[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 117 (Friday, June 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 34687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14791]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2009-0092]
Notice of Decision to Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh
False Coriander From Panama Into the Continental United States
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public of our decision to begin issuing
permits for the importation into the continental United States of fresh
false coriander from Panama. Based on the findings of a pest risk
analysis, which we made available to the public for review and comment
through a previous notice, we believe that the application of one or
more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate
the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds
via the importation of fresh false coriander from Panama.
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 18, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. David Lamb, Import Specialist,
Regulatory Coordination and Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road
Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 734-4312.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under the regulations in ``Subpart--Fruits and Vegetables'' (7 CFR
319.56-1 through 319.56-50, referred to below as the regulations), the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture prohibits or restricts the importation of
fruits and vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the
world to prevent plant pests from being introduced into and spread
within the United States.
Section 319.56-4 contains a performance-based process for approving
the importation of commodities that, based on the findings of a pest-
risk analysis, can be safely imported subject to one or more of the
designated phytosanitary measures listed in paragraph (b) of that
section. Under that process, APHIS publishes a notice in the Federal
Register announcing the availability of the pest risk analysis that
evaluates the risks associated with the importation of a particular
fruit or vegetable. Following the close of the 60-day comment period,
APHIS may begin issuing permits for importation of the fruit or
vegetable subject to the identified designated measures if: (1) No
comments were received on the pest risk analysis; (2) the comments on
the pest risk analysis revealed that no changes to the pest risk
analysis were necessary; or (3) changes to the pest risk analysis were
made in response to public comments, but the changes did not affect the
overall conclusions of the analysis and the Administrator's
determination of risk.
In accordance with that process, we published a notice\1\ in the
Federal Register on February 9, 2010 (75 FR 6345-6346, Docket No.
APHIS-2009-0092), in which we announced the availability, for review
and comment, of a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks
associated with the importation into the continental United States of
fresh false coriander from Panama. We solicited comments on the notice
for 60 days ending on April 12, 2010. We received no comments by that
date.
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\1\ To view the notice, go to (http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2009-0092) .
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Therefore, in accordance with the regulations in Sec. 319.56-
4(c)(2)(ii), we are announcing our decision to begin issuing permits
for the importation into the continental United States of fresh false
coriander from Panama subject to the following phytosanitary measures:
Each shipment of false coriander is subject to inspection
upon arrival in the United States and must comply with all applicable
provisions of Sec. 319.56-3.
Each shipment of false coriander must be accompanied by a
phytosanitary certificate bearing the following additional declaration:
``The false coriander in this consignment has been inspected and found
free of Nysius simulans.''
The false coriander must be a commercial consignment as
defined in 7 CFR 319.56-2.
These conditions will be listed in the Fruits and Vegetables Import
Requirements database available at (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/favir) .
In addition to those specific measures, the fresh false coriander will
be subject to the general requirements listed in Sec. 319.56-3 that
are applicable to the importation of all fruits and vegetables.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701-7772, and 7781-7786; 21 U.S.C. 136
and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14\th\ day of June 2010.
Kevin Shea
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-14791 Filed 6-17-10: 8:45 am]
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