83 FR 31117 - Oral Rabies Vaccine Trial; Availability of a Supplemental Environmental Assessment
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 128 (July 3, 2018)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 128 (July 3, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 3, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 31117-31118] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-14307] ======================================================================== Notices Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section. ======================================================================== Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 128 / Tuesday, July 3, 2018 / Notices [[Page 31117]] DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS-2018-0033] Oral Rabies Vaccine Trial; Availability of a Supplemental Environmental Assessment AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a supplemental environmental assessment (EA) relative to an oral rabies vaccination field trial in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia. The supplemental EA analyzes expanding the field trial for an experimental oral rabies vaccine for wildlife to additional areas in Ohio and West Virginia. The proposed field trial is necessary to evaluate whether the wildlife rabies vaccine will produce sufficient levels of population immunity against raccoon rabies. We are making the supplemental EA available to the public for review and comment. DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before August 2, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2018-0033. Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to Docket No. APHIS-2018-0033, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737- 1238. The supplemental environmental assessment and any comments we receive may be viewed at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2018-0033 or in our reading room, which 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) 799-7039 before coming. This notice and the supplemental environmental assessment are also posted on the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service website at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/ws/ws_nepa_environmental_documents.shtml. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard Chipman, Rabies Program Coordinator, Wildlife Services, APHIS, 59 Chennell Drive, Suite 7, Concord, NH 03301; (603) 223-9623, email: [email protected]. To obtain copies of the supplemental environmental assessment, contact Ms. Beth Kabert, Staff Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Services, 140-C Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867; (908) 735-5654, fax (908) 735-0821; email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Wildlife Services (WS) program in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) cooperates with Federal agencies, State and local governments, and private individuals to research and implement the best methods of managing conflicts between wildlife and human health and safety, agriculture, property, and natural resources. Wildlife-borne diseases that can affect domestic animals and humans are among the types of conflicts that APHIS-WS addresses. Wildlife is the dominant reservoir of rabies in the United States. APHIS-WS conducts an oral rabies vaccination (ORV) program to control the spread of rabies. The ORV program has utilized a vaccinia- rabies glycoprotein (V-RG) vaccine. APHIS-WS' use of the V-RG vaccine has resulted in several notable accomplishments, including the elimination of canine rabies from sources in Mexico, the successful control of gray fox rabies virus variant in western Texas, and the prevention of any appreciable spread of raccoon rabies in the eastern United States. While the prevention of any appreciable spread of raccoon rabies in the eastern United States represents a major accomplishment in rabies management, the V-RG vaccine has not been effective in eliminating raccoon rabies from high-risk spread corridors. This fact prompted APHIS-WS to evaluate rabies vaccines capable of producing higher levels of population immunity against raccoon rabies to better control the spread of this disease. Since 2011, APHIS-WS has been conducting field trials to study the immunogenicity and safety of an experimental oral rabies vaccine, a human adenovirus type 5 rabies glycoprotein recombinant vaccine called ONRAB (produced by Artemis Technologies Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada). The field trials began in portions of West Virginia, including U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service National Forest System lands. Beginning in 2012, APHIS-WS has expanded the field trials into portions of New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and new areas of West Virginia, including National Forest System lands, in order to further assess the immunogenicity of ONRAB in raccoons and skunks for raccoon rabies virus variant. APHIS-WS is now proposing to add Belmont and Monroe Counties in Ohio, and Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, and Ohio Counties in West Virginia to the field trial bait zone. Based on favorable results from previous U.S. ONRAB field trials and pressure from rabies cases in Pennsylvania and the West Virginia panhandle, we determined the need to use ONRAB vaccine baits in the remaining areas of the Ohio and West Virginia where rabies cases may still persist. APHIS-WS has prepared a supplemental environmental assessment (EA) in which we analyze expanding the area of the field trial zone in Ohio and West Virginia. We are making the supplemental EA available to the public for review and comment. We will consider all comments that we receive on or before the date listed under the heading DATES at the beginning of this notice. The supplemental EA may be viewed on the Regulations.gov website or in our reading room (see ADDRESSES above for instructions for accessing Regulations.gov and information on the location and hours of the reading room). In addition, paper copies may be obtained by calling or writing to the [[Page 31118]] individual listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The EA has been prepared in accordance with: (1) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500- 1508), (3) USDA regulations implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS' NEPA Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 372). Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of June 2018. Kevin Shea, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. 2018-14307 Filed 7-2-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-34-P
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0033 or in our accomplishment in rabies management,
contains documents other than rules or reading room, which is located in room the V–RG vaccine has not been effective
proposed rules that are applicable to the 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th in eliminating raccoon rabies from high-
public. Notices of hearings and investigations, Street and Independence Avenue SW, risk spread corridors. This fact
committee meetings, agency decisions and Washington, DC. Normal reading room prompted APHIS–WS to evaluate rabies
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday vaccines capable of producing higher
petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are through Friday, except holidays. To be levels of population immunity against
examples of documents appearing in this sure someone is there to help you, raccoon rabies to better control the
section. please call (202) 799–7039 before spread of this disease.
