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that causes the plant disease commonly
known as sudden oak death, ramorum
left blight, and ramorum dieback.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect information through
a compliance agreement to establish
restrictions on the interstate movement
of nursery stock from nurseries in nonquarantined counties in California,
Oregon, and Washington. If California,
Oregon, and Washington State did not
comply with provisions by signing a
compliance agreement, P. ramorum
would have the potential to spread to
eastern forests adversely impacting the
ecosystem balances, foreign/domestic
nursery stocks, and lumber markets.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 1,425.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 2,263.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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December 2, 2010.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding: (a) 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;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and 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
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U.S.C. 1777) and the National School
Lunch Program, 7 CFR part 210. It was
developed to assist the institutional
food service community across the
United States. The Web site focuses on
providing information to institutional
food service professions, as well as
providing a platform for processors,
distributors, and brokers to post
information about their processed
USDA supplied commodities and other
commercial food products available for
institutional food service purchase. The
USDA Food Connect Web site provides
food related associations a location to
provide information on services and
materials available from the
Agricultural Marketing Service
organization. The Web site is a public
Title: Reporting and Recordkeeping
Web site and the information provided
Requirements for 7 CFR part 29.
is considered as public information.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0056.
Need and use of the Information: The
Summary of Collection: The Fair and
USDA Food Connect Web site will
Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004
collect all information electronically at
(7 U.S.C. 518) eliminated price supports one time upon registration. Each new
and marketing quotas for all tobacco
user must create their individual login
beginning with the 2005 crop year.
and password. There are five types of
Mandatory inspection and grading of
users; institutional food service
domestic and imported tobacco was
professionals, processors, distributors,
eliminated as well as the mandatory
brokers and food related associations.
pesticide testing of imported tobacco
The Food Connect Web site is designed
and the tobacco Market News Program.
as a central location in which
The Tobacco Inspection Act (U.S.C. 511) institutional food service professionals,
requires that all tobacco sold at
who provide meals in institutional
designated auction markets in the U.S.
settings, can locate processors who
be inspected and graded. Provision is
manufacture foods utilizing USDA
also made for interested parties to
provided commodities, distributors who
request inspection, pesticide testing and distribute the manufactured food,
grading services on an ‘‘as needed’’ basis. brokers who represent the processors,
Need and Use of the Information:
and food related associations. No
Information is collected through various information is collected from a user
forms and other documents for the
when they access the Web site as a
inspection and certification process.
guest.
Upon receiving request information
Description of Respondents: Business
from tobacco dealers and/or
or other for-profit; Farms.
manufacturers, tobacco inspectors will
Number of Respondents: 850.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
pull samples and apply U.S. Standard
Grades to samples to provide a Tobacco Other (One Time).
Total Burden Hours: 280.
Inspection Certificate (TB–92). Also,
samples can be submitted to a USDA
Agricultural Marketing Service
laboratory for pesticide testing and a
Title: Domestic Origin Verification
detailed analysis is provided to the
System Questionnaire and Regulations
customer.
Description of Respondents: Business Governing Inspection and Certification
of Processed Fruits and Vegetables and
or other for-profit.
Related Products.
Number of Respondents: 50.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0234.
Frequency of Responses:
Summary of Collection: The
Recordkeeping; Reporting; On occasion.
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7
Total Burden Hours: 3,851.
U.S.C. 1621–1627) directs and
Agricultural Marketing Service
authorizes the Department to develop
standards of quality, grades, grading
Title: USDA Food Connect Web site.
programs, and other services to facilitate
OMB Control Number: 0581–0224.
trading of agricultural products and
Summary of Collection: The USDA
assure consumers of quality products
Food Connect Web site (previously
which are graded and identified under
known as the USDA Food and
USDA programs. The voluntary
Commodity Connection Web site)
inspection and grading services of
operates pursuant to the authority of
processed fruits and vegetables are on a
Section 32 of Public Law 320, Section
fee for service basis. The collection of
8 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42
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) 720–8681.
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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information regarding the requirement
for companies to ensure domestic origin
of the products they deliver to the
USDA Purchase Program is provided for
in the ‘‘General Terms and Conditions
for Procurement of Agricultural
Commodities of Services,’’ (USDA–1).
