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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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June 20, 2018.
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
requested 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 July 25, 2018 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
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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 Gypsy Moth Host
Materials from Canada.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0142.
Summary of Collection: The United
States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) is responsible for preventing
plant diseases or insect pests from
entering the United States, preventing
the spread of pests not widely
distributed in the United States, and
eradicating those imported pests when
eradication is feasible. Under the Plant
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.),
the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to regulate the importation of
plants, plant products, and other articles
to prevent the introduction of injurious
plant pests. The Plant Protection and
Quarantine program within USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) is responsible for
ensuring that these regulations are
enforced.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect information from
individuals both within and outside the
United States using phytosanitary
certificates, certificates of origin, a
written statement, a compliance
agreement and an emergency Action
notice. Information collected will
ensure that importing foreign logs, trees,
shrubs, and other articles do not harbor
plant or insect pests such as the gypsy
moth. Failing to collect this information
would cripple APHIS’ ability to ensure
that trees, shrubs, logs, and a variety of
other items imported from Canada do
not harbor gypsy moths.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Individuals or
households; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 2,526.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 212.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Clementines
from Spain.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0203.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
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seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to regulate the importation of
plants, plant products, and other articles
to prevent the introduction of injurious
plant pests. The regulations in
‘‘Subpart—Fruits and Vegetables,’’
7 CFR 319.56 through 319.56–81,
prohibits or restrict the importation of
certain fruits and vegetables into the
United States from certain parts of the
world to prevent the introduction and
dissemination of plant pest, including
fruit flies. Under the regulations,
clementines from Spain are subject to
certain conditions before entering the
United States to ensure that exotic plant
pest, such as the Mediterranean fruit fly,
are not introduced into the United
States.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS uses the following information
collection activities to allow the
importation of Clementines from Spain
when the requirements include:
Provisions that the Clementines be
grown in accordance with a
Mediterranean fruit fly management
program established by the Government
of Spain; Trapping and Control Records;
Phytosanitary Certificate; Labeling and
Traceback; Cold Treatment Data for
Consignments; Trust Fund Agreement;
Grower Registration and Agreement;
Management Program Mediterranean
Fruit Fly Monitoring; Cold Treatment
Facility/Carrier Certification; Workplan,
Advance Reservations for Cold
Treatment Port Space; and Emergency
Action Notification.
Failure to collect this information
would cripple APHIS’ ability to ensure
that clementines from Spain are not
carrying fruit flies.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 8,774.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Longan from
Taiwan.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0351.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C 7701), 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
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throughout the United States. The fruits
and vegetables regulations allow the
importation of commercial shipments of
fresh longan with stems from Taiwan
into the United States. As a condition of
entry, the longan will be subject to cold
treatment and special port-of-arrival
inspection procedures for certain
quarantine pests.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will use the following
information collection activities to
allow the import of commercial
shipment of fresh longan with stems
from Taiwan into the United States:
Phytosanitary Certificate, Inspection by
NPPOs in Taiwan, Stamping of Boxes
and Emergency Action Notification.
Failing to collect this information would
cripple APHIS ability to ensure that
longan from Taiwan are not carrying
plant pests.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profits; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 2.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 33.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Fresh Pitaya
Fruit from Central America into the
Continental United States.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0378.
Summary of Collection: Under the
Plant Protection Act (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. The
regulations ‘‘Subpart-Fruit and
Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–1 through
319 56–71), prohibit or restrict the
importation of fruits and vegetables into
the United States from certain parts of
the world to prevent the introduction
and dissemination of plant pests that are
not widely distributed within the
United States. The Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
allows the importation of fresh pitaya
fruit from Central America into the
continental United States.
Need and Use of the Information: The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service uses the following activities to
collect information: Production Site
Certification, Production Site
Registration, Review and Maintain
Documents, Registration of
Packinghouses, Packinghouse
Inspections and Investigations, Bilateral
Workplans, Records of Fruit Fly
Detections and Update Records,
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Shipping Documents Identifying the
Places of Production, Phytosanitary
Certificates with Additional
Declarations, Box Markings, Production
Site Training Program, Emergency
Action Notifications, and Notices of
Arrival. If the information is not
collected, APHIS’ ability to protect the
United States from plant pest would be
severely compromised.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for-profit; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 66.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting,
Recordkeeping, Third-party disclosure:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1,289.
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provide sufficient time to permit
delivery on or before the closing
deadline date and time. Acceptance by
the United States Postal Service or
private mailer does not constitute
delivery. Facsimile (FAX) and postage
due applications will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information, applicants may
contact Bonnie Edwards-Jackson,
Finance and Loan Analyst, MultiFamily Housing Preservation and Direct
Loan Division, USDA Rural
Development, STOP 0781, 1400
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20250–0781, telephone (202) 690–
0759 (voice) (this is not a toll-free
number) or (800) 877–8339 (TDDFederal Information Relay Service) or
via email at, bonnie.edwards@
wdc.usda.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
Preface
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Housing Service
Notice of Solicitation of Applications
for the Section 533 Housing
Preservation Grants for Fiscal Year
2018
Rural Housing Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Rural Housing Service
(RHS), an Agency within Rural
Development, announces that it is
soliciting competitive applications
under its Housing Preservation Grant
(HPG) program. This action is taken to
comply with Agency regulations which
requires the Agency to announce the
opening and closing dates for receipt of
pre-applications for HPG funds from
eligible applicants.
The Agency has published the
amount of funding received in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
(Pub. L. 115–141, March 23, 2018) on its
website at https://www.rd.usda.gov/
newsroom/notices-solicitationapplications-nosas. Expenses incurred
in developing applications will be at the
applicant’s risk.
