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50166 

Vol. 76, No. 156 

Friday, August 12, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

August 8, 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 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: Importation of Plants for 

Planting; Establishing a Category for 

Plants for Planting Not Authorized for 

Importation. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–New. 

Summary of Collection: The United 

States Department of Agriculture, 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS), is responsible for 

preventing the entry of plant diseases or 

insect pests from entering into the 

United States, preventing the spread of 

pests and noxious weeds not widely 

distributed into the United States, and 

eradicating those imported pests when 

eradication is feasible. Under the Plant 

Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), 

the Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized to take such actions as may 

be necessary to prevent the introduction 

and spread of plant pests and noxious 

weeds within the United States. APHIS 

is amending the regulations in the final 

rule to establish a new category of 

regulated articles in the regulations 

governing the importation of nursery 

stock, also known as plants for planting. 

This category will list taxa for plants for 

planting whose importation is not 

authorized pending pest risk analysis. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect the following 

information before a Pest Risk 

Assessment can be prepared: (1) A 

description and/or map of the specific 

locations(s) of the areas in the exporting 

country where the plant, plant parts, or 

plant products are produced; (2) 

Scientific name (including genus, 

species, and author names) and 

taxonomic classification of arthropods, 

fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses, 

viroids, mollusks, phytoplasmas, 

spiroplasmas, etc., attacking the crop; 

and (3) Plant part attacked by each pest, 

pest life stages associated with plant 

part attacked, and location of pest (in, 

on, or with commodity). 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profits; Federal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 5. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 28. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Citrus Canker, Citrus Greening, 

and Asian Citrus Psylid; Interstate 

Movement of Regulated Citrus Nursery. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0369. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

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

seq.), the Secretary of Agriculture, either 

independently or in cooperation with 

the States, is authorized to carry out 

operations or measures to detect, 

eradicate, suppress, control, prevent, or 

retard the spread of plant pest (such as 

citrus canker (CC)) new to or widely 

distributed throughout the United 

States. The Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) amended 

the regulations governing the interstate 

movement of regulated articles from 

areas quarantined for CC, citrus 

greening (CG) and/or Asian citrus psylid 

(ACP) to allow the movement of 

regulated nursery stock under a 

certificate to any areas within the 

United States. In order to be eligible to 

move regulated nursery stock, a nursery 

must enter into a compliance agreement 

with APHIS that specifies the condition 

under which the nursery stock must be 

grown, maintained, and shipped. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information using 

forms, PPQ 519, Compliance 

Agreement, PPQ 530, Federal 

Certificate, PPQ 540, Limited Permit; 

Label Requirement and Records of 

Inspection and Treatments for APHIS 

Review. The information collected is 

necessary to provide a degree of relief 

from existing prohibitions and 

restrictions on the interstate movement 

of such articles to affected producers in 

areas quarantined for CC, CG, and/or 

ACP, while continuing to prevent the 

artificial spread of these diseases within 

the United States. Failing to collect this 

information, or if this information was 

collected less frequently, could cause a 

severe economic loss to the citrus 

industry. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profits. 

Number of Respondents: 621. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,900. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20487 Filed 8–11–11; 8:45 am] 

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