Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 51933-51934 [2011-21147]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 161 / Friday, August 19, 2011 / Notices Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. Total Burden Hours: 1,418,058. Agricultural Marketing Service Title: Specified Commodities Imported into the United States Exempt from Import Requirements, 7 CFR Part 944, 980, and 999. OMB Control Number: 0581–0167. Summary of Collection: Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (AMAA), as amended (7 U.S.C. 601– 674) provides that when certain domestically produced commodities are regulated under a Federal marketing order, imports of the commodity must meet the same or comparable requirements. Import regulations apply only during those periods when domestic marketing order regulations are in effect. No person may import products for processing or other exempt purposes unless an executed Importers Exempt Commodity Form (FV–6) accompanies the shipment. The Civil Penalty Stipulation Agreement (FV–7) is a ‘‘volunteer’’ form that provides the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) with an additional tool to obtain resolution of certain cases without the cost of going to a hearing. Need and Use of the Information: AMS utilizes the information to ensure that imported goods destined for exempt outlets are given no less favorable treatment than afforded to domestic goods destined for such exempt outlets. The importers wishing to import commodities will use form FV–6, ‘‘Importer’s Exempt Commodity’’, which requires a minimum amount of information. Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit institutions. Number of Respondents: 345. Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion. Total Burden Hours: 511. jlentini on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Agricultural Marketing Service Title: Laboratory Approval Programs. OMB Control Number: 0581–0251. Summary of Collection: The Agricultural Marketing Act (AMA) of 1946, as amended, provides analytical testing services that facilitate marketing and allow products to obtain grade designations or meet marketing or quality standards. Pursuant to this authority, AMS develops and maintains laboratory certification verification and approval programs as needed by the agricultural industry, to support domestic and international marketing of U.S. products. To ensure that a laboratory is capable of accurately performing the specified analyses, it VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:32 Aug 18, 2011 Jkt 223001 must adhere to certain good laboratory practice and show technical proficiency in the required areas. Need and Use of the Information: Checklist and form have been developed that ask the laboratory for information concerning procedures, the physical facility, employees, and their training. The laboratory must also provide Standard Operating Procedures for the analyses and quality assurance. The laboratory certification and approval programs are voluntary, fee for service, and for admission into one of these programs a laboratory must have a client who requires the specific testing. It is necessary to collect and require the laboratory to attest to the performance elements necessary to determine the credibility of the laboratory. To do less would be a disservice to the agricultural community. Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; farms. Number of Respondents: 83. Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion. Total Burden Hours: 6,010. Charlene Parker, Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2011–21145 Filed 8–18–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–02–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request August 15, 2011. 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 and 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), PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 51933 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. Forest Service Title: Small Business Timber SetAside Program: Appeal Procedures on Recomputation of Shares. OMB Control Number: 0596–0141. Summary of Collection: The Conference Report accompanying the 1997 Omnibus Appropriation Act (Pub L. 104–208) requires that the Forest Service (FS) establish a process by which purchasers may appeal decisions concerning recomputations of Small Business Set-aside (SBA) shares or structural recomputations of SBA shares, or changes in policies impacting the Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program. FS adopted the Small Business Timber Sale Set-Aside Program on July 26, 1990. FS administers the program in cooperation with the Small Business Administration under the authorities of the Small Business Act of 1988, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and SBA’s regulations at part 121 of Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The program is designed to ensure that small business timber purchasers have the opportunity to purchase a fair proportion of National Forest System timber offered for sale. Need and Use of the Information: Under the program, the FS must recompute the shares of timber sales to be set aside for qualifying small businesses every five years based on the actual volume of saw timber purchased by small businesses. Recomputation of shares must occur if there is a change in manufacturing capability, if the purchaser size class changes, or if certain purchaser(s) discontinue operations. The appeal information is collected in writing and is possible, in most locations to be sent via e-mail and attached documents to a Forest Service Officer. The collected information is E:\FR\FM\19AUN1.SGM 19AUN1 51934 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 161 / Friday, August 19, 2011 / Notices reviewed by FS officials who use the information to render decisions related to re-computations of timber sale share to be set-aside for small business timber purchasers. Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit. Number of Respondents: 40. Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion. Total Burden Hours: 320. Charlene Parker, Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2011–21147 Filed 8–18–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–11–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS–2010–0032] Determination of Pest-Free Areas in Mendoza Province, Argentina; Request for Comments Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: We are advising the public that we have received a request from the Government of Argentina to recognize additional areas as pest-free areas for South American fruit fly (Anastrepha fraterculus) and all other economically important species of Anastrepha. After reviewing the documentation submitted in support of this request, the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has determined that these areas meet the criteria in our regulations for recognition as pest-free areas. We are making that determination, as well as the evaluation document we have prepared in connection with this action, available for review and comment. DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before October 18, 2011. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2010-00320005. • Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to Docket No. APHIS–2010–0032, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may be viewed at https:// jlentini on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:32 Aug 18, 2011 Jkt 223001 www.regulations.gov/ #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2010-0032 or in our reading room, which 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 holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690–2817 before coming. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Meredith C. Jones, Regulatory Coordination Specialist, Regulatory Coordination and Compliance, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 156, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 734–7467. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart-Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–1 through 319.56–51, referred to below as the regulations), the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture prohibits or restricts the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the world to prevent plant pests from being introduced into and spread within the United States. Section 319.56–4 of the regulations contains a performance-based process for approving the importation of commodities that, based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, can be safely imported subject to one or more of the designated phytosanitary measures listed in paragraph (b) of that section. One of the designated phytosanitary measures is that the fruits or vegetables are imported from a pest-free area in the country of origin that meets the requirements of § 319.56–5 for freedom from that pest and are accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate stating that the fruits or vegetables originated in a pest-free area in the country of origin.1 Under the regulations in § 319.56–5, APHIS requires that determinations of pest-free areas be made in accordance with the criteria for establishing freedom from pests found in International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) No. 4, ‘‘Requirements For the Establishment of Pest Free Areas.’’ The international standard was established by the International Plant Protection Convention of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and is incorporated by reference in our regulations in 7 CFR 300.5. In addition, APHIS must also approve the survey protocol used to determine and maintain pest-free status, as well as protocols for actions to be performed upon detection of a pest. Pest-free areas are subject to audit by APHIS to verify their status. APHIS received a request from the Government of Argentina to recognize an additional area of that country as being free of Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly). Specifically, the Government of Argentina asked that we recognize the Southern and Central Oases in the southern half of Mendoza Province as an area that is free of Medfly. In accordance with our process, we published a notice 2 in the Federal Register on June 25, 2010 (75 FR 36347– 36348, Docket No. APHIS–2010–0032), in which we announced the availability, for review and comment, of a commodity import evaluation document (CIED) that evaluates the information presented by Argentina in support of its request to recognize additional areas as pest-free areas for Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) in Argentina. We solicited comments on the notice for 60 days ending on August 24, 2010. We received two comments by that date, one from a State agricultural official and the other from an official of Argentina’s national plant protection organization (NPPO). The first commenter acknowledged Argentina’s history of successful Medfly control efforts, but stated that APHIS should not relax its fruit fly-related restrictions until it can confirm that no other pest fruit flies– notably Anastrepha species fruit flies– are present in the area. The second commenter provided information to support a finding that the Mendoza Province is free of the South American fruit fly (Anastrepha fraterculus). As a result of these comments, APHIS contacted the Argentine NPPO, which requested that, in addition to the pestfree status for Ceratitis capitata, the Mendoza province of Argentina also be recognized as free of A. fraterculus. In accordance with our regulations and the criteria set out in ISPM No. 4, we have reviewed and approved the survey protocols and other information provided by Argentina relative to its system to establish A. fraterculus freedom, phytosanitary measures to maintain freedom, and system for the verification of the maintenance of freedom. Because this action concerns the expansion of a currently recognized pest-free area in Argentina from which fruits and vegetables are authorized for 1 A list of pest-free-areas currently recognized by APHIS can be found at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/ import_export/plants/manuals/ports/downloads/ DesignatedPestFreeAreas.pdf. 2 To view the notice and the comments we received, go to https://www.regulations.gov/ fdmspublic/component/ main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2010-0032. PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19AUN1.SGM 19AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 161 (Friday, August 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51933-51934]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21147]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

