Office of the Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics; Notice of the Scientific Review Panel at the National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, 61016-61017 [06-8727]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[No. PY–06–004]
Notice of Request for Extension of and
Revision to a Currently Approved
Information Collection
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice
announces the Agricultural Marketing
Service’s (AMS) intention to request
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), for an extension for
and revision to a currently approved
information collection for Poultry
Market News Programs.
DATES: Comments received by December
18, 2006 will be considered.
Additional Information Or Comments:
Interested parties are invited to submit
written comments concerning this
notice. Comments must be sent to
Michael E. Sheats, Chief, Poultry Market
News Branch, Poultry Programs,
Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, STOP 0262,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0262, or fax
(202–720–2403). Alternately, comments
may be submitted electronically to:
Michael.Sheats@usda.gov. Comments
may also be submitted electronically to:
AMSPYDockets@usda.gov or https://
www.regulations.gov. Comments should
make reference to the date and page
number of this issue of the Federal
Register and will be made available for
public inspection in the above office
during regular business hours.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
become a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael E. Sheats, Chief, Poultry Market
News Branch, 202–720–6911.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Paperwork Reduction Act
This notice contains submission
requirements subject to public comment
and review by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). In accordance with 5 CFR
Part 1320, a description of the
submission requirements and an
estimate of the resulting burden on
applicants is included.
Title: Poultry Market News Reports.
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OMB Number: 0581–0033.
Expiration Date of Approval: August
31, 2007.
Type of Request: Extension of and
revision to a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Under the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946, as amended (7
U.S.C. 1621 et seq.), the Poultry Market
News Branch provides up-to-the-minute
nationwide coverage of prices, supply,
demand, trends, movement, and other
pertinent information affecting the
trading of poultry and eggs, and their
respective products. The market reports
compiled and disseminated by Market
News provide current, unbiased, factual
information to all members of the
Nation’s agricultural industry, from
farm to retailer. These market reports
assist producers, processors,
wholesalers, retailers, and others in
making informed production,
purchasing, and sales decisions and
promote orderly marketing by placing
buyers and sellers on a more equal
negotiating basis.
Market news reporters communicate
with buyers and sellers of egg and
poultry commodities on a daily basis in
order to accomplish the Program’s
mission. This communication and
information gathering is accomplished
through the use of telephone
conversations, facsimile transmissions,
and electronic mail messages. Market
News uses one OMB approved form,
PY–90: Monthly Dried Egg Solids Stocks
Report, to collect inventory information
monthly from commercial dried egg
products plants throughout the U.S.
Cooperating firms submit this form to
Market News primarily via facsimile
transmissions.
(1) Collection of Market Information.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 0.083 hours per
response.
Respondents: Producers, processors,
brokers, distributors, and retailers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,775.
Estimated Number of Responses:
221,875.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 125.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 18,415.5 hours.
(2) Monthly Dried Egg Solids Stocks
Form PY–90.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 0.083 hours per
response.
Respondents: Commercial domestic
dried egg products plants.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
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Estimated Number of Responses: 80.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 8.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 6.64 hours.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of the
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the Agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Dated: October 11, 2006.
Lloyd C. Day,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service.
[FR Doc. E6–17193 Filed 10–16–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Office of the Under Secretary,
Research, Education, and Economics;
Notice of the Scientific Review Panel at
the National Animal Disease Center,
Ames, Iowa
Agricultural Research Service
(ARS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The United States Department
of Agriculture announces a conference
call meeting of the Scientific Review
Panel at the National Animal Disease
Center, Ames, Iowa.
DATES: October 18, 2006, 8 a.m. to 11
a.m. or noon central time.
ADDRESSES: City Council Chambers, City
Hall, 515 Clark Avenue, Ames, Iowa
50010 (access to a monitor of the
conference call).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Shafer, Midwest Area Director,
USDA–ARS, 1815 North University
Street, Peoria, Illinois 61604; Telephone
(309) 681–6602; Fax (309) 681–6684; Email sshafer@nwa.ars.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 4,
2006, the City of Ames, Iowa, received
allegations that wastes from areas at the
National Animal Disease Center (NADC)
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with animals challenged with prions
were not properly treated prior to
discharge to the City wastewater plant.
