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the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Performance Reporting System,
Management Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 0584–0010.
Summary of Collection: The purpose
of the Performance Reporting System is
to ensure that each State agency and
project area is operating the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) in accordance with the
Act, regulations, and the State agency’s
Plan of Operation. Section 11 of the
Food and Nutrition Act (the Act) of
2008 requires that State agencies
maintain necessary records to ascertain
that SNAP is operating in compliance
with the Act and regulations and must
make these records available to the Food
and Nutrition Service (FNS) for
inspection.
Need and Use of the Information: FNS
will use the information to evaluate
state agency operations and to collect
information that is necessary to develop
solutions to improve the State’s
administration of SNAP policy and
procedures. Each State agency is
required to submit one review schedule
every one, two, or three years,
depending on the project areas make-up
of the state.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 53.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 491,172.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Seniors Farmers’ Market
Nutrition Program (SFMNP).
OMB Control Number: 0584–0541.
Summary of Collection: This
submission is a revision of a currently
approved collection which covers the
reporting and recordkeeping burden
associated with the Seniors Farmers’
Market Nutrition Program, OMB #0584–
0541. The Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of 2002 (the 2002 Farm
Bill), Public Law 107–171, authorized
the SFMNP as a competitive grant
program beginning Fiscal Year (FY)
2003 and gave USDA the authority to
develop Federal regulations guiding the
administration of the SFMNP. The
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018,
Public Law 115–334 (the 2018 Farm
Bill), provided continued funding for
the SFMNP through FY 2023. Federal
regulations governing the SFMNP (7
Code of Federal Regulations, part 249)
require that certain program-related
information be collected and that full
and complete records concerning
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SFMNP operations are maintained. The
information reporting and
recordkeeping burdens are necessary to
ensure appropriate and efficient
management of the SFMNP.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collected is used by USDA
to manage, plan, evaluate, make
decisions, and report on SFMNP
program operations. FNS uses the
information collection to assess how
each SFMNP State agency operates; to
ensure regulatory compliance of State
agencies, local agencies, and farmers/
farmers’ markets/roadside stands/CSA
programs; to make program management
decisions; and to report to Congress as
needed.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, or Tribal Governments;
Individuals and Households; Small
Businesses (authorized outlets).
Number of Respondents: 854,090.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 449,090.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2019–0053]
Concurrence With OIE Risk
Designations for Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public of
our preliminary concurrence with the
World Organization for Animal Health’s
(OIE) bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations
for Ecuador and Serbia. The OIE
recognizes Ecuador as being of
controlled risk for BSE and Serbia as
being of negligible risk for BSE. We are
taking this action based on our review
of information supporting the OIE’s risk
designations for these regions.
DATES: We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before December
24, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0053.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
SUMMARY:
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APHIS–2019–0053, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Supporting documents and any
comments we receive on this docket
may be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0053 or
in our reading room, which is located in
Room 1141 of the USDA South
Building, 14th Street and Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal
reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 799–7039
before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Tracy McCracken, Staff Officer, Strategy
& Policy, Regionalization Evaluation
Services, 4700 River Road, Riverdale,
MD 20737; phone (301) 851–3461;
Tracy.McCracken@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
regulations in 9 CFR part 92 subpart B,
‘‘Importation of Animals and Animal
Products; Procedures for Requesting
BSE Risk Status Classification With
Regard To Bovines’’ (referred to below
as the regulations), set forth the process
by which the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) classifies
regions for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) risk. Section 92.5
of the regulations provides that all
countries of the world are considered by
APHIS to be in one of three BSE risk
categories: Negligible risk, controlled
risk, or undetermined risk. These risk
categories are defined in § 92.1. Any
region that is not classified by APHIS as
presenting either negligible risk or
controlled risk for BSE is considered to
present an undetermined risk. The list
of those regions classified by APHIS as
having either negligible risk or
controlled risk can be accessed on the
APHIS website at https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/
animalhealth/animal-and-animalproduct-import-information/animalhealth-status-of-regions. The list can
also be obtained by writing to APHIS at
Regionalization Evaluation Services,
4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale,
MD 20737.
