[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 156 (Friday, August 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 50166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20487]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
August 8, 2011.
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
regarding (a) 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; (b) the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) 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 should be addressed to: Desk
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), [email protected] or
fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO,
Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7602. Comments regarding these
information collections are best assured of having their full effect if
received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-8958.
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 Plants for Planting; Establishing a Category
for Plants for Planting Not Authorized for Importation.
OMB Control Number: 0579-New.
Summary of Collection: The United States Department of Agriculture,
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is responsible for
preventing the entry of plant diseases or insect pests from entering
into the United States, preventing the spread of pests and noxious
weeds not widely distributed into the United States, and eradicating
those imported pests when eradication is feasible. Under the Plant
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to take such actions as may be necessary to prevent the
introduction and spread of plant pests and noxious weeds within the
United States. APHIS is amending the regulations in the final rule to
establish a new category of regulated articles in the regulations
governing the importation of nursery stock, also known as plants for
planting. This category will list taxa for plants for planting whose
importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect the following
information before a Pest Risk Assessment can be prepared: (1) A
description and/or map of the specific locations(s) of the areas in the
exporting country where the plant, plant parts, or plant products are
produced; (2) Scientific name (including genus, species, and author
names) and taxonomic classification of arthropods, fungi, bacteria,
nematodes, viruses, viroids, mollusks, phytoplasmas, spiroplasmas,
etc., attacking the crop; and (3) Plant part attacked by each pest,
pest life stages associated with plant part attacked, and location of
pest (in, on, or with commodity).
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profits; Federal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 5.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 28.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Citrus Canker, Citrus Greening, and Asian Citrus Psylid;
Interstate Movement of Regulated Citrus Nursery.
OMB Control Number: 0579-0369.
Summary of Collection: Under the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture, either independently or in
cooperation with the States, is authorized to carry out operations or
measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, control, prevent, or retard
the spread of plant pest (such as citrus canker (CC)) new to or widely
distributed throughout the United States. The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) amended the regulations governing the
interstate movement of regulated articles from areas quarantined for
CC, citrus greening (CG) and/or Asian citrus psylid (ACP) to allow the
movement of regulated nursery stock under a certificate to any areas
within the United States. In order to be eligible to move regulated
nursery stock, a nursery must enter into a compliance agreement with
APHIS that specifies the condition under which the nursery stock must
be grown, maintained, and shipped.
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information
using forms, PPQ 519, Compliance Agreement, PPQ 530, Federal
Certificate, PPQ 540, Limited Permit; Label Requirement and Records of
Inspection and Treatments for APHIS Review. The information collected
is necessary to provide a degree of relief from existing prohibitions
and restrictions on the interstate movement of such articles to
affected producers in areas quarantined for CC, CG, and/or ACP, while
continuing to prevent the artificial spread of these diseases within
the United States. Failing to collect this information, or if this
information was collected less frequently, could cause a severe
economic loss to the citrus industry.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 621.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1,900.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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