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Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,418,058. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: Specified Commodities 

Imported into the United States Exempt 

from Import Requirements, 7 CFR Part 

944, 980, and 999. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0167. 

Summary of Collection: Agricultural 

Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 

(AMAA), as amended (7 U.S.C. 601– 

674) provides that when certain 

domestically produced commodities are 

regulated under a Federal marketing 

order, imports of the commodity must 

meet the same or comparable 

requirements. Import regulations apply 

only during those periods when 

domestic marketing order regulations 

are in effect. No person may import 

products for processing or other exempt 

purposes unless an executed Importers 

Exempt Commodity Form (FV–6) 

accompanies the shipment. The Civil 

Penalty Stipulation Agreement (FV–7) is 

a ‘‘volunteer’’ form that provides the 

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 

with an additional tool to obtain 

resolution of certain cases without the 

cost of going to a hearing. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

AMS utilizes the information to ensure 

that imported goods destined for exempt 

outlets are given no less favorable 

treatment than afforded to domestic 

goods destined for such exempt outlets. 

The importers wishing to import 

commodities will use form FV–6, 

‘‘Importer’s Exempt Commodity’’, 

which requires a minimum amount of 

information. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 345. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 511. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: Laboratory Approval Programs. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0251. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Agricultural Marketing Act (AMA) of 

1946, as amended, provides analytical 

testing services that facilitate marketing 

and allow products to obtain grade 

designations or meet marketing or 

quality standards. Pursuant to this 

authority, AMS develops and maintains 

laboratory certification verification and 

approval programs as needed by the 

agricultural industry, to support 

domestic and international marketing of 

U.S. products. To ensure that a 

laboratory is capable of accurately 

performing the specified analyses, it 

must adhere to certain good laboratory 

practice and show technical proficiency 

in the required areas. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Checklist and form have been developed 

that ask the laboratory for information 

concerning procedures, the physical 

facility, employees, and their training. 

The laboratory must also provide 

Standard Operating Procedures for the 

analyses and quality assurance. The 

laboratory certification and approval 

programs are voluntary, fee for service, 

and for admission into one of these 

programs a laboratory must have a client 

who requires the specific testing. It is 

necessary to collect and require the 

laboratory to attest to the performance 

elements necessary to determine the 

credibility of the laboratory. To do less 

would be a disservice to the agricultural 

community. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; farms. 

Number of Respondents: 83. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 6,010. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–21145 Filed 8–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

August 15, 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: Small Business Timber SetAside Program: Appeal Procedures on 

Recomputation of Shares. 

OMB Control Number: 0596–0141. 

Summary of Collection: The 

Conference Report accompanying the 

1997 Omnibus Appropriation Act (Pub 

L. 104–208) requires that the Forest 

Service (FS) establish a process by 

which purchasers may appeal decisions 

concerning recomputations of Small 

Business Set-aside (SBA) shares or 

structural recomputations of SBA 

shares, or changes in policies impacting 

the Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program. FS adopted the Small 

Business Timber Sale Set-Aside 

Program on July 26, 1990. FS 

administers the program in cooperation 

with the Small Business Administration 

under the authorities of the Small 

Business Act of 1988, the National 

Forest Management Act of 1976, and 

SBA’s regulations at part 121 of Title 13 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. The 

program is designed to ensure that small 

business timber purchasers have the 

opportunity to purchase a fair 

proportion of National Forest System 

timber offered for sale. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Under the program, the FS must 

recompute the shares of timber sales to 

be set aside for qualifying small 

businesses every five years based on the 

actual volume of saw timber purchased 

by small businesses. Recomputation of 

shares must occur if there is a change in 

manufacturing capability, if the 

purchaser size class changes, or if 

certain purchaser(s) discontinue 

operations. The appeal information is 

collected in writing and is possible, in 

most locations to be sent via e-mail and 

attached documents to a Forest Service 

Officer. The collected information is 


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51934 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 161 / Friday, August 19, 2011 / Notices 

1A list of pest-free-areas currently recognized by 

APHIS can be found at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

import_export/plants/manuals/ports/downloads/ 

DesignatedPestFreeAreas.pdf. 