Under the regulations, APHIS may
classify a region for BSE in one of two
ways. One way is for regions that have
not received a risk classification from
the World Organization for Animal
Health (OIE) to request classification by
APHIS. The other way is for APHIS to
concur with the classification given to a
country or region by the OIE.
If the OIE has classified a region as
either BSE negligible risk or BSE
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controlled risk, APHIS will seek
information to support concurrence
with the OIE classification. This
information may be publicly available
information, or APHIS may request that
regions supply the same information
given to the OIE. APHIS will announce
in the Federal Register, subject to
public comment, its intent to concur
with an OIE classification.
In accordance with this process, we
are giving notice in this document that
APHIS intends to concur with the OIE
risk classifications of the following
regions:
• Regions of negligible risk for BSE:
Serbia.
• Regions of controlled risk for BSE:
Ecuador.
The OIE recommendations regarding
each of the above countries can be
viewed at https://www.oie.int/animalhealth-in-the-world/official-diseasestatus/bse/list-of-bse-risk-status/. The
conclusions of the OIE scientific
commission for these regions can be
viewed at https://www.oie.int/
fileadmin/Home/eng/Internationa_
Standard_Setting/docs/pdf/SCAD/A_
SCAD_Feb2019.pdf (page 71 for
Ecuador and page 68 for Serbia).
After reviewing any comments we
receive, we will announce our final
determination regarding the BSE
classification of these regions in the
Federal Register, along with a
discussion of and response to pertinent
issues raised by commenters. If APHIS
recognizes the OIE negligible BSE risk
designation of Serbia and/or the
controlled risk BSE designation of
Ecuador, the Agency will include those
regions of negligible risk or controlled
risk for BSE, as applicable, that is
available to the public on the Agency’s
website at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/
aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animaland-animal-product-importinformation/animal-health-status-ofregions.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317;
21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7
CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.
Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of
October 2019.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2019–0072]
Notice of Request for Revision to and
Extension of Approval of an
Information Collection; Introduction of
Organisms and Products Altered or
Produced Through Genetic
Engineering
Revision to and extension of
approval of an information collection;
comment request.
ACTION:
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 regulations for the
introduction of organisms and products
altered or produced through genetic
engineering.
SUMMARY:
We will consider all comments
that we receive on or before December
24, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0072.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Send your comment to Docket No.
APHIS–2019–0072, Regulatory Analysis
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118,
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Supporting documents and any
comments we receive on this docket
may be viewed at https://
www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0072 or
in our reading room, which is located in
Room 1141 of the USDA South
Building, 14th Street and Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal
reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 799–7039
before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information regarding the regulations
for the introduction of organisms and
products altered or produced through
genetic engineering, contact Ms. Cynthia
A. Eck, Document Control Officer,
Communications Group, BRS, APHIS,
4700 River Road, Unit 146, Riverdale,
MD 20737; (301) 851–3892. For more
detailed information on the information
collection, contact Mr. Joseph Moxey,
APHIS’ Information Collection
Coordinator, at (301) 851–2483.
DATES:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: 7 CFR part 340; Introduction of
Organisms and Products Altered or
Produced Through Genetic Engineering.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0085.
Type of Request: Revision to and
extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: Under the Plant Protection
Act (PPA, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the
Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to
prohibit or restrict the importation,
entry, or movement in interstate
commerce of any plant, plant product,
biological control organism, noxious
weed, article, or means of conveyance,
if the Secretary determines that the
prohibition or restriction is necessary to
prevent the introduction or the
dissemination of a plant pest into the
United States.
