[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 164 (Thursday, August 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43328-43330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21390]
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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 164 / Thursday, August 22, 1996 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
August 16, 1996.
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 these information collections are best assured of having
their full effect if received within 30 days of this notification.
Comments should be addressed to: Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Washington, DC 20503 and to Department Clearance Officer, USDA,
OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7630. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-6204 or (202) 720-
6746.
Food and Consumer Service
Title: Food Stamp Program Store Application(s)
Summary: The Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended, requires that the
Agency determine the eligibility of firms and specified programs to
accept and redeem food stamp benefits and to monitor them for
compliance and continued eligibility.
Need and Use of the Information: This information is used for
determining a firm's eligibility for participation in the program,
program administration, compliance monitoring and investigations and
for sanctioning stores found to be violating the program.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-
profit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 80,613.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 18,347.
Title: Federal Collection Methods for Food Stamp Program Recipient
Claims.
Summary: This Program is designed to help collect debts owed for
overissued food stamp benefits.
Need and Use of the Information: Data is needed to assure unpaid
claims are properly noted and efforts to collect monies are valid.
Description of Respondents: Individuals or households; Federal
Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 327,552.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Quarterly; Weekly; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 72,862.
Title: Study of Direct Certification.
Summary: Study will collect nationally representative data on the
status of direct certification usage and assess multiple aspects of it.
Respondents will be state and local entities involved with the National
School Lunch Program.
Need and Use of the Information: Data will be used to inform
officials on how direct certification is being implemented nationally,
what seems to work best in various settings, the programmatic and/or
cost savings resulting from direct certification, and the effect of
direct certification on student eligibility and participation in the
National School Lunch Program.
Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 1,376.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: One-time only.
Total Burden Hours: 2,307.
Forest Service
Title: Application for Prospecting Permit.
Summary: Application information is collected to ensure that a
complete, concise description of the proposed geophysical activity is
obtained and thereby ensure timely and effective review and decision-
making in full compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act
and other requirements given in the National Forest Management Act of
1976.
Need and Use of the Information: The information is used by the
issuing office to ensure a thorough accurate and timely review of the
proposed plan of operations.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Non-for-
profit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 70.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 18.
Rural Housing Service
Title: 7 CFR 1944-1, ``Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants''.
Summary: Information is collected from non-profit organizations who
want to develop a Self-Help program in their area to increase the
availability of affordable housing.
Need and Use of the Information: This information is needed by the
Rural Housing Service to determine if the organization is capable of
successfully carrying out the requirements of the Self-Help program.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government;
Non-for-profit institutions.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly,
Monthly, Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 2,640.
Farm Service Agency
Title: CCC Conservation Contract.
Summary: These requirements are for the Environmental Quality
Incentives Program, the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program and the
Farmland Protection Program.
Need and Use of the Information: Eligible land owners may apply for
financial assistance. The agreement or contract must include a
conservation plan. Federal cost share payments may be made to the land
user upon successful application of the conservation treatment.
Description of Respondents: Farms; Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 27,500.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: One time only.
Total Burden Hours: 43,450.
Emergency processing of this submission has been requested by
August 16, 1996.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Provisions Regulating the Quality of Domestically Produced
Peanuts Handled by Persons not Subject to the Peanut Marketing
Agreement.
Summary: Public Law 101-220 amended the Agricultural Agreement
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Act of 1937 to require all peanuts handled by persons who have not
entered into the Peanut Marketing Agreement to be subject to the same
quality and inspection requirements as are in effect under the
agreement.
Need and Use of the Information: The information is used to verify
compliance with inspection, quality and disposition requirements. This
insures that only wholesome peanuts of good quality enter edible market
channels.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 45.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Weekly; Monthly.
Total Burden Hours: 591.
Rural Housing Service
Title: 7 CFR--1944-B, Housing Application Packing Grants.
Summary: The Rural Housing Service make grants to private and
public non-profit organizations and State and local governments to
package housing applications in colonies and designated counties.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collected is
necessary to assure the organizations participating in this program are
eligible entities and have participated in application packaging.
Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 200.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 900.
Foreign Agricultural Services
Title: Sugar to be Imported and Re-exported in Refined Form or in
Sugar Containing Products or Used for the Production of Polyhydric
Alcohol.
Summary: The proposed regulations revise current regulations to
conform them to our obligation under the North American Free Trade
Agreement and to implement changes arising out of the adoption of the
Uruguay Round Agreement Implementation Act.
Need and Use of the Information: The Licensing Authority will use
this information to determine whether the equivalent quantity of sugar
entered will be exported by the entering company or by a manufacturer
or sugar containing products or used for the production of Polyhydric
alcohol. Without this information the Licensing Authority would be
unable to identify who would be responsible for exporting or using
entered sugar.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit;
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 220.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Quarterly.
Total Burden Hours: 3,866.
Title: Regulations covering CCC's Export Credit Guarantee Program
(GSM-102) & CCC's Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-
103).
