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Notices Federal Register

26074 

Vol. 73, No. 90 

Thursday, May 8, 2008 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

May 5, 2008. 

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. 

Farm Service Agency 

Title: Customer Data Worksheet 

Request for SCIMS Record Change. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–NEW. 

Summary of Collection: Critical 

Customer Data is required in order to 

identify USDA program participants and 

ensure that benefits are directed to the 

correct customer and respective Tax 

Identification Numbers. There is no 

public law regarding the use or 

collection of Critical Customer Data. 

The option to document and track 

Critical Customer Data changes is 

necessary to ensure the integrity of the 

database and to provide the Farm 

Service Agency (FSA), Natural 

Resources and Conservation Service and 

Rural Development a method of 

verifying the validity of the information, 

and provide a necessary basis for 

pursuing legal remedies when needed. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Critical Customer Data is necessary to 

input customer information for identity 

purposes and to provide a point of 

contact for the respective customer and 

a valid Tax Identification Number to 

direct program benefits to. The AD– 

2047 will be used to document Critical 

Customer Data changes and also to 

provide a spot check documentation 

form. Failure to collect and timely 

maintain the data collected will result 

in erroneous/outdated point of contact 

information, which could result in 

program information and benefits being 

directed to incorrect recipients. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 51,750. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Other (when necessary). 

Total Burden Hours: 24,323. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–10255 Filed 5–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

In-Handling Charges for Commodities 

Pledged as Collateral for Marketing 

Assistance Loan 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC) will discontinue 

reimbursing producers or warehouse 

operators for in-handling charges. This 

begins with the 2008-crop for all 

commodities except cotton. Producers 

must pay or provide for all in-handling 

charges on warehouse-stored 

commodities before CCC will accept 

commodities as collateral for a 

warehouse-stored marketing assistance 

loan. Also, producers must pay or 

provide for the payment of in-handling 

charges for farm-stored commodities 

that are delivered to a warehouse in 

settlement of a farm-stored marketing 

assistance loan. 

DATES: Effective Date: May 8, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Helen Linden, Assistant to the Director, 

Warehouse and Inventory Division, 

Farm Service Agency, USDA, STOP 

0553, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0553; telephone: 

(202) 690–4321; e-mail: 

helen.linden@wdc.usda.gov. Persons 

with disabilities who require alternative 

means for communication (Braille, large 

print, audiotape, etc.) should contact the 

USDA Target Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Farm 

Security and Rural Investment Act of 

2002 (Pub. L. 107–171) (2002 Farm Bill) 

authorizes the marketing assistance loan 

program for all commodities. In the 

past, CCC paid warehouse operators or 

reimbursed producers for in-handling 

charges on forfeited commodities that 

were pledged as collateral for 

warehouse-stored marketing assistance 

loans or delivered to CCC in satisfaction 

of a farm-stored marketing assistance 

loan. 

Starting with the 2008-crop year, CCC 

will no longer pay warehouse operators 

or reimburse producers for in-handling 

charges that are applicable to either 

warehouse-stored commodities that are 

pledged as collateral for marketing 

assistance loans or farm-stored 

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commodities that are forfeited to CCC in 

satisfaction of a farm-stored marketing 

assistance loan. 

Beginning with 2008-crop marketing 

assistance loans, producers must pay or 

provide for the payment of in-handling 

charges on warehouse-stored 

commodities before CCC will accept the 

commodity as collateral for a 

warehouse-stored marketing assistance 

loan. 

Beginning with the 2008-crop of 

wheat, feed grains, soybeans, rice, 

pulses, minor oilseeds, peanuts, honey, 

wool, and mohair, producers must 

provide documentation that all inhandling charges have been paid or 

provided for before a warehouse-stored 

marketing assistance loan will be 

disbursed for the commodity. 

Acceptable documentation will include 

specific information recorded directly 

on the warehouse receipt pledged as 

collateral for a marketing assistance 

loan. If the information is not recorded 

directly on the warehouse receipt that is 

pledged as loan collateral, separate 

documentation that is signed by the 

warehouse operator that includes the 

following language will be accepted as 

evidence that in-handling charges have 

been paid or provided for if the 

document is presented in conjunction 

with a warehouse receipt that is pledged 

as collateral for a warehouse-stored 

marketing assistance loan: 

Arrangements for the payment of inhandling charges have been made by the 

depositor of the commodity covered by 

receipt number (Insert Receipt Number). No 

lien will be asserted by the warehouse 

operator against the Commodity Credit 

Corporation or any subsequent holder of the 

warehouse receipt for in-handling charges. 

