Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 12924-12925 [2022-04906]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12924-12925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04906]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

March 3, 2022.
    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 April 7, 
2022 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: Foreign Quarantine Notices.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0049.
    Summary of Collection: The Plant Protection Act (PPA) (Title IV, 
Pub. L. 106-224, 114 Statute 438, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) grants the 
Secretary of Agriculture authority to prohibit or restrict the 
importation, entry, exportation, or movement in interstate commerce of 
plant pests and other articles when such actions prevent the 
introduction or dissemination of plant pests into or within the United 
States. Implementing the laws described above is necessary in order to 
prevent injurious plant and insect pests from entering the United 
States, a situation that could produce serious consequences for USDA.
    Regulations and subsequent requirements authorized by the PPA 
concerning the importation of fruits, vegetables, plants for planting, 
logs, lumber, unprocessed wood products, cotton, corn, rice, sugar 
cane, and coffee, are contained in Parts 319 and 352 of Title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations (CFR). They require APHIS to collect information 
from a variety of foreign governments, businesses, and individuals, 
both within and outside of the United States, and provide the basis for 
the APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) program's foreign 
quarantine notices. On a quarterly basis, APHIS will submit a report to 
the Office of Management and Budget that documents the burden imposed 
by import requirements for commodities covered by this information 
collection (fruits, vegetables, plants for planting, logs, lumber, 
unprocessed wood products, cotton, corn, rice, sugar cane, and coffee) 
that have been finalized within that quarterly period.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information 
such as operational workplans; cooperative service agreements; trust 
funds; production or processing site/facility registrations; foreign 
site certification of inspection and/or treatment; applications for 
permits; appeals of denial or revocation of permits; requests for 
additional mailing labels; compliance agreements; phytosanitary 
certificates; labeling; importer documents; agreements for post entry 
quarantine State screening notices; 30-day article notifications; 
requests for emergency transshipment or diversion; notices of arrival; 
emergency action notifications; and monitoring/recordkeeping from 
responsible entities. In addition, APHIS will collect required 
information from national plant protection organizations as part of the 
commodity import approval process.
    Description of Respondents: Businesses, Individuals and Households, 
Federal Government and State Governments.
    Number of Respondents: 22,315.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting, Recordkeeping, Third-Party 
Disclosure: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 712,982.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Nomination Request Form; Animal Disease Training.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0353.
    Summary of Collection: The Animal Health Protection Act of 2002 is 
the primary Federal law governing the protection of animal health. The 
law gives the Secretary of Agriculture broad authority to detect, 
control, eradicate pests or diseases of livestock or poultry. The 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS') Veterinary Services 
(VS) is responsible for administering regulations intended to prevent 
the introduction of animal diseases into the United States. VS 
Professional People Training (PPT) provides training on responses to 
animal disease events, sample collection procedures, and disease 
mitigation and eradication activities to private veterinarians and 
State, Tribal, military, international, industry, and university 
personnel. The courses are designed to prepare participants for 
activities dealing with a U.S. animal disease incident.
    Need and Use of the Information: VS collects information using VS 
Form 1-5 from private veterinarians as well as State, Tribal, military, 
international, university, and industry personnel who want to attend 
PDS animal disease training. PPT requires the applicants' work 
addresses, work telephone numbers, work email addresses, agency/
organization affiliations, supervisors' names and email addresses, and 
job titles. PPT uses this information to produce participant rosters 
after participants select courses and during training to encourage 
ongoing working

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relationships between course participants. Applicants submit the 
completed form (Web-based) before the PPT course date. The appropriate 
APHIS official selects applicants based on the need in their respective 
States for such trained personnel. VS Form 1-5 is subsequently sent to 
a PPT Program Specialist for processing.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 350.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 116.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Citrus Canker, Citrus Greening, and Asian Citrus Psyllid; 
Quarantine and Interstate Movement Regulations.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0363.
    Summary of Collection: The Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et 
seq.) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture either independently or 
in cooperation with the States, to carry out operations or measures to 
detect, eradicate, suppress, control, prevent, or retard the spread of 
plant pests (such as citrus canker) new or widely distributed 
throughout the United States. In the ``Domestic Quarantine Notices'' in 
7 CFR part 301, hereafter referred to as the regulations, the subpart 
``Citrus Canker'' (Sec. Sec.  301.75 through 301.75-17) and ``Citrus 
Greening and Asian Citrus Psyllid'' (Sec. Sec.  301.76 through 301.76-
11) provide the regulatory guidance for the presence of citrus canker 
(CC), citrus greening (CG) and Asian citrus psyllid (ACP). The 
regulations contained in 7 CFR 301.75 and 301.76 restrict the 
interstate movement of regulated articles from and through areas 
quarantined because of CC, CG and ACP.
    Need and Use of the Information: The Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service (APHIS) will collect information using the following 
activity to address the risk associated with the interstate movement of 
citrus nursery stock and other regulated articles from areas 
quarantined for citrus greening: Limit Permit (PPO Form 530), Federal 
Certificate (PPO Form 540), Compliance Agreement (PPO Form 519), 
Labeling Requirements, Recordkeeping, Appeal of Cancellation of 
Certificates, Permits, and Compliance Agreements, and Emergency Action 
Notification (PPO Form 523). Failing to collect this information could 
cause a severe economic loss to the citrus industry.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1,395.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 
Third Party Disclosure.
    Total Burden Hours: 364,697.

Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-04906 Filed 3-7-22; 8:45 am]
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