[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36560-36561]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-13067]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 02-023-2]


Risk Management Analysis for the Importation of Clementines From 
Spain

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of reopening and extension of comment period.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: We are reopening and extending the comment period for a risk 
management analysis prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service relative to a proposed rule currently under consideration that 
would allow the importation of clementines from Spain to resume. This 
action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and 
submit comments.

DATES: We will consider all comments we receive on the risk management 
analysis that are postmarked, delivered, or e-mailed by June 14, 2002.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by postal mail/commercial delivery 
or by e-mail. If you use postal mail/commercial delivery, please send 
four copies of your comment (an original and three copies) to: Docket 
No. 02-023-1, 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. 02-023-1. If you use e-mail, 
address your comment to [email protected]. 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. 
02-023-1'' on the subject line.
    You may read any comments that we receive on Docket No. 02-023-1 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.
    APHIS documents published in the Federal Register, and related 
information, including the names of organizations and individuals who 
have commented on APHIS rules, are available on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ron A. Sequeira, Center for Plant 
Health Science and Technology, PPQ, APHIS, 1017 Main Campus Drive, 
Suite 2500, Raleigh, NC 27606-5202; (919) 513-2663.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 16, 2002, we published in the Federal Register (67 FR 
18578-18579, Docket No. 02-023-1) a notice advising the public that a 
risk management analysis has been prepared by the Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service relative to a proposed rule currently under 
consideration that would allow the importation of clementines from 
Spain to resume. In that notice, we stated that we were making the risk 
management analysis available to the public for review and comment.
    Comments on the risk management analysis were required to be 
received on or before May 16, 2002. We are reopening and extending the 
comment period on Docket No. 02-023-1 until June 14, 2002. This action 
will allow interested persons additional time to

[[Page 36561]]

prepare and submit comments. We will also consider all comments 
received between May 17, 2002 (the day after the close of the original 
comment period) and the date of this notice.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 166, 450, 7701-7772; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 
7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of May 2002.
Peter Fernandez,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 02-13067 Filed 5-21-02; 12:05 pm]
BILLING CODE 3410-34-P