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Vol. 80, No. 10 

Thursday, January 15, 2015 

1For more information, please visit: http://

www.fsis.usda.gov. 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Renewal of Charter of the 

Advisory Committee on Voluntary 

Foreign Aid 

AGENCY: United States Agency for 

International Development. 

ACTION: Notice of charter renewal. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, notice is 

hereby given of the renewal of the 

Charter of the Advisory Committee on 

Voluntary Foreign Aid. 

Purpose of the Committee 

The Advisory Committee on 

Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) brings 

together USAID and private voluntary 

organizations (PVO) officials, 

representatives from universities, 

international nongovernment 

organizations (NGOs), U.S. businesses, 

and government, multilateral, and 

private organizations to foster 

understanding, communication, and 

cooperation in the area of foreign aid. 

The Charter is being renewed for two 

years effective from the date of filing on 

January 13, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jayne Thomisee, 202–712–5506. 

Dated: January 9, 2015. 

Christa White, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00443 Filed 1–13–15; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2014–0032] 

Establishment-Specific Data Release 

Strategic Plan 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: FSIS is announcing the 

availability of the Agency’s draft 

Establishment-Specific Data Release 

Strategic Plan (the draft Plan) for 

sharing data on federally inspected meat 

and poultry establishments with the 

public. FSIS developed the Plan in 

response to memoranda released by 

President Obama and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) that 

called for increased data sharing; an 

Executive Order for agencies to develop 

plans for making information available 

to the public; National Advisory 

Committee on Meat and Poultry 

Inspection (NACMPI) recommendations; 

and a National Research Council (NRC) 

review. FSIS is seeking public 

comments on the draft Plan. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: FSIS invites interested 

persons to submit comments on the 

draft data release Plan. Comments may 

be submitted by one of the following 

methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

Web site provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field on this Web page or 

attach a file for lengthier comments. Go 

to http://www.regulations.gov/. Follow 

the online instructions at that site for 

submitting comments. 

Mail, CD–ROMs: Send to Docket 

Clerk, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Food Safety and Inspection Service, 

Patriots Plaza 3, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., Mailstop 3782, Room 

8–163B, Washington, DC 20250–3700. 

Hand- or courier-delivered submittals: 

Deliver to Patriots Plaza 3, 355 E Street 

SW., Room 8–163A, Washington, DC 

20250–3700. 

Instructions: All items submitted by 

mail or electronic mail must include the 

Agency name and docket number FSIS– 

2014–0032. Comments received in 

response to this docket will be made 

available for public inspection and 

posted without change, including any 

personal information, to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to background 

documents or to comments received, go 

to the FSIS Docket Room at Patriots 

Plaza 3, 355 E Street SW., Room 164– 

A, Washington, DC 20250–3700 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Daniel L. Engeljohn, Assistant 

Administrator, Office of Policy and 

Program Development; Telephone: (202) 

205–0495. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Food Safety and Inspection 

Service (FSIS) administers a regulatory 

program under the Federal Meat 

Inspection Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et 

seq.), the Poultry Products Inspection 

Act (PPIA) (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.), and 

the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) 

(21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.) to protect the 

health and welfare of consumers. The 

Agency is responsible for ensuring that 

the nation’s commercial supply of meat, 

poultry, and egg products is safe, 

wholesome, not adulterated, and 

correctly labeled and packaged. 

FSIS inspects these products at 

official slaughtering and processing 

establishments, verifying that the 

establishments meet regulatory 

requirements and enforcing those 

requirements as necessary. 

Additionally, FSIS employees 

(inspectors, veterinarians, laboratorians, 

and Enforcement, Investigations, and 

Analysis Officers (EIAOs)) perform a 

variety of activities, including 

conducting inspections, ensuring 

compliance with existing regulations, 

and collecting and testing 

microbiological and chemical residue 

samples to verify whether 

establishments maintain Hazard 

Analysis and Critical Control Point 

(HACCP) or other food safety systems 

that address these hazards. While 

conducting these activities and 

performing many other key functions, 

FSIS collects a large volume of 

establishment-specific data on 

pathogens and residues. For example, 

FSIS collects data on regulated, 

domestic slaughter and processing 

establishments and on product imported 

from foreign countries with inspection 

systems equivalent to that of the United 

States. 