August 15, 2011.
    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 
and 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.

Forest Service

    Title: Small Business Timber Set-Aside Program: Appeal Procedures 
on Recomputation of Shares.
    OMB Control Number: 0596-0141.
    Summary of Collection: The Conference Report accompanying the 1997 
Omnibus Appropriation Act (Pub L. 104-208) requires that the Forest 
Service (FS) establish a process by which purchasers may appeal 
decisions concerning recomputations of Small Business Set-aside (SBA) 
shares or structural recomputations of SBA shares, or changes in 
policies impacting the Small Business Timber Sale Set-Aside Program. FS 
adopted the Small Business Timber Sale Set-Aside Program on July 26, 
1990. FS administers the program in cooperation with the Small Business 
Administration under the authorities of the Small Business Act of 1988, 
the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and SBA's regulations at 
part 121 of Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The program is 
designed to ensure that small business timber purchasers have the 
opportunity to purchase a fair proportion of National Forest System 
timber offered for sale.
    Need and Use of the Information: Under the program, the FS must 
recompute the shares of timber sales to be set aside for qualifying 
small businesses every five years based on the actual volume of saw 
timber purchased by small businesses. Recomputation of shares must 
occur if there is a change in manufacturing capability, if the 
purchaser size class changes, or if certain purchaser(s) discontinue 
operations. The appeal information is collected in writing and is 
possible, in most locations to be sent via e-mail and attached 
documents to a Forest Service Officer. The collected information is

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reviewed by FS officials who use the information to render decisions 
related to re-computations of timber sale share to be set-aside for 
small business timber purchasers.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 40.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 320.

Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-21147 Filed 8-18-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-11-P

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