Withdrawal of the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for and the Cancellation of the Farm-to-Fleet Feedstock Program Biofuel Production Incentive (BPI), 4631-4632 [2018-02028]
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information collection, contact Ms.
Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information
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2483.
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Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0002]
Notice of Request for Revision To and
Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; Trichinae
Certification Program
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Revision to and extension of an
approval of an information collection;
comment request.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service’s intention to
request a revision to and extension of
approval of an information collection
associated with the voluntary Trichinae
Certification Program.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before April 2,
2018.
SUMMARY:
You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/#!docket
Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0002.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2018–0002, Regulatory Analysis
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Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0002 or in our
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ADDRESSES:
For
information on the Trichinae
Certification Program, contact Dr. John
Korslund, Staff Epidemiologist,
Surveillance, Preparedness and
Response Services, VS, APHIS, 4700
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Title: Trichinae Certification Program.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0323.
Type of Request: Revision to and
extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: Under the Animal Health
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.),
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture is authorized, among
other things, to prohibit or restrict the
importation and interstate movement of
animals and animal products to prevent
the introduction into and dissemination
within the United States of livestock
diseases and pests and to conduct
programs to detect, control, and
eradicate pests and diseases of livestock.
In addition, under the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622),
the APHIS Administrator has authority
with respect to voluntary inspection and
certification of animal products and the
inspection, testing, treatment, and
certification of animals.
APHIS regulations in 9 CFR part 149
contain certification requirements for
the voluntary Trichinae Certification
Program, which is a cooperative effort
by APHIS and the U.S. pork industry.
The program is intended to enhance the
ability of swine producers, as well as
slaughter facilities and other persons
that handle or process swine from pork
production sites that have been certified
under the program, to export fresh pork
and pork products to foreign markets.
There are a number of information
collection activities associated with the
voluntary Trichinae Certification
Program, such as requests to temporarily
withdraw from the program, notification
to APHIS of program withdrawal,
requests for review of audit results or
other determinations, certification site
audit forms and requests for
certification site audits, spot audits,
animal disposal plans, animal
movement records, rodent control
logbooks, feed mill quality assurance
affidavits, slaughter testing records, and
recordkeeping.
We are asking the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve our use of these information
collection activities, as described, for an
additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit
comments from the public (as well as
affected agencies) concerning our
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information collection. These comments
will help us:
(1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, 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, through use, as
appropriate, of automated, electronic,
mechanical, and other collection
technologies; e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 0.48 hours per
response.
Respondents: Auditors (accredited
veterinarians or State animal health
officials), pork producers, mill
managers, slaughter facility personnel,
and personnel from approved
laboratories.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 66.
Estimated annual number of
responses per respondent: 16.
Estimated annual number of
responses: 1,085.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 521 hours. (Due to
averaging, the total annual burden hours
may not equal the product of the annual
number of responses multiplied by the
reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 26th day of
January 2018.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Withdrawal of the Notice of Funds
Availability (NOFA) for and the
Cancellation of the Farm-to-Fleet
Feedstock Program Biofuel Production
Incentive (BPI)
Commodity Credit Corporation
and Farm Service Agency, USDA.
AGENCY:
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Notice of withdrawal and
cancellation.
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) has withdrawn
support for the Farm-to-Fleet BPI
Program, and is cancelling funding for
the BPI payments to companies that are
refining biofuel in the United States
from certain domestically grown
feedstocks converted to drop-in biofuel
for delivery to supply biofuels to the
Navy. USDA has reassessed how to best
use limited available funds and has
determined that the BPI is no longer a
priority for CCC funding. The impact of
this withdrawal is that suppliers of fuel
containing a biofuel blend to the U.S.
Navy are no longer eligible to receive a
CCC incentive payment, through the
Farm-to-Fleet BPI Program.
DATES: Effective: February 1, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kelly Novak, (202) 720–4053.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice
of funds availability for the Farm-toFleet Feedstock BPI was published in
the Federal Register on December 29,
2016, (81 FR 95956–95958). The BPI
payments were intended to support a
joint USDA and U.S. Navy Farm-to-Fleet
Program that was announced in
December 2013, which provided
incentive funds to companies that are
refining biofuel in the United States
from certain domestically grown
feedstocks converted to drop-in biofuel
for delivery to supply biofuels to the
Navy.
CCC funds, administered by the Farm
Service Agency (FSA), were used for
BPI payments to help increase the
domestic consumption of agricultural
commodities in the biofuel market. Up
to $50 million of CCC funds was
announced as being available through
FY 2018. This notice withdraws the
availability of BPI payments for
deliveries not yet solicited or procured
by the U.S. Navy and Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) Energy office and cancels
USDA support for biofuel blends
solicited by the DLA Energy office and
US Navy. Specifically, FSA will
continue to make the BPI payments
required under the existing
commitments. BPI payments will
continue to be made to the eligible
claimant awarded a contract under DLA
Energy’s Rocky Mountain West
solicitation (SPE600–17–R–0709) and
BPI payments will be made on any
awards resulting from the Rocky
Mountain West and Inland East Gulf
solicitations published prior to the
publication of this withdrawal. No BPI
payments will be made related to any
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DLA Energy solicitations that are
announced after this withdrawal is
published.
Steven J. Peterson,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit
Corporation.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration
[Docket Number: 131219999–7305–03]
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First Responder Network Authority;
Revised National Environmental Policy
Act Procedures and Categorical
Exclusions
First Responder Network
Authority, National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The First Responder Network
Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) publishes this
notice of its final procedures for
implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act (‘‘NEPA’’).
