41934 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 138 / Friday, July 18, 2014 / Proposed Rules continental United States from China prior to harvest for signs of infestation be treated in accordance with 7 CFR only under the conditions described in and/or infection. part 305. this section. These conditions are (4) If Monilia polystroma van Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of designed to prevent the introduction of Leeuwen or Monilinia fructigena is July 2014. the following quarantine pests: detected at a registered place of Kevin Shea, Adoxophyes orana (Fischer von production, APHIS may reject the Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Ro¨slerstamm), summer fruit tortix; consignment or prohibit the importation Inspection Service. Archips micaceana (Walker), a moth; into the continental United States of [FR Doc. 2014–16923 Filed 7–17–14; 8:45 am] Argyrotaenia ljungiana (Thunberg), apples from the place of production for BILLING CODE 3410–34–P grape tortix; Bactrocera dorsalis the remainder of the season. The (Hendel), Oriental fruit fly; Carposina exportation to the continental United sasakii Matsumura, peach fruit moth; States of apples from the place of DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Cenopalpus pulcher (Canestrini & production may resume in the next Fanzago), flat scarlet mite; Cryptoblabes growing season if an investigation is Animal and Plant Health Inspection gnidiella (Millie`re), honeydew moth; conducted by the NPPO and APHIS and Service Cydia funebrana (Treitschke), plum the NPPO conclude that appropriate fruit moth; Euzophera bigella (Zeller), remedial action has been taken. 7 CFR Part 340 quince moth; Euzophera pyriella Yang, (c) Packinghouse requirements. [Docket No. APHIS–2006–0124] a moth; Grapholita inopinata Heinrich, (1) Packinghouses must be registered Manchurian fruit moth; Leucoptera with the NPPO of China, and during the RIN 0579–AC08 malifoliella (Costa), apple leaf miner; time registered packinghouses are in use Monilia polystroma van Leeuwen, Asian for packing apples for export to the Sharing Certain Business Information brown rot; Monilinia fructigena Honey, continental United States, the Regarding the Introduction of brown fruit rot; Rhynchites auratus packinghouses may only accept apples Genetically Engineered Organisms (Scopoli), apricot weevil; Rhynchites that are from registered places of With State and Tribal Government bacchus (L.), peach weevil; Rhynchites production and that are produced in Agencies giganteus Krynicky, a weevil; accordance with the requirements of AGENCY: Rhynchites heros Roelofs, a weevil; Animal and Plant Health this section. Inspection Service, USDA. Spilonota albicana (Motschulsky), (2) Packinghouses must have a ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal. white fruit moth; Spilonota tracking system in place to readily prognathana Snellen, a moth; and identify all apples destined for export to SUMMARY: We are withdrawing a Ulodemis trigrapha Meyrick, a moth. the continental United States that enter proposed rule that would have amended The conditions for importation of all the packinghouse and be able to trace the regulations regarding genetically fresh apples from China are found in the apples back to their place of engineered organisms regulated by the paragraphs (a) through (e) of this production. United States Department of Agriculture section; additional conditions for apples (3) Following the packinghouse by adding provisions for sharing certain imported from areas of China south of inspection, the packinghouse must business information with State and the 33rd parallel are found in paragraph follow a handling procedure for the Tribal government agencies. We have (f) of this section. apples that is mutually agreed upon by decided to withdraw the proposed rule (a) General requirements. APHIS and the NPPO of China. (1) The national plant protection to ensure that our ability to protect (4) The apples must be washed and confidential business information from organization (NPPO) of China must waxed prior to shipment. provide an operational workplan to disclosure is maintained. (5) The apples must be packed in APHIS that details the activities that the DATES: The proposed rule published on cartons that are labeled with the identity NPPO of China will, subject to APHIS’ February 27, 2013 (78 FR 13286–13294) of the place of production and the approval of the workplan, carry out to is withdrawn, as of July 18, 2014. packinghouse. meet the requirements of this section. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. (2) The apples must be grown at (d) Shipping requirements. Sealed containers of apples destined for export Chessa Huff-Woodard, Biotechnology places of production that are registered Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River with the NPPO of China. to the continental United States must be held in a cold storage facility while Road Unit 146, Riverdale, MD 20737– (3) Apples from China may be 1236; (301) 851–3943. imported in commercial consignments awaiting export. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: only. (e) Phytosanitary certificate. Each (b) Place of production requirements. consignment of apples imported from Background (1) The place of production must China into the continental United States On February 27, 2013, the Animal and carry out any phytosanitary measures must be accompanied by a Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) specified for the place of production phytosanitary certificate issued by the published in the Federal Register a under the operational workplan as NPPO of China with an additional proposal 1 (78 FR 13286–13294, Docket described in the regulations. declaration stating that the requirements (2) When any apples destined for of this section have been met and the No. APHIS–2006–0124) to amend the export to the continental United States consignment has been inspected by the regulations to share certain confidential are still on the tree and are no more than NPPO and found free of quarantine business information (CBI) with State 2 centimeters in diameter, double- pests. and Tribal regulatory officials. APHIS layered paper bags must be placed (f) Additional conditions for apples proposed to share certain CBI contained wholly over the apples. The bags must from areas of China south of the 33rd in permit applications and notifications parallel. In addition to the conditions in remain intact and on the apples until 1 paragraphs (a) through (e) of this To view the proposed rule, supporting the apples arrive at the packinghouse. documents, and the comments we received, go to (3) The NPPO of China must visit and section, apples from areas of China http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D= inspect registered places of production south of the 33rd parallel apples must APHIS-2006-0124. VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:04 Jul 17, 2014 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\18JYP1.SGM 18JYP1 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 138 / Friday, July 18, 2014 / Proposed Rules 41935 for importations, interstate movements, rulemaking process six issues raised in Table of Contents and releases into the environment of a petition for rulemaking (PRM), PRM– I. The Petition regulated genetically engineered (GE) 72–7, submitted by Anthony II. Public Comments on the Petition organisms only with those specific State Pietrangelo, on behalf of the Nuclear III. NRC Analysis or Tribal agencies that have jurisdiction Energy Institute (NEI or the petitioner). IV. Determination of Petition over GE agricultural crops and/or The petitioner requests that the NRC I. The Petition products, to enable the State and Tribal amend its regulations to improve the On October 3, 2012, the NRC received governments to better review and efficiency of the licensing and oversight a PRM filed by NEI (ADAMS Accession comment on notifications and permit of spent fuel dry cask storage. No. ML12299A380). The NEI is a applications received by APHIS and DATES: The docket for the petition for provide information, comments, and nuclear energy organization that works rulemaking, PRM–72–7, is closed on on matters affecting the nuclear energy recommendations to APHIS. July 18, 2014. Since publication of the proposed industry. The petitioner requests that rule, we have discovered potential ADDRESSES: Further NRC action on the the NRC amend part 72 of Title 10 of the vulnerabilities under the Freedom of issues raised by this petition can be Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Information Act (FOIA). While CBI is found on the Federal rulemaking Web ‘‘Licensing Requirements for the protected from mandatory public site at http://www.regulations.gov by Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear disclosure under FOIA (5 U.S.C. searching on Docket ID: NRC–2014– Fuel, High-Level Radioactive Waste, and 552(b)(4)), we conducted an in-depth 0067, which is the identification for the Reactor-Related Greater Than Class C review of FOIA and determined that future rulemaking. Waste,’’ to add a new rule governing disclosure of CBI to State and Tribal Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2012– spent fuel storage cask certificate of regulatory officials may constitute a 0266 when contacting the NRC about compliance (CoC) format and content, waiver of this FOIA exemption. the availability of information regarding extend the applicability of the backfit Specifically, under FOIA, the States are this petition. You can access publicly rule to CoC holders, and make other considered members of ‘‘the public.’’ available documents related to the changes. The petitioner states that these Because disclosure to one member of petition