The Domestic Origin Verification
System Program (DOVS) is a voluntary
audit and verification user-fee service
available to suppliers, processors, and
any financially interested party. It is
designed to provide validation of the
applicant’s domestic origin verification
system prior to bidding on contracts to
supply food products to the
Department’s Feeding programs, and/or
may be conducted after a contract is
awarded. Participation in DOVS does
not relieve a company of its contractual
requirements to provide only domestic
origin product to the USDA.
Need and use of the Information: the
Agricultural Marketing Services uses
various forms to collect data for grading
and certification purposes and for hiring
licensed samplers. The information
collected is used to hire prospective
employees desiring to become licensed
to sample processed foods and to certify
as to the identification, location, kinds
and condition of containers of processed
products that are sampled.
An interested company requests a
DOVS questionnaire, and once
completed it contains the applicant’s
procedures to ensure fruit, nut or
vegetable components or products can
be traced back to their domestic origin;
use of a segregation plan to keep all
non-domestic components or products
separate from domestic products; for
taking corrective action on
nonconformities and deficiencies; for
checking the adequacy of their internal
system of ensuring domestic origin;
instructing employees in the domestic
origin requirement and for maintaining
records relating to the applicant’s
domestic origin verification system.
These elements should be in place
whether or not the applicant is on the
DOVS program or providing a trace-back
on every contract. DOVS assists
companies to meet the domestic origin
requirement for the USDA Purchase
Program efficiently and eliminates the
redundancy of the trace paperwork that
is required for every USDA contract.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1,160.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
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Total Burden Hours: 6,192.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010–30648 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–02–P
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
December 1, 2010.
The Department of Agriculture has
submitted the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments
regarding (a) 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;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
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) 720–8681.
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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classing, Testing, and
Standards.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0008.
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Summary of Collection: The U.S.
Cotton Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 51 53
and 55, authorizes the USDA to
supervise the various activities directly
associated with the classification or
grading of cotton, cotton linters, and
cottonseed based on official USDA
Standards. The Cotton Program of the
Agricultural Marketing Service carries
out this supervision and is responsible
for the maintenance of the functions to
which these forms relate. USDA is the
only Federal agency authorized to
establish and promote the use of the
official cotton standards of the U.S. in
interstate and foreign commerce and to
supervise the various activities
associated with the classification or
grading of cotton, cotton linters, and
cottonseed based on official USDA
standards.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Agricultural Marketing Service uses the
following forms to collection
information:
Form FD–210 is submitted by owners
of cotton to request cotton classification
services. The request contains
information for USDA to ascertain
proper ownership of the samples
submitted, to distribute classification
results, and bill for services. Information
about the origin and handling of the
cotton is necessary in order to properly
evaluate and classify the samples.
Form CN–246 is submitted by cotton
gins and warehouses seeking to serve as
licensed samplers. Licenses issued by
the USDA–AMS Cotton Program
authorize the warehouse/gin to draw
and submit samples to insure the proper
application of standards in the
classification of cotton and to prevent
deception in their use.
Form CN–383 is a package of forms
designated as CN–383–a through CN–
383–k that is submitted by cotton
producers, ginners, warehousemen,
cooperatives, manufacturers, merchants,
and crushers interested in acquiring
cotton classification standards and
round testing services.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 530.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually; on occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 136.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classification and
Market News Service.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0009.
Summary of Collection: The Cotton
Statistics and Estimates Act, 7 U.S. Code
471–476, authorizes the Secretary of
Agriculture to collect and publish
annually statistics or estimates
concerning the grades and staple lengths
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
December 2, 2010.
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments
regarding: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and 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) 720-8681.
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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for 7 CFR part 29.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0056.
Summary of Collection: The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of
2004 (7 U.S.C. 518) eliminated price supports and marketing quotas for
all tobacco beginning with the 2005 crop year. Mandatory inspection and
grading of domestic and imported tobacco was eliminated as well as the
mandatory pesticide testing of imported tobacco and the tobacco Market
News Program. The Tobacco Inspection Act (U.S.C. 511) requires that all
tobacco sold at designated auction markets in the U.S. be inspected and
graded. Provision is also made for interested parties to request
inspection, pesticide testing and grading services on an ``as needed''
basis.
