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Criteria, ‘‘An Evaluation of the Role of 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods.’’ The 

current charter for the NACMCF and 

other information about the Committee 

are available for viewing on the 

NACMCF home page at http://

www.fsis.usda.gov/About_FSIS/

NACMCF/index.asp. 

The Committee provides scientific 

advice and recommendations to the 

Secretary of Agriculture and the 

Secretary of Health and Human Services 

concerning the development of 

microbiological criteria by which the 

safety and wholesomeness of food can 

be assessed. For example, the 

Committee assists in the development of 

criteria for microorganisms that indicate 

whether food has been processed using 

good manufacturing practices.

Appointments to the Committee will 

be made by the Secretary of Agriculture 

after consultation with the Secretary of 

Health and Human Services to ensure 

that recommendations made by the 

Committee take into account the needs 

of the diverse groups served by the 

Department. Membership shall include, 

to the extent practicable, individuals 

with demonstrated ability to represent 

minorities, women, and persons with 

disabilities. 

Given the complexity of issues, the 

full Committee expects to meet at least 

once yearly, and the meetings will be 

announced in the Federal Register. The 

subcommittees will meet as deemed 

necessary by the chairperson and will 

be held as working group meetings in an 

open public forum. The subcommittee 

meetings will not be announced in the 

Federal Register. FSIS will announce 

the agenda and subcommittee working 

group meetings through the Constituent 

Update available on-line at http://

www.fsis.usda.gov. NACMCF holds 

subcommittee working group meetings 

in order to accomplish the work of 

NACMCF; all work accomplished by the 

subcommittees is reviewed and 

approved by the full Committee during 

a public meeting of the full Committee, 

as announced in the Federal Register. 

The subcommittee may invite technical 

experts to present information for 

consideration by the subcommittee. All 

data and records available to the full 

Committee are expected to be available 

to the public at the time the full 

Committee reviews and approves the 

work of the subcommittee. 

Appointment to the Advisory 

Committee is a two-year term; 

renewable for a total of three 

consecutive terms. Members must be 

prepared to work outside of scheduled 

Committee and subcommittee meetings, 

and may be required to assist in 

document preparation. Committee 

members serve on a voluntary basis; 

however, travel reimbursement and per 

diem are available. 

Regarding Nominees Who Are Selected 

All nominees who are selected must 

submit a USDA Advisory Committee 

Membership Background Information 

form AD–755, available on-line at:

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FSISForms/

AD–755.pdf.

In particular to their appointment, 

SGEs must complete the Office of 

Government Ethics (OGE) 450 

Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Report, as new entrants before rendering 

any advice, or prior to their first 

meeting. All members will be reviewed 

for conflict of interest pursuant to 18 

U.S.C. 208 in relation to specific 

NACMCF work charges. Financial 

disclosure updates will be required of 

members before each meeting. Members 

must report any changes in financial 

holdings requiring additional 

disclosure. OGE 450 forms are available 

on-line at: http://www.usoge.gov/pages/

forms_pubs_otherdocs/fpo_files/forms/

fr450fill_03.pdf.

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that the public and in particular 

minorities, women, and persons with 

disabilities, are aware of this notice, 

FSIS will announce it both on-line 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov and the 

NACMCF Web page at http://

www.fsis.usda.gov/About_FSIS/

NACMCF/index.asp. 

FSIS also will make copies of this 

Federal Register publication available 

through the FSIS Constituent Update, 

which is used to provide information 

regarding FSIS policies, procedures, 

regulations, Federal Register notices, 

FSIS public meetings, recalls, and other 

types of information that could affect or 

would be of interest to our constituents 

and stakeholders. The update is 

communicated via Listserv, a free e-mail 

subscription service consisting of 

industry, trade, and farm groups, 

consumer interest groups, allied health 

professionals, scientific professionals, 

and other individuals who have 

requested to be included. The update 

also is available on the FSIS Web page. 

Through Listserv and the Web page, 

FSIS is able to provide information to a 

much broader, more diverse audience.

Done in Washington, DC, on: October 29, 

2004. 

Richard Van Blargan, 

Acting Administrator.

[FR Doc. 04–24602 Filed 11–3–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration 

Official Barley Protein Measurement

AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Grain Inspection, Packers 

and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) 

is announcing its intent to provide 

official protein content measurement for 

barley using an Artificial Neural 

Network (ANN) calibration on the 

official near-infrared transmittance 

(NIRT) instruments. GIPSA will provide 

protein content measurement in barley 

as official criteria under the authority of 

the United States Grain Standards Act 

(USGSA).

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven N. Tanner, Director, Technical 

Services Division, GIPSA, USDA, 10383 

N. Ambassador Drive, Kansas City, 

Missouri 64153; telephone (816) 891–

0401; fax (816) 891–0478.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: GIPSA’s 

official inspection system has not 

previously offered an official test for 

barley protein content. Recently 

developed state-of-the-art Artificial 

Neural Network (ANN) calibration 

development techniques, allow for 

wheat and barley protein content to be 

determined with a greater degree of 

accuracy than was possible with more 

limited calibration approaches. GIPSA 

will begin using an ANN calibration for 

official wheat protein content 

measurement in May 2005 (69 FR 

52645). 

