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(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, through use, as 

appropriate, of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, and other collection 

technologies; e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Estimate of burden: The public 

reporting burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 

0.0929 hours per response. 

Respondents: U.S. importers and 

exporters of endangered species of 

terrestrial plants. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 16,578. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 4.901. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 81,264. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 7,552 hours. (Due to 

averaging, the total annual burden hours 

may not equal the product of the annual 

number of responses multiplied by the 

reporting burden per response.) 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 8th day of 

October 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24531 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Information Collection; Noninsured 

Crop Disaster Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, 

Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Farm Service Agency and the 

Commodity Credit Corporation are 

requesting comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection in support of the 

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 

Program (NAP). The information 

collected is needed from producers to 

determine eligibility for NAP assistance. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by December 15, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, OMB control 

number, volume, and page number of 

this issue of the Federal Register. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to/ 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Daniel McGlynn, Acting 

Division Director, Production, 

Emergencies, and Compliance Division, 

Farm Service Agency, USDA, Mail Stop 

0517, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0517. 

You may also send comments to the 

Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC, 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Terry Hill, Section Head, Disaster 

Assistance Section, Program Policy 

Branch, (202) 720–3087. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection 

Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster 

Assistance Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0175. 

Type of Request: Revision. 

Abstract: NAP is authorized under 7 

U.S.C. 7333 and implemented under 

regulations issued at 7 CFR part 1437. 

NAP is administered by FSA for CCC 

and is carried out by FSA State and 

County committees. The information 

collected allows FSA to provide 

assistance under NAP for losses of 

commercial crops or other agricultural 

commodities (except livestock) that are 

produced for food or fiber and for which 

catastrophic coverage under section 

508(b), or additional NAP coverage 

under sections 508(c) and 508(h) under 

the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 

1508) is not available. 

NAP coverage is available for crops 

expressly grown for food (excluding 

livestock and their by-products); crops 

planted and grown for livestock 

consumption; crops grown for fiber 

(excluding trees grown for wood, paper, 

or pulp products); aquaculture species 

crops (including ornamental fish); 

floriculture; ornamental nursery; 

Christmas tree crops; turf grass sod; 

industrial crops; seed crops; and sea 

grass and sea oats. The information 

collected is necessary to determine 

whether a producer and crop or 

commodity meet applicable conditions 

for assistance and to determine 

compliance with existing regulations. 

Eligible producers must annually: 

(1) Request NAP coverage by 

completing an application for coverage 

and paying a service fee by the FSAestablished application closing date; 

(2) File a report of acreage, inventory, 

or physical location of the operation, as 

applicable for the covered crop or 

commodity; and 

(3) Certify harvested production of 

each covered crop or commodity. 

When damage to a covered crop or 

commodity occurs, which is eligible for 

NAP, producers must file a notice of 

loss with the local FSA administrative 

county office within 15 calendar days of 

occurrence or 15 calendar days of the 

date damage to the crop or commodity 

becomes apparent. Producers must also 

file an application for payment by the 

FSA established deadline, and complete 

a certification of average adjusted gross 

income and consent for disclosure of tax 

information with the local FSA County 

office. The NAP application is also 

being used to provide a timelier, more 

accurate, and more reliable delivery of 

benefits to producers. 

FSA is revising a currently approved 

information collection because the 

number of producers is expected to 

increase due to changes to NAP by the 

Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm 

Bill) and additional changes that are 

under development and will be 

published in a separate rulemaking. 

The 2014 Farm Bill authorizes 

additional NAP coverage (NAP buy-up 

coverage) levels ranging from 50 to 65 

percent of production at 100 percent of 

the average market price, and expands 

NAP coverage to sweet sorghum, 

biomass sorghum, and industrial crops 

grown as feedstock for renewable 

biofuel, renewable electricity, and 

biobased products. It also expands a 

waiver of the NAP service fee which 

was previously available only to limited 

resource farmers to also include 

beginning and socially disadvantaged 

farmers and ranchers. 

Based on these changes, FSA is 

expecting an increase in the annual total 

number of respondents, and an increase 

in total burden hours for collection of 

the information. 

The formulas used to calculate the 

total burden hours is estimated average 

time per response (includes travel 

times) hours times total annual 

responses. 

Type of respondents: Producers of 

commercial crops or other agricultural 

commodities (except livestock). 

Estimated Annual Burden: Public 

reporting burden for this information 

collection is estimated to average 1.33 

hours per response. The average travel 

time, which is included in the total 


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annual burden, is estimated to be 1 hour 

per respondent. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 298,943. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Reponses Per Respondent: 3. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

1,565,366. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 2,036,452. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of this information collection to 

help us to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of FSA, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of FSA’s 

estimate of burden including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

(4) 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. 

All responses to this notice, including 

name and addresses when provided, 

will be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

Signed on October 3, 2014. 