DATES: The closing deadline for receipt
of all pre-applications in response to
this Notice is 5:00 p.m., local time for
each Rural Development State Office on
August 9, 2018 regardless of delivery
method (hand delivered, electronic,
mail, or a combination thereof). Rural
Development State Office locations can
be found at: https://www.rd.usda.gov/
contact-us/state-offices. RHS will not
consider any application that is received
after the closing deadline. Applicants
intending to mail applications must
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The Agency encourages applications
that will help improve life in rural
America. See information on the
Interagency Task Force on Agriculture
and Rural Prosperity found at
www.usda.gov/ruralprosperity.
Applicants are encouraged to consider
projects that provide measurable results
in helping rural communities build
robust and sustainable economies
through strategic investments in
infrastructure, partnerships and
innovation. Key strategies include:
• Achieving e-Connectivity for Rural
America
• Developing the Rural Economy
• Harnessing Technological Innovation
• Supporting a Rural Workforce
• Improving Quality of Life
Overview
Federal Agency Name: USDA Rural
Housing Service.
Funding Opportunity Title: Housing
Preservation Grants.
Announcement Type: Notice.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Number: 10.433.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The reporting requirements contained
in this Notice have been approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
under Control Number 0575–0115.
A. Program Description
The HPG program is a grant program,
authorized under 42 U.S.C. 1490m and
implemented at 7 CFR part 1944,
subpart N, which provides qualified
public agencies, private non-profit
organizations including, but not limited
to, Faith-Based and neighborhood
partnerships, and other eligible entities,
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Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
June 20, 2018.
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 requested 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 July 25,
2018 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: [email protected]
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 Gypsy Moth Host Materials from Canada.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0142.
Summary of Collection: The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) is responsible for preventing plant diseases or insect pests
from entering the United States, preventing the spread of pests not
widely distributed in the United States, and eradicating those imported
pests when eradication is feasible. Under the Plant Protection Act (7
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to
regulate the importation of plants, plant products, and other articles
to prevent the introduction of injurious plant pests. The Plant
Protection and Quarantine program within USDA's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for ensuring that these
regulations are enforced.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information
from individuals both within and outside the United States using
phytosanitary certificates, certificates of origin, a written
statement, a compliance agreement and an emergency Action notice.
Information collected will ensure that importing foreign logs, trees,
shrubs, and other articles do not harbor plant or insect pests such as
the gypsy moth. Failing to collect this information would cripple
APHIS' ability to ensure that trees, shrubs, logs, and a variety of
other items imported from Canada do not harbor gypsy moths.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Individuals or households; Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 2,526.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 212.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Clementines from Spain.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0203.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to regulate
the importation of plants, plant products, and other articles to
prevent the introduction of injurious plant pests. The regulations in
``Subpart--Fruits and Vegetables,'' 7 CFR 319.56 through 319.56-81,
prohibits or restrict the importation of certain fruits and vegetables
into the United States from certain parts of the world to prevent the
introduction and dissemination of plant pest, including fruit flies.
Under the regulations, clementines from Spain are subject to certain
conditions before entering the United States to ensure that exotic
plant pest, such as the Mediterranean fruit fly, are not introduced
into the United States.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS uses the following
information collection activities to allow the importation of
Clementines from Spain when the requirements include: Provisions that
the Clementines be grown in accordance with a Mediterranean fruit fly
management program established by the Government of Spain; Trapping and
Control Records; Phytosanitary Certificate; Labeling and Traceback;
Cold Treatment Data for Consignments; Trust Fund Agreement; Grower
Registration and Agreement; Management Program Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Monitoring; Cold Treatment Facility/Carrier Certification; Workplan,
Advance Reservations for Cold Treatment Port Space; and Emergency
Action Notification.
Failure to collect this information would cripple APHIS' ability to
ensure that clementines from Spain are not carrying fruit flies.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 23.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 8,774.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Longan from Taiwan.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0351.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C
7701), 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
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throughout the United States. The fruits and vegetables regulations
allow the importation of commercial shipments of fresh longan with
stems from Taiwan into the United States. As a condition of entry, the
longan will be subject to cold treatment and special port-of-arrival
inspection procedures for certain quarantine pests.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will use the following
information collection activities to allow the import of commercial
shipment of fresh longan with stems from Taiwan into the United States:
Phytosanitary Certificate, Inspection by NPPOs in Taiwan, Stamping of
Boxes and Emergency Action Notification. Failing to collect this
information would cripple APHIS ability to ensure that longan from
Taiwan are not carrying plant pests.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profits; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 2.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 33.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Fresh Pitaya Fruit from Central America into
the Continental United States.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0378.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (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. The
regulations ``Subpart-Fruit and Vegetables'' (7 CFR 319.56-1 through
319 56-71), prohibit or restrict the importation of fruits and
vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the world to
prevent the introduction and dissemination of plant pests that are not
widely distributed within the United States. The Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) allows the importation of fresh
pitaya fruit from Central America into the continental United States.
Need and Use of the Information: The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service uses the following activities to collect
information: Production Site Certification, Production Site
Registration, Review and Maintain Documents, Registration of
Packinghouses, Packinghouse Inspections and Investigations, Bilateral
Workplans, Records of Fruit Fly Detections and Update Records, Shipping
Documents Identifying the Places of Production, Phytosanitary
Certificates with Additional Declarations, Box Markings, Production
Site Training Program, Emergency Action Notifications, and Notices of
Arrival. If the information is not collected, APHIS' ability to protect
the United States from plant pest would be severely compromised.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 66.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting, Recordkeeping, Third-party
disclosure: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1,289.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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