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technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average
0.5714285 hours per response.
Respondents: Foreign plant protection
service officials and growers in the
Netherlands and Denmark.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 20.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 10.5.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 210.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 120 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
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.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of
October 2011.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–27170 Filed 10–19–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0096]
Notice of Request for Extension of
Approval of an Information Collection;
Hawaiian and Territorial Quarantine
Notices
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Extension of approval of an
information collection; comment
request.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service’s intention to
request an extension of approval of an
information collection associated with
regulations to prevent the interstate
spread of plant pests from the State of
Hawaii and U.S. territories.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before December
19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2011-00960001.
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Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2011–0096, 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://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2011-0096 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: For
information on regulations for the
interstate movement of fruits and
vegetables from Hawaii and U.S.
territories, contact Mr. David Lamb,
Import Specialist, Regulations, Permits,
and Manuals, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River
Road, Unit 156, Riverdale, MD 20737;
(301) 734–0627. For copies of more
detailed information on the information
collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles,
APHIS’ Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851–2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Hawaiian and Territorial
Quarantine Notices.
OMB Number: 0579–0198.
Type of Request: Extension of
approval of an information collection.
Abstract: As authorized by the Plant
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.)
(PPA), the Secretary of Agriculture may
prohibit or restrict the importation,
entry, exportation, or movement in
interstate commerce of any plant, plant
product, biological control organism,
noxious weed, means of conveyance, or
other article if the Secretary determines
that the prohibition or restriction is
necessary to prevent a plant pest or
noxious weed from being introduced
into or disseminated within the United
States. This authority has been
delegated to the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS),
which administers regulations to
implement the PPA.
Regulations governing the interstate
movement of plants and plant products
from Hawaii and U.S. territories,
including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands, are contained in 7
CFR part 318, ‘‘State of Hawaii and
Territories Quarantine Notices.’’
These regulations are necessary to
prevent the interstate spread of plant
pests such as the Mediterranean fruit
fly, the melon fly, the Oriental fruit fly,
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green coffee scale, the bean pod borer,
and other plant pests to noninfested
areas of the United States.
Administering these regulations
requires APHIS to collect information
from a variety of individuals who are
involved in growing, packing, handling,
and transporting plants and plant
products. This information serves as
supporting documentation required for
the issuance of forms and documents,
including limited permits, Federal
certificates, compliance agreements, and
applications for transit permits, that
authorize the movement of regulated
articles and is vital to help ensure that
injurious plant pests are not spread
interstate from the State of Hawaii and
U.S. territories to noninfested areas of
the United States.
We are asking the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve our use of these information
collection activities for an additional 3
years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
affected agencies) concerning our
information collection. These comments
will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, through use, as
appropriate, of automated, electronic,
mechanical, and other collection
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average
0.7371428 hours per response.
Respondents: State plant health
regulatory officials, irradiation facility
personnel, and individuals involved in
growing, packing, handling, and
transporting plants and plant products.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 110.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 38.181818.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 4,200.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 3,096 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
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number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
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.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of
October 2011.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2011–27172 Filed 10–19–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0092]
Importation of Plants for Planting;
Risk-Based Sampling and Inspection
Approach and Propagative Monitoring
and Release Program
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public of
our decision to implement a risk-based
sampling approach for the inspection of
imported plants for planting. In our
previous approach, we inspected 2
percent of consignments of imported
plants for planting regardless of
previous evidence of the risk posed by
the plants for planting. The risk-based
sampling and inspection approach will
allow us to target high-risk plants for
planting for more extensive inspection
to help ensure that plants for planting
infested with quarantine pests do not
enter the United States, while providing
a speedier inspection process for lowerrisk plants for planting. In addition, for
taxa of plants for planting that pose an
extremely low risk, we are establishing
a Propagative Monitoring and Release
Program under which consignments of
those taxa will be periodically
monitored but not every consignment
will be inspected.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Gordon Muraoka, National Plant
Inspection Station Coordinator, PPQ,
APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133,
Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 734–0932;
or Dr. Mary Palm, Senior Mycologist
and Lab Director, National Identification
Services, Molecular Diagnostic Lab,
PPQ, APHIS, B–580, BARC-East,
Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, MD
20705; (301) 504–7154.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
regulations in 7 CFR part 319 prohibit
or restrict the importation of certain
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plants and plant products into the
United States to prevent the
introduction of plant pests that are not
already established in the United States
or plant pests that may be established
but are under official control to
eradicate or contain them within the
United States.
The regulations in ‘‘Subpart—Plants
for Planting,’’ §§ 319.37 through 319.37–
14 (referred to below as the regulations),
restrict the importation of plants for
planting. Plants for planting is defined
in § 319.37–1 as plants intended to
remain planted, to be planted or
replanted. The definition of plant in that
section includes any plant (including
any plant part) for or capable of
propagation, including a tree, a tissue
culture, a plantlet culture, pollen, a
shrub, a vine, a cutting, a graft, a scion,
a bud, a bulb, a root, and a seed.
All plants for planting imported into
the United States must be presented for
inspection. Inspectors examine the
plants for planting to determine whether
they show any visual evidence of being
infested with quarantine pests or
infected with quarantine pathogens.
After inspection, the plants may be
allowed entry into the United States
(with treatment, if necessary),
destroyed, or reexported, depending on
the results of the inspection.
Plants for planting that are required to
be imported under a written permit
under § 319.37–3(a)(1) through (a)(6)
and that are not from Canada must be
imported or offered for importation at a
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
plant inspection station. Under
§ 319.37–3(a)(5), lots of 13 or more
articles (other than seeds, bulbs, or
sterile cultures of orchid plants) from
any country or locality except Canada
may be imported into the United States
only after issuance of a written permit.
