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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0049]
Notice of Request for Revision and
Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; National
Animal Identification System
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision and extension of
approval of an information collection;
comment request.
PWALKER on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES
AGENCY:
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 and extension of
approval of an information collection
associated with the National Animal
Identification System.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before August 5,
2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/
component/main?main=DocketDetail&
d=APHIS-2008-0049 to submit or view
comments and to view supporting and
related materials available
electronically.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Please send two copies of your comment
to Docket No. APHIS–2008–0049,
Regulatory Analysis and Development,
PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700
River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD
20737–1238. Please state that your
comment refers to Docket No. APHIS–
2008–0049.
Reading Room: You may read any
comments that we receive on this
docket in our reading room. The reading
room is located in room 1141 of the
USDA South Building, 14th Street and
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Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC. Normal reading room
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 690–2817 before
coming.
Other Information: Additional
information about APHIS and its
programs is available on the Internet at
https://www.aphis.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the National Animal
Identification System, contact Mr. Vince
Chapman, National Animal
Identification System Staff, Surveillance
and Identification Programs, VS, APHIS,
4700 River Road, Unit 200, Riverdale,
MD 20737; (301) 734–0739. For copies
of more detailed information on the
information collection, contact Mrs.
Celeste Sickles, APHIS* Information
Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851–
2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Animal Identification
System.
OMB Number: 0579–0259.
Type of Request: Revision and
extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: As part of its ongoing efforts
to safeguard U.S. animal health, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
initiated the implementation of the
National Animal Identification System
(NAIS) in 2004. NAIS is a cooperative
State-Federal-industry partnership to
standardize and expand animal
identification programs and practices to
all livestock species and poultry. NAIS
is being developed through the
integration of three components—
premises registration, animal
identification, and animal tracing. The
goal of NAIS, for which participation at
the Federal level is voluntary, is to have
the information necessary to trace all
animals associated with an incident of
an animal disease within 48 hours in
order to limit disease spread and
thereby reduce the impact of diseases on
America’s agricultural producers.
The NAIS program involves a number
of approved collection and
recordkeeping activities, including
animal identification; premises
registration; group/lot movement
records; cooperative agreements;
accomplishment reports; applications,
registrations, and agreements associated
with the Animal Identification Number
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(AIN) Management System; and
applications for evaluation of animal
tracking databases. New activities under
the NAIS program include applications,
agreements, and updates submitted by
AIN manufacturers, managers, and
resellers; cooperator quarterly
accomplishment reports; and
applications for cooperative agreements
to support NAIS outreach, education,
and premises registration activities.
We are asking the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve our use of these information
collection activities for 3 years.
This notice includes a description of
the information collection requirements
currently approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for the
NAIS program under numbers 0579–
0259, 0579–0283, and 0579–0288. After
OMB approves and combines the
burden for the three collections under a
single collection (number 0579–0259),
the Department will retire numbers
0579–0283 and 0579–0288. The new
activities described above will also be
combined under OMB collection 0579–
0259.
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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the
information collection, 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
information collection 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
0.7644215 hours per response.
Respondents: State and Tribal animal
health authorities; owners/operators of
feedlots, markets, and slaughter plants;
producers; and nonproducer
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participants such as accredited
veterinarians, AIN device managers/
resellers (individuals or firms
responsible for distributing AIN devices
to producers), AIN device
manufacturers (companies that
manufacture animal identification
devices approved for use in the NAIS),
third-party service providers
(companies that provide herd
management, dairy herd improvement,
genetic evaluation, and other services to
producers), and diagnostic laboratories
and livestock buyers/dealers who
submit data to the national database.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 500,472.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 7.4036789.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 3,705,334.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 2,832,437 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 2nd day of
June 2008.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0014]
Potato Cyst Nematode; Update of
Quarantined Areas
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of changes to
quarantined area.
PWALKER on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We are advising the public
that we have made changes to the area
in the State of Idaho that is quarantined
to prevent the spread of potato cyst
nematode. The description of the
quarantined area was updated on
November 1, 2007, when the potato cyst
nematode regulations became effective;
on November 28, 2007, when one
additional field was found to be
infested; on January 9, 2008, when some
fields that had been quarantined were
found not to have an association with an
infested field; and on March 21, 2008,
when 24 associated fields were removed
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from the quarantined area after having
been surveyed and found to be free of
potato cyst nematode.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Osama El-Lissy, Director, Invasive
Species and Pest Management, PPQ,
APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 134,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301) 734–
8676.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The potato cyst nematode (PCN)
(Globodera pallida) is a major pest of
potato crops in cool-temperature areas.
Other solanaceous hosts include
tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, tomatillos,
and some weeds. The PCN is thought to
have originated in Peru and is now
widely distributed in many potatogrowing regions of the world. PCN
infestations may be expressed as
patches of poor growth. Affected potato
plants may exhibit yellowing, wilting,
or death of foliage. Even with only
minor symptoms on the foliage, potato
tuber size can be affected. Unmanaged
infestations can cause potato yield loss
ranging from 20 to 70 percent. The
spread of this pest in the United States
could result in a loss of domestic or
foreign markets for U.S. potatoes and
other commodities.
In an interim rule published in the
Federal Register on September 12, 2007,
and effective on November 1, 2007 (72
FR 51975–51988, Docket No. APHIS–
2006–0143), we established the PCN
quarantine regulations (§§ 301.86
through 301.86–9, referred to below as
the regulations). These regulations set
out procedures for determining the areas
quarantined for PCN and impose
restrictions on the interstate movement
of regulated articles from quarantined
areas.
Section 301.86–3 of the regulations
sets out the procedures for determining
the areas quarantined for PCN.
Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 states that,
in accordance with the criteria listed in
§ 301.86–3(c), the Administrator will
designate as a quarantined area each
field that has been found to be infested
with PCN, each field that has been
found to be associated with an infested
field, and any area that the
Administrator considers necessary to
quarantine because of its inseparability
for quarantine enforcement purposes
from infested or associated fields.
Paragraph (c) provides that the
Administrator will designate a field as
an infested field when PCN is found in
the field. Paragraph (c) also provides
that the Administrator will designate a
field as an associated field when PCN
host crops, as listed in § 301.86–2(b),
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have been grown in the field in the last
10 years and the field shares a border
with an infested field; the field came
into contact with a regulated article
listed in § 301.86–2 from an infested
field within the last 10 years; or, within
the last 10 years, the field shared
ownership, tenancy, seed, drainage or
runoff, farm machinery, or other
elements of shared cultural practices
with an infested field that could allow
spread of the PCN, as determined by the
Administrator.
Paragraph (b) describes the conditions
for the designation of an area less than
an entire State as a quarantined area.
Less than an entire State will be
designated as a quarantined area only if
the Administrator determines that:
• The State has adopted and is
enforcing restrictions on the intrastate
movement of the regulated articles that
are equivalent to those imposed by the
regulations on the interstate movement
of regulated articles; and
• The designation of less than the
entire State as a quarantined area will
prevent the interstate spread of PCN.
We have determined that it is not
necessary to designate the entire State of
Idaho as a quarantined area. Idaho has
adopted and is enforcing restrictions on
the intrastate movement of regulated
articles from that area that are
equivalent to those we are imposing on
the interstate movement of regulated
articles.
Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 further
provides that the Administrator will
publish the description of the
quarantined area on the Plant Protection
and Quarantine (PPQ) Web site, https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/
plant_pest_info/potato/pcn.shtml. The
description of the quarantined area will
include the date the description was last
updated and a description of the
changes that have been made to the
quarantined area. The description of the
quarantined area may also be obtained
by request from any local office of PPQ;
local offices are listed in telephone
directories. Finally, paragraph (a)
establishes that, after a change is made
to the quarantined area, we will publish
a notice in the Federal Register
informing the public that the change has
occurred and describing the change to
the quarantined area.
We are publishing this notice to
inform the public of changes to the PCN
quarantined area in accordance with
§ 301.86–3(a).
The PCN quarantined area was first
updated when the regulations became
effective on November 1, 2007. That
update to the quarantined area
expanded the list of associated fields
based on new information regarding
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statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2008-0049]
Notice of Request for Revision and Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; National Animal Identification System
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision 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 and extension of approval of an
information collection associated with the National Animal
Identification System.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
August 5, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/
main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2008-0049 to submit or view comments and
to view supporting and related materials available electronically.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send two copies of
your comment to Docket No. APHIS-2008-0049, Regulatory Analysis and
Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your comment refers to
Docket No. APHIS-2008-0049.
Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on this
docket in our reading room. The reading room 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 Federal holidays. To be sure someone is
there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
Other Information: Additional information about APHIS and its
programs is available on the Internet at https://www.aphis.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the National Animal
Identification System, contact Mr. Vince Chapman, National Animal
Identification System Staff, Surveillance and Identification Programs,
VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 200, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 734-
0739. For copies of more detailed information on the information
collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS* Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851-2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Animal Identification System.
OMB Number: 0579-0259.
Type of Request: Revision and extension of approval of an
information collection.
Abstract: As part of its ongoing efforts to safeguard U.S. animal
health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiated the
implementation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) in
2004. NAIS is a cooperative State-Federal-industry partnership to
standardize and expand animal identification programs and practices to
all livestock species and poultry. NAIS is being developed through the
integration of three components--premises registration, animal
identification, and animal tracing. The goal of NAIS, for which
participation at the Federal level is voluntary, is to have the
information necessary to trace all animals associated with an incident
of an animal disease within 48 hours in order to limit disease spread
and thereby reduce the impact of diseases on America's agricultural
producers.
The NAIS program involves a number of approved collection and
recordkeeping activities, including animal identification; premises
registration; group/lot movement records; cooperative agreements;
accomplishment reports; applications, registrations, and agreements
associated with the Animal Identification Number (AIN) Management
System; and applications for evaluation of animal tracking databases.
New activities under the NAIS program include applications, agreements,
and updates submitted by AIN manufacturers, managers, and resellers;
cooperator quarterly accomplishment reports; and applications for
cooperative agreements to support NAIS outreach, education, and
premises registration activities.
We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve
our use of these information collection activities for 3 years.
This notice includes a description of the information collection
requirements currently approved by the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the NAIS program under numbers 0579-0259, 0579-0283, and
0579-0288. After OMB approves and combines the burden for the three
collections under a single collection (number 0579-0259), the
Department will retire numbers 0579-0283 and 0579-0288. The new
activities described above will also be combined under OMB collection
0579-0259.
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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the
information collection, 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 information collection 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 0.7644215 hours per response.
Respondents: State and Tribal animal health authorities; owners/
operators of feedlots, markets, and slaughter plants; producers; and
nonproducer
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participants such as accredited veterinarians, AIN device managers/
resellers (individuals or firms responsible for distributing AIN
devices to producers), AIN device manufacturers (companies that
manufacture animal identification devices approved for use in the
NAIS), third-party service providers (companies that provide herd
management, dairy herd improvement, genetic evaluation, and other
services to producers), and diagnostic laboratories and livestock
buyers/dealers who submit data to the national database.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 500,472.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 7.4036789.
Estimated annual number of responses: 3,705,334.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 2,832,437 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 2nd day of June 2008.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E8-12731 Filed 6-5-08; 8:45 am]
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