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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. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: Regulations and Related 

Reporting and Recording 

Requirements—FTPP, Packers and 

Stockyards Division. 

OMB Control Number: 0580–0015. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 

administers the provisions of the 

Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 

(Act), as amended and supplemented (7 

U.S.C. 181–229c). The Act is designed 

to protect the financial interests of 

livestock and poultry producers engaged 

in commerce of livestock and live 

poultry sold for slaughter. It also 

protects members of the livestock and 

poultry marketing, processing, and 

merchandising industries from unfair, 

unjustly discriminatory, deceptive, or 

anti-competitive practices in the 

livestock, meat, and poultry industries. 

AMS will collect information using 

several forms. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

AMS requires regulated entities in the 

livestock, meat packing, and poultry 

industries to keep records, submit 

information to AMS, and provide 

information to third parties. AMS will 

collect information to monitor and 

examine financial, competitive and 

trade practices in the livestock, 

meatpacking, and poultry industries. 

Also, the information will help assure 

that the regulated entities do not engage 

in unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or 

deceptive trade practices or anticompetitive behavior. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 15,371. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Third party disclosure; 

Reporting: On occasion; Semi-annually; 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 26,137. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03829 Filed 2–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2020–0071] 

Classify Canada as Level I for Bovine 

Tuberculosis and Brucellosis 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we are proposing to classify Canada 

as Level I for both bovine tuberculosis 

and brucellosis. This proposed 

recognition is based on evaluations we 

have prepared in connection with this 

action, which we are making available 

for review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before April 26, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2020–0071 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2020–0071, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at regulations.gov or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

room 1620 of the USDA South Building, 

14th Street and Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading 

room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Kelly Rhodes, Senior Staff Veterinarian, 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

Strategy and Policy, VS, APHIS, USDA, 

4700 River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1231; AskRegionalization@

usda.gov; (301) 851–3315. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 9 CFR part 93, subpart D 

(§§ 93.400 through 93.442, referred to 

below as part 93 or the subpart), contain 

requirements for the importation of 

ruminants into the United States to 

address the risk of introducing or 

disseminating diseases of livestock 

within the United States. Part 93 

currently contains provisions that 

address the risk that imported bovines 

(cattle or bison) may introduce or 

disseminate bovine tuberculosis or 

brucellosis within the United States. 

Within part 93, § 93.437 contains the 

requirements for classification of foreign 

regions for bovine tuberculosis and 

§ 93.438 contains the process for 

requesting regional classification for 

bovine tuberculosis. In accordance with 

§ 93.437(f), the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) maintains 

lists of all Level I, Level II, Level III, 

Level IV, and Level V regions for bovine 

tuberculosis and adds foreign regions 

classified in accordance with § 93.438 to 

these lists. 

Section 93.440 contains the 

requirements for classification of foreign 

regions for brucellosis and § 93.441 

contains the process for requesting 

regional classification for brucellosis. In 

accordance with § 93.440(d), APHIS 

maintains lists of all Level I, Level II, 

and Level III regions for brucellosis and 

adds regions classified in accordance 

with § 93.441 to these lists. 

Paragraph (a) of § 93.438 provides that 

a representative of a national 

government with authority to make such 

a request may request that APHIS 

classify a region for bovine tuberculosis; 

paragraph (a) of § 93.441 has a similar 

provision with respect to requests for 

brucellosis classification. Within those 

same sections, paragraph (b) provides 

that if, after reviewing and evaluating 

the request for bovine tuberculosis or 

brucellosis classification, respectively, 

APHIS believes the region can be 

accurately classified, APHIS will 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

with the proposed classification and 

make its evaluation available for public 

comment. Following the close of the 

comment period, APHIS will review all 

comments received and will make a 

final determination regarding the 

request that will be detailed in another 

document published in the Federal 

Register. 

The Government of Canada has 

requested that APHIS evaluate and 

classify Canada for bovine tuberculosis 

and brucellosis. In response to Canada’s 

request, we have prepared two 

evaluations, titled ‘‘APHIS Evaluation of 

Canada for Bovine Tuberculosis 

(Mycobacterium bovis) Classification’’ 

(April 2020) and ‘‘APHIS Evaluation of 

Canada for Bovine Brucellosis (Brucella 

abortus) Classification’’ (May 2020). The 

evaluations conclude that Canada meets 

the conditions to be classified as Level 

I for both bovine tuberculosis and 

brucellosis, which supports adding 

Canada to the web-based list of Level I 

regions for bovine tuberculosis and the 

web-based list of Level I regions for 

brucellosis. 


