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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shethir Riva, Chief, Research and
Promotion, Cotton Program,
Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA,
1400 Independence Ave., SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0224, telephone
(202) 720–3193, facsimile (202) 690–
1718, or e-mail at
Shethir.riva@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Docket No: AMS–07–0044; CN–07–002]
Notice of Request for an Extension and
Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection
AGENCY:
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
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, for an extension of and
revision to the currently approved
information collection Cotton
Classification and Market News Service.
Comments received by June 4,
2007 will be considered.
Additional Information or Comments:
Interested persons are invited to submit
written comments concerning this
proposal to Shethir Riva, Chief,
Research and Promotion, Cotton
Program, Agricultural Marketing
Service, USDA, 1400 Independence
Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250–0224.
Comments should be submitted in
triplicate. Comments may also be
submitted electronically through
www.regulations.gov. All comments
should reference the docket number and
page number of this issue of the Federal
Register. All comments received will be
made available for public inspection at
Cotton Program, AMS, USDA, Room
2639–S, 1400 Independence Ave., SW.,
Washington, DC 20250 during regular
business hours. A copy of this notice
may be found at https://
www.ams.usda.gov/cotton/
rulemaking.htm.
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Title: Cotton Classification and
Market News Service.
OMB Number: 0581–0009.
Expiration Date of Approval:
September 30, 2007.
Type of Request: Extension and
Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection.
Abstract: The Cotton Classification
and Market News Service program
provides market information on Cotton
prices, quality, stocks, demand and
supply to growers, ginners,
merchandisers, textile mills and the
public for their use in making sound
business decisions. The Cotton Statistics
and Estimates Act U.S.C. 471–476,
authorizes and directs the Secretary of
Agriculture to: (a) Collect and publish
annually, statistics or estimates
concerning the grades and staple lengths
of stocks of cotton, known as the
carryover, on hand on the 1st of August
each year in warehouses and other
establishments of every character in the
continental U.S., and following such
publication each year, to publish at
intervals, in his/her discretion, his/her
estimate of the grades and staple length
of cotton of the current crop (7 U.S.C.
471); (b) Collect, authenticate, publish
and distribute by radio, mail, or
otherwise, timely information of the
market supply, demand, location, and
market prices of cotton (7 U.S.C. 473b).
The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946,
7 U.S.C. 1621–1627, authorizes and
directs the Secretary of Agriculture to
collect and disseminate marketing
information, including adequate outlook
information on a market-area basis, for
the purpose of anticipating and meeting
consumer requirements, aiding in the
maintenance of farm income, and
bringing about a balance between
production and utilization of
agricultural products.
The information collection
requirements in this request are
essential to carry out the intent of the
Acts and to provide the cotton industry
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the type of information they need to
make sound business decisions. The
information collected is the minimum
required. Information is requested from
growers, cooperatives, merchants,
manufacturers, and other government
agencies. This includes information on
cotton, cottonseed and cotton linters.
The information collected is used
only by authorized employees of the
USDA, AMS. The Cotton Industry is the
primary user of the compiled
information and AMS and other
government agencies are secondary
users.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 0.13 hours per
response.
Respondents: Cotton Merchandisers,
Textile Mills, Ginners.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,066.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 8.55.
Estimated Number of Responses:
9,116.13.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 1,161.25.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of 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.
Comments may be sent to Shethir Riva,
Chief, Research and Promotion, Cotton
Program, Agricultural Marketing
Service, USDA, 1400 Independence
Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250–0224.
All comments received will be available
for public inspection during regular
business hours at the same address.
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.
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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 64 / Wednesday, April 4, 2007 / Notices
Dated: March 29, 2007.
Lloyd C. Day,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
Service.
[FR Doc. E7–6246 Filed 4–3–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Docket No. DA–07–04]
Notice of Request for Extension and
Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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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 an
extension for and revision to a currently
approved information collection for
report forms under the Federal milk
marketing order program.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by June 4, 2007 to be assured
of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the Internet at https://
www.regulations.gov or to the Office of
the Deputy Administrator, Dairy
Programs, AMS, USDA, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW., Room 2968
South, Stop 0225, Washington, DC
20250–0225. Comments should make
reference to the date and page number
of this issue of the Federal Register. All
comments will be made available for
public inspection in the above office
during regular business hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact William F. Newell, Chief, Order
Operations Branch, Dairy Programs,
(202) 690–2375, FAX: (202) 720–2454.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Report Forms Under Federal
Milk Orders (From Milk Handlers and
Milk Marketing Cooperatives).
OMB Number: 0581–0032.
Expiration Date of Approval:
September 30, 2007.
Type of Request: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Federal milk marketing
order regulations authorized under the
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act
of 1937, as amended (7 U.S.C. 601–674),
require milk handlers to report in detail
the receipts and utilization of milk and
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milk products handled at each of their
plants that are regulated by a Federal
order. The data are needed to administer
the classified pricing system and related
requirements of each Federal order.
A Federal milk marketing order
(hereinafter, Order) is a regulation
issued by the Secretary of Agriculture
that places certain requirements on the
handling of milk in the area it covers.
Each Order is established under the
authority of the Act. The Order requires
that handlers of milk for a marketing
area pay not less than certain minimum
class prices according to how the milk
is used. These prices are established
under each Order after a public hearing
at which evidence is received on the
supply and demand conditions for milk
in the market. An Order requires that
payments for milk be pooled and paid
to individual farmers or cooperative
associations of farmers on the basis of a
uniform or average price. Thus, all
eligible farmers (producers) share in the
market wide use-values of milk by
regulated handlers.
Milk Orders help ensure adequate
supplies of milk and dairy products for
consumers and adequate returns to
producers.
