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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Correction
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June 24, 2015.
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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB),
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
within 30 days of this notification.
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
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the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Forest Service
Title: Pesticide Use Proposal (PUP)
Form.
Action: Notice; Correction.
OMB Control Number: 0596—New.
Summary: The Department of
Agriculture published a document in
the Federal Register on June 18, 2015,
Volume 80, page 34880 concerning a
request for comments on the
Information Collection ‘‘Pesticide Use
Proposal (PUP) Form’’ OMB control
number 0596—New. The number of
respondents 36, and the 600 total
burden hours reported were incorrect.
The correct figures are 700 respondents
and 1,750 total burden hours.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
June 24, 2015.
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 July 29, 2015 will
be considered. Written comments
should be addressed to: Desk Officer for
Agriculture, Office of Information and
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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 Peppers from
Certain Central American Countries.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0274.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C.
7701–7772), the Secretary of Agriculture
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 known to be widely distributed
throughout the United States.
Regulations authorized by the PPA
concerning the importation of fruits and
vegetables into the United States from
certain parts of the world are contained
in ‘‘Subpart Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7
CFR 319.56–1 through 319.56–72). The
fruits and vegetables regulations allow
certain type of peppers grown in
approved registered production sites in
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama to be
imported, under certain conditions, into
the United States without treatment
while continuing to provide protection
against the introduction of quarantine
pests into the United States.
Need and Use of the Information: The
regulations require the use of
information collection activities
including inspections by Central
American national plant protection
organization officials, phytosanitary
certificate, labeling of boxes, monitor
traps, trapping records, bilateral
workplan, production site registrations,
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and quality control program. If the
information were not collected, it would
cripple the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service ability to regulate
and prevent the importation or spread of
plant pests and diseases from entering
the United States.
Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 36.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 4,554.
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Service
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Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–15897 Filed 6–26–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary
Meeting Notice of the Agricultural
Research Service—Animal Handling
and Welfare Review Panel
Research, Education, and
Economics, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
In accordance with section
1409(e) of the National Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3124a(e)),
Federal-State Partnership and
Coordination, the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
announces an open meeting of the
Agricultural Research Service—Animal
Handling and Welfare Review Panel
(ARS–AHWR) to discuss the report and
recommendations on the Phase II review
of the agency-wide research animal care
and well-being policies, procedures, and
standards for agricultural livestock in
ARS research.
DATES: The ARS–AHWR will meet
virtually on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at
1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
virtually at the AT&T Meeting Room
below. Please follow the pre-registration
instructions to ensure your participation
in the meeting.
Call-In instructions for Tuesday, July
14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time
Web Preregistration: Participants may
preregister for this teleconference at
https://emsp.intellor.com?p=420376&do
=register&t=8. Once the participant
registers, a confirmation page will
display dial-in numbers and a unique
PIN, and the participant will also
receive an email confirmation of this
information.
You may submit written comments to:
REE Advisory Board Office, Jamie L.
Whitten Building, Room 332A, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250, or via email at
ahwrpanel@usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michele Esch, Executive Director, REE
Advisory Board Office, U.S. Department
of Agriculture; telephone: (202) 720–
3684; fax: (202) 720–6199; or email:
ahwrpanel@usda.gov.
SUMMARY:
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On
Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at 1:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time a virtual meeting
will be conducted for any interested
stakeholders and/or interested parties to
hear the summary of findings and
recommendations of the Phase II review
of the agency-wide research animal care
and well-being policies, procedures, and
standards for agricultural livestock in
ARS research. The Review Panel plans
to hear stakeholder input received from
this meeting as well as other written
comments. The report will be available
at www.ree.usda.gov on July 6, 2015.
This meeting is open to the public
and any interested individuals wishing
to attend.
Opportunity for verbal public
comment will be offered on the day of
the meeting. Written comments by
attendees or other interested
stakeholders will be welcomed for the
public record before and up to the day
of the meeting (by close of business on
Tuesday, July 14, 2015). All statements
will become a part of the official record
of the REE Mission Area and will be
kept on file for public review in the REE
Advisory Board Office.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Title: Movement of Plants and Plant
Products from Hawaii and the
Territories (formerly, Revision of Hawaii
and the Territories Fruits and
Vegetables Regulations).
