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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.
National Appeals Division
Title: National Appeals Division
Customer Service Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0503–0007.
Summary of Collection: The Secretary
of Agriculture established the National
Appeals Division (NAD) on October 20,
1994, by Secretary’s Memorandum
1010–1, pursuant to the Federal Crop
Insurance Reform and Department of
Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994.
The Act consolidated the appellate
functions and staff of several USDA
agencies and provided for independent
hearings and reviews of adverse
decisions of Agencies within USDA.
Hearing Officers conduct evidentiary
hearings on adverse decisions or, when
the appellant requests they review the
Agency’s record of the adverse decision
without a hearing. Although NAD
maintains a database to track appeal
requests, the database contains only
information necessary to process the
appeal request, such as the name,
address, filing results etc. NAD will
collect information using a survey.
Need and Use of the Information:
NAD plans to use the information
collected in the survey to determine
who is and who is not aware of its
services. NAD also wants to know of the
groups who are aware of its services,
just exactly how complete this
awareness is. NAD also wants to gather
current data to measure the appellant’s
perception of the quality of how easy
the determination was to read; how
intently the Hearing Officer listened to
the appellant; and if the appellant
would be willing to have the same
Hearing Officer hear a future appeal.
This data will be used to either alter
current or establish new training for
Hearing and Appeals Officers.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 2,000.
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Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 429.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Office of the Secretary, USDA.
Notice of Revision of Privacy
Act Systems of Records.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is revising one
Privacy Act (PA) system of records and
deleting two systems of records
maintained by the Agricultural Research
Service (ARS).
EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice will be
adopted without further publication in
the Federal Register on July 28, 2010
unless modified by a subsequent notice
to incorporate comments received from
the public. Comments must be received
by the contact person listed below on or
before July 19, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stasia Hutchison, FOIA/PA Officer,
ARS, REE, USDA, 5601 Sunnyside
Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705–5128;
Telephone (301) 504–1655; Facsimile
(301) 504–1647; Electronic Mail
stasia.hutchison@ars.usda.gov.
Pursuant
to the PA, 5 U.S.C. 552a, USDA hereby
takes the following action:
I. One system of records is being
revised for the following reasons:
1. USDA/ARS–2, Research Medical
Records System on Patients and Human
Volunteers Participating in Research at
the ARS Human Nutrition Research
Centers in Grand Forks, Beltsville, and
San Francisco, USDA/ARS is being
revised. The purpose of this revision to
the system of records is to change the
system designation from USDA/ARS–2
to USDA/ARS–1; identify changes in the
system name, system location, and
categories of individuals covered by the
system; update the purpose, safeguards,
retention and disposal, system manager
and address, and record access
procedures; modify the routine uses by
adding three relating to security
breaches, disclosure to National
Archives and Records Administration,
and disclosure to contractors; and to
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add the following sections: security
classification, agency official
responsible for system of records,
disclosure to consumer reporting
agencies, and exemptions claimed for
the system.
II. Two systems are being deleted as
follows:
1. USDA/ARS–1, Solicitation of Bids
or Proposals for Procurement Contracts,
is being deleted as the records no longer
meet the requirements for a Privacy Act
system of records. USDA/ARS–5, ARS
Health and Fitness Center, is being
deleted as the records are no longer
relevant and necessary to accomplish a
purpose of the Agency. The records no
longer exist. A Privacy Act Systems
Report relating to the proposed changes
was sent to the Administrator, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget;
Chairman, Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs,
United States Senate; and Chairman,
Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, U.S. House of
Representatives on June 9, 2010.
Signed at Washington, DC, on June 9, 2010.
Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary of Agriculture.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Request for Extension of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Ch. 35, as amended), the Rural
Housing Service (RHS) invites
comments on this information
collection for which approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) will be requested. The intention
is to request a revision for a currently
approved information collection in
support of the program for 7 CFR part
1927–B, Real Estate Title Clearance and
Loan Closing.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by August 17, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shantelle C. Gordon, Program Analyst,
USDA Rural Housing Service, Single
Family Housing, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., STOP 0783, Washington,
DC 20250–0783, Telephone: (202) 205–
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9567. Fax: (202) 720–2232. E-mail:
shantelle.gordon@wdc.usda.gov.
The Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR part 1320)
implementing provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13) requires that interested
members of the public and affected
agencies have an opportunity to
comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an
information collection that RHS is
submitting to OMB for approval.
Comments are invited on: (a) 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; (b) 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; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (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. Comments may be sent to:
Title: Real Estate Title Clearance and
Loan Closing.
OMB Number: 0575–0147.
Expiration date: October 31, 2010.
Type of request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Section 501 of Title V of the
Housing Act of 1949, as amended,
authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture
to extend financial assistance to
construct, improve, alter, repair, replace
or rehabilitate dwellings, farm
buildings, and/or related facilities to
provide decent, safe, and sanitary living
conditions and adequate farm buildings
and other structures in rural areas. Title
clearance is required to assure the
Agency(s) that the loan is legally
secured and has the required lien
priority.
