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regulation at 15 CFR 2011 subpart B to
issue specialty sugar certificates, letters
to importers signed by the Foreign
Agricultural Service (FAS) Certifying
Authority, and ensuring that U.S.
importers comply with the program’s
requirements. The regulation sets forth
the terms and conditions under which
the Certifying Authority in FAS issues
certificates to importers allowing them
to enter specialty sugars under the tariffrate quota (TRQ) for refined sugar.
Need and Use of the Information: The
collected information will be used to:
(1) Determine whether applicants for the
program meet the regulation’s eligibility
criteria; (2) ensure that sugar to be
imported is specialty sugar and meets
the requirements of the regulation; (3)
audit participants’ compliance with the
regulation; and (4) prevent entry of
world-priced program sugar from
entering the domestic commercial
market instead of domestic specialty
sugar market. The Certifying Authority
needs the information to manage, plan,
evaluate, and account for program
activities.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 41.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 45.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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November 29, 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
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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) 720–8958.
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.
Office of Procurement and Property
Management
Title: Guidelines for Designating
Biobased Products for Federal
Procurement.
OMB Control Number: 0503–0011.
Summary of Collection: Section 9002
of the Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act (FSRIA) of 2002, as
amended by the Food, Conservation,
and Energy Act (FCEA) of 2008,
provides for a preferred procurement
program under which Federal agencies
are required to purchase biobased
products, with certain exceptions. Items
(which are generic groupings of
products) are designated by rulemaking
for preferred procurement. To qualify
items for procurement under this
program, the statute requires that the
Secretary of Agriculture consider
information on the availability of items,
the economic and technological
feasibility of using such items and the
life cycle costs of using such items. In
addition, the Secretary is required to
provide information on designated
items to Federal agencies about the
availability, relative price, performance,
and environmental and public health
benefits of such items and where
appropriate shall recommend the level
of biobased material to be contained in
the procured product.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Office of Procurement and Property
Management (OPPM) and the Center for
Industrial Research and Service at Iowa
State University will interact with
manufacturers and venders to gather
such information and material for
testing, as may be required for
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designation of items for preferred
procurement by Federal agencies. The
information collected will be gathered
using a variety of methods, including
face to face visits with a manufacturer
or vendor, submission by manufacturers
and vendors of information
electronically to OPPM, and survey
instruments filled out by manufacturers
and vendors and submitted to OPPM.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 75.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Other (once).
Total Burden Hours: 7,800.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive
License
Agricultural Research Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, intends
to grant to DICKEY-john Corporation of
Auburn, Illinois, an exclusive license to
U.S. Patent No. 6,691,563, ‘‘Universal
Dielectric Calibration Method and
Apparatus for Moisture Content
Determination in Particulate and
Granular Materials,’’ issued on February
17, 2004 and to U.S. Patent Application
Serial No. 12/782,079, ‘‘Microwave
Sensor and Algorithm for Moisture and
Density Determination,’’ filed on May
18, 2010.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before January 3, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA,
ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4–1174,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705–5131.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June
Blalock of the Office of Technology
Transfer at the Beltsville address given
above; telephone: (301) 504–5989.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Government’s patent rights in
these inventions are assigned to the
United States of America, as represented
by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in
the public interest to so license this
invention as DICKEY-john Corporation
of Auburn, Illinois has submitted a
complete and sufficient application for
SUMMARY:
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a license. The prospective exclusive
license will be royalty-bearing and will
comply with the terms and conditions
of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The
prospective exclusive license may be
granted unless, within thirty (30) days
from the date of this published Notice,
the Agricultural Research Service
receives written evidence and argument
which establishes that the grant of the
license would not be consistent with the
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37
CFR 404.7.
Richard J. Brenner,
Assistant Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Economic Research Service
Notice of Intent To Request New
Information Collection
Economic Research Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to send comments
regarding any aspect of this proposed
information collection. This is a new
collection for a generic clearance that
will allow the Economic Research
Service to conduct a variety of
quantitative data collections.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received on or before January
31, 2012 to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments
concerning this notice to Nathaniel
Higgins, Resource and Rural Economics
Division, Economic Research Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 355 E
St. SW., Room 6S-18, Washington, DC
20472. Comments may also be
submitted via fax to the attention of
Nathaniel Higgins at (202) 694–5602 or
via email to nhiggins@ers.usda.gov.
