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The Department of Agriculture has
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Title: Animal Welfare.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0036.
Summary of Collection: The
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
(Pub. L. 89–544) enacted August 24,
1966, and as amended, required the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), to
regulate the humane care and handling
of dogs, cats, guinea pigs, hamsters,
rabbits, and nonhuman primates. This
legislation was the result of extensive
demand by organized animal welfare
groups and private citizens requesting a
Federal law covering the transportation,
care, and handling of laboratory
animals. The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS), Animal
Care (AC) has the responsibility to
enforce the AWA (7 U.S.C. 2131–2156)
and the provisions of 9 CFR, subchapter
A, which implements the AWA. The
purpose of the AWA is to ensure that
animal use in research facilities or for
exhibition purposes are provided
humane care and treatment. To assure
humane treatment of animals during
transportation in commerce and to
protect the owners of animals from the
theft of their animals by preventing the
sale or use of animals that is stolen.
APHIS will collect information using
several forms.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect health certificates,
program of veterinary care, application
for license and record of acquisition,
disposition and transportation of
animals. The information is used to
ensure those dealers, exhibitors,
research facilities, carriers, etc., are in
compliance with the AWA and
regulations and standards promulgated
under this authority of the Act.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Farms; Not-forprofits; State, Local, and Tribal
Governments.
Number of Respondents: 9,985.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 95,160.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Publication of Depreciation Rates
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities
Service (RUS) administers rural utilities
programs, including the
Telecommunications Program. RUS
announces the depreciation rates for
telecommunications plant for the period
ending December 31, 2010.
DATES: These rates are effective
immediately and will remain in effect
until rates are available for the period
ending December 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan P. Claffey, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Telecommunications
Program, Rural Utilities Service, STOP
1590—Room 5151, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250–
1590. Telephone: (202) 720–9556.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 7 CFR
part 1737, Pre-Loan Policies and
Procedures Common to Insured and
Guaranteed Telecommunications Loans,
§ 1737.70(e) explains the depreciation
rates that are used by RUS in its
feasibility studies. § 1737.70(e)(2) refers
to median depreciation rates published
by RUS for all borrowers. The following
chart provides those rates, compiled by
RUS, for the reporting period ending
December 31, 2010:
SUMMARY:
MEDIAN DEPRECIATION RATES OF RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE BORROWERS BY EQUIPMENT CATEGORY FOR PERIOD
ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2010
Telecommunications plant category
Depreciation rate
1. Land and Support Assets:
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MEDIAN DEPRECIATION RATES OF RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE BORROWERS BY EQUIPMENT CATEGORY FOR PERIOD
ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2010—Continued
Telecommunications plant category
2.
3.
4.
5.
a. Motor vehicles ..........................................................................................................................................................
b. Aircraft ......................................................................................................................................................................
c. Special purpose vehicles ..........................................................................................................................................
d. Garage and other work equipment ..........................................................................................................................
e. Buildings ...................................................................................................................................................................
f. Furniture and office equipment .................................................................................................................................
g. General purpose computers .....................................................................................................................................
Central Office Switching:
a. Digital ........................................................................................................................................................................
b. Analog & Electro-mechanical ...................................................................................................................................
c. Operator Systems .....................................................................................................................................................
Central Office Transmission:
a. Radio Systems .........................................................................................................................................................
b. Circuit equipment .....................................................................................................................................................
Information origination/termination:
a. Station apparatus .....................................................................................................................................................
b. Customer premises wiring ........................................................................................................................................
c. Large private branch exchanges ..............................................................................................................................
d. Public telephone terminal equipment .......................................................................................................................
e. Other terminal equipment .........................................................................................................................................
Cable and wire facilities:
a. Aerial cable—poles ..................................................................................................................................................
b. Aerial cable—metal ..................................................................................................................................................
c. Aerial cable—fiber ....................................................................................................................................................
d. Underground cable—metal ......................................................................................................................................
e. Underground cable—fiber ........................................................................................................................................
f. Buried cable—metal ..................................................................................................................................................
g. Buried cable—fiber ...................................................................................................................................................
h. Conduit systems .......................................................................................................................................................
i. Other ..........................................................................................................................................................................
