83 FR 9021 - International Wildlife Conservation Council; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 42 (March 2, 2018)

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FR Document		2018-04206

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announces a public meeting of the International Wildlife Conservation Council (Council).

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-HQ-R-2018-N030; FXGO1664091HCC0-FF09D00000-189]


International Wildlife Conservation Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announces a public meeting of the 
International Wildlife Conservation Council (Council).

DATES: Friday, March 16, 2018, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern 
Daylight Time). For deadlines and directions on registering to attend, 
submitting written material, and giving an oral presentation, please 
see Public Input under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the South Penthouse at the Main 
Interior Building, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Winchell, Council Designated 
Federal Officer, by U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
National Wildlife Refuge System, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 
22041-3803; by telephone at (703) 358-2639; or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council provides advice and 
recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), regarding 
the benefits that result from United States citizens traveling to 
foreign nations to engage in hunting.

Background

    Formed in December 2017, the Council is an advisory body whose 
duties include, but are not limited to:
    (a) Developing a plan for public engagement and education on the 
benefits of international hunting.
    (b) Reviewing and making recommendations for changes, when needed, 
on all Federal programs, and/or regulations, to ensure support of 
hunting as:
    1. An enhancement to foreign wildlife conservation and survival; 
and
    2. An effective tool to combat illegal trafficking and poaching.
    (c) Recommending strategies to benefit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service's permit office in receiving timely country data and 
information so as to remove barriers that impact consulting with range 
states.
    (d) Recommending removal of barriers to the importation into the 
United States of legally hunted wildlife.
    (e) Ongoing review of import suspension/bans and providing 
recommendations that seek to resume the legal trade of those items, 
where appropriate.
    (f) Reviewing seizure and forfeiture actions/practices, and 
providing recommendations for regulations that will lead to a reduction 
of unwarranted actions.
    (g) Reviewing the Endangered Species Act's foreign listed species 
and interaction with the Convention on International Trade in 
Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, with the goal of 
eliminating regulatory duplications.

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    (h) Recommending methods for streamlining/expediting processing of 
import permits.

Meeting Agenda

    The Council will convene to discuss issues including:
    1. International wildlife conservation programs conducted by the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service;
    2. U.S. Government efforts to combat wildlife trafficking; and
    3. Other Council business.
    The final agenda will be posted on the internet at http://www.fws.gov/iwcc.

Attendance

    To attend this meeting, register by close of business on the dates 
listed in Public Input. Please submit your name, time of arrival, email 
address, and phone number to the Council Designated Federal Officer 
(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Space is limited and requests to 
attend will be accommodated in the order they are received.

Public Input

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                                                 You must contact the
                                              Council Designated Federal
              If you wish to:                  Officer (see FOR FURTHER
                                               INFORMATION CONTACT) no
                                                     later than:
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Attend the meeting.........................  March 12, 2018.
Submit written information or questions      March 12, 2018.
 before the meeting for the Council to
 consider during the meeting.
Give an oral presentation during the public  March 12, 2018.
 comment period.
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Submitting Written Information or Questions

    Interested members of the public may submit relevant information or 
questions for the Council to consider during the public meeting. 
Written statements must be received by the date in Public Input, so 
that the information may be made available to the Council for their 
consideration prior to this meeting. Written statements must be 
supplied to the Council Designated Federal Officer in the following 
formats: One hard copy with original signature, and/or one electronic 
copy via email (acceptable file formats are Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, 
MS PowerPoint, or rich text file).

Giving an Oral Presentation

    Depending on the number of people wishing to comment and the time 
available, the amount of time for individual oral comments may be 
limited. Interested parties must contact the Council Designated Federal 
Officer, in writing (preferably via email; see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT), to be placed on the public speaker list for this meeting. 
Nonregistered public speakers will not be considered during the 
meeting. Registered speakers who wish to expand upon their oral 
statements, or those who had wished to speak but could not be 
accommodated on the agenda, may submit written statements to the 
Council Designated Federal Officer up to 30 days subsequent to the 
meeting. Requests to address the Council during the public comment 
period will be accommodated in the order the requests are received.

Public Disclosure of Comments

    Before including your address, phone number, email address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comments, please be 
aware that your entire comment, including your personal identifying 
information, may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

Meeting Minutes

    Summary minutes of the conference will be maintained by the Council 
Designated Federal Officer (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). They 
will be available for public inspection within 90 days of the meeting.

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2.

