preparation of Meat and Poultry 

Products; Announcement of Effective 

Date 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Final rule; announcement of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is announcing the 

effective date for the information 

collection requirements contained in a 

final rule published in the Federal 

Register of August 25, 2000 (65 FR 

51758). The rule amended FDA’s 

regulations on food additive and color 

additive petitions to permit an efficient 

joint review by both FDA and the Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA), of petitions for approval to use 

a food ingredient or source of radiation 

in or on meat or poultry products. An 

information collection requirement 

cannot be instituted unless it is 

reviewed by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), 

approved by OMB, and assigned an 

OMB control number. OMB’s approval 

of the information collection 

requirements of the August 25, 2000, 

final rule was announced in the Federal 

Register of March 1, 2001 (66 FR 

12938), and these requirements are 

currently approved under OMB control 

number 0910–0016. Accordingly, FDA 

is announcing that the information 

collection requirements of the August 

25, 2000, final rule will go into effect on 

March 26, 2007. 

DATES: Effective Date: The amendments 

to §§ 71.1 and 171.1 (21 CFR 71.1 and 

171.1), published in the Federal 

Register of August 25, 2000, are 

effective as of March 26, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen M. Waldron, Center for Food 

Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS–

206), Food and Drug Administration, 

5100 Paint Branch Pkwy., College Park, 

MD 20740–3835, 301–436–1256. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

25, 2000, FDA published a final rule 

entitled, ‘‘Substances Approved for Use 

in the Preparation of Meat and Poultry 

Products,’’ which, in part, amended its 

regulations to permit an efficient joint 

review by both FDA and FSIS of USDA, 

of petitions for approval to use a food 

ingredient or source of radiation in or 

on meat or poultry products. The final 

rule requires applicants petitioning for 

approval for the use of substances in 

meat and poultry products to provide 

four copies of the petition to FDA, 

rather than the three copies previously 

specified in §§ 71.1 and 171.1. FDA will 

then forward a copy of the petition or 

relevant portions of the petition to FSIS 

so that both agencies can perform the 

necessary reviews simultaneously, thus 

reducing the time it takes to authorize 

a food additive or color additive for use 

in meat and poultry products. The rule 

does not require petitioners to submit 

any new information to either FDA or 

FSIS. This final rule resulted from a 

coordinated effort by the two agencies to 

ease the paperwork burden on regulated 

industries through streamlining the 

Government’s approval process for 

substances used as food additives or 

color additives in meat and poultry 

products (§§ 71.1 and 171.1). 

At the time of publication of the final 

rule, the information collection 

requirements contained in §§ 71.1 and 

171.1 had been submitted to, but not yet 

approved by, OMB under the PRA (44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520). Under the PRA, an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

a person is not required to respond to, 

a collection of information unless and 

until the collection displays a valid 

OMB control number. 

FDA announced OMB approval of the 

information collection requirements in 

§§ 71.1 and 171.1, as amended by FDA’s 

August 25, 2000, final rule, in the 

Federal Register of March 1, 2001. The 

agency is now announcing that these 

requirements will become effective on 

March 26, 2007. The information 

collection requirements at §§ 71.1 and 

171.1 were originally assigned OMB 

control number 0910–0461. In 

December 2003, OMB control number 

0910–0016 replaced OMB control 

number 0910–0461 as the valid control 

number that authorizes the information 

collection requirements. OMB control 

number 0910–0016 remains the 

currently approved control number for 

§§ 71.1 and 171.1. 

Dated: February 14, 2007. 

Jeffrey Shuren, 

Assistant Commissioner for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–801 Filed 2–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 117 

[CGD01–07–017] 

Drawbridge Operation Regulations; 

Cheesequake Creek, Morgan, NJ 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of temporary deviation 

from regulations. 

SUMMARY: The Commander, First Coast 

Guard District, has issued a temporary 

deviation from the regulation governing 

the operation of the New Jersey Transit 

Rail Operation (NJTRO) Railroad Bridge 

across Cheesequake Creek, mile 0.2, at 

Morgan, New Jersey. Under this 

temporary deviation, the bridge may 

remain in the closed position for two 

24-hour time periods between February 

20, 2007 and February 24, 2007. The 

exact two 24-hour closure dates will be 

determined based upon favorable 

weather necessary to perform the 

scheduled repairs. This deviation is 

necessary to facilitate scheduled bridge 

maintenance. 

DATES: This deviation is effective from 

February 20, 2007 through February 24, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Materials referred to in this 

document are available for inspection or 

copying at the First Coast Guard 

District, Bridge Branch Office, One 

South Street, New York, New York 

10004, between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. The telephone number is (212) 

668–7165. The First Coast Guard 

District Bridge Branch Office maintains 

the public docket for this temporary 

deviation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe 

Arca, Project Officer, First Coast Guard 

District, at (212) 668–7069. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The NJTRO Railroad Bridge, across 

Cheesequake Creek, mile 0.2, at Morgan, 

New Jersey, has a vertical clearance in 

the closed position of 3 feet at mean 

high water and 8 feet at mean low water. 

The existing drawbridge operation 

regulations are listed at 33 CFR 

117.709(b). 


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