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Therefore, in accordance with 

§§ 93.438(b) and 93.441(b), we are 

announcing the availability of our 

evaluations of Canada for bovine 

tuberculosis and brucellosis 

classification, for public review and 

comment. We are also announcing the 

availability of an environmental 

assessment (EA) that has been prepared 

in accordance with: (1) The National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provision 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

The evaluations and EA may be 

viewed on the Regulations.gov website 

or in our reading room. (Instructions for 

accessing Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room are provided under the 

heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of 

this notice.) The documents are also 

available by contacting the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Information submitted in support of 

Canada’s request is available by 

contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our final 

determination regarding classification of 

Canada with respect to bovine 

tuberculosis and brucellosis in a 

subsequent notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317; 

21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 

CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

February 2021. 

Michael Watson, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03773 Filed 2–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2020–0070] 

Classify the State of Sonora, Mexico, 

as Level I for Brucellosis 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we are proposing to classify the 

State of Sonora, Mexico as Level 1 for 

brucellosis. This proposed recognition 

is based on an evaluation we have 

prepared in connection with this action, 

which we are making available for 

review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before April 26, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2020–0070 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2020–0070, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at regulations.gov or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

Room 1620 of the USDA South 

Building, 14th Street and Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC. Normal 

reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Kelly Rhodes, Senior Staff Veterinarian, 

Regionalization Evaluation Services, 

Strategy and Policy, VS, APHIS, USDA, 

4700 River Road, Unit 38, Riverdale, 

MD 20737–1231; AskRegionalization@

usda.gov; (301) 851–3315. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations in 9 CFR part 93, subpart D 

(§§ 93.400 through 93.442, referred to 

below as part 93 or the subpart), contain 

requirements for the importation of 

ruminants into the United States to 

address the risk of introducing or 

disseminating diseases of livestock 

within the United States. Part 93 

currently contains provisions that 

address the risk that imported bovines 

(cattle or bison) may introduce or 

disseminate brucellosis within the 

United States. Within part 93, § 93.440 

contains the requirements for 

classification of foreign regions for 

brucellosis and § 93.441 contains the 

process for requesting regional 

classification for brucellosis. 

In accordance with § 93.440(d), the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) maintains lists of all 

Level I, Level II, and Level III regions for 

brucellosis and adds foreign regions 

classified in accordance with § 93.441 to 

these lists. 

Section 93.441(b) states that if, after 

reviewing and evaluating the request for 

classification, APHIS believes the 

request can be safely granted, APHIS 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register indicating the proposed 

classification and make its evaluation 

available for public comment. Following 

the close of the comment period, APHIS 

will review all comments received and 

will make a final determination 

regarding the request that will be 

detailed in another document published 

in the Federal Register. 

The Government of Mexico has 

requested that APHIS evaluate and 

classify the State of Sonora for 

brucellosis. In response to Mexico’s 

request, we have prepared an 

evaluation, titled ‘‘APHIS Evaluation of 

the State of Sonora, Mexico for Bovine 

Brucellosis Classification’’ (September 

2017). The evaluation concludes that 

the State of Sonora meets the conditions 

to be classified as Level I for brucellosis, 

which supports adding the State of 

Sonora to the web-based list of Level I 

regions for brucellosis. 

Therefore, in accordance with 

§ 93.441(b), we are announcing the 

availability of our evaluation of Sonora, 

Mexico for brucellosis, for public review 

and comment. We are also announcing 

the availability of an environmental 

assessment (EA) which has been 

prepared in accordance with: (1) The 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provision 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

The evaluation and EA may be 

viewed on the Regulations.gov website 

or in our reading room. (Instructions for 

accessing Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room are provided under the 

heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of 

this notice.) The documents are also 

available by contacting the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Information submitted in support of 

Mexico’s request is available by 

contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

After reviewing any comments we 

receive, we will announce our final 

determination regarding classification of 

the State of Sonora, Mexico with respect 

to brucellosis in a subsequent notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1622 and 8301–8317; 

21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 

CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4. 


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