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Notices Federal Register

1592 

Vol. 76, No. 7 

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

January 6, 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), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, D.C. 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. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Specified Risk Materials. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0129. 

Summary of Collection: The Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has 

been delegated the authority to exercise 

the functions of the Secretary as 

provided in the Federal Meat Inspection 

Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) This 

statutes mandate that FSIS protect the 

public by ensuring that meat products 

are safe, wholesome, not adulterated, 

and properly labeled and packaged. 

FSIS requires that official 

establishments that slaughter cattle and 

or process carcasses or parts of cattle 

develop written procedures for the 

removal, segregation, and disposition of 

specified risk materials (SRMs). 

Establishments are also required by 

FSIS to maintain daily records sufficient 

document the implementation and 

monitoring of their procedures for the 

removal, segregation, and disposition of 

SRMs, and any corrective actions taken 

to ensure that such procedures are 

effective. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS will collect information from 

establishments to ensure meat and meat 

products distributed in commerce for 

use as human food do not contain 

SMRs. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 3,512. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 123,916. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Advanced Meat Recovery 

Systems. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0130. 

Summary of Collection: The Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has 

been delegated the authority to exercise 

the functions of the Secretary as 

provided in the Federal Meat Inspection 

Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) This 

statutes mandate that FSIS protect the 

public by ensuring that meat products 

are safe, wholesome, not adulterated, 

and properly labeled and packaged. 

FSIS requires that official 

establishments that produce meat from 

Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) 

systems ensure that bones used for AMR 

systems do not contain brain, trigeminal 

ganglia, or spinal cord; to test for 

calcium (at a different level than 

previously required), iron, spinal cord, 

and dorsal root ganglia (DRG); to 

document their testing protocols, to 

assess manner that does not cause 

product to be misbranded or 

adulterated; and to maintain records of 

their documentation and test results. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS will collect information from 

establishments to ensure that the meat 

products produced by the use of AMR 

systems is free from Bovine Spongiform 

Encephalopathy (BSE). 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 56. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 25,209. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–358 Filed 1–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0039] 

National Poultry Improvement Plan; 

General Conference Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: We are giving notice of a 

meeting of the General Conference 

Committee of the National Poultry 

Improvement Plan. 

DATES: The General Conference 

Committee meeting will be held on 

January 26, 2011, from 1:30 p.m. to 

5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Georgia World Congress Center, 285 

Andrew Young International Boulevard 

NW., Atlanta, GA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Andrew R. Rhorer, Senior Coordinator, 

National Poultry Improvement Plan, VS, 

APHIS, 1498 Klondike Road, Suite 101, 

Conyers, GA 30094–5104; (770) 922– 

3496. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

General Conference Committee (the 

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Committee) of the National Poultry 

Improvement Plan (NPIP), representing 

cooperating State agencies and poultry 

industry members, serves an essential 

function by acting as a liaison between 

the poultry industry and the Department 

in matters pertaining to poultry health. 

The Committee meets to discuss 

significant poultry health issues and 

makes recommendations to improve the 

NPIP program. 

Topics for discussion at the upcoming 

meeting include: 

1. Salmonella methodology. 

2. Approval of rapid assays. 

3. FDA equivalency. 

4. NPIP database. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. However, due to time 

constraints, the public will not be 

allowed to participate in the discussions 

during the meeting. Written statements 

on meeting topics may be filed with the 

Committee before or after the meeting 

by sending them to the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Written statements may also 

be filed at the meeting. Please refer to 

Docket No. APHIS–2010–0039 when 

submitting your statements. 

This notice of meeting is given 

pursuant to section 10 of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of 

January 2011. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–346 Filed 1–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Information Collection; Measurement 

Service Records 

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking 

comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

the Measurement Service Records. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by March 14, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, volume and 

page number, the OMB Control Number 

and the title of the information 

collection of this issue of the Federal 

Register. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Mail: Joe Lewis, Common 

Provisions Branch, Production 

Emergencies and Compliance Division, 

USDA, FSA, Farm Programs 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., STOP 

0517, Washington, DC 20250–0523. 

• E-mail: Joe.Lewis@wdc.usda.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 720–4941. 

You may also send comments to the 

Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe 

Lewis, USDA, Farm Service Agency, 

Production Emergencies and 

Compliance Division, (202) 720–0795, 

or Todd.Anderson@wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection 

Title: Measurement Service Records. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0260. 

Expiration Date: 05/31/2011. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Abstract: The producers request a 

measurement of acreage or production 

from the FSA. Producers use form FSA– 

409 (Measurement Service Record) to 

make a request, which requires a 

measurement fee to be paid FSA. 

Producers provide the acreage and 

production information to the FSA 

when obtaining program benefits. 

Measurement service procedure is 

followed in accordance with 7 CFR part 

718 and FSA Handbook 2–CP. The FSA 

is using the collected information to 

provide acreage or production 

measurements to producers and to 

ensure that measurements are accurate. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: Public 

reporting burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average .25 

hours per response. The travel time, 

which is included in the total annual 

burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per 

respondent. 

Respondents: Producers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

135,000. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual of Responses: 

135,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 168,750 hours. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of this information collection to 

help us to: 

(1) Evaluate 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; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

(4) 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. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission for OMB approval. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 4, 

2011. 

Jonathan Coppess, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2011–345 Filed 1–10–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Central Idaho Resource 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authorities in 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463) and under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 110– 

343), the Salmon-Challis National 

Forest’s Central Idaho Resource 

Advisory Committee will conduct a 

business meeting which is open to the 

public. 

DATES: Monday, January 25, 2011, 

beginning at 10 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Salmon-Challis N.F. South 

Zone Office, Highway 93, Challis, Idaho. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

topics will include, presentation of 

proposed projects, evaluation of some 

projects proposals, and approval and 

recommendation of some projects for 

Title II funding for 2011 and 2012. Some 

RAC members may attend the meeting 

by conference call, telephone, or 

electronically. The meeting is open to 

the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frank V. Guzman, Forest Supervisor 

and Designated Federal Officer, at 208– 

756–5111. 

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