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Total Burden Hours: 2,580.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture will
submit the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 on or after the date
of publication of this notice. 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), New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC; New Executive Office
Building, 725—17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503. 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.
Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received by
February 10, 2014. 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.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classing, Testing, and
Standards.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0008.
Summary of Collection: The U.S.
Cotton Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 51 53
and 55, authorizes the USDA to
supervise the various activities directly
associated with the classification or
grading of cotton, cotton linters, and
cottonseed based on official USDA
Standards. The Cotton and Tobacco
Program of the Agricultural Marketing
Service carries out this supervision and
is responsible for the maintenance of the
functions to which these forms relate.
USDA is the only Federal agency
authorized to establish and promote the
use of the official cotton standards of
the U.S. in interstate and foreign
commerce and to supervise the various
activities associated with the
classification or grading of cotton,
cotton linters, and cottonseed based on
official USDA standards.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Agricultural Marketing Service uses the
following forms to collection
information:
Form FD–210 is submitted by owners
of cotton to request cotton classification
services. The request contains
information for USDA to ascertain
proper ownership of the samples
submitted, to distribute classification
results, and bill for services. Information
about the origin and handling of the
cotton is necessary in order to properly
evaluate and classify the samples.
Form CN–246 is submitted by cotton
gins and warehouses seeking to serve as
licensed samplers. Licenses issued by
the USDA–AMS Cotton Program
authorize the warehouse/gin to draw
and submit samples to insure the proper
application of standards in the
classification of cotton and to prevent
deception in their use.
Form CN–383 is a package of forms
designated as CN–383–a through CN–
383–k that is submitted by cotton
producers, ginners, warehousemen,
cooperatives, manufacturers, merchants,
and crushers interested in acquiring
cotton classification standards and
round testing services.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 993.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually; on occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 141.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classification and
Market News Service.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0009.
Summary of Collection: The Cotton
Statistics and Estimates Act, 7 U.S. Code
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471–476, authorizes the Secretary of
Agriculture to collect and publish
annually statistics or estimates
concerning the grades and staple lengths
of stocks of cotton. In addition,
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
collects, authenticates, publishes, and
distributes timely information of the
market supply, demand, location, and
market prices for cotton (7 U.S.C. 473B).
This information is needed and used by
all segments of the cotton industry.
Need and Use of the Information:
AMS will collect information on the
quality of cotton in the carryover stocks
along with the size or volume of the
carryover. Growers use this information
in making decisions relative to
marketing their present crop and
planning for the next one; cotton
merchants use the information in
marketing decisions; and the mills that
provide the data also use the combined
data in planning their future purchase to
cover their needs. Importers of U.S.
cotton use the data in making their
plans for purchases of U.S. cotton. AMS
and other government agencies are users
of the compiled information.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 826.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion; weekly; annually.
Total Burden Hours: 653.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Reporting Forms under Milk
Marketing Order Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0032.
Summary of Collection: Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) oversees the
administration of the Federal Milk
Marketing Orders authorized by the
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act
of 1937, as amended. The Act is
designed to improve returns to
producers while protecting the interests
of consumers. The Federal Milk
Marketing Order regulations require
places certain requirements on the
handling of milk in the area it covers.
Currently, there are 10 milk marketing
orders regulating the handling of milk in
the respective marketing areas.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collected is needed to
administer the classified pricing system
and related requirements of each
Federal Order. Forms are used for
reporting purposes and to establish the
quantity of milk received by handlers,
the pooling status of the handler, and
the class-use of the milk used by the
handler and the butterfat content and
amounts of other components of the
milk. Without the monthly information,
the market administrator would not
have the information to compute each
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monthly price nor know if handlers
were paying producers on dates
prescribed in the order. Penalties are
imposed for violation of the order, such
as the failure to pay producers by the
prescribed dates.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; not-for-profit
institutions; individuals or households;
farms.
Number of Respondents: 690.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
quarterly; monthly; annually.
Total Burden Hours: 20,343.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Reporting and Recordkeeping
Requirements for 7 CFR part 29.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0056.
Summary of Collection: The Fair and
Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004
(7 U.S.C. 518) eliminated price supports
and marketing quotas for all tobacco
beginning with the 2005 crop year.
Mandatory inspection and grading of
domestic and imported tobacco was
eliminated as well as the mandatory
pesticide testing of imported tobacco
and the tobacco Market News Program.
The Tobacco Inspection Act (U.S.C. 511)
requires that all tobacco sold at
designated auction markets in the U.S.
be inspected and graded. Provision is
also made for interested parties to
request inspection, pesticide testing and
grading services on an ‘‘as needed’’
basis.
