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AMS is committed to complying with 

the E-Government Act, to promote the 

use of the Internet and other 

information technologies to provide 

increased opportunities for citizen 

access to Government information and 

services, and for other purposes. 

USDA has not identified any relevant 

Federal rules that duplicate, overlap or 

conflict with this rule. In addition, the 

Committee’s meeting was widely 

publicized throughout the Florida citrus 

industry and all interested persons were 

invited to attend the meeting and 

participate in Committee deliberations 

on all issues. Like all Committee 

meetings, the January 22, 2008, meeting 

was a public meeting and all entities, 

both large and small, were able to 

express their views on this issue. 

Finally, interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on this proposed rule, 

including the regulatory and 

informational impacts of this action on 

small businesses. 

A small business guide on complying 

with fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop 

marketing agreements and orders may 

be viewed at: http://www.ams.usda.gov/ 

AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplate

Data.do?template=TemplateN&page=

MarketingOrdersSmallBusinessGuide. 

Any questions about the compliance 

guide should be sent to Jay Guerber at 

the previously mentioned address in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

A 30-day comment is provided to 

allow interested persons to respond to 

this proposal. Thirty days is deemed 

appropriate because this rule should be 

implemented as soon as possible since 

the marketing order continuance 

referendum is scheduled for the current 

season. Further, the Committee 

discussed this issue at a public meeting 

and interested parties had an 

opportunity to provide input. All 

written comments timely received will 

be considered before a final 

determination is made on this matter. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 905 

Grapefruit, Marketing agreements, 

Oranges, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Tangelos, Tangerines. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, 7 CFR part 905 is proposed to 

be amended as follows: 

PART 905—ORANGES, GRAPEFRUIT, 

TANGERINES, AND TANGELOS 

GROWN IN FLORIDA 

1. The authority citation for 7 CFR 

part 905 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601–674. 

§ 905.83 Termination. 

2. Amend paragraph (c) of § 905.83 

by: 

a. Designating the first sentence ‘‘The 

Secretary shall conduct a referendum 

six years after the effective date of this 

paragraph and every sixth year 

thereafter to ascertain whether 

continuance of this part is favored by 

producers’’ as paragraph (c)(1) and the 

next two sentences as paragraph (c)(2). 

b. Newly designated paragraph (c)(1) 

is temporarily suspended for 2008. 

Dated: August 20, 2008. 

Lloyd C. Day, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

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POSTAL SERVICE 

39 CFR Part 111 

New Automation Requirements for 

Detached Address Labels 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service proposes 

revisions to the Mailing Standards of 

the United States Postal Service, 

Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) for 

detached address labels (DALs). To 

increase efficiency and reduce handling 

costs, we propose that DALs 

accompanying saturation mailings of 

Periodicals or Standard Mail flats must 

be automation-compatible and have a 

correct delivery point POSTNETTM

barcode or Intelligent Mail barcode 

with an 11-digit routing code. This 

proposal would not apply to DALs with 

simplified addresses. 

To be consistent with the current 

requirement for return addresses, we are 

proposing to add DALs to DMM 

602.1.5.3, Required Use of Return 

Address. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before September 26, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written 

comments to the Manager, Mailing 

Standards, U.S. Postal Service, 475 

L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Room 3436, 

Washington, DC 20260–3436. You may 

inspect and photocopy all written 

comments, Monday through Friday 

between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., USPS 

Headquarters Library, 475 L’Enfant 

Plaza, SW., 11th Floor N, Washington, 

DC. Do not submit comments via fax or 

e-mail. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Monica Grein at 202–268–8411. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 7, 

2007, at the request of many mailers, we 

revised our standards to allow 

advertising on the front of DALs 

provided that the DALs were barcoded 

and automation-compatible (see Postal 

Bulletin 22208 and DMM 602.4.2.5.b). 

This change provided mailers with the 

ability to offset the DAL surcharge, 

implemented in May 2007, with new 

opportunities for advertising revenue. 

Current mailing standards do not 

require DALs that accompany saturation 

mailings of Periodicals or Standard Mail 

flats to be automation-compatible and 

barcoded unless advertising appears on 

the front. Automation-compatible and 

barcoded DALs may be processed with 

letter mail in delivery point sequence 

(DPS) order, thereby eliminating the 

need for carriers to manually case the 

labels. 

Except for DALs prepared with 

simplified addresses, our proposal 

would require that all DALs 

accompanying saturation mailings of 

Periodicals or Standard Mail flats be 

automation-compatible and have a 

correct delivery point POSTNET 

barcode or Intelligent Mail barcode with 

an 11-digit routing code. 

We propose to allow mailers 90 days 

after the publication date of the Federal 

Register final rule to comply with the 

new standards for DALs, to afford 

mailers time to exhaust existing stock. 

We suggest that mailers work with their 

local mailpiece design analyst (MDA) to 

ensure that any new DALs 

accompanying saturation mailings of 

Periodicals or Standard Mail flats meet 

the new standards. 

Ninety days from the publication of 

the Federal Register final rule, 

saturation flats mailings presented with 

DALs that are not automationcompatible and barcoded will not 

qualify for saturation prices but may be 

entered at the basic carrier route price 

for Periodicals mailings or the basic 

Enhanced Carrier Route price for 

Standard Mail mailings. 

Although exempt from the notice and 

comment requirements of the 

Administrative Procedure Act [5 U.S. C. 

of 553(b), (c)] regarding proposed 

rulemaking by 39 U.S.C. 410(a), the 

Postal Service invites public comments 

on the following proposed revisions to 

Mailing Standards of the United States 

Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual 

(DMM), incorporated by reference in the 

Code of Federal Regulations. See 39 

CFR 111.1. 

List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111 

Administrative practice and 

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Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is 

proposed to be amended as follows: 

PART 111—[AMENDED] 

1. The authority citation for 39 CFR 

part 111 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101, 

401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001–3011, 3201–

3219, 3403–3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 

3633, and 5001. 

2. Revise the following sections of the 

Mailing Standards of the United States 

Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual 

(DMM) as follows: 

* * * * * 

600 Basic Standards for All Mailing 

Services 

* * * * * 

602 Addressing 

1.0 Elements of Addressing 

* * * * * 

1.5 Return Addresses 

* * * * * 

1.5.3 Required Use of Return 

Addresses 

The sender’s domestic return address 

must appear legibly on: 

[Add new item m to 1.5.3 as follows:] 

* * * * * 

m. Detached addressed labels (DALs). 

* * * * * 

4.0 Detached Address Labels (DALs) 

4.1 DALs Use 

* * * * * 

[Revise text of 4.1.2 to require that 

DALs accompanying saturation 

mailings of Periodicals or Standard Mail 

flats be automation-compatible as 

follows:] 

4.1.2 Periodicals or Standard Mail 

Flats Saturation Mailings 

Saturation mailings of unaddressed 

Periodicals or Standard Mail flats may 

be mailed with detached address labels 

(DALs). DALs accompanying saturation 

mailings of Periodicals or Standard Mail 

flats must be automation-compatible 

under 201.3.0. For this standard, 

saturation mailing means a mailing sent 

to at least 75% of the total addresses on 

a carrier route or 90% of the residential 

addresses on a route, whichever is less. 

Deliveries are not required to every 

carrier route of a delivery unit. 

* * * * * 

4.2 Label Preparation 

4.2.1 Label Construction 

Each DAL must be made of paper or 

cardboard stock that is not folded, 

perforated, or creased, and that meets 

these measurements: 

* * * * * 

[Revise item c of 4.2.1 and add new 

items d and e as follows:] 

c. At least 0.007 inch thick except 

under 4.2.1.d. 

d. If more than 41⁄4 inches high or 

more than 6 inches in length, must be 

at least 0.009 inch thick. 

e. Must have an aspect ratio (length 

divided by height) between 1.3 to 2.5, 

inclusive. 

4.2.2 Addressing 

[Revise text of 4.2.2 to require a 

POSTNET or Intelligent Mail barcode 

with a delivery point routing code as 

follows:] 

The address for each item must be 

placed on a DAL, parallel to the longest 

dimension of the DAL, and must not 

appear on the item it accompanies. The 

DAL must contain the recipient’s 

delivery address and the mailer’s return 

address. A ZIP+4 code or 5-digit ZIP 

code is required unless a simplified 

address format is used. DALs that 

accompany saturation mailings of 

Periodicals or Standard Mail flats must 

include a correct delivery point 

POSTNET barcode or Intelligent Mail 

barcode with an 11-digit routing code 

(see 708.4) except when using a 

simplified address. 

* * * * * 

4.2.5 Other Information 

In addition to the information 

described in 4.2.2 and 4.2.4 and an 

indicium of postage payment, only the 

following may appear on the front of a 

DAL: 

* * * * * 

b. Advertising, under the following 

conditions: 

[Delete item 1 and renumber current 

items 2 and 3 as new items 1 and 2.] 

* * * * * 

We will publish an appropriate 

amendment to 39 CFR 111 to reflect 

these changes if our proposal is 

adopted. 

Neva R. Watson, 

Attorney, Legislative. 

[FR Doc. E8–19803 Filed 8–26–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 600 

[Docket No. 071102640–8952–01] 

RIN 0648–AQ63 

Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; 

National Standard Guidelines 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS); National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: NMFS withdraws a proposed 

rule for revisions to National Standard 

1 (NS1) guidelines, which was 

published on June 22, 2005. Instead of 

going forward with a final rule directly 

resulting from the 2005 proposed rule, 

NMFS published a new proposed rule 

for the NS1 guidelines in the Federal 

Register on June 9, 2008, to address new 

provisions enacted in 2007 in the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management 

Reauthorization Act (MSRA). Because of 

new requirements for annual catch 

limits (ACLs) and accountability 

measures (AMs), among other things, 

NMFS decided that it was better to 

proceed with a new proposed rule 

rather than try to revise a 3–year old 

action that preceded the MSRA. The 

new proposed rule provides guidance 

on ACLs and AMs and other 

requirements related to overfishing and 

rebuilding overfished stocks in the 

National Standard 1 (NS1) guidelines. 

DATES: This proposed rule is withdrawn 

on August 27, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark R. Millikin, Senior Fishery 

Management Specialist, 301–713–2341, 

or via e-mail mark.millikin@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

301(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act) states that any 

fishery management plan (FMP) 

prepared and any regulation 

promulgated to implement such a plan 

shall be consistent with the ten national 

standards described in that section. 

Section 301(b) states that the Secretary 

of Commerce should establish advisory 

guidelines (which shall not have the 

force and effect of law) based on the 

national standards to assist in 

development of FMPs. 

The guidelines for national standards 

of the Magnuson-Stevens Act were last 

revised through a final rule published in 

the Federal Register on May 1, 1998 (63 


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