Designation for the Amarillo, TX; Cairo, IL; State of Louisiana; State of North Carolina and Belmond, IA; Minnesota; New Jersey and New York Areas, 89428-89429 [2016-29705]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration
Opportunity for Designation in
Decatur, IN; Request for Comments on
the Official Agency Servicing These
Areas.
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration (GIPSA),
USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The designation of the official
agency listed below will end on
December 31, 2016. We are asking
persons or governmental agencies
interested in providing official services
in the areas presently served by this
agency to submit an application for
designation. In addition, we are asking
for comments on the quality of services
provided by the following designated
agency: Northeast Indiana Grain
Inspection, Inc. (Northeast Indiana).
DATES: Applications and comments
must be received by January 11, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit applications and
comments concerning this Notice using
any of the following methods:
• Applying for Designation on the
Internet: Use FGISonline (https://fgis.
gipsa.usda.gov/default_home_
FGIS.aspx) and then click on the
Delegations/Designations and Export
Registrations (DDR) link. You will need
to obtain an FGISonline customer
number and USDA eAuthentication
username and password prior to
applying.
• Submit Comments Using the
Internet: Go to Regulations.gov (https://
www.regulations.gov). Instructions for
submitting and reading comments are
detailed on the site.
• Mail, Courier or Hand Delivery:
Sharon Lathrop, Compliance Officer,
USDA, GIPSA, FGIS, QACD, 10383
North Ambassador Drive, Kansas City,
MO 64153.
• Fax: Sharon Lathrop, 816–872–
1258.
• Email: FGIS.QACD@usda.gov.
Read Applications and Comments:
All applications and comments will be
available for public inspection at the
office above during regular business
hours (7 CFR 1.27(c)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sharon Lathrop, 816–891–0415 or
FGIS.QACD@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
79(f) of the United States Grain
Standards Act (USGSA) authorizes the
Secretary to designate a qualified
applicant to provide official services in
a specified area after determining that
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the applicant is better able than any
other applicant to provide such official
services (7 U.S.C. 79(f)). Under section
79(g) of the USGSA, designations of
official agencies are effective for no
longer than five years, unless terminated
by the Secretary, and may be renewed
according to the criteria and procedures
prescribed in section 79(f) of the
USGSA.
Areas Open for Designation
In Indiana
Bounded on the North by the northern
Lagrange and Steuben County lines;
Bounded on the East by the eastern
Steuben, De Kalb, Allen, and Adams
County lines; Bounded on the South by
the southern Adams and Wells County
lines; and Bounded on the West by the
western Wells County line; the southern
Huntington and Wabash County lines;
the western Wabash County line north
to State Route 114; State Route 114
northwest to State Route 19; State Route
19 north to Kosciusko County; the
western and northern Kosciusko County
lines; the western Noble and Lagrange
County lines.
The following grain elevator is part of
this geographic area’s assignment. In
Michigan Grain Inspection Services,
Inc.’s area: Trupointe Elevator, Payne,
Paulding County, Ohio.
Opportunity for Designation
Interested persons or governmental
agencies may apply for designation to
provide official services in the
geographic areas specified above under
the provisions of section 79(f) of the
USGSA and 7 CFR 800.196. Designation
in the specified geographic area in the
State of Indiana is for the period
beginning January 1, 2017, to December
31, 2021. To apply for designation or to
request more information, contact
Sharon Lathrop at the address listed
above.
Request for Comments
We are publishing this Notice to
provide interested persons the
opportunity to comment on the quality
of services provided by the Northeast
Indiana official agency. In the
designation process, we are particularly
interested in receiving comments citing
reasons and pertinent data supporting or
objecting to the designation of the
applicant. Submit all comments to
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Larry Mitchell,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration.
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Pursuant to Section 79(f)(2) of the
United States Grain Standards Act, the
following geographic area, in the State
of Indiana, is assigned to this official
agency.
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Sharon Lathrop at the above address or
at https://www.regulations.gov.
