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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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January 6, 2021.
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 February 10, 2021
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
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Importation of Animals and
Poultry, Animal and Poultry Products,
Certain Animal Embryos, Semen, and
Zoological Animals.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0040.
Summary of Collection: The Animal
Health Protection Act (AHPA) of 2002 (7
U.S.C. 8301), is the primary Federal law
governing the protection of animal
health. The law gives the Secretary of
Agriculture broad authority to detect,
control, or eradicate pests or diseases of
livestock or poultry. The agency charged
with carrying out this disease
prevention mission is the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS). Disease prevention is the most
effective method for maintain a healthy
animal population and enhancing
APHIS’ ability to compete globally in
animal and animal product trade.
APHIS’ Veterinary Services (VS) unit is
responsible for, among other things,
preventing the introduction of foreign or
certain other communicable animal
diseases into the United States; and for
rapidly identifying, containing,
eradicating, or otherwise mitigating
such diseases when feasible. In
connection with this mission, APHIS
collects information from individuals,
businesses, and farms who are involved
with importation of animals or poultry,
animal or poultry products, or animal
germplasm (semen, ooycysts, and
embryos, including eggs for hatching)
into the United States as well as from
foreign countries and States to support
these imports.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS will collect information from
foreign animal health authorities as well
as U.S. importers; foreign exporters;
veterinarians and animal health
technicians in other countries; State
animal health authorities; shippers;
owners and operators of foreign
processing plants and farms; USDAapproved zoos, laboratories, and
feedlots; private quarantine facilities;
and other entities involved (directly or
indirectly) in the importation of animal
and poultry, animals and poultry
products, zoological animals, and
animal germplasm.
Information Collection Activities
Include: Agreements; permits;
application and space reservation
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requests; inspections; registers;
declarations of importation; requests for
hearings; daily logs; additional
requirements; application for permits;
export health certificates; letters; written
notices; daily record of horse activities;
written requests; opportunities to
present views; reporting; applications
for approval of facilities; certifications;
arrival notices; on-hold shipment
notifications; reports; affidavits; animal
identification; written plans; checklists;
specimen submissions; emergency
action notifications; refusal of entry and
order to dispose of fish; premises
information; recordkeeping; application
of seals; reports; testing submission
forms; summaries; identification and
certification; and notices. APHIS needs
this information to help ensure that
these imports do not introduce foreign
animal diseases into the United States.
Description of Respondents: Foreign
federal governments; state, local, and
tribal governments; business or other
for-profit and not-for-profits; farms; and
individuals and households.
Number of Respondents: 12,864.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion; Recordkeeping.
Total Burden Hours: 462,503.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
Title: Bees and Related Articles.
OMB Control Number: 0579–0207.
Summary of Collection: The Plant
Protection Act (APA) (7 U.S.C. 7701 et
seq.), authorizes the Secretary of
Agriculture to prohibit or restrict the
importation, entry, or interstate
movement of plants, plant products, and
other articles to prevent the
introduction of plant pests into the
United States or their dissemination
within the United States.
Under the Honeybee Act (7 U.S.C.
281–286), the Secretary is authorized to
prohibit or restrict the importation of
honeybees and honeybee semen to
prevent the introduction into the United
States of diseases and parasites harmful
to honeybees and of undesirable species
and subspecies of honeybees. The
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and
Quarantine (PPQ), is responsible for
implementing the intent of these Acts,
and does so through the enforcement of
its pollinator and bee regulations.
Need and Use of the Information:
APHIS collects information from a
variety of individuals who are involved
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in breeding, exporting, importing, and
containing bees and related articles. The
information APHIS collects serves as the
supporting documentation needed to
issue required PPQ forms and
documents that allow importation of
bees and related articles or authorizes
the release of bees. This documentation
is vital to helping APHIS ensure that
exotic bee diseases and parasites, and
undesirable species and subspecies of
honeybees, do not spread into or within
the United States. Without the
information, APHIS could not verify
that imported bees and related articles
do not present a significant risk of
introducing exotic bee disease,
parasites, and undesirable species and
subspecies of honeybees.
