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Notices Federal Register

36401

Vol. 65, No. 111

Thursday, June 8, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

June 2, 2000.

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), Washington, D.C. 20503 and to

Departmental Clearance Office, USDA,

OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, D.C.

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) 720–6746.

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.

Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1951–A, Account

Servicing Policies.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0075.

Summary of Collection: The Rural

Housing Service (RHS) provides

supervised credit in the form of Single

Family Housing, Multi-Family Housing,

and Community Facility loans and

grants. Regulation 7 CFR 1951–A sets

forth the policies and procedures,

including the collection and use of

information, regarding the application

of payments on loans made under the

programs administered by the agencies

and the return of paid-in-full and

satisfied promissory notes.

Need and Use of the Information:

Information collection is submitted by

Agency borrowers to the local Agency

office servicing the county in which

their operation is located and is used by

agency servicing officials. The

collection of information is required

only when needed on an individual case

basis.

Description of Respondents:

Individuals or households; business or

other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 110.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 28.

Rural Utilities Service

Title: 7 CFR 1780, Water and Waste

Disposal Loan and Grant Program.

OMB Control Number: 0572–NEW.

Summary of Collection: The Rural

Utilities Service (RUS) is authorized by

Section 306 of the Consolidated Farm

and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C.

1926) to make loans to public agencies,

American Indian tribes, and nonprofit

corporations for the development of

drinking water and wastewater, and

solid waste disposal facilities in rural

areas of up to 10,000 residents. These

regulations were also used to administer

the Community Facilities programs,

whose functions the Rural Housing

Service also had assumed from Farmers

Home Administration (FmHA) and

Rural Development Administration

(RDA). RUS amended the regulations to

establish separate regulations for the

Water and Waste Disposal programs.

RUS also replaced references to FmHA

and RDA with references to RUS and its

officials.

Need and Use of the Information:

RUS state and field offices will collect

information from applicants, borrowers,

and consultants to determine eligibility

and project feasibility, and to ensure

borrowers operate on a sound basis and

use loan and grant funds for authorized

purposes. Failure to collect proper

information could result in improper

determinations of eligibility or improper

use of funds.

Description of Respondents: State,

Local or Tribal Government; Not-forprofit institutions.

Number of Respondents: 5,800.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; reporting: On occasion;

Weekly; Annually.

Total Burden Hours: 134,240.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

Title: Federal Plant Pest and Noxious

Weeds Regulations.

OMB Control Number: 0579–0054.

Summary of Collection: The Plan

Protection and Quarantine Program of

the Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service (APHIS), United States

Department of Agriculture is

responsible for preventing plant pests

and noxious weeds from entering the

United States, preventing the spread of

pests and weeds not widely distributed

in the United States, and eradicating

those imported pests and weeds when

eradication is feasible. Section 150bb of

the Federal Plant Pest Act (7 U.S.C.

150aa–150jj) and Section 4(a) of the

Federal Noxious Weed Act (7 U.S.C.

2801–2813) provide that no plant pest

or noxious weed can be moved from a

foreign country into or through the

United States, or interstate, unless the

movement is authorized under a permit

issued by the Secretary of Agriculture

and the movement is carried out in

accordance with the conditions the

Secretary may prescribe to prevent the

dissemination of plant pests or noxious

weeds into the United States. APHIS

will collect information using forms

PPQ 525A, 526, 526–1, and 519.

Need and Use of the Information:

APHIS will collect information to

evaluate the risk associated with the

proposed movement of plant pest,

noxious weeds, and soil. APHIS will

also collect information to monitor

operations at facility to ensure permit

conditions are being met. The

information is used to determine

whether a permit can be issued, and

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also to develop risk-mitigating

conditions for the proposed movement.

If the information were not collected,

APHIS’ ability to protect the United

States from a plant pest or noxious weed

incursion would be significantly

compromised.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; individuals or

households; Federal Government; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 40,312.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 38,133.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

Title: Conifer Solid Wood Packing

Material to China, Export Certification.

OMB Control Number: 0579–0147.

Summary of Collection: The Plant

Protection and Quarantine Program of

the Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service (APHIS), United States

Department of Agriculture is

responsible for preventing plant

diseases or insect pest from entering the

United States, preventing the spread of

pests not widely distributed in the

United States, and eradicating those

imported pests and weeds when

eradication is feasible. The Federal

Plant Pest Act authorizes the

Department to carry out this mission.

