Notice of Request for Revision to and Reinstatement of an Expired Information Collection; Bees and Related Articles, 53422-53423 [2013-21131]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0005]
Notice of Request for Revision to and
Reinstatement of an Expired
Information Collection; Bees and
Related Articles
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision to and reinstatement of
an expired 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 a revision to and reinstatement
of an expired information collection
associated with the regulations for the
importation of bees and related articles
into the United States.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before October 28,
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–
0005–0001.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2013–0005, 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–2013–0005 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
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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 regulations for the
importation of bees and related articles,
contact Dr. Colin Stewart, Senior
Entomologist, Pest Permit Evaluations,
PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133,
Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851–2038,
email: Colin.D.Stewart@aphis.usda.gov.
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: Bees and Related Articles.
OMB Number: 0579–0207.
Type of Request: Revision to and
reinstatement of an expired information
collection.
Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture to restrict the
importation, entry, or interstate
movement of plants, plant products, and
other articles to prevent the
introduction of plant pests into the
United States or their dissemination
within the United States.
Under the Honeybee Act (7 U.S.C.
281–286), the Secretary is authorized to
prohibit or restrict the importation of
honeybees and honeybee semen to
prevent the introduction into the United
States of diseases and parasites harmful
to honeybees and of undesirable species
such as the African honey bee. This
authority has been delegated to the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
The establishment of certain bee
diseases, parasites, or undesirable
species and subspecies of honeybees in
the United States could cause
substantial reductions in pollination by
bees. These reductions could cause
serious damage to crops and other
plants and result in substantial financial
losses to American agriculture.
Regulations for the importation of
honeybees and honeybee semen and
regulations to prevent the introduction
of exotic bee diseases and parasites
through the importation of bees other
than honeybees, certain beekeeping
products, and used beekeeping
equipment are contained in 7 CFR part
322, ‘‘Bees, Beekeeping Byproducts, and
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Beekeeping Equipment.’’ These
regulations require the use of certain
information collection activities,
including an application for a permit,
appeal for withdrawal of a permit,
request for risk assessment, transit
documentation, packaging and labeling,
recordkeeping for containment facilities,
and notices of arrival for shipments
from approved regions, transit
shipments, and restricted articles.
The listed information collection
activities were previously approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). However, since the previous
approval, there have been several
changes. We no longer require the use
of an export certificate (Plant Protection
and Quarantine Form 578). In addition,
the estimated total annual burden on
respondents has decreased from 567
hours to 56 hours due to the removal of
Australia as a participating country.
There is also a decrease in the estimated
annual number of respondents from 336
to 199 due to the removal of Australia
and duplication of respondents on two
of the required documents.
We are asking OMB to approve our
use of these information collection
activities, as described, for 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
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
information collection, 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
information collection 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
0.155 hours per response.
Respondents: Importers, exporters,
and shippers of bees and related
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articles; foreign governments; and
containment facilities.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 199.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 1.814.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 361.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 56 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 23rd day of
August 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Notice of Funds Availability Under the
Intermediary Relending Program
Rural Business-Cooperative
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCIES:
The Rural BusinessCooperative Service announces that the
funds available under the Intermediary
Relending Program (IRP) to provide
direct loans to intermediaries that
establish programs for the purpose of
providing loans to ultimate recipients
for business facilities and community
developments in a rural area. Total
funding available for fiscal year 2013 is
$17,420,358.93 which includes
$1,524,631.71 for Rural Economic Area
Partnership (REAP) Zone loans,
$2,590,602.37 for Native American
loans and $5,756,894.50 for Mississippi
Delta Region Counties loans.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice
of Solicitation of Applications for
Inviting Intermediary Relending
Program Applications was published on
Monday, April 8, 2013 (78 FR 20883–6).
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Transparency Act
All applicants, in accordance with 2
CFR part 25, must have a DUNS
number, which can be obtained at no
cost via a toll-free request line at 1–866–
705–5711 or online at https://
fedgov.dnb.com/webform. Similarly, all
applicants must be registered in the
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System for Award Management (SAM)
prior to submitting an application.
Applicants may register for the SAM at
https://www.sam.gov. All recipients of
Federal financial assistance are required
to report information about first-tier
sub-awards and executive total
compensation in accordance with 2 CFR
part 170.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Nondiscrimination Statement
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) prohibits discrimination against
its customers, employees, and
applicants for employment on the bases
of race, color, national origin, age,
disability, sex, gender identity, religion,
reprisal, and where applicable, political
beliefs, marital status, familial or
parental status, sexual orientation, or all
or part of an individual’s income is
derived from any public assistance
program, or protected genetic
information in employment or in any
program or activity conducted or funded
by the Department. (Not all prohibited
bases will apply to all programs and/or
employment activities.)
If you wish to file a Civil Rights
program complaint of discrimination,
complete the USDA Program
Discrimination Complaint Form, found
online at https://www.ascr.usda.gov/
complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any
USDA office, or call (866) 632–9992 to
request the form. You may also write a
letter containing all of the information
requested in the form. Send your
completed complaint form or letter to us
by mail at U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Director, Office of
Adjudication, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250–
9410, by fax (202) 690–7442 or email at
program.intake@usda.gov.
Individuals who are deaf, hard of
hearing or have speech disabilities and
you wish to file either an EEO or
program complaint please contact
USDA through the Federal Relay
Service at (800) 877–8339 or (800) 845–
6136 (in Spanish).
