83 FR 49987 - Establishing a Performance Standard for Authorizing the Importation and Interstate Movement of Fruits and Vegetables

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 193 (October 4, 2018)

We are correcting a portion of the summary of the economic analysis presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION portion of our September 14, 2018, final rule amending our regulations governing the importation and interstate movement of fruits and vegetables. The summary reported an incorrect cost savings figure in its discussion of Executive Order 13771. This document corrects that error.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2018)]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21627]



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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 193 / Thursday, October 4, 2018 / 
Rules and Regulations

[[Page 49987]]



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

7 CFR Parts 318 and 319

[Docket No. APHIS-2010-0082]
RIN 0579-AD71


Establishing a Performance Standard for Authorizing the 
Importation and Interstate Movement of Fruits and Vegetables

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: We are correcting a portion of the summary of the economic 
analysis presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION portion of our 
September 14, 2018, final rule amending our regulations governing the 
importation and interstate movement of fruits and vegetables. The 
summary reported an incorrect cost savings figure in its discussion of 
Executive Order 13771. This document corrects that error.

DATES: This correction is effective October 15, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Benjamin J. Kaczmarski, Assistant 
Director, Regulatory Coordination and Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 
River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 851-2127.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 14, 2018, we published in the 
Federal Register a final rule (83 FR 46627-46639, Docket No. APHIS-
2010-0082) amending our regulations governing the importation of fruits 
and vegetables by broadening our existing performance standard to 
provide for approval of all new fruits and vegetables for importation 
into the United States using a notice-based process. We also removed 
the region- or commodity-specific phytosanitary requirements currently 
found in those regulations. Likewise, we made an equivalent revision of 
the performance standard in our regulations governing the interstate 
movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and the U.S. territories 
(Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin 
Islands) and removed the commodity-specific phytosanitary requirements 
from those regulations. That action will allow for the approval 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.
    As part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION portion of the final rule, 
we provided a summary of the Regulatory Impact Analysis/Final 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (RIA/FRFA) prepared for the rule. In 
its discussion of Executive Order 13771, the summary provided a cost 
savings figure from an earlier iteration of the RIA/FRFA. The RIA/FRFA 
posted with the final rule contains the correct figure. In this 
document, we are correcting the text of the summary provided in the 
final rule.

Correction

    In FR Doc. 2018-19984, published September 14, 2018 (83 FR 46627-
46639), make the following correction:
    1. On page 46637, in column 1, the second full paragraph is 
corrected to read as follows:

    Interpreting these gains as cost savings accrued by using the 
quicker notice-based process rather than having to wait for rule 
promulgation, and in accordance with guidance on complying with 
Executive Order 13771, the primary annualized cost savings estimate for 
this rule is $7,895,000. This value is the midpoint estimate of cost 
savings annualized in perpetuity using a 7 percent discount rate.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 28th day of September 2018.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-21627 Filed 10-3-18; 8:45 am]
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