We consider applications, comments,
and other available information when
determining which applicants will be
designated.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration
Designation for the Amarillo, TX; Cairo,
IL; State of Louisiana; State of North
Carolina and Belmond, IA; Minnesota;
New Jersey and New York Areas
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration (GIPSA),
USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
GIPSA is announcing the
designations of Amarillo Grain
Exchange, Inc. (Amarillo); Cairo Grain
Inspection Agency, Inc. (Cairo);
Louisiana Department of Agriculture
and Forestry (Louisiana); North Carolina
Department of Agriculture (North
Carolina) and D.R. Schaal Agency, Inc.
(Schaal) to provide official services
under the United States Grain Standards
Act (USGSA), as amended.
DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Sharon Lathrop,
Compliance Officer, USDA, GIPSA,
FGIS, QACD, 10383 North Ambassador
Drive, Kansas City, MO 64153.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sharon Lathrop, 816–891–0415,
Sharon.L.Lathrop@usda.gov or
FGIS.QACD@usda.gov.
Read Applications: All applications
and comments are available for public
inspection at the office above during
regular business hours (7 CFR 1.27(c)).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
August 24, 2016, and August 30, 2016,
Federal Register (81 FR 57882 through
57885 and 59598), GIPSA requested
applications for designation to provide
official services in the geographic areas
presently serviced by Amarillo, Cairo,
Louisiana, North Carolina, and Schaal.
Applications were due by September 23,
2016, for the areas presently serviced by
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, and North
Carolina, and September 29, 2016, for
the area presently serviced by Schaal.
The current official agencies:
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North
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Carolina, and Schaal were the only
applicants for designation to provide
official services in these areas. As a
result, GIPSA did not ask for additional
comments.
GIPSA evaluated the designation
criteria in section 79(f) of the USGSA (7
U.S.C. 79(f)) and determined that
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North
Carolina, and Schaal are qualified to
provide official services in the
geographic areas specified in the
Federal Register on August 24 and 30,
2016. This designation to provide
official services in the specified areas of
Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North
Carolina, and Schaal is effective October
1, 2016, to September 30, 2021.
Interested persons may obtain official
services by contacting these agencies at
the following telephone numbers:
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Official agency
Headquarters location and telephone
Amarillo .........................................................................
Cairo .............................................................................
Louisiana ......................................................................
North Carolina ..............................................................
Schaal ...........................................................................
Amarillo, TX; 806–372–8511 ........................................
Cairo, IL; 618–734–0689 ..............................................
Baton Rouge, LA; 225–922–1341 ................................
Raleigh, NC; 919–202–5774 ........................................
Belmond, IA; 641–444–3122 ........................................
Section 79(f) of the USGSA authorizes
the Secretary to designate a qualified
applicant to provide official services in
a specified area after determining that
the applicant is better able than any
other applicant to provide such official
services (7 U.S.C. 79(f)).
Larry Mitchell,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
AGENCY:
Notice of Revision of
Confidentiality Pledge under the Title V
of the E-Government Act, Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) and
Title 7, Chapter 55, Section 2276
(Confidentiality of Information).
ACTION:
Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e), and
44 U.S.C. 3501, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is
announcing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its
respondents under CIPSEA and Title 7,
Chapter 55, Section 2276. The revision
is required by the passage and
implementation of provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit and
require the Secretary of Homeland
Security to provide Federal civilian
agencies’ information technology
systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. More details on
this announcement are presented in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below.
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This revision becomes effective
upon publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. In a parallel Federal
Register notice, NASS is seeking public
comment on this confidentiality pledge
revision.
ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice
may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include the title ‘‘Confidentiality Pledge
Revision Notice’’ in the subject line of
the message.
• Efax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier:
David Hancock, NASS Clearance
Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Room 5336 South Building, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R.