The Orders also provide for the public
dissemination of market statistics and
other information for the benefit of
producers, handlers, and consumers.
Formal rulemaking amendments to
the Orders must be approved in
referenda conducted by the Secretary.
During 2006, 52,725 dairy farmers
delivered over 120 billion pounds of
milk to handlers regulated under the
milk orders. This volume represents 67
percent of all milk marketed in the U.S.
and 68 percent of the milk of bottling
quality (Grade A) sold in the country.
The value of this milk delivered to
Federal milk order handlers at
minimum order blend prices was nearly
$16.0 billion. Producer deliveries of
milk used in Class I products (mainly
fluid milk products) totaled 45 billion
pounds—38 percent of total producer
deliveries. More than 239 million
Americans reside in Federal milk order
marketing areas—80 percent of the total
U.S. population.
Each Order is administered by a
market administrator who is an agent of
the Secretary of Agriculture. The market
administrator is authorized to levy
assessments on regulated handlers to
carry out the market administrator’s
duties and responsibilities under the
Orders. Additional duties of the market
administrators are to prescribe reports
required of each handler, to assure that
handlers properly account for milk and
milk products, and to assure that such
handlers pay producers and associations
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of producers according to the provisions
of the Order. The market administrator
employs a staff that verifies handlers’
reports by examining records to
determine that the required payments
are made to producers. Most reports
required from handlers are submitted
monthly to the market administrator.
The forms used by the market
administrators are required by the
respective Orders that are authorized by
the Act. The forms are used to establish:
The quantity of milk received by
handlers, the pooling status of the
handler, the class-use of the milk used
by the handler, and the butterfat content
and amounts of other components of the
milk.
The forms covered under this
information collection require the
minimum information necessary to
effectively carry out the requirements of
the Orders, and their use is necessary to
fulfill the intent of the Act as expressed
in the Orders and in the rules and
regulations issued under the Orders.
The information collected is used
only by authorized employees of the
market administrator and authorized
representatives of the USDA, including
AMS Dairy Programs’ headquarters staff.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 1.07 hours per
response.
Respondents: Milk handlers and milk
marketing cooperatives.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
740.
Estimated Number of Responses:
20,565.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 28.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 21,818 hours.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of 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.
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.
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Docket No: AMS-07-0044; CN-07-002]
Notice of Request for an Extension and Revision of a Currently
Approved Information Collection
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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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, for an extension of and revision to the
currently approved information collection Cotton Classification and
Market News Service.
DATES: Comments received by June 4, 2007 will be considered.
Additional Information or Comments: Interested persons are invited
to submit written comments concerning this proposal to Shethir Riva,
Chief, Research and Promotion, Cotton Program, Agricultural Marketing
Service, USDA, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-0224.
Comments should be submitted in triplicate. Comments may also be
submitted electronically through www.regulations.gov. All comments
should reference the docket number and page number of this issue of the
Federal Register. All comments received will be made available for
public inspection at Cotton Program, AMS, USDA, Room 2639-S, 1400
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250 during regular business
hours. A copy of this notice may be found at https://www.ams.usda.gov/
cotton/rulemaking.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shethir Riva, Chief, Research and
Promotion, Cotton Program, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA, 1400
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-0224, telephone (202) 720-
3193, facsimile (202) 690-1718, or e-mail at Shethir.riva@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Cotton Classification and Market News Service.
OMB Number: 0581-0009.
Expiration Date of Approval: September 30, 2007.
Type of Request: Extension and Revision of a Currently Approved
Information Collection.
Abstract: The Cotton Classification and Market News Service program
provides market information on Cotton prices, quality, stocks, demand
and supply to growers, ginners, merchandisers, textile mills and the
public for their use in making sound business decisions. The Cotton
Statistics and Estimates Act U.S.C. 471-476, authorizes and directs the
Secretary of Agriculture to: (a) Collect and publish annually,
statistics or estimates concerning the grades and staple lengths of
stocks of cotton, known as the carryover, on hand on the 1st of August
each year in warehouses and other establishments of every character in
the continental U.S., and following such publication each year, to
publish at intervals, in his/her discretion, his/her estimate of the
grades and staple length of cotton of the current crop (7 U.S.C. 471);
(b) Collect, authenticate, publish and distribute by radio, mail, or
otherwise, timely information of the market supply, demand, location,
and market prices of cotton (7 U.S.C. 473b). The Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946, 7 U.S.C. 1621-1627, authorizes and directs the Secretary
of Agriculture to collect and disseminate marketing information,
including adequate outlook information on a market-area basis, for the
purpose of anticipating and meeting consumer requirements, aiding in
the maintenance of farm income, and bringing about a balance between
production and utilization of agricultural products.
The information collection requirements in this request are
essential to carry out the intent of the Acts and to provide the cotton
industry the type of information they need to make sound business
decisions. The information collected is the minimum required.
Information is requested from growers, cooperatives, merchants,
manufacturers, and other government agencies. This includes information
on cotton, cottonseed and cotton linters.
The information collected is used only by authorized employees of
the USDA, AMS. The Cotton Industry is the primary user of the compiled
information and AMS and other government agencies are secondary users.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 0.13 hours per response.
Respondents: Cotton Merchandisers, Textile Mills, Ginners.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,066.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 8.55.
Estimated Number of Responses: 9,116.13.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 1,161.25.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of
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. Comments may be sent to Shethir Riva, Chief,
Research and Promotion, Cotton Program, Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20250-0224. All
comments received will be available for public inspection during
regular business hours at the same address.
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.
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Dated: March 29, 2007.
Lloyd C. Day,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. E7-6246 Filed 4-3-07; 8:45 am]
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