Need and Use of the Information: Information is collected through
various forms and other documents for the inspection and certification
process. Upon receiving request information from tobacco dealers and/or
manufacturers, tobacco inspectors will pull samples and apply U.S.
Standard Grades to samples to provide a Tobacco Inspection Certificate
(TB-92). Also, samples can be submitted to a USDA laboratory for
pesticide testing and a detailed analysis is provided to the customer.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting; On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 3,851.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: USDA Food Connect Web site.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0224.
Summary of Collection: The USDA Food Connect Web site (previously
known as the USDA Food and Commodity Connection Web site) operates
pursuant to the authority of Section 32 of Public Law 320, Section 8 of
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1777) and the National
School Lunch Program, 7 CFR part 210. It was developed to assist the
institutional food service community across the United States. The Web
site focuses on providing information to institutional food service
professions, as well as providing a platform for processors,
distributors, and brokers to post information about their processed
USDA supplied commodities and other commercial food products available
for institutional food service purchase. The USDA Food Connect Web site
provides food related associations a location to provide information on
services and materials available from the organization. The Web site is
a public Web site and the information provided is considered as public
information.
Need and use of the Information: The USDA Food Connect Web site
will collect all information electronically at one time upon
registration. Each new user must create their individual login and
password. There are five types of users; institutional food service
professionals, processors, distributors, brokers and food related
associations. The Food Connect Web site is designed as a central
location in which institutional food service professionals, who provide
meals in institutional settings, can locate processors who manufacture
foods utilizing USDA provided commodities, distributors who distribute
the manufactured food, brokers who represent the processors, and food
related associations. No information is collected from a user when they
access the Web site as a guest.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 850.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Other (One Time).
Total Burden Hours: 280.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Domestic Origin Verification System Questionnaire and
Regulations Governing Inspection and Certification of Processed Fruits
and Vegetables and Related Products.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0234.
Summary of Collection: The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7
U.S.C. 1621-1627) directs and authorizes the Department to develop
standards of quality, grades, grading programs, and other services to
facilitate trading of agricultural products and assure consumers of
quality products which are graded and identified under USDA programs.
The voluntary inspection and grading services of processed fruits and
vegetables are on a fee for service basis. The collection of
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information regarding the requirement for companies to ensure domestic
origin of the products they deliver to the USDA Purchase Program is
provided for in the ``General Terms and Conditions for Procurement of
Agricultural Commodities of Services,'' (USDA-1). The Domestic Origin
Verification System Program (DOVS) is a voluntary audit and
verification user-fee service available to suppliers, processors, and
any financially interested party. It is designed to provide validation
of the applicant's domestic origin verification system prior to bidding
on contracts to supply food products to the Department's Feeding
programs, and/or may be conducted after a contract is awarded.
Participation in DOVS does not relieve a company of its contractual
requirements to provide only domestic origin product to the USDA.
Need and use of the Information: the Agricultural Marketing
Services uses various forms to collect data for grading and
certification purposes and for hiring licensed samplers. The
information collected is used to hire prospective employees desiring to
become licensed to sample processed foods and to certify as to the
identification, location, kinds and condition of containers of
processed products that are sampled.
An interested company requests a DOVS questionnaire, and once
completed it contains the applicant's procedures to ensure fruit, nut
or vegetable components or products can be traced back to their
domestic origin; use of a segregation plan to keep all non-domestic
components or products separate from domestic products; for taking
corrective action on nonconformities and deficiencies; for checking the
adequacy of their internal system of ensuring domestic origin;
instructing employees in the domestic origin requirement and for
maintaining records relating to the applicant's domestic origin
verification system. These elements should be in place whether or not
the applicant is on the DOVS program or providing a trace-back on every
contract. DOVS assists companies to meet the domestic origin
requirement for the USDA Purchase Program efficiently and eliminates
the redundancy of the trace paperwork that is required for every USDA
contract.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 1,160.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 6,192.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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