Description of Respondents:
Businesses or other-for-profit; Foreign
Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 18.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 54.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Rural Housing Service
Rural Utilities Service
[Docket No. RBS–20–BUSINESS–0040]
Notice of Solicitation of Applications
(NOSA) for the Strategic Economic and
Community Development Program for
Fiscal Year (FY) 2021
Rural Business-Cooperative
Service, Rural Housing Service, and
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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To apply for SECD priority
points and funding in FY 2021,
applicants must submit Form RD 1980–
88, ‘‘Strategic Economic and
Community Development (Section
6401),’’ to the appropriate covered
program by the deadline established for
receipt of applications within
individual covered programs as
established on the Agency website or in
the program’s Federal Register Notice.
All applicants are responsible for any
additional expenses incurred in
preparing and submitting applications.
ADDRESSES: Submit applications to the
USDA Rural Development Office
servicing the area where the project is
located. A list of the USDA Rural
Development Offices can be found listed
by state at: https://www.rd.usda.gov/
contact-us/state-offices. If you have
been assigned a OneRD Loan Guarantee
Initiative Customer Relationship
Manager (CRM), please submit
applications to them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
more information, please contact your
respective Rural Development State
Office listed here: https://
www.rd.usda.gov/browse-state.
Or if you have been assigned a OneRD
Loan Guarantee Initiative CRM, please
contact them.
For all other inquiries, contact: Greg
Batson, Rural Development Innovation
Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Stop 0793, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW, Washington, DC 20250–0783,
Telephone: (573) 239–2945. Email:
gregory.batson@usda.gov.
A checklist of all required application
information for regional planning
priority can be found at: https://
www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/
strategic-economic-and-communitydevelopment.
DATES:
The
Agriculture Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill)
re-authorized the Strategic Economic
and Community Development (SECD)
priority with some modifications.
Section 6401 of the 2018 Farm Bill
enables the Secretary of Agriculture to
prioritize projects that support multijurisdictional and multi-sectoral
strategic community investment plans.
These changes were implemented in a
recent amendment to 7 CFR 1980
subpart K, which was published in the
Federal Register on September 22, 2020.
In FY 2021, the Agency implements
SECD through reserving funds from
covered programs’ appropriations. This
notice provides requirements to
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Agriculture Act of 2018
(2018 Farm Bill) re-authorized the
Strategic Economic and Community
Development (SECD) priority with some
modifications. Section 6401 of the 2018
Farm Bill enables the Secretary of
Agriculture to prioritize projects that
support multi-jurisdictional and multisectoral strategic community investment
plans, recently included in the existing
regulation In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, the
Agency implements SECD through
reserving funds from covered program’s
appropriations. The purpose of this
notice is to provide requirements to
applicants submitting applications for
SUMMARY:
the covered programs’ reserved funds
and to establish the above mentioned
priority.
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applicants submitting applications for
the covered programs’ reserved funds
and establishes the above-mentioned
priority effective upon the publication
of this notice.
Priority Language for Funding
Opportunities
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.
Key strategies include:
• Achieving e-Connectivity for Rural
America
• Developing the Rural Economy
• Harnessing Technological Innovation
• Supporting a Rural Workforce
• Improving Quality of Life
To leverage investments in rural
property, the Agency also encourages
projects located in rural Opportunity
Zones where projects should provide
measurable results in helping
communities build robust and
sustainable economies. An Opportunity
Zone is an economically-distressed
community where new investments,
under certain conditions, may be
eligible for preferential tax treatment.
Localities qualify as Opportunity Zones
if they have been nominated for that
designation by the State and that
nomination has been certified by the
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury via his
delegation of authority to the Internal
Revenue Service.
To combat a key threat to economic
prosperity, rural workforce, and quality
of life, the Agency encourages
applications that will support the
Administration’s goal to reduce the
morbidity and mortality associated with
Substance Use Disorder (including
opioid misuse) in high-risk rural
communities by strengthening the
capacity to address prevention,
treatment, and/or recovery at the
community, county, State, and/or
regional levels. See https://
www.cdc.gov/pwid/vulnerable-countiesdata.html.
Key strategies include:
• Prevention: Reducing the occurrence
of Substance Use Disorder (including
opioid misuse) and fatal substancerelated overdoses through community
and provider education and harm
reduction measures such as the
strategic placement of overdose
reversing devices, such as naloxone;
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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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Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
January 6, 2021.
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 February
10, 2021 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.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Importation of Animals and Poultry, Animal and Poultry
Products, Certain Animal Embryos, Semen, and Zoological Animals.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0040.
Summary of Collection: The Animal Health Protection Act (AHPA) of
2002 (7 U.S.C. 8301), is the primary Federal law governing the
protection of animal health. The law gives the Secretary of Agriculture
broad authority to detect, control, or eradicate pests or diseases of
livestock or poultry. The agency charged with carrying out this disease
prevention mission is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS). Disease prevention is the most effective method for maintain a
healthy animal population and enhancing APHIS' ability to compete
globally in animal and animal product trade. APHIS' Veterinary Services
(VS) unit is responsible for, among other things, preventing the
introduction of foreign or certain other communicable animal diseases
into the United States; and for rapidly identifying, containing,
eradicating, or otherwise mitigating such diseases when feasible. In
connection with this mission, APHIS collects information from
individuals, businesses, and farms who are involved with importation of
animals or poultry, animal or poultry products, or animal germplasm
(semen, ooycysts, and embryos, including eggs for hatching) into the
United States as well as from foreign countries and States to support
these imports.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information
from foreign animal health authorities as well as U.S. importers;
foreign exporters; veterinarians and animal health technicians in other
countries; State animal health authorities; shippers; owners and
operators of foreign processing plants and farms; USDA-approved zoos,
laboratories, and feedlots; private quarantine facilities; and other
entities involved (directly or indirectly) in the importation of animal
and poultry, animals and poultry products, zoological animals, and
animal germplasm.
Information Collection Activities Include: Agreements; permits;
application and space reservation requests; inspections; registers;
declarations of importation; requests for hearings; daily logs;
additional requirements; application for permits; export health
certificates; letters; written notices; daily record of horse
activities; written requests; opportunities to present views;
reporting; applications for approval of facilities; certifications;
arrival notices; on-hold shipment notifications; reports; affidavits;
animal identification; written plans; checklists; specimen submissions;
emergency action notifications; refusal of entry and order to dispose
of fish; premises information; recordkeeping; application of seals;
reports; testing submission forms; summaries; identification and
certification; and notices. APHIS needs this information to help ensure
that these imports do not introduce foreign animal diseases into the
United States.
Description of Respondents: Foreign federal governments; state,
local, and tribal governments; business or other for-profit and not-
for-profits; farms; and individuals and households.
Number of Respondents: 12,864.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Recordkeeping.
Total Burden Hours: 462,503.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Bees and Related Articles.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0207.
Summary of Collection: The Plant Protection Act (APA) (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or
restrict the importation, entry, or interstate movement of plants,
plant products, and other articles to prevent the introduction of plant
pests into the United States or their dissemination within the United
States.
Under the Honeybee Act (7 U.S.C. 281-286), the Secretary is
authorized to prohibit or restrict the importation of honeybees and
honeybee semen to prevent the introduction into the United States of
diseases and parasites harmful to honeybees and of undesirable species
and subspecies of honeybees. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ), is responsible
for implementing the intent of these Acts, and does so through the
enforcement of its pollinator and bee regulations.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS collects information from a
variety of individuals who are involved
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in breeding, exporting, importing, and containing bees and related
articles. The information APHIS collects serves as the supporting
documentation needed to issue required PPQ forms and documents that
allow importation of bees and related articles or authorizes the
release of bees. This documentation is vital to helping APHIS ensure
that exotic bee diseases and parasites, and undesirable species and
subspecies of honeybees, do not spread into or within the United
States. Without the information, APHIS could not verify that imported
bees and related articles do not present a significant risk of
introducing exotic bee disease, parasites, and undesirable species and
subspecies of honeybees.
Description of Respondents: Businesses or other-for-profit; Foreign
Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 18.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 54.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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