Rule2025-02423
Paper and Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and Information Order; Clarifying Changes
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Published
February 10, 2025
Effective
March 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Agriculture DepartmentAgricultural Marketing Service
Abstract
This document delays the effective date of the January 21, 2025, final rule revising the regulations related to the Paper and Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and Information Order (Order). The amendments included an added definition for partnership; clarification of the nominations process; clarification about in person and electronic voting for any Board meetings; an update of the timing of financial reporting; and a revision of requirements for when exemptions can be requested.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 26 (Monday, February 10, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9188-9189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02423]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
7 CFR Part 1222
[Doc. No. AMS-SC-23-0080]
Paper and Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and
Information Order; Clarifying Changes
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: This document delays the effective date of the January 21,
2025, final rule revising the regulations related to the Paper and
Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and Information Order
(Order). The amendments included an added definition for partnership;
clarification of the nominations process; clarification about in person
and electronic voting for any Board meetings; an update of the timing
of financial reporting; and a revision of requirements for when
exemptions can be requested.
DATES: As of February 10, 2025, the effective date of the final rule
amending 7 CFR part 1222, published on January 21, 2025 (90 FR 6779),
is delayed until March 21, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Standardization Branch, Specialty
Crops Inspection Division, Specialty Crops Program, Agricultural
Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Training
and Development Center; 100 Riverside Parkway, Suite 101;
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22406; fax: (540) 361-1199, or via the
internet at: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the memorandum of January
20, 2025, from the President to executive departments and agencies,
entitled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ this document
temporarily delays the effective date of the rule titled, ``Paper and
Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and Information Order;
Clarifying Changes,'' which was published in the Federal Register on
January 21, 2025 (90 FR 6779). The rule made multiple clarifying
amendments to the Order to bring it up to date with current industry
practices. These amendments included an added definition for
partnership; clarification on the nomination process; clarification of
language about in person and electronic voting for any Board meetings;
an update of the timing of
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financial reporting; and revised requirements concerning when
exemptions may be requested. The Board, which is composed of domestic
manufacturers from across the country and importers, unanimously
recommended the changes to the Order on August 19, 2023.
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\1\ <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/</a>.
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This action is exempt from notice and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553
and is applicable immediately upon publication in the Federal Register,
based on the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3),
respectively. Seeking public comment is impracticable, unnecessary, and
contrary to the public interest. The temporary delay in effective date
is necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further
review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the
President's memorandum of January 20, 2025. Given the imminence of the
effective date, seeking prior public comment on this temporary delay
would have been impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest
in the orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations. The
imminence of the effective date is also good cause for making this
action effective immediately upon publication.
Erin Morris,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-02423 Filed 2-6-25; 8:45 am]
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