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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: For 

information on the regulations for the 

importation of Unshu oranges from the 

Republic of Korea into the continental 

United States, contact Mr. Marc 

Phillips, Senior Regulatory Policy 

Specialist, RCC, IRM, PHP, PPQ, APHIS, 

4700 River Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, 

MD 20737; (301) 851–2114. For copies 

of more detailed information on the 

information collection, contact Ms. 

Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information 

Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– 

2727. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Importation of Unshu Oranges 

from the Republic of Korea into the 

Continental United States. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0314. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: The Plant Protection Act 

(PPA, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) authorizes 

the Secretary of Agriculture to restrict 

the importation, entry, or interstate 

movement of plants, plant products, and 

other articles to prevent the 

introduction of plant pests into the 

United States or their dissemination 

within the United States. As authorized 

by the PPA, the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

regulates the importation of citrus fruit 

from certain parts of the world as 

provided in ‘‘Subpart—Citrus Fruit’’ (7 

CFR 319.28). 

In accordance with these regulations, 

APHIS allows the importation of Unshu 

oranges from Cheju Island, Republic of 

Korea, into the continental United 

States under certain conditions to 

prevent the introduction of plant pests 

into the United States. These conditions 

involve the use of information 

collection activities, including 

packinghouse registration and a 

phytosanitary certificate with an 

additional declaration stating that the 

fruit has undergone surface sterilization 

and was inspected and found free of the 

plant pathogen that causes sweet orange 

scab. 

We are asking OMB to approve our 

use of these information collection 

activities for an additional 3 years. 

The purpose of this notice is to solicit 

comments from the public (as well as 

affected agencies) concerning our 

information collection. These comments 

will help us: 

(1) Evaluate 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; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, through use, as 

appropriate, of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, and other collection 

technologies; e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Estimate of burden: The public 

reporting burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 

0.5675 hours per response. 

Respondents: Importers of Unshu 

oranges and the national plant 

protection organization of the Republic 

of Korea. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 4. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 9.25. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 37. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 21 hours. (Due to 

averaging, the total annual burden hours 

may not equal the product of the annual 

number of responses multiplied by the 

reporting burden per response.) 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

April 2016. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2016–08013 Filed 4–6–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Request for Approval of a 

New Information Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice 

announces the Economic Research 

Service’s intention to request approval 

for a new information collection for the 

study of ‘‘Census of Users of the 

National Plant Germplasm System.’’ 

This is a new collection to provide 

information on usage and expectations 

of future use among requestors of 

genetic resources from USDA’s National 

Plant Germplasm System. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by June 6, 2016 to be assured 

of consideration. 

Additional Information or Comments: 

Address all comments concerning this 

notice to Kelly Day Rubenstein, 

Resource and Rural Economics Division, 

Economic Research Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Mail Stop 

1800, 1400 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. Comments may 

also be submitted via fax to the attention 

of Kelly Day Rubenstein at 202–694– 

4847 or via email to kday@ers.usda.gov. 

For further information contact Kelly 

Day Rubenstein at the address above, or 

telephone 202–694–5515. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Census of Users of the National 

Plant Germplasm System. 

OMB Number: To be assigned by 

OMB. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Three 

years from approval date. 

Type of Request: New information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Census of Users of the 

National Plant Germplasm System will 

solicit data from the 6,009 institutional 

representatives who requested 

germplasm (i.e., living tissue from 

which plants can be grown) for any of 

ten crops including beans, barley, 

cotton, maize, sorghum, squash, 

soybeans, potato, rice, and wheat from 

the National Plant Germplasm System 

over a five year period from January 

2009 to December 2013. Each 

respondent will be asked to provide 

information via a web-based 

questionnaire. Legislative authority for 

the planned data collection is 7 U.S.C. 

2204(a) and 7 U.S.C. 2661. 

The information to be collected by the 

‘‘Census of Users of the National Plant 

Germplasm System’’ is necessary to 

assess and understand the types and 

varieties of germplasm needed by 

breeders and other scientists in both the 

public and private sectors. This study 

will provide data not currently available 

to program officials and researchers, 

thereby broadening the scope of 

economic analyses of genetic 

enhancement, and in turn, enhancing 

R&D and productivity research at the 

Economic Research Service (ERS), the 

National Plant Germplasm System, and 

the National Germplasm Resource 

Laboratory. The database would contain 

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a wealth of empirical information on 

germplasm use in breeding and 

research. This includes information by 

specific crops (e.g., the use of landraces 

in corn breeding, the search for biotic 

tolerance in wheat); the quantity of 

germplasm by type and purpose; 

institutional needs for germplasm (both 

public and private); and requestors’ 

anticipated future use. This information 

will also assess biological traits that are 

needed for adaptation to climate change. 

