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Vol. 76, No. 27 

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Public Information Collection 

Requirements Submitted to OMB for 

Review 

SUMMARY: This Federal Register notice 

was originally published on October 29, 

2010 (75 FR 66724) and is being 

republished. Unfortunately, it appears 

that supporting documentation sent to 

OMB included language from USAID’s 

December 2002 certification rather than 

from its September 2004 certification 

attached. The agency has worked with 

OMB to correct this error. Also, 

revisions were made regarding the 

certification burden due to the 

respondents providing a response three 

times a year vs. two. In addition, less 

preparation time was required for all 

involved parties due to their familiarity 

with the certification process and salary 

costs and benefits costs increased due to 

inflation and an increase in the cost of 

living. U.S. Agency for International 

Development (USAID) has resubmitted 

the following information collections to 

OMB for review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding this information collection are 

best assured of having their full effect if 

received within 30 days of this 

notification. Comments should be sent 

via e-mail to 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov 

(attention: USAID desk officer) or fax to 

202–395–6882. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Number: OMB 0412–0565. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Title: Applicant’s Certification that it 

Does not Support Terrorist 

Organizations or Individuals. 

Type of Submission: Revision of 

Information Collection. 

Purpose: The United States Agency 

for International Development (USAID) 

needs to require applicants for 

assistance to certify that it does not and 

will not engage in financial transactions 

with, and does not and will not provide 

material support and resources to 

individuals or organizations that engage 

in terrorism. The purpose of this 

requirement is to assure that USAID 

does not directly provide support to 

such organizations or individuals, and 

to assure that recipients are aware of 

these requirements when it considers 

individuals or organizations are 

subrecipients. 

Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 2,000. 

Total annual responses: 6,000. 

Total annual hours requested: 1,500 

hours. 

Dated: January 31, 2011. 

Lynn P. Winston, 

Acting Chief, Information and Records 

Division, Office of Management Services, 

Bureau for Management. 

Attachment 

Certification 

By signing and submitting this 

application, the prospective recipient 

provides the certification set out below: 

1. The Recipient, to the best of its 

current knowledge, did not provide, 

within the previous ten years, and will 

take all reasonable steps to ensure that 

it does not and will not knowingly 

provide, material support or resources 

to any individual or entity that commits, 

attempts to commit, advocates, 

facilitates, or participates in terrorist 

acts, or has committed, attempted to 

commit, facilitated, or participated in 

terrorist acts, as that term is defined in 

paragraph 3. 

2. The following steps may enable the 

Recipient to comply with its obligations 

under paragraph 1: 

a. Before providing any material 

support or resources to an individual or 

entity, the Recipient will verify that the 

individual or entity does not (i) appear 

on the master list of Specially 

Designated Nationals and Blocked 

Persons, which list is maintained by the 

U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) and is available online 

at OFAC’s Web site: http://www. 

treas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/sdn/ 

t11sdn.pdf, or (ii) is not included in any 

supplementary information concerning 

prohibited individuals or entities that 

may be provided by USAID to the 

Recipient. 

b. Before providing any material 

support or resources to an individual or 

entity, the Recipient also will verify that 

the individual or entity has not been 

designated by the United Nations 

Security (UNSC) sanctions committee 

established under UNSC Resolution 

1267 (1999) (the ‘‘1267 Committee’’) 

[individuals and entities linked to the 

Taliban, Usama bin Laden, or the Al 

Qaida Organization]. To determine 

whether there has been a published 

designation of an individual or entity by 

the 1267 Committee, the Recipient 

should refer to the consolidated list 

available online at the Committee’s Web 

site: http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/ 

committees/1267/1267ListEng.htm. 

c. Before providing any material 

support or resources to an individual or 

entity, the Recipient will consider all 

information about that individual or 

entity of which it is aware and all public 

information that is reasonably available 

to it or of which it should be aware. 

d. The Recipient also will implement 

reasonable monitoring and oversight 

procedures to safeguard against 

assistance being diverted to support 

terrorist activity. 

