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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Dated: September 7, 2018.
Donald Wright,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office
of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health,
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
Dated: September 11, 2018.
Jackie Haven,
Deputy Director, Center for Nutrition Policy
and Promotion, Food and Nutrition Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
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Announcement of Intent To Establish
the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee and Solicitation of
Nominations for Membership
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), Food, Nutrition and Consumer
Services (FNCS) and Research,
Education and Economics (REE); and
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice; correction.
The Departments of
Agriculture and Health and Human
Services published a document in the
Federal Register of September 6, 2018
concerning solicitation of nominations
for membership on the 2020 Dietary
Guidelines Advisory Committee. The
document contained incorrect dates.
Eve
Stoody (telephone 703–305–7600),
Center for Nutrition Policy and
Promotion, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 1034, Alexandria, Virginia 22302,
or, Richard Olson (telephone 240–453–
8280), Office of Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, 1101 Wootton
Parkway, Suite LL100, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. Additional
information is available on the internet
at www.dietaryguidelines.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Correction
In the Federal Register of September
6, 2018, in FR Doc. 2018–19302, on page
45206, in the first column, correct the
DATES caption to read:
Nominations must be submitted by
midnight Eastern Time on October 6,
2018.
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Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request—Generic Clearance
To Conduct Pre-Testing of Surveys
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This collection is an extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection to conduct various
procedures to test questionnaires and
survey procedures to improve the
quality and usability of information
collection instruments.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before November 13,
2018.
SUMMARY:
SUMMARY:
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Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions that
were used; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
ADDRESSES:
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collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Planning
and Regulatory Affairs Office, Food and
Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 1014, Alexandria, VA 22302.
Comments will also be accepted through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
https://www.regulations.gov, and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
All written comments will be open for
public inspection at the office of the
Food and Nutrition Service during
regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101
Park Center Drive, Room 1014,
Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
approval. All comments will be a matter
of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection
should be directed to either Rachelle
Ragland-Greene at 703–305–2586, or the
Planning and Regulatory Affairs Office
at 703–305–2017.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance to Conduct
Pre-Testing of Surveys.
OMB Number: 0584–0606.
Expiration Date: March 31, 2019.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection request, without change.
Abstract: The Food and Nutrition
Service (FNS) intends to request
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for a generic
clearance that will allow FNS to
conduct a variety of data-gathering
activities aimed at improving the quality
and usability of information collection
instruments associated with research
and analysis activities.
The data-gathering activities utilized
to this effect include but are not limited
to experiments with levels of incentives
for study participants, tests of various
types of survey operations, focus
groups, cognitive laboratory activities,
pilot testing, exploratory interviews,
experiments with questionnaire design,
and usability testing of electronic data
collection instruments. FNS envisions
using a variety of techniques including
field tests, respondent debriefing
questionnaires, cognitive interviews,
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and focus groups in order to identify
questionnaire and procedural problems,
suggest solutions, and measure the
relative effectiveness of alternative
solutions.
Following standard OMB
requirements, FNS will submit a change
request to OMB for each data collection
activity undertaken under this generic
clearance. FNS will provide OMB with
the instruments and supporting
materials describing the research project
and specific pre-testing activities.
Affected Public: The respondents will
be identified at the time that each
change request is submitted to OMB.
Respondents will include State, Local
and Tribal Government; Individual/
Households; and/or Businesses.
Estimated
number of
respondents
Respondent
Total annual
responses
(col. bxc)
Estimated
average number
of hours per
response
Estimated
total hours
(col. dxe)
Reporting Burden:
Pretesting Respondents (State, Local and Tribal Government; Individual/Households; and/or Businesses)
2,200.00
1.00
2,200.00
0.682
1,500.00
Grand Total Burden Estimates for 3 years ...........
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6,600.00
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4,500.00
Dated: September 6, 2018.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of New Fee Sites; Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act
Coronado National Forest,
USDA Forest Service, Tucson, Arizona.
ACTION: Notice of new fee sites.
AGENCY:
The Coronado National Forest
is proposing new recreation fees at 13
day use sites at $8 a day or $40 for an
annual pass, four campgrounds at $15 a
day, and six group camping sites and
one group picnic site at $50 a day, plus
$10 per vehicle per day. Fees are
assessed based on the level of amenities
and services provided, cost of
operations and maintenance, and
market assessment. Fee revenue would
be used for the continued operation and
maintenance as well as improvements to
the facilities within the recreation sites.
DATES: New fees would be implemented
no sooner than six months from
publication of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe
Winfield at (520) 388–8422 or by email
at CoronadoRecreation@fs.fed.us.
Information about the fee proposal
can also be found on the Coronado
National Forest website at: https://
www.fs.usda.gov/goto/coronado/
feereview.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement
Act (Title VII, P.L. 108–447) directs the
SUMMARY:
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Responses
annually per
respondent
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,200.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
2,200.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.682.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 2,200.
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Secretary of Agriculture to publish a six
month advance notice in the Federal
Register whenever new recreation fee
areas are established. Currently, about
one-third of Coronado National Forest’s
developed recreation sites collect fees.