Therefore, most consignments of plants
for planting must be imported or offered
for importation at a USDA plant
inspection station. Such stations are
listed in § 319.37–14. Plants for planting
that are offered for inspection at a USDA
plant inspection station are inspected by
Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
inspectors.
This notice announces our decision to
standardize our approach to sampling
and inspecting consignments of plants
for planting offered for importation at
USDA plant inspection stations based
on the pest risk presented by the plants
for plant for planting.
To this point, PPQ inspectors have
inspected a minimum of 2 percent of
every consignment of plants for planting
presented for inspection. We have
assessed our sampling and inspection
methods and found that we can use our
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resources more effectively by targeting
our efforts towards plants for planting
that are known to present a higher risk,
based on past inspection results for
those plants for planting. Such an
approach would be consistent with
International Standard for Phytosanitary
Measures (ISPM) #31, ‘‘Methodologies
for Sampling of Consignments.’’ 1
Therefore, we are standardizing our
sampling and inspection approach to
adjust the intensity of our inspection of
imported plants for planting based on
the risk they present of introducing
quarantine pests into the United States.
We will evaluate the risk associated
with combinations of taxa of plants for
planting and countries from which they
are exported and assign risk ratings to
those articles.
Plants for planting determined to
present an extremely low risk will be
inspected under the Propagative
Monitoring and Release Program
(PMRP). Taxa of plants for planting
included in this program will be
periodically monitored at plant
inspection stations. Not every
consignment of plants for planting
included in the PRMP will be inspected,
but those consignments that are
inspected will be inspected at normal
levels to confirm the plants’ continued
eligibility for the PMRP.
Subsequently, we will also implement
a risk-based sampling plan for all other
plants for planting. We will implement
this approach initially by considering
all taxa of plants for planting to be high
risk. All plants for planting will be
sampled at high risk rates until we have
gathered sufficient data to establish that
the plants for planting present a
medium or low risk.
If a taxon of plants for planting from
a certain country is determined to
present a medium or low risk, it will be
sampled at the plant inspection stations
at a less intensive rate than high-risk
plants for planting. We will continue to
sample some consignments of the taxon
at higher rates to monitor whether the
taxon should still be considered to be
medium or low risk. We will update our
categorizations of taxa regularly in
response to data from all inspections.
This approach will allow us to target
our resources towards taxa of plants for
planting that pose the greatest risk and
thus to provide greater security against
the introduction of quarantine pests into
the United States.
1 ISPMs are developed under the auspices of the
International Plant Protection Convention, to which
the United States is a signatory. To view this and
other ISPMs on the Internet, go to https://
www.ippc.int/ and click on the ‘‘Adopted
Standards’’ link under the ‘‘Core activities’’
heading.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2011-0096]
Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information
Collection; Hawaiian and Territorial Quarantine Notices
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Extension of approval of an information collection; comment
request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's
intention to request an extension of approval of an information
collection associated with regulations to prevent the interstate spread
of plant pests from the State of Hawaii and U.S. territories.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
December 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2011-0096-0001.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2011-0096, 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://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2011-
0096 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: For information on regulations for the
interstate movement of fruits and vegetables from Hawaii and U.S.
territories, contact Mr. David Lamb, Import Specialist, Regulations,
Permits, and Manuals, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 156, Riverdale,
MD 20737; (301) 734-0627. For copies of more detailed information on
the information collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS'
Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851-2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Hawaiian and Territorial Quarantine Notices.
OMB Number: 0579-0198.
Type of Request: Extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: As authorized by the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701
et seq.) (PPA), the Secretary of Agriculture may prohibit or restrict
the importation, entry, exportation, or movement in interstate commerce
of any plant, plant product, biological control organism, noxious weed,
means of conveyance, or other article if the Secretary determines that
the prohibition or restriction is necessary to prevent a plant pest or
noxious weed from being introduced into or disseminated within the
United States. This authority has been delegated to the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which administers regulations
to implement the PPA.
Regulations governing the interstate movement of plants and plant
products from Hawaii and U.S. territories, including Guam, Puerto Rico,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are contained in 7 CFR part 318, ``State
of Hawaii and Territories Quarantine Notices.''
These regulations are necessary to prevent the interstate spread of
plant pests such as the Mediterranean fruit fly, the melon fly, the
Oriental fruit fly, green coffee scale, the bean pod borer, and other
plant pests to noninfested areas of the United States.
Administering these regulations requires APHIS to collect
information from a variety of individuals who are involved in growing,
packing, handling, and transporting plants and plant products. This
information serves as supporting documentation required for the
issuance of forms and documents, including limited permits, Federal
certificates, compliance agreements, and applications for transit
permits, that authorize the movement of regulated articles and is vital
to help ensure that injurious plant pests are not spread interstate
from the State of Hawaii and U.S. territories to noninfested areas of
the United States.
We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve
our use of these information collection activities for an additional 3
years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments from the public
(as well as affected agencies) concerning our information collection.
These comments will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, through use, as appropriate, of automated,
electronic, mechanical, and other collection technologies; e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public reporting burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 0.7371428 hours per response.
Respondents: State plant health regulatory officials, irradiation
facility personnel, and individuals involved in growing, packing,
handling, and transporting plants and plant products.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 110.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 38.181818.
Estimated annual number of responses: 4,200.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 3,096 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of
the annual
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number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per response.)
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.
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of October 2011.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-27172 Filed 10-19-11; 8:45 am]
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