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Estimated annual number of
respondents: 5.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 1.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 5.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 5 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 8th day of
October 2014.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2014–24530 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2014–0080]
Notice of Request for Revision to and
Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; Endangered
Species Regulations and Forfeiture
Procedures
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision to and extension of
approval of an information collection;
comment request.
AGENCY:
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
protection of endangered species of
terrestrial plants and for procedures
related to the forfeiture of plants or
other property.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before December
15, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0080.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2014–0080, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
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Supporting documents and any
comments we receive on this docket
may be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0080 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 regulations to protect
endangered species of terrestrial plants
and forfeiture procedures, contact Dr.
John Veremis, National CITES Director,
PHP, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road,
Unit 52, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301)
851–2347. For copies of more detailed
information on the information
collection, contact Ms. Kimberly Hardy,
APHIS’ Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851–2727.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Endangered Species Regulations
and Forfeiture Procedures.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0076.
Type of Request: Revision to and
extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: Under the Endangered
Species Act of 1973, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is
responsible for enforcing provisions of
the Act and the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) that pertain to the importation,
exportation, or reexportation of plants.
As part of this mission, USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Services (APHIS) administers the
regulations in 7 CFR part 355,
‘‘Endangered Species Regulations
Concerning Terrestrial Plants.’’ In
accordance with these regulations, any
individual, nursery, or other entity
wishing to engage in the business of
importing, exporting, or reexporting
terrestrial plants listed in the CITES
regulations at 50 CFR 17.12 or 23.23
must obtain a protected plant permit
from APHIS. Such entities include
importers, exporters, or reexporters who
sell, barter, collect, or otherwise
exchange or acquire terrestrial plants as
a livelihood or enterprise engaged in for
gain or profit. The requirement does not
apply to persons engaged in business
merely as carriers or customhouse
brokers.
To obtain a protected plant permit,
entities must complete an application
(Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
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Form 621) and submit it to APHIS for
approval. When a permit has been
issued, the plants covered by the permit
may be imported into the United States,
exported, or reexported, provided they
are accompanied by documentation
required by the regulations and all other
conditions of the regulations are met.
Effectively regulating entities who are
engaged in the business of importing,
exporting, or reexporting endangered
species of terrestrial plants requires the
use of this application process, as well
as the use of other information
collection activities including, but not
limited to, notifying APHIS of the
impending importation, exportation, or
reexportation of the plants; marking
containers used for the importation,
exportation, or reexportation of the
plants; and creating and maintaining
records of importation, exportation, and
reexportation.
APHIS also administers regulations at
7 CFR part 356, ‘‘Forfeiture
Procedures,’’ which sets out procedures
for the forfeiture of plants or other
property by entities found to be in
violation of the Endangered Species Act
or the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981
(16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.). Entities whose
property is subject to forfeiture may file
with APHIS a waiver of forfeiture
procedures, a petition for remission or
mitigation of forfeiture, or a request for
release of property.
The information provided by these
information collection activities is
critical to APHIS’ ability to carry out its
responsibilities under the Endangered
Species Act and the Lacey Act. These
responsibilities include monitoring
importation, exportation, and
reexportation activities involving
endangered species of plants, as well as
the investigation of possible violations
and the forfeiture of plants or other
property. However, since the last
approval of this collection, APHIS no
longer requires completion of PPQ Form
625 (Claim and Bond) due to
implementation of the Civil Asset
Forfeiture Reform Act.
We are asking the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve 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;
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(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
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average
0.0929 hours per response.
Respondents: U.S. importers and
exporters of endangered species of
terrestrial plants.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 16,578.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 4.901.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 81,264.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 7,552 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 8th day of
October 2014.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2014–24531 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Commodity Credit Corporation
Information Collection; Noninsured
Crop Disaster Assistance Program
Farm Service Agency,
Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency and the
Commodity Credit Corporation are
requesting comments from all interested
individuals and organizations on a
revision of a currently approved
information collection in support of the
Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance
Program (NAP). The information
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collected is needed from producers to
determine eligibility for NAP assistance.
DATES: We will consider comments that
we receive by December 15, 2014.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, OMB control
number, volume, and page number of
this issue of the Federal Register. You
may submit comments by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to/
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Daniel McGlynn, Acting
Division Director, Production,
Emergencies, and Compliance Division,
Farm Service Agency, USDA, Mail Stop
0517, 1400 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0517.
You may also send comments to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC, 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Terry Hill, Section Head, Disaster
Assistance Section, Program Policy
Branch, (202) 720–3087.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of Information Collection
Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0175.
Type of Request: Revision.
Abstract: NAP is authorized under 7
U.S.C. 7333 and implemented under
regulations issued at 7 CFR part 1437.
NAP is administered by FSA for CCC
and is carried out by FSA State and
County committees. The information
collected allows FSA to provide
assistance under NAP for losses of
commercial crops or other agricultural
commodities (except livestock) that are
produced for food or fiber and for which
catastrophic coverage under section
508(b), or additional NAP coverage
under sections 508(c) and 508(h) under
the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C.
1508) is not available.
NAP coverage is available for crops
expressly grown for food (excluding
livestock and their by-products); crops
planted and grown for livestock
consumption; crops grown for fiber
(excluding trees grown for wood, paper,
or pulp products); aquaculture species
crops (including ornamental fish);
floriculture; ornamental nursery;
Christmas tree crops; turf grass sod;
industrial crops; seed crops; and sea
grass and sea oats. The information
collected is necessary to determine
whether a producer and crop or
commodity meet applicable conditions
for assistance and to determine
compliance with existing regulations.
