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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
April 18, 2013.
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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 and other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by May 24, 2013 will
be considered. Written comments
should be addressed to: Desk Officer for
Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), New
Executive Office Building, 725 - 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Commentors are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. Copies of the submission(s) may
be obtained by calling (202) 720–8681.
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.
Forest Service
Title: Bid for Advertised Timber.
OMB Control Number: 0596–0066.
Summary of Collection: Individuals,
large and small businesses, and
corporations who wish to purchase
timber or forest products from the
National Forest must enter into a timber
sale contract or Forest product contract
with the Forest Service (FS).
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Information must be collected by FS in
order to ensure that: National Forest
System timber is sold at not less than
appraised value; bidders meet specific
criteria when submitting a bid; and antitrust violations do not occur during the
bidding process. Several statutes,
regulations, and polices impose
requirements on the Government and
purchasers in the bidding process. The
FS will collect information using several
forms.
Need and Use of the Information: FS
will collect information to determine
bid responsiveness. The sale officer will
ensure: the bidder has signed the bid
form; provided a tax identification
number; completed the unit rate,
weighted average, or total sale value bid;
entered the bid guarantee amount, type,
and ensure the bid guarantee is enclosed
with the bid, the bidder has provided
the required information concerning
Small Business Administration size and
Equal Opportunity compliance on
previous sales. The Timber Sale
Contracting Officers will use the
information to complete the contract
prior to award to the highest bidder.
Failure to include the required
information may result in the bid being
declared non-responsive or the
Contracting Officer may be unable to
make an affirmative finding of
purchaser responsibility and not able to
award the contract.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Individuals or
households.
Number of Respondents: 1,455.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 86,940.
Forest Service
Title: Land Exchanges.
OMB Control Number: 0596–0105.
Summary of Collection: Land
exchanges are discretionary, voluntary
real estate transactions between the
Secretary of Agriculture (acting by and
through the Forest Service) and a nonFederal exchange party (or parties).
Land exchanges can be initiated by a
non-Federal party (or parties), and agent
of a landowners, a broker, a third party,
or a non-Federal public agency. Each
land exchange requires preparation of
an Agreement To Initiate, as required by
Title 36 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), part 254, subpart C, section
254.4—Agreement to Initiate and
Exchange. As the exchange proposal
develops, the exchange parties may
enter into a binding Exchange
Agreement, pursuant to Title 36 CFR
part 254, subpart A, section 254.14—
Exchange Agreement.
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Need and Use of the Information: The
Agreement To Initiate document
specifies the preliminary and on-biding
intentions of the non-Federal land
exchange party and the Forest Service in
pursuing a land exchange. The
Agreement To Initiate contains
information such as the description of
properties considered for exchange, an
implementation schedule of action
items, identification of the party
responsible for each action item, and
target dates for completion of action
items.
The Exchange Agreement documents
the conditions necessary to complete
the exchange. It contains information
identifying parties, description of lands
and interests to be exchanged,
identification of all reserved and
outstanding interests, and all other
terms and conditions that are necessary
to complete the exchange.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Individuals or
households; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 88.
Forest Service
Title: Secure Rural Schools Act.
OMB Control Number: 0596–0220.
Summary of Collection: The Secure
Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000 (the Act)
reauthorized in Public Law 110–343,
requires the appropriate official of a
county that receives funds under Title
III of the Act to submit to the Secretary
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the
Interior, as appropriate, an annual
certification that the funds have been
expended for the uses authorized under
section 302(a) of the Act. Participating
counties will also report amounts not
obligated by September 30 of the
previous year. The information will be
collected annually in the form of
conventional correspondence such as a
letter and, at the respondent’s option,
attached tables or similar graphic
display. At the respondent’s discretion,
the information may be submitted by
hard copy and/or electronically scanned
and included as an attachment to
electronic mail.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collected will identify the
participating county and the year in
which the expenditures were made and
will include amounts not obligated by
September 30 of the previous year.
Information includes the name, title,
and signature of the official certifying
that the expenditures were for uses
authorized under section 302(a) of the
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Act, and the date of the certification.
Information will also be collected
including the amount of funds
expended in the applicable year and the
uses for which the amounts were
expended referencing the authorized
categories; (1) Carry out activities under
the Firewise Communities program; (2)
reimburse the participating county for
emergency services performed on
Federal land and paid for by the
participating county; and (3) to develop
community wildfire protection plans in
coordination with the appropriate
Secretary or designee. The information
will be used to verify that participating
counties have certified that funds were
expended as authorized in the Act.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 360.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 8,640.
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
April 18, 2013.
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
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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.
Economic Research Service
Title: Rural Establishment Innovation
Survey (REIS).
OMB Control Number: 0536–NEW.
Summary of Collection: The
Economic Research Service (ERS) plans
to conduct the Rural Establishment
Innovation Survey (REIS) as a one-time
inquiry. The proposed collection will
contribute to a better understanding of
how international competition and the
increasing knowledge intensity of
economic activity in the U.S. are
affecting the vitality of rural areas and
effective adjustment of these pressures.
Data obtain from the survey will allow
ERS to examine the prevalence of
innovation activity in nonmetropolitan
businesses and those establishment and
community-level characteristics
associated with innovation. Information
will be collected using a multi-mode
survey where respondents will be able
to complete the survey via telephone
interview or by either completing a
questionnaire sent via mail or available
electronically through a secure web
link. The legal authority for collecting
this information is the Rural
Development Act of 1972 U.S.C.
2662(b).
