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clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB),
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received
within 30 days of this notification.
Copies of the submission(s) may be
obtained by calling (202) 720–8958.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs
potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: National Animal Identification
System.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0259.
Summary of Collection: The Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) regulates the importation and
interstate movement of animals and
animal products and conducts various
other activities to protect the health of
our Nation’s livestock and poultry. The
advent of increased animal disease
outbreaks around the globe over the past
decade, especially the recent BSEpositive cow found in Washington State,
has intensified the public interest in
developing a national animal
identification program for the purpose
of protecting animal health.
Fundamental to controlling any disease
threat, foreign or domestic, to the
Nation’s animal resources is to have a
system that can identify individual
animals or groups, the premises where
they are located, and the date of entry
to each premises. A national animal
identification system is being
implemented by APHIS at present on a
voluntary basis. It is intended to
identify all livestock, as well as record
their movements over the course of their
lifespan.
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Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS goal is to create an effective,
uniform, consistent, and efficient
system that when fully implemented,
will allow traces to be completed within
48 hours of detection of a disease,
ensuring rapid containment of the
disease. Successful implementation of
the animal identification and tracking
systems will depend on the effective use
of three primary information collection
activities: Premises and nonproducer
participants identification records,
individual animal identification
transaction records, and group/lot
transaction records that will be created
and maintained through various
industry and Government collaborative
efforts. Failing to collect the needed
information would make it impossible
to conduct a timely traceback of animals
potentially exposed to a disease of
concern.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 500,472.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping;
Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 2,832,437.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Fruits and
Vegetables.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0264.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701–
7772), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to regulate the importation of
plants, plant products, and other articles
to prevent the introduction of injurious
plant pests. Regulations contained in
Title 7 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 319 (Subpart—Fruit
and Vegetables), Sections 319.56 et seq.,
implement the intent of the this Act by
prohibiting or restricting the
importation of certain fruits and
vegetables into the United States from
certain parts of the world to prevent the
introduction and dissemination of fruit
flies and other injurious plant pests that
are new to the United States or not
widely distributed within the United
States. These regulations are enforced
by the Plant Protection and quarantine,
a program with USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS).
Need and Use of the Information: The
use of certain information collection
activities including phytosanitary
certificates, fruit fly monitoring records,
and cooperative agreements will be used
to allow the entry of certain fruits and
vegetables into the United States.
Without the information all shipments
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would need to be inspected very
thoroughly, thereby requiring
considerably more time and would slow
the clearance of international
shipments.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 15.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping;
Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 123.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Request for Extension of a Currently
Approved Information Collection; EndUse Certificate Program
Farm Service Agency, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking
comments from all interested
individuals and organizations on an
extension of a currently approved
information collection that supports the
End-Use Certificate Program.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received on or before January 12, 2009
to be assured consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, volume and
page number of this issue of the Federal
Register. You may submit comments by
any of the following methods:
Mail: Sharon Miner, USDA, Farm
Service Agency, Commodity Operations
Division, 1400 Independence Avenue,
SW., STOP 0553, Washington, DC
20250–0553.
E-mail: Send comment to:
Sharon.Miner@wdc.usda.gov.
Fax: (202) 690–3123.
Comments also should be sent to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sharon Miner, Commodity Operations
Division, telephone (202) 720–6266.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: End-Use Certificate Program.
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OMB Control Number: 0560–0151.
Expiration Date of Approval: June 30,
2009.
Type of Request: Extension.
Abstract: This information collection
is to ensure that Canadian wheat
imported into the U.S. does not benefit
from United States export programs. To
comply with the provisions of the North
American Free Trade Agreement
Implementation Act, FSA requires
information from the importers,
subsequent buyers, and end-users that
assist in tracking the Canadian wheat
within the U.S. marketing system.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this information collection is
estimated to average 0.1744 hours per
response.
Respondents: Wheat importers,
traders, and end-users.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
421.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 128.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 4,520 hours.
Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the continued 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 FSA’s estimate
of burden including validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhancing the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected; or
(4) Minimizing the burden of the
collection of the 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 comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will become
a matter of public record. Comments
will be summarized and included in the
submission for Office of Management
and Budget approval.
Signed in Washington, DC on November 5,
2008.
Thomas B. Hofeller,
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Genesis, Inc. Exploration Drilling
Project Kootenai National Forest,
Lincoln County, MT
AGENCY:
Forest Service, USDA.
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Revised Notice of intent to
prepare an environmental impact
statement.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Genesis, Inc. submitted a
revised Plan of Operations for
exploration drilling near Troy, Montana.
This revised plan adds drilling at seven
sites on National Forest System Roads to
the exploratory helicopter-assisted
drilling described in the July 25, 2008,
Notice of Intent to Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Scoping Comment Date: Comments
concerning the revised proposed action
must be postmarked by December 8,
2008, to be considered in the draft EIS.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments
concerning the Proposed Action to Mike
Herrin, Three Rivers District Ranger,
Genesis Exploration Project, Kootenai
National Forest, 12858 U.S. Hwy 2,
Troy, MT 59935, or e-mail your
comments to: comments-northernkootenai-three-rivers@fs.fed.us. All
comments received must contain: Name
of commenter, postal service mailing
address, and date of comment.
