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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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 and other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by April 29, 2024
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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displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Forest Service
Title: Interagency Generic Clearance
for Federal Land Management Agencies
Collaborative Visitor Feedback Surveys
on Recreation and Transportation
Related Programs and Systems.
OMB Control Number: 0596–0236.
Summary of Collection: Section 1119
of Public Law 112–141, the Moving
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
Act (MAP–21) requires the Secretary of
Transportation to implement
transportation planning procedures for
Federal lands and tribal transportation
facilities that are consistent with the
planning processes required under
sections 134 and 135 of title 23[6]. The
section also specifies the collection and
reporting of data necessary to
implement the Federal lands
transportation program, the Federal
lands access program, and the tribal
transportation program in accordance
with the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act. The Federal
Land Management Agencies (FLMAs)
include, but are not limited to: Forest
Service, the Bureau of Land
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, National Park Service, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Presidio
Trust, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of
Reclamation and the Department of
Transportation. FLMAs will collect
information to help them improve
transportation conditions, site-or areaspecific services, programs, services,
and recreation and resource
management of FLMA lands.
Need and Use of the Information: A
combination of surveys, focus groups
and interviews, are designed to collect
information about visitors’ perceptions,
experiences and expectations, with
respect to road and/or travel
transportation conditions, services, and
recreation opportunities at various
FLMA locations and across areas that
could include multiple locations
managed by different FLMAs. This
information is vital to establish and/or
revise goals and objectives that will help
improve transportation systems and
recreation and resource management
plans and to facilitate interagency
coordination at area, state, regional,
and/or national scales which will better
meet the needs of the public and the
resources under FLMA management.
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Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households; Business or
other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; Federal
Government; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
140,400.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 22,5557 hours.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Acting Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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 January 8, 2024
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
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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
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: Qualitative Research on Food
Safety Behaviors Among Parents and
Caregivers who prepare meals for
minors or older adults. In Depth
Interview Research.
OMB Number: 0583–NEW.
Type of Request: Request for a new
information collection.
Abstract: FSIS is announcing its
intention to collect information from
interviews on consumer food safety
knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
FSIS will also collect consumer
responses to food safety messages
related to home cooking to gather
feedback on message content and
format.
FSIS’ Office of Public Affairs and
Consumer Education makes sure
members of the American public are
equipped with the tools they need to
reduce their risk of foodborne illness by
teaching the public how to safely
handle, prepare, and store food.
Consumer education campaigns
developed by OPACE’s staff are created
to promote safe food handling
procedures and reduce the likelihood of
foodborne illness.
To extend its commitment to
educating the public about food safety,
FSIS is seeking to focus on the parents
and caregivers or those who are
providing care and preparing meals to at
least one child or one older adult, as a
priority audience for this new food
safety campaign.
Need and Use of the Information:
Preliminary research is necessary to
learn more about how to best tailor
campaign messages to suit the needs of
the audiences of focus. The goal of the
proposed research study is to learn more
about African American/Black and
Hispanic/Latino parent and caregiver
knowledge, attitudes, and current
behaviors regarding food safety. The
information collected from this research
will be used to develop and tailor
messages to suit audience needs.
Further, audience feedback about draft
messaging strategies and approaches is
necessary to ensure that campaign
messages will appeal to audiences.
Information will be used to develop
and disseminate effective messaging to
help reduce foodborne illness among
parents and caregivers. The lack of
information in this area would impede
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the Agency’s ability to provide more
useful information to consumers to help
reduce foodborne illness in the United
States. The final goal will be to gather
feedback on proposed FSIS food safety
messages and understand their possible
influence on future food safety
behaviors among consumers.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals/Households (Parents and
Caregivers).
Number of Respondents: 3,050.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 547.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Acting Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024–06721 Filed 3–28–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
[Docket #: RUS–24–Electric–0003]
Consumer Oriented Operating Loans
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Rural Utilities Service
(RUS or Agency), a Rural Development
agency of the United States Department
of Agriculture, is issuing this notice to
announce it will be utilizing its longstanding statutory authority to consider
operating loans under an initiative
known as Consumer Oriented Operating
Loans (COOL). COOL funding may be
approved at the discretion of the RUS
Administrator to finance operations for
current system borrowers to meet
financing needs where the borrower
faces hardship circumstances involving
unique, transitory, or exigent
conditions. To qualify for COOL
financing borrowers will commit to
create environmental benefits to end
users/consumers and invest in
additional new carbon pollution-free
electricity and/or energy efficiency
measures. RUS estimates $50 million
will be available for this program in
fiscal year 2024.