Failure to present the required 

documentation that in-handling charges 

have been paid or provided for will 

result in the commodity represented by 

the warehouse receipt being determined 

ineligible as collateral for the marketing 

assistance loan until the documentation 

is submitted to the applicable Farm 

Service Agency county office. 

For commodities pledged as collateral 

for farm-stored marketing assistance 

loans that are forfeited to CCC in 

satisfaction of an outstanding loan, the 

producer or warehouse operator that is 

accepting delivery of the forfeited 

commodity must provide 

documentation that in-handling charges 

have been paid or provided for before 

the loan settlement will be recorded. If 

the evidence is not provided as part of 

the delivery documentation, CCC will 

reduce the producer’s settlement value 

for the forfeited commodity to reflect 

the amount of unpaid in-handling 

charges, at the rate provided in the 

warehouse’s public tariff rates. In the 

event that a deduction from settlement 

proceeds is made, CCC will forward the 

withheld amount to the storing 

warehouse operator on behalf of the 

producer and will report the amount 

paid to the Internal Revenue Service 

(IRS). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on May 1, 2008. 

Glen L. Keppy, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. E8–10179 Filed 5–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

San Juan National Forest; Columbine 

Ranger District; Colorado; Hermosa 

Land Exchange Analysis 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The San Juan National Forest 

is studying a proposal for a land 

exchange whereby Tamarron Properties 

Associates would offer 330 acres of nonFederal lands to the U.S. Forest Service 

in exchange for 265 acres of National 

Forest System lands and an easement 

for a new road. Any exchange would 

require by law that the appraised value 

of the properties be equal. The nonFederal properties include two 

inholdings adjacent to the Hermosa 

Roadless area; Mitchell Lakes and 

Hermosa Creek. The third inholding is 

a mining claim located in the 

Weminuche Wilderness area along the 

Whitehead Gulch Trail southeast of 

Silverton. Mitchell Lakes parcel is 

specifically located in T. 37 N., R. 9 W, 

Section 23 ; Hermosa Park T. 39 N., R. 

10 W., Section 24, La Plata County, The 

Iron Clad Mining Claim is located in 

Section 11, T. 40 N., R. 7 W., N.M.P.M., 

Columbine Ranger District, San Juan 

National Forest, Colorado. 

DATES: Formal scoping on the proposed 

land exchange began on June 11, 2007 

and ended on September 10, 2007. Two 

public open houses were held June 21 

and 25, 2007. Public field trips to the 

parcels were held June 28 and 29, 2007. 

The draft environmental impact 

statement is expected in September 

2008 and the final environmental 

impact statement is expected in 

December 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Cindy 

Hockelberg, Columbine Public Lands, 

POB 439, 367 South Pearl Street, 

Bayfield, CO 81122; e-mail 

chockelberg@fs.fed.us., telephone 970–

884–1418. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of and need for action is 

for (1) more consolidated Federal and 

private ownership that reduces cost of 

Federal management and increases 

management efficiency; and (2) 

acquisition of significant non-Federal 

inholdings within the San Juan National 

Forest in visible and frequented 

locations so they are not available for 

development; and (3) additional Federal 

jurisdiction within Congressionally 

designated wilderness or other parcels 

such as wetlands, floodplains, and 

riparian areas that provide habitat for 

threatened or endangered species. 

The Forest Service is directed to 

achieve the optimum landownership 

pattern to provide for the protection and 

management of resource uses to meet 

the needs of the nation now and in the 

future. 

Further, the Forest Service is to 

complete land-for-land exchanges to 

consolidate National Forest System and 

private, State, or local government land 

patterns, to permit needed urban or 

industrial expansion; or to make other 

adjustments in landownership in the 

public interest. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action is to complete a 

land exchange whereby the Forest 

Service would acquire three nonFederal parcels located within the 

boundaries of the San Juan National 

Forest and convey a Federal parcel and 

road easement for a new road to private 

ownership. 

Possible Alternatives 

The following alternatives have been 

preliminarily identified: 

Alternative 1: This alternative is the 

No Action Alternative. The proposed 

project as described above would not 

occur. 

Alternative 2: This alternative is the 

proposed action and the project would 

occur as described above. This 

alternative was presented in the public 

scoping that occurred during the 

summer of 2007. 

Alternative 3: This alternative is 

responsive to trail use and moves the 

northern boundary of the Federal parcel 

south of the proponent’s proposed 

location. The northern boundary for 

Alternative 3 would keep the trails 

immediately south and adjacent to the 

Chris Park wetland in Federal 

ownership. This alternative would 

include a road easement and limit use. 

Restrictions on road use for this 

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