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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 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) 720–8958. 

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 and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Animal Welfare. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0093. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (AWA) 

(Pub. L. 89–544) enacted August 24, 

1966, and amended December 24, 1970 

(Pub. L. 91–579); April 22, 1976 (Pub. L. 

94–279); and December 23, 1985 (Pub. 

L. 99–198) required the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) to regulate the 

humane care and handling of most 

warm-blooded animals, including 

marine mammals, used for research or 

exhibition purposes, sold as pets, or 

transported in commerce. The 

legislation and its amendments were the 

result of extensive demand by organized 

animal welfare groups and private 

citizens requesting a Federal law to 

protect such animals. The Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS), Animal Care (AC) has the 

responsibility to enforce the AWA and 

the provisions of 9 CFR, Chapter 1, 

Subchapter A, which implements the 

AWA. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information to insure 

that animals used in research facilities 

or for exhibition purposes are provided 

humane care and treatment. The 

information is used to ensure those 

dealers, exhibitors, research facilities, 

carriers, etc., are in compliance with the 

Animal Welfare Act and regulations and 

standards promulgated under this 

authority of the Act. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; Not for-profit 

institutions; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 11,687. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 47,815. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Tomatoes from 

Certain Central American Countries. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0286. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et 

seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized to carry out operations or 

measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, 

control, prevent, or retard the spread of 

plant pests new to the United States or 

not known to be widely distributed 

throughout the United States. The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) allows certain types of 

tomatoes grown in approved registered 

production sites in Costa Rica, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and 

Nicaragua to be imported into the 

United States with treatment. The 

conditions are designed to prevent the 

introduction of quarantine pests into the 

United States, including trapping, preharvest inspection, and shipping 

procedures. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS requires that each shipment of 

tomatoes must be accompanied by a 

phytosanitary certificate issued by the 

National Plant Protection Organization 

and bearing the declaration, ‘‘These 

tomatoes were grown in an area 

recognized to be free of Medfly and the 

shipment has been inspected and found 

free of the pest listed in the 

requirements.’’ Failure to collect this 

information would cripple APHIS’ 

ability to ensure that peppers and 

tomatoes from Central America are not 

carrying fruit flies. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 24. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 287. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Shelled Peas 

from Kenya . 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0302. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et 

seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized to carry out operations or 

measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, 

control, prevent, or retard the spread of 

plant pests new to the United States or 

not known to be widely distributed 

throughout the United States. The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) fruits and vegetables 

regulations allows the importation of 

shelled garden peas from Kenya into the 

continental United States while 

continuing to protect against the 

introduction of quarantined peas. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS requires that some plants or 

plant products be accompanied by a 

phytosanitary inspection certificate that 

is completed by plant health officials in 

the originating or transiting country. 

APHIS uses the information on the 

certificate to determine the pest 

condition of the shipment at the time of 

inspection in the foreign country. 

Without the information, all shipments 

would need to be inspected very 

thoroughly, thereby requiring 

considerably more time. This would 

slow the clearance of international 

shipments. 

Description of Respondents: Federal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 2. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 8. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–20441 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge Recreation Visitor 

Study 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the new information 

collection: Arctic National Wildlife 

Refuge Recreation Visitor Study—2009. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before October 26, 2009 to 

be assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to Alan E. 

Watson, Aldo Leopold Wilderness 

Research Institute, Forest Service, Rocky 

Mountain Research Station, 790 E. 

Beckwith Ave., Missoula, MT 59801. 


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Comments also may be submitted via 

facsimile to 406–542–4196 or by e-mail 

to: awatson@fs.fed.us. 

The public may inspect comments 

received at the Aldo Leopold 

Wilderness Research Institute, Forest 

Service, Rocky Mountain Research 

Station, 790 E. Beckwith Ave., Missoula, 

MT, during normal business hours. 

Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 

406–542–4197 to facilitate entry to the 

building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alan E. Watson, Aldo Leopold 

Wilderness Research Institute at 406– 

542–4197. Individuals who use TDD 

may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 

at 1–800–877–8339, 24 hours a day, 

every day of the year, including 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 

Recreation Visitor Study—2009. 

OMB Number: 0596–NEW. 

Expiration Date of Approval: This 

information collection will expire 3 

years from the date of OMB approval. 

Type of Request: New. 