Under this authority, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
has established regulations in 7 CFR
part 340, ‘‘Introduction of Organisms
and Products Altered or Produced
Through Genetic Engineering Which
Are Plant Pests or Which There is
Reason to Believe Are Plant Pests,’’ that
govern the introduction (importation,
interstate movement, or release into the
environment) of covered genetically
engineered organisms and products
(‘‘regulated articles’’). A permit must be
obtained or a notification acknowledged
before a regulated article may be
introduced. The regulations set forth the
permit application requirements and the
notification procedures for the
introduction of a regulated article and
necessitate certain activities including
APHIS-issued permits, petitions,
appeals, labeling containers, applicants’
field testing records, documentation for
approved training programs, submission
of protocols to ensure compliance,
memorandums of understanding, grants,
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
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;
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. APHIS-2019-0053]
Concurrence With OIE Risk Designations for Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public of our preliminary concurrence with
the World Organization for Animal Health's (OIE) bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) risk designations for Ecuador and Serbia. The OIE
recognizes Ecuador as being of controlled risk for BSE and Serbia as
being of negligible risk for BSE. We are taking this action based on
our review of information supporting the OIE's risk designations for
these regions.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before
December 24, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0053.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to
Docket No. APHIS-2019-0053, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-
1238.
Supporting documents and any comments we receive on this docket may
be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-
0053 or in our reading room, which is located in Room 1141 of the USDA
South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC.
Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Tracy McCracken, Staff Officer,
Strategy & Policy, Regionalization Evaluation Services, 4700 River
Road, Riverdale, MD 20737; phone (301) 851-3461;
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations in 9 CFR part 92 subpart B,
``Importation of Animals and Animal Products; Procedures for Requesting
BSE Risk Status Classification With Regard To Bovines'' (referred to
below as the regulations), set forth the process by which the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) classifies regions for
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk. Section 92.5 of the
regulations provides that all countries of the world are considered by
APHIS to be in one of three BSE risk categories: Negligible risk,
controlled risk, or undetermined risk. These risk categories are
defined in Sec. 92.1. Any region that is not classified by APHIS as
presenting either negligible risk or controlled risk for BSE is
considered to present an undetermined risk. The list of those regions
classified by APHIS as having either negligible risk or controlled risk
can be accessed on the APHIS website at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-and-animal-product-import-information/animal-health-status-of-regions. The list can also be
obtained by writing to APHIS at Regionalization Evaluation Services,
4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737.
Under the regulations, APHIS may classify a region for BSE in one
of two ways. One way is for regions that have not received a risk
classification from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to
request classification by APHIS. The other way is for APHIS to concur
with the classification given to a country or region by the OIE.
If the OIE has classified a region as either BSE negligible risk or
BSE
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controlled risk, APHIS will seek information to support concurrence
with the OIE classification. This information may be publicly available
information, or APHIS may request that regions supply the same
information given to the OIE. APHIS will announce in the Federal
Register, subject to public comment, its intent to concur with an OIE
classification.
In accordance with this process, we are giving notice in this
document that APHIS intends to concur with the OIE risk classifications
of the following regions:
Regions of negligible risk for BSE: Serbia.
Regions of controlled risk for BSE: Ecuador.
The OIE recommendations regarding each of the above countries can
be viewed at https://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/official-disease-status/bse/list-of-bse-risk-status/. The conclusions of the OIE
scientific commission for these regions can be viewed at https://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Internationa_Standard_Setting/docs/pdf/SCAD/A_SCAD_Feb2019.pdf (page 71 for Ecuador and page 68 for Serbia).
After reviewing any comments we receive, we will announce our final
determination regarding the BSE classification of these regions in the
Federal Register, along with a discussion of and response to pertinent
issues raised by commenters. If APHIS recognizes the OIE negligible BSE
risk designation of Serbia and/or the controlled risk BSE designation
of Ecuador, the Agency will include those regions of negligible risk or
controlled risk for BSE, as applicable, that is available to the public
on the Agency's website at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-and-animal-product-import-information/animal-health-status-of-regions.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301-8317; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a;
31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.
Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of October 2019.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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