This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains documents other than rules or

proposed rules that are applicable to the

public. Notices of hearings and investigations,

committee meetings, agency decisions and

rulings, delegations of authority, filing of

petitions and applications and agency

statements of organization and functions are

examples of documents appearing in this

section.

Notices Federal Register

77139 

Vol. 85, No. 231 

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 

ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF 

THE UNITED STATES 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Assembly of the Administrative 

Conference of the United States 

AGENCY: Administrative Conference of 

the United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 595, the 

Assembly of the Administrative 

Conference of the United States will 

meet during a two-day virtual plenary 

session to consider proposed 

recommendations, a proposed official 

statement, and to conduct other 

business. Written comments may be 

submitted in advance, and the meeting 

will be accessible to the public. 

DATES: The two-day meeting will take 

place on Wednesday, December 16, 

2020, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; and 

Thursday, December 17, 2020, from 10 

a.m.–4 p.m. The meeting may adjourn 

early if all business is finished. 

ADDRESSES: Due to Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention COVID–19 

health guidelines, the meeting will be 

conducted virtually. Information on 

how to access the meeting will be 

available on the agency’s website prior 

to the meeting at https://www.acus.gov/ 

meetings-and-events/plenary-meeting/ 

73rd-plenary-session. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shawne McGibbon, General Counsel 

(Designated Federal Officer), 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036; 

Telephone 202–480–2088; email 

smcgibbon@acus.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States makes recommendations 

to federal agencies, the President, 

Congress, and the Judicial Conference of 

the United States regarding the 

improvement of administrative 

procedures (5 U.S.C. 594). The 

membership of the Conference, when 

meeting in plenary session, constitutes 

the Assembly of the Conference (5 

U.S.C. 595). 

Agenda: The Assembly will receive 

updates on past, current, and pending 

Conference initiatives. In addition, 

pending final action by the Conference’s 

subcommittees and the Council, six 

proposed recommendations and one 

proposed official statement are 

tentatively scheduled for consideration. 

Summaries of the recommendations and 

statement appear below: 

Agency Appellate Systems. This 

proposed recommendation addresses 

agencies’ appellate review of hearinglevel adjudicative decisions. It offers 

best practices with respect to an 

agency’s identification of the purpose or 

objective served by its appellate review; 

its selection of cases for appellate 

review, when review is not required by 

statute; its procedures for review; its 

appellate decision-making processes; its 

management, administration, and 

bureaucratic oversight of its appellate 

systems; and its public disclosure of 

information about its appellate system. 

Agency Litigation web pages. This 

proposed recommendation offers best 

practices and factors for agencies to 

consider in deciding whether and how 

to make litigation filings and relevant 

court opinions publicly available on 

their websites. It identifies costs and 

benefits agencies should weigh when 

considering whether to post such 

materials on their websites and suggests 

steps agencies can take to maximize 

their accessibility. 

Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence. 

This proposed official statement 

identifies important issues agencies 

should consider as they develop and use 

artificial intelligence systems. Among 

the topics it addresses are transparency, 

bias, technical capacity building, data 

collection and use, privacy, and internal 

and external oversight and evaluation. 

Government Contract Bid Protests 

Before Agencies. This proposed 

recommendation addresses the rules 

governing the resolution of agency-level 

procurement contract disputes— 

commonly called bid protests—under 

the Federal Acquisition Regulation and 

agency-specific regulations. It identifies 

changes agencies can make to current 

agency-level bid protest procedures to 

promote transparency, simplicity, and 

predictability. 

Protected Materials in Public 

Rulemaking Dockets. This proposed 

recommendation offers best practices for 

handling personal information and 

confidential commercial information 

that agencies determine should be 

withheld from public rulemaking 

dockets. It addresses how agencies can 

best inform members of the public that 

comments are generally subject to 

public disclosure and encourage them to 

review comments for protected material 

before submission. It also offers best 

practices for redacting, summarizing, 

and aggregating comments containing 

protected material before publishing the 

comments in public rulemaking 

dockets. 

Public Availability of Information 

About Agency Adjudicators. This 

proposed recommendation addresses 

the disclosure of agency policies 

relating to the selection, appointment, 

supervision, evaluation, discipline, and 

removal of adjudicators. It offers 

agencies best practices for providing 

plain-language descriptions of such 

policies and access to relevant legal 

documents on their websites. 