Abstract: The Aldo Leopold 

Wilderness Research Institute in 

Missoula, Montana, works under an 

interagency agreement with the U.S. 

Fish & Wildlife Service of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior to provide 

information to support management 

planning for public wilderness areas 

and National Wildlife Refuge. 

Management of specific refuges is 

directed by laws, policies, and 

Comprehensive Conservation Plans. The 

Wilderness Act of 1964 directs the 

National Wilderness Preservation 

System be managed to protect natural 

wilderness conditions and to provide 

outstanding opportunities for the public 

to find solitude or primitive and 

unconfined types of recreational 

experiences. The Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge contains 8 million acres 

of federally protected wilderness, the 

Molly Beattie Wilderness and over 11 

million acres of land and water 

managed for multiple values including 

subsistence, wildlife, water quality, and 

scenic values. The Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge is also mandated to 

provide recreation experiences to 

visitors under a number of laws, 

including the National Wildlife Refuge 

System Administration Act, as amended 

by the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act, the Refuge Recreation 

Act, and the Alaska National Interest 

Lands Conservation Act. 

To help meet Federal agencies’ 

mandates related to recreation, 

scientists at the Aldo Leopold 

Wilderness Research Institute 

periodically monitor and report to 

managers and the public visitor use and 

user characteristics and visitor feedback 

on management actions on Federal 

lands. Agency personnel use the 

information to ensure that visitors’ 

recreational activities do not harm 

natural resources of the refuge, and that 

recreation experiences in wilderness 

areas are protected. 

In the 2009 survey, the Agency 

intends to record responses of visitors to 

the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 

the same areas as the survey that was 

conducted in 1977, prior to the area 

attaining National Wildlife Refuge and 

wilderness area designation status. The 

Agency intends to expand the survey to 

include visitor feedback regarding major 

factors that influence the experiences in 

the area, including encounters with 

other visitors, subsistence use, research, 

administrative use, and availability of 

information needed to plan trips. The 

data from this information collection 

would be stored at the Aldo Leopold 

Wilderness Research Institute in 

Missoula, Montana. Scientists working 

at the Research Institute would conduct 

the data analysis. 

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 

would use information from this 

collection to: 

(1) Understand visitor demographics, 

frequency of visits, and residence; 

(2) Understand visitor activities, such 

as whether they are hunting, river 

floating, method of access, size of group, 

difficulty in finding campsites, 

conditions encountered, and 

information available for trip planning; 

(3) Understanding how the Agency’s 

management of the Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge and other potential 

facilitating and constraining factors 

influence a visitor’s recreation 

experience; 

(4) Understand how to educate 

recreation visitors so they do not leave 

impacts from their visits; such as 

wildlife disturbance, damaged 

vegetation, litter, and polluted lakes and 

streams, and can engage in high quality, 

and safe recreational experiences; and 

(5) Provide information that may 

assist in revision of the Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive 

Conservation Plan. 

Respondents would be recreation 

visitors to the Arctic National Wildlife 

Refuge. Visitors would be contacted as 

they enter or exit the Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge and would be provided 

with a self-addressed, postage-pre-paid 

postcard that offers them alternative 

methods of response to the survey: (1) 

Mail the postcard to the Leopold 

Institute with a name and address to 

have the survey sent to them, (2) mail 

the postcard to the Leopold Institute 

with an electronic e-mail address to 

obtain an electronic version of the 

survey, or (3) use the Web address on 

the postcard to access the survey. All 

responses would be voluntary and 

anonymous (names would not be 

connected with responses in any way). 

Data collected in this information 

collection are not available from other 

sources and have not been collected 

since 1977. 

This study would only ask non-local 

recreation visitors, non-local, nonsubsistence users questions about their 

recreation visit, their personal 

demographics relevant to provision of 

service and educational research, and 

factors that have influenced or are likely 

to influence their recreation visits. 

Survey respondents would be told that 

their responses are voluntary and would 

be anonymous. The survey will not 

include questions related to oil 

exploration or development in the 

boundaries of the Arctic National 

Wildlife Refuge. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 20 

minutes. 

Type of Respondents: Individuals 

who use government facilities and 

services. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 900. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses per Respondent: Once. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 300 hours. 

