🎄Proposed Changes to Christmas Tree Promotion Order Impacting Businesses
This proposal invites comments on changes to the Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). These changes include amending the Board's name from "Christmas Tree Promotion Board" to "Real Christmas Tree Board", increasing the administrative expenses cap from 10 to 15 percent, allowing importers to request refunds of assessments paid on trees that were shipped to the United States but were not sold, and increasing the mandatory period to maintain books and records relating to the Order. Many of these changes are administrative in nature. This action would also make several non- substantive clarifications and changes to modernize the Board's procedures.
Learn More📱Analysis of SNAP Mobile Payment Pilots Regulatory Notice
The Department of Agriculture is requesting comments on information collection requirements for Mobile Payment Pilots (MPPs) in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This initiative aims to test mobile payment technologies for SNAP transactions, assessing their feasibility and implications for program integrity. State agencies and businesses will be involved in the collection and reporting processes necessary for these pilots.
Learn More🌿Increase in Native Spearmint Oil Salable Quantity and Allotment
This final rule implements a recommendation from the Far West Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee (Committee) to revise the quantity of Class 3 (Native) spearmint oil that handlers may purchase from, or handle on behalf of, producers in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon and parts of Nevada and Utah (Far West) for the 2024-2025 marketing year, which began on June 1, 2024. This action increases the 2024-2025 marketing year Native spearmint oil salable quantity from 678,980 pounds to 731,220 pounds, and the allotment percentage from 26 percent to 28 percent.
Learn More🌾USDA Requests Comments on Crop Insurance Information Collection
This notice announces a public comment period on the information collection requests (ICRs) associated with the interpretations of provisions of the Act or any regulation codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, and interpretations of policy provisions not codified in the Code of Federal Regulations or any procedure used in the administration of the Federal crop insurance program.
Learn More⚖️USDA Guidance on Criminal Regulatory Offenses and Implications
This notice describes USDA's plans to address criminally liable regulatory offenses under the recent executive order on Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.
Learn More🌾Notice of Request for Extension of Information Collection for Grant Programs
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Foreign Agricultural Service's (FAS) intention to request on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) an extension from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a currently approved information collection in support of the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program.
Learn More🍽️National School Lunch Program Reporting Requirement Eliminated
This rule rescinds an unnecessary reporting requirement for the school meals application verification process.
Learn More🌱Availability of Draft EIS for Blight-Tolerant American Chestnut
We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a revised draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and revised draft plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) evaluating the potential environmental impacts and plant pest risk that may result from the approval of a petition for nonregulated status for blight-tolerant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The trees have been developed using genetic engineering to express an oxalate oxidase enzyme from wheat as a defense against the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, making American chestnut tolerant to chestnut blight. Based on a revised petition submitted by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, we have revised the draft EIS and draft PPRA. We are making the revised petition, revised draft EIS, and revised draft PPRA available for public review and comment.
Learn More🌾USDA Seeks Extension for Agricultural Information Collection
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Foreign Agricultural Service's (FAS) intention and Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) intention to request on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) an extension from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a currently approved information collection in support of the USDA's Regional Agricultural Promotion Program.
Learn More🎓Overview of Uniform Grant Application for Discretionary Grants
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this revised information collection. This is a revision of a currently approved collection. The purpose of the Uniform Grant Application Package for Discretionary Grant Programs is to provide a standardized format for the development of all Requests for Applications for discretionary grant programs released by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Agency and to allow for a more expeditious OMB clearance process. This revision also addresses additional information to be collected for some grant programs as supplemental information beyond the Uniform Grant Application. This notice provides 60-day notice to the public that State Plan information will be submitted in association with this information collection, and program-specific supplemental forms will be used as discussed in this notice.
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