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Eligible producers must annually:
(1) Request NAP coverage by
completing an application for coverage
and paying a service fee by the FSAestablished application closing date;
(2) File a report of acreage, inventory,
or physical location of the operation, as
applicable for the covered crop or
commodity; and
(3) Certify harvested production of
each covered crop or commodity.
When damage to a covered crop or
commodity occurs, which is eligible for
NAP, producers must file a notice of
loss with the local FSA administrative
county office within 15 calendar days of
occurrence or 15 calendar days of the
date damage to the crop or commodity
becomes apparent. Producers must also
file an application for payment by the
FSA established deadline, and complete
a certification of average adjusted gross
income and consent for disclosure of tax
information with the local FSA County
office. The NAP application is also
being used to provide a timelier, more
accurate, and more reliable delivery of
benefits to producers.
FSA is revising a currently approved
information collection because the
number of producers is expected to
increase due to changes to NAP by the
Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm
Bill) and additional changes that are
under development and will be
published in a separate rulemaking.
The 2014 Farm Bill authorizes
additional NAP coverage (NAP buy-up
coverage) levels ranging from 50 to 65
percent of production at 100 percent of
the average market price, and expands
NAP coverage to sweet sorghum,
biomass sorghum, and industrial crops
grown as feedstock for renewable
biofuel, renewable electricity, and
biobased products. It also expands a
waiver of the NAP service fee which
was previously available only to limited
resource farmers to also include
beginning and socially disadvantaged
farmers and ranchers.
Based on these changes, FSA is
expecting an increase in the annual total
number of respondents, and an increase
in total burden hours for collection of
the information.
The formulas used to calculate the
total burden hours is estimated average
time per response (includes travel
times) hours times total annual
responses.
Type of respondents: Producers of
commercial crops or other agricultural
commodities (except livestock).
Estimated Annual Burden: Public
reporting burden for this information
collection is estimated to average 1.33
hours per response. The average travel
time, which is included in the total
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2014-0080]
Notice of Request for Revision to and Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; Endangered Species Regulations and Forfeiture
Procedures
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: 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 protection
of endangered species of terrestrial plants and for procedures related
to the forfeiture of plants or other property.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
December 15, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-0080.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2014-0080, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1238.
Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may
be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2014-
0080 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 regulations to
protect endangered species of terrestrial plants and forfeiture
procedures, contact Dr. John Veremis, National CITES Director, PHP,
PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 52, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-
2347. For copies of more detailed information on the information
collection, contact Ms. Kimberly Hardy, APHIS' Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851-2727.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Endangered Species Regulations and Forfeiture Procedures.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0076.
Type of Request: Revision to and extension of approval of an
information collection.
Abstract: Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is
responsible for enforcing provisions of the Act and the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) that pertain to the importation, exportation, or reexportation
of plants.
As part of this mission, USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Services (APHIS) administers the regulations in 7 CFR part 355,
``Endangered Species Regulations Concerning Terrestrial Plants.'' In
accordance with these regulations, any individual, nursery, or other
entity wishing to engage in the business of importing, exporting, or
reexporting terrestrial plants listed in the CITES regulations at 50
CFR 17.12 or 23.23 must obtain a protected plant permit from APHIS.
Such entities include importers, exporters, or reexporters who sell,
barter, collect, or otherwise exchange or acquire terrestrial plants as
a livelihood or enterprise engaged in for gain or profit. The
requirement does not apply to persons engaged in business merely as
carriers or customhouse brokers.
To obtain a protected plant permit, entities must complete an
application (Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Form 621) and submit
it to APHIS for approval. When a permit has been issued, the plants
covered by the permit may be imported into the United States, exported,
or reexported, provided they are accompanied by documentation required
by the regulations and all other conditions of the regulations are met.
Effectively regulating entities who are engaged in the business of
importing, exporting, or reexporting endangered species of terrestrial
plants requires the use of this application process, as well as the use
of other information collection activities including, but not limited
to, notifying APHIS of the impending importation, exportation, or
reexportation of the plants; marking containers used for the
importation, exportation, or reexportation of the plants; and creating
and maintaining records of importation, exportation, and reexportation.
APHIS also administers regulations at 7 CFR part 356, ``Forfeiture
Procedures,'' which sets out procedures for the forfeiture of plants or
other property by entities found to be in violation of the Endangered
Species Act or the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3371 et
seq.). Entities whose property is subject to forfeiture may file with
APHIS a waiver of forfeiture procedures, a petition for remission or
mitigation of forfeiture, or a request for release of property.
The information provided by these information collection activities
is critical to APHIS' ability to carry out its responsibilities under
the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act. These responsibilities
include monitoring importation, exportation, and reexportation
activities involving endangered species of plants, as well as the
investigation of possible violations and the forfeiture of plants or
other property. However, since the last approval of this collection,
APHIS no longer requires completion of PPQ Form 625 (Claim and Bond)
due to implementation of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act.
We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve
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;
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(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 reporting burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 0.0929 hours per response.
Respondents: U.S. importers and exporters of endangered species of
terrestrial plants.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 16,578.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 4.901.
Estimated annual number of responses: 81,264.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 7,552 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 8th day of October 2014.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-24531 Filed 10-14-14; 8:45 am]
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