Greg Sheehan,
Principal Deputy Director.
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freely programmable machine, we find the Finally, you argue that since CBP Time). For deadlines and directions on
imposition of this limitation is insufficient to concluded that a predecessor of the Health registering to attend, submitting written
constitute a substantial transformation of the Harmony System, Stehekin, was considered material, and giving an oral
imported tablets in the United States. part of a patient monitoring system rather
presentation, please see Public Input
Furthermore, we note that the converted than a standard computer in NY Ruling
tablets loaded with the Health Harmony N004877 dated January 26, 2007, it would be under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
software do not actually measure any health inconsistent to conclude that Health ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
related functions, such as blood pressure, or Harmony, as Stehekin’s descendant, is, for the South Penthouse at the Main
oxygen saturation levels, nor do they provide purposes of government procurement, merely Interior Building, 1849 C Street NW,
any medical treatment to patients. Instead, a ‘‘standard computer’’ manufactured outside Washington, DC 20240.
the converted tablets function to receive the United States. You claim that Stehekin is
medical data that is obtained from other analogous to the tablet computer that Care FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
peripheral devices, such as a blood pressure Innovations uses today because it included a Joshua Winchell, Council Designated
monitor or pulse oximeter, and to transmit purpose-built computer, produced in China, Federal Officer, by U.S. mail at the U.S.
that medical data to a clinician for review. that was used to deliver remote patient Fish and Wildlife Service, National
Therefore, it appears that after the monitoring software and capability. Wildlife Refuge System, 5275 Leesburg
proprietary software is downloaded onto the However, the issue decided in N004877 was Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–3803; by
tablets, the tablets continue to basically a question of tariff classification, not
function as a type of communications device. telephone at (703) 358–2639; or by
substantial transformation, and is therefore,
It is also claimed that the FDA considers email at iwcc@fws.gov.
not applicable.
the Hub Platform and the Mobile Platform to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
be medical devices and that the IRS will tax HOLDING: Council provides advice and
the Health Harmony system, including the Based on the facts of this case, the recommendations to the Secretary of the
tablet, as a medical device. Thus, you imported tablets used with the Mobile Interior (Secretary), regarding the
contend that CBP should also consider the Platform and the Hub platform are not
tablets loaded with the Health Harmony
benefits that result from United States
substantially transformed by the installation
software to be medical devices rather than of the proprietary Health Harmony software.
citizens traveling to foreign nations to
tablets. We note, however, that the IRS and Therefore, the country of origin of the tablets engage in hunting.
FDA’s determinations as to whether any will remain the country where they were Background
items are considered medical devices are originally manufactured.
based upon different criteria from what CBP Notice of this final determination will be Formed in December 2017, the
must apply in determining the country of given in the Federal Register, as required by Council is an advisory body whose
origin of a product using the substantial 19 C.F.R. § 177.29. Any party-at-interest other duties include, but are not limited to:
transformation test. In HQ H019436, dated than the party which requested this final (a) Developing a plan for public
March 17, 2008, CBP considered the tariff determination may request, pursuant to 19
classification of a SONA Sleep Apnea engagement and education on the
C.F.R. § 177.31, that CBP reexamine the
Avoidance Pillow imported from China. The matter anew and issue a new final benefits of international hunting.
ruling noted that while the subject determination. Pursuant to 19 C.F.R. (b) Reviewing and making
merchandise was considered a Class II § 177.30, any party-at-interest may, within 30 recommendations for changes, when
therapeutic cervical pillow for snoring and days of publication of the Federal Register needed, on all Federal programs, and/or
mild sleep apnea by the FDA, this Notice referenced above, seek judicial review regulations, to ensure support of
determination did not control tariff of this final determination before the Court hunting as:
classification. Similarly in this case, the IRS of International Trade. 1. An enhancement to foreign wildlife
and FDA’s determinations that the imported
Sincerely, conservation and survival; and
tablets are medical devices and will be taxed
as such are of limited relevance to CBP’s Alice A. Kipel, Executive Director 2. An effective tool to combat illegal
determination as to the country of origin of Regulations and Rulings trafficking and poaching.
the devices. Office of Trade (c) Recommending strategies to
In reviewing the processing performed in [FR Doc. 2018–04273 Filed 3–1–18; 8:45 am] benefit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
the United States on the imported tablets Service’s permit office in receiving
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under consideration, we note that it is timely country data and information so
analogous to the situation of the transceivers
as to remove barriers that impact
described by the second scenario of HQ
H258960. The imported tablets are consulting with range states.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
preprogrammed with a generic program, (d) Recommending removal of barriers
which is the standard Apple iPad operating Fish and Wildlife Service to the importation into the United States
system, prior to their importation. When they of legally hunted wildlife.
are first imported, the tablets can perform all [FWS–HQ–R–2018–N030; (e) Ongoing review of import
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suspension/bans and providing
tablet, and can in their imported condition be recommendations that seek to resume
used in conjunction with the proprietary International Wildlife Conservation
Council; Public Meeting the legal trade of those items, where
software. Accordingly, like the transceivers
described in the second scenario of HQ appropriate.
H258960, we find that the name, character, AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, (f) Reviewing seizure and forfeiture
and use of the imported tablet computers Interior. actions/practices, and providing
remain the same. Therefore, we further find ACTION: Notice of meeting. recommendations for regulations that
that the imported tablets are not substantially will lead to a reduction of unwarranted
transformed in the United States by the SUMMARY: In accordance with the actions.
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downloading of the proprietary software, Federal Advisory Committee Act, the (g) Reviewing the Endangered Species
which allows them to function within the VA U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Act’s foreign listed species and
Healthcare network. After the Health announces a public meeting of the
Harmony software is downloaded, the interaction with the Convention on
International Wildlife Conservation International Trade in Endangered
country of origin of the imported tablets
remains the country where they were Council (Council). Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, with
originally manufactured, which in this case DATES: Friday, March 16, 2018, from the goal of eliminating regulatory
is China. 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight duplications.

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Action		Notice of meeting.
Dates		Friday, March 16, 2018, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). For deadlines and directions on registering to attend, submitting written material, and giving an oral presentation, please see Public Input under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Contact		Joshua Winchell, Council Designated Federal Officer, by U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803; by telephone at (703) 358-2639; or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 9021

83 FR 9021 - International Wildlife Conservation Council; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORFish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 42 (March 2, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service