[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 16, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 33584]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-13557]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

7 CFR Part 319

[Docket No. 03-022-4]
RIN 0579-AB81


Mexican Hass Avocado Import Program

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: We are correcting errors in the preamble to a proposed rule 
that would amend the regulations governing the importation of fruits 
and vegetables to expand the number of States in which fresh Hass 
avocado fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in 
Michoacan, Mexico, may be distributed and to allow the distribution of 
the avocados during all months of the year. The proposed rule was 
published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2004 (69 FR 29466-29477, 
Docket No. 03-022-3).

DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on Docket No. 03-
022-3 on or before July 23, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies 
of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. 03-022-3, 
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. 03-022-3.
     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. 03-022-3'' on the subject 
line.
     Agency Web site: Go to http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/cominst.html for a form you can use to submit an e-mail comment through 
the APHIS Web site.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for locating this 
docket and submitting comments.
    Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on this 
docket 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.
    Other Information: You may view APHIS documents published in the 
Federal Register and related information, including the names of groups 
and individuals who have commented on APHIS dockets, on the Internet at 
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Karen Bedigian, Import Specialist, 
Phytosanitary Issues Management Team, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 
140, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 734-6799.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 24, 2004, we published a proposed 
rule in the Federal Register (69 FR 29466-29477, Docket No. 03-022-3) 
in which we proposed to amend the fruits and vegetable regulations in 7 
CFR part 319 to expand the number of States in which fresh Hass avocado 
fruit grown in approved orchards in approved municipalities in 
Michoacan, Mexico, may be distributed. We also proposed to allow the 
distribution of the avocados during all months of the year. To reflect 
these proposed changes, we also proposed to make other changes in the 
regulations, such as removing restrictions on the ports through which 
the avocados may enter the United States and the corridor through which 
the avocados must transit the United States.
    This document corrects errors in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section of the proposed rule. Specifically, in the discussion of the 
findings of the pest risk assessment (PRA) prepared for the proposed 
rule, there is a series of bullet points in which we report the results 
of the PRA's evaluation of the phytosanitary measures that would be 
applied under the proposed rule. In two of those bullet points, we have 
updated the estimated number of fruit-fly-infested avocados that would 
(1) enter fruit fly susceptible areas each year and (2) be discarded in 
fruit fly susceptible areas each year to reflect changes made to the 
PRA itself shortly before the publication of the proposed rule.
    Therefore, this document corrects the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section of the proposal as follows:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. 04-11709, published on May 24, 
2004 (69 FR 29466-29477), make the following corrections:
    1. On page 29467, column 1, line 23, is corrected by removing the 
number ``143'' and adding the number ``208'' in its place.
    2. On page 29467, column 1, line 32, is corrected by removing the 
number ``8'' and adding the number ``11'' in its place.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 9th day of June, 2004.
Peter Fernandez,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 04-13557 Filed 6-15-04; 8:45 am]
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