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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Advisory Committee on Voluntary
Foreign Aid Meeting
United States Agency for
International Development.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, notice is
hereby given of a meeting of the
Advisory Committee on Voluntary
Foreign Aid (ACVFA).
Date: Wednesday, September 18,
2013.
Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Horizon Room, Ronald
Reagan Building, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave NW.,
Washington, DC 20523.
SUMMARY:
Agenda
USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah will
make opening remarks, followed by the
release of working group
recommendations on the creation of a
Feed the Future Civil Society Action
Plan, and an opportunity for public
comment. A draft agenda will be
forthcoming on the ACVFA Web site at
https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/
organization/advisory-committee.
Stakeholders
The meeting is free and open to the
public. Persons wishing to attend
should register online at https://
www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/
organization/advisory-committee/getinvolved.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Sandy Stonesifer, 202–712–4372.
Dated: August 27, 2013.
Sandy Stonesifer,
Executive Director, Advisory Committee on
Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), U.S. Agency
for International Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
August 28, 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.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by October 4, 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 20502.
Commenters 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) 720–8958.
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 and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Mangoes from
the Philippines
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OMB Control Number: 0579–0172
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7711–
7714), the Secretary of Agriculture,
either independently or in cooperation
with the States, 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 know to be
widely distributed throughout the
United States. The Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
regulations on fruits and vegetables
allow the importation of mangoes from
Guimaras Island in the Republic of the
Philippines into the United States under
certain conditions. The regulations
require the use of box marking to
indicate the origin of the fruit,
phytosanitary certificate to confirmed
that the fruit has been grown and treated
in accordance with the regulations and
a trust fund agreement between the
Republic of the Philippines Department
of Agriculture and APHIS to cover the
Agency’s participation in the treatment
and inspection activities in the
Philippines that are required for the
importation of mangoes.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect information from a
variety of individuals who are involved
in growing, packing, handling,
transporting and exporting plants and
plant products. The information APHIS
collects serves as the supporting
documentation for issuing PPQ forms
and documents required to authorize
release of restricted products, and allow
movement of regulated products. The
information APHIS collects is vital to
helping ensure that injurious plant
diseases and insect pest are not
imported and do not spread into or
within the United States.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; farms; Federal
Government
Number of Respondents: 1,827
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 121
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Artificially
Dwarfed Plants
OMB Control Number: 0579–0176
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701–
7772), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to prohibit or restrict the
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importation, entry or movement of
plants and plant pests, to prevent the
introduction of plant pests into the
United States or their dissemination
within the United States. The Plant
Protection and Quarantine, a program
within USDA’s Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS), enforce
these regulations. APHIS requires
artificially dwarfed plants that are
imported into the United States to have
been grown under certain conditions in
greenhouses or screen houses within
nurseries registered with the
government of the country where the
plants were grown.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect information from the
phytosanitary certificate to state that the
plants were: (1) Grown for at least 2
years in a nursery that is registered with
the government of the country of export;
(2) grown in pots containing only sterile
growing media; (3) grown on benches at
least 50 cm above the ground; and (4)
inspected (along with the nursery itself)
at least once each year by the plant
protection service of the country of
export. The collected information will
enable PPQ to verify that the imported
plants were grown under conditions
that helped keep the plants free from
infestation by certain longhorned
beetles and other pests. APHIS also uses
the information on this certificate to
determine the pest condition of the
shipment at the time of inspection in
the foreign country. Without the
information, all shipment would need to
be inspected very thoroughly, thereby
requiring considerably more time. This
would slow the clearance of
international shipments.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Federal Government
Number of Respondents: 30
Frequency of Responses: Reporting;
On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 38
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Plants for
Planting
OMB Control Number: 0579–0279
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to prohibit or restrict the
importation, entry, exportation, or
movement in interstate commerce of
plant pests and other articles to prevent
the introduction of plant pests into the
United States or their dissemination
within the United States. The Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) regulations contained in
‘‘Subpart-Plants for Planting,’’ §§ 319.37
through 319.37–14 (referred to as the
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regulations), restricts among other
things, the importation of living plants,
plant parts, and seeds for propagation.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS requires that some plants or
plant products be accompanied by
either a phytosanitary inspection
certificates with additional declaration
statements, grower registration and
agreements, and production site
registration for the export program.
APHIS uses the information on these
certificates 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 that APHIS
must conduct when the shipment
arrives. Without this information,
APHIS could not verify that the
imported plants for planting do not
present a significant risk of introducing
plant pests into the United States.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Federal government
Number of Respondents: 60
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 559
On August
9, 2013, we published a notice in the
Federal Register (79 FR 48642–48644,
Docket No. APHIS–2012–0104) of a
proposed new system of records to be
added to our inventory of records
systems subject to the Privacy Act of
1974, as amended. The system of
records that was the subject of the
notice was the Phytosanitary Certificate
Issuance and Tracking System, USDA–
APHIS–13. We published this notice in
error, as we had previously published
the same notice 1 on June 24, 2013 (78
FR 37775–37777). We received no
comments during the comment period
for the June 2013 notice, and the system
was adopted on August 5, 2013.