Agriculture is highly geographyspecific, given that growing regions vary 

by rainfall and temperature conditions, 

pest and disease pressures, and soil 

types. Accordingly, plant breeders work 

to develop unique varieties for different 

geographic locations. As a result, each 

requestor of NPGS germplasm is likely 

to have one characteristic—geographic 

location—which is unique and 

important to that institution’s use of this 

germplasm, particularly in the context 

of global climate change. Moreover, it 

would be difficult to get adequate 

representation of the matrix of crops, 

germplasm types, and locations for 

some smaller crops (e.g., squash) 

without conducting a census of all 

germplasm requestors to the NPGS for 

any of the ten crops. 

A web-based instrument will be used 

for information collection. It will be 

kept as simple and respondent-friendly 

as possible. Responses are voluntary. 

The study instrument is based on a 

mailed paper-based instrument used in 

the 2000 study, ‘‘Demand for Genetic 

Resources from the National Plant 

Germplasm System.’’ It was jointly 

developed by International Food Policy 

Research Institute (IFPRI), Auburn 

University’s Department of Agricultural 

Economics and Rural Sociology, the 

National Germplasm Resources Lab of 

the National Plant Germplasm System, 

and the Economic Research Service. The 

instrument used in the 2000 study was 

administered by IFPRI and Auburn 

University and had a response rate of 

35%. Study design for currently 

proposed study is consistent with that 

of the 2000 study in order to make 

comparisons across time. The frame for 

this census comprises all germplasm 

requestors to the NPGS for any of the 

ten crops in the last five years. Although 

the NPGS provided germplasm to any 

requestor free of cost, it also informed 

potential requestors and received their 

consent, at the time of a request was 

made, that their information could be 

used for activities relating to the service 

that they had requested. Several 

measures will be taken to support the 

response rate for the proposed 

information collection: 

• Information will be collected via 

the internet rather than by mail. This 

data collection mode is more convenient 

for intended respondents and will allow 

for rapid follow up with nonrespondents. 

• This information collection will be 

cosponsored by the National Germplasm 

Resources Laboratory of USDA, which is 

familiar to the recipients as it is the 

agency that provided the requested 

germplasm. 

• A well planned recruitment 

protocol will include sending the 

instrument with a cover letter from a 

senior staff member of the National 

Germplasm Resources Laboratory, who 

will be an individual familiar to many 

of the recipients. It also includes up to 

three reminder emails to nonrespondents. 

Should the response rate fall below 

80%, a non-response bias study will be 

conducted. The web-based instrument 

was pretested for ease of use by fewer 

than ten germplasm requestors 

contacted by USDA Agricultural 

Research Service (ARS) and the average 

time spent completing the forms was 13 

minutes. 

Information from the Census of Users 

of the National Plant Germplasm System 

will be used for statistical purposes only 

and reported only in aggregate or 

statistical form. A public use data file 

will be created from this information 

collection. ERS does not intend to 

invoke CIPSEA or any other data 

protection statute for this collection, 

because it will not collect any sensitive 

or personal identifiable information. 

Estimate of Burden: In order to 

answer our research question about the 

use of germplasm for adaptation to 

climate change, a census is needed to 

pinpoint geo-spatial demand for 

germplasm. Thus, all 6,009 requestors of 

germplasm will be asked to fill out a 

web instrument once during a one 

month data collection period; nonrespondents will receive three reminder 

emails. 80% of requestors are assumed 

to provide a response to one of the four 

emailed instruments. The estimated 

time of response is 0.34 hour. This 

average includes time spent completing 

the questionnaire and reading reminder 

emails. 20% will be non-respondents 

and will incur less than 1 minute of 

time to read the material. Thus, 

response times are estimated by adding 

an additional minute for each reminder 

sent, for a total of four minutes for 

requestors who never respond. These 

estimates of respondent burden are 

based on pretesting by ARS scientists, 

conducted by the National Germplasm 

Resources Laboratory of the National 

Plant Germplasm System. 

Type of Respondents: Respondents 

includes all individuals or institutions 

who requested germplasm for any of the 

aforesaid ten crops from the National 

Plant Germplasm System over the five 

year period as defined by this 

information collection. 

Estimated Total Number of 

Respondents: 6,009. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,731.5 hours. 

Comments: All written comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection in the Resource Center of the 

Economic Research Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m., Monday through Friday) at 355 E 

St. SW., Room 04P33, Washington, DC 

20024–4221. All responses to this notice 

will be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) 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; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Dated: March 29, 2016. 

Mary Bohman, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2016–08030 Filed 4–6–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Lincoln County Resource 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authorities in 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463) and under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106– 

393) the Kootenai National Forest’s 

Lincoln County Resource Advisory 

Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 

26, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. at the Forest 

Supervisor’s Office in Libby, Montana 

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