Need and Use of the Information: The
data collected through the survey will
help fill serious gaps in ERS
understanding of what rural
establishments need to be competitive
in the national and global economics
and provide USDA and other
policymakers with sound information so
they can craft more effective rural
development policies. The results will
inform the degree to which human
capital endowments; access to credit;
access to infrastructure; and potentially
more limited interaction with suppliers,
customers, and peer firms impedes
processes of rural innovation. Failure to
collect this information will severely
limit the evidentiary basis for improving
the innovative capacity of business
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establishments located in less favorable
areas.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 34,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 15,369.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS–FV–13–0025]
Softwood Lumber Research,
Promotion, Consumer Education and
Industry Information Order; Request
for Extension and Revision of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this document
announces the Agricultural Marketing
Service’s (AMS) intention to request
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB), for an extension of
and revision to the currently approved
information collection Softwood
Lumber Research, Promotion, Consumer
Education and Industry Information
Order (Order).
DATES: Comments must be received by
June 24, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments concerning
this notice. Comments should be
submitted online at
www.regulations.gov or sent to the
Promotion and Economics Division,
Fruit and Vegetable Program, AMS, U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA),
1400 Independence Avenue SW., Stop
0244, Room 1406–S, Washington, DC
20250–0244, or by facsimile to (202)
205–2800. All comments should
reference the document number, the
date and the page number of this issue
of the Federal Register. All comments
received will be posted without change,
including any personal information
provided, online at https://
www.regulations.gov and will be made
available for public inspection at the
above physical address during regular
business hours.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
April 18, 2013.
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
and other forms of information technology.
Comments regarding this information collection received by May 24,
2013 will be considered. Written comments should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), New Executive Office Building,
725 - 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. Commentors are encouraged
to submit their comments to OMB via email to: OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-
7602. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-
8681.
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.
Forest Service
Title: Bid for Advertised Timber.
OMB Control Number: 0596-0066.
Summary of Collection: Individuals, large and small businesses, and
corporations who wish to purchase timber or forest products from the
National Forest must enter into a timber sale contract or Forest
product contract with the Forest Service (FS). Information must be
collected by FS in order to ensure that: National Forest System timber
is sold at not less than appraised value; bidders meet specific
criteria when submitting a bid; and anti-trust violations do not occur
during the bidding process. Several statutes, regulations, and polices
impose requirements on the Government and purchasers in the bidding
process. The FS will collect information using several forms.
Need and Use of the Information: FS will collect information to
determine bid responsiveness. The sale officer will ensure: the bidder
has signed the bid form; provided a tax identification number;
completed the unit rate, weighted average, or total sale value bid;
entered the bid guarantee amount, type, and ensure the bid guarantee is
enclosed with the bid, the bidder has provided the required information
concerning Small Business Administration size and Equal Opportunity
compliance on previous sales. The Timber Sale Contracting Officers will
use the information to complete the contract prior to award to the
highest bidder. Failure to include the required information may result
in the bid being declared non-responsive or the Contracting Officer may
be unable to make an affirmative finding of purchaser responsibility
and not able to award the contract.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 1,455.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 86,940.
Forest Service
Title: Land Exchanges.
OMB Control Number: 0596-0105.
Summary of Collection: Land exchanges are discretionary, voluntary
real estate transactions between the Secretary of Agriculture (acting
by and through the Forest Service) and a non-Federal exchange party (or
parties). Land exchanges can be initiated by a non-Federal party (or
parties), and agent of a landowners, a broker, a third party, or a non-
Federal public agency. Each land exchange requires preparation of an
Agreement To Initiate, as required by Title 36 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), part 254, subpart C, section 254.4--Agreement to
Initiate and Exchange. As the exchange proposal develops, the exchange
parties may enter into a binding Exchange Agreement, pursuant to Title
36 CFR part 254, subpart A, section 254.14--Exchange Agreement.
Need and Use of the Information: The Agreement To Initiate document
specifies the preliminary and on-biding intentions of the non-Federal
land exchange party and the Forest Service in pursuing a land exchange.
The Agreement To Initiate contains information such as the description
of properties considered for exchange, an implementation schedule of
action items, identification of the party responsible for each action
item, and target dates for completion of action items.
The Exchange Agreement documents the conditions necessary to
complete the exchange. It contains information identifying parties,
description of lands and interests to be exchanged, identification of
all reserved and outstanding interests, and all other terms and
conditions that are necessary to complete the exchange.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Individuals or households; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 88.
Forest Service
Title: Secure Rural Schools Act.
OMB Control Number: 0596-0220.
Summary of Collection: The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000 (the Act) reauthorized in Public Law 110-343,
requires the appropriate official of a county that receives funds under
Title III of the Act to submit to the Secretary of Agriculture or the
Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, an annual certification that
the funds have been expended for the uses authorized under section
302(a) of the Act. Participating counties will also report amounts not
obligated by September 30 of the previous year. The information will be
collected annually in the form of conventional correspondence such as a
letter and, at the respondent's option, attached tables or similar
graphic display. At the respondent's discretion, the information may be
submitted by hard copy and/or electronically scanned and included as an
attachment to electronic mail.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collected will
identify the participating county and the year in which the
expenditures were made and will include amounts not obligated by
September 30 of the previous year. Information includes the name,
title, and signature of the official certifying that the expenditures
were for uses authorized under section 302(a) of the
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Act, and the date of the certification. Information will also be
collected including the amount of funds expended in the applicable year
and the uses for which the amounts were expended referencing the
authorized categories; (1) Carry out activities under the Firewise
Communities program; (2) reimburse the participating county for
emergency services performed on Federal land and paid for by the
participating county; and (3) to develop community wildfire protection
plans in coordination with the appropriate Secretary or designee. The
information will be used to verify that participating counties have
certified that funds were expended as authorized in the Act.
Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 360.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 8,640.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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