CBP Adjusts PGA Message Set Pilots for EPA Filings
CBP will add participation limits to two ACE pilot programs for filing Environmental Protection Agency data in the Participating Government Agency (PGA) Message Set, the agency said in a notice (here). The limits to the pilots, involving notices of arrival for pesticides or pesticide devices and non-road vehicles and engines, are necessary to satisfy the Paperwork Reduction Act, said CBP.
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The agency's notices announcing the pilots for pesticide (see 1502030010) and vehicle (see 13121219) data reporting indicated there was no limits to the number of participants, it said. "In order to comply with the participation limitation of the PRA, only up to nine filers" will be accepted during the tests, CBP said. The test notices "inadvertently indicated" that there was an approved "Information Collection Request (ICR) for this additional information collection," said CBP.
CBP will also expand the ACE pilot program for reporting data on Ozone Depleting Substances to allow for more than nine filers. CBP previously limited the pilot, which involves data reporting through the PGA Message Set, to nine participants when it began in 2014 (see 13121219). The agency also opened the pilot "all modes of transportation, not exclusively ocean as was previously the case, and to all entries filed in ACE at any port." The modified PGA message set pilots "will continue until concluded by way of announcement in the Federal Register," CBP said.
(Federal Register 03/14/16)