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possession; and (2) veterinary biologics
licensees and permittees must account
for the remaining quantity of each serial
or subserial of any such veterinary
biological product at each location in
the distribution channel known to the
licensee or permittee. These information
collection activities have been approved
by OMB under control number 0579–
0318.
This notice includes a description of
the information collection activities
currently approved by OMB under
numbers 0579–0013 and 0579–0318.
After OMB approves and combines the
burden for both collections under one
collection (number 0579–0013), the
Department will retire number 0579–
0318.
We are asking OMB to approve our
use of these information activities, as
described, for an additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
affected agencies) concerning our
information collection. These comments
will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, through use, as
appropriate, of automated, electronic,
mechanical, and other collection
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average
1.963 hours per response.
Respondents: U.S. importers,
exporters, and shippers of veterinary
biological products; State veterinary
authorities; and operators of
establishments that produce or test
veterinary biological products or that
engage in product research and
development and their wholesalers,
dealers, jobbers, foreign consignees, or
other persons known to have any such
worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or
harmful veterinary biological product in
their possession.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 220.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 181.413.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 39,911.
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Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 78,349 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 22nd day of
May 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0030]
Notice of Request for Extension of
Approval of an Information Collection;
Federally Recognized State Managed
Phytosanitary Program
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Extension of approval of an
information collection; comment
request.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service’s intention to
request an extension of approval of an
information collection associated with
Federal recognition of a State’s plant
pest containment, eradication, or
exclusion program as a Federally
Recognized State Managed
Phytosanitary Program.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before July 29,
2013.
SUMMARY:
You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-00300001.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2013–0030, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Supporting documents and any
comments we receive on this docket
may be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0030 or
in our reading room, which is located in
ADDRESSES:
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Room 1141 of the USDA South
Building, 14th Street and Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal
reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 799–7039
before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the Federally
Recognized State Managed
Phytosanitary Program, contact Ms.
Diane L. Schuble, National Coordinator
for Official Control, Plant Health
Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road
Unit 26, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301)
851–2334. For copies of more detailed
information on the information
collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles,
APHIS’ Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851–2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Federally Recognized State
Managed Phytosanitary Program.
OMB Number: 0579–0365.
Type of Request: Extension of
approval of an information collection.
Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or
restrict the importation, entry, or
interstate movement of plants, plant
products, or other articles if the
Secretary determines that the
prohibition or restriction is necessary to
prevent a plant pest or noxious weed
from being introduced into or
disseminated within the United States.
This authority has been delegated to the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS).
As part of this mission, APHIS’ Plant
Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
program responds to introductions of
plant pests to eradicate, suppress, or
contain them through various programs
to prevent their interstate spread.
APHIS’ plant pest containment and
eradication programs qualify as ‘‘official
control programs,’’ as defined by the
International Plant Protection
Convention (IPPC), recognized by the
World Trade Organization as the
standard-setting body for international
plant quarantine issues. ‘‘Official
control’’ is defined as ‘‘the active
enforcement of mandatory
phytosanitary regulations and the
application of mandatory phytosanitary
procedures with the objective of
containment or eradication of
quarantine pests or for the management
of regulated non-quarantine pests.’’ As a
contracting party to the IPPC, the United
States has agreed to observe IPPC
principles as they relate to international
trade. However, APHIS will also
recognize exclusion programs that are
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intended to protect other States that
would be endangered by the
introduction of a quarantine pest
established elsewhere in the United
States.
APHIS is aware that individual States
enforce phytosanitary regulations and
procedures within their borders to
address pests of concern, and that those
pests are not always also the subject of
an APHIS response program or activity.
To strengthen APHIS’ safeguarding
system to protect agriculture and to
facilitate agriculture trade through
effective management of phytosanitary
measures, APHIS initiated the Federally
Recognized State Managed
Phytosanitary (FRSMP) Program, which
establishes an administrative process for
granting Federal recognition to certain
State-managed official control programs
for plant pest eradication or
containment and State-managed pest
exclusion programs. (The FRSMP
Program was previously referred to as
the Official Control Program.) Federal
recognition of a State’s pest control
activities will justify actions by Federal
inspectors at ports of entry to help
exclude pests that are under a
phytosanitary program in a destination
State. This process involves the use of
information collection activities,
including the submission by States of a
protocol for quarantine pests of concern
and a protocol for regulated nonquarantine pests.
These information collection
activities were previously approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) with an estimated total annual
burden on respondents of 106,000
hours. However, we overestimated the
number of respondents, and we have
adjusted the estimated total annual
burden on respondents to 1,399 hours.
We are asking OMB to approve these
information collection activities for an
additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
affected agencies) concerning our
information collection. These comments
will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, through use, as
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appropriate, of automated, electronic,
mechanical, and other collection
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public
reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 82
hours per response.
Respondents: State Plant Health
Regulatory Officials.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 53.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 0.33.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 17.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 1,399 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
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AGENCY:
preliminary determination of
nonregulated status.
DATES: We will consider any
information that we receive on or before
June 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit any
information by either of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/#!document
Detail;D=APHIS-2012-0031.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send any information to Docket No.
APHIS–2012–0031, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Supporting documents for this
petition and any other information we
receive on this docket may be viewed at
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2012-0031 or
in our reading room, which is located in
room 1141 of the USDA South Building,
14th Street and Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading
room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except
holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 799–7039
before coming.
