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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER nruzmbFdk or by emailing henry.kim@ • Matters of interest arising from other contains documents other than rules or fda.hhs.gov by April 5, 2021. international organizations proposed rules that are applicable to the For Further Information about the • Maximum level for cadmium in public. Notices of hearings and investigations, 14th Session of the CCCF and the Public chocolates containing or declaring committee meetings, agency decisions and Meeting, contact Henry Kim, Ph.D., <30% total cocoa solids on a dry rulings, delegations of authority, filing of FDA, at [email protected], or the matter basis petitions and applications and agency • statements of organization and functions are U.S. Codex office at [email protected], Maximum levels for cadmium in examples of documents appearing in this (202) 720–7760. chocolates containing or declaring section. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ≥30% to <50% total cocoa solids on a dry matter basis and cocoa Background powder (100% total cocoa solids on DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Codex was established in 1963 by two a dry matter basis) United Nations organizations, the Food • Code of practice for the prevention Codex Office and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and and reduction of cadmium the World Health Organization (WHO). contamination in cocoa beans Codex Alimentarius Commission: Through adoption of food standards, • Maximum levels for lead in certain Meeting of the Codex Committee on codes of practice, and other guidelines food categories Contaminants in Foods developed by its committees, and by • Revision of the Code of Practice for promoting their adoption and AGENCY: U.S. Codex Office, USDA. the prevention and reduction of implementation by governments, Codex lead contamination in foods ACTION: Notice of public meeting and seeks to protect the health of consumers • Maximum levels for total aflatoxins in request for comments. and ensure fair practices in the food certain cereals and cereal-based trade. products including foods for infants SUMMARY: The U.S Codex Office is The Terms of Reference of the CCCF sponsoring a public meeting on April and young children are: • Sampling plans and performance 12, 2021. The objective of the public (a) To establish or endorse permitted meeting is to provide information and criteria for total aflatoxins in certain maximum levels or guidelines levels for cereals and cereal-based products receive public comments on agenda contaminants and naturally occurring items and draft United States (U.S.) including foods for infants and toxicants in food and feed; young children positions to be discussed at the 14th (b) to prepare priority lists of • Maximum level for total aflatoxins in Session of the Codex Committee on contaminants and naturally occurring ready-to-eat peanuts and associated Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) of the toxicants for risk assessment by the Joint sampling plan Codex Alimentarius Commission. The FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food • Maximum levels for total aflatoxins U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius Additives; and the Acting Deputy Under Secretary (c) to consider methods of analysis and ochratoxin A in nutmeg, dried for Trade and Foreign Agricultural and sampling for the determination of chili and paprika, ginger, pepper Affairs recognize the importance of contaminants and naturally occurring and turmeric and associated providing interested parties the sampling plans toxicants in food and feed; • opportunity to obtain background Methylmercury in fish: (d) to consider and elaborate Æ information on the 14th Session of the standards or codes of practice for related Maximum levels for additional fish CCCF and to address items on the species subjects; and Æ agenda. (e) to consider other matters assigned Sampling plans Æ to it by the Commission in relation to Other risk management DATES: The public meeting is scheduled contaminants and naturally occurring recommendations for April 12, 2021 from 1:00–4:00 p.m. • toxicants in food and feed. Hydrogen cyanide and mycotoxin EDT. The CCCF is chaired by the contamination in cassava and ADDRESSES: The public meeting will Netherlands. The United States attends cassava-based products take place virtually. Documents related the CCCF as a member country of • Cadmium and lead in quinoa to the 14th Session of the CCCF will be Codex. • Radioactivity in feed and food accessible via the internet at the (including drinking water) in following address: http://ww.fao.org/ Issues To Be Discussed at the Public normal circumstances fao-who-codexalimentarius/meetings/ Meeting • Guidance on data analysis for detail/en/?meeting=CCCF&session=14. The following items on the Agenda development of maximum levels Dr. Lauren Posnick Robin, U.S. for the 14th Session of the CCCF will be and for improved data collection Delegate to the 14th Session of the discussed during the public meeting: • Approach to identify the need for CCCF, invites U.S. interested parties to • Matters referred to the Committee by revision of standards and related submit their comments electronically to the Codex Alimentarius texts developed by CCCF Dr. Henry Kim at the following email Commission and/or its subsidiary • Forward work-plan for CCCF: address: [email protected]. bodies Æ Review of staple food-contaminant Registration: Attendees may register • Matters of interest arising from FAO combinations for future work of to attend the virtual public meeting and WHO including the Joint FAO/ CCCF here: https://fda.zoomgov.com/meeting/ WHO Expert Committee on Food Æ Project plan for the evaluation of register/vJIsce6tpz0uGCiuxe2thMQL6- Additives implementation of COPs of CCCF

