This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

15859 

Vol. 76, No. 55 

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

5 CFR Chapter VII 

41 CFR Chapters 101, 102, and 105, 

and Subtitle F 

48 CFR Chapters 5 and 61 

[EO 013563–OGP–1; Docket 2011–0010; 

Sequence 1] 

Reducing Regulatory Burden; 

Retrospective Review under E.O. 

13563 

AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide 

Policy, General Services Administration 

(GSA). 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration (GSA) is requesting 

public input on how it can best 

implement the goals of Executive Order 

(EO) 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review.’’ E.O. 132563 was 

signed by President Obama on January 

18, 2011, calls for an improvement in 

the creation and review of regulations 

and the better opportunities for the 

public to be part of this process. GSA 

will solicit public input through April 

15, 2011, via comments received on a 

blog located at http://www.gsa.gov/ 

improvingregulations. Later this year, 

GSA expects to release its retrospective 

review plan. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted 

through April 15, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

clarification of content, contact General 

Services Administration, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy, Office of 

Travel, Transportation and Asset 

Management, at (202) 501–1777. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

Executive Order 13563 directs each 

federal agency to consider ‘‘how best to 

promote retrospective analysis of rules 

that may be outmoded, ineffective, 

insufficient, or excessively 

burdensome.’’ The EO calls on every 

agency to develop ‘‘a preliminary plan, 

consistent with law and its resources 

and regulatory priorities, under which 

the agency will periodically review its 

existing significant regulations to 

determine whether such regulations 

should be modified, streamlined, 

expanded or repealed to make the 

agency’s regulatory program more 

effective and or less burdensome in 

achieving its regulatory objectives.’’ 

B. Procedures 

Comments on Executive Order 13563 

can be posted on a blog located on the 

Internet at http://www.gsa.gov/ 

improvingregulations. To view 

Executive Order 13563 got to http:// 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys and enter ‘‘executive 

order 13563’’ in the search box. 

Dated: March 17, 2011. 

Janet Dobbs, 

Director, Office of Travel, Transportation and 

Asset Management. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6657 Filed 3–21–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

7 CFR Part 1463 

RIN 0560–AI12 

Tobacco Transition Payment Program; 

Cigar and Cigarette Per Unit 

Assessments 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation 

and Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC) is requesting 

comments about the calculation of 

assessments to fund the Tobacco 

Transition Payment Program (TTPP). 

Currently the cigar portion of the 

assessment uses a per unit calculation 

that treats all cigars, large and small, the 

same. That policy is under review as the 

result of a court decision. This review 

could also affect cigarettes, which are 

subject to similar provisions. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by May 23, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comment, please specify RIN 0560–AI12 

and include the volume, date, and page 

number of this issue of the Federal 

Register. You may submit comments by 

either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Jane Reed, Economic and 

Policy Analysis Staff, Farm Service 

Agency, USDA, 1400 Independence 

Ave., SW., Mail Stop 0515, Washington, 

DC 20250–0514. 

Comments may be inspected at the 

above address, in room 3722, between 

8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through 

Friday, except holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane 

Reed; phone: (202) 720–6782. Persons 

with disabilities or who require 

alternative means for communication 

(Braille, large print, audio tape, etc.) 

should contact the USDA Target Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background—TTPP Authority and 

Existing Regulations 

TTPP was enacted in the Fair and 

Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 

(FETRA) (7 U.S.C. 518–519a). FETRA 

was enacted as Title VI of Public Law 

108–357. FETRA ended the former 

tobacco quota program and price 

supports, and created the 10-year (2005 

through 2014) roughly $10 billion total 

TTPP. TTPP provides transition 

payments to certain tobacco producers 

and farm owners. TTPP is funded by 

assessments on manufacturers and 

importers of tobacco products. TTPP is 

sometimes called the ‘‘tobacco buyout’’ 

program. It is run by the Farm Service 

Agency (FSA) of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) on behalf of CCC. 

TTPP regulations are in 7 CFR part 

1463. 

Scope of This Request for Comments 

This notice involves the collection of 

TTPP assessments, which are 

authorized in section 625 of FETRA (see 

7 U.S.C. 518d). This notice focuses on 

the ‘‘Step B’’ cigar assessment, explained 

in greater detail below and addressed in 

§ 1463.7 of the regulations. More 

specifically, this notice focuses on how 

those assessments are calculated for 

cigars, given that cigars vary widely in 

size, weight, and value but are assessed 

using a method based on the number of 

cigars handled. 


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