Need and Use of the Information:
Information is collected through various
forms and other documents for the
inspection and certification process.
Upon receiving request information
from tobacco dealers and/or
manufacturers, tobacco inspectors will
pull samples and apply U.S. Standard
Grades to samples to provide a Tobacco
Inspection Certificate (TB–92). Also,
samples can be submitted to a USDA
laboratory for pesticide testing and a
detailed analysis is provided to the
customer.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; reporting; on occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 3,851.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Service
Food Safety and Inspection Service
[Docket Number FSIS–2013–0051]
RIN 0583–AD40
2014 Rate Changes for the Basetime,
Overtime, Holiday, and Laboratory
Services Rates
Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing
the 2014 rates it will charge meat and
poultry establishments, egg products
plants, and importers and exporters for
providing voluntary, overtime, and
holiday inspection and identification,
certification, and laboratory services.
The 2014 basetime, overtime, holiday,
and laboratory services rates will be
applied on the first FSIS pay period
approximately 30 days after the
publication of this notice, which begins
on February 9, 2014.
DATES: FSIS will charge the rates
announced in this notice beginning
February 9, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Michael
Toner, Director, Budget Division, Office
of Management, FSIS, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Room 2159, South
Building, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC 20250–3700;
Telephone: (202) 690–8398, Fax: (202)
690–4155.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
On April 12, 2011, FSIS published a
final rule amending its regulations to
establish formulas for calculating the
rates it charges meat and poultry
establishments, egg products plants, and
importers and exporters for providing
voluntary, overtime, and holiday
inspection and identification,
certification, and laboratory services (76
FR 20220).
In the final rule, FSIS stated that it
would use the formulas to calculate the
annual rates, publish the rates in
Federal Register notices prior to the
start of each calendar year, and apply
the rates on the first FSIS pay period at
the beginning of the calendar year.
This notice provides the 2014 rates,
which will be applied starting on
February 9, 2014.
2014 Rates and Calculations
The following table lists the 2014
Rates per hour, per employee, by type
of service:
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Basetime ...............
Overtime ...............
Holiday ..................
Laboratory .............
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2014 Rate
(estimates rounded to
reflect billable quarters)
$55.16
69.56
84.00
68.79
The regulations state that FSIS will
calculate the rates using formulas that
include the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) and Office of International Affairs
(OIA) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
and regular hours (9 CFR 391.2, 391.3,
391.4, 590.126, 590.128, 592.510,
592.520, and 592.530). In 2013, an
Agency reorganization eliminated the
OIA program office and transferred all
of its inspection program personnel to
OFO. The calculations below include
the portion of the previous fiscal year’s
OIA inspection program personnel’s pay
and hours but are identified in the
calculations as ‘‘OFO inspection
program personnel’s’’ pay and hours.
FSIS determined the 2014 rates using
the following calculations:
Basetime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
by the previous fiscal year’s regular
hours, plus the quotient multiplied by
the calendar year’s percentage of cost of
living increase, plus the benefits rate,
plus the travel and operating rate, plus
the overhead rate, plus the allowance
for bad debt rate.
The calculation for the 2014 basetime
rate per hour per program employee is:
[FY 2013 OFO Regular Direct Pay
divided by the previous fiscal year’s
Regular Hours ($463,542,338/
16,407,854)] = $28.25 + ($28.25 * 2.0%
(calendar year 2014 Cost of Living
Increase)) = $28.82 + $9.08 (benefits
rate) + $.66 (travel and operating rate) +
$16.61 (overhead rate) + $.02 (bad debt
allowance rate) = $55.18(rounded to
$55.16).1
Overtime Rate = The quotient of
dividing the Office of Field Operations
(OFO) inspection program personnel’s
previous fiscal year’s regular direct pay
by the previous fiscal year’s regular
hours, plus that quotient multiplied by
the calendar year’s percentage of cost of
living increase, multiplied by 1.5 (for
overtime), plus the benefits rate, plus
the travel and operating rate, plus the
overhead rate, plus the allowance for
bad debt rate.
1 FSIS can bill basetime, overtime, and holiday
rates on the quarter hour. Accordingly, the 2014
basetime and overtime rates were rounded down so
that the rates can equally be divided by 4 (to 2
decimal places).
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 on or after the date
of publication of this notice. 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), New
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC; New Executive Office
Building, 725--17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 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.
Comments regarding these information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received by February 10, 2014. 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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classing, Testing, and Standards.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0008.
