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Vol. 78, No. 3 

Friday, January 4, 2013 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2012–0100] 

Notice of Request for Revision to and 

Extension of Approval of an 

Information Collection; APHIS Student 

Outreach Program 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request a revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection 

associated with the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s Student 

Outreach Program. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before March 5, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!document

Detail;D=APHIS-012-0100-0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2012–0100, 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-2012-0100 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) 799–7039 before 

coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on documents associated 

with the APHIS Student Outreach 

Program, contact Mr. Kenneth Johnson, 

Director, Office of Civil Rights, Diversity 

and Inclusion, Office of the 

Administrator, APHIS, 4700 River Road 

Unit 92, Riverdale, MD 20737; (202) 

799–7012. For copies of more detailed 

information on the information 

collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, 

APHIS’ Information Collection 

Coordinator, at (301) 851–2908. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: APHIS Student Outreach 

Program. 

OMB Number: 0579–0362. 

Type of Request: Revision to and 

extension of approval of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS’) 

Student Outreach Program is designed 

to help students learn about careers in 

animal science, veterinary medicine, 

plant pathology, and agribusiness. The 

program allows participants to live on a 

college campus and learn about 

agricultural science and agribusiness 

from university professors, practicing 

veterinarians, and professionals working 

for the U.S. Government. 

The Student Outreach Program is 

designed to enrich students’ lives while 

they are still in their formative years. 

APHIS’ investment in the Student 

Outreach Program not only exposes 

students to careers in APHIS, it also 

gives APHIS’ employees the opportunity 

to meet and invest in APHIS’ future 

workforce. Students chosen to 

participate in the Student Outreach 

Program will gain experience through 

hands-on labs, workshops, and field 

trips. Students will also participate in 

character and team building activities 

and diversity workshops. Two programs 

currently in the Student Outreach 

Program are Ag-Discovery and 

Safeguarding Natural Heritage Program: 

Strengthening Navajo Youth 

Connections to the Land. 

The Safeguarding Natural Heritage 

Program focuses on activities within the 

environs of the communities of the 

Navajo Nation. To participate in this 

program, students must submit an essay, 

letters of recommendation, and an 

APHIS Form 120, which includes the 

student application, parental release 

form, and a health history/emergency 

medical information form. 

Ag-Discovery was established by 

APHIS prior to the Safeguarding Natural 

Heritage Program. To participate in this 

program, students must submit an essay, 

letters of recommendation, and a 

completed APHIS Form 119, which 

includes the student application, 

parental release form, student contract, 

and letter of recommendation template. 

These information collection activities 

were approved under the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number 0579–0362. Including the 

information collection activities 

associated with the Safeguarding 

Natural Heritage Program will add 

approximately 100 respondents and 200 

total annual burden hours. 

We are asking OMB to approve our 

use of these information collection 

activities, as revised, for an additional 3 

years. 

The purpose of this notice is to solicit 

comments from the public (as well as 

affected agencies) concerning our 

information collection. These comments 

will help us: 

(1) Evaluate 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; 

(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 

5.636363 hours per response. 

Respondents: Full-time students (12 

to 17 years of age, depending on the 

program). 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 1,100. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 1. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 1,100. 

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Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 6,200 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 13th day of 

December 2012. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–31567 Filed 1–3–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2011–0079] 

Guidelines for the Control of 

Tuberculosis in Elephants 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service intends to use the 

2010 guidelines issued by the United 

States Animal Health Association to 

assess compliance with the animal 

welfare regulations as related to 

elephant tuberculosis as well as to aid 

users in their compliance with those 

regulations. We accept these guidelines 

as meeting the requirements in the 

Animal Welfare Act and are making 

them available for review. We welcome 

comment on our intention to utilize the 

guidelines as a means of assessing 

compliance with our regulations. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before March 5, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!document

Detail;D=APHIS-2011-0079-0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2011–0079, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

The guidelines and any comments we 

receive on this docket may be viewed at 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=APHIS-2011-0079 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) 799–7039 before 

coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Barbara Kohn, Senior Staff Veterinarian, 

Animal Care, APHIS, 4700 River Road 

Unit 84, Riverdale, MD 20737–1234; 

(301) 851–3751. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 

2131–2159, AWA) authorizes the 

Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) 

to promulgate rules and standards and 

other requirements governing the 

humane handling, housing, care, 

treatment, and transportation of certain 

animals by dealers, exhibitors, research 

facilities, and other regulated entities. 