This notice is part of a comprehensive
fee proposal to restructure developed
recreation on the Coronado National
Forest. More information can be found
at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/
coronado/feereview.
The new proposed fee sites are:
Day Use Sites: Bigelow Trailhead,
Brown Canyon Ranch and Trailhead,
Butterfly Trailhead, Carr Canyon Picnic
Area, Gordon Hirabayashi Interpretive
Site and trailhead, Herb Martyr
Trailhead, Parker Canyon Lake Fishing
and Boating Site (and nature trail), Pena
Blanca Lake Fishing and Boating Site,
Red Rock Picnic Area, Riggs Lake
Fishing and Boating Site, Rucker Forest
Camp Trailhead, Upper and Lower
Thumb Rock Picnic Area, Whipple
Picnic Area and Trailhead.
Campgrounds: Herb Martyr, Noon
Creek, Stockton Pass, Sycamore.
Group Sites: Columbine Visitor Center
Ramada, Gordon Hirabayashi Horse
Camp, Stockton Pass, Twilight, Upper
Arcadia, Treasure Park.
This new fee proposal will be
reviewed by the Bureau of Land
Management—Arizona Recreation
Resource Advisory Council prior to final
decision and implementation.
Dated: August 27, 2018.
Chris French,
Acting Deputy Chief, National Forest System.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of New Fee Site; Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act
Rogue River-Siskiyou National
Forest, Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of new recreation fees.
AGENCY:
The Rogue River-Siskiyou
National Forest will be implementing
new fees at four cabin/lookout rentals,
six campgrounds, two group campsites,
and nine day use sites. Fees are assessed
based on the level of amenities and
services provided, cost of operation and
maintenance, market assessment, and
public comment. Fee receipts will be
used to improve customer services,
operate and maintain facilities and to
make needed improvements.
A complete list of the site fees can be
found at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/
detail/rogue-siskiyou/home/
?cid=FSEPRD571220.
SUMMARY:
Implementation of the new fees
will occur no sooner than 180 days from
date of publication in the Federal
Register.
Public comment for these new fee
proposals was completed on February
16, 2018. The Rogue-Umpqua Resource
Advisory Committee and/or the
Siskiyou Resource Advisory Board
reviewed and offered recommendations
on these new fees on April 4, 2018 and
April 25, 2018 respectively. The Region
6 Regional Forester decided to move
forward with these new fees on May 22,
2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian White, Recreation, Engineering,
Lands, Heritage, and Minerals Staff
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request--Generic Clearance To Conduct Pre-Testing of Surveys
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment
on this proposed information collection. This collection is an
extension, without change, of a currently approved collection to
conduct various procedures to test questionnaires and survey procedures
to improve the quality and usability of information collection
instruments.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 13,
2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions that were used; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments may be sent to: Planning and Regulatory Affairs Office,
Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park
Center Drive, Room 1014, Alexandria, VA 22302. Comments will also be
accepted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to https://www.regulations.gov, and follow the online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
All written comments will be open for public inspection at the
office of the Food and Nutrition Service during regular business hours
(8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday) at 3101 Park Center Drive,
Room 1014, Alexandria, Virginia 22302.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for Office of Management and Budget approval. All comments will
be a matter of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection should be directed to either
Rachelle Ragland-Greene at 703-305-2586, or the Planning and Regulatory
Affairs Office at 703-305-2017.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance to Conduct Pre-Testing of Surveys.
OMB Number: 0584-0606.
Expiration Date: March 31, 2019.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection request, without change.
Abstract: The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) intends to request
approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a generic
clearance that will allow FNS to conduct a variety of data-gathering
activities aimed at improving the quality and usability of information
collection instruments associated with research and analysis
activities.
The data-gathering activities utilized to this effect include but
are not limited to experiments with levels of incentives for study
participants, tests of various types of survey operations, focus
groups, cognitive laboratory activities, pilot testing, exploratory
interviews, experiments with questionnaire design, and usability
testing of electronic data collection instruments. FNS envisions using
a variety of techniques including field tests, respondent debriefing
questionnaires, cognitive interviews,
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and focus groups in order to identify questionnaire and procedural
problems, suggest solutions, and measure the relative effectiveness of
alternative solutions.
Following standard OMB requirements, FNS will submit a change
request to OMB for each data collection activity undertaken under this
generic clearance. FNS will provide OMB with the instruments and
supporting materials describing the research project and specific pre-
testing activities.
Affected Public: The respondents will be identified at the time
that each change request is submitted to OMB. Respondents will include
State, Local and Tribal Government; Individual/Households; and/or
Businesses.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,200.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 2,200.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.682.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 2,200.
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Estimated
Estimated Responses Total annual average number Estimated
Respondent number of annually per responses of hours per total hours
respondents respondent (col. bxc) response (col. dxe)
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Reporting Burden:
Pretesting Respondents 2,200.00 1.00 2,200.00 0.682 1,500.00
(State, Local and Tribal
Government; Individual/
Households; and/or
Businesses)................
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Grand Total Burden .............. .............. 6,600.00 .............. 4,500.00
Estimates for 3 years..
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Dated: September 6, 2018.
Brandon Lipps,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
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