FSIS produces reports using this data 

for internal use, as well as reports and 

data shared publicly through the 

Agency’s Web site 1 and other public 

communication venues. FSIS aggregates 

most of the data it shares with the 


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2 ‘‘Transparency and Open Government: 

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies’’. (74 FR 4685; Jan. 26, 

2009), pp. 4685–4686. Available at:http://

www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/

TransparencyandOpenGovernment. 

3 ‘‘Memorandum for the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies: President’s 

Memorandum on Transparency and Open 

Government—Interagency Collaboration.’’ 

Memorandum Number: M–09–12. 24 February, 

2009. Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_fy2009/

m09-12.pdf. 

4 ‘‘Memorandum for the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies: President’s 

Memorandum on Transparency and Open 

Government—Interagency Collaboration.’’ 

Memorandum Number: M–10–06. 8 December, 

2009. Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

open/documents/open-government-directive. 

5 ‘‘The National Advisory Committee on Meat and 

Poultry Inspection Data Collection, Analysis, and 

Transparency ‘Subcommittee.’’ 2010. Available at: 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/

caa395aa-5f88-467e-b20f-a010e95cb4db/Data_

Subcommittee_Final_Report.pdf?MOD=AJPERES. 

6National Research Council, Committee on a 

Study of Food Safety and Other Consequences of 

Publishing Establishment-Specific Data. The 

Potential Consequences of Public Release of Food 

Safety and Inspection Service EstablishmentSpecific Data. 2011. Available at: http://

www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13304. 

7National Research Council, Committee on a 

Study of Food Safety and Other Consequences of 

Publishing Establishment-Specific Data. ‘‘The 

Potential Consequences of Public Release of Food 

Safety and Inspection Service EstablishmentSpecific Data.’’ 2011. Available at: http://

www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13304. 

8 ‘‘Memorandum on Regulatory Compliance.’’ 76 

Federal Register 14 (21 January 2011), pp. 3825– 

3826. 

9Making Open and Machine Readable the New 

Default for Government Information.’’ Executive 

Order 13642. 78 Federal Register 93 (14 May 2013), 

pp. 28111–28113. 

10About Data.gov.’’ Data.gov. Available at: 

http://www.data.gov/about. 

public or provides the data in summary 

format. 

On January 21, 2009, President 

Obama issued a ‘‘Memorandum on 

Transparency and Open Government’’,2

intended to promote increased public 

trust in the Government through ‘‘a 

system of transparency, public 

participation, and collaboration.’’ A 

month later, OMB sent a memorandum 

to Executive Departments and agencies 

on ‘‘The President’s Memorandum on 

Transparency and Open Government— 

Interagency Collaboration,’’ 3 which 

enclosed a copy of the Presidential 

memorandum and announced plans for 

developing a directive on transparency, 

participation, and collaboration across 

Government and with groups outside 

the Government. On December 8, 2009, 

OMB issued the Open Government 

Directive, requiring the Departments 

and agencies to take various steps 

toward creating a more open 

Government, such as by publishing 

information online in an open format 

that is available to the public without 

restrictions.4

In 2010, in response to the 

memoranda and directive discussed in 

the preceding paragraph, and a desire to 

more publicly share data collected by 

the Agency, FSIS began exploring how 

best to share establishment-specific data 

with the public. As a first step, FSIS 

consulted NACMPI, which 

recommended that FSIS obtain guidance 

from the National Academies or other 

entities with recognized expertise in 

data management and analysis to 

improve data accessibility and 

usefulness for internal and external 

stakeholders.5

Acting on the NACMPI 

recommendation, FSIS asked the 

National Academies’ NRC in late 2010 

to study the potential food safety 

benefits and other consequences of 

making establishment-specific data 

publicly available on the Internet.6 The 

NRC convened a committee that in 2011 

issued a report laying out an approach 

for FSIS’s release of establishmentspecific data that considered the 

benefits and costs of data sharing. In 

exploring how other Government 

agencies share data with the public, the 

NRC selected for review a number of 

regulatory and non-regulatory agencies 

that share data on their activities. 

Information about data sharing within 

and from these agencies is available in 

the NRC report. 

