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docket in our reading room. The reading 

room is located in room 1141 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) 690–2817 before 

coming. 

Other Information: Additional 

information about APHIS and its 

programs is available on the Internet at 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding plant pest, 

noxious weed, and garbage regulations, 

contact Dr. Shirley Wager-Page ́, Chief, 

Pest Permit Branch, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 

River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 

20737; (301) 734–8453. For copies of 

more detailed information on the 

information collection, contact Mrs. 

Celeste Sickles, APHIS’ Information 

Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– 

2908. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Plant Pest, Noxious Weed, and 

Garbage Regulations. 

OMB Number: 0579–0054. 

Type of Request: Revision and 

extension of approval of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is 

authorized, among other things, to 

prohibit the importation and interstate 

movement of plants, animals, plant and 

animal products, noxious weeds, and 

other articles to prevent the 

introduction into and dissemination 

within the United States of plant and 

animal pests and diseases and noxious 

weeds. 

In connection with this mission, 

APHIS regulates the importation and 

interstate movement of plant pests, 

noxious weeds, and waste material 

derived from plant or animal matter 

(commonly referred to as garbage) under 

7 CFR parts 330 and 360 and 9 CFR part 

94. 

These regulations contain information 

collection requirements, including 

requirements to apply for permits to 

import regulated articles (e.g., plant 

pests, noxious weeds, or soil) or to move 

regulated articles interstate, 

requirements for facilities to be 

approved by APHIS to dispose of 

regulated garbage, and requirements for 

any person engaged in the business of 

handling or disposing of regulated 

garbage to first enter into a compliance 

agreement with APHIS. These 

requirements are necessary to ensure 

that importation and interstate 

movement of regulated articles, and 

disposal of regulated garbage, occur 

under appropriate conditions to prevent 

the dissemination of plant and animal 

pests and diseases and noxious weeds. 

This information collection includes 

information collection requirements 

currently approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) under 

control numbers 0579–0054, ‘‘Plant 

Pest, Noxious Weed, and Garbage 

Regulations,’’ and 0579–0306, 

‘‘Interstate Movement of Garbage from 

Hawaii.’’ After OMB approves and 

combines the burden for both 

collections under a single collection 

(0579–0054), the Department will retire 

number 0579–0306. 

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 

information collection, 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 

information collection 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 

0.500398 hours per response. 

Respondents: Importers and shippers 

of plant pests, noxious weeds, and other 

regulated articles; State plant health 

authorities; owners/operators of 

regulated garbage-handling facilities. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents : 25,755. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 1.2193748. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 31,405. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 15,715 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 3rd day of 

August 2009. 

William H. Clay, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–18989 Filed 8–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2009–0043] 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Approval of an Information Collection; 

Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and 

Regulations 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Extension of approval of an 

information collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request an extension of approval of an 

information collection associated with 

the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and 

regulations. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before October 6, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ 

component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS– 

2009–0043 to submit or view comments 

and to view supporting and related 

materials available electronically. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Please send two copies of your comment 

to Docket No. APHIS–2009–0043, 

Regulatory Analysis and Development, 

PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 

River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1238. Please state that your 

comment refers to Docket No. APHIS– 

2009–0043. 

Reading Room: You may read any 

comments that we receive on this 

docket in our reading room. The reading 

room is located in room 1141 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, 


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please call (202) 690–2817 before 

coming. 

Other Information: Additional 

information about APHIS and its 

programs is available on the Internet at 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the Virus-Serum-Toxin 

Act and regulations, contact Dr. Albert 

Morgan, Section Leader, Operational 

Support Staff, Center for Veterinary 

Biologics, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road, 

Unit 148, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 

734–8245. For copies of more detailed 

information on the information 

collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, 

APHIS’ Information Collection 

Coordinator, at (301) 851–2908. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and 

Regulations. 

OMB Number: 0579–0318. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: Under the Virus-SerumToxin Act (21 U.S.C. 151 et seq.), the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture has authority to 

administer the regulations in 9 CFR, 

chapter I, subchapter E, to ensure that 

veterinary biological products are pure, 

safe, potent, and effective. Veterinary 

biological products are defined as all 

viruses, serums, toxins (excluding 

substances that are selectively toxic to 

microorganisms, e.g., antibiotics, or 

analogous products at any stage of 

production, shipment, distribution, or 

sale, which are intended for use in the 

treatment of animals and which act 

primarily through the direct 

stimulation, supplementation, 

enhancement, or modulation of the 

immune system or immune response. 

The term ‘‘biological products’’ 

includes, but is not limited to, vaccines, 

bacterins, allergens, antibodies, 

antitoxins, toxoids, immunostimulants, 

certain cytokines, antigenic or 

immunizing components of live 

organisms, and diagnostic components 

that are of natural or synthetic origin or 

that are derived from synthesizing or 

altering various substances or 

components of substances, such as 

microorganisms, genes or genetic 

sequences, carbohydrates, proteins, 

antigens, allergens, or antibodies. 

In accordance with the regulations in 

9 CFR 105.3 and 115.2, APHIS may 

notify a veterinary biologics licensee or 

permittee to stop the preparation, 

importation, and/or distribution and 

sale of a serial or a subserial of a 

veterinary biologic if, at any time, it 

appears that such product may be 

worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or 

harmful in the treatment of animals. 

This notification triggers two 

information collection activities: (1) 

After being contacted by APHIS, 

veterinary biologics licensees or 

permittees must immediately, but no 

later than 2 days, send stop distribution 

and sale notifications to any 

wholesalers, jobbers, dealers, foreign 

consignees, or other persons known to 

have such veterinary biologic in their 

possession, and (2) veterinary biologics 

licensees and permittees must account 

for the remaining quantity of each serial 

or subserial of any such veterinary 

biologic at each location in the 

distribution channel known to the 

licensee or permittee. 

We are asking the Office of 

Management and Budget (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 these 

information collection activities. 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 

information collection, 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 

information collection 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 

1.7666 hours per response. 

Respondents: U.S. establishments that 

produce and/or import veterinary 

biological products, and their 

wholesalers, dealers, jobbers, foreign 

consignees, or other persons known to 

have any such worthless, contaminated, 

dangerous, or harmful veterinary 

biological product in their possession. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 55. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 1.09. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 60. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 106 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 3rd day of 

August 2009. 

William H. Clay, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–18988 Filed 8–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Lolo National Forest; MT; Cedar-Thom 

EIS 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service will 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) on a proposal to 

implement restoration activities, fuel 

reduction treatments, and recreation 

enhancements within the Cedar and 

Thompson Creek drainages, Lolo 

National Forest, Superior Ranger 

District, Mineral County, Montana. 

This EIS will tier to the Lolo National 

Forest Plan Final EIS (April 1986). 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by no 

later than 30 days from date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. The draft environmental 

impact statement is expected July 2010 

and the final environmental impact 

statement is expected March 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: 

Cedar-Thom Project Leader, USDA 

Forest Service, P.O. Box 429, Plains, 

Montana 59859. Comments may also be 

sent via e-mail to: comments-northernlolo-superior@fs.fed.us. 

Comments received in response to 

this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pat 

Partyka, Project Leader, (406) 826–4314. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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