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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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annual burden, is estimated to be 1 hour
per respondent.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 298,943.
Estimated Annual Number of
Reponses Per Respondent: 3.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
1,565,366.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,036,452.
We are requesting comments on all
aspects of this information collection to
help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of FSA,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of FSA’s
estimate of burden including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice, including
name and addresses when provided,
will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Signed on October 3, 2014.
Val Dolcini,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit
Corporation, and Administrator, Farm
Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2014–24535 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Klamath National Forest, California,
Westside Fire Recovery Project
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Klamath National Forest
will prepare an environmental impact
statement (EIS) on a proposal to reduce
safety hazards to the public and forest
workers, obtain the maximum economic
commodity values from burned timber,
and increase the likelihood and speed
by which burned forested areas are
regenerated on about 63,883 acres that
burned with high severity in the Beaver
Creek, Whites, and Happy Camp
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Complex fires in 2014. The project area
includes 162,264 acres of National
Forest System lands and 20,863 acres of
private land. Treatments for the project
will be limited to National Forest
System lands. It is located on the west
side of the Forest within the Beaver
Creek, Horse Creek-Klamath River,
Humbug Creek-Klamath River, Elk
Creek, Indian Creek, Lower Scott River,
Seiad Creek-Klamath River, Thompson
Creek-Klamath River, Ukonom CreekKlamath River, French Creek-Scott
River, North Fork Salmon River, and
South Fork Salmon River 5th field
watersheds. The legal description of the
project area is Township (T) 39 North
(N) Range (R) 10 West (W), T39NR11W,
T40NR8W, T40NR10W, T40NR11W,
T41NR10W, T41NR11W, T43NR12W,
T44NR11W, T44NR12W, T45NR10W,
T45NR11W, T45NR12W, T46NR8W,
T46NR9W, T46NR10W, T46NR11W,
T46NR12W, T47NR8W, T47NR9W, and
T47NR10W of the Humboldt Meridian
and T14NR8 East (E), T15NR7E,
T15NR8E, T16NR7E, T16NR8E of the
Humboldt Meridian.
DATES: The comment period on the
proposed action will extend 30 days
from the date the Notice of Intent is
published in the Federal Register. The
draft EIS is expected to be completed by
March 2015, and the final EIS is
expected to be completed by June 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to:
Patricia A. Grantham, Forest Supervisor,
Klamath National Forest, 1711 South
Main Street, Yreka, California 96097,
ATTN: Westside Fire Recovery Team
Leader, or send facsimile to 530–841–
4571. Submit electronic comments at
the Klamath National Forest’s project
Web page: https://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fsusda-pop.php/?project=45579 by
selecting the ‘‘Comment on Project’’ link
in the ‘‘Get Connected’’ group at the
right hand side of the project Web page.
Put the project name in the subject line;
attachments may be in the following
formats: Plain text (.txt), rich text format
(.rtf), Word (.doc, .docx), or portable
document format (.pdf).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Wendy Coats, Klamath National Forest,
Yreka, California 96097. Phone: 530–
841–4470. Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern
Time, Monday through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Need
The purpose of this project is to:
1. Reduce safety hazards to adjacent
landowners, the public, and Forest
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workers from falling trees (i.e. ‘‘hazard
trees,’’ also known as ‘‘danger trees’’) or
hazardous fuels conditions. Trees killed
or severely burned by wildfire (i.e.
snags) are often unstable and at risk for
falling or snapping off, especially during
high wind events. It is important that
safety is maintained and hazardous
fuels conditions are abated, where they
exist within the Wildland Urban
Interface, especially within one-quarter
mile of private property in burned areas
or within areas that underwent fire
suppression-related activity. It is also
imperative that infrastructure,
especially utility lines, roads, trailheads,
campgrounds, fire lookouts, and
bridges, are maintained for use by the
public and Forest workers. Further,
dead and dying trees within proposed
salvage harvest areas need to be
addressed to minimize safety hazards to
the public who recreate in the area,
Forest workers (i.e. planting), and
firefighters (i.e. to enable future
suppression efforts should the area burn
again).
2. Obtain the maximum economic
commodity and value from burned
timber by offering a sale while the wood
is still marketable. The Forest Plan
directs the Forest to harvest dead or
dying trees to produce wood products as
consistent with Forest goals. Dead
timber loses significant value if left
standing beyond two winters and is
most profitable if harvested even sooner.
Capturing the marketability of the
timber provides the agency a viable
means of meeting this and other project
needs, since the timber sale can be used
to fund restoration implementation. If
treatment is delayed beyond the
marketability period of the timber, the
Forest Service will need to pay for the
hazard tree abatement and removal of
dead and dying trees in order to meet
the first need described above. By
contrast, if salvage occurs during the
marketability period, funds gained from
the salvage sale can be used for
additional restoration work. Capturing
the maximum economic value of the
salvaged timber will benefit Siskiyou
County and surrounding communities
by maintaining and/or creating jobs in
forest management by providing timber
to the local mills who are major
employers of these rural communities.
3. Promote ecosystem sustainability
by increasing the likelihood and speed
by which burned, forested areas are
restored. Although wildfires have some
benefits (e.g., snag and downed wood
creation), intensely burned forested
areas may be slow to recover and heavy
fuel loading will result from fallen
snags. Following a high severity
wildfire, heavy fuel loading predisposes
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Commodity Credit Corporation
Information Collection; Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance
Program
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: 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
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.
Eligible producers must annually:
(1) Request NAP coverage by completing an application for coverage
and paying a service fee by the FSA-established 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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annual burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per respondent.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 298,943.
Estimated Annual Number of Reponses Per Respondent: 3.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 1,565,366.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,036,452.
We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information
collection to help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of FSA, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of FSA's estimate of burden including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice, including name and addresses when
provided, will be summarized and included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will also become a matter of public record.
Signed on October 3, 2014.
Val Dolcini,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation, and
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2014-24535 Filed 10-14-14; 8:45 am]
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