Summary of Collection: The U.S. Cotton Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 51
53 and 55, authorizes the USDA to supervise the various activities
directly associated with the classification or grading of cotton,
cotton linters, and cottonseed based on official USDA Standards. The
Cotton and Tobacco Program of the Agricultural Marketing Service
carries out this supervision and is responsible for the maintenance of
the functions to which these forms relate. USDA is the only Federal
agency authorized to establish and promote the use of the official
cotton standards of the U.S. in interstate and foreign commerce and to
supervise the various activities associated with the classification or
grading of cotton, cotton linters, and cottonseed based on official
USDA standards.
Need and Use of the Information: The Agricultural Marketing Service
uses the following forms to collection information:
Form FD-210 is submitted by owners of cotton to request cotton
classification services. The request contains information for USDA to
ascertain proper ownership of the samples submitted, to distribute
classification results, and bill for services. Information about the
origin and handling of the cotton is necessary in order to properly
evaluate and classify the samples.
Form CN-246 is submitted by cotton gins and warehouses seeking to
serve as licensed samplers. Licenses issued by the USDA-AMS Cotton
Program authorize the warehouse/gin to draw and submit samples to
insure the proper application of standards in the classification of
cotton and to prevent deception in their use.
Form CN-383 is a package of forms designated as CN-383-a through
CN-383-k that is submitted by cotton producers, ginners, warehousemen,
cooperatives, manufacturers, merchants, and crushers interested in
acquiring cotton classification standards and round testing services.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 993.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually; on occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 141.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Cotton Classification and Market News Service.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0009.
Summary of Collection: The Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act, 7
U.S. Code 471-476, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to collect
and publish annually statistics or estimates concerning the grades and
staple lengths of stocks of cotton. In addition, Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) collects, authenticates, publishes, and distributes
timely information of the market supply, demand, location, and market
prices for cotton (7 U.S.C. 473B). This information is needed and used
by all segments of the cotton industry.
Need and Use of the Information: AMS will collect information on
the quality of cotton in the carryover stocks along with the size or
volume of the carryover. Growers use this information in making
decisions relative to marketing their present crop and planning for the
next one; cotton merchants use the information in marketing decisions;
and the mills that provide the data also use the combined data in
planning their future purchase to cover their needs. Importers of U.S.
cotton use the data in making their plans for purchases of U.S. cotton.
AMS and other government agencies are users of the compiled
information.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 826.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; weekly; annually.
Total Burden Hours: 653.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Reporting Forms under Milk Marketing Order Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0032.
Summary of Collection: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
oversees the administration of the Federal Milk Marketing Orders
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as
amended. The Act is designed to improve returns to producers while
protecting the interests of consumers. The Federal Milk Marketing Order
regulations require places certain requirements on the handling of milk
in the area it covers. Currently, there are 10 milk marketing orders
regulating the handling of milk in the respective marketing areas.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collected is
needed to administer the classified pricing system and related
requirements of each Federal Order. Forms are used for reporting
purposes and to establish the quantity of milk received by handlers,
the pooling status of the handler, and the class-use of the milk used
by the handler and the butterfat content and amounts of other
components of the milk. Without the monthly information, the market
administrator would not have the information to compute each
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monthly price nor know if handlers were paying producers on dates
prescribed in the order. Penalties are imposed for violation of the
order, such as the failure to pay producers by the prescribed dates.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; not-for-
profit institutions; individuals or households; farms.
Number of Respondents: 690.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
quarterly; monthly; annually.
Total Burden Hours: 20,343.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for 7 CFR part 29.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0056.
Summary of Collection: The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of
2004 (7 U.S.C. 518) eliminated price supports and marketing quotas for
all tobacco beginning with the 2005 crop year. Mandatory inspection and
grading of domestic and imported tobacco was eliminated as well as the
mandatory pesticide testing of imported tobacco and the tobacco Market
News Program. The Tobacco Inspection Act (U.S.C. 511) requires that all
tobacco sold at designated auction markets in the U.S. be inspected and
graded. Provision is also made for interested parties to request
inspection, pesticide testing and grading services on an ``as needed''
basis.
Need and Use of the Information: Information is collected through
various forms and other documents for the inspection and certification
process. Upon receiving request information from tobacco dealers and/or
manufacturers, tobacco inspectors will pull samples and apply U.S.
Standard Grades to samples to provide a Tobacco Inspection Certificate
(TB-92). Also, samples can be submitted to a USDA laboratory for
pesticide testing and a detailed analysis is provided to the customer.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; reporting; on occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 3,851.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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