The Secretary has delegated the 

responsibility for enforcing the AWA to 

the Administrator of the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS). The APHIS Animal Care 

program ensures compliance with AWA 

regulations and standards. Regulations 

established under the AWA are 

contained in 9 CFR parts 1, 2, and 3. 

Currently, part 2 consists of subparts A 

through I, which contain regulations 

pertaining to licensing and registration 

of dealers, exhibitors, and research 

facilities, and standards for veterinary 

care, identification of animals, and 

recordkeeping. 

The Attending Veterinarian and 

Adequate Veterinary Care regulations 

contained in Subpart C and Subpart D 

are performance standards that do not 

prescribe specific measures to be 

undertaken in order to be in compliance 

with those regulations. Pursuant to the 

regulations, research facilities, dealers, 

and exhibitors are required to provide 

‘‘adequate veterinary care’’ to the 

animals in their custody. A research 

facility, dealer, or exhibitor that 

employs a part-time attending 

veterinarian (rather than a full-time 

attending veterinarian) must do so 

under ‘‘formal arrangements’’ that ‘‘shall 

include a written program of veterinary 

care.’’ Each research facility, dealer, and 

exhibitor is required to ‘‘establish and 

maintain programs of adequate 

veterinary care.’’ In 1998, APHIS 

adopted the use of a document entitled 

‘‘Guidelines for the Control of 

Tuberculosis in Elephants’’ developed 

by The National Tuberculosis Working 

Group for Zoo and Wildlife Species in 

order to address the emerging issue of 

tuberculosis in elephants and to provide 

the licensees and registrants with 

concrete ways to meet the standards 

established in subpart D with regard to 

elephant tuberculosis. This guidance 

document has been modified at various 

times since then in order to incorporate 

new information and to improve 

recommended practices. These 

guidelines have been utilized by APHIS 

to monitor and address elephant 

tuberculosis under the AWA. 

In November 2010, the Tuberculosis 

Committee of the United States Animal 

Health Association (USAHA), which has 

taken over administration of the 

guidelines from The National 

Tuberculosis Working Group for Zoo 

and Wildlife Species, approved 

revisions to the guidelines. Following 

the release of the 2010 revised 

guidelines, USAHA submitted a 

recommendation to APHIS for the 

implementation of the newest version of 

the guidelines, ‘‘Guidelines for the 

Control of Tuberculosis in Elephants 

2010.’’ We have reviewed the revised 

guidelines and find them to be in line 

with the requirements of the AWA. We 

have determined that the 2010 

guidelines are useful to determine 

whether research facilities, dealers, and 

exhibitors meet the regulations’ 

minimum requirements for the 

provision of ‘‘adequate veterinary care’’ 

to elephants and the establishment and 

maintenance of programs of adequate 

veterinary care for elephants with 

respect to tuberculosis. We have 

therefore determined that it is 

appropriate for APHIS to continue to 

utilize these guidelines to assess 

compliance with the regulations in 9 

CFR subparts C and D. We welcome 

comments from the public regarding 

this determination to use the guidelines 

in this manner. Given that APHIS is not 

the author of the document, we are 

unable to make changes to specific 

provisions contained in the guidelines. 

Accordingly, we are seeking comments 

on the overall suitability of the 

document as a means of assessing 

compliance with our regulations in 9 

CFR subparts C and D. 

Copies of the document are available 

on the Internet via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2011-0079, on 

the Animal Care Web site at http:// 

www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/ 

index.shtml, or from the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

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