Supporting documents for this
petition are also available on the APHIS
Web site at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/
biotechnology/
petitions_table_pending.shtml under
APHIS Petition Number 11–063–01p.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Rebecca Stankiewicz Gabel, Chief,
Biotechnology Environmental Analysis
Branch, Environmental Risk Analysis
Programs, Biotechnology Regulatory
Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit
147, Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; (301)
851–3927, email: rebecca.l.stankiewiczgabel@aphis.usda.gov. To obtain copies
of the petition, contact Ms. Cindy Eck at
(301) 851–3892, email:
cynthia.a.eck@aphis.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
We are advising the public
that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has prepared a
preliminary determination regarding a
request from Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc., seeking a
determination of nonregulated status of
canola designated as DP–073496–4,
which has been genetically engineered
for resistance to the herbicide
glyphosate. We are also making
available for public review our plant
pest risk assessment, environmental
assessment, and preliminary finding of
no significant impact for the
Background
Under the authority of the plant pest
provisions of the Plant Protection Act (7
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the regulations in
7 CFR part 340, ‘‘Introduction of
Organisms and Products Altered or
Produced Through Genetic Engineering
Which Are Plant Pests or Which There
Is Reason to Believe Are Plant Pests,’’
regulate, among other things, the
introduction (importation, interstate
movement, or release into the
environment) of organisms and products
altered or produced through genetic
engineering that are plant pests or that
there is reason to believe are plant pests.
Such genetically engineered (GE)
Done in Washington, DC, this 22nd day of
May 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2012–0031]
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.;
Availability of Plant Pest Risk
Assessment, Environmental
Assessment, Preliminary Finding of No
Significant Impact, and Preliminary
Determination of Nonregulated Status
of Canola Genetically Engineered for
Herbicide Resistance
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0030]
Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information
Collection; Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary Program
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Extension of approval of an information collection; comment
request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's
intention to request an extension of approval of an information
collection associated with Federal recognition of a State's plant pest
containment, eradication, or exclusion program as a Federally
Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary Program.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before July
29, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0030-0001.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2013-0030, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1238.
Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may
be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-
0030 or in our reading room, which is located in Room 1141 of the USDA
South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington,
DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the Federally
Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary Program, contact Ms. Diane L.
Schuble, National Coordinator for Official Control, Plant Health
Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 26, Riverdale, MD 20737;
(301) 851-2334. For copies of more detailed information on the
information collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS'
Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851-2908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary Program.
OMB Number: 0579-0365.
Type of Request: Extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.)
authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or restrict the
importation, entry, or interstate movement of plants, plant products,
or other articles if the Secretary determines that the prohibition or
restriction is necessary to prevent a plant pest or noxious weed from
being introduced into or disseminated within the United States. This
authority has been delegated to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS).
As part of this mission, APHIS' Plant Protection and Quarantine
(PPQ) program responds to introductions of plant pests to eradicate,
suppress, or contain them through various programs to prevent their
interstate spread. APHIS' plant pest containment and eradication
programs qualify as ``official control programs,'' as defined by the
International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), recognized by the
World Trade Organization as the standard-setting body for international
plant quarantine issues. ``Official control'' is defined as ``the
active enforcement of mandatory phytosanitary regulations and the
application of mandatory phytosanitary procedures with the objective of
containment or eradication of quarantine pests or for the management of
regulated non-quarantine pests.'' As a contracting party to the IPPC,
the United States has agreed to observe IPPC principles as they relate
to international trade. However, APHIS will also recognize exclusion
programs that are
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intended to protect other States that would be endangered by the
introduction of a quarantine pest established elsewhere in the United
States.
APHIS is aware that individual States enforce phytosanitary
regulations and procedures within their borders to address pests of
concern, and that those pests are not always also the subject of an
APHIS response program or activity. To strengthen APHIS' safeguarding
system to protect agriculture and to facilitate agriculture trade
through effective management of phytosanitary measures, APHIS initiated
the Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary (FRSMP) Program,
which establishes an administrative process for granting Federal
recognition to certain State-managed official control programs for
plant pest eradication or containment and State-managed pest exclusion
programs. (The FRSMP Program was previously referred to as the Official
Control Program.) Federal recognition of a State's pest control
activities will justify actions by Federal inspectors at ports of entry
to help exclude pests that are under a phytosanitary program in a
destination State. This process involves the use of information
collection activities, including the submission by States of a protocol
for quarantine pests of concern and a protocol for regulated non-
quarantine pests.
These information collection activities were previously approved by
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) with an estimated total
annual burden on respondents of 106,000 hours. However, we
overestimated the number of respondents, and we have adjusted the
estimated total annual burden on respondents to 1,399 hours.
We are asking OMB to approve these information collection
activities for an additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments from the public
(as well as affected agencies) concerning our information collection.
These comments will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, through use, as appropriate, of automated,
electronic, mechanical, and other collection technologies; e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public reporting burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 82 hours per response.
Respondents: State Plant Health Regulatory Officials.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 53.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 0.33.
Estimated annual number of responses: 17.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 1,399 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of
the annual number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per
response.)
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 22nd day of May 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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