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Management Agenda initiatives, Budget 

and Performance Integration, builds on 

GPRA and earlier efforts to identify 

program goals and performance 

measures, and link them to the budget 

process. The FAIR Act requires the 

development and implementation of a 

system to monitor and evaluate 

agricultural research and extension 

activities in order to measure the impact 

and effectiveness of research, extension, 

and education programs. AREERA 

requires a performance evaluation to be 

conducted to determine whether 

Federally funded agricultural research, 

extension, and education programs 

result in public goods that have national 

or multi-state significance. 

The immediate need of this 

information collection is to provide a 

means for satisfying accountability 

requirements. The long term objective is 

to provide a means to enable the 

evaluation and assessment of the 

effectiveness of programs receiving 

Federal funds and to fully satisfy 

requirements of performance and 

accountability legislation in GPRA, the 

FAIR Act, and AREERA. 

Estimate of Burden: There are 

currently CYFAR projects in 48 States of 

the United States and 2 territories. Each 

state and territory is required to 

electronically submit an annual year 

end report to CSREES. The year end 

report includes demographic and 

impact data on each of the community 

projects. CSREES estimates the burden 

of this collection to be 322 hours per 

response. There are currently 50 

respondents, thus making the total 

annual burden of this collection an 

estimated 16,100 hours. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed 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 the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(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.

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

September 2004. 

Joseph J. Jen, 

Under Secretary, Research, Education, and 

Economics.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Cooperative State Research, 

Education, and Extension Service 

Notice of Intent To Establish an 

Information Collection

AGENCY: Cooperative State Research, 

Education, and Extension Service, 

USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

regulations (5 CFR 1320) that implement 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice 

announces the Cooperative State 

Research, Education, and Extension 

Service’s (CSREES) intention to request 

approval to establish an information 

collection for the 4–H Youth 

Development Annual Enrollment 

Report.

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received by December 3, 2004 

to be assured of consideration. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

concerning this notice may be mailed to 

Jason Hitchcock, E-Government Program 

Leader, Information Systems and 

Technology Management, CSREES, 

USDA, STOP 2216, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250–

2216 or sent electronically to: 

jhitchcock@csrees.usda.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request a copy of the information 

collection, contact Jason Hitchcock at 

(202) 720–4343; facsimile at (202) 720–

0857; or electronically at: 

jhitchcock@csrees.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: 4–H Youth Development 

Annual Enrollment Report. 

OMB Number: 0524–NEW. 

Expiration Date of Current Approval:

Not applicable. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to establish an information 

collection for three years. 

Abstract: As early as 1902 USDA 

Demonstration field staff and 

progressive educators around the 

country began to work with groups of 

young rural boys and girls in practical 

applications of research knowledge 

through hands-on agricultural and home 

economics-related subjects which 

evolved into 4–H. Over time, 4–H 

became the largest non-formal youth 

development program in the country, 

and has remained so. 

4–H is a complex national 

organization, involving the National 4–

H Headquarters, CSREES, USDA, and 

hundreds of educational curricula, 

activities, and events for youth K 

through 12th grade. Programs originate 

at 105 land-grant universities, and local 

programs are conducted and managed 

by some 4,000 professional Extension 

staff in 3,050 counties, with nearly 

seven million youth enrolled each year. 

Nearly 600,000 volunteer leaders work 

directly with the 4–H youth. The 

Annual 4–H Enrollment Report is the 

principal means by which the 4–H 

movement keeps track of its progress, as 

well as emerging needs, potential 

problems and opportunities. 

The evaluation processes of 4–H are 

consistent with the requirements of 

Congressional legislation and OMB. The 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA) (Pub. L. 103–62), 

the Federal Activities Inventory Reform 

Act of 1998 (FAIR Act) (Pub. L. 105–

270), and the Agricultural, Research, 

Extension and Education Reform Act of 

1998 (AREERA)(Pub. L. 105–185), 

together with OMB requirements, 

support the reporting requirements 

requested in this information collection. 

One of the five Presidential 

Management Agenda initiatives, Budget 

and Performance Integration, builds on 

GPRA and earlier efforts to identify 

program goals and performance 

measures, and link them to the budget 

process. The FAIR Act requires the 

development and implementation of a 

system to monitor and evaluate 

agricultural research and extension 

activities in order to measure the impact 

and effectiveness of research, extension, 

and education programs. AREERA 

requires a performance evaluation to be 

conducted to determine whether 

federally funded agricultural research, 

extension, and education programs 

result in public goods that have national 

or multi-state significance. 

All of the information necessary to 

run the county-level 4–H program is 

collected by the county from 

individuals, Clubs, and other Units. It is 

maintained electronically at the County 

4–H offices in cumulative individual 

and Club electronic records within the 

County 4–H program management 

software system. Annually each county 

sends their State 4–H office an 

electronic aggregated summary of their 

4–H enrollment. 

One professional 4–H staff member in 

each State or Territory annually uses 

their program management software to 

electronically aggregate the 4–H 

enrollment for their State or Territory 

into a standardized format in a database 

flat file. Only certain categories from the 

flat file are forwarded to CSREES. None 

of the aggregated summary information 

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collected by CSREES contains sensitive 

information of an individual nature.

Estimate of Burden: Each year, the 

State 4–H office aggregates all electronic 

County 4–H enrollment reports into the 

State 4–H enrollment report, and 

transmits it electronically to CSREES. 

