[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 61029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16681]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

42 CFR Part 71

[Docket No. CDC-CDC-2023-0051]
RIN 0920-AA82


Control of Communicable Diseases; Foreign Quarantine: Importation 
of Dogs and Cats; Correction

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces a technical 
correction to the final rule published on May 13, 2024, regarding the 
importation of dogs and cats into the United States. The final rule 
contained a technical error. HHS/CDC is therefore publishing this 
amendment to the final rule correcting an error in amending 
instructions to the Office of the Federal Register.

DATES: Effective on August 1, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ashley C. Altenburger, J.D., Division 
of Global Migration Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
1600 Clifton Road NE, MS-H16-4, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. Telephone: 1-
800-232-4636.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 13, 2024, HHS/CDC published a final 
rule (89 FR 41726) that included a technical error. Therefore, HHS/CDC 
is publishing this notice to correct the technical error that was made 
in the final rule.
    Section 553(b)(B) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 
U.S.C. 553(b)(B), provides that, when an agency for good cause finds 
that notice and public procedure are impracticable, unnecessary, or 
contrary to the public interest, the agency may issue a rule without 
providing notice and an opportunity for public comment. We have 
determined that it is unnecessary to provide prior notice and the 
opportunity for public comment because the technical correction being 
made, as discussed below, address only a minor publication error that 
does not substantially change agency actions taken in the final rule. 
For the same reasons we find good cause to make the correction 
effective on publication.

Summary of the Technical Correction to 42 CFR Part 71--Foreign 
Quarantine; Importation of Dogs and Cats

    The final rule contains instructions to the Office of the Federal 
Register explaining how Sec.  71.51, Dogs and cats, should appear once 
published in the Code of Federal Regulations. In amending instruction 
3.j. to Sec.  71.51, appearing at 89 FR 41837, HHS/CDC included 
instructions ``adding paragraphs (h) through (ff).'' However, the final 
rule contained updated provisions through paragraph (gg) and should 
have indicated that HHS/CDC is ``adding paragraphs (h) through (gg).'' 
We are therefore making this technical correction to ensure that 
paragraph (gg) is published in the Code of Federal Regulations as HHS/
CDC intended and as discussed in the final rule.

Correction

    For the reasons noted above, in FR Doc. 2024-09676, beginning on 
page 41726 in the Federal Register of Monday, May 13, 2024, the 
following correction is made:


Sec.  71.51  [Corrected]

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1. On page 41837, in the third column, in amendment 3.j. for Sec.  
71.51, the instruction ``Adding paragraphs (h) through (ff)'' is 
corrected to read ``Adding paragraphs (h) through (gg)''.

Elizabeth Gramling,
Executive Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2024-16681 Filed 7-29-24; 8:45 am]
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