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maintained by the AMS Fruit and
Vegetable Program and are available on
the Internet at www.ams.usda.gov/
scihome.
AMS is revising the voluntary United
States Standards for Grades of Okra
using the procedures in Part 36, Title 7
of the Code of Federal Regulations (7
CFR Part 36). These standards were last
revised December 18, 1928.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Background and Response to
Comments
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. Number AMS–FV–11–0054; FV–13–
331]
United States Standards for Grades of
Okra
Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Final notice.
AGENCY:
The Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) of the Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is revising the
voluntary United States Standards for
Grades of Okra by removing the
‘‘Unclassified’’ category from the
standards.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Effective: November 22, 2013.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dave Horner, Standardization Branch,
Specialty Crops Inspection Division,
telephone: (540) 361–1128 or 1150. The
revised United States Standards for
Grades of Okra are available on the
Specialty Crops Inspection Division
Web site at www.ams.usda.gov/scihome.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
203(c) of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627), as
amended, directs and authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture ‘‘to develop and
improve standards of quality, condition,
quantity, grade and packaging and
recommend and demonstrate such
standards in order to encourage
uniformity and consistency in
commercial practices.’’ AMS is
committed to carrying out this authority
in a manner that facilitates the
marketing of agricultural commodities
and makes copies of official standards
available upon request. Because the
United States Standards for Grades of
Fruits and Vegetables are not connected
with Federal marketing orders or U.S.
import requirements, they no longer
appear in the Code of Federal
Regulations. They are, however,
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Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627.
Dated: October 17, 2013.
Rex A. Barnes,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service.
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Farm Service Agency
Information Collection; Guaranteed
Farm Loan Program
Farm Service Agency, USDA.
Notice of re-opening of a public
comment period.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Farm Service Agency
(FSA) is reopening and extending the
comment period for 60 days to allow
interested individuals and organizations
to comment on the extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection associated with
the Guaranteed Farm Loan Program. The
amended estimate adds the merger of
the information collection for the Land
Contract Guarantee Program (0560–
0279) into the Guaranteed Farm Loan
Program. This information collection is
used to make and service loans
guaranteed by FSA to eligible farmers
and ranchers by commercial lenders and
to provide guarantees to the seller of a
farm through the use of land contracts.
DATES: We will consider comments that
we receive by December 23, 2013.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, volume, and
page number of this issue of the Federal
Register. You may submit comments by
any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Trent Rogers, Senior Loan
Specialist, USDA, FSA, Stop 0522, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250.
You may also send comments to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503. Copies of the
information collection may be requested
by contacting Trent Rogers at the above
addresses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Trent Rogers, Senior Loan Specialist,
(202) 720–3889.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
On February 9, 2012, AMS published
a notice in the Federal Register (77 FR
6772) soliciting comments about
removing the ‘‘unclassified’’ section and
any other possible revision to the
United States Standards for Grades of
Okra. The public comment period
closed on April 9, 2012, with no
responses.
On May 1, 2013, AMS published a
second notice in the Federal Register
(78 FR 25416) soliciting comments
about removing the ‘‘unclassified’’
section from the United States
Standards for Grades of Okra. The
public comment period closed on May
31, 2013, with no responses.
Based on the information gathered,
AMS will remove and reserve ‘‘Section
51.3946 Unclassified.’’ The revision will
bring the okra standards in line with
current marketing practices and other
commodity standards. This section is
being removed in standards for all
commodities as they are revised. It is no
longer considered necessary since it is
not a grade and only serves to show that
no grade has been applied to the lot.
The official grade of a lot of okra
covered by these standards will be
determined by the procedures set forth
in the Regulations Governing
Inspection, Certification, and Standards
of Fresh Fruits, Vegetables and Other
Products (Sec. 51.1 to 51.61).
The revisions to the United States
Standards for Grades of Okra will be
effective 30 days after publication of
this notice in the Federal Register.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Description of Information Collection
Title: Guaranteed Farm Loans.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0155.
Expiration Date of Approval: 01/31/
2014.
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Type of Request: Extension with
revision.
Abstract: FSA published the original
notice and request for comments in the
Federal Register on Friday, August 7,
2013 (78 FR 48135). The following
information is being provided again and
to amend the estimated total annual
burden hours due to merger of two
information collections.
