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following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
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sponsor a collection of information
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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
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Farm Service Agency
Title: Power of Attorney.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0190.
Summary of Collection: Individuals or
authorized representatives of entities
wanting to appoint another to act as
their attorney-in-fact in connection with
certain Farm Service Agency (FSA),
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC),
and Risk Management Agency (RMA)
programs, Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation (FCIC), Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) and
related actions must complete a Power
of Attorney form and Extension Sheet to
accommodate additional signatures
(FSA–211/211A). The FSA–211/211A
serves as evidence that the grantor has
appointed another to act on their behalf
for certain FSA, CCC, FCIC, RMA, and
NRCS programs and related actions
giving the appointee legal authority to
enter into binding agreements on the
grantor’s behalf.
Need and Use of the Information: FSA
will collect information to verify an
individual’s authority to sign and act for
another in the event of errors or fraud
that requires legal remedies. The
information collected on the FSA–211/
211A is limited to the grantor’s name,
signature, and identification number,
the grantee’s name, address, and the
applicable FSA, CCC, FCIC, NRCS, and
RMA programs or transactions.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 12,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Other (once).
Total Burden Hours: 6,224.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
June 1, 2020.
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 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and 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 6, 2020 will
be considered. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function.
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.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: In-Home Food Safety Behaviors
and Consumer Education: Annual
Observational Study.
OMB Control Number: 0583–0169.
Summary of Collection: The U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) has been delegated the authority
to exercise the functions of the Secretary
of Agriculture (7 CFR 2.18, 2.53), as
specified in the Federal Meat Inspection
Act the Poultry Products Inspection Act
(21 U.S.C. 453, et seq., 601 et. seq.) FSIS
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protects the public by verifying that
meat, poultry, and processed egg
products are wholesome; not
adulterated; and properly marked,
labeled, and packaged. USDA FSIS’
Office of Public Affairs and Consumer
Education (OPACE) ensures that all
segments of the farm-to-table chain
receive valuable food safety
information. The consumer education
programs developed by OPACE’s Food
Safety Education Staff inform the public
on how to safely handle, prepare, and
store meat, poultry, and egg products to
minimize incidence or foodborne
illness. To inform the development of
food safety communication products
and to evaluate public health education
and communication activities, FSIS is
requesting approval to renew the
information collection to conduct
observational studies using an
experimental design.
Need and Use of the Information: The
observational studies will help FSIS
assess adherence to the four
recommended food safety behaviors of
clean, separate, cook, and chill;
determine whether food safety
messaging focused on those behaviors
affects consumer food safety handing
behaviors; and determine whether
consumers introduce crosscontamination during food preparation.
The results of this research will be used
to enhance messaging and
accompanying materials to improve
food safety behaviors of consumers.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 1,600.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 1,036.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: State Meat and Poultry
Inspection Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0583–0170.
Summary of Collection: The Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has
been delegated the authority to exercise
the functions of the Secretary as
provided in the Federal Meat Inspection
Act (FMIA) (21 U. S.C. 601 et. seq.) and
the Poultry Products Inspection Act
(PPIA) (21 U.S.C. 451, et seq.) These
statutes mandate that FSIS protect the
public by ensuring that meat and
poultry products are safe, wholesome,
not adulterated, and properly labeled
and packaged.
Need and Use of the Information:
FSIS collects information from
federally-assisted State Meat and
Poultry Inspection programs to ensure
that their programs operate in a manner
that is at least equal to FSIS’s Federal
inspection program in the protection of
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public interest; comply with
requirements of Federal Civil Rights
laws and regulations; meet necessary
laboratory quality assurance standards
and testing frequencies; and have the
capability to perform microbiology and
food chemistry methods that are ‘‘at
least equal to’’ methods performed in
FSIS laboratories.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 27.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 6,887.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2019–0062]
Decision To Authorize the Importation
of Fresh Carrots From the Republic of
Korea Into the United States
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We are advising the public of
our decision to authorize the
importation of fresh carrots from the
Republic of Korea into the United
States. Based on the findings of a pest
risk analysis, which we made available
to the public to review and comment
through a previous notice, we have
concluded that the application of one or
more phytosanitary measures will be
sufficient to mitigate the risks of
introducing or disseminating plant pests
or noxious weeds via the importation of
fresh carrots from the Republic of Korea
into the United States.
DATES: The articles covered by this
notification may be authorized for
importation after June 5, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Carol Kreger, Regulatory Policy
Specialist, Regulatory Coordination and
Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River
Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737–
1231; (301) 851–2356; carol.m.kreger@
usda.gov.
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SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart L—
Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–
1 through 319.56–12, referred to below
as the regulations), the Animal and
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Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
prohibits or restricts the importation of
fruits and vegetables into the United
States from certain parts of the world to
prevent plant pests from being
introduced into and spreading within
the United States.
Section 319.56–4 of the regulations
contains a notice-based process based
on established performance standards
for authorizing the importation of fruits
and vegetables. The performance
standards, known as designated
phytosanitary measures, are listed in
paragraph (b) of that section. Under the
process, APHIS proposes to authorize
the importation of a fruit or vegetable
into the United States if, based on the
findings of a pest risk analysis, we
determine that the measures can
mitigate the plant pest risk associated
with the importation of that fruit or
vegetable. APHIS then publishes a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing the availability of the pest
risk analysis that evaluates the risks
associated with the importation of that
fruit or vegetable.
