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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 72, No. 48 

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

March 8, 2006. 

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. 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Title: ‘‘Certificate for Quota 

Eligibility’’ (CQE) to Enter Sugar into 

the United States. 

OMB Control Number: 0551–0014. 

Summary of Collection: 5(a)(i) of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States authorizes the Secretary to 

establish a raw-cane sugar tariff-rate 

quota (TRQ). 5(b)(i) authorizes the U.S. 

Trade Representative to allocate the 

raw-cane sugar tariff-rate quota among 

supplying countries. Certificates of 

Quota Eligibility (CQE) are issued to the 

40 countries that receive TRQ 

allocations to export sugar to the United 

States. The CQE is completed by the 

certifying authority in the foreign 

country that certifies that the sugar 

being exported to the United States was 

produced in the foreign country that has 

the TRQ allocation. The Foreign 

Agriculture will collect information 

using form FSA–961, Certificate for 

Quota Eligibility. 

Need and Use of the Information: FAS 

will collect the following information: 

(1) Country of origin or area of the 

eligible raw cane sugar; (2) quota period; 

(3) quantity of raw cane sugar to be 

exported; (4) details of the shipment 

(shipper, vessel, port of loading); and (5) 

additional details if available at the time 

of shipment (consignee, address of 

consignee, expected date of departure, 

expected date of arrival in the U.S., 

expected port of arrival). The 

information will help determine if the 

quantity to be imported is eligible to be 

entered under the TRQ. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 40. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 200. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Special Supplemental Nutrition 

Program for Women, Infants and 

Children (WIC): Income Eligibility 

Guidelines 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department announces 

adjusted income eligibility guidelines to 

be used by State agencies in 

determining the income eligibility of 

persons applying to participate in the 

Special Supplemental Nutrition 

Program for Women, Infants and 

Children Program (WIC). These income 

eligibility guidelines are to be used in 

conjunction with the WIC Regulations. 

DATES: July 1, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Debra Whitford, Branch Chief, Policy 

and Program Development Branch, 

Supplemental Food Programs Division, 

FNS, USDA, 3101 Park Center Drive, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22302, (703) 305– 

2746. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Executive Order 12866 

This notice is exempt from review by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

under Executive Order 12866. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This action is not a rule as defined by 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 

601–612) and thus is exempt from the 

provisions of this Act. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This notice does not contain reporting 

or recordkeeping requirements subject 

to approval by the Office of 

Management and Budget in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507). 

Executive Order 12372 

This program is listed in the Catalog 

of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Programs under No. 10.557, and is 

subject to the provisions of Executive 

Order 12372, which requires 

intergovernmental consultation with 

State and local officials (7 CFR part 

3015, subpart V, 48 FR 29114, June 24, 

1983, and 49 FR 22676, May 31, 1984). 


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Description 

Section 17(d)(2)(A) of the Child 

Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786 

(d)(2)(A)) requires the Secretary of 

Agriculture to establish income criteria 

to be used with nutritional risk criteria 

in determining a person’s eligibility for 

participation in the WIC Program. The 

law provides that persons will be 

income eligible for the WIC Program 

only if they are members of families that 

satisfy the income standard prescribed 

for reduced-price school meals under 

section 9(b) of the Richard B. Russell 

National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 

1758(b)). Under section 9(b), the income 

limit for reduced-price school meals is 

185 percent of the Federal poverty 

guidelines, as adjusted. 

Section 9(b) also requires that these 

guidelines be revised annually to reflect 

changes in the Consumer Price Index. 

The annual revision for 2007 was 

published by the Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS) at 72 FR 

3147, January 24, 2007. The guidelines 

published by HHS are referred to as the 

poverty guidelines. 

Section 246.7(d)(1) of the WIC 

regulations (Title 7, Code of Federal 

Regulations) specifies that State 

agencies may prescribe income 

guidelines either equaling the income 

guidelines established under section 9 

of the Richard B. Russell National 

School Lunch Act for reduced-price 

school meals or identical to State or 

local guidelines for free or reducedprice health care. However, in 

conforming WIC income guidelines to 

State or local health care guidelines, the 

State cannot establish WIC guidelines 

which exceed the guidelines for 

reduced-price school meals, or which 

are less than 100 percent of the Federal 

poverty guidelines. Consistent with the 

method used to compute income 

eligibility guidelines for reduced-price 

meals under the National School Lunch 

Program, the poverty guidelines were 

multiplied by 1.85 and the results 

rounded upward to the next whole 

dollar. 

At this time the Department is 

publishing the maximum and minimum 

WIC income eligibility guidelines by 

household size for the period July 1, 

2007, through June 30, 2008. Consistent 

with section 17(f)(17) of the Child 

Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 

1786(f)(17)), a State agency may 

implement the revised WIC income 

eligibility guidelines concurrently with 

the implementation of income eligibility 

guidelines under the Medicaid program 

established under Title XIX of the Social 

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396, et seq.). 

State agencies may coordinate 

implementation with the revised 

Medicaid guidelines, but in no case may 

implementation take place later than 

July 1, 2007. 

State agencies that do not coordinate 

implementation with the revised 

Medicaid guidelines must implement 

the WIC income eligibility guidelines on 

July 1, 2007. The first table of this notice 

contains the income limits by 

household size for the 48 contiguous 

States, the District of Columbia and all 

Territories, including Guam. Because 

the poverty guidelines for Alaska and 

Hawaii are higher than for the 48 

contiguous States, separate tables for 

Alaska and Hawaii have been included 

for the convenience of the State 

agencies. 

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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1786 Dated: March 5, 2007. 

Roberto Salazar, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–1146 Filed 3–12–07; 8:45 am] 

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