Proposed rule published on June 2 by Agriculture Department

Proposed rule published on June 2 by Agriculture Department

The US Agriculture Department published a two page proposed rule on June 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The proposed rule is focused on Procedures by Which the Agricultural Marketing Service Develops, Revises, Suspends, or Terminates Voluntary Official Grade Standards: United States Standards for Grades of Frozen Okra.

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 June 2

Title
Federal Seed Act Regulations
United States Standards for Grades of Potatoes
Nectarines and Fresh Peaches Grown in California; Termination of Marketing Order 916 and the Peach Provisions of Marketing Order 917
Procedures by Which the Agricultural Marketing Service Develops, Revises, Suspends, or Terminates Voluntary Official Grade Standards: United States Standards for Grades of Frozen Okra
Tuolumne-Mariposa Counties Resource Advisory Committee
Juneau Resource Advisory Committee
Tonto National Forest; AZ; Salt River Allotments Vegetative Management EIS
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request-Formative Research for the Pilot of a Garden-Related Nutrition Curriculum
Notice of Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection (Marking, Labeling, and Packaging)
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Pintler Ranger District; Montana; Flint Foothills Vegetation Management Project

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