3. For purposes of this Certification— 

a. ‘‘Material support and resources’’ 

means currency or monetary 

instruments or financial securities, 

financial services, lodging, training, 

except advice or assistance, safehouses, 

false documentation or identification, 

communications equipment, facilities, 

weapons, lethal subtances, explosives, 

personnel, transportation, and other 

physical assests, except medicine or 

religious materials.’’ 

b. ‘‘Terrorist act’’ means— 

(i) An act prohibited pursuant to one 

of the 12 United Nations Conventions 

and Protocols related to terrorism (see 

UN terrorism conventions Internet site: 

http://untreaty.un.org/English/ 

Terrorism.asp); or 

(ii) An act of premeditated, politically 

motivated violence perpetrated against 

noncombatant targets by subnational 

groups or clandestine agents; or 

(iii) Any other act intended to cause 

death or serious bodily injury to a 

civilian, or to any other person not 

taking an active part in hostilities in a 

situation of armed conflict, when the 

purpose of such act, by its nature or 

context, is to intimidate a population, or 

to compel a government or an 

international organization to do or to 

abstain from doing any act. 

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c. ‘‘Entity’’ means a partnership, 

association, corporation, or other 

organization, group or subgroup. 

d. References in this Certification to 

the provision of material support and 

resources shall not be deemed to 

include the furnishing of USAID funds 

or USAID-financed commodities to the 

ultimate beneficiaries of USAID 

assistance, such as recipients of food, 

medical care, micro-enterprise loans, 

shelter, etc., unless the Recipient has 

reason to believe that one or more of 

these beneficiaries commits, attempts to 

commit, advocates, facilitates, or 

participates in terrorist acts, or has 

committed, attempted to commit, 

facilitated or participated in terrorist 

acts. 

e. The Recipient’s obligations under 

paragraph 1 are not applicable to the 

procurement of goods and/or services by 

the Recipient that are acquired in the 

ordinary course of business through 

contract or purchase, e.g., utilities, 

rents, office supplies, gasoline, etc., 

unless the Recipient has reason to 

believe that a vendor or supplier of such 

goods and services commits, attempts to 

commit, advocates, facilitates, or 

participates in terrorist acts, or has 

committed, attempted to commit, 

facilitated or participated in terrorist 

acts. 

This Certification is an express term 

and condition of any agreement issued 

as a result of this application, and any 

violation of it shall be grounds for 

unilateral termination of the agreement 

by USAID prior to the end of its term. 

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BILLING CODE 6116–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

February 4, 2011. 

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 

regarding (a) 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; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (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 and other forms of 

information technology should be 

addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. 

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. 

Forest Service 

Title: Research Data Archive Use 

Tracking System. 

OMB Control Number: 0596–0210. 

Summary of Collection: Authorized 

under 16 U.S.C. 1645(c), Forest Service 

Research and Development (FS R&D) 

plans to create a data archive to store 

and disseminate data collected in the 

course of its scientific research. This 

archive will provide a sound balance 

between meeting obligations to 

scientific staff and ease-of-access by the 

public (research community). The 

information provided by this collection 

will assist FS R&D personnel in 

evaluating the research program. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Form FS 4000–5, General Data Use 

Agreement, will be used to collect the 

information electronically. When a 

member of the public requests a copy of 

a data set, FS R&D will collect the name, 

affiliation, contact information 

(including e-mail address), Statement of 

Intended Use and Data Use Agreement. 

FS archive staff will review the 

individual Data Use Agreements prior to 

approving release of the data set to the 

requestor. The collection of Data Use 

Agreements will be evaluated by the 

data archiving program to identify 

opportunities for improving the 

archive’s function and offerings. 

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit Institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 100. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Yearly. 

Total Burden Hours: 25. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request—Report of 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program Benefit Issuance and Report 

of Commodity Distribution for Disaster 

Relief 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

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 

proposed information collections. The 

proposed collection is a revision of a 

collection currently approved for the 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program and the Food Distribution 

Program. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before April 11, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: 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 shall 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 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 are to respond, including 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments regarding form 292–A may 

be sent to Laura Castro, Chief, Policy 

Branch, Food Distribution Division, 

Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 3101 Park 

Center Drive, Room 506, Alexandria, VA 

22302. Comments may also be 

submitted via fax to the attention of Ms. 

Castro at (703) 305–1410 or via e-mail 

to Laura.Castro@fns.usda.gov. 

Comments regarding form 292–B may 

be sent to Angela Kline, Chief, 

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