Dated: November 19, 2011.
James Newby,
Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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Depreciation rate
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: Bureau of Industry and
Security (BIS).
Title: Import, End-User, and Delivery
Verification Certificates.
OMB Control Number: 0694–0093.
Form Number(s): BIS–645P, BIS–
647P.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Burden Hours: 2,124.
Number of Respondents: 7,862.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes for certificates, and 30 minutes
for certificate change notifications and
exception to procedures.
Needs and Uses: This collection of
information provides the certification of
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the overseas importer to the U.S.
Government that specific commodities
will be imported from the U.S. and will
not be reexported, except in accordance
with U.S. export regulations.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra,
(202) 395–3123.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dHynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk
Officer, email to
Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov, or fax
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16.00
12.00
13.20
10.00
3.20
10.00
20.00
9.00
9.66
8.85
9.21
10.00
11.95
10.00
11.78
11.00
10.05
6.19
5.80
5.10
5.00
5.00
5.10
5.00
3.50
5.50
Dated: November 18, 2011.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 75–2011]
Foreign-Trade Zone 33—Pittsburgh,
PA; Application for Reorganization/
Expansion
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board
(the Board) by the Regional Industrial
Development Corporation of
Southwestern Pennsylvania, grantee of
FTZ 33, requesting authority to
reorganize and expand its zone in the
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area, adjacent
to the Pittsburgh Customs and Border
Protection port of entry. The application
was submitted pursuant to the
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones
Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),
and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR
part 400). It was formally filed on
November 16, 2011.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Publication of Depreciation Rates
AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) administers rural utilities programs, including
the Telecommunications Program. RUS announces the depreciation rates
for telecommunications plant for the period ending December 31, 2010.
DATES: These rates are effective immediately and will remain in effect
until rates are available for the period ending December 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan P. Claffey, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Telecommunications Program, Rural Utilities Service,
STOP 1590--Room 5151, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC
20250-1590. Telephone: (202) 720-9556.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 7 CFR part 1737, Pre-Loan Policies and
Procedures Common to Insured and Guaranteed Telecommunications Loans,
Sec. 1737.70(e) explains the depreciation rates that are used by RUS
in its feasibility studies. Sec. 1737.70(e)(2) refers to median
depreciation rates published by RUS for all borrowers. The following
chart provides those rates, compiled by RUS, for the reporting period
ending December 31, 2010:
Median Depreciation Rates of Rural Utilities Service Borrowers by
Equipment Category for Period Ending December 31, 2010
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Telecommunications plant category Depreciation rate
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1. Land and Support Assets:
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a. Motor vehicles......................... 16.00
b. Aircraft............................... 12.00
c. Special purpose vehicles............... 13.20
d. Garage and other work equipment........ 10.00
e. Buildings.............................. 3.20
f. Furniture and office equipment......... 10.00
g. General purpose computers.............. 20.00
2. Central Office Switching:
a. Digital................................ 9.00
b. Analog & Electro-mechanical............ 9.66
c. Operator Systems....................... 8.85
3. Central Office Transmission:
a. Radio Systems.......................... 9.21
b. Circuit equipment...................... 10.00
4. Information origination/termination:
a. Station apparatus...................... 11.95
b. Customer premises wiring............... 10.00
c. Large private branch exchanges......... 11.78
d. Public telephone terminal equipment.... 11.00
e. Other terminal equipment............... 10.05
5. Cable and wire facilities:
a. Aerial cable--poles.................... 6.19
b. Aerial cable--metal.................... 5.80
c. Aerial cable--fiber.................... 5.10
d. Underground cable--metal............... 5.00
e. Underground cable--fiber............... 5.00
f. Buried cable--metal.................... 5.10
g. Buried cable--fiber.................... 5.00
h. Conduit systems........................ 3.50
i. Other.................................. 5.50
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Dated: November 19, 2011.
James Newby,
Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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