A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

REGULATORY: APHIS, EPA, FS, NOAA, USDA

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE

Notice advising the public that APHIA is reinstating the animal health status of the Cantons of Neuchâtel and Ticino in Switzerland as free of Newcastle disease. Info here.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Notice announcing a series of virtual meetings of the Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee, which are open to the public, to finalize the board’s Air Climate and Energy, Sustainable and Healthy Communities, Safe and Sustainable Water Resources, and Chemical Safety for Sustainability and Health & Environmental Risk Assessment subcommittee reports. Info here.

FOREST SERVICE

Notice in accordance with Section 3(b) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Forest Service is transmitting the final boundary of the Clackamas National Wild and Scenic River to Congress. Info here.

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Temporary rule prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 610 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). Info here.

Final rule implementing an annual catch limit of 492,000 lb for Deep 7 bottomfish in the main Hawaiian Islands for each of the three fishing years 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. Info here.

Temporary rule prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific cod by American Fisheries Act trawl catcher/processors in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area. Info here.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Notice announcing the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are jointly implementing the Federal Subsistence Management Program which provides a preference to Alaskan Natives and Alaskan Native Communities when taking fish and wildlife resources for subsistence uses on Federal public lands and waters in Alaska.  Info here.