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USDA/APHIS | RIN: 0579-AD90 | Publication ID: Fall 2017 |
Title: ●Cold Treatment; Location of Facilities in the Southern and Western United States; Fumigation Treatment; Compliance Agreements; Cold Treatment Schedules | |
Abstract:
This rulemaking will amend the phytosanitary treatment regulations to establish generic criteria that would allow for the approval of new cold treatment facilities in the southern and western States of the United States. These criteria, if met, will allow us to approve new cold treatment facilities without rulemaking and facilitate the importation of fruit requiring cold treatment while continuing to provide protection against the introduction of pests of concern into the United States. We are also amending the fruit cutting and inspection requirements in the cold treatment regulations in order to expand cutting and inspection to commodities that have been treated for a wider variety of pests of concern. This action will provide for a greater degree of phytosanitary protection. We are also adding requirements concerning the establishment of compliance agreements for U.S. entities that operate fumigation facilities. Finally, we are harmonizing language concerning State compliance with facility establishment and parameters for the movement of consignments from the port of entry or points of origin in the United States to the treatment facility in the irradiation treatment regulations with language in the cold treatment regulations. These actions will serve to codify and make enforceable existing procedures concerning compliance agreements for these facilities. |
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Agency: Department of Agriculture(USDA) | Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant |
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda | Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage |
Major: No | Unfunded Mandates: No |
EO 13771 Designation: Deregulatory | |
CFR Citation: 7 CFR 305 | |
Legal Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701 to 7772 7 U.S.C.7781 to 7786 21 U.S.C.136 and 136a |
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: No | Government Levels Affected: Federal, State |
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: No | |
Agency Contact: David B. Lamb Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist, IRM, PPQ Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 4700 River Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231 Phone:301 851-2103 |