Comments sent as an e-mail message
should be sent as an attachment to the
message. A copy on computer-generated
disc should accompany all comments
over one page in length.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dick
Harlow, Project Coordinator, Three
River Ranger Station, 12858 U.S. Hwy 2,
Troy, Montana 59935. Phone (406) 293–
7773, or e-mail at dharlow@fs.fed.us.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Action
The Three Rivers District Ranger of
the Kootenai National Forest has
received a revised plan of operations
proposing exploration drilling in two
phases.
Phase 1 adds previously authorized
(Mount Vernon Exploratory Drilling
Decision Memo, February 2004), but
uncompleted, exploratory drilling
activities located in Section 6, T28N,
R33W, P.M.M., Lincoln County,
Montana. This phase consists of 12 core
holes from seven drill sites on National
Forest System Roads 4628 and 4628A
with no additional surface disturbance.
The sites are approximately 100 feet
long by 20 feet wide, and the holes are
estimated to average 1,200 feet in depth.
A diamond drill mounted on a trailer or
skid would be utilized and pulled into
position with a pickup or tractor. The
drill schedule would be two shifts per
day, seven days per week. The new
timeframe for this phase is two years.
Phase 2 includes access to three (3)
helicopter supported drill sites on NFS
lands in sections 7, 17, 18, T28N, R33W,
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MT. P.M., southwest of Bull Lake, in
Lincoln and Sanders Counties. These
sites are within the Scotchman Peaks
#662 Inventoried Roadless Area. All
three sites were previously drilled in
1999, and this additional exploration
drilling is needed to further define ore
reserves on the unpatented mining
claims. The proposal is to drill 8 core
holes from three separate locations,
utilizing existing openings from
previous helicopter drill sites. The holes
will vary from 100′ to 1600′ in depth.
The Drilling Plan for the drill sites is to
use a preconstructed metal landing/drill
platform (approx. 30′ long × 15′ wide).
The platform will be flown to the sites
in sections and assembled. The drill
will be mounted on the drill platforms
on the south side of Ross Creek. A
helicopter staging site will be located
near the junction of FR 4628 and FR
4628A. Some site maintenance will be
required. This work will include
removal of brush and short trees.
Design features and mitigations to
maintain and protect resource values
would be included.
The proposed implementation period
would begin in the fall of 2009 and
reclamation would be completed by
December 15, 2012.
Lead and Cooperating Agencies
Montana Department of
Environmental Quality, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Montana Department
of Natural Resources and Conservation,
Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes, and Kootenai Tribe of Idaho,
have either jurisdiction or interest and
will participate as cooperating agencies
or government entities in the
preparation of this EIS. Other
governmental agencies and any public
that may be interested in or affected by
the proposal are invited to participate in
the scoping process, which is designed
to obtain input and to identify potential
issues relating to the proposed project.
Responsible Official
As the District Ranger of the Three
Rivers Ranger District, Kootenai
National Forest, I am the Responsible
Official. As the Responsible Official, I
will decide if the proposed project will
be implemented. I will document the
decision and reasons for the decision in
the Record of Decision.
Range of Alternatives
The Forest Service will consider a
range of alternatives. One of these will
be the ‘‘no action’’ alternative in which
none of the proposed activities will be
implemented. Additional alternatives
will examine varying levels and
locations for the proposed activities to
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Request for Extension of a Currently Approved Information
Collection; End-Use Certificate Program
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking comments from all interested
individuals and organizations on an extension of a currently approved
information collection that supports the End-Use Certificate Program.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before January
12, 2009 to be assured consideration. Comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, volume and page number of this issue of the
Federal Register. You may submit comments by any of the following
methods:
Mail: Sharon Miner, USDA, Farm Service Agency, Commodity Operations
Division, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., STOP 0553, Washington, DC
20250-0553.
E-mail: Send comment to: Sharon.Miner@wdc.usda.gov.
Fax: (202) 690-3123.
Comments also should be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Miner, Commodity Operations
Division, telephone (202) 720-6266.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: End-Use Certificate Program.
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OMB Control Number: 0560-0151.
Expiration Date of Approval: June 30, 2009.
Type of Request: Extension.
Abstract: This information collection is to ensure that Canadian
wheat imported into the U.S. does not benefit from United States export
programs. To comply with the provisions of the North American Free
Trade Agreement Implementation Act, FSA requires information from the
importers, subsequent buyers, and end-users that assist in tracking the
Canadian wheat within the U.S. marketing system.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this information
collection is estimated to average 0.1744 hours per response.
Respondents: Wheat importers, traders, and end-users.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 421.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 128.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 4,520 hours.
Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the continued 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 FSA's estimate of burden including validity
of the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhancing the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; or
(4) Minimizing the burden of the collection of the 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 comments received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will become a matter of public record.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission for Office
of Management and Budget approval.
Signed in Washington, DC on November 5, 2008.
Thomas B. Hofeller,
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-26853 Filed 11-10-08; 8:45 am]
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