Renee Picanso, Associate Administrator,
National Agricultural Statistics Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, (202)
720–4333, or email HQOA@
nass.usda.gov. Because of delays in the
receipt of regular mail related to
security screening, respondents are
encouraged to use phone or electronic
communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under
CIPSEA; Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
2276; and similar statistical
confidentiality protection statutes, many
federal statistical agencies, including
NASS, make statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents, and
will be used only for statistical
purposes. CIPSEA and Title 7, Chapter
55, Section 2276 protect such statistical
information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any
other non-statistical use and immunize
the information submitted to statistical
agencies from legal process. Moreover,
many of these statutes carry criminal
penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to
$250,000, or up to five years in prison,
or both) for conviction of a knowing and
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willful unauthorized disclosure of
covered information.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the
Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle
B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other
provisions, permits and requires the
Secretary of Homeland Security to
provide federal civilian agencies’
information technology systems with
cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. The technology
currently used to provide this protection
against cyber malware is known as
‘‘Einstein 3A’’. It electronically searches
Internet traffic in and out of federal
civilian agencies in real time for
malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the
Internet packets that contain the
malware signature are shunted aside for
further inspection by Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) personnel.
Because it is possible that such packets
entering or leaving a statistical agency’s
information technology system may
contain confidential statistical data,
statistical agencies can no longer
promise their respondents that their
responses will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their sworn agents.
However, they can promise, in
accordance with provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, that such monitoring can be
used only to protect information and
information systems from cybersecurity
risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the
respondents’ submissions.
Consequently, with the passage of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, the federal statistical
community has an opportunity to
welcome the further protection of its
confidential data offered by DHS’
Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection
program. The DHS cybersecurity
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 238 (Monday, December 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Designation for the Amarillo, TX; Cairo, IL; State of Louisiana;
State of North Carolina and Belmond, IA; Minnesota; New Jersey and New
York Areas
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
(GIPSA), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: GIPSA is announcing the designations of Amarillo Grain
Exchange, Inc. (Amarillo); Cairo Grain Inspection Agency, Inc. (Cairo);
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (Louisiana); North
Carolina Department of Agriculture (North Carolina) and D.R. Schaal
Agency, Inc. (Schaal) to provide official services under the United
States Grain Standards Act (USGSA), as amended.
DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Sharon Lathrop, Compliance Officer, USDA, GIPSA, FGIS, QACD,
10383 North Ambassador Drive, Kansas City, MO 64153.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Lathrop, 816-891-0415,
Sharon.L.Lathrop@usda.gov or FGIS.QACD@usda.gov.
Read Applications: All applications and comments are available for
public inspection at the office above during regular business hours (7
CFR 1.27(c)).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the August 24, 2016, and August 30, 2016,
Federal Register (81 FR 57882 through 57885 and 59598), GIPSA requested
applications for designation to provide official services in the
geographic areas presently serviced by Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana,
North Carolina, and Schaal. Applications were due by September 23,
2016, for the areas presently serviced by Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana,
and North Carolina, and September 29, 2016, for the area presently
serviced by Schaal.
The current official agencies: Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North
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Carolina, and Schaal were the only applicants for designation to
provide official services in these areas. As a result, GIPSA did not
ask for additional comments.
GIPSA evaluated the designation criteria in section 79(f) of the
USGSA (7 U.S.C. 79(f)) and determined that Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana,
North Carolina, and Schaal are qualified to provide official services
in the geographic areas specified in the Federal Register on August 24
and 30, 2016. This designation to provide official services in the
specified areas of Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North Carolina, and
Schaal is effective October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2021.
Interested persons may obtain official services by contacting these
agencies at the following telephone numbers:
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Amarillo...................................... Amarillo, TX; 806-372-8511...... 10/1/2016 9/30/2021
Cairo......................................... Cairo, IL; 618-734-0689......... 10/1/2016 9/30/2021
Louisiana..................................... Baton Rouge, LA; 225-922-1341... 10/1/2016 9/30/2021
North Carolina................................ Raleigh, NC; 919-202-5774....... 10/1/2016 9/30/2021
Schaal........................................ Belmond, IA; 641-444-3122....... 10/1/2016 9/30/2021
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Section 79(f) of the USGSA authorizes the Secretary to designate a
qualified applicant to provide official services in a specified area
after determining that the applicant is better able than any other
applicant to provide such official services (7 U.S.C. 79(f)).
Larry Mitchell,
Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration.
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