Comment is invited on: (1) Whether 

this collection of information is 

necessary for the stated purposes and 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the Agency, including whether the 

information will have practical or 

scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

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 

respondents, including the additional 

use of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget approval. 


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Dated: August 13, 2009. 

William J. Lange, 

Acting Deputy Chief, Research & 

Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–20442 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Food Aid Quality Improvement Report 

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Farm Service Agency 

(FSA) is making available the Food Aid 

Quality Project report prepared by 

Sharing Science and Technology to Aid 

in the Improvement of Nutrition 

(SUSTAIN). The report contains 

recommendations for improvements in 

the specifications, micronutrient 

composition, commodity sampling, and 

testing regimes for commodities 

procured by FSA for the U.S. 

international food assistance programs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Howard Froehlich, Export Program 

Manager, phone: (202) 720–7398; mail: 

Farm Service Agency, USDA, ATTN: 

Howard Froehlich, Export Program 

Manager, Commodity Operations 

Divisions, STOP 0553, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0553; e-mail: 

Howard.Froehlich@wdc.fsa.usda.gov; 

fax: (202) 690–3123. Persons with 

disabilities who require alternative 

means for communication information 

(Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) 

should contact USDA’s TARGET Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this notice is to announce 

the availability of the Food Aid Quality 

Project report. The Food Aid Quality 

Project Report was undertaken to meet 

the objectives established jointly by 

USDA and the United States Agency for 

International Development (USAID) to 

improve and ensure the quality, safety, 

nutrient delivery and shelf life of 

international food assistance provided 

by the U.S. Government to 56 countries 

worldwide. SUSTAIN, a nonprofit 

organization, conducted the project and 

provided the report that contains their 

findings and recommendations to 

USDA. 

The public can access the published 

report through the Commodity 

Operations Web site at http://

www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=

home&subject=coop&topic=landing. 

USDA will continue to review the 

report and evaluate the 

recommendations submitted by 

SUSTAIN and will consult with the 

Food Aid Consultative Group before 

actions are taken in response to the 

findings. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on August 17, 

2009. 

Jonathan Coppess, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency. 

[FR Doc. E9–20296 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Housing Service 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

Rural Utilities Service 

Notice of Funds Availability Under the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act, 2009; Correction 

AGENCIES: Rural Housing Service, Rural 

Business-Cooperative Service, and Rural 

Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service 

(RHS), Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service (RBS), and Rural Utilities 

Service (RUS) published a document in 

the Federal Register on July 23, 2009, at 

74 FR 36448. The document did not 

provide a date for the comment period 

for the collection of information under 

the DATES section or the ‘‘Comments’’ 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information regarding this correction 

should be directed to Cheryl Thompson, 

Regulations and Paperwork 

Management Branch, 202–692–0043. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of July 23, 

2009, in FR Doc. E9–17512, the 

corrections are as follows: 

1. On page 36448, in the first column, 

at the end of the paragraph under DATES, 

add the following paragraph: 

The comment period for information 

collection under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 continues 

through September 21, 2009. Comments 

on the paperwork burden must be 

received by this date to be assured of 

consideration. 

2. On page 36450, in the second 

column, at the end of the paragraph 

under ‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act’’, add 

the following paragraph: 

Comments 

Comments are invited regarding: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of Rural 

Development, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of Rural Development’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 through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments may be sent to Cheryl 

Thompson, Regulations and 

Management Branch, Support Services 

Division, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Rural Development, STOP 

0742, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. All responses to 

this Notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. All comments will also be a 

matter of public record. 

Dated: August 18, 2009. 

Dallas Tonsager, 

Under Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20347 Filed 8–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

Request for Proposals: Fiscal Year 

2009 Funding Opportunity for 

Research on the Economic Impact of 

Cooperatives 

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Initial notice of request for 

proposals. 

SUMMARY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service programs are administered 

through USDA Rural Development. 

USDA Rural Development announces 

the availability of $300,000 in 

competitive cooperative agreement 

funds for fiscal year (FY) 2009 to 

conduct research on the national 

economic impact of all types of 

cooperatives. USDA Rural Development 

hereby requests proposals from 

institutions of higher education 

interested in applying for a 

competitively awarded cooperative 

research agreement. This funding is a 

follow through on to funding awarded 

in FY 2006, FY 2007 and FY 2008, the 

intent of which was to encourage 

research on the critical issue of the 


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