The NRC Committee concluded, on 

the basis of its review of the design and 

implementation of data release efforts 

by other regulatory and non-regulatory 

agencies, that FSIS could ‘‘benefit from 

consultation with these agencies and 

could build on their effective practices 

when designing a public data release 

program.’’ The NRC Committee found 

that, on the whole, there were ‘‘strong 

arguments supporting public release of 

establishment-specific FSIS data, 

especially data that are subject to release 

under [the Freedom of Information 

Act].’’ To maximize its effectiveness and 

minimize its potential adverse 

unintended consequences, FSIS’s ‘‘data 

disclosure should be guided by a 

carefully designed informationdisclosure strategy.’’ 7 The NRC 

Committee specifically recommended 

that FSIS develop a strategic plan to 

guide it in the release of establishmentspecific data. 

FSIS also conducted its own in-depth 

review of Federal data sharing 

procedures and resources. This review 

focused on both regulatory and nonregulatory agencies and identified 

model Web sites, data-sharing portals, 

and other public data-sharing resources. 

As a consequence of its review and the 

recommendations that it received, the 

Agency developed the draft 

Establishment-Specific Data Release 

Strategic Plan (the draft Plan). The draft 

Plan is accessible at: http://

www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/

98c33278-53dd-4228-a695- 

54f429cf4413/Establishment-SpecificData-Release-Plan.pdf?MOD=AJPERES. 

In January 2014, as a follow-up to its 

2010 meeting, FSIS shared the draft 

Plan with NACMPI to gather input and 

seek feedback before the public release 

and implementation of the Plan. 

NACMPI recommended that FSIS 

prioritize the release of establishmentlevel datasets that FSIS already 

publishes in a aggregated or summary 

form and datasets related to sampling 

programs for pathogens that are 

considered adulterants. NACMPI also 

recommended that FSIS consider 

releasing additional datasets and adding 

this information to the Plan. The 

Agency has incorporated this input in 

the version of the draft Plan that the 

present document announces. 

Meanwhile, in the effort to identify 

and plan for the release of additional 

data to the public, FSIS and other 

regulatory agencies have been 

encouraged by President Obama’s 

’’Memorandum on Regulatory 

Compliance’’ 8 and the Executive Order, 

‘‘Making Open and Machine Readable 

the New Default for Government 

Information,’’ 9 to develop plans for 

making information on regulatory 

compliance and enforcement activities 

available in machine-readable format 

and accessible, downloadable, and 

searchable online. Under the draft Plan, 

FSIS will use Data.gov as a repository 

and point-of-access for released data. 

Data.gov is a Federal, governmentsponsored Web site designed to 

‘‘increase the ability of the public to 

easily find, download, and use datasets 

that are generated and held by the 

Federal Government.’’10 FSIS will 

provide a link to Data.gov on its Web 

site. 

The draft Plan covers dataset selection 

criteria, data release procedures, a 

preliminary list of Agency datasets for 

public release, and performance 

measures for evaluating the 

effectiveness of data release. It also 

provides details on the specific 

sampling programs from which the 

establishment-specific data are drawn. 

The draft Plan includes a preliminary 

list of Agency datasets for public 

release. The data to be released first will 

be demographic datasets for all 

regulated establishments (expanding the 

data currently available through the 


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11The preliminary demographics dataset will not 

include information on egg products 

establishments. FSIS will release this information at 

a later date. 

FSIS Meat, Poultry, and Egg Inspection 

Directory). ‘‘Demographics’’ here refers 

to identifying characteristics of meat 

and poultry establishments that are 

subject to FSIS inspection.11 These 

include, but are not limited to, the 

following variables: Establishments’ 

‘‘HACCP size’’—large, small, or very 

small; products the establishments’ 

produce; and their USDA official 

establishment number. 

At a later date, FSIS will release 

Agency datasets on testing data on Shiga 

Toxin-producing Escherichia coli 

(STEC) in raw, non-intact beef products 

and on Listeria monocytogenes and 

Salmonella in RTE products. Additional 

Agency datasets FSIS intends to release 

include, but are not limited to, testing 

and serotype data on Salmonella and 

Campylobacter in young chickens and 

young turkeys; Salmonella and 

Campylobacter in comminuted poultry; 

Salmonella in raw ground beef; routine 

chemical residue testing data in meat 

and poultry products; advanced meat 

recovery (AMR) testing data. These 

preliminary Agency datasets will not all 

be released at the same time and before 

releasing the final datasets. FSIS will 

publish a Constituent Update with a 

link to a sample dataset for stakeholder 

review. 