APHIS provides export certification

services to assure other countries that

the plants and plant products (as well

as associated packing materials) they are

receiving from the United States are free

of prohibited (or regulated) plant

diseases and insect pest. Effective

January 1, 2000, the government of

China requires goods from the United

States to be accompanied by either a

statement from the exporter that the

shipment does not contain any softwood

(conifer) packing materials, or by an

APHIS-issued certificate certifying that

the conifer packing materials in the

shipment have been heat treated by

being subjected to a minimum core

temperature of 56 degrees Celsius for 30

minutes. APHIS will collect information

using form PPQ 553.

Need and Use of the Information:

APHIS will collect the names and

address of the exporter and the

consignee and a description of the

consignment. APHIS will also collect

information certifying that heat

treatment has been performed, as well

as the actual certification. The

information is needed to assure China

that conifer packing materials from the

United States do not harbor insect pests

such as the pine wood nematode. If the

information is not collected this would

cause China to refuse any shipments

from the United States that contained

conifer packing materials.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; individuals or

households; not-for-profit institutions;

Farms; Federal Government; State, Local

or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 6,500.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; reporting: On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 2,808.

Agricultural Marketing Service

Title: Marketing Order No. 917 for

Peaches Grown in California.

OMB Control Number: 0581–0080.

Summary of Collection: Marketing

Order No. 917 (7 CFR 917), regulates the

handling of peaches grown in California

and emanates from enabling legislation

(The Agricultural Marketing Agreement

(AMS) Act of 1937, Secs. 1–19, 48 Stat.

31, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601–674). This

legislation, hereinafter referred to as the

Act, was designed to permit regulation

of certain agricultural commodities for

the purpose of providing orderly

marketing conditions in interstate

commerce and improving returns to

producers. The Order authorizes the

issuance of grade, size, and maturity

regulations; inspection requirements;

and marketing and production research,

including paid advertising. Regulatory

provisions apply to peaches shipped

within and out of the area of production

to any market, except those specifically

exempted by the Order. There is no

State order in effect at this time. The

Order also has authority for production

and marketing research and

development projects. Data will be

collected using AMS forms FV–75, FV–

76, FM–91, FV–92, FV–93, and FV–103.

Need and Use of the Information: The

committee powers, as set forth in the

Order, are: (1) to administer the

provisions of the Order in accordance

with its terms; (2) to receive, investigate,

and report to the Secretary complaints

of violations of the Order; (3) to make

and adopt rules and regulations to

effectuate the Order; and (4) to

recommend amendments to the Order.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; farms.

Number of Respondents: 2,287.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; reporting; on occasion,

Monthly.

Total Burden Hours: 1,411.

Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1924–F, Complaints and

Compensation for Construction Defects.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0082.

Summary of Collection: This

regulation provides instruction to all

Rural Housing Service (RHS) personnel

to enable them to implement a

procedure to accept and process

complaints from borrowers/owners

against builders and dealers/contractors,

to resolve the complaint informally and

when the complaint involves structural

defects which cannot be resolved by

cooperation of the builder or dealer/

contractor, authorizes expenditure to

resolve the defect with grant funds.

Resolution could involve expenditure

for (1) repairing defects; (2) reimbursing

for emergency repairs; (3) pay temporary

living expenses or (4) convey dwelling

to RHS with release of liability for the

RHS loan. Information is collected using

RD Form 1924–4.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is collected from Agency

borrowers and the local Agency office

serving the county in which the

dwelling is located. This information is

used by Rural Housing Staff to evaluate

the request and assist the borrower in

identifying possible causes and

corrective actions. The information is

collected on a case-by-case basis when

initiated by the borrower. RHS has

reviewed the program’s need for the

collection of information versus the

burden placed on the public.

Description of Respondents: Business

or for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 5,000.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 1,350.

Office of Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Maximum Workweek—

Construction Schedule.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0011.

Summary of Collection: In order to

obtain goods or services such as

construction services, United States

Department of Agriculture (USDA), like

other Federal agencies, has established

agency contracting offices to enter into

Federal contracts. These offices employ

contracting officers, who solicit bids or

offers for work from businesses in the

private sector. When USDA contracts

from construction services, both the

contracting officer and the contractor

need to establish a schedule for the

work. The contractor needs to ensure

that his weekly work schedule will not

conflict with the time during which

USDA may allow him access to the

work side. The contracting officer needs

to know when the contractor will be

working in order to schedule on-site

conferences, to perform quality

assurance inspections, and to perform

compliance checks required to enforce

the Davis Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a–

276a–7). Such compliance checks are

specifically required by the Federal

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Acquisition Regulations (FAR) to

conduct employee interviews, to check

the type of work being performed, to

verify the number and pay classification

of workers at the site, and to verify that

posters informing workers of their rights

are displayed at the site (FAR 22.406–

7(b)). Contracting officers put the

Maximum Workweek—Construction

Schedule clause in solicitations and

contracts for construction when the

contractor’s access to the work site may

be restricted to certain times of the day

or week.

