58122 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 29, 2004 / Notices 

forfeitures of sugar to the CCC under the 

loan program. When CCC announced a 

8.550 million ton OAQ in August 2003, 

it noted the existence of sugar market 

uncertainties and that the OAQ could be 

adjusted if warranted. The September 

11, 2003, USDA World Agricultural 

Supply and Demand Estimates forecast 

substantially decreased total use in FY 

2003 and FY 2004. Consequently, the 

FY 2004 free ending stocks-to-use ratio 

increased to 17.4 percent, up from 15.1 

percent when the OAQ was established. 

Free ending stocks refer to the portion 

of stocks that are permitted to be sold 

under the sugar marketing allotment 

program. In response, CCC allocated 

96.5 percent of the OAQ in September 

2003 to reduce the free ending stocksto-use ratio closer to levels associated 

with a more balanced market. In April 

2004, CCC reevaluated estimates of 

sugar consumption, stocks, production, 

and imports and determined that 3.5 

percent of the OAQ, or 300,000 tons, 

that was not allocated in September 

would not be needed for a balanced 

market in FY 2004. Thus, the official 

OAQ was reduced by 300,000 tons. In 

July 2004, CCC again revised State cane 

sugar allotments to reflect updated 

production estimates. 

To establish cane state allotments, 

weights of 25 percent, 25 percent, and 

50 percent, respectively, are assigned to 

the three-factor criteria: Past marketings; 

processing capacity; and ability to 

market. Because Puerto Rice forecast 

zero production for the 2003 crop, its 

FY 2004 allotment was reassigned to all 

other cane processors based on their 

respective three-factor proportionate 

shares. 

Proportionate shares relative to the 

acreage of cane sugar that may be 

harvested in Louisiana for sugar or seed 

is set at 84.2 percent of each farm’s cane 

sugar acreage base. These actions apply 

to all domestic sugar marketed for 

human consumption in the United 

States from October 1, 2003, through 

September 30, 2004. 

The established 2003 crop beet and 

cane sugar marketing allotments are 

listed in the following table, along with 

the adjustments that have occurred 

since:

FY 2004 OVERALL BEET/CANE ALLOTMENTS—ESTABLISHMENT AND ADJUSTMENTS

August 13, 2003 

announcement establishing FY04 allotments at 

8,550,000 STRV 

September 30, 

2003 announcement revising 

FY04 allotments 

to 8,250,000 

STRV 

April 9, 2004 announcement adjusting FY04 allotments July 22, 2004 

announcmeent adjusting FY04 allotments 

Beet sugar ............................................................................... 4,646,925 4,483,875 .............................. ..............................

Cane sugar .............................................................................. 3,903,075 3,766,124 .............................. ..............................

Total OAQ ......................................................................... 8,550,000 8,250,000 .............................. ..............................

State cane sugar alltoments: 

Florida ...................................................................................... .............................. 1,877,086 1,910,863 1,949,112 

Louisiana .................................................................................. .............................. 1,411,954 1,376,626 1,403,800 

Texas ....................................................................................... .............................. 157,617 159,230 157,256 

Hawaii ...................................................................................... .............................. 319,468 319,406 255,956 

Puerto Rico .............................................................................. .............................. 0 0 0 

Signed in Washington, DC on September 3, 

2004. 

James R. Little, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation.

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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 Expanded Food and 

Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).

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: Expanded Food and Nutrition 

Education Program (EFNEP). 

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: The USDA’s CSREES EFNEP 

is a unique program that began in 1969, 

designed to reach limited resource 

audiences, especially youth and families 

with young children. EFNEP operates in 

50 States of the United States, American 

Samoa, Guam, Micronesia, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern 

Marianas, the Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the 

United States. Extension professionals 

train and supervise paraprofessionals 

and volunteers who teach food and 

nutrition information and skills to 

limited resource families and youth.

The objectives of EFNEP are to assist 

limited resource families and youth in 

acquiring the knowledge, skills, 

attitudes, and changed behaviors 

necessary for making diet decisions that 

are nutritionally sound, and to 

contribute to their personal 

development and the improvement of 

the total family diet and nutritional 

well-being. 

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The evaluation processes of EFNEP 

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. 

Since 1969, states have annually 

reported demographic and dietary 

behavior change of their EFNEP 

audience to the Federal Cooperative 

Extension Service (CES) EFNEP 

National Program Leader, at CSREES, or 

its preceding agencies, in USDA. 

Through 1992, the reports were 

submitted on OMB approved forms, 

Forms ES–255 and ES–256. The data 

gathered using these forms was of 

limited usefulness at the State and local 

level, and data quality was questionable. 

The Evaluation/Reporting System (E/

RS) is a database that was developed to 

capture the impacts of EFNEP. The 

system provides a variety of reports that 

are useful for management purposes, 

provides diagnostic assessments of 

participant needs, and exports summary 

data for State and National assessment 

of the program’s impact. The 

specifications for this system were 

developed by a committee made up of 

representatives from across the United 

States. 

E/RS stores information in the form of 

records about the program participants, 

their family structure and their dietary 

practices. The system is structured to 

collect data about adult participants, 

youth and youth group members, and 

staff assignments, and hours worked. 

The E/RS consists of separate software 

sub-systems for the county, state, and 

Federal levels. Each county-level system 

accumulates data about individuals. 

This data is exported electronically to 

the state-level system. At the state level, 

university staff imports the data and 

create state reports that are exported 

electronically to the Federal-level 

system. By the time the data gets to the 

Federal level, it is state compiled data 

excluding any personal identifying 

information of participants. National 

reports are then created at the Federal 

level. 

Estimate of Burden: Each year, the 

county offices aggregate local electronic 

data into the state report, and transmit 

it electronically to CSREES. This 

requirement constitutes the Federal 

burden CSREES imposes on the States 

and is the only burden measured and 

accounted for in this estimate. CSREES 

estimates that it takes one State or 

Territory 1,234.5 hours to aggregate the 

local level information and transmit the 

summary information to CSREES. There 

are a total of 56 responses annually, 

thus constituting a total annual 

estimated burden of 69,132 hours for 

this information collection. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the 

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.

[FR Doc. 04–21752 Filed 9–28–04; 8:45 am] 

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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 Children, Youth, and 

Families at Risk (CYFAR).

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: Children, Youth, and Families 

at Risk (CYFAR) Year End 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: Funding for the Children, 

Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) 

New Communities Project (NCP) is 

authorized under section 3(d) of the 

Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 341 et seq.), 

as amended, and other relevant 

authorizing legislation, which provides 

jurisdictional basis for the establishment 

and operation of Extension educational 

work for the benefit of youth and 

families in communities. The CYFAR 

funding program supports communitybased programs serving children, youth, 

and families in at-risk environments. 

CYFAR funds are intended to support 

the development of high quality, 

effective programs based on research 

and to document the impact of these 

programs on intended audiences. The 

CYFAR Year End Report collects 

demographic and impact data from each 

community site which is used by 

CSREES to conduct impact evaluations 

of the programs on its intended 

audience. 

The evaluation processes of CYFAR 

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