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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
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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.
[FR Doc. 2012–23016 Filed 9–18–12; 8:45 am]
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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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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.
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 reduced-price 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 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-
for-profit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 3,574.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 2,383.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-23016 Filed 9-18-12; 8:45 am]
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