Val Dolcini, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation, and Administrator, Farm 

Service Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24535 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Klamath National Forest, California, 

Westside Fire Recovery Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Klamath National Forest 

will prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) on a proposal to reduce 

safety hazards to the public and forest 

workers, obtain the maximum economic 

commodity values from burned timber, 

and increase the likelihood and speed 

by which burned forested areas are 

regenerated on about 63,883 acres that 

burned with high severity in the Beaver 

Creek, Whites, and Happy Camp 

Complex fires in 2014. The project area 

includes 162,264 acres of National 

Forest System lands and 20,863 acres of 

private land. Treatments for the project 

will be limited to National Forest 

System lands. It is located on the west 

side of the Forest within the Beaver 

Creek, Horse Creek-Klamath River, 

Humbug Creek-Klamath River, Elk 

Creek, Indian Creek, Lower Scott River, 

Seiad Creek-Klamath River, Thompson 

Creek-Klamath River, Ukonom CreekKlamath River, French Creek-Scott 

River, North Fork Salmon River, and 

South Fork Salmon River 5th field 

watersheds. The legal description of the 

project area is Township (T) 39 North 

(N) Range (R) 10 West (W), T39NR11W, 

T40NR8W, T40NR10W, T40NR11W, 

T41NR10W, T41NR11W, T43NR12W, 

T44NR11W, T44NR12W, T45NR10W, 

T45NR11W, T45NR12W, T46NR8W, 

T46NR9W, T46NR10W, T46NR11W, 

T46NR12W, T47NR8W, T47NR9W, and 

T47NR10W of the Humboldt Meridian 

and T14NR8 East (E), T15NR7E, 

T15NR8E, T16NR7E, T16NR8E of the 

Humboldt Meridian. 

DATES: The comment period on the 

proposed action will extend 30 days 

from the date the Notice of Intent is 

published in the Federal Register. The 

draft EIS is expected to be completed by 

March 2015, and the final EIS is 

expected to be completed by June 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: 

Patricia A. Grantham, Forest Supervisor, 

Klamath National Forest, 1711 South 

Main Street, Yreka, California 96097, 

ATTN: Westside Fire Recovery Team 

Leader, or send facsimile to 530–841– 

4571. Submit electronic comments at 

the Klamath National Forest’s project 

Web page: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fsusda-pop.php/?project=45579 by 

selecting the ‘‘Comment on Project’’ link 

in the ‘‘Get Connected’’ group at the 

right hand side of the project Web page. 

Put the project name in the subject line; 

attachments may be in the following 

formats: Plain text (.txt), rich text format 

(.rtf), Word (.doc, .docx), or portable 

document format (.pdf). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy Coats, Klamath National Forest, 

Yreka, California 96097. Phone: 530– 

841–4470. Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need 

The purpose of this project is to: 

1. Reduce safety hazards to adjacent 

landowners, the public, and Forest 

workers from falling trees (i.e. ‘‘hazard 

trees,’’ also known as ‘‘danger trees’’) or 

hazardous fuels conditions. Trees killed 

or severely burned by wildfire (i.e. 

snags) are often unstable and at risk for 

falling or snapping off, especially during 

high wind events. It is important that 

safety is maintained and hazardous 

fuels conditions are abated, where they 

exist within the Wildland Urban 

Interface, especially within one-quarter 

mile of private property in burned areas 

or within areas that underwent fire 

suppression-related activity. It is also 

imperative that infrastructure, 

especially utility lines, roads, trailheads, 

campgrounds, fire lookouts, and 

bridges, are maintained for use by the 

public and Forest workers. Further, 

dead and dying trees within proposed 

salvage harvest areas need to be 

addressed to minimize safety hazards to 

the public who recreate in the area, 

Forest workers (i.e. planting), and 

firefighters (i.e. to enable future 

suppression efforts should the area burn 

again). 

2. Obtain the maximum economic 

commodity and value from burned 

timber by offering a sale while the wood 

is still marketable. The Forest Plan 

directs the Forest to harvest dead or 

dying trees to produce wood products as 

consistent with Forest goals. Dead 

timber loses significant value if left 

standing beyond two winters and is 

most profitable if harvested even sooner. 

Capturing the marketability of the 

timber provides the agency a viable 

means of meeting this and other project 

needs, since the timber sale can be used 

to fund restoration implementation. If 

treatment is delayed beyond the 

marketability period of the timber, the 

Forest Service will need to pay for the 

hazard tree abatement and removal of 

dead and dying trees in order to meet 

the first need described above. By 

contrast, if salvage occurs during the 

marketability period, funds gained from 

the salvage sale can be used for 

additional restoration work. Capturing 

the maximum economic value of the 

salvaged timber will benefit Siskiyou 

County and surrounding communities 

by maintaining and/or creating jobs in 

forest management by providing timber 

to the local mills who are major 

employers of these rural communities. 

3. Promote ecosystem sustainability 

by increasing the likelihood and speed 

by which burned, forested areas are 

restored. Although wildfires have some 

benefits (e.g., snag and downed wood 

creation), intensely burned forested 

areas may be slow to recover and heavy 

fuel loading will result from fallen 

snags. Following a high severity 

wildfire, heavy fuel loading predisposes 


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