Comments will also be accepted through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
https://www.regulations.gov, and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Nathaniel
Higgins at the address in the preamble.
Tel. (202) 694–5602.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All
written comments will be open for
public inspection at the office of the
Economic Research Service during
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regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday) at 355 E
St. SW., Room 6S–18, Washington, DC
20472.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
approval. All comments and replies will
be a matter of public record. Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Title: Formative Data Collections for
Informing Policy Research.
OMB Number: 0536–XXXX.
Expiration Date: Three years from the
date of approval.
Type of Request: New collection.
Abstract: The anticipated generic
clearance will authorize research in
furtherance of an ongoing initiative to
use insights from behavioral economics
to provide economic intelligence,
research, and analysis to inform
agricultural resource and conservation
policies, including those related to
development of markets and incentives
for environmental services, reduced
greenhouse gas emissions and
renewable energy production, and to
improve food choices and weight
outcomes, particularly among children
and low income adults.
The specific purpose of this generic
clearance is to allow ERS to develop and
implement state-of-the-art research
methodologies to evaluate policies for
its customers in response to both
specific requests and in anticipation of
future need. This generic clearance will
be particularly useful when ERS is
tasked with evaluating prospective
policies.
ERS envisions using a number of
research techniques, as appropriate to
the individual investigation. These
include laboratory and field techniques,
exploratory interviews, pilot
experiments, and respondent debriefing.
In all cases, participation will be
voluntary and time commitments will
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be minimal (10–90 minutes). Laboratory
and field techniques are two
methodologies based on comparison of
outcomes over groups that have been
randomized into different treatments.
Information obtained from
randomized comparison studies (lab
and field techniques) will be used to
develop and calibrate models of
behavior. ERS uses behavioral models to
estimate a variety of policy outcomes,
for instance the level of farmer
participation in voluntary conservation
programs under alternative contract
terms or changes in the nutritional
quality of meals chosen when healthy
items are displayed more prominently.
Variation in behavioral response can
have important implications for
performance measures such as
economic efficiency and effectiveness,
and can help predict unintended
consequences of policy-design options.
Improved models of behavior will help
policymakers and program managers as
they face decisions that affect
agriculture, nutrition and the
environment.
Authority: These data will be collected
under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a) and
sec. 501 of the Rural Development Act of
1972 (7 U.S.C. 2661). Individually
identifiable data collected under this
authority are governed by 7 U.S.C. 2276,
which requires USDA to afford strict
confidentiality to non-aggregated data
provided by respondents. This Notice is
submitted in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office of
Management and Budget regulations at 5 CFR
part 1320. ERS also complies with OMB
Implementation Guidance, ‘‘Implementation
Guidance for Title V of the E–Government
Act, Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)’’,
72 FR 33362, June 15, 2007.
Affected Public: Respondents will
include Individuals and households.
Estimated Number of Respondents and
Respondent Burden
The proposed generic clearance will
enable a number of separate data
collections. No data collection is
estimated to take longer than 90 minutes
per respondent, including the time
required for respondents and nonrespondents to review instructions and
participate in the data collection.
The estimated number of respondents
participating in data collections under
this generic clearance over a three year
period is 1,800. The maximum total
estimated response burden for all of
those participating in the study is 2,300
hours.
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[FR Doc No: 2011-30967]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Research Service
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License
AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, intends to grant to DICKEY-
john Corporation of Auburn, Illinois, an exclusive license to U.S.
Patent No. 6,691,563, ``Universal Dielectric Calibration Method and
Apparatus for Moisture Content Determination in Particulate and
Granular Materials,'' issued on February 17, 2004 and to U.S. Patent
Application Serial No. 12/782,079, ``Microwave Sensor and Algorithm for
Moisture and Density Determination,'' filed on May 18, 2010.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 3, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4-1174, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-5131.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Blalock of the Office of
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville address given above; telephone:
(301) 504-5989.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Government's patent rights in
these inventions are assigned to the United States of America, as
represented by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in the public
interest to so license this invention as DICKEY-john Corporation of
Auburn, Illinois has submitted a complete and sufficient application
for
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a license. The prospective exclusive license will be royalty-bearing
and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37
CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless,
within thirty (30) days from the date of this published Notice, the
Agricultural Research Service receives written evidence and argument
which establishes that the grant of the license would not be consistent
with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
Richard J. Brenner,
Assistant Administrator.
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