This information collected under
OMB Number 0560–0155 is needed to
effectively administer the FSA’s general
guaranteed farm loan programs. The
information is collected by the FSA loan
official in consultation with
participating commercial lenders. The
basic objective of the guaranteed loan
program is to provide credit to
applicants who are unable to obtain
credit from lending institutions without
a guarantee. The reporting requirements
imposed on the public by the
regulations at 7 CFR part 762 are
necessary to administer the guaranteed
loan program in accordance with
statutory requirements of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act and are consistent
with commonly performed lending
practices.
FSA also provides guarantees for
loans made by private sellers of a farm
or ranch on a land contract sales basis.
This information is needed to effectively
administer the FSA Land Contract
Guarantee Program. Since this program
is also a guarantee program, FSA is
merging the annual burden hours into
the general Guaranteed Loan Program
information collection. The reporting
requirements imposed on the public by
the regulations at 7 CFR part 763 are
necessary to administer the Land
Contract Guaranteed Loan Program in
accordance with statutory requirements
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act and as specified in the
2008 Farm Bill. Collection of
information after loans are made is
necessary to protect the Government’s
financial interest.
Overall, the number of respondents is
estimated to increase by 458, the
number of responses is estimated to
decrease by 14,709, and the number of
burden hours is estimated to decrease
by 7,873 in comparison to the
information that was published on
August 7, 2013 (78 FR 48135). The
changes are due to less usage of the
interest assistance agreement form and
merging the burden hours of the Land
Contract Guarantee Program into the
Guaranteed Loan Program information
collection. The separate approval for
OMB control number of 0560–0279 will
discontinue when FSA receives OMB
approval for the extension and revision
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of the OMB control number of 0560–
0155.
FSA believes that requesting
additional time to comment on the
notice is reasonable and provides the
public the opportunity to comment on
the information collection. As result of
reopening and extension, the comment
period will close on December 23, 2013.
All comments from the original notice
published August 7, 2013 will be
automatically included with the
additional comments submitted in the
response to this notice.
Estimate of Average Time To
Respond: 62.2 minutes per response.
The average travel time, which is
included in the total annual burden, is
estimated to be 1 hour per respondent
Type of Respondents: Farmers and
ranchers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
16,183.
Estimated Number of Report Filed per
Respondent: 15.7.
Estimated Total Annual Number of
Responses: 243,977.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 253,097.
We are requesting comments on all
aspects of this information collection to
help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of FSA,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of FSA’s
estimate of burden 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, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice, including
name and addresses when provided,
will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will also become a matter of
public record.
Signed on September 26, 2013.
Juan M. Garcia,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration
Amendment to Certification of
Nebraska’s Central Filing System
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In response to a request from
Nebraska’s Secretary of State we are
approving amendments to the debtor
identification and signature
requirements of the certified central
filing system for Nebraska to permit the
conversion of all debtor social security
and taxpayer identification numbers
into approved unique identifiers. The
proposed specific procedure whereby
Nebraska will automatically convert
social security numbers and taxpayer
identification numbers into ten number
unique identifiers has been reviewed
and determined to permit the numerical
searching of master lists while
providing protection against identity
theft.
DATES: Effective Date: October 23, 2013.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Grain
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards
Administration (GIPSA) administers the
Clear Title program for the Secretary of
Agriculture. The Clear Title program is
authorized by Section 1324 of the Food
Security Act of 1985, which requires
that States implementing central filing
systems for notification of liens on farm
products have such systems certified by
the Secretary.
A listing of the States with certified
central filing systems is available
through the Internet on the GIPSA Web
site (https://www.gipsa.usda.gov). Farm
products covered by a State’s central
filing system are also identified through
the GIPSA Web site. The Nebraska
central filing system covers specified
farm products.
We originally certified the central
filing system for Nebraska on December
19, 1986. On August 30, 2012, John A.
Gale, Nebraska’s Secretary of State,
requested the certification be amended
to incorporate the use of an approved
unique identifier other than a Social
Security Number or Tax Payer
Identification Number, in accordance
with the 2004 amendments to Section
1324 of the Food Security Act.
