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

22058 

Vol. 76, No. 76 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

2 CFR Chapter IX 

5 CFR Chapter LXXIII 

7 CFR Subtitle A and Chapters I 

Through VII, XIV Through XVIII, XX, 

XXVI Through XXXVIII, XLI, and XLII 

9 CFR Chapters I Through III 

36 CFR Chapter II 

48 CFR Chapter 4 

Reducing Regulatory Burden; 

Retrospective Review Under Executive 

Order 13563 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA. 

ACTION: Request for Information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Executive 

Order 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review,’’ the Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) is reviewing its 

existing regulations to evaluate their 

continued effectiveness in addressing 

the circumstances for which they were 

promulgated. As part of this review, 

USDA invites public comment to assist 

in analyzing its existing significant 

regulations to determine whether they 

should be modified, streamlined, 

expanded, or repealed. 

The focus of USDA’s initial review is 

to identify areas where it can simplify 

and reduce the reporting burden on the 

public for entry and access to USDA 

programs, while simultaneously 

reducing its administrative and 

operating costs by sharing similar data 

across participating agencies. 

DATES: Comments and information are 

requested on or before May 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice. All submissions must refer 

to ‘‘Retrospective Review’’ to ensure 

proper delivery. 

Electronic Submission of Comments. 

Interested persons may submit 

comments electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. USDA strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, and ensures 

timely receipt by USDA. Commenters 

should follow the instructions provided 

on that site to submit comments 

electronically. 

E-mail Submission of Comments. 

Comments may be submitted by E-mail: 

reg.review@obpa.usda.gov. E-mail 

submission of comments must include 

the term ‘‘Retrospective Review’’ in the 

subject line of the message. 

Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Paper, disk, or CD–ROM submissions 

should be submitted to Julie Hetrick, 

Office of Budget and Program Analysis, 

USDA, Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 

101–A, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Submission of Comments by Hand 

Delivery/Courier: Julie Hetrick, Office of 

Budget and Program Analysis, USDA, 

Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 101– 

A, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Background: To read background 

information on Executive Order 13563, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov/ 

exchange/topic/eo-13563. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Hetrick, Office of Budget and Program 

Analysis, Jamie L. Whitten Building, 

Room 101–A, USDA, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20250; Voice: (202) 720–1269. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Executive Order 13563 

On January 18, 2011, the President 

issued Executive Order 13563, 

‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,’’ to ensure that Federal 

regulations use the best available tools 

to promote innovation that will reduce 

costs and burden while allowing public 

participation and an open exchange of 

ideas. These principles will enhance 

and strengthen Federal regulations to 

allow them to achieve their regulatory 

objectives, most important among them, 

protecting public health, welfare, safety, 

and the environment. In consideration 

of these principles, and as directed by 

the Executive Order, Federal agencies 

and departments need to periodically 

review and consider existing regulations 

that may be outmoded, ineffective, 

insufficient, or excessively burdensome 

and to modify, streamline, expand, or 

repeal them in accordance with what 

has been learned. As part of this 

retrospective review of regulations, and 

as USDA develops a preliminary plan to 

periodically review the regulatory 

programs of its mission areas, USDA is 

seeking public comment on how best to 

remove obstacles created by current 

regulations and ways to improve them 

to help USDA agencies advance the 

mission of the Department. 

II. Request for Information 

USDA is contemplating focusing its 

initial retrospective review under 

Executive Order 13563 in the following 

areas: Rural Development, Farm Service 

Agency, Natural Resources Conservation 

Service, and the Food Safety and 

Inspection Service. Each area has 

identified potential issues for review. 

USDA is particularly interested in 

public comments that speak to these 

areas and the issues identified below. 

A. Rural Development 

To better serve its customers, Rural 

Development (RD) is considering a 

review of its regulations in order to 

determine whether certain application 

procedures can be streamlined. RD is 

particularly interested in hearing from 

the public on how best to streamline 

certain application procedures to reflect 

the size and risk of certain types of 

loans and grants, including required 

audits, paperwork, and forms, and other 

ways to reduce excessive burdens. 

B. Farm and Foreign Agricultural 

Services 

The Farm and Foreign Agricultural 

Services (FFAS) mission area is 

considering a review of process 

improvements that could be achieved 

through the consolidation of 

information required to participate in 

farm programs administered by the 

Farm Service Agency and the Federal 

Crop Insurance Program administered 

by the Risk Management Agency. FFAS 

is interested in hearing from the public 

on how best to simplify and 

standardize, to the extent practical, 

acreage reporting processes, program 

dates, and data definitions across the 

various USDA programs and agencies. 

FFAS also welcomes comments on how 

best to develop procedures, processes, 

and standards that will allow producers 

to use information from their farmmanagement and precision-ag systems 


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for reporting production, planted and 

harvested acreage, and other key 

information needed to participate in 

USDA programs. These process changes 

may allow for program data that is 

common across agencies to be collected 

once and utilized or redistributed to 

agency programs in which the producer 

chooses to participate. It also may 

provide a single Web site for producers 

to report commodity information if they 

so choose, or access their previously 

reported information. 

C. Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

The Natural Resources Conservation 

Service (NRCS) is considering a review 

of its regulations consistent with its 

other ongoing streamlining efforts to 

improve the processes that deliver 

technical and financial assistance to 

program users. To inform this process, 

NRCS welcomes comments on 

approaches that will allow NRCS to 

enhance its delivery of technical 

assistance and streamline the 

application process and participation in 

financial assistance programs. NRCS is 

specifically interested in comments on 

such approaches as allowing customers 

to apply for programs or services online 

24/7, reducing the number of office 

visits required through the use of mobile 

technologies, accelerating payments to 

clients after a practice is applied, and 

simplifying conservation plan 

documents. 

D. Food Safety and Inspection Service 

The Food Safety and Inspection 

Service (FSIS) is considering a review of 

its regulations to identify potential 

improvements in information collection 

procedures to increase the quality of 

data available to inform and support 

regulatory decision making. For 

example, FSIS is considering collecting 

additional information about 

establishment verification testing, such 

as testing for pathogens. FSIS is also 

considering potential means to decrease 

the recordkeeping burden on industry, 

by possibly reducing label submission 

requirements. In addition, FSIS is also 

considering how its new Public Health 

Information System could potentially be 

used to share data and reduce data 

reporting requirements. To aid this 

effort, FSIS invites the public to 

comment on how best to improve data 

quality and minimize the recordkeeping 

burden on industry. 

III. Questions for Commenters 

In providing comments, the public is 

encouraged to respond to the questions 

as they pertain to the four areas 

identified above: 

(1) Are there regulations or reporting 

requirements that have become outdated 

and, if so, how can they be modernized 

to accomplish their regulatory objectives 

better? 

(2) Do agencies currently collect 

information that they do not need or use 

effectively to achieve regulatory 

objectives? 

(3) Is there information that agencies 

should begin collecting to achieve 

regulatory objectives? 

(4) Are there regulations, reporting 

requirements, or regulatory submission 

or application processes that are 

unnecessarily complicated, or that 

could be streamlined to achieve 

regulatory objectives in ways that are 

more efficient? 

(5) Are there regulations, submission 

and application processes, or reporting 

requirements that have been overtaken 

by technological developments? Can 

new technologies be used to modify, 

streamline, or do away with existing 

regulatory or reporting requirements? 

This is a non-exhaustive list that is 

meant to assist in the formulation of 

comments and is not intended to limit 

the issues that commenters may choose 

to address. Although we are 

contemplating on focusing our initial 

review on the four areas identified 

above, we welcome comments from the 

public on any of USDA’s regulations 

and ways to improve them to help 

USDA agencies advance the mission of 

the Department consistent with the 

Executive Order. We encourage the 

public to comment on those rules that 

have been in effect for a sufficient 

amount of time to warrant meaningful 

evaluation. USDA notes that this RFI is 

issued solely for information and 

program-planning purposes. While 

responses to this RFI do not bind USDA 

to any further actions related to the 

response, all submissions will be made 

publicly available on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on April 12, 

2011. 

Thomas J. Vilsack, 

Secretary of Agriculture. 

[FR Doc. 2011–9522 Filed 4–19–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2011–0382; Directorate 

Identifier 2010–NM–063–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing 

Company Model 757 Airplanes, and 

Model 767–200, 767–300, and 767–300F 

Series Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: We propose to supersede an 

existing airworthiness directive (AD) 

that applies to the products listed above. 

The existing AD currently requires 

revising the Limitations section of the 

airplane flight manual (AFM) to advise 

the flight crew of procedures to follow 

to ensure that a fuel filter impending 

bypass condition due to gross fuel 

contamination is detected in a timely 

manner. Since we issued that AD, a new 

design change has been developed that 

will correct an error in the operating 

program software (OPS) of the engine 

indication and crew alerting system 

(EICAS). This proposed AD would 

require installing new OPS (Version 7) 

of the EICAS in the EICAS computers. 

This proposed AD would also require 

various concurrent actions, depending 

on the airplane configuration, including 

installing a certain EICAS OPS version, 

making wiring changes, replacing the 

audio accessory unit, replacing certain 

handsets and EICAS computers, 

changing EICAS computer connector 

keying, and loading Operational 

Program Configuration (OPC) software. 

This proposed AD also retains the 

existing AD provision that relieves 

certain airplanes (those equipped with 

certain EICAS OPS versions) from the 

proposed requirements. 

Accomplishment of the new proposed 

actions would terminate the 

requirements of the existing AD. We are 

proposing this AD to prevent 

malfunction and thrust loss on both 

engines, which could result in a forced 

off-airport landing. 

DATES: We must receive comments on 

this proposed AD by June 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 


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