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program for grading poultry and rabbit
products.
Need and Use of the Information:
This is a voluntary program on a fee for
service basis. Respondents need to
request or apply for the specific service
they want and in doing so they provide
information. The information is needed
to administer the program, assess the
cost of providing service, and to assure
graded poultry and rabbits are properly
labeled. Without this information the
agency could not ensure properly
labeled poultry and rabbit products and
the integrity of the USDA grade mark if
each new label was not submitted for
approval.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 372.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Daily; Monthly; Semi-annually;
Annually; Other: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1,861.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Export Fruit Regulations.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0143.
Summary of Collection: Fresh apples
and grapes grown in the United States
shipped to any foreign destination must
meet minimum quality and other
requirements established by regulations
issued under the Export Apple Act (7
CFR Part 33) and the Export Grape and
Plum Act (7 CFR Part 35). These Acts
were designed to promote the foreign
trade of the United States in apples and
grapes; to protect the reputation of these
American-grown commodities; and to
prevent deception or misrepresentation
of the quality of such products moving
in foreign commerce. Plum provisions
in the marketing order were terminated
in 1991. The regulation issued under the
Export Grape and Plum Act (7 CFR Part
35) cover fresh grapes grown in the
United States and shipped to foreign
destinations, except Canada. Apples and
grapes exported to Canada are exempt
from the Acts’ regulations due to
Canada’s import requirements.
Need and Use of the Information:
Persons who ship fresh apples and
grapes grown in the U.S. to foreign
destinations must have such shipment
inspected and certified by Federal or
Federal-State Inspection Service (FSIS)
inspectors. Agriculture Marketing
Service administers the FSIS. Official
FSIS inspection certificates and
phytosanitary certificates issued by
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service provide the needed
information for USDA. Export carriers
are required to keep on file for three
years copies of inspection certificates
for apples and grapes.
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Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting; On occasion,
Monthly, Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 25.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Customer Service Survey for
USDA—Donated Food Products.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0182.
Summary of Collection: Each year the
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
procures about $700 million dollars of
poultry, livestock, fruit, and vegetable
products for the school lunch and other
domestic feeding programs under
authority of 7 CFR 250, Regulations for
the Donation of Food for Use in the
United States, its Territories and
possessions and areas under its
jurisdiction. To maintain and improve
the quality of these products, AMS has
sought to make this process more
customer-driven and therefore is
seeking opinions from the users of these
products. Customers that use USDAprocured commodities to prepare and
serve meals retrieve the AMS–11 cards
from the boxes and use them to rate
their perception of product flavor,
texture, and appearance as well as
overall satisfaction.
Need and Use of the Information:
AMS will use three different versions of
the AMS–11, ‘‘Customer Opinion
Postcard,’’ AMS–11A for Poultry
Programs; AMS–11B for Livestock and
Seed Programs and AMS–11C for Fruit
and Vegetable Programs to collect
information on the product type,
production lot, and identify the location
and type of facility in which the product
was served. USDA program managers
will use survey responses to maintain
and improve product quality through
the revision of USDA commodity
specifications and follow-up action with
producers of designated production lots.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local or Tribal Government; Not-forprofit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 8,400.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 700.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Federal Excess
Personal Property (FEPP) and
Firefighter Property (FFP) Program
Cooperative Agreements
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the new information
collection, Federal Excess Personal
Property (FEPP) and Firefighter Property
(FFP) program Cooperative Agreements.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before December 6, 2010
to be assured of consideration.
Comments received after that date will
be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
notice should be addressed to: USDA,
Forest Service, Attn: Melissa Frey, Fire
and Aviation Management (F&AM),
1400 Independence Ave., SW., Mailstop
1107, Washington, DC 20250.
Comments also may be submitted via email to: mfrey@fs.fed.us.
The public may inspect comments
received at USDA Forest Service,
F&AM, Room 2SO, 201 14th St., SW.,
Washington, DC, during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged
to call ahead to 202–206–1483 to
facilitate entry to the building.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Melissa Frey, Fire and Aviation
Management, 202–205–1090.
