[Federal Register: June 16, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 115)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 33584]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
7 CFR Part 319
[Docket No. 03-022-4]
RIN 0579-AB81
Mexican Hass Avocado Import Program
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: We are correcting errors in the preamble to a proposed rule
that would amend the regulations governing the importation of fruits
and vegetables to expand the number of States in which fresh Hass
avocado fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in
Michoacan, Mexico, may be distributed and to allow the distribution of
the avocados during all months of the year. The proposed rule was
published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2004 (69 FR 29466-29477,
Docket No. 03-022-3).
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on Docket No. 03-
022-3 on or before July 23, 2004.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies
of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. 03-022-3,
Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700
River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your
comment refers to Docket No. 03-022-3.
E-mail: Address your comment to
regulations@aphis.usda.gov. Your comment must be contained in the body
of your message; do not send attached files. Please include your name
and address in your message and ``Docket No. 03-022-3'' on the subject
line.
Agency Web site: Go to http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/cominst.html
for a form you can use to submit an e-mail comment through
the APHIS Web site.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for locating this
docket and submitting comments.
Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on this
docket in our reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of
the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
Other Information: You may view APHIS documents published in the
Federal Register and related information, including the names of groups
and individuals who have commented on APHIS dockets, on the Internet at
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Karen Bedigian, Import Specialist,
Phytosanitary Issues Management Team, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit
140, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 734-6799.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 24, 2004, we published a proposed
rule in the Federal Register (69 FR 29466-29477, Docket No. 03-022-3)
in which we proposed to amend the fruits and vegetable regulations in 7
CFR part 319 to expand the number of States in which fresh Hass avocado
fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in
Michoacan, Mexico, may be distributed. We also proposed to allow the
distribution of the avocados during all months of the year. To reflect
these proposed changes, we also proposed to make other changes in the
regulations, such as removing restrictions on the ports through which
the avocados may enter the United States and the corridor through which
the avocados must transit the United States.
This document corrects errors in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of the proposed rule. Specifically, in the discussion of the
findings of the pest risk assessment (PRA) prepared for the proposed
rule, there is a series of bullet points in which we report the results
of the PRA's evaluation of the phytosanitary measures that would be
applied under the proposed rule. In two of those bullet points, we have
updated the estimated number of fruit-fly-infested avocados that would
(1) enter fruit fly susceptible areas each year and (2) be discarded in
fruit fly susceptible areas each year to reflect changes made to the
PRA itself shortly before the publication of the proposed rule.
Therefore, this document corrects the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of the proposal as follows:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. 04-11709, published on May 24,
2004 (69 FR 29466-29477), make the following corrections:
1. On page 29467, column 1, line 23, is corrected by removing the
number ``143'' and adding the number ``208'' in its place.
2. On page 29467, column 1, line 32, is corrected by removing the
number ``8'' and adding the number ``11'' in its place.
Done in Washington, DC, this 9th day of June, 2004.
Peter Fernandez,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 04-13557 Filed 6-15-04; 8:45 am]
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