In accordance with that process, we
published a notice 1 in the Federal
Register on November 12, 2019 (84 FR
61005–61006, Docket No. APHIS–2019–
0062), in which we announced the
availability, for review and comment, of
a pest risk assessment (PRA). The
assessment evaluated the risks
associated with the importation into the
United States of fresh carrots from the
Republic of Korea. With the PRA was a
risk management document (RMD),
prepared to identify phytosanitary
measures that could be applied to the
commodity to mitigate the pest risk.
We solicited comments on the PRA
and RMD for 60 days, ending on January
13, 2020. We received one comment by
that date. It was from a private citizen.
The commenter opposed the
importation of carrots from the Republic
of Korea into the United States out of
concern for pest risks that were
currently unknown to APHIS and out of
concern that imports be tested at ports
of entry under importation oversight.
Below, we respond to these comments
by addressing their two topics, pest
risks and import control measures.
Comments on the Pest Risk Assessment
APHIS received a request from the
national plant protection organization
(NPPO) of the Republic of Korea to
allow the importation of fresh carrots
into the United States. As part of our
1 To view the notice, PRA, RMD, economic effects
assessment, and the comment that we received, go
to https://www.regulations.gov/
#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2019-0062.
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evaluation of the Republic of Korea’s
request, we prepared the PRA to
identify pests of quarantine significance
that could follow the pathway of
importation of fresh carrots into the
United States from the Republic of
Korea.
The commenter expressed concern
that unknown pests could be introduced
into the United States as the result of
importation of carrots from the Republic
of Korea.
We understand this concern, yet
APHIS finds no basis for changing our
proposed action in response. As
documentation associated with the
public notice for comment shows,
APHIS thoroughly and sufficiently
assessed all possible risks from this
importation and proposed conditions
adequate to mitigate the possible risks.
Our methodology for the PRA included
careful examination of the scientific
literature, port-of-entry pest interception
data, and information the Government
of the Republic of Korea furnished for
our assessment. From these sources, we
compiled a list of all plant pests with
actionable regulatory status for the
United States that are present in the
Republic of Korea (on any host) and
associated with the underground
portion of carrots (anywhere in the
world). We have confidence in the
thorough nature of the pest list.
Moreover, the PRA identified only
two quarantine pests with actionable
regulatory status for the United States
that could have a reasonable likelihood
of being associated with the commodity
following harvesting from the field and
prior to any post-harvest processing,
and thus potentially able to follow the
pathway. These two pests are:
Helicobasidium mompa and Sclerotinia
nivalis, both phytopathogenic fungi.
Based on the PRA, we prepared the
RMD to identify phytosanitary measures
that could be applied to the fresh carrots
to mitigate the pest risk so that the pests
would not be introduced into the United
States.
Finally, we note that all shipments of
carrots from the Republic of Korea will
be subject to inspection for quarantine
pests at the U.S. ports of entry. These
inspections are for any pests of
quarantine significance, not just those
identified in the PRA. Additionally,
APHIS monitors foreign countries for
new introduction of quarantined pests.
The commenter also expressed
concerns that there be proper oversight
of imported products and testing to
preclude both introduction of pests at
importation and resulting spread of
pests to plants in the United States.
We understand the commenter’s
concerns. However, we do not consider
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[FR Doc No: 2020-12111]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
June 1, 2020.
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 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; the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and 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 6,
2020 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of
the publication of this notice on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
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.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: In-Home Food Safety Behaviors and Consumer Education: Annual
Observational Study.
OMB Control Number: 0583-0169.
Summary of Collection: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has been delegated the
authority to exercise the functions of the Secretary of Agriculture (7
CFR 2.18, 2.53), as specified in the Federal Meat Inspection Act the
Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 453, et seq., 601 et. seq.)
FSIS protects the public by verifying that meat, poultry, and processed
egg products are wholesome; not adulterated; and properly marked,
labeled, and packaged. USDA FSIS' Office of Public Affairs and Consumer
Education (OPACE) ensures that all segments of the farm-to-table chain
receive valuable food safety information. The consumer education
programs developed by OPACE's Food Safety Education Staff inform the
public on how to safely handle, prepare, and store meat, poultry, and
egg products to minimize incidence or foodborne illness. To inform the
development of food safety communication products and to evaluate
public health education and communication activities, FSIS is
requesting approval to renew the information collection to conduct
observational studies using an experimental design.
Need and Use of the Information: The observational studies will
help FSIS assess adherence to the four recommended food safety
behaviors of clean, separate, cook, and chill; determine whether food
safety messaging focused on those behaviors affects consumer food
safety handing behaviors; and determine whether consumers introduce
cross-contamination during food preparation. The results of this
research will be used to enhance messaging and accompanying materials
to improve food safety behaviors of consumers.
Description of Respondents: Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 1,600.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 1,036.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: State Meat and Poultry Inspection Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0583-0170.
Summary of Collection: The Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS) has been delegated the authority to exercise the functions of
the Secretary as provided in the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) (21
U. S.C. 601 et. seq.) and the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA)
(21 U.S.C. 451, et seq.) These statutes mandate that FSIS protect the
public by ensuring that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome,
not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged.
Need and Use of the Information: FSIS collects information from
federally-assisted State Meat and Poultry Inspection programs to ensure
that their programs operate in a manner that is at least equal to
FSIS's Federal inspection program in the protection of
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public interest; comply with requirements of Federal Civil Rights laws
and regulations; meet necessary laboratory quality assurance standards
and testing frequencies; and have the capability to perform
microbiology and food chemistry methods that are ``at least equal to''
methods performed in FSIS laboratories.
Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 27.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 6,887.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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