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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
September 13, 2012.
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) 720–8958.
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
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the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Live Poultry,
Poultry Meat, and Other Poultry
Products from Specified Regions.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0228.
Summary of Collection: The Animal
Health Protection Act (AHPA) of 2002 is
the primary Federal law governing the
protection of animal health. Veterinary
Services of the USDA’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
is responsible for administering
regulations intended to prevent the
introduction of animal diseases into the
United States. The regulations in 9 CFR
Part 94 allow the importation of poultry
meat and products and live poultry from
Argentina and the Mexican States of
Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan
under certain conditions. APHIS will
collect information through the use of a
health certification statement that must
be completed by Mexican veterinary
authorities prior to export and three
APHIS forms VS 17–129, VS 17–29, and
VS 17–30.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collected from the health
certificate and forms will provide
APHIS with critical information
concerning the origin and history of the
items destined for importation in the
United States. Without the information
APHIS would be unable to establish an
effective defense against the incursion
of HPAI and END from poultry and
poultry products imported from
Argentina and certain Mexican States.
Description of Respondents: Federal
Government; Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 21.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 212.
Title: Importation of Shelled Peas
from Kenya.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0302.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to carry out operations or
measures to detect, eradicate, suppress,
control, prevent, or retard the spread of
plant pests new to the United States or
not known to be widely distributed
throughout the United States. The
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) fruits and vegetables
regulations allows the importation of
shelled garden peas from Kenya into the
continental United States while
continuing to protect against the
introduction of quarantined peas.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS requires that some plants or
plant products be accompanied by a
phytosanitary inspection certificate that
is completed by plant health officials in
the originating or transiting country.
APHIS uses the information on the
certificate to determine the pest
condition of the shipment at the time of
inspection in the foreign country. This
information is used as a guide to the
intensity of the inspection APHIS
conducts when the shipment arrives.
Without the information, all shipments
would need to be inspected very
thoroughly, thereby requiring
considerably more time. This would
slow the clearance of international
shipments.
Description of Respondents: Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 1.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1.
Title: Importation of Wooden
Handicrafts from China.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0357.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to carry out operations or
measures to detect, eradicate, suppress,
control, prevent, or retard the spread of
plant pests new to the United States or
not known to be widely distributed
throughout the United States. APHIS’
regulations provide for the importation
of wooden handicrafts from China
under certain conditions. Trade in these
handicrafts has resumed while
continuing to protect the United States
against the introduction of plant pests.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS requires that all wooden
handicrafts must be labeled with a
merchandise tag containing the identity
the product manufacturer. The
identification tag serves as means for
APHIS to track shipments should a
recall be required. Failure to collect this
information would cause foreign
countries to refuse any shipments from
the United States that contained
wooden handcrafts.
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Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 140.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 630.
Title: Importation of Papaya from
Colombia and Ecuador.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0358.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to carry out operations or
measures to detect, eradicate, suppress,
control, prevent, or retard the spread of
plant pests new to the United States or
not known to be widely distributed
throughout the United States. The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) amended the
regulations to allow, under certain
condition, the importation of
commercial shipments of fresh papaya
from Colombia and Ecuador in the
continental United States.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS requires that all consignments of
papaya from Colombia and Ecuador
would have to be accompanied by a
phytosanitary certificate by the National
Plant Protection Organization of the
exporting country stating that the
papayas were grown, packed, and
shipped in accordance with the
proposed requirements.
Description of Respondents: Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 3.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 151.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
September 13, 2012.
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)
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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) 720–8958.
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.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Community Eligibility Option
Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 0584–NEW.
Summary of Collection: Section 104(a)
of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of
2010 provides the Community
Eligibility Option (the CE Option) for
Local Educational Authorities (LEAs)
and schools, as an alternative to
household applications for Free or
Reduced Price meals. Under the CE
Option, families are not required to
submit application for free or reducedprice meals, and schools are required to
provide free meals to all students. The
potential benefits are that more students
participate, meals are more nutritious,
and LEAs may experience reductions in
administrative burden and errors. In
order to understand how the CE Option
is implemented, incentives and barriers
for LEAs and schools, as well as the
impacts on LEAs, schools and children,
Congress has mandated that the Food
and Nutrition Service (FNS) conduct an
evaluation of the CE Option.
