The Environmental Protection Agency wants manufacturers, importers and exporters of 31 chemical substances that are subject to premanufacture notices or microbial commercial activity notices under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to notify the agency at least 90 days ahead of time, it said in a notice on the proposed significant new use rules (SNUR).
The State Department is seeking public comments on four information collections from the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the agency said in a notice this week. The collections deal with export licenses for unclassified defense articles and related unclassified technical data; license applications for temporary imports of unclassified defense articles; applications for temporary export of unclassified defense articles; and applications to amend those export or temporary import licenses.
The U.K. on Sept. 17 is planning to launch a public beta version of its new digital export licensing system, Licensing for International Trade (LITE), the country announced this week. The country has been allowing certain exporters to use the system as a “private beta,” but starting next month any exporter will be able to use LITE to apply for a standard individual export license (SIEL).
CBP is alerting traders, including those participating in the rail electronic export manifest pilot, that they may soon start seeing new ACE errors if they don’t input necessary Facilities Information and Resource Management System (FIRMS) codes for certain in-bond shipments, the agency said in a pair of Aug. 6 CSMS messages.
Ecuador on Aug. 1 hosted the first in-person meeting of trade ministers of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, at which Western Hemisphere countries adopted a “Declaration on Good Practices for Pre-Arrival Processing” and made other trade commitments.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has added the longfin smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys), a fish species found off the Pacific Coast, to the list of endangered and threatened wildlife. The designation, and resulting import and export restrictions, will be effective Aug. 29, it said in a notice.
The Federal Communications Commission is launching a voluntary labeling program for wireless consumer “Internet of Things” products that have been certified and tested to meet FCC IoT cybersecurity standards, the commission said in a final rule released July 29.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is temporarily adding two benzimidazole-opioids -- N-desethyl isotonitazene and N-piperidinyl etonitazene -- to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a temporary scheduling order. The listing takes effect July 29, and will be in effect for up to three years.
The EPA is finalizing amendments to hazardous waste manifest regulations and to hazardous waste electronic manifest (e-Manifest) regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), it said in a notice in the Federal Register. The agency says these actions should increase the utility of the e-Manifest system, reduce administrative burden and improve tracking of hazardous waste shipments.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has given two South American bird species endangered species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The final rule protecting the sira curassow (Pauxi koepckeae) and southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis) is effective Aug. 26, FWS said in a notice. Both species of large, ground-dwelling birds are found on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains, in narrowly defined areas in Peru and Bolivia.