Besides the preliminary datasets that 

the Agency will be releasing, as stated 

in the draft Plan, FSIS is considering 

additional data sources for future 

release. These include: Inspection task 

data associated with verification of 

compliance with each regulation; 

humane handling task data; and import 

sampling task data relating to STEC, 

Salmonella, and residue testing. 

The Agency is sharing the draft Plan 

with the larger public to benefit from 

any comments and suggestions that the 

public may provide. The Agency will 

consider all comments submitted before 

releasing and posting any datasets. The 

Agency will revise the draft Plan as 

necessary. 

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement 

No agency, officer, or employee of the 

USDA shall, on the grounds of race, 

color, national origin, religion, sex, 

gender identity, sexual orientation, 

disability, age, marital status, family/

parental status, income derived from a 

public assistance program, or political 

beliefs, exclude from participation in, 

deny the benefits of, or subject to 

discrimination any person in the United 

States under any program or activity 

conducted by the USDA. 

To file a complaint of discrimination, 

complete the USDA Program 

Discrimination Complaint Form, which 

may be accessed online at http://

www.ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/

docs/2012/Complain_combined_6_8_

12.pdf, or write a letter signed by you 

or your authorized representative. 

Send your completed complaint form 

or letter to USDA by mail, fax, or email: 

Mail 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410. 

Fax 

(202) 690–7442. 

Email 

program.intake@usda.gov. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication 

(Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) 

should contact USDA’s TARGET Center 

at (202)720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

Additional Public Notification 

FSIS will announce this notice online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/federalregister. 

FSIS will also make copies of this 

Federal Register publication available 

through the FSIS Constituent Update, 

which is used to provide information 

regarding FSIS policies, procedures, 

regulations, Federal Register notices, 

FSIS public meetings, and other types of 

information that could affect or would 

be of interest to constituents and 

stakeholders. The Update is 

communicated via Listserv, a free 

electronic mail subscription service for 

industry, trade groups, consumer 

interest groups, health professionals, 

and other individuals who have asked 

to be included. The Update is also 

available on the FSIS Web page. In 

addition, FSIS offers an electronic mail 

subscription service which provides 

automatic and customized access to 

selected food safety news and 

information. This service is available at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/subscribe. 

Options range from recalls to export 

information to regulations, directives, 

and notices. Customers can add or 

delete subscriptions themselves, and 

have the option to password protect 

their accounts. 

Done at Washington, DC, on: January 9, 

2015. 

Alfred V. Almanza, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00434 Filed 1–14–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Ochoco National Forest, Paulina 

Ranger District; Oregon; Black 

Mountain Vegetation and Fuels 

Management Project EIS 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Ochoco National Forest is 

preparing an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of 

managing vegetation and fuels within 

the 34,011 acre Black Mountain project 

area, which is approximately 35 miles 

east of Prineville, Oregon. The project 

area includes National Forest system 

lands within the North Fork Crooked 

River watershed. The alternatives that 

will be analyzed include the proposed 

action, no action, and additional 

alternatives that will respond to issues 

generated through the scoping process. 

The Ochoco National Forest will give 

notice of the full environmental analysis 

and decision making process so 

interested and affected people may 

participate and contribute to the final 

decision. 

DATES: Scoping comments must be 

received by March 2, 2015. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected to be completed and available 

for public comment in October, 2015. 

The final environmental impact 

statement is expected to be completed 

in March, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Sandra Henning, District Ranger, 

Paulina Ranger District, Ochoco 

National Forest, 3160 NE Third Street, 

Prineville, Oregon 97754. Alternately, 

electronic comments may be sent to 

comments-pacificnorthwest ochoco@

fs.fed.us. Electronic comments must be 

submitted as part of the actual email 

message, or as an attachment in plain 

text (.txt), Microsoft Word (.doc), rich 

text format(.rtf), or portable document 

format (.pdf). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffrey Marszal, Project Leader at 3160 

NE Third Street, Prineville, Oregon 

97754, or at (541) 416–6500, or by email 

at jmarszal@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The existing condition of the Black 

Mountain project area was evaluated in 

2014 and documented in the Black 

Mountain project record. The evaluation 

determined that conditions in the 

planning area have departed from the 

historic conditions in several ways. 


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