Notice2025-02484
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records; Delay of Effective Date
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Published
February 11, 2025
Effective
January 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Agriculture DepartmentAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Abstract
This document delays the effective date of the January 10, 2025, modified system of records notice, titled "Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) National Information Communication Activity System (SNICAS), USDA/APHIS-21," in accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from the President titled, "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review". The effective date of the exemptions in the notice are delayed until April 11, 2025. The notice modified the system to exempt it from certain provisions of the Privacy Act.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9301-9302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02484]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2014-0062]
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records; Delay of Effective Date
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).
ACTION: Notice of a modified system of records; delay of effective
date.
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SUMMARY: This document delays the effective date of the January 10,
2025, modified system of records notice, titled ``Smuggling
Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) National Information
Communication Activity System (SNICAS), USDA/APHIS-21,'' in accordance
with the memorandum of January 20, 2025, from the President titled,
``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review''. The effective date of the
exemptions in the notice are delayed until April 11, 2025. The notice
modified the system to exempt it from certain provisions of the Privacy
Act.
DATES: As of February 7, 2025, the effective date for the exemptions in
the modified system of records notice published on January 10, 2025 (90
FR 1940), are delayed until April 11, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ricardo Valdez, Pest Exclusion and
Import Programs, National Policy Manager, SITC, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River
Road, Riverdale, MD 20737; (443) 745-7931; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a9fae0fdea87e4c8c0c5e9dcdacdc887cec6df"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d4e54495e33507c74715d686e797c337a726b">[email protected]</span></a>.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the memorandum of January
20, 2025, from the President to executive departments and agencies
titled, ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ this action delays
the effective date of exemptions in the modified system of records
notice, titled ``Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC)
National Information Communication Activity System (SNICAS), USDA/
APHIS-21,'' published in the Federal Register on January 10, 2025 (90
FR 1940-1941; APHIS-2014-0062).\2\
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\1\ Available at <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>.
\2\ To view the notice, go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, and enter
APHIS-2014-0062 in the Search field.
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The SNICAS system of records maintains a record of activities
conducted by the agency pursuant to its mission and responsibilities
authorized by the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.); the
Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.); and the Honey Bee
Act (7 U.S.C. 281 et seq.). The purpose of the system is to record data
and information about APHIS' SITC activities nationwide. SITC is within
APHIS' Plant Protection and Quarantine program.
SITC officials use the information in SNICAS to identify and close
pathways used for the introduction of prohibited commodities and those
regulated commodities that lack the necessary certificates and permits
to enter U.S. commerce. SITC officials also use SNICAS to perform
activities such as legal and regulatory actions; scientific research;
risk, trend, pathway and targeting analyses; trade support;
administrative and budgetary support; supervision and program
management; and overall decision support services. Additionally, SITC
officials use SNICAS to generate reports to evaluate the risk status of
the commercial sites where regulated commodities are seized, the
effectiveness of the program, and quality control of the data.
APHIS will share information from the system pursuant to the
requirements of the Privacy Act and, in the case of its routine uses,
when the disclosure is compatible with the purpose for which the
information was compiled. However, the notice allowed for the exemption
of specific records in the system from certain Privacy Act requirements
in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2) (Investigative Law Enforcement
Materials). APHIS exempted the system from Privacy Act access
requirements including 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3); (d); (e)(1); (e)(4)(G),
(H), and (I); and (f), and indicated that an individual who is the
subject of a record in this system may not seek access to those records
that are exempt from the access provisions. A determination of whether
a record may be accessed would be made at the time a request is
received.
In this issue of the Federal Register, we are also publishing a
delay of effective date for the final rule associated with this
action.\3\
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\3\ To view the final rule's delay of effective date, go to
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, and enter APHIS-2015-0008 in the Search field.
Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of February 2025.
Michael Watson,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-02484 Filed 2-7-25; 8:45 am]
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