Individuals who use telecommunication
devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–
877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time, Monday
through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP)
and Firefighter Property (FFP)
Cooperative Agreements.
OMB Number: 0596–NEW.
Type of Request: NEW.
Abstract: Federal Excess Personal
Property (FEPP) and Firefighter Property
(FFP) program Cooperative Agreements
programs are available to state forestry
agencies. The program provides
participating state agencies with surplus
Department of Defense and other federal
agencies equipment and supplies to be
used in firefighting and emergency
services. The FEPP program loans
property to the state who in turn subloans the equipment and supplies to fire
departments. The FFP program transfers
ownership of the equipment to either
SUMMARY:
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the state agency or the individual fire
department.
A cooperative agreement collects
information from the participating state
agency and outlines the requirements
and rules for the cooperation. Each state
forestry agency shall provide an
Accountable Officer who will be
responsible for the integrity of the
program within their respective state.
For this reason, FEPP and FFP collect
the state forestry agency contact
information, the information of the
Accountable Officer, and the
requirements of participation in the
FEPP and FFP programs.
A cooperative agreement will be
prepared by each state forestry agency
that desires to participate in one or both
of the programs. Participating state
agencies must submit separate
agreements if they desire to be
participants in both programs.
Agreements will be processed and
maintained at the United States
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Fire and Aviation Management,
Partnerships, Cooperative Programs
branch in each Forest Service Regional
Office.
The authority to provide surplus
supplies to state agencies comes from
Federal Property and Administration
Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C., Sec 202.
Authority to loan excess supplies comes
from 10 U.S.C., Subtitle A, Part IV,
Chapter 153, 2576b grants the authority
for the FFP program.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 hour.
Type of Respondents: State Foresters.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 10.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 2.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 20 hours.
Comment is Invited:
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether
this collection of information is
necessary for the stated purposes and
the proper performance of the functions
of the Agency, including whether the
information will have practical or
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
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
respondents, including the use of
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
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addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Dated: September 28, 2010.
John Phipps,
Associate Deputy Chief, State and Private
Forestry.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2008–0098]
Notice of Availability of Biotechnology
Quality Management System Audit
Standard and Evaluation of Comments
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public
that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has developed an
audit standard for its biotechnology
compliance assistance program. The
audit standard, which was made
available in draft form for comment in
an earlier notice, will be used by
participating regulated entities to
develop and implement sound
management practices, thus enhancing
compliance with the regulatory
requirements for field trials and
movement of genetically engineered
organisms in 7 CFR part 340. We are
also making available a document
containing our evaluation of the
comments we received on the draft
audit standard.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Edward Jhee, Chief, Compliance
Assistance Branch, Biotechnology
Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River
Road Unit 91, Riverdale, MD 20737–
1236; (301) 734–6356, e-mail:
edward.m.jhee@aphis.usda.gov. To
obtain copies of the audit standard or
our evaluation of comments submitted
on the draft audit standard, contact Ms.
Cindy Eck at (301) 734–0667, e-mail:
cynthia.a.eck@aphis.usda.gov. Those
documents may also be viewed on the
APHIS Web site at the address provided
at the end of this document.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) regulates the
introduction—the importation,
interstate movement, and environmental
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release—of genetically engineered (GE)
organisms that are, or may be, plant
pests. In September 2007, APHIS’
Biotechnology Regulatory Services
announced it was developing a
voluntary, audit-based compliance
assistance program known as the
Biotechnology Quality Management
System Program (BQMS Program) to
assist regulated entities in achieving and
maintaining compliance with the
regulatory requirements for field trials
and movements of GE organisms in 7
CFR part 340.
Under the BQMS Program, APHIS
provides support for an entity’s
voluntary adoption of a customized
biotechnology quality management
system (BQMS) to improve their
management of domestic research and
development of regulated GE organisms.
The BQMS audit standard provides
criteria for the development,
implementation, and objective
evaluation of the entity’s BQMS.