coming. Since 2011, APHIS–WS has been
This notice and the supplemental conducting field trials to study the
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE environmental assessment are also immunogenicity and safety of an
posted on the Animal and Plant Health experimental oral rabies vaccine, a
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Inspection Service website at http:// human adenovirus type 5 rabies
Service www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/ws/ws_ glycoprotein recombinant vaccine called
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0033]
nepa_environmental_documents.shtml. ONRAB (produced by Artemis
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Technologies Inc., Guelph, Ontario,
Oral Rabies Vaccine Trial; Availability Richard Chipman, Rabies Program Canada). The field trials began in
of a Supplemental Environmental Coordinator, Wildlife Services, APHIS, portions of West Virginia, including
Assessment 59 Chennell Drive, Suite 7, Concord, NH U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest
03301; (603) 223–9623, email: Service National Forest System lands.
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health richard.b.chipman@aphis.usda.gov. To Beginning in 2012, APHIS–WS has
Inspection Service, USDA. obtain copies of the supplemental expanded the field trials into portions of
ACTION: Notice of availability and environmental assessment, contact Ms. New Hampshire, New York, Ohio,
request for comments. Beth Kabert, Staff Wildlife Biologist, Vermont, and new areas of West
Wildlife Services, 140–C Locust Grove Virginia, including National Forest
SUMMARY: We are advising the public Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867; (908) 735– System lands, in order to further assess
that the Animal and Plant Health 5654, fax (908) 735–0821; email: the immunogenicity of ONRAB in
Inspection Service has prepared a beth.e.kabert@aphis.usda.gov. raccoons and skunks for raccoon rabies
supplemental environmental assessment virus variant.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
(EA) relative to an oral rabies APHIS–WS is now proposing to add
Wildlife Services (WS) program in the
vaccination field trial in New Belmont and Monroe Counties in Ohio,
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, and
Service (APHIS) cooperates with
and West Virginia. The supplemental Ohio Counties in West Virginia to the
Federal agencies, State and local
EA analyzes expanding the field trial for field trial bait zone. Based on favorable
governments, and private individuals to
an experimental oral rabies vaccine for results from previous U.S. ONRAB field
research and implement the best
wildlife to additional areas in Ohio and trials and pressure from rabies cases in
methods of managing conflicts between
West Virginia. The proposed field trial Pennsylvania and the West Virginia
wildlife and human health and safety,
is necessary to evaluate whether the panhandle, we determined the need to
agriculture, property, and natural
wildlife rabies vaccine will produce use ONRAB vaccine baits in the
resources. Wildlife-borne diseases that
sufficient levels of population immunity remaining areas of the Ohio and West
can affect domestic animals and humans
against raccoon rabies. We are making Virginia where rabies cases may still
are among the types of conflicts that
the supplemental EA available to the persist.
APHIS–WS addresses. Wildlife is the
public for review and comment. APHIS–WS has prepared a
dominant reservoir of rabies in the
DATES: We will consider all comments United States. supplemental environmental assessment
that we receive on or before August 2, APHIS–WS conducts an oral rabies (EA) in which we analyze expanding the
2018. vaccination (ORV) program to control area of the field trial zone in Ohio and
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments the spread of rabies. The ORV program West Virginia. We are making the
by either of the following methods: has utilized a vaccinia-rabies supplemental EA available to the public
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to glycoprotein (V–RG) vaccine. APHIS– for review and comment. We will
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket WS’ use of the V–RG vaccine has consider all comments that we receive
Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0033. resulted in several notable on or before the date listed under the
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: accomplishments, including the heading DATES at the beginning of this
Send your comment to Docket No. elimination of canine rabies from notice.
APHIS–2018–0033, Regulatory Analysis sources in Mexico, the successful The supplemental EA may be viewed
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and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station control of gray fox rabies virus variant on the Regulations.gov website or in our
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, in western Texas, and the prevention of reading room (see ADDRESSES above for
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. any appreciable spread of raccoon rabies instructions for accessing
The supplemental environmental in the eastern United States. While the Regulations.gov and information on the
assessment and any comments we prevention of any appreciable spread of location and hours of the reading room).
receive may be viewed at http:// raccoon rabies in the eastern United In addition, paper copies may be
www.regulations.gov/#!docket States represents a major obtained by calling or writing to the
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individual listed under FOR FURTHER ADDRESSES: Safeguard Staff, Import published in the Federal Register
INFORMATION CONTACT. Policies and Export Reporting Division, information regarding the price and
The EA has been prepared in Office of Trade Programs, Foreign quantity safeguards, including the
accordance with: (1) The National Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of quantity trigger levels, which must be
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Agriculture, Stop 1020, 1400 updated annually based upon import
(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et Independence Avenue SW, Washington, levels during the most recent 3 years.
seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on DC 20250–1020. The President delegated this duty to the
Environmental Quality for FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Secretary of Agriculture in Presidential
implementing the procedural provisions Souleymane Diaby, (202) 720–0638, Proclamation No. 6763, dated December
of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) Souleymane.Diaby@fas.usda.gov. 23, 1994, 60 FR 1005 (Jan. 4, 1995). The
USDA regulations implementing NEPA SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 5 Secretary of Agriculture further
(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture delegated this duty, which lies with the
Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part provides that additional import duties Administrator of the Foreign
372). may be imposed on imports of products Agricultural Service (7 CFR 2.43(a)(2)).
Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of subject to tariffication as a result of the The Annex to this notice contains the
June 2018. Uruguay Round, if certain conditions updated quantity trigger levels, which
Kevin Shea, are met. The agreement permits are set at 125 percent of the most recent
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health additional duties to be charged if the 3-year average level of imports for each
Inspection Service. price of an individual shipment of commodity, consistent with the
[FR Doc. 2018–14307 Filed 7–2–18; 8:45 am] imported products falls below the provisions of Article 5.
BILLING CODE 3410–34–P average price for similar goods imported
during the years 1986–88 by a specified Additional information on the
percentage. It also permits additional products subject to safeguards and the
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE duties when the volume of imports of additional duties which may apply can
that product exceeds the sum of (1) a be found in subchapter IV of Chapter 99
Foreign Agricultural Service base trigger level multiplied by the of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
average of the last three years of the United States (2018) and in the
WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based available import data and (2) the change Secretary of Agriculture’s Notice of
Safeguard Trigger Levels in yearly consumption in the most Uruguay Round Agricultural Safeguard
AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, recent year for which data are available Trigger Levels, published in the Federal
U.S. Department of Agriculture. (provided that the final trigger level is Register at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
ACTION: Notice of product coverage and not less than 105 percent of the three- Notice: As provided in Section 405 of
trigger levels for safeguard measures year import average). The base trigger the Uruguay Round Agreements Act,
provided for in the World Trade level is set at 105, 110, or 125 percent consistent with Article 5 of the WTO
Organization (WTO) Agreement on of the three-year import average, Agreement on Agriculture, the safeguard
Agriculture. depending on the percentage of quantity trigger levels previously
domestic consumption that is notified are superseded by the levels
SUMMARY: This notice lists the updated represented by imports. These indicated in the Annex to this notice.
quantity-based trigger levels for additional duties may not be imposed The definitions of these products were
products which may be subject to on quantities for which minimum or provided in the Notice of Safeguard
additional import duties under the current access commitments were made Action published in the Federal
safeguard provisions of the WTO during the Uruguay Round negotiations, Register, at 60 FR 427 (Jan. 4, 1995).
Agreement on Agriculture. This notice and only one type of safeguard, price or
also includes the relevant period quantity, may be applied at any given Issued at Washington, DC, this 18th day of
applicable for the trigger levels on each time to an article. Section 405 of the June 2018.
of the listed products. Uruguay Round Agreements Act Ken Isley,
DATES: July 3, 2018. requires that the President cause to be Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
Quantity-based safeguard trigger
Product Trigger Unit Period
level
Beef ........................................................................................... 298,248 MT ........................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Mutton ....................................................................................... 5,103 MT ........................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Cream ....................................................................................... 1,323,021 Liters ....................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Evaporated or Condensed Milk ................................................ 3,867,417 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Nonfat Dry Milk ......................................................................... 1,267,208 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Dried Whole Milk ....................................................................... 12,116,875 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Dried Cream .............................................................................. 10,167 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Dried Whey/Buttermilk .............................................................. 245,833 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Butter 1 ...................................................................................... 29,959,300 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Butteroil ..................................................................................... 8,183,833 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
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Chocolate Crumb ...................................................................... 10,487,292 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Lowfat Chocolate Crumb .......................................................... 163,000 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Animal Feed Containing Milk .................................................... 1,154,583 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Ice Cream ................................................................................. 5,925,091 Liters ....................................... Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Dairy Mixtures ........................................................................... 18,623,423 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Infant Formula Containing Oligosaccharides ............................ 3,909,000 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Blue Cheese ............................................................................. 4,179,292 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
Cheddar Cheese ....................................................................... 11,799,917 Kilograms ................................ Jan 1, 2018–Dec 31, 2018.
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| Dates | We will consider all comments that we receive on or before August 2, 2018. | |
| Contact | Mr. Richard Chipman, Rabies Program Coordinator, Wildlife Services, APHIS, 59 Chennell Drive, Suite 7, Concord, NH 03301; (603) 223-9623, email: [email protected] To obtain copies of the supplemental environmental assessment, contact Ms. Beth Kabert, Staff Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Services, 140-C Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867; (908) 735-5654, fax (908) 735-0821; email: [email protected] | |
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