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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 or other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by January 2, 2025
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.
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Animal Plant and Health Inspection
Service
Title: Unified website for
Biotechnology Regulation; Contact Page.
OMB Control Number: 0579–NEW.
Summary: In 1986, the Coordinated
Framework for the Regulation of
Biotechnology (Coordinated
Framework) was published by the Office
of Science and Technology Policy and
explained the regulatory roles for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), (herein, the
Agencies) and how Federal agencies use
existing Federal statutes to ensure
public health and environmental safety
while maintaining regulatory flexibility
to avoid impeding the growth of the
biotechnology industry. The
Coordinated Framework was
subsequently updated in 1992 (57 FR
6753–6762; February 27, 1992) and
2017, taking into account advances that
had occurred in the field of
biotechnology.
Within the USDA, the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service’s
(APHIS’) Biotechnology Regulatory
Services unit is responsible for ensuring
that organisms developed using genetic
engineering, such as genetically
modified plants, insects, and microbes
do not pose a plant pest risk. APHIS
derives its authority to promulgate its
biotechnology regulations from
provisions of the Plant Protection Act
(PPA, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) and the
Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (VRTA, 21
U.S.C. 151–159). The EPA is charged
with protecting human health and the
environment through ensuring the
safety of pesticides and other chemicals,
including those developed using genetic
engineering. The EPA derives its
regulatory authority from provisions of
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. 136 et
seq.) and the Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The
FDA is responsible for protecting the
public health by ensuring the safety,
efficacy, and security of human and
veterinary drugs, biological products,
and medical devices; and by ensuring
the safety of our nation’s food supply,
cosmetics, and products that emit
radiation, which includes oversight of
food and feed. FDA derives its
regulatory authority from provisions of
the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic
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Act (FFDCA, 21 U.S.C. 301–392).
Together with the USDA’s Food Safety
and Inspection Service (FSIS), FDA has
oversight of certain chemicals modified
using genetic engineering. FSIS derives
its regulatory authority from the Federal
Meat Inspection Act (FMIA, 21 U.S.C.
601 et seq.) and the Poultry Products
Protection Act (PPIA, 21 U.S.C. ch.10,
451 et seq.).
On September 12, 2022, Executive
Order (E.O.) 14081, Advancing
Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and
Secure American Bioeconomy, was
published and directed the Agencies,
among other things, to build on the
Unified website for Biotechnology
Regulation developed pursuant to E.O.
13874, Modernizing the Regulatory
Framework for Agricultural
Biotechnology Products, June 11, 2019,
by including on the website the
information developed under subsection
(b) of section 8 of E.O. 14081, and by
enabling developers of biotechnology
products to submit inquiries about a
particular product and promptly receive
a single, coordinated response that
provides, to the extent practicable,
information and, when appropriate,
informal guidance regarding the process
that the developers must follow for
Federal regulatory review.
Need and Use of Information: The
necessity for this information collection
arises from E.O. 13874, Section 5,
Unified Biotechnology Web-Based
Platform, and E.O. 14081, Section 8(d).
These provisions seek to ensure that
innovators can easily navigate the
Federal regulatory system for products
of biotechnology by directing USDA,
EPA, and FDA to jointly establish a
web-based platform that contains and
provides links to relevant United States
Government regulatory information for
biotechnology products. USDA–APHIS,
EPA, and FDA will use a web-form on
the contact page of the Unified website
to enable site visitors to ask questions,
make comments, or request a meeting
with one or all of the sponsoring
agencies. The web-form will collect
basic contact information such as the
name and email address of contact page
respondents, as well as the respondents’
questions or comments and their
meeting requests. Respondent use of the
contact page is voluntary.
Description of Respondents: Business.
Number of Respondents: 30.
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Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion; Annual.
Total Burden Hours: 15.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Spatial, Address, and
Imagery Data Program
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on Tuesday,
July 2, 2024, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
Title: Spatial, Address, and Imagery
Data Program.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1008.
Form Number(s): Feedback Form.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
request for a revision of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents:
• Census Bureau Contact with
Respondents: 1,500 (500/year).
• Census Bureau Acquisition of
Respondent Geographic Data and
Content Clarification: 750 (250/year).
• Feedback: 75 (25/year).
Average Hours per Response:
• Census Bureau Contact with
Respondents: 1 hour.
• Census Bureau Acquisition of
Respondent Geographic Data and
Content Clarification: 1.5 hours.
• Feedback: 1 hour.
Burden Hours: 2,700 hours.
• Census Bureau Contact with
Respondents: 1,500 hours.
• Census Bureau Acquisition of
Respondent Geographic Data and
Content Clarification: 1,125 hours.
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• Feedback: 75 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Spatial,
Address, and Imagery Data (SAID)
Program is one of many voluntary
geographic partnership programs that
collects data to update and maintain the
U.S. Census Bureau’s geographic
database, known as the Master Address
File/Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing
(MAF/TIGER) System. The MAF/TIGER
System is vital for the Census Bureau to
collect, process, tabulate, and
disseminate data.
The geographic framework within the
MAF/TIGER System enables the Census
Bureau field personnel to navigate to the
appropriate locations for data collection.
It enables the Census Bureau to define
geographic boundaries, including
census blocks, and accurately link
demographic data from surveys and the
decennial census to census blocks,
locations, and areas, such as counties,
cities, and school districts for data
tabulation and dissemination.