An expert panel was convened to
review scientific information about
deactivation of prions and assess
practices used at NADC to treat liquid
wastes from areas where animals with
prions are housed and handled that
enter the Ames wastewater treatment
system. (Note: For the purposes of this
panel and its review, prions are defined
as specific proteins that are abnormally
shaped and can cause transmissible
diseases associated with the
allegations). The panel had its first
meeting on August 23, 2006, at the
Ames City Hall, followed by preparatory
work on August 23, August 24, and
September 20. The conference call
meeting on October 18, 2006, will
continue implementation of the panel’s
charge to evaluate four main issues
related to the handling and disposal of
potentially prion-contaminated
materials in wastewater from the NADC:
(1) Identify scientifically accepted
methods for effectively destroying
prions; (2) Assess the concerns raised
regarding NADC’s current and past
methods for the destruction of prions;
(3) Determine the risk posed to humans
and the environment from the current,
as well as previous, methods for the
destruction of prions utilized at NADC;
and (4) If remediation is needed,
provide scientifically sound approaches
for corrective action(s) that may be
taken. Final conclusions of the review
will be developed during a meeting at
a later date, also to be announced. At
the conclusion of its review, the panel
will prepare a written report that
documents the panel’s findings for the
four main issues being evaluated. The
meeting on October 18 will be held by
conference call. The public may monitor
the panel’s discussion via a speaker
phone in the Ames City Hall’s Council
Chamber. No oral comments will be
accepted from the public during the
call, however, written public comment
received by letter, fax, or e-mail to the
contact person named above by close of
business on Wednesday, November 1,
2006, will be provided to the panel
members. Although access to the
conference call monitor will be open to
the public, space is limited. If you want
to be assured of a seat at this meeting,
you must register by contacting the
contact person named above at least 5
days prior to the meeting. Please
provide your name, title, business
affiliation, address, and telephone and
fax numbers when you register. If you
require a sign language interpreter or
other special accommodation due to
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disability, please indicate those needs at
the time of registration. Pre-registrations
will be limited to 80 people; others may
be able to attend on a space-available
basis.
Dated: October 6, 2006.
Caird E. Rexroad, Jr.,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Research Service.
[FR Doc. 06–8727 Filed 10–12–06; 12:44 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign–Trade Zones Board
Order No. 1482
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activity related to crop protection
products at the manufacturing facilities
of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and
Company, Inc. (Subzone 144A), as
described in the application and
Federal Register notice, and subject to
the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations,
including Section 400.28.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 6th day of
October 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import
Administration,Alternate ChairmanForeign–
Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–17268 Filed 10–16–06; 8:45 am]
Grant of Authority for Subzone Status,
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and
Company, Inc., (Crop Protection
Products), Valdosta, Georgia Area
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S
Pursuant to its authority under the
Foreign–Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the Foreign–
Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the
following Order:
Foreign–Trade Zones Board
WHEREAS, the Foreign–Trade Zones
Act provides for ‘‘ . . . the establishment
. . . of foreign–trade zones in ports of
entry of the United States, to expedite
and encourage foreign commerce, and
for other purposes,’’ and authorizes the
Foreign–Trade Zones Board to grant to
qualified corporations the privilege of
establishing foreign–trade zones in or
adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection ports of entry;
WHEREAS, the Board’s regulations
(15 CFR Part 400) provide for the
establishment of special–purpose
subzones when existing zone facilities
cannot serve the specific use involved,
and when the activity results in a
significant public benefit and is in the
public interest;
WHEREAS, Brunswick Foreign–Trade
Zone, Inc., grantee of Foreign–Trade
Zone 144, has made application to the
Board for authority to establish special–
purpose subzone status at the
manufacturing facilities (crop protection
products) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours
and Company, Inc., located in the
Valdosta, Georgia area (FTZ Docket 15–
2006, filed 4/27/2006);
WHEREAS, notice inviting public
comment has been given in the Federal
Register (71 FR 26321, 5/4/2006); and,
WHEREAS, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendations of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and the
Board’s regulations will be satisfied, and
that approval of the application will be
in the public interest;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby
