What did Agriculture Department publish on Aug. 18?

The US Agriculture Department published a four page rule on Aug. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Sugar Beet Disaster Program.

The Department is primarily focused on food nutrition, with assistance programs making up 80 percent of its budget. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department implements too many regulations and restrictions and impedes the economy.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Agriculture Department on Aug. 18

Title
Sugar Beet Disaster Program
Outside Storage of Extra Long Staple Loan Cotton
National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning; Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation
Milk in the Pacific Northwest and Western Marketing Areas; Tentative Decision on Proposed Amendments and Opportunity To File Written Exceptions to Tentative Marketing Agreement and to Order
Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; Applicability to the Tongass National Forest, Alaska
Notice of Invitation for Nominations to the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics
Notice of Resource Advisory Committee Meeting
Eastern Arizona Counties Resource Advisory Committee
Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee
Custer National Forest Weed Treatment EIS, Custer National Forest, Stillwater, Park, Carbon, Sweetgrass, Rosebud, Powder River, and Carter Counties, Montana, and Harding County, SD
National Sheep Industry Improvement Center; Inviting Grant Proposals for the Sheep and Goat Industry Grant Initiative
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request