26946 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2018 / Notices 

Regulations Team, Rural Development 

Innovation Center, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, STOP 1522, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–1522. Telephone: (202) 690– 

1078, Fax: (202) 720–8435 or email: 

Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov. 

Title: Advance of Loan Funds and 

Budgetary Control and Other Related 

Burdens. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0015. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Rural Utilities Service 

administers the electric loan and loan 

guarantee program authorized under the 

Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 

U.S.C. 901 et seq.) In order to protect 

and ensure the Government’s security 

interest in loans, and in exercise of due 

diligence, electric borrowers furnish 

information to RUS regarding the 

condition, financial or otherwise, 

related to expenditure of loan funds. 

This Information Collection is necessary 

to comply with applicable provisions of 

the RUS loan