grants authority for subzone status for
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Order No. 1481
Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign–
Trade Zone 148, Knoxville, Tennessee,
Area
Pursuant to its authority under the
Foreign–Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the Foreign–
Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the
following Order:
WHEREAS, the Industrial
Development Board of Blount County,
grantee of Foreign–Trade Zone 148,
submitted an application to the Board
for authority to reorganize and expand
FTZ 148 in the Knoxville, Tennessee,
area, adjacent to the Knoxville Customs
port of entry (FTZ Docket 12–2006; filed
4/6/2006);
WHEREAS, notice inviting public
comment was given in the Federal
Register (71 FR 19872, 4/16/2006) and
the application has been processed
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s
regulations; and,
WHEREAS, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendations of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and
Board’s regulations are satisfied, and
that the proposal is in the public
interest;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby
orders:
The application to reorganize and
expand FTZ 148 is approved, subject to
the Act and the Board’s regulations,
including Section 400.28.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 6th day of
October 2006.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Office of the Under Secretary, Research, Education, and
Economics; Notice of the Scientific Review Panel at the National Animal
Disease Center, Ames, Iowa
AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture announces a
conference call meeting of the Scientific Review Panel at the National
Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa.
DATES: October 18, 2006, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. or noon central time.
ADDRESSES: City Council Chambers, City Hall, 515 Clark Avenue, Ames,
Iowa 50010 (access to a monitor of the conference call).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Shafer, Midwest Area Director,
USDA-ARS, 1815 North University Street, Peoria, Illinois 61604;
Telephone (309) 681-6602; Fax (309) 681-6684; E-mail
sshafer@nwa.ars.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 4, 2006, the City of Ames, Iowa,
received allegations that wastes from areas at the National Animal
Disease Center (NADC)
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with animals challenged with prions were not properly treated prior to
discharge to the City wastewater plant. An expert panel was convened to
review scientific information about deactivation of prions and assess
practices used at NADC to treat liquid wastes from areas where animals
with prions are housed and handled that enter the Ames wastewater
treatment system. (Note: For the purposes of this panel and its review,
prions are defined as specific proteins that are abnormally shaped and
can cause transmissible diseases associated with the allegations). The
panel had its first meeting on August 23, 2006, at the Ames City Hall,
followed by preparatory work on August 23, August 24, and September 20.
The conference call meeting on October 18, 2006, will continue
implementation of the panel's charge to evaluate four main issues
related to the handling and disposal of potentially prion-contaminated
materials in wastewater from the NADC: (1) Identify scientifically
accepted methods for effectively destroying prions; (2) Assess the
concerns raised regarding NADC's current and past methods for the
destruction of prions; (3) Determine the risk posed to humans and the
environment from the current, as well as previous, methods for the
destruction of prions utilized at NADC; and (4) If remediation is
needed, provide scientifically sound approaches for corrective
action(s) that may be taken. Final conclusions of the review will be
developed during a meeting at a later date, also to be announced. At
the conclusion of its review, the panel will prepare a written report
that documents the panel's findings for the four main issues being
evaluated. The meeting on October 18 will be held by conference call.
The public may monitor the panel's discussion via a speaker phone in
the Ames City Hall's Council Chamber. No oral comments will be accepted
from the public during the call, however, written public comment
received by letter, fax, or e-mail to the contact person named above by
close of business on Wednesday, November 1, 2006, will be provided to
the panel members. Although access to the conference call monitor will
be open to the public, space is limited. If you want to be assured of a
seat at this meeting, you must register by contacting the contact
person named above at least 5 days prior to the meeting. Please provide
your name, title, business affiliation, address, and telephone and fax
numbers when you register. If you require a sign language interpreter
or other special accommodation due to disability, please indicate those
needs at the time of registration. Pre-registrations will be limited to
80 people; others may be able to attend on a space-available basis.
Dated: October 6, 2006.
Caird E. Rexroad, Jr.,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural Research Service.
[FR Doc. 06-8727 Filed 10-12-06; 12:44 pm]
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