Need and Use of the Information: FNS
will collection information from the
study: To estimate the number of
eligible LEAs and schools that do not
choose the CE Options; To assess the
barriers to participation in the CE
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Option in non-participating but eligible
LEAs and schools; To describe the LEAs
and schools participating in the CE
Option; To examine the impacts of the
CE Option on (1) Program integrity, (2)
availability of School Breakfast program,
(3) nutritional quality of meals, (4)
program participation by students, (5)
program administration, (6) foodservice
revenues and costs; and To provide
input to FNS deliberations about the key
parameters for the CE Option: The
multiplier for determining the
percentage of meals reimbursed at the
free rate and the threshold value of the
ISP for determining eligibility to
implement the option.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local or Tribal Government; Not-forprofit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 3,574.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 2,383.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket No. FSIS–2012–0024]
Availability of FSIS Salmonella
Compliance Guidelines for Small and
Very Small Meat and Poultry
Establishments That Produce Readyto-Eat Products
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the availability of a revised compliance
guide for small and very small meat and
poultry establishments on the safe
production of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat
and poultry products with respect to
Salmonella and other pathogens. FSIS
has posted this compliance guide on its
Significant Guidance Documents Web
page (https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
Significant_Guidance/index.asp). FSIS
encourages small and very small meat
and poultry establishments that
manufacture these products to avail
themselves of this guidance document.
DATES: Effective date: September 19,
2012.
SUMMARY:
A downloadable version of
the revised compliance guide is
available to view and print at https://
www.fsis.usda.gov/
ADDRESSES:
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
September 13, 2012.
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) 720-8958.
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.
Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Live Poultry, Poultry Meat, and Other Poultry
Products from Specified Regions.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0228.
Summary of Collection: The Animal Health Protection Act (AHPA) of
2002 is the primary Federal law governing the protection of animal
health. Veterinary Services of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for administering regulations
intended to prevent the introduction of animal diseases into the United
States. The regulations in 9 CFR Part 94 allow the importation of
poultry meat and products and live poultry from Argentina and the
Mexican States of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan under certain
conditions. APHIS will collect information through the use of a health
certification statement that must be completed by Mexican veterinary
authorities prior to export and three APHIS forms VS 17-129, VS 17-29,
and VS 17-30.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collected from the
health certificate and forms will provide APHIS with critical
information concerning the origin and history of the items destined for
importation in the United States. Without the information APHIS would
be unable to establish an effective defense against the incursion of
HPAI and END from poultry and poultry products imported from Argentina
and certain Mexican States.
Description of Respondents: Federal Government; Business or other
for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 21.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 212.
Title: Importation of Shelled Peas from Kenya.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0302.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to carry out
operations or measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, control,
prevent, or retard the spread of plant pests new to the United States
or not known to be widely distributed throughout the United States. The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) fruits and
vegetables regulations allows the importation of shelled garden peas
from Kenya into the continental United States while continuing to
protect against the introduction of quarantined peas.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS requires that some plants or
plant products be accompanied by a phytosanitary inspection certificate
that is completed by plant health officials in the originating or
transiting country. APHIS uses the information on the certificate to
determine the pest condition of the shipment at the time of inspection
in the foreign country. This information is used as a guide to the
intensity of the inspection APHIS conducts when the shipment arrives.
Without the information, all shipments would need to be inspected very
thoroughly, thereby requiring considerably more time. This would slow
the clearance of international shipments.
Description of Respondents: Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 1.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1.
Title: Importation of Wooden Handicrafts from China.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0357.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to carry out
operations or measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, control,
prevent, or retard the spread of plant pests new to the United States
or not known to be widely distributed throughout the United States.
APHIS' regulations provide for the importation of wooden handicrafts
from China under certain conditions. Trade in these handicrafts has
resumed while continuing to protect the United States against the
introduction of plant pests.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS requires that all wooden
handicrafts must be labeled with a merchandise tag containing the
identity the product manufacturer. The identification tag serves as
means for APHIS to track shipments should a recall be required. Failure
to collect this information would cause foreign countries to refuse any
shipments from the United States that contained wooden handcrafts.
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Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 140.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 630.
Title: Importation of Papaya from Colombia and Ecuador.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0358.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to carry out
operations or measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, control,
prevent, or retard the spread of plant pests new to the United States
or not known to be widely distributed throughout the United States. The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) amended the
regulations to allow, under certain condition, the importation of
commercial shipments of fresh papaya from Colombia and Ecuador in the
continental United States.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS requires that all
consignments of papaya from Colombia and Ecuador would have to be
accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate by the National Plant
Protection Organization of the exporting country stating that the
papayas were grown, packed, and shipped in accordance with the proposed
requirements.
Description of Respondents: Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 3.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 151.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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