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Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information from 

owners of elk, deer, and moose herds 

who choose to participate in the CWD 

Herd Certification program. They would 

need to follow program requirements for 

animal identification, testing, herd 

management, and movement of animals 

into and from herds. APHIS also 

established requirements for the 

interstate movement of cervids to 

prevent movement of elk, deer, and 

moose that pose a risk of spreading 

CWD. Carrying out this program will 

entail the use of several information 

collection activities: Memoranda of 

understandings; participation requests/ 

applications; sample collections and lab 

submissions; inspections, inventories, 

and herd records; cervid identification; 

reports of cervid disappearances, 

escapes, and deaths; herd plans; annual 

reports; consistent State reviews; 

epidemiological investigations; 

appraisal, destruction, and payment of 

indemnity; letter to appeal suspension; 

Interstate Certificates of Veterinary 

Inspection (ICVI); and wild cervid ICVI, 

and surveillance data. Failure to collect 

this information would cripple APHIS’ 

ability to effectively sustain its CWD 

control program. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 4,532. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting 

and Recordkeeping: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 347,163. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Infectious Salmon Anemia 

(ISA)—Payment of Indemnity. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0192. 

Summary of Collection: The Animal 

Health Protection Act (AHPA) of 2002 is 

the primary Federal law governing the 

protection of animal health. The law 

gives the Secretary of Agriculture broad 

authority to detect, control, or eradicate 

pest or diseases of livestock or poultry. 

Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) is a 

clinical disease resulting from infection 

with the ISA virus; signs include 

hemorrhaging, anemia, and lethargy. 

ISA poses a substantial threat to the 

economic viability and sustainability of 

salmon aquaculture in the United States 

and abroad. The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will 

collect information using VS Form 1–22 

ISA Program Enrollment Form, VS Form 

1–23 All Species Appraisal and 

Indemnity Claim Form, VS Form 1–24 

Proceeds from Animals Sold for 

Slaughter Form, and VS Form 1–26 

Appraisal and Indemnity Request for 

Affected Premises Using Contract 

Growers Form. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS uses the following information 

activities to reimburse aquaculture 

industry businesses; conduct 

biosecurity, protocols and audits; 

develop site-specific ISA action plans; 

compile fish inventories and mortality 

reports (and keep records of the 

inventories and reports); and conduct 

disease surveillance. Each program 

participant must sign an ISA Program 

Enrollment Form in which they agree to 

participate fully in USDA’s and the 

State of Maine’s ISA Program. APHIS 

will collect the owner’s name and 

address, the number of fish for which 

the owner is seeking payment, and the 

appraised value of each fish. 

The owner must also certify as to 

whether the fish are subject to a 

mortgage. Without the information it 

would be impossible for APHIS to 

launch its program to contain and 

prevent ISA outbreaks in the United 

States. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 13. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 547. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0029] 

Notice of Request for Reinstatement of 

an Information Collection; National 

Animal Health Monitoring System; 

Goat 2019 Study 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Reinstatement 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 the reinstatement of an 

information collection to conduct the 

National Animal Health Monitoring 

System’s Goat 2019 Study. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before August 13, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0029. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2018–0029, 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-2018-0029 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 the Goat 2019 Study, 

contact Mr. Bill Kelley, Program 

Analyst, Science, Technology, and 

Analysis Services, VS, 2150 Centre 

Avenue, Building B, Fort Collins, CO 

80524; (970) 494–7207. For copies of 

more detailed information on the 

information collection, contact Ms. 

Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information 

Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– 

2483. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: National Animal Health 

Monitoring System; Goat 2019 Study. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0354. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement of an 

information collection. 

Abstract: Under the Animal Health 

Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), 

the Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized to protect the health of the 

livestock, poultry, and aquaculture 

populations in the United States by 

preventing the introduction and 

interstate spread of serious diseases and 

pests of livestock and for eradicating 

such diseases from the United States 

when feasible. This authority has been 

delegated to the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS). 

In connection with this mission, 

APHIS operates the National Animal 

Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), 

which collects, on a national basis, 

statistically valid and scientifically 

sound data on the prevalence and 

economic importance of livestock, 

poultry, and aquaculture disease risk 

factors. 

NAHMS’ studies have evolved into a 

collaborative industry and government 

initiative to help determine the most 

effective means of preventing and 

controlling diseases of livestock. APHIS 


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is the only agency responsible for 

collecting data on livestock health. 

Participation in any NAHMS study is 

voluntary, and all data are confidential. 

APHIS plans to conduct the Goat 2019 

Study as part of an ongoing series of 

NAHMS studies on the U.S. livestock 

population. The purpose of the study is 

to collect information to describe 

changes in animal health, nutrition, and 

management practices in the U.S. goat 

industry from 2009–2019; describe 

practices producers use to control 

internal parasites and reduce 

anthelmintic resistance; describe 

antimicrobial stewardship on goat 

operations and provide information on 

the prevalence of enteric pathogens and 

antimicrobial resistance patterns; 

describe management practices 

associated with, and producer-reported 

occurrence of, economically important 

goat diseases; and provide a serologic 

bank to meet the future research needs 

of the goat industry. 

The study will consist of two phases. 

In Phase I, a National Agricultural 

Statistics Service (NASS) enumerator 

will contact and conduct interviews 

with goat producers from 26 States who 

have 5 or more goats. These respondents 

will be asked to sign a consent form 

allowing NASS to present their names 

to APHIS-designated data collectors for 

further consideration in the study. In 

Phase II, which we consider the APHIS 

phase, the respondents will complete 

the producer agreement and up to three 

on-farm questionnaires. In addition, 

biologic sampling will be available to 

selected participants that complete the 

initial visit questionnaire. 

The information collected through the 

Goat 2019 Study will be analyzed and 

organized into descriptive reports. 

Several information sheets will be 

derived from these reports and 

disseminated by APHIS to producers, 

stakeholders, academia, veterinarians, 

and other interested parties. The 

collected data will be used to establish 

national and regional production 

measures for producer, veterinary, and 

industry references; predict or detect 

national and regional trends in disease 

emergence and movement; address 

emerging issues; examine the economic 

impact of health management practices; 

provide estimates of both outcome 

(disease or other parameters) and 

exposure (risks and components) 

variables that can be used in analytic 

studies in the future by APHIS; provide 

input into the design of surveillance 

systems for specific diseases; and 

provide parameters for animal disease 

spread models. 

We are asking the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve our use of these information 

collection activities for 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 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 0.51 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Goat producers from 26 

States who have 5 or more goats. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 4,770. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 4. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 17,668. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 8,947 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 6th day of 

June 2018. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12589 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Rural Utilities Service (RUS) invites 

comments on this information 

collection for which the RUS intends to 

request approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by August 13, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, USDA Rural Development, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW, STOP 

1522, Room 5164 South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Fax: (202) 

720–8435 or email to: Thomas.Dickson@

wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR part 1320) 

implementing provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) requires that interested 

members of the public and affected 

agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an 

information collection that RUS is 

submitting to OMB as extension to an 

existing collection with Agency 

adjustment. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed 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 the burden of 

the proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (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. Comments may be sent to: 

Thomas P. Dickson, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, Rural Utilities Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, STOP 1522, 

Room 5164, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–4492; Fax: (202) 

720–8435. 

Title: 7 CFR 1773, Policy on Audits of 

RUS Borrowers and Grantees. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0095. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Rural Utilities Service 

relies on the information provided by 

the borrowers in their financial 


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