On June 4, 2009, APHIS published a
notice 1 in the Federal Register (74 FR
26831–26832, Docket No. APHIS–2008–
0098) announcing the availability of the
BQMS draft audit standard. Comments
on the BQMS draft audit standard were
to have been received on or before
August 3, 2009. APHIS subsequently
published a notice in the Federal
Register on August 24, 2009 (74 FR
42644, Docket No. APHIS–2008–0098),
reopening the comment period on the
draft audit standard for an additional 60
days ending October 23, 2009. APHIS
solicited comments on the draft audit
standard in general and sought specific
input on the following four questions:
1. Do the critical control points in
Requirement 7 of the draft audit
standard identify all areas and elements
that organizations should focus on in
order to maintain compliance with the
regulatory requirements under 7 CFR
part 340?
2. Is the draft audit standard
consistent with current best practices
used by the regulated community?
3. Can the public identify incentives
USDA might employ to encourage
participation in the voluntary program
by commercial industry as well as
academic institutions?
4. The BQMS is designed to be
flexible according to the size of the
participating organization. Is this
flexibility apparent in the draft audit
standard?
APHIS also received input on the
draft audit standard from organizations
1 All notices mentioned in this docket, as well as
comments received and supporting and related
materials, can be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/
main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS–2008–0098.
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[FR Doc No: 2010-24879]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP)
and Firefighter Property (FFP) Program Cooperative Agreements
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and
organizations on the new information collection, Federal Excess
Personal Property (FEPP) and Firefighter Property (FFP) program
Cooperative Agreements.
DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before December 6,
2010 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this notice should be addressed to:
USDA, Forest Service, Attn: Melissa Frey, Fire and Aviation Management
(F&AM), 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Mailstop 1107, Washington, DC
20250. Comments also may be submitted via e-mail to: mfrey@fs.fed.us.
The public may inspect comments received at USDA Forest Service,
F&AM, Room 2SO, 201 14th St., SW., Washington, DC, during normal
business hours. Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 202-206-1483
to facilitate entry to the building.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Frey, Fire and Aviation
Management, 202-205-1090. Individuals who use telecommunication devices
for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-
877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday
through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Federal Excess Personal Property
(FEPP) and Firefighter Property (FFP) Cooperative Agreements.
OMB Number: 0596-NEW.
Type of Request: NEW.
Abstract: Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) and Firefighter
Property (FFP) program Cooperative Agreements programs are available to
state forestry agencies. The program provides participating state
agencies with surplus Department of Defense and other federal agencies
equipment and supplies to be used in firefighting and emergency
services. The FEPP program loans property to the state who in turn sub-
loans the equipment and supplies to fire departments. The FFP program
transfers ownership of the equipment to either
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the state agency or the individual fire department.
A cooperative agreement collects information from the participating
state agency and outlines the requirements and rules for the
cooperation. Each state forestry agency shall provide an Accountable
Officer who will be responsible for the integrity of the program within
their respective state. For this reason, FEPP and FFP collect the state
forestry agency contact information, the information of the Accountable
Officer, and the requirements of participation in the FEPP and FFP
programs.
A cooperative agreement will be prepared by each state forestry
agency that desires to participate in one or both of the programs.
Participating state agencies must submit separate agreements if they
desire to be participants in both programs. Agreements will be
processed and maintained at the United States Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management,
Partnerships, Cooperative Programs branch in each Forest Service
Regional Office.
The authority to provide surplus supplies to state agencies comes
from Federal Property and Administration Services Act of 1949, 40
U.S.C., Sec 202. Authority to loan excess supplies comes from 10
U.S.C., Subtitle A, Part IV, Chapter 153, 2576b grants the authority
for the FFP program.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 1 hour.
Type of Respondents: State Foresters.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 10.
Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 20 hours.
Comment is Invited:
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether this collection of information
is necessary for the stated purposes and the proper performance of the
functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have
practical or scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the Agency's
estimate of the burden of the 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
respondents, including the use of 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 be a matter of public record.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission request
toward Office of Management and Budget approval.
Dated: September 28, 2010.
John Phipps,
Associate Deputy Chief, State and Private Forestry.
[FR Doc. 2010-24879 Filed 10-4-10; 8:45 am]
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