[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 10, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 47405]
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[FR Doc No: 2019-19553]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Office of the Secretary

7 CFR Subtitles A and B

9 CFR Chapters I, II, and III


Completion of Interim Rules

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA.

ACTION: Notification.

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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture is announcing the 
completion of certain interim rules that published in the Federal 
Register more than 3 years ago. USDA is taking this action because the 
published interim rules have been fully implemented and no further 
rulemaking publication is required.

DATES: The interim rules are completed as of September 10, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Poe, Telephone Number: (202) 
720-3323.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    To promote transparency in regulatory planning, the Administration, 
beginning with the Spring 2017 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and 
Deregulatory Actions, published for the first time an ``inactive'' list 
of agency regulatory actions that were under review but not included in 
the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. Such 
``inactive'' actions allow agencies to take additional time to review a 
regulatory or deregulatory action and to preserve the regulatory 
identification number (RIN) and title for possible future use. After 
further review, and to clean out a backlog of older, obsolete RINs, 
USDA is taking this action to reduce its regulatory backlog and focus 
its resources on higher priority actions. The Department's actions are 
part of an overall regulatory reform strategy to reduce regulatory 
burden on the public and to ensure that future Unified Agendas of 
Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions provided the public accurate 
information about rulemakings the Department intends to undertake. USDA 
reviewed its pending regulatory actions listed as ``inactive.'' This 
review focused on interim rules that published in the Federal Register 
more than 3 years ago, and for which no final rule has been issued. The 
agency identified 20 such regulatory actions.
    Although not required to do so by the Administrative Procedure Act 
or by regulations of the Office of the Federal Register, the agency 
believes the public interest is best served by announcing in the 
Federal Register that it has fully implemented these 20 items. 
Therefore, for the reasons set forth above, USDA announces that it has 
fully completed the 20 rulemaking initiatives which were published in 
the Federal Register on the dates indicated in the table below and that 
no further rulemaking publication is required.

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                Agency                       RIN                   Title                Published  action          Date                 FR cite
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OSEC.................................       0503-AA49  Agricultural Career and       IFR                           11/8/2011  76 FR 69114
                                                        Employment Grants Program.
FAS..................................       0551-AA80  Trade Adjustment Assistance   IFR                            3/1/2010  75 FR 9087
                                                        for Farmers.
NRCS.................................       0578-AA45  Environmental Quality         IFR                           1/15/2009  74 FR 2293
                                                        Incentives Program.
NRCS.................................       0578-AA47  Wetlands Reserve Program....  IFR                           1/15/2009  74 FR 2317
FSA..................................       0560-AH43  Emergency Conservation        IFR                           5/26/2006  71 FR 30263
                                                        Program.
FSA..................................       0560-AH66  Interest Rates on Farm        IFR                            3/4/2013  78 FR 13999
                                                        Service Agency Farm Loan
                                                        Programs Guaranteed Loans.
FSA..................................       0560-AH89  Emergency Forest Restoration  IFR                          11/17/2010  75 FR 70083
                                                        Program.
FSA..................................       0560-AH98  Voluntary Public Access and   IFR                            7/8/2010  75 FR 39135
                                                        Habitat Incentive Program.
FSA..................................       0560-AI06  Noninsured Disaster           IFR                            4/9/2013  78 FR 21015
                                                        Assistance Program.
FSA..................................       0560-AI11  Crop Assistance Program.....  IFR                          10/25/2010  75 FR 65423
FSA..................................       0560-AI20  Noninsured Crop Disaster      IFR                          12/15/2014  79 FR 74562
                                                        Assistance Program.
FSA..................................       0560-AI25  Farm Loan Programs, Entity    IFR                           10/8/2014  79 FR 60739
                                                        Eligibility Changes.
FSA..................................       0560-AI26  Conservation Compliance.....  IFR                           4/24/2015  80 FR 22873
FSA..................................       0560-AI30  Conservation Reserve Program  IFR                           7/16/2015  80 FR 41987
RBS..................................       0570-AA71  Rural Microentrepreneur       IFR                           5/28/2010  75 FR 30114
                                                        Assistance Program.
RBS..................................       0570-AA74  Re-Powering Assistance        IFR                           2/11/2011  76 FR 7916
                                                        Payments to Eligible
                                                        Biorefineries.
RBS..................................       0570-AA80  Rural Business Investment     IFR                          12/23/2011  76 FR 80217
                                                        Program.
RBS..................................       0570-AA92  Rural Business Development    IFR                           3/25/2015  80 FR 15665
                                                        Grant.
RBS..................................       0570-AA94  Strategic Economic and        IFR                           5/20/2015  80 FR 28807
                                                        Community Development.
FNS..................................       0584-AD60  Direct Certification and      IFR                           4/25/2011  76 FR 22785
                                                        Certification of Homeless,
                                                        Migrant and Runaway
                                                        Children.
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    Dated: August 28, 2019.
Rebeckah Adcock,
Regulatory Reform Officer and Senior Adviser to the Secretary.
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