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• JECFA evaluations: (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) survey is authorized by the International Æ Priority list of contaminants for should contact USDA’s TARGET Center Investment and Trade in Services evaluation by JECFA at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). Survey Act. Æ Follow-up work to the outcomes of Done at Washington, DC, on March 12, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: JECFA evaluations Jessica Hanson, Chief, Direct • 2021. Other business and future work Mary Lowe, Transactions and Positions Branch (BE– Public Meeting U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius. 49), via phone (301) 278–9595 or via email at [email protected]. At the April 12th public meeting, [FR Doc. 2021–05640 Filed 3–17–21; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Through BILLING CODE P draft U.S. positions on the agenda items this Notice, BEA publishes the reporting will be described and discussed, and requirements for the BE–605 survey attendees will have the opportunity to form. As noted below, all entities CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION pose questions and offer comments. required to respond to this mandatory Written comments may be offered at the survey will be contacted by BEA. meeting or sent to Dr. Henry Kim at Notice of Public Meeting of the Maine Advisory Committee; Cancellation Entities must submit the completed [email protected]. Written survey forms within 30 days after the comments should state that they relate AGENCY: Commission on Civil Rights. end of each calendar or fiscal quarter, or to activities of the 14th Session of the ACTION: Notice; cancellation of meeting. within 45 days if the report is for the CCCF. final quarter of the financial reporting Additional Public Notification SUMMARY: The Commission on Civil year. This Notice is being issued in Rights published a notice in the Federal conformance with the rule BEA issued Public awareness of all segments of Register concerning a meeting of the on April 24, 2012 (77 FR 24373), rulemaking and policy development is Maine Advisory Committee. The establishing guidelines for collecting important. Consequently, the U.S. meeting scheduled for Thursday, March data on international trade in services Codex Office will announce this Federal 18, 2021 at 12 p.m. (ET) is cancelled. and direct investment through notices, Register publication on-line through the The notice is in the Federal Register of rather than through rulemaking. USDA web page located at: http:// Friday, February 26, 2021, in FR Doc. Additional information about BEA’s www.usda.gov/codex, a link that also 2021–03973, on page 11720. collection of data on international trade offers an email subscription service FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: in services and direct investment can be providing access to information related found in the 2012 rule, the International to Codex. Customers can add or delete Barbara Delaviez, (202) 618–4158, [email protected]. Investment and Trade in Services their subscription themselves and have Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), and the option to password protect their Dated: March 12, 2021. 15 CFR part 801. Survey data on accounts. David Mussatt, international trade in services and direct USDA Non-Discrimination Statement Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. investment that are not collected [FR Doc. 2021–05564 Filed 3–17–21; 8:45 am] pursuant to the 2012 rule are described No agency, officer, or employee of the BILLING CODE P separately in 15 CFR part 801. The BE– USDA shall, on the grounds of race, 605 survey forms and instructions are color, national origin, religion, sex, available at www.bea.gov/fdi. gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/ DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Reporting parental status, income derived from a Bureau of Economic Analysis Notice of specific reporting public assistance program, or political requirements, including who is to beliefs, exclude from participation in, [Docket No. 210312–0055] report, the information to be reported, deny the benefits of, or subject to RIN 0691–XC120 the manner of reporting, and the time discrimination any person in the United and place of filing reports, will be States under any program or activity BE–605: Quarterly Survey of Foreign mailed to those required to complete conducted by the USDA. Direct Investment in the United this survey. How To File a Complaint of States—Transactions of U.S. Affiliate Who Must Report: (a) Reports are Discrimination With Foreign Parent required from each U.S. business enterprise in which a foreign person has To file a complaint of discrimination, AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, a direct and/or indirect ownership complete the USDA Program Commerce. interest of at least 10 percent of the Discrimination Complaint Form, which ACTION: Notice of reporting voting stock in an incorporated business may be accessed online at https:// requirements. enterprise, or an equivalent interest in www.ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/ an unincorporated business enterprise, docs/2012/Complain_combined_6_8_ SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Bureau of and that meets the additional conditions 12.pdf, or write a letter signed by you Economic Analysis (BEA), Department detailed in Form BE–605. or your authorized representative. Send of Commerce, is informing the public (b) Entities required to report will be your completed complaint form or letter that it is conducting the mandatory contacted individually by BEA. Entities to USDA by mail, fax, or email. survey titled Quarterly Survey of not contacted by BEA have no reporting Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Direct Investment in the United responsibilities. Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 States—Transactions of U.S. Affiliate What To Report: The survey collects Independence Avenue SW, Washington, with Foreign Parent (BE–605). The data information on transactions between DC 20250–9410. collected on the BE–605 survey are parent companies and their affiliates Fax: (202) 690–7442, Email: needed to measure the size and and on direct investment positions [email protected]. economic significance of foreign direct (stocks). Persons with disabilities who require investment in the United States and its How To Report: Reports can be filed alternative means for communication impact on the U.S. economy. This using BEA’s electronic reporting system

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