Need and Use of the Information: The

Office of Procurement and Property

Management (OPPM) will collect

information to determine when

government inspectors or

representatives will be needed at the

site, and to schedule contractor access

to the work site. The information is not

collected unless the contracting officer

anticipates problems with contractor

access or scheduling government

inspections. If the information were not

collected, contracting offices would be

unable to allocate contract

administration resources efficiently.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 600.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 150.

Office of Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Instructions for the Preparation

of Technical and Business Proposals.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0013

Summary of Collection:

In order to obtain goods or services,

the United States Department of

Agriculture (USDA), like other Federal

agencies, has established agency

contracting offices to enter into Federal

contracts. These offices employ

contracting officers, who use various

methods to award contracts for good or

services. One method, prescribed by

part 15 of the Federal Acquisition

Regulation (FAR) is contracting by

negotiation. In contracting by

negotiation, contracting officers issue

solicitations to request offers for

required products or services from

businesses in the private sector.

Together with the solicitation

document, the offeror’s cost proposal

and its technical and business proposals

constitute the offer submitted to the

contracting office for evaluation and

acceptance. The technical proposal,

together with the offeror’s pricing, is

needed to select the offeror who will be

awarded a contract. The Agriculture

Acquisition Regulation (AGAR) (48 CFR

ch. 4) prescribes the provision titled

Instructions for the Preparation of

Technical and Business Proposals (48

CFR 452.215–71) help an offeror

preparing a proposal to address the

factors on which it will be evaluated.

Need and Use of the Information: The

Office of Procurement and Property

Management (OPPM) will collect

information to evaluate and determine

the feasibility of the offeror’s

management, technical approach, and

offered cost/price to provide the

services and/or supplies required if

awarded a contract. If the information

were not collected OPPM would be

unable to obtain goods and services

required for its daily operations.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 3,200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 112,000.

Office of Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Brand Name or Equal Provision

and Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0014.

Summary of Collection: In order to

obtain goods or services, the United

States Department of Agriculture

(USDA), like other Federal agencies, has

established agency contracting offices to

enter into Federal contracts. The

Agriculture Acquisition Regulation

(AGAR) (48 CFR ch. 4) and the (48 CFR

411.171), provision (48 CFR 452.211–

70), and a clause (48 452.211–71)

permits the use of ‘‘brand name or

equal’’ purchase descriptions to procure

commercial products. Such descriptions

require the offeror on a supply

procurement to identify the ‘‘equal’’

item being offered and to indicate how

that item meets the salient

characteristics stated in the purchase

description. The use of brand name or

equal descriptions eliminates the need

for bidders or offerors to read and

interpret detailed specifications or

purchase descriptions.

Need and Use of the Information: The

Office of Procurement and Property

Management (OPPM) will collect

information to determine from the

descriptive information furnished

whether the offered ‘‘equal’’ item meet

the salient characteristics of the

Government’s requirements. If

information were not collected, PPM

would spend more time developing

purchase descriptions and offerors

would spend more time reading and

interpreting the purchase descriptions.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 45,170.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 4,517.

Office of Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Key Personnel

Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0015.

Summary of Collection: In order to

obtain goods or services, the United

States Department of Agriculture

(USDA), like other Federal agencies, has

established agency contracting offices to

enter into Federal contracts. These

offices employ contracting officers, who

issue solicitations to request offers

(proposals) for required products or

services from businesses in the private

sector. When USDA wishes to acquire

research and development services

(R&D), Information Technology (IT)

design or support services, or advisory

and assistance services, it must consider

the capabilities of the personnel who

the contractor assigns to the job. The

contributions of certain contractor

employees may be critical to the success

of the work. Such employees are

designated as ‘‘Key personnel.’’ The

Agriculture Acquisition Regulation

(AGAR) (48 CFR ch. 4) (48 CFR 437.110)

and 48 CFR 452.237–74) prescribes the

Key Personnel clause to collect

information about key contractor

personnel. The contracting officer uses

the Key Personnel clause to require the

contractor to inform USDA if a key

person will no longer be available to

perform work on the contract.

Contractors whose contracts include the

key personnel clause are required to

notify the contracting officer about

proposed substitutions for key

personnel identified in the contract.

Need and Use of the Information: The

Office of Procurement and Property

Management (OPPM) will collect

information to determine whether the

departure of a key person from the

contractor’s staff could jeopardize

contract performance, and to determine

what accommodations or remedies may

be taken. If the OPPM could not obtain

information about departing key

personnel, it could not ensure that

qualified personnel continue to perform

contract work.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; non-for-profit

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 200.

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Office of Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Progress Reporting Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0016.