OMB Control Number: 0579–0346.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701), the
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to
prohibit or restrict the importation,
entry, or movement of fruits, vegetables,
plants, and plant pests to prevent the
introduction of pests or diseases into the
United States, or dissemination of pests
and diseases within the United States.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and
Quarantine (PPQ), is responsible for
implementing this Act and does so
through the enforcement of its Hawaiian
and territorial quarantine regulations
contained in Part 318 of Title 7, Code
of Federal Regulations.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will use the following forms and
activities to collect information: PPQ
530, PPQ 586, PPQ 519, PPQ 540,
Labeling of Boxes for Pest Free Areas,
Inspection and Certification, Trapping
and Surveillance, Contingency Plans
approved by APHIS, Updated Mapping
Identifying Places Where Horticultural
or Other Crops are Grown, Written
Request for Facility Approval—and
Recertification, Recordkeeping, and
Decertification of Pest Free Areas—and
Reinstatement. If APHIS did not collect
this information or if APHIS collected
this information less frequently, the
spread of dangerous plant diseases and
pests could cause millions of dollars in
damage to U.S. agriculture.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profits; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 178.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 7,660.
Done at Washington, DC, this 23 day of
June 2015.
Ann Bartuska,
Deputy Under Secretary, Research,
Education, and Economics.
[FR Doc. 2015–15895 Filed 6–26–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
WTO Agricultural Quantity-Based
Safeguard Trigger Levels
Foreign Agricultural Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice of product coverage and
trigger levels for safeguard measures
provided for in the World Trade
Organization (WTO) Agreement on
Agriculture.
AGENCY:
This notice lists the updated
quantity-based trigger levels for
products which may be subject to
additional import duties under the
safeguard provisions of the WTO
Agreement on Agriculture. This notice
also includes the relevant period
applicable for the trigger levels on each
of the listed products.
DATES: June 29, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Safeguard Staff, Import Policies and
Export Reporting Division, Office of
Trade Programs, Foreign Agricultural
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
June 24, 2015.
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 July 29,
2015 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 Peppers from Certain Central American
Countries.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0274.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7
U.S.C. 7701-7772), the Secretary of Agriculture 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 known to be widely distributed throughout the United States.
Regulations authorized by the PPA concerning the importation of fruits
and vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the world
are contained in ``Subpart Fruits and Vegetables'' (7 CFR 319.56-1
through 319.56-72). The fruits and vegetables regulations allow certain
type of peppers grown in approved registered production sites in Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama to be
imported, under certain conditions, into the United States without
treatment while continuing to provide protection against the
introduction of quarantine pests into the United States.
Need and Use of the Information: The regulations require the use of
information collection activities including inspections by Central
American national plant protection organization officials,
phytosanitary certificate, labeling of boxes, monitor traps, trapping
records, bilateral workplan, production site registrations,
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and quality control program. If the information were not collected, it
would cripple the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ability to
regulate and prevent the importation or spread of plant pests and
diseases from entering the United States.
Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 36.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 4,554.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Movement of Plants and Plant Products from Hawaii and the
Territories (formerly, Revision of Hawaii and the Territories Fruits
and Vegetables Regulations).
OMB Control Number: 0579-0346.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit or
restrict the importation, entry, or movement of fruits, vegetables,
plants, and plant pests to prevent the introduction of pests or
diseases into the United States, or dissemination of pests and diseases
within the United States. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), is responsible
for implementing this Act and does so through the enforcement of its
Hawaiian and territorial quarantine regulations contained in Part 318
of Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will use the following forms
and activities to collect information: PPQ 530, PPQ 586, PPQ 519, PPQ
540, Labeling of Boxes for Pest Free Areas, Inspection and
Certification, Trapping and Surveillance, Contingency Plans approved by
APHIS, Updated Mapping Identifying Places Where Horticultural or Other
Crops are Grown, Written Request for Facility Approval--and
Recertification, Recordkeeping, and Decertification of Pest Free
Areas--and Reinstatement. If APHIS did not collect this information or
if APHIS collected this information less frequently, the spread of
dangerous plant diseases and pests could cause millions of dollars in
damage to U.S. agriculture.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profits; State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 178.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 7,660.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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