This notice announces our approval
of the amended certification for
Nebraska’s central filing system. Details
of the specific procedures by which
Nebraska will create approved unique
identifiers are being provided by GIPSA
to the Secretaries of State of other states
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Information Collection; Guaranteed Farm Loan Program
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of re-opening of a public comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is reopening and extending the
comment period for 60 days to allow interested individuals and
organizations to comment on the extension and revision of a currently
approved information collection associated with the Guaranteed Farm
Loan Program. The amended estimate adds the merger of the information
collection for the Land Contract Guarantee Program (0560-0279) into the
Guaranteed Farm Loan Program. This information collection is used to
make and service loans guaranteed by FSA to eligible farmers and
ranchers by commercial lenders and to provide guarantees to the seller
of a farm through the use of land contracts.
DATES: We will consider comments that we receive by December 23, 2013.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, volume, and page number of this issue of the
Federal Register. You may submit comments by any of the following
methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to: www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Trent Rogers, Senior Loan Specialist, USDA, FSA,
Stop 0522, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250.
You may also send comments to the Desk Officer for Agriculture,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503. Copies of the information collection may
be requested by contacting Trent Rogers at the above addresses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trent Rogers, Senior Loan Specialist,
(202) 720-3889.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of Information Collection
Title: Guaranteed Farm Loans.
OMB Control Number: 0560-0155.
Expiration Date of Approval: 01/31/2014.
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Type of Request: Extension with revision.
Abstract: FSA published the original notice and request for
comments in the Federal Register on Friday, August 7, 2013 (78 FR
48135). The following information is being provided again and to amend
the estimated total annual burden hours due to merger of two
information collections.
This information collected under OMB Number 0560-0155 is needed to
effectively administer the FSA's general guaranteed farm loan programs.
The information is collected by the FSA loan official in consultation
with participating commercial lenders. The basic objective of the
guaranteed loan program is to provide credit to applicants who are
unable to obtain credit from lending institutions without a guarantee.
The reporting requirements imposed on the public by the regulations at
7 CFR part 762 are necessary to administer the guaranteed loan program
in accordance with statutory requirements of the Consolidated Farm and
Rural Development Act and are consistent with commonly performed
lending practices.
FSA also provides guarantees for loans made by private sellers of a
farm or ranch on a land contract sales basis. This information is
needed to effectively administer the FSA Land Contract Guarantee
Program. Since this program is also a guarantee program, FSA is merging
the annual burden hours into the general Guaranteed Loan Program
information collection. The reporting requirements imposed on the
public by the regulations at 7 CFR part 763 are necessary to administer
the Land Contract Guaranteed Loan Program in accordance with statutory
requirements of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and as
specified in the 2008 Farm Bill. Collection of information after loans
are made is necessary to protect the Government's financial interest.
Overall, the number of respondents is estimated to increase by 458,
the number of responses is estimated to decrease by 14,709, and the
number of burden hours is estimated to decrease by 7,873 in comparison
to the information that was published on August 7, 2013 (78 FR 48135).
The changes are due to less usage of the interest assistance agreement
form and merging the burden hours of the Land Contract Guarantee
Program into the Guaranteed Loan Program information collection. The
separate approval for OMB control number of 0560-0279 will discontinue
when FSA receives OMB approval for the extension and revision of the
OMB control number of 0560-0155.
FSA believes that requesting additional time to comment on the
notice is reasonable and provides the public the opportunity to comment
on the information collection. As result of reopening and extension,
the comment period will close on December 23, 2013. All comments from
the original notice published August 7, 2013 will be automatically
included with the additional comments submitted in the response to this
notice.
Estimate of Average Time To Respond: 62.2 minutes per response. The
average travel time, which is included in the total annual burden, is
estimated to be 1 hour per respondent
Type of Respondents: Farmers and ranchers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 16,183.
Estimated Number of Report Filed per Respondent: 15.7.
Estimated Total Annual Number of Responses: 243,977.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 253,097.
We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information
collection to help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of FSA, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of FSA's estimate of burden 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, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses to this notice, including name and addresses when
provided, will be summarized and included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will also become a matter of public record.
Signed on September 26, 2013.
Juan M. Garcia,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2013-24890 Filed 10-22-13; 8:45 am]
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