The final procedures include a revised
list of, and replace, previously
established categorical exclusions
(‘‘CEs’’) and extraordinary
circumstances.
SUMMARY:
These procedures take effect as
of February 1, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eli
Veenendaal, First Responder Network
Authority, National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 3122 Sterling Circle, Suite
100, Boulder, CO 80301 or
elijah.veenendaal@firstnet.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Background
The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job
Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1401 et
seq.) (the ‘‘Act’’) established the First
Responder Network Authority
(‘‘FirstNet’’) as an independent
authority within the National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration (‘‘NTIA’’). FirstNet’s
statutory mission is to take all actions
necessary to ensure the establishment of
a nationwide public safety broadband
network (‘‘NPSBN’’).1 Moreover, the Act
meets a long-standing and critical
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national infrastructure need to create a
single, nationwide interoperable
network that will, for the first time,
allow public safety entities such as
police officers, fire fighters, emergency
medical service professionals, and other
public safety personnel to effectively
communicate with each other across
agencies and jurisdictions.
On April 28, 2014, FirstNet, as a
newly created federal entity, published
a notice in the Federal Register
finalizing its NEPA implementing
procedures.2 These NEPA implementing
procedures provided the framework for
FirstNet’s establishment of a NEPA
compliance program and for applying
the appropriate level of NEPA review
for major federal actions related to the
deployment of the NPSBN. More
specifically, FirstNet’s NEPA
implementing procedures supplemented
the Council on Environmental Quality
(‘‘CEQ’’) regulations and provided
guidance to FirstNet employees and
potential Applicants regarding the
procedural requirements for the
application of NEPA.3
As it has continued to mature as an
organization, FirstNet has identified the
need to modify its NEPA implementing
procedures and revise its list of
categorical exclusions and extraordinary
circumstances (CEs) to ensure that such
procedures better align with FirstNet’s
statutory mission and activities related
to the deployment of the NPSBN, as
well as better assist FirstNet in
complying with NEPA as well as CEQ
and Federal Communications
Commission (‘‘FCC’’) regulations. More
specifically, FirstNet, as both an
independent federal authority and a
licensee of the FCC, must satisfy its own
NEPA obligations as well as comply
with FCC-promulgated NEPA
procedures.4
Accordingly, on June 23, 2017,
FirstNet published for comment
proposed revisions to its NEPA
implementing procedures and
2 FirstNet, National Environmental Policy Act
Implementing Procedures and Categorical
Exclusions, 79 FR 23,950 (April 29, 2014).
3 The term ‘‘Applicant’’ means any person, entity,
or federal, state, tribal, or territorial government
body that seeks to take an action related to the
Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network
(NPSBN) or an action that is otherwise under the
direct control and responsibility of FirstNet,
including, but not limited to, actions that occur
under any type of agreement related to the use of
the spectrum licensed to FirstNet under station
license call sign WQQE234, or actions requiring the
approval of or funding provided by FirstNet.
4 See generally 40 CFR 1507.3 (stating federal
agencies with overlapping NEPA requirements
related to the same project are encouraged to
streamline their NEPA implementing procedures to
avoid duplicative NEPA review).
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Withdrawal of the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for and the
Cancellation of the Farm-to-Fleet Feedstock Program Biofuel Production
Incentive (BPI)
AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation and Farm Service Agency, USDA.
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ACTION: Notice of withdrawal and cancellation.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) has withdrawn support for the Farm-to-Fleet BPI
Program, and is cancelling funding for the BPI payments to companies
that are refining biofuel in the United States from certain
domestically grown feedstocks converted to drop-in biofuel for delivery
to supply biofuels to the Navy. USDA has reassessed how to best use
limited available funds and has determined that the BPI is no longer a
priority for CCC funding. The impact of this withdrawal is that
suppliers of fuel containing a biofuel blend to the U.S. Navy are no
longer eligible to receive a CCC incentive payment, through the Farm-
to-Fleet BPI Program.
DATES: Effective: February 1, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelly Novak, (202) 720-4053.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice of funds availability for the Farm-
to-Fleet Feedstock BPI was published in the Federal Register on
December 29, 2016, (81 FR 95956-95958). The BPI payments were intended
to support a joint USDA and U.S. Navy Farm-to-Fleet Program that was
announced in December 2013, which provided incentive funds to companies
that are refining biofuel in the United States from certain
domestically grown feedstocks converted to drop-in biofuel for delivery
to supply biofuels to the Navy.
CCC funds, administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), were used
for BPI payments to help increase the domestic consumption of
agricultural commodities in the biofuel market. Up to $50 million of
CCC funds was announced as being available through FY 2018. This notice
withdraws the availability of BPI payments for deliveries not yet
solicited or procured by the U.S. Navy and Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) Energy office and cancels USDA support for biofuel blends
solicited by the DLA Energy office and US Navy. Specifically, FSA will
continue to make the BPI payments required under the existing
commitments. BPI payments will continue to be made to the eligible
claimant awarded a contract under DLA Energy's Rocky Mountain West
solicitation (SPE600-17-R-0709) and BPI payments will be made on any
awards resulting from the Rocky Mountain West and Inland East Gulf
solicitations published prior to the publication of this withdrawal. No
BPI payments will be made related to any DLA Energy solicitations that
are announced after this withdrawal is published.
Steven J. Peterson,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2018-02028 Filed 1-31-18; 8:45 am]
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