Rules on Rulemakings. This proposed 

recommendation urges agencies to 

consider adopting rules governing their 

rulemaking procedures, making such 

rules publicly available, and soliciting 

public input on their content. It 

identifies the subjects that agencies 

should consider addressing in their 

rules on rulemakings without 

prescribing any particular procedures 

that agencies should include. 

Additional information about the 

proposals and the agenda, as well as any 

changes or updates to the same, can be 

found at the 73rd Plenary Session page 

on the Conference’s website prior to the 

start of the meeting: https://

www.acus.gov/meetings-and-events/ 

plenary-meeting/73rd-plenary-session. 

Public Participation: The Conference 

welcomes the virtual attendance of the 

public at the meeting, subject to 

bandwidth limitations. Members of the 

public who wish to view the meeting 

are asked to RSVP online at the 73rd 

Plenary Session web page shown above, 

no later than two days before the 

meeting, in order to ensure adequate 

bandwidth. For anyone who is unable to 

view the live event, an archived video 

recording of the meeting will be 


khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES4
77140 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 1, 2020 / Notices 

available on the Conference’s website 

shortly after the conclusion of the event: 

https://livestream.com/ACUS. 

Written Comments: Persons who wish 

to comment on any of the proposed 

recommendations or official statement 

may do so by submitting a written 

statement either online by clicking 

‘‘Submit a comment’’ on the 73rd 

Plenary Session web page shown above 

or by mail addressed to: December 2020 

Plenary Session Comments, 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. 

Written submissions must be received 

no later than 10 a.m. (EDT), Monday, 

December 14, to ensure consideration by 

the Assembly. 

Dated: November 24, 2020. 

Shawne McGibbon, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26438 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6110–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

November 24, 2020. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments are 

requested regarding; whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 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. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by December 31, 

2020 will be considered. Written 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collection should 

be submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Animal Plant and Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Export Health Certificate for 

Animal Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0256. 

Summary of Collection: The Animal 

Health Protection Act (AHPA) of 2002 is 

the primary Federal law governing the 

protection of animal health. The law 

gives the Secretary of Agriculture board 

authority to detect, control, or eradicate 

pests or diseases of livestock or poultry. 

The export of agricultural commodities, 

including animals and animal products, 

is a major business in the United States 

and contributes to a favorable balance of 

trade. To facilitate the export of U.S. 

animals and products, the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS), Veterinary Services maintains 

information regarding the import health 

requirements of other countries for 

animals and animal products exported 

from the United States. Many countries 

that import animal products from the 

United States require a certification 

from APHIS that the United States is 

free of certain diseases. These countries 

may also require that our certification 

statement contain additional 

declarations regarding the U.S. animal 

products being exported. Regulations 

pertaining to export certification of 

animals and animal products are 

contained in 9 CFR part 91. VS forms 

16–4 and VS 16–4A, Export Certificate 

for Animal Products and Export 

Certificate for Animal Products 

Continuation Sheet; a hearing request to 

appeal VS’ decision to refuse to grant a 

certificate; a notification of tampered 

certificate; and letterhead certification 

can be used to meet these requirements. 

Need and Use of the Information: VS 

forms 16–4 and 16–4A serve as the 

official certification that the United 

States is free of rinderpest, foot-andmouth disease, classical swine fever, 

swine vesicular disease, African swine 

fever, bovine fever, bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy, and contagious bovine 

pleuropneuomia. APHIS will collect the 

exporter’s name, address, the name and 

address of the consignee, the quantity, 

and unit of measure, type of product 

being exported, the exporter’s 

identification, and type of conveyance 

(ship, train, and truck) that will 

transport the products. The form also 

asks for any declarations the receiving 

country might require such as 

statements concerning where the 

product originated and how it was 

processed. Without the information, 

many countries would not accept 

animal products from the United States, 

creating a serious trade imbalance and 

adversely affecting U.S. exporters. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other-for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 42,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 51,771. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26391 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Recordkeeping of D-SNAP 

Benefit Issuance and Commodity 

Distribution for Disaster Relief 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

This collection is a revision of a 

currently approved collection. This 

information collection addresses the 

recordkeeping burden associated with 

forms FNS–292A (Report of Commodity 

Distribution for Disaster Relief) and 

FNS–292B (Report of Disaster 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Benefit Issuance). The reporting burden 

for these forms, which we are not 

seeking in this request, are already 

approved under OMB Control Number: 

0584–0594; Expiration Date: 07/31/ 

2023. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before February 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The Food and Nutrition 

Services, USDA, invites interested 

persons to submit written comments. 

• Preferred Method: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 


khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES4