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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 61, No. 118

Tuesday, June 18, 1996

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

[Docket No. PY–96–003]

Pasteurized Shell Eggs (Pasteurized

In-Shell Eggs)

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service,

USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to inform interested persons that the

official USDA grade standards for shell

eggs cannot be used to grade pasteurized

shell eggs (in-shell eggs). Pasteurized

shell eggs are eggs of the domesticated

chicken which have been subjected to a

pasteurization process approved by the

Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

DATES: Comments should be submitted

on or before August 19, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be

sent to Douglas C. Bailey, Chief,

Standardization Branch, Poultry

Division, Agricultural Marketing

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,

P.O. Box 96456, Room 3944–South,

Washington, DC 20900–6456.

Comments may be inspected at this

location between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,

Eastern time, Monday through Friday,

except holidays. State that your

comments refer to Docket No. PY–96–

003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rex A. Barnes, Acting Chief, Grading

Branch, Poultry Division, 202–720–

3271.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Agricultural Marketing Act of

1946, as amended (AMA) (7 U.S.C. 1621

et seq.), authorizes the Secretary of

Agriculture to set standards for

agricultural products and, on a

voluntary basis, inspect and certify

conformity of agricultural products to

such standards to assist in their orderly

marketing.

The voluntary shell egg grading

program administered under the AMA

provides interested parties the ability to

request from the U.S. Department of

Agriculture (USDA) that their products

be graded in accordance with the

regulations which authorize the grading

activities and the standards which

provide a uniform language used to

describe an agricultural commodity in

the marketplace.

Grade Standards and Request for

Information

Grade standards currently applicable

to shell eggs are not appropriate for

grading pasteurized shell eggs due to

changes the shell eggs undergo during

the pasteurization process. AMS would

consider developing grade standards for

pasteurized shell eggs when a need for

such standards has been demonstrated.

All interested parties are invited to

comment on the need for pasteurized

shell egg standards and to recommend

grade standards which would accurately

describe the quality characteristics of

pasteurized shell eggs.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.

Dated: June 12, 1996.

Lon Hatamiya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 96–15362 Filed 6–18–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

Cancellation of the Alabama Advisory

Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Alabama Advisory Committee to the

Commission which was to have

convened at 6:00 p.m. and adjourned at

9:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, 1996,

at the Radisson Hotel, 808 South 20th,

Birmingham, Alabama, has been

canceled.

The original notice for the meeting

was announced in the Federal Register

on June 6, 1996, FR Doc. 96–14211, 61

FR 28837.

Persons desiring additional

information should contact Melvin L.

Jenkins, Director of the Central Regional

Office, 913–551–1400 (TDD 913–551–

1414).

Dated at Washington, DC, June 12, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–15394 Filed 6–17–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Delaware Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Delaware Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 9:30 a.m.

and adjourn at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday,

July 11, 1996, at the J.C. Boggs Federal

Office Building, Room 5207, 844 King

Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.

The purpose of the meeting is to plan

future activities.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact KiTaek Chun, Director of the Eastern

Regional Office, 202–376–7533 (TDD

202–376–8116). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 7, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–15427 Filed 6–17–96; 8:45 am]

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Hawaii Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Hawaii Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 2:00 p.m.

and adjourn at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday,

July 31, 1996, at the Ala Moana Hotel,

410 Atkinson Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii

96814. The purpose of the meeting is to

review current civil rights developments

in the State and plan future program

activities.