Persons with disabilities who wish to
file a program complaint, please see
information above on how to contact us
by mail directly or by email. If you
require alternative means of
communication for program information
(e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.)
please contact USDA’s TARGET Center
at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD).
Dated: August 13, 2013.
Lillian E. Salerno,
Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative
Service.
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Rural Housing Service
Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental
Housing Program for Fiscal Year 2013
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice; amendment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Rural Housing Service
(RHS) is amending a Notice published
May 23, 2013 (78 FR 30854–30860).
This action is taken to extend the
eligible properties to include Rural
Development financed Farm Labor
Housing properties. This amendment is
to ensure that all eligible properties are
included.
Correction
In the Federal Register May 23, 2013,
in FR Doc. 2013–12325, on page 30857,
the first column, first paragraph, is
amended to read as follows:
Also eligible is the revitalization,
repair and transfer (as stipulated in 7
CFR 3560.406) of existing direct Section
515 and Section 514/516 Farm Labor
Housing (FLH) (transfer costs are subject
to Agency approval and must be an
eligible use of loan proceeds as listed in
7 CFR 3565.205), and properties
involved in the Agency’s Multi-Family
Preservation and Revitalization (MPR)
program. Equity payment, as stipulated
in 7 CFR 3560.406, in the transfer of
existing direct Section 515 and Section
514/516 FLH, is an eligible use of
guaranteed loan proceeds; however, the
amount of funding available for
transfers of existing Section 515 and
Section 514/516 FLH properties
involving equity payments will be
limited to 25 percent of the FY 2013
funding level through July 31, 2013
* * *
On page 30858, under the heading
‘‘Data element’’ the 18th data element is
amended to read Revitalization, Repair,
and Transfer (as stipulated in 7 CFR
3560.406) of Existing Direct Section 515
and Section 514/516 FLH or MPR.
On page 30859, in the third column,
under the heading ‘‘Priority 6’’ is
amended to read: Responses for the
revitalization, repair, and transfer (as
stipulated in 7 CFR 3560.406) of
existing direct section 515 and section
514/516 FLH and properties * * *
On page 30859, in the third column,
under the heading ‘‘Priority 7’’ is
amended to read: Section 515 Rural
Rental Housing and Section 514/516
FLH Projects—Projects in which Section
538 funds will not be used to finance
new construction of Section 515 Rural
Rental Housing or Section 514/516 FLH
projects * * *
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0005]
Notice of Request for Revision to and Reinstatement of an Expired
Information Collection; Bees and Related Articles
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision to and reinstatement of an expired information
collection; comment request.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's
intention to request a revision to and reinstatement of an expired
information collection associated with the regulations for the
importation of bees and related articles into the United States.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
October 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0005-0001.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2013-0005, 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-
0005 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 regulations for
the importation of bees and related articles, contact Dr. Colin
Stewart, Senior Entomologist, Pest Permit Evaluations, PPQ, APHIS, 4700
River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-2038, email:
Colin.D.Stewart@aphis.usda.gov. 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: Bees and Related Articles.
OMB Number: 0579-0207.
Type of Request: Revision to and reinstatement of an expired
information collection.
Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.)
authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to restrict the importation,
entry, or interstate movement of plants, plant products, and other
articles to prevent the introduction of plant pests into the United
States or their dissemination within the United States.
Under the Honeybee Act (7 U.S.C. 281-286), the Secretary is
authorized to prohibit or restrict the importation of honeybees and
honeybee semen to prevent the introduction into the United States of
diseases and parasites harmful to honeybees and of undesirable species
such as the African honey bee. This authority has been delegated to the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The establishment of certain bee diseases, parasites, or
undesirable species and subspecies of honeybees in the United States
could cause substantial reductions in pollination by bees. These
reductions could cause serious damage to crops and other plants and
result in substantial financial losses to American agriculture.
Regulations for the importation of honeybees and honeybee semen and
regulations to prevent the introduction of exotic bee diseases and
parasites through the importation of bees other than honeybees, certain
beekeeping products, and used beekeeping equipment are contained in 7
CFR part 322, ``Bees, Beekeeping Byproducts, and Beekeeping
Equipment.'' These regulations require the use of certain information
collection activities, including an application for a permit, appeal
for withdrawal of a permit, request for risk assessment, transit
documentation, packaging and labeling, recordkeeping for containment
facilities, and notices of arrival for shipments from approved regions,
transit shipments, and restricted articles.
The listed information collection activities were previously
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). However, since
the previous approval, there have been several changes. We no longer
require the use of an export certificate (Plant Protection and
Quarantine Form 578). In addition, the estimated total annual burden on
respondents has decreased from 567 hours to 56 hours due to the removal
of Australia as a participating country. There is also a decrease in
the estimated annual number of respondents from 336 to 199 due to the
removal of Australia and duplication of respondents on two of the
required documents.
We are asking OMB to approve our use of these information
collection activities, as described, for 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments from the public
(as well as 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
information collection, 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 information collection 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 0.155 hours per response.
Respondents: Importers, exporters, and shippers of bees and related
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articles; foreign governments; and containment facilities.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 199.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 1.814.
Estimated annual number of responses: 361.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 56 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 23rd day of August 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-21131 Filed 8-28-13; 8:45 am]
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