A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions to: camarigg at uark.edu
REGULATORY: Includes APHIS, EPA, FWS, FS, ITA, NMFS, and RHS rules and notices.
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE: Rule amending the bovine tuberculosis regulations regarding State and zone classifications by reclassifying the State of California as accredited-free. Details here.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Rule establishing tolerances for residues of flonicamid in or on hops, tree nuts and pistachios. Info here.
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE: Rule establishing regulations for seasons, harvest limits, and methods and means related to the taking of wildlife for subsistence uses in Alaska for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 regulatory years. Info here.
FOREST SERVICE:
Rule establishing regulations for seasons, harvest limits, and methods and means related to the taking of wildlife for subsistence uses in Alaska for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 regulatory years. Info here.
Notice the Kisatchie National Forest Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Pineville, Louisiana. Info here.
Notice the Nicolet Resource Advisory Committee will meet in Crandon, Wisconsin. Details here.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION: Notice the Secretary of Commerce received an application for an amended Export Trade Certificate of Review from Northwest Fruit Exporters. Info here.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION:
Rule NMFS implements an accountability measure for the recreational sector for the other jacks complex in the South Atlantic for the 2016 fishing year. Info here.
Rule announcing the reduction of the commercial possession limit for northern red hake for the remainder of the 2016 fishing year. Info here.
Rule NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amounts of the Aleut Corporation pollock directed fishing allowance from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea. Info here.
Rule North Pacific Fishery Management Council submitted Amendment 101 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska to the Secretary of Commerce for review. Info here.
Notice the Pacific Fishery Management Council started the five-year review of its groundfish trawl catch share program, as required by the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Management and Conservation Act. Info here.
RURAL HOUSING SERIVCE: Notice RHS published a document in the Federal Register of July 6, 2016, seeking applications from Re-Lenders under the Community Facility Loan Program for FY 2016. Info here.