Summary of Collection: In order to

obtain goods or services, the United

States Department of Agriculture

(USDA), like other Federal agencies, has

established agency contracting offices to

enter into Federal contracts. These

offices employ contracting officers, who

request bids or offers for work from

businesses in the private sector using

solicitations. In order to administer

contracts for research and development

services (R&D), or for advisory and

assistance services (AAS), contracting

officers need information about

contractor progress in performing the

contracts. The Agriculture Acquisition

Regulation (AGAR) (48 CFR ch.4) (48

CFR 437.270(a)) and (48 CFR 452.237–

76) prescribe the Progress Reporting

Clause to collect information about

contractor progress. Contracting officers

include the Progress Reporting Clause in

R&D and AAS contracts to obtain

information from the contractors about

their performance.

Need and Use of the Information: The

Office of Procurement and Property

Management (OPPM) will collect

information to compare actual progress

and expenditures to anticipated

performance and contractor

representations on which the award was

based. The information alerts the agency

of technical problems; to the need for

additional staff resources or finding; and

to the probability of timely completion

within the contract cost or price. If the

contracting officers could not obtain

progress report information, they would

have to physically monitor the

contractor’s operation on a day to day

basis throughout the performance

period.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; non-for-profit

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal

Government.

Number of Repondents: 200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

Quarterly; monthly.

Total Burden Hours: 3,600.

Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1940–G, Enviromental

Program.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0094.

Summary of Collection: The National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

requires Federal agencies, prior to the

approval of proposed actions, to

consider the potential environmental

impacts of these actions. Consequently,

for the Agencies to comply with NEPA,

it is necessary that they have

information on the types of

environmental resources on site or in

the vicinity that might be impacted by

the proposed action, as well as

information on the nature of the project

selected by the applicant (the activities

to be carried out at the site; any air,

liquid and solid wastes produced by

these activities, etc.). The agency will

collect environmental data using form

RD 1940–20.

Need and Use of the Information: The

agency will collect information on the

proposed project site and the activities

to be conducted there. This will enable

the Agency official to determine the

magnitude of the potential

environmental impacts and whether the

project is controversial for

environmental reasons.

Description of Respondents: Farms;

individuals or households; Business or

other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 3,050.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 15,320.

Barbara Lacour,

Departmental Clearance Officer.

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BILLING CODE 3410–01–M

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil

Rights.

DATE AND TIME: Friday, June 16, 2000, 8

a.m.

PLACE: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,

624 Ninth Street, N.W., Room 540,

Washington, DC 20425.

STATUS: 

Agenda

I. Approval of Agenda

II. Approval of Minutes of May 12, 2000

Meeting

III. Announcements

IV. Staff Director’s Report

V. Police Practices and Civil Rights in

New York City Report

VI. Future Agenda Items

9 a.m. Briefing on National Police

Practices and Civil Rights

CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION: David Aronson, Press and

Communications (202) 376–8312.

Edward A. Hailes, Jr.,

Acting General Counsel.

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BILLING CODE 6335–00–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–815, A–533–807, C–533–806]

Continuation of Antidumping Duty

Orders: Sulfanilic Acid From People’s

Republic of China and India; and

Continuation of Countervailing Duty

Order: Sulfanilic Acid From India

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notices of continuation of

antidumping duty orders: Sulfanilic

acid from People’s Republic of China

and India; and countervailing duty

order, sulfanilic acid from India.

SUMMARY: On February 8, 2000 and on

April 6, 2000 (as amended, with respect

to the countervailing duty order), the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’), pursuant to sections

751(c) and 752 of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended (‘‘the Act’’), determined

that revocation of the antidumping duty

orders on sulfanilic acid from the

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) and

India, and the countervailing duty order

on sulfanilic acid from India, would be

likely to lead to continuation or

recurrence of dumping or a

countervailable subsidy (65 FR 6156, 65

FR 6171 (as amended, 65 FR18070),

respectively). On May 26, 2000, the

International Trade Commission (‘‘the

Commission’’), pursuant to section

751(c) of the Act, determined that

revocation of these antidumping and

countervailing duty orders on sulfanilic

acid would be likely to lead to

continuation or recurrence of material

injury to an industry in the United

States within a reasonably foreseeable

time (65 FR 34232). Therefore, pursuant

to 19 CFR 351.218(f)(4), the Department

is publishing notice of the continuation

of antidumping duty orders on

sulfanilic acid from the PRC and India,

and the countervailing duty order on

sulfanilic acid from India.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eun

W. Cho or James Maeder, Office of

Policy for Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Ave., NW,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)

482–1698 or (202) 482–3330,

respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On October 1, 1999, the Department

initiated, and the Commission