The barley protein content testing 

service will be available, upon request 

of an interested person, as official 

criteria for barley, under the authority of 

the USGSA, as amended. 

Therefore, to better facilitate the 

marketing of barley, and provide official 

barley protein testing to producers and 

other interested parties on a voluntary 

basis, GIPSA is establishing a new 

official criteria, available upon request, 

to determine the protein content of 

barley. GIPSA believes offering this 

service will facilitate the marketing of 

malting barley, by providing a fair, 

accurate and transparent third party 

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determination, backed by a national 

quality control process, and 

standardized instrumentation, reference 

samples, calibrations and procedures. 

As part of GIPSA’s on-going efforts to 

evaluate calibrations and programs, 

GIPSA has thoroughly evaluated the 

accuracy of the ANN calibration. ANNrelated information may be found on 

GIPSA’s Web site at: http://

www.usda.gov/gipsa.

Based on its evaluation, GIPSA has 

decided to implement the new ANN 

barley protein calibration on official 

NIRT instruments on July 1, 2005.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.

Donna Reifschneider, 

Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration.

[FR Doc. 04–24647 Filed 11–3–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–EN–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

National Agricultural Library 

Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To 

Collect Information

AGENCY: USDA, Agricultural Research 

Service, National Agricultural Library.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) and Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR 

Part 1320 (60 FR 44978, August 29, 

1995), this notice announces the 

National Agricultural Library’s intent to 

request approval for renewal 

information collection relating to 

existing nutrition education and 

training materials targeting low-income 

persons. This voluntary form gives Food 

Stamp nutrition education providers the 

opportunity to share resources that they 

have developed or used.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by January 10, 2005 to be 

assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Shannon Fries, 

Technical Information Specialist, Food 

and Nutrition Information Center, 

National Agricultural Library, 10301 

Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 

20705–2351, telephone (301) 504–5368 

or fax (301) 504–6409. 

Submit electronic comments to 

sfries@nal.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Food Stamp Nutrition 

Connection Resource Sharing Form. 

OMB Number: PRA# 0518–0031. 

Expiration Date: Three years from 

date of approval. 

Type of Request: Renewal of existing 

data collection from Food Stamp 

nutrition education providers. 

Abstract: This voluntary ‘‘Sharing 

Form’’ gives Food Stamp nutrition 

education providers the opportunity to 

share information about resources that 

they have developed or used. Data 

collected using this form helps the Food 

and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) 

identify existing nutrition education 

and training resources for review and 

inclusion in an online database. 

Educators can search this database via 

the Food Stamp Nutrition Connection 

Web site http://www.nal.usda.gov/

foodstamp/. In 2001, the United States 

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 

Food and Nutrition Service established 

the Food Stamp Nutrition Connection to 

improve access to Food Stamp Program 

nutrition resources. Educators 

nationwide can use this site to identify 

curricula, lesson plans, research, 

training tools and participant materials. 

Developed and maintained at the 

National Agricultural Library’s FNIC, 

this resource system helps educators 

find the tools and information they need 

to provide quality nutrition education 

for low-income audiences. 

The Sharing Form is available for 

completion online at the Food Stamp 

Nutrition Connection Web site. 

Individuals may also print and return it 

via fax or mail. The form consists of four 

parts. These various sections include: 

Part 1 consisting of three questions 

about the responder; Part 2 with nine 

questions about the resource; Part 3 

with five questions about the resource 

development; and Part 4 with six 

questions about ordering/obtaining the 

resource. Responders are asked to 

complete only relevant sections of the 

form. Instructions about which sections 

to complete, based on one’s relationship 

to the resource, are provided in Part 1. 

For instance, those that use the resource 

but are neither its developer or 

distributor would only complete Parts 1 

and 2. 

This form enables FNIC to inform 

nutrition educators of existing nutrition 

education and training materials 

targeting low-income Americans. This 

identification of existing materials will 

help educators spend their monies 

wisely in the development of needed 

educational resources. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 0.7 minutes per 

response. 

Respondents: Food stamp nutrition 

education providers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 50 

per year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 16 hrs. 

Comments 

Comments are invited on (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

for 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, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and the assumptions used; 

(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 respond, including the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technology. Comments should be sent to 

the address in the preamble. All 

responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval. All comments will 

become a matter of public record.

Dated: October 12, 2004. 

Edward B. Knipling, 

Administrator, ARS.

[FR Doc. 04–24603 Filed 11–3–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–03–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Poinsett Watershed, Craighead and 

Poinsett Counties, AR

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of a Finding of No 

Significant Impact. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102 (2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969; the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR part 1500); and the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service 

Regulations (7 CFR part 650), Natural 

Resources Conservation Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, gives notice 

than an environmental impact statement 

is not being prepared for Segment No. 

7 of Main Ditch, Poinsett Watershed, 

Craighead and Poinsett Counties, 

Arkansas.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kalven L. Trice, State Conservationist, 

Natural Resources Conservation Service, 

Room 3416, Federal Building, 700 West