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USDA/APHIS | RIN: 0579-AD71 | Publication ID: Spring 2017 |
Title: Establishing a Performance Standard for Authorizing the Importation and Interstate Movement of Fruits and Vegetables | |
Abstract:
This rulemaking will amend our regulations governing the importations of fruits and vegetables by broadening our existing performance standard to provide for consideration of all new fruits and vegetables for importation into the United States using a notice-based process. Rather than authorizing new imports through proposed and final rules and specifying import conditions in the regulations, the notice-based process uses Federal Register notices to make risk analyses available to the public for review and comment, with authorized commodities and their conditions of entry subsequently being listed on the Internet. It also will remove the region- or commodity-specific phytosanitary requirements currently found in these regulations. Likewise, we are proposing an equivalent revision of the performance standard in our regulations governing the interstate movements of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and the U.S. territories (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and the removal of commodity-specific phytosanitary requirements from those regulations. This action will allow for the consideration of requests to authorize the importation or interstate movement of new fruits and vegetables in a manner that enables a more flexible and responsive regulatory approach to evolving pest situations in both the United States and exporting countries. It will not, however, alter the science-based process in which the risk associated with importation or interstate movement of a given fruit or vegetable is evaluated or the manner in which risks associated with the importation or interstate movement of a fruit or vegetable are mitigated. |
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Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA) | Priority: Other Significant |
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda | Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage |
Major: No | Unfunded Mandates: No |
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 318 and 319 | |
Legal Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450 7 U.S.C. 7701 to 7772 7 U.S.C. 7781 to 7786 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136(a) |
Legal Deadline:
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Additional Information: Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov. | |
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes | Government Levels Affected: Federal |
Small Entities Affected: Businesses | Federalism: No |
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No | |
International Impacts: This regulatory action will be likely to have international trade and investment effects, or otherwise be of international interest. | |
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes | |
Agency Contact: Nicole Russo Assistant Director, Regulatory Coordination and Compliance, PPQ Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 4700 River Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236 Phone:301 851-2159 |