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Mojdeh Bahar,
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Agricultural Research Service
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive
License
May 2, 2017.
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive
License
AGENCY:
Agricultural Research Service,
USDA.
AGENCY:
Agricultural Research Service,
USDA.
ACTION:
Notice of intent.
ACTION:
Notice of intent.
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, intends
to grant to Oregon State University of
Corvallis, Oregon, an exclusive license
to the variety of blackberry described in
U.S. Plant Patent Application Serial No.
15/330,508, ‘‘BLACKBERRY PLANT
NAMED ‘COLUMBIA SUNRISE’,’’ filed
on September 29, 2016.
SUMMARY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, intends
to grant to Oregon State University of
Corvallis, Oregon, an exclusive license
to the variety of strawberry described in
U.S. Plant Patent Application Serial No.
15/330,507, ‘‘STRAWBERRY PLANT
NAMED ‘MARY’S PEAK’,’’ filed on
September 29, 2016.
DATES:
Comments must be received on
or before June 5, 2017.
ADDRESSES:
Send comments to: USDA,
ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4–1174,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705–5131.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUMMARY:
DATES:
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian T. Nakanishi of the Office of
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville
address given above; telephone: 301–
504–5989.
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Send comments to: USDA,
ARS, Office of Technology Transfer,
5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4–1174,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705–5131.
Brian T. Nakanishi of the Office of
Technology Transfer at the Beltsville
address given above; telephone: 301–
504–5989.
The
Federal Government’s patent rights in
this plant variety are assigned to the
United States of America, as represented
by the Secretary of Agriculture. The
prospective exclusive license will be
royalty-bearing and will comply with
the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C.
209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective
exclusive license may be granted unless,
within thirty (30) days from the date of
this published Notice, the Agricultural
Research Service receives written
evidence and argument which
establishes that the grant of the license
would not be consistent with the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The
Federal Government’s patent rights in
this plant variety are assigned to the
United States of America, as represented
by the Secretary of Agriculture. The
prospective exclusive license will be
royalty-bearing and will comply with
the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C.
209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective
exclusive license may be granted unless,
within thirty (30) days from the date of
this published Notice, the Agricultural
Research Service receives written
evidence and argument which
establishes that the grant of the license
would not be consistent with the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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or before June 5, 2017.
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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. Comments are
required regarding (1) 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; (2) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
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 June 5, 2017 will
be considered. Written comments
should be addressed to: Desk Officer for
Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
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Street NW., Washington, DC 20502.
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persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
[Docket No. APHIS–2016–0103]
Title: 7 CFR 765, Direct Loan
Servicing—Regular.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0236.
Summary of Collection: Authority to
establish the regulatory requirements
contained in 7 CFR 765 is provided
under 5 U.S.C. 301, which provides that
‘‘The Head of an Executive department
or military department may prescribe
regulations for the government of his
department, the distribution and
performance of its business . . .’’ The
Secretary delegated authority to
administer the provisions of the Act
applicable to the Farm Loan Program
(FLP) to the Under Secretary for Farm
and Foreign Agricultural Service in
section 2.16 of 7 CFR part 2. FLP
provides loans to family farmers to
purchase real estate equipment and
finance agricultural production. The
regulations covered by this information
collection package describes, the
policies and procedures the agency uses
to service most FLP loans to ensure
borrowers are meeting the requirements
of their loan agreements.
Need and Use of the Information:
Information requested under this
collection is submitted by borrowers to
the local agency office serving the
county in which their business is
headquartered. The information is used
by the agency to manage application of
proceeds from the sale of agency
security, consider whether a borrower is
in compliance with their loan
covenants, assist the borrower in
achieving their business goals, conduct
day-to-day management of the agency’s
loan portfolio, and ensure that the
agency’s interests are protected. Failure
to collect the information or collecting
it less frequently could result in the
failure of the farm operation or loss of
agency security property or position.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 54,524.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 82,565.
Notice of Determination; Changes to
the National Poultry Improvement Plan
Program Standards
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are updating the National
Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP)
Program Standards document. In a
previous notice, we made available to
the public for review and comment
proposed changes to the NPIP Program
Standards document to establish new
biosecurity principles, amend testing
procedures for Mycoplasma, clarify
laboratory procedures for Salmonella,
add new diagnostic tests for
Mycoplasma and Salmonella, and
reduce confusion between references to
the regulations and the Program
Standards.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Effective July 5, 2017.
Dr.