2To view the notice and the comments we 

received, go to http://www.regulations.gov/ 

fdmspublic/component/ 

main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2010-0032. 

reviewed by FS officials who use the 

information to render decisions related 

to re-computations of timber sale share 

to be set-aside for small business timber 

purchasers. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 40. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 320. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–21147 Filed 8–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0032] 

Determination of Pest-Free Areas in 

Mendoza Province, Argentina; Request 

for Comments 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have received a request from the 

Government of Argentina to recognize 

additional areas as pest-free areas for 

South American fruit fly (Anastrepha 

fraterculus) and all other economically 

important species of Anastrepha. After 

reviewing the documentation submitted 

in support of this request, the 

Administrator of the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service has 

determined that these areas meet the 

criteria in our regulations for 

recognition as pest-free areas. We are 

making that determination, as well as 

the evaluation document we have 

prepared in connection with this action, 

available for review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before October 18, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2010-0032- 

0005. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2010–0032, 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2010-0032 or 

in our reading room, which 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Meredith C. Jones, Regulatory 

Coordination Specialist, Regulatory 

Coordination and Compliance, APHIS, 

4700 River Road Unit 156, Riverdale, 

MD 20737; (301) 734–7467. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

regulations in ‘‘Subpart-Fruits and 

Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–1 through 

319.56–51, referred to below as the 

regulations), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

prohibits or restricts the importation of 

fruits and vegetables into the United 

States from certain parts of the world to 

prevent plant pests from being 

introduced into and spread within the 

United States. 

Section 319.56–4 of the regulations 

contains a performance-based process 

for approving the importation of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, can be safely 

imported subject to one or more of the 

designated phytosanitary measures 

listed in paragraph (b) of that section. 

One of the designated phytosanitary 

measures is that the fruits or vegetables 

are imported from a pest-free area in the 

country of origin that meets the 

requirements of § 319.56–5 for freedom 

from that pest and are accompanied by 

a phytosanitary certificate stating that 

the fruits or vegetables originated in a 

pest-free area in the country of origin.1

Under the regulations in § 319.56–5, 

APHIS requires that determinations of 

pest-free areas be made in accordance 

with the criteria for establishing 

freedom from pests found in 

International Standards for 

Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) No. 4, 

‘‘Requirements For the Establishment of 

Pest Free Areas.’’ The international 

standard was established by the 

International Plant Protection 

Convention of the United Nations’ Food 

and Agriculture Organization and is 

incorporated by reference in our 

regulations in 7 CFR 300.5. In addition, 

APHIS must also approve the survey 

protocol used to determine and 

maintain pest-free status, as well as 

protocols for actions to be performed 

upon detection of a pest. Pest-free areas 

are subject to audit by APHIS to verify 

their status. 

APHIS received a request from the 

Government of Argentina to recognize 

an additional area of that country as 

being free of Ceratitis capitata, 

Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly). 

Specifically, the Government of 

Argentina asked that we recognize the 

Southern and Central Oases in the 

southern half of Mendoza Province as 

an area that is free of Medfly. 

In accordance with our process, we 

published a notice 2 in the Federal 

Register on June 25, 2010 (75 FR 36347– 

36348, Docket No. APHIS–2010–0032), 

in which we announced the availability, 

for review and comment, of a 

commodity import evaluation document 

(CIED) that evaluates the information 

presented by Argentina in support of its 

request to recognize additional areas as 

pest-free areas for Mediterranean fruit 

fly (Ceratitis capitata) in Argentina. We 

solicited comments on the notice for 60 

days ending on August 24, 2010. We 

received two comments by that date, 

one from a State agricultural official and 

the other from an official of Argentina’s 

national plant protection organization 

(NPPO). The first commenter 

acknowledged Argentina’s history of 

successful Medfly control efforts, but 

stated that APHIS should not relax its 

fruit fly-related restrictions until it can 

confirm that no other pest fruit flies– 

notably Anastrepha species fruit flies– 

are present in the area. The second 

commenter provided information to 

support a finding that the Mendoza 

Province is free of the South American 

fruit fly (Anastrepha fraterculus). As a 

result of these comments, APHIS 

contacted the Argentine NPPO, which 

requested that, in addition to the pestfree status for Ceratitis capitata, the 

Mendoza province of Argentina also be 

recognized as free of A. fraterculus. 

In accordance with our regulations 

and the criteria set out in ISPM No. 4, 

we have reviewed and approved the 

survey protocols and other information 

provided by Argentina relative to its 

system to establish A. fraterculus 

freedom, phytosanitary measures to 

maintain freedom, and system for the 

verification of the maintenance of 

freedom. Because this action concerns 

the expansion of a currently recognized 

pest-free area in Argentina from which 

fruits and vegetables are authorized for 


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