Summary: The GSM-102 and GSM-103 programs of the Commodity Credit
Corporation (CCC) were developed to expand U.S. exports by making
available export credit guarantees to encourage U.S. private sector
financing of foreign purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities on
credit terms.
Need and Use of the Information: Collection of information is
required in order to become an eligible participant in the program.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 365.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 6,499.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Handling of Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, and Tangelos
Grown in Florida--Addendum.
Summary: Marketing Order No. 905 authorizes the regulation a
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and to improve return to
growers. Currently the Agricultural Marketing Service is considering a
proposal to limit the volume of small Florida red seedless grapefruit.
If this proposal is implemented, new information collection would be
required.
Need and Use of the Information: To ensure compliance with volume
regulation of red seedless grapefruit that would provide the Florida
citrus industry and the Department of Agriculture with important
information to ensure fair regulation within the industry.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 1,176.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion;
Weekly.
Total Burden Hours: 204.
Food and Consumer Service
Title: Disaster Food Stamp Program.
Summary: The Food Stamp Act provides that program assistance be
provided to all disaster-affected households who make application and
are determined eligible for such assistance.
Need and Use of the Information: This information is needed to
determine the eligibility of households applying for disaster food
stamp assistance and for maintaining records regarding the disaster
food stamp program.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government;
Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 92,433.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 51,132.
Title: Coupon Account and Destruction Report.
Summary: The Food Stamp Act of 1977 requires an appropriate
procedure for determining and monitoring the level of coupon
inventories under the control of issuance agents for the purpose of
maintaining inventories at proper levels. The procedure also involves
monitoring coupon deliveries, in-state transfers and return of coupons
to inventory and exercising control over the destruction of unusable
coupons.
Need and Use of the Information: This collection accounts for
coupons received as payment on recipient claims mutilated or improperly
manufactured old series coupons for exchange and coupons returned for
miscellaneous reasons. FCS-471 is the vehicle that transmits unusable
coupons to a destruction point, and in the documentation for destroyed
coupons.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government;
Federal Government.
Number of Respondents: 10,276.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Monthly.
Total Burden Hours: 40,331.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Application for Inspection & Certification of Animal
Byproducts.
Summary: USDA Veterinary Services provide export certification
services to U.S. processors desiring to qualify shipment of certain
animal byproducts for export to foreign countries.
Need and Use of the Information: Without proper certification
importing countries will not accept products, and applicant would be
unable to conduct business with that country.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 20.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On Occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 10.
Forest Service
Title: Commercial Use of ``Woodsy Owl'' Symbol.
Summary: Business can be licensed to use the ``Woodsy Owl'' symbol
for commercial purposes.
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Need and Use of the Information: Information is needed to collect
royalty fees and to gauge effectiveness of licenses in meeting
guaranteed sales objectives.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Frequencey of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly.
Total Burden Hours: 60.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Scrapie Flock Certification, Animal Identification, and
Indemnification Procedures.
Summary: Legislation allows the Secretary of Agriculture to
prevent, control and eliminate domestic diseases such as scrapie, as
well as to take action to prevent and to mange exotic diseases such as
hog cholera, and African swine fever.
Need and Use of the Information: The information is needed to
assist in disease prevention.
Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit;
Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 1,180.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 15,846.
Title: Horse Protection Regulations.
Summary: The information collection certifies and licenses
designated qualified persons and horse industry organizations.
Need and Use of the Information: The information provides the
primary means of detacting ``sore'' horses and eliminating them from
exhibition or showing.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 650.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly;
Monthly; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 7,195.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Irish Potatoes Grown in Colorado--Marketing Order 948.
Summary: Marketing Order was designed to permit regulation of
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and improving returns to
growers.
Need and Use of the Information: The information is used for
program compliance.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 592.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Biennially; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 578.
Food and Consumer Service
Title: Federal Collection Methods for Food Stamp Program Recipient
Claims.
Summary: This Program is designed to help collect money owed for
overissued food stamp benefits.
Need and Use of the Information: Data is needed to assure unpaid
claims are properly noted and efforts to collect monies are valid.
Description of Respondents: Individuals or household; Federal
Government; State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 327,552.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Weekly; Quarterly; Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 72,862.
Farm Service Agency
Title: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), 7 CFR Parts 704 and
1410.
Summary: The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) regulations set
forth the basic policies, program provisions, and eligibility
requirements for owners and operators to enter into and carry out long-
term CRP contracts with financial and technical assistance and for
making cost-share and annual rental payments under the program.
Need and Use of the Information: The information is needed to
implement and provide program benefits under the current legislation.
Description of Respondents: Farms; Individuals or households.
Number of Respondents: 272,500.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; One-time only.
Total Burden Hours: 34,371.
Emergency Processing of This Submission Has Been Requested by:
August 23, 1996.
Larry Roberson,
Deputy Departmental Clearance Officer.
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