Denise Brinson, DVM, Senior
Coordinator, National Poultry
Improvement Plan, VS, APHIS, USDA,
1506 Klondike Road, Suite 101,
Conyers, GA 30094–5104; (770) 922–
3496.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
regulations in 9 CFR parts 145, 146, and
147 (referred to below as the
regulations) contain the provisions of
the National Poultry Improvement Plan
(NPIP), a cooperative Federal-StateIndustry mechanism for controlling
certain poultry diseases. The Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture amends these provisions
from time to time to incorporate new
scientific information and technologies
within the Plan.
In § 147.53, paragraph (b) states that
approved tests and sanitation
procedures used to qualify flocks for
NPIP classifications are set out in the
NPIP Program Standards.1 In that
section, paragraphs (d) and (e) set out
the process for adding or revising tests
or sanitation procedures. Paragraph
(e)(1) states that APHIS will publish a
notice in the Federal Register making
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1 The Program Standards may be viewed on the
NPIP Web site at https://
www.poultryimprovement.org/documents/
ProgramStandardsAugust2014.pdf, or by writing to
the Service at National Poultry Improvement Plan,
APHIS, USDA, 1506 Klondike Road, Suite 101,
Conyers, GA 30094.
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the test or sanitation procedure
available for public comment. Paragraph
(e)(2)(i) states that, at the end of the
comment period, the test or sanitation
procedure will be added to the NPIP
Program Standards, or the NPIP Program
Standards will be updated to reflect
changes to an existing test or sanitation
procedure, if:
• No comments were received on the
notice;
• The comments on the notice
supported the action described in the
notice; or
• The comments on the notice were
evaluated but did not change the
Administrator’s determination that
approval of the test or sanitation
procedure is appropriate based on the
standards in paragraph (a) of § 147.53.
On February 13, 2017, we published
a notice 2 in the Federal Register (82 FR
10452–10453, Docket No. APHIS–2016–
0103) advising the public that we had
prepared updates to the NPIP Program
Standards document. The proposed
updates would amend the Program
Standards by establishing new
standards for biosecurity principles.
They also would amend the
hemagglutination inhibition test
procedures for Mycoplasma, clarify the
laboratory procedure recommended for
the bacteriological examination of
Salmonella in birds, amend the
laboratory procedure recommended for
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests
for Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M.
synoviae, and add new diagnostic tests
for Mycoplasma and Salmonella.
Finally, we noted that the Program
Standards are currently divided into
subparts in the same way the
regulations are. Therefore, we proposed
to change the use of the word ‘‘Subpart’’
to ‘‘Standard’’ in the Program Standards
for ease of distinguishing between
references to the regulations and
references to the Program Standards.
We solicited comments on the notice
for 30 days ending on March 15, 2017.
We did not receive any comments by
that date.
Therefore, in accordance with our
regulations in § 147.53(e)(2)(i)(A), we
are revising the NPIP Program Standards
as described in our previous notice. We
are also making a minor change to the
NPIP Program Standards document due
to a change in company ownership of
one of the approved diagnostic test kits.
The diagnostic test kit is the Bax® PCR
assays for Salmonella 1 and 2, which
was previously owned by Dupont
Qualicon. The test kit is now owned by
2 To view the notice, go to https://
www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS2016-0103.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
May 2, 2017.
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
are required regarding (1) 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; (2) the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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 June 5,
2017 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
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persons are not required to respond to the collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Farm Service Agency
Title: 7 CFR 765, Direct Loan Servicing--Regular.
OMB Control Number: 0560-0236.
Summary of Collection: Authority to establish the regulatory
requirements contained in 7 CFR 765 is provided under 5 U.S.C. 301,
which provides that ``The Head of an Executive department or military
department may prescribe regulations for the government of his
department, the distribution and performance of its business . . .''
The Secretary delegated authority to administer the provisions of the
Act applicable to the Farm Loan Program (FLP) to the Under Secretary
for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service in section 2.16 of 7 CFR part
2. FLP provides loans to family farmers to purchase real estate
equipment and finance agricultural production. The regulations covered
by this information collection package describes, the policies and
procedures the agency uses to service most FLP loans to ensure
borrowers are meeting the requirements of their loan agreements.
Need and Use of the Information: Information requested under this
collection is submitted by borrowers to the local agency office serving
the county in which their business is headquartered. The information is
used by the agency to manage application of proceeds from the sale of
agency security, consider whether a borrower is in compliance with
their loan covenants, assist the borrower in achieving their business
goals, conduct day-to-day management of the agency's loan portfolio,
and ensure that the agency's interests are protected. Failure to
collect the information or collecting it less frequently could result
in the failure of the farm operation or loss of agency security
property or position.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 54,524.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 82,565.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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