RHS will be collecting information to
assure that those participating in this
program remain eligible to proceed with
loan closing and to ensure that loans
made with Federal funds are legally
secured. The respondents are
individuals or households, businesses
and non-profit institutions. The
information required is used by the
USDA personnel to verify that the
required lien position has been
obtained. The information is collected at
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the field office responsible for
processing a loan application through
loan closing. The information is also
used to ensure the program is
administered in a manner consistent
with legislative and administrative
requirements. If not collected, the
Agency would be unable to determine if
the loan is adequately and legally
secured. RHS continually strives to
ensure that information collection
burden is kept to a minimum.
Estimate of burden: Public burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 0.22 hours per
response.
Respondents: Individuals or
Households, Businesses, Closing agents/
Attorneys and the field office staff.
Estimated number of respondents:
18,410.
Estimated number of responses per
respondent: 1.
Estimated number of responses:
60,473.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 13,423 hours.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of RBS, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
RBS’ estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (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 forms of information
technology. Comments may be sent to
Jeanne Jacobs, Regulation and
Paperwork Management Branch,
Support Services Division, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Rural
Development, STOP 0742, Washington,
DC 20250–0742. 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.
Dated: June 14, 2010.
Magdey Abdallah,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Buy American Exception
Under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service
(RHS) hereby gives notice of a
nationwide exception to the Buy
American requirements of Section 1605
of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (‘‘ARRA’’)
under the authority of Section
1605(b)(1) (public interest waiver) for de
minimis incidental components of
eligible publicly owned essential
community facilities projects using
assistance provided under ARRA. This
action permits the use of non-domestic
iron, steel and manufactured goods
when they occur in de minimis
incidental components that may
otherwise be prohibited under Section
1605(a). As used in this Notice, ‘‘de
minimis incidental components’’ means
those components otherwise prohibited
under Section 1605(a) that cumulatively
comprise no more than a total of 5
percent of the total cost of the materials
used in a project funded in whole or in
part with ARRA assistance.
DATES: Effective Date: June 18, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send any correspondence
regarding this notice to William R.
Downs, Program Support Staff, Rural
Housing Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., STOP 0761, Washington,
DC 20250–0761.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William R. Downs, Program Support
Staff, Rural Housing Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW., STOP
0761, Washington, DC 20250–0761,
Telephone: 202–720–1499, e-mail:
William.downs@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with section 1605(c) of
ARRA and Section 176.80 of the rules
of the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) (2 CFR 176.80), RHS hereby
provides notice that it is granting a
nationwide exception to Section 1605
the Recovery Act with respect to de
minimis incidental components of
eligible Community Programs projects
funded under ARRA. The basis for this
waiver is a public interest determination
pursuant to Section 1605(b)(1) of ARRA.
I. Background
The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 made funding
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved
Information Collection
AGENCY: Rural Housing 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. Ch. 35, as amended), the Rural Housing Service (RHS) invites
comments on this information collection for which approval from the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be requested. The intention
is to request a revision for a currently approved information
collection in support of the program for 7 CFR part 1927-B, Real Estate
Title Clearance and Loan Closing.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 17, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shantelle C. Gordon, Program Analyst,
USDA Rural Housing Service, Single Family Housing, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., STOP 0783, Washington, DC 20250-0783, Telephone: (202)
205-
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9567. Fax: (202) 720-2232. E-mail: shantelle.gordon@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB)
regulation (5 CFR part 1320) implementing provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) requires that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an information collection that RHS
is submitting to OMB for approval. Comments are invited on: (a) 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; (b) 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; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (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. Comments may be sent to:
Title: Real Estate Title Clearance and Loan Closing.
OMB Number: 0575-0147.
Expiration date: October 31, 2010.
Type of request: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Section 501 of Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as
amended, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial
assistance to construct, improve, alter, repair, replace or
rehabilitate dwellings, farm buildings, and/or related facilities to
provide decent, safe, and sanitary living conditions and adequate farm
buildings and other structures in rural areas. Title clearance is
required to assure the Agency(s) that the loan is legally secured and
has the required lien priority.
RHS will be collecting information to assure that those
participating in this program remain eligible to proceed with loan
closing and to ensure that loans made with Federal funds are legally
secured. The respondents are individuals or households, businesses and
non-profit institutions. The information required is used by the USDA
personnel to verify that the required lien position has been obtained.
The information is collected at the field office responsible for
processing a loan application through loan closing. The information is
also used to ensure the program is administered in a manner consistent
with legislative and administrative requirements. If not collected, the
Agency would be unable to determine if the loan is adequately and
legally secured. RHS continually strives to ensure that information
collection burden is kept to a minimum.
Estimate of burden: Public burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 0.22 hours per response.
Respondents: Individuals or Households, Businesses, Closing agents/
Attorneys and the field office staff.
Estimated number of respondents: 18,410.
Estimated number of responses per respondent: 1.
Estimated number of responses: 60,473.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 13,423 hours.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
RBS, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b)
the accuracy of the RBS' estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (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
forms of information technology. Comments may be sent to Jeanne Jacobs,
Regulation and Paperwork Management Branch, Support Services Division,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, STOP 0742,
Washington, DC 20250-0742. 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.
Dated: June 14, 2010.
Magdey Abdallah,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-14823 Filed 6-17-10; 8:45 am]
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