The applicable Territories similarly 

transmit aggregated information. This 

requirement constitutes the Federal 

burden CSREES imposes on the States 

and Territories and is the only burden 

measured and accounted for in this 

estimate. CSREES estimates that it takes 

one State or Territory 31 hours to 

aggregate the local level information and 

transmit the summary information to 

CSREES. There are a total of 57 

responses annually, thus constituting a 

total annual estimated burden of 1,767 

hours for this information collection. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed 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 the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(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.

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

September, 2004. 

Joseph J. Jen, 

Under Secretary, Research, Education, and 

Economics.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. 04–030N] 

Codex Alimentarius: Meeting of the 

Codex Committee on Residues of 

Veterinary Drugs in Foods

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public 

that the Office of the Under Secretary 

for Food Safety, United States 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), and 

the Center for Veterinary Medicine 

(CVM), Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA), are sponsoring a public meeting 

on Tuesday, September 28, 2004, to 

provide information and receive public 

comments on agenda items that will be 

discussed at the Fifteenth Session of the 

Codex Committee on Residues in 

Veterinary Drugs in Foods, which will 

be held in Alexandria, VA, October 26–

29, 2004. The Under Secretary and CVM 

recognize the importance of providing 

interested parties with information 

about the Codex Committee on Residues 

of Veterinary Drugs in Foods of the 

Codex Alimentarius Commission and to 

address items on the Agenda for the 

15th Session of the Committee.

DATES: The public meeting is scheduled 

for Tuesday, September 28 from 10 a.m. 

to 1 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the Best Western Washington 

Gateway Hotel, 1251 West Montgomery 

Avenue, Rockville, MD., 20850 (Main 

Ballroom). (The Hotel will provide 

shuttle service from the Rockville Metro 

Stop to the Hotel at 9:30 a.m.) 

FSIS invites interested persons to 

submit comments on this notice. 

Comments may be submitted by any of 

the following methods: 

Mail, including floppy disks or CD–

ROM’s, and hand- or courier-delivered 

items: Send to Docket Clerk, USDA, 

FSIS, 300 12th Street, SW., Room 102 

Cotton Annex, Washington, DC, 20250. 

All submissions received must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number 04–030N. 

All comments submitted in response 

to this notice, as well as research and 

background information used by FSIS in 

developing this document, will be 

available for public inspection in the 

FSIS Docket Room at the address listed 

above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. The comments 

also will be posted on the Agency’s Web 

site at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/

rdad/FRDockets.htm.

Research and background information 

will also be accessible via the World 

Wide Web at the following address: 

http://www.codexalimentarius.net.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Edith E. Kennard, Staff Officer, U.S. 

Codex Office, FSIS, Room 4861, South 

Building, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC, 20250, Phone: 

(202) 720–5261, Fax: (202) 720–3157, Email: edith.kennard@fsis.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission 

was established in 1962 by two United 

Nations organizations, the Food and 

Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the 

World Health Organization (WHO). 

Codex is the major international 

organization facilitating fair 

international trade in food and 

protecting the health and economic 

interests of consumers. Through 

adoption of food standards, codes of 

practice, and other guidelines 

developed by its committees, and by 

promoting their adoption and 

implementation by governments, Codex 

seeks to ensure that the world’s food 

supply is sound, wholesome, free from 

adulteration, and correctly labeled. In 

the United States, USDA, FDA, and the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

manage and carry out U.S. Codex 

activities. 

The Codex Committee on Residues of 

Veterinary Drugs in Foods was 

established in 1985 by the 16th Session 

of the Codex Alimentarius Commission 

to determine priorities for the 

consideration of residues of veterinary 

drugs in foods and to recommend 

maximum levels of such substances; to 

develop codes of practice as may be 

required; and to consider methods of 

sampling and analysis for the 

determination of veterinary drug 

residues in foods. The Committee is 

chaired by the United States. 

Issues To Be Discussed at the Public 

Meeting 

Provisional agenda items: 

1. Draft Maximum Residue Limits 

(MRLs) for Veterinary Drugs 

(Flumequine, neomycin, dicyclanil, 

carbodox, melengestrol acetate and 

trichlorforn (metrifonate), phoxim, 

cyalothrin, and cefuroxime). 

2. Proposed Draft Maximum Residue 

Limits for Veterinary Drugs 

(Cypermethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, 

imidocarb, flumequine, pirlimycin, 

cypermethrin/alpha cypermethrin, 

doramectin, and ractopamine). 

3. Proposed Draft Code of Practice to 

Minimize and Contain Antimicrobial 

Resistance. 

4. Proposed Draft Revised Guidelines 

for the Establishment of a Regulatory 

Program for the Control of Veterinary 

Drug Residues in Foods.

5. Proposed Draft Revised Part II 

‘‘General Consideration on Analytical 

Methods for Residue Control’’ of the 

Codex Guidelines for the Establishment 

of a Regulatory Program for the Control 

of Veterinary Drug Residues in Foods. 

6. Discussion Paper on Risk 

Management Methodologies, Including 

Risk Assessment Policies, in the Codex 

Committee of Veterinary Drugs in 

Foods. 

7. Review of Performance-based 

Criteria for Methods of Analysis. 

8. Consideration of the Priority List of 

Veterinary Drugs Requiring Evaluation 

or Re-evaluation.