Notice2025-14090
Notice of Request for Revision to and Extension of Approval of an Information Collection; Importation of Poultry Meat and Other Poultry Products From Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico; Poultry and Pork Transiting the United States
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July 25, 2025
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Agriculture DepartmentAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a revision to and extension of approval of an information collection associated with the regulations for the importation of poultry meat and other poultry products from Sinaloa and Sonora and for pork and poultry products transiting the United States.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 141 (Friday, July 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35266-35267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14090]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2025-0023]
Notice of Request for Revision to and Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; Importation of Poultry Meat and Other Poultry
Products From Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico; Poultry and Pork Transiting
the United States
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Request for revision to and extension of approval of an
information collection; comment request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's
intention to request a revision to and extension of approval of an
information collection associated with the regulations for the
importation of poultry meat and other poultry products from Sinaloa and
Sonora and for pork and poultry products transiting the United States.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
September 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail">http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail</a>;D=APHIS-2025-0023.
<bullet> Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2025-0023, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may
be viewed at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail">http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail</a>;D=APHIS-2025-
0023 or in our reading room, which is located in room 1141 of the USDA
South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC.
Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the importation of
poultry meat and other poultry products from Sinaloa and Sonora,
Mexico; poultry and pork transiting the United States, contact Dr.
Nathaniel J. Koval, VS, APHIS, 69 Thomas Johnson Drive, Frederick, MD,
21702, or at 301-851-3434. For more information on the information
collection process, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ce8f9e86879de09e9c8f8ebbbdaaafe0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2d6c7d65647e037d7f6c6d585e494c034a425b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Importation of Poultry Meat and Other Poultry Products From
Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico; Poultry and Pork Transiting the United
States.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0144.
Type of Request: Revision to and extension of approval of an
information collection.
Abstract: The Animal Health Protection Act is the primary Federal
law governing the protection of animal health. The law gives the
Secretary of Agriculture broad authority to detect, control, or
eradicate pests or diseases of livestock or poultry. The Secretary may
also prohibit or restrict the import or export of any animal or related
material if necessary to prevent the spread of any livestock or poultry
pest or disease.
Disease prevention is the most effective method for maintaining a
healthy animal population and for enhancing the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS')
ability to allow U.S. animal producers to compete
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in the world market of animal and animal product trade. APHIS is the
agency charged with carrying out disease prevention by regulating the
importation of animals and animal products into the United States. The
regulations under which APHIS conducts these disease prevention
activities are contained in 9 CFR parts 91 through 99. These
regulations govern the importation of animals and animal products.
APHIS currently places certain restrictions on the importation and
in-transit movement of fresh (chilled or frozen) pork and pork products
from Mexico because of the presence of classical swine fever (CSF) in
some areas of Mexico. However, the regulations in Sec. 94.15 allow
pork and pork products from certain Mexican States to transit the
United States, under seal, for export to another country.
In addition, the regulations in Sec. 94.6 provide the requirements
for, among other things, the importation of poultry carcasses, parts,
products, and eggs (other than hatching eggs) from regions where
Newcastle disease (ND) is considered to exist. However, Sec. 94.15
also allows poultry carcasses, parts, products, and eggs (other than
hatching eggs) that do not qualify for entry into the United States to
transit the United States via land ports, for immediate export, from
Mexican States that Mexico considers to be free of ND.
APHIS believes that allowing such in-transit movements presents a
negligible risk of introducing CSF or ND into the United States while
simultaneously avoiding unnecessary restrictions on trade.
APHIS also currently has regulations in place that restrict the
importation of poultry meat and other poultry products from Mexico due
to the presence of ND in that country. However, under the regulations
in Sec. 94.30, APHIS allows the importation of poultry meat and
poultry products from the Mexican States of Sinaloa and Sonora, if
imported according to APHIS' requirements, because APHIS has determined
that poultry meat and products from these two Mexican States pose a
negligible risk of introducing ND into the United States.
To ensure these commodities are safe for importation, APHIS
requires that certain information collection activities take place such
as foreign meat inspection certificates, serially numbered seals,
emergency action notification, and pre-arrival notifications.
We are asking OMB to approve our use of these information
collection activities, as described, for an additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments from the public
(as well as affected agencies) concerning our information collection.
These comments will help us:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, through use, as appropriate, of automated,
electronic, mechanical, and other collection technologies; e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average .999 hours per response.
Respondents: Federal animal health authorities in Mexico and U.S.
importers and exporters of poultry meat, other poultry products, pork,
and pork products from Mexico.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 69.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 30.
Estimated annual number of responses: 2,097.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 2,095 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of
the annual number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per
response.)
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of July 2025.
Michael Watson,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-14090 Filed 7-24-25; 8:45 am]
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