Therefore, in this document, we are
withdrawing the August 9, 2013, notice
from publication.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
Forest Service
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Thomas J. Vilsack,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Wrangell-Petersburg Resource
Advisory Committee; Meeting
ACTION:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. APHIS–2012–0104]
Privacy Act Systems of Records;
Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance and
Tracking System
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of a proposed new
system of records; withdrawal.
AGENCY:
We are withdrawing a Privacy
Act System of Records notice published
on August 9, 2013, (78 FR 48642–
48644). The system of records was the
Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance and
Tracking System, USDA–APHIS–13.
The August 9, 2013, notice was a
duplicate notice published in error; in
this document, we are withdrawing the
August 9, 2013, notice from publication.
DATES: Effective September 4, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Christian B. Dellis, Export Services,
Plant Health Programs, Plant Protection
and Quarantine, APHIS, 4700 River
Road Unit 140, Riverdale, MD 20737;
(301) 851–2154.
SUMMARY:
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Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
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The Wrangell-Petersburg
Resource Advisory Committee (RAC)
will meet by video-teleconference in
Wrangell, Alaska and Petersburg,
Alaska. The committee is authorized
under the Secure Rural Schools and
Community Self-Determination Act (the
Act) and operates in compliance with
the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The purpose of the Committee is to
improve collaborative relationships and
to provide advice and recommendations
to the Forest Service concerning projects
and funding consistent with Title II of
the Act. The meeting is open to the
public. The purpose of the meeting is to
review progress of previously funded
projects and, if the Act is reauthorized,
to review project proposals and make
recommendations for allocation of
anticipated Title II funding to projects.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Saturday, September 28, 2013 from 8
a.m. to 12 p.m., or until business is
concluded.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Wrangell Ranger District office at
525 Bennett Street in Wrangell, Alaska,
SUMMARY:
1 To view the notice, go to https://
www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS2012-0104.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
August 28, 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.
Comments regarding this information collection received by October
4, 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 20502. Commenters 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-
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 and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Mangoes from the Philippines
OMB Control Number: 0579-0172
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7711-7714), the Secretary of Agriculture, either independently or in
cooperation with the States, 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 know to be
widely distributed throughout the United States. The Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) regulations on fruits and vegetables
allow the importation of mangoes from Guimaras Island in the Republic
of the Philippines into the United States under certain conditions. The
regulations require the use of box marking to indicate the origin of
the fruit, phytosanitary certificate to confirmed that the fruit has
been grown and treated in accordance with the regulations and a trust
fund agreement between the Republic of the Philippines Department of
Agriculture and APHIS to cover the Agency's participation in the
treatment and inspection activities in the Philippines that are
required for the importation of mangoes.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information
from a variety of individuals who are involved in growing, packing,
handling, transporting and exporting plants and plant products. The
information APHIS collects serves as the supporting documentation for
issuing PPQ forms and documents required to authorize release of
restricted products, and allow movement of regulated products. The
information APHIS collects is vital to helping ensure that injurious
plant diseases and insect pest are not imported and do not spread into
or within the United States.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; farms;
Federal Government
Number of Respondents: 1,827
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 121
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Artificially Dwarfed Plants
OMB Control Number: 0579-0176
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701-7772), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit or
restrict the
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importation, entry or movement of plants and plant pests, to prevent
the introduction of plant pests into the United States or their
dissemination within the United States. The Plant Protection and
Quarantine, a program within USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), enforce these regulations. APHIS requires artificially
dwarfed plants that are imported into the United States to have been
grown under certain conditions in greenhouses or screen houses within
nurseries registered with the government of the country where the
plants were grown.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information
from the phytosanitary certificate to state that the plants were: (1)
Grown for at least 2 years in a nursery that is registered with the
government of the country of export; (2) grown in pots containing only
sterile growing media; (3) grown on benches at least 50 cm above the
ground; and (4) inspected (along with the nursery itself) at least once
each year by the plant protection service of the country of export. The
collected information will enable PPQ to verify that the imported
plants were grown under conditions that helped keep the plants free
from infestation by certain longhorned beetles and other pests. APHIS
also uses the information on this certificate to determine the pest
condition of the shipment at the time of inspection in the foreign
country. Without the information, all shipment would need to be
inspected very thoroughly, thereby requiring considerably more time.
This would slow the clearance of international shipments.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Federal
Government
Number of Respondents: 30
Frequency of Responses: Reporting; On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 38
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Plants for Planting
OMB Control Number: 0579-0279
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit
or restrict the importation, entry, exportation, or movement in
interstate commerce of plant pests and other articles to prevent the
introduction of plant pests into the United States or their
dissemination within the United States. The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) regulations contained in ``Subpart-Plants
for Planting,'' Sec. Sec. 319.37 through 319.37-14 (referred to as the
regulations), restricts among other things, the importation of living
plants, plant parts, and seeds for propagation.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS requires that some plants or
plant products be accompanied by either a phytosanitary inspection
certificates with additional declaration statements, grower
registration and agreements, and production site registration for the
export program. APHIS uses the information on these certificates 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 that APHIS must conduct when the shipment
arrives. Without this information, APHIS could not verify that the
imported plants for planting do not present a significant risk of
introducing plant pests into the United States.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Federal
government
Number of Respondents: 60
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion
Total Burden Hours: 559
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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