We are adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the Asian longhorned beetle regulations by expanding the boundaries of the quarantined areas in New York and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from these areas. The interim rule was necessary to prevent the artificial spread of the Asian

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the regulations to allow for the importation of cooked pork skins from regions affected with footand mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, African swine fever, and classical swine fever under certain conditions. We are taking this action after preparing a risk assessment that concluded that the cooking methods examined

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with regulations for the possession, use, and transfer of biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with regulations for the interstate movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to help

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are advising the public that we have prepared a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with the importation into the United States of fresh guava fruit from Mexico. Based on that analysis, we believe that the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are giving notice of a meeting of the National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Correction

In rule document E812858 beginning on page 32431 in the issue of Monday, June 9, 2008, make the following correction:

Sec. 305.2 [Corrected]

On page 32439, in Sec. 305.2(h)(2)(ii), the table is corrected to appear as follows:
Location Commodity Pest Treatment

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a regional programmatic environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact relative to the interstate movement of municipal solid waste from Hawaii to landfills in the States of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The environmental assessment contains

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to revise and reorganize the regulations pertaining to the interstate movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and the territories to consolidate requirements of general applicability and eliminate redundant requirements, update terms and remove outdated requirements and references, and make various editorial and

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are reopening the comment period for our proposed rule that would amend our domestic quarantine regulations to provide for the interstate movement of Hass avocados from Mexican fruit fly and sapote fruit fly quarantined areas in the United States with a certificate if the fruit is safeguarded after harvest in accordance with specific measures.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations to consolidate our domestic regulations regarding exotic fruit flies. Currently, these regulations are contained in six separate subparts, each of which covers a different species of fruit fly, and each of these subparts has parallel sections that are substantially the same as the corresponding sections in the other

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are advising the public that we are recognizing 7 municipalities in the State of Cear[aacute] and 13 municipalities in the State of Rio Grande do Norte as pestfree areas for the South American cucurbit fly. Based on our review of the documentation submitted by Brazil's national plant protection organization, which we made available to the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a revision and extension of approval of an information collection associated with the National Animal Identification System.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are advising the public that we have made changes to the area in the State of Idaho that is quarantined to prevent the spread of potato cyst nematode. The description of the quarantined area was updated on November 1, 2007, when the potato cyst nematode regulations became effective; on November 28, 2007, when one additional field was found to

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the Mexican fruit fly regulations by designating a portion of Willacy County, TX, as a quarantined area and restricting the interstate movement of regulated articles from that area. This action is necessary to prevent the spread of the Mexican fruit fly into noninfested areas of the United States.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the regulations concerning user fees for import and exportrelated services that we provide for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors. We are proposing increases in those fees for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 in order to ensure that the fees accurately reflect the anticipated costs of

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the National Poultry Improvement Plan (the Plan) and its auxiliary provisions by providing new or modified sampling and testing procedures for Plan participants and participating flocks. The proposed changes were voted on and approved by the voting delegates at the Plan's 2006 National Plan Conference. These changes would

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are amending the regulations for the treatment of plant pests by removing two treatment options that we now believe to be ineffective at neutralizing their target plant pests. A review of these treatments found these options to be ineffective. We are also removing two treatment schedules that are no longer authorized for use and clarifying the

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are making several changes to the exotic Newcastle disease domestic quarantine regulations, including adding an option for the movement of pet birds; adding restrictions on the interstate movement of live ratites out of quarantined areas; harmonizing our domestic and import regulations regarding the movement of dressed carcasses of dead birds

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are advising the public that a risk analysis has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service concerning the footandmouth disease status of Surrey County, England, and the related disease risks associated with importing ruminants and swine and the fresh meat and other animal products of ruminants and swine from Surrey County,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with the collection of user fees.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

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notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request approval of an information collection activity for reshipment of swine associated with regulations for livestock removed from slaughtering facilities.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the fruits and vegetables regulations to allow the importation into the continental United States of baby squash and baby courgettes from Zambia. As a condition of entry, both commodities would have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach that would include requirements for pest exclusion at the production

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to amend the regulations regarding the importation of live horses, ruminants, swine, and dogs by removing Panama from the lists of regions where screwworm is considered to exist. We are taking this action because the eradication of screwworm from Panama has been confirmed. This action would relieve certain screwwormrelated

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

We are proposing to allow the importation of commercial consignments of tomatoes from the SoussMassa region of Morocco subject to a systems approach similar to that which is already in place for tomatoes imported into the United States from other areas of Morocco. The tomatoes would have to be produced under conditions that would include

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE : Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service