The SAID Program supports the
Census Bureau’s ongoing demographic
surveys and 2030 Census planning
efforts by continuing to improve address
coverage, collect and update street
centerlines, and enhance the overall
quality and integrity of the MAF/TIGER
System after major census update
programs have concluded. The SAID
Program provides the Census Bureau
with a continuous method to obtain
current, accurate, and complete address,
street centerline, and imagery data.
Since its inception, the SAID Program
has allowed the Census Bureau to
update addresses and street centerlines
across the country. Moving forward, the
SAID Program will continue to acquire
addresses, street centerlines, and
imagery in areas identified with housing
unit growth or change or where the
Census Bureau has inadequate coverage
or data, to continue updating and
improving the MAF/TIGER System.
The Census Bureau is adding a
feedback component to its geographic
partnership programs to improve the
administration of the respective
program and potentially reduce the
future burden. Participants may be
asked to provide their feedback on
materials, method(s) of data collection,
manner of communications, and the
usability of the program applications
and tools.
The SAID Program follows the
process below:
• The Census Bureau invites partners
in targeted areas to participate each
fiscal year, including Tribal, State,
county, and local governments; Federal
agencies; and other authoritative
organizations.
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• Partners are asked to provide a
current address list with associated
location points and attributes, a street
centerline file, and/or imagery data for
their jurisdiction that is no more than
two years old.
• Partners upload the requested data
files using the Secure Web Incoming
Module (SWIM) or equivalent file
transfer module, deliver large imagery
datasets on hard drives, or the Census
Bureau acquires the files/data through
direct download. If the data file size is
too large to submit through SWIM, a
hard drive will be sent to the participant
for file upload and sent back to the
Census Bureau.
• The Census Bureau validates, then
updates the MAF/TIGER System with
the address and street centerline data
provided by partners and uses the
provided imagery for quality control
and change detection.
• The Census Bureau uses these
updated addresses, streets, and imagery
to support Census Bureau field
operations, decennial census operations,
ongoing demographic survey response
collection, and data tabulation.
• The Census Bureau provides
partners feedback regarding the data
they supplied.
Affected Public: Tribal, State, county,
and local governments, and
organizations as well as other Federal
agencies.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 6, 16, 141,
and 193.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
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 and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–1008.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Federal Register
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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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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
2, 2025 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 Plant and Health Inspection Service
Title: Unified website for Biotechnology Regulation; Contact Page.
OMB Control Number: 0579-NEW.
Summary: In 1986, the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of
Biotechnology (Coordinated Framework) was published by the Office of
Science and Technology Policy and explained the regulatory roles for
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), (herein,
the Agencies) and how Federal agencies use existing Federal statutes to
ensure public health and environmental safety while maintaining
regulatory flexibility to avoid impeding the growth of the
biotechnology industry. The Coordinated Framework was subsequently
updated in 1992 (57 FR 6753-6762; February 27, 1992) and 2017, taking
into account advances that had occurred in the field of biotechnology.
Within the USDA, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's
(APHIS') Biotechnology Regulatory Services unit is responsible for
ensuring that organisms developed using genetic engineering, such as
genetically modified plants, insects, and microbes do not pose a plant
pest risk. APHIS derives its authority to promulgate its biotechnology
regulations from provisions of the Plant Protection Act (PPA, 7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.) and the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (VRTA, 21 U.S.C. 151-159).
The EPA is charged with protecting human health and the environment
through ensuring the safety of pesticides and other chemicals,
including those developed using genetic engineering. The EPA derives
its regulatory authority from provisions of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.) and the
Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The FDA is
responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety,
efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological
products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our
nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation,
which includes oversight of food and feed. FDA derives its regulatory
authority from provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
(FFDCA, 21 U.S.C. 301-392). Together with the USDA's Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS), FDA has oversight of certain chemicals
modified using genetic engineering. FSIS derives its regulatory
authority from the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA, 21 U.S.C. 601 et
seq.) and the Poultry Products Protection Act (PPIA, 21 U.S.C. ch.10,
451 et seq.).
On September 12, 2022, Executive Order (E.O.) 14081, Advancing
Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe,
and Secure American Bioeconomy, was published and directed the
Agencies, among other things, to build on the Unified website for
Biotechnology Regulation developed pursuant to E.O. 13874, Modernizing
the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, June
11, 2019, by including on the website the information developed under
subsection (b) of section 8 of E.O. 14081, and by enabling developers
of biotechnology products to submit inquiries about a particular
product and promptly receive a single, coordinated response that
provides, to the extent practicable, information and, when appropriate,
informal guidance regarding the process that the developers must follow
for Federal regulatory review.
Need and Use of Information: The necessity for this information
collection arises from E.O. 13874, Section 5, Unified Biotechnology
Web-Based Platform, and E.O. 14081, Section 8(d). These provisions seek
to ensure that innovators can easily navigate the Federal regulatory
system for products of biotechnology by directing USDA, EPA, and FDA to
jointly establish a web-based platform that contains and provides links
to relevant United States Government regulatory information for
biotechnology products. USDA-APHIS, EPA, and FDA will use a web-form on
the contact page of the Unified website to enable site visitors to ask
questions, make comments, or request a meeting with one or all of the
sponsoring agencies. The web-form will collect basic contact
information such as the name and email address of contact page
respondents, as well as the respondents' questions or comments and
their meeting requests. Respondent use of the contact page is
voluntary.
Description of Respondents: Business.
Number of Respondents: 30.
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Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Annual.
Total Burden Hours: 15.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-28350 Filed 12-2-24; 8:45 am]
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