DATES: This notice is applicable March
29, 2024 and will continue until further
notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher McLean, Assistant
Administrator, Electric Program, Rural
Utilities Service, Rural Development,
United States Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW, STOP 1568, Washington, DC
20250–1560; telephone: 202–690–4492.
Email to: christopher.mclean@usda.gov.
SUMMARY:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Section 4 (7 U.S.C. 904) of
title I of the Rural Electrification Act of
1936, as amended, gives RUS the
authority to make loans ‘‘for the purpose
of financing the construction and
operation’’ of electric infrastructure
furnishing and improving electric
service to persons in rural areas.
Definitions: For the purposes of this
notice:
Carbon pollution-free electricity
means electrical energy produced from
resources that generate no carbon
emissions, including marine energy,
solar, wind, hydrokinetic (including
tidal, wave, current, and thermal),
geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear,
renewably sourced hydrogen, and
electrical energy generation from fossil
resources to the extent there is active
capture and storage of carbon dioxide
emissions that meets EPA requirements;
https://www.federalregister.gov/
documents/2021/12/13/2021-27114/
catalyzing-clean-energy-industries-andjobs-through-federal-sustainability.
Energy Efficiency Measure means any
capital investment that reduces energy
costs in an amount sufficient to recover
the total cost of purchasing and
installing such measure over an
appropriate period of time and
maintains or reduces non-renewable
energy consumption.
Clean Energy Enabling Measures shall
mean measures (such as adopting new
technologies and/or making
investments) that enable carbon
pollution-free electricity as defined in
this notice.
Purpose: To provide funding, at the
discretion of the RUS Administrator, to
current system borrowers to meet
financing needs in hardship
circumstances involving unique,
transitory, or exigent conditions, such
as, but not limited to, power or material
cost spikes; liquidity needs due to
weather events, supply chain
interruptions, man-made or natural
disasters or circumstances where end
users/consumers could experience
excessive rate impacts. Additionally,
these loans will require borrowers to
create environmental benefits through
investments in additional new carbon
pollution-free electricity, energy
efficiency measures, and/or clean
energy enabling measures.
Terms: COOL financing recipients
will be required to commit that the loan
funds will be used to benefit the end
users/consumers. In addition, the
recipients will also be required to make
an investment in carbon pollution-free
electricity, energy efficiency measures,
and clean energy enabling measures
acceptable to the Administrator. Such
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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 January
8, 2024 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
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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 the collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Title: Qualitative Research on Food Safety Behaviors Among Parents
and Caregivers who prepare meals for minors or older adults. In Depth
Interview Research.
OMB Number: 0583-NEW.
Type of Request: Request for a new information collection.
Abstract: FSIS is announcing its intention to collect information
from interviews on consumer food safety knowledge, attitudes, and
behaviors. FSIS will also collect consumer responses to food safety
messages related to home cooking to gather feedback on message content
and format.
FSIS' Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Education makes sure
members of the American public are equipped with the tools they need to
reduce their risk of foodborne illness by teaching the public how to
safely handle, prepare, and store food. Consumer education campaigns
developed by OPACE's staff are created to promote safe food handling
procedures and reduce the likelihood of foodborne illness.
To extend its commitment to educating the public about food safety,
FSIS is seeking to focus on the parents and caregivers or those who are
providing care and preparing meals to at least one child or one older
adult, as a priority audience for this new food safety campaign.
Need and Use of the Information: Preliminary research is necessary
to learn more about how to best tailor campaign messages to suit the
needs of the audiences of focus. The goal of the proposed research
study is to learn more about African American/Black and Hispanic/Latino
parent and caregiver knowledge, attitudes, and current behaviors
regarding food safety. The information collected from this research
will be used to develop and tailor messages to suit audience needs.
Further, audience feedback about draft messaging strategies and
approaches is necessary to ensure that campaign messages will appeal to
audiences.
Information will be used to develop and disseminate effective
messaging to help reduce foodborne illness among parents and
caregivers. The lack of information in this area would impede the
Agency's ability to provide more useful information to consumers to
help reduce foodborne illness in the United States. The final goal will
be to gather feedback on proposed FSIS food safety messages and
understand their possible influence on future food safety behaviors
among consumers.
Description of Respondents: Individuals/Households (Parents and
Caregivers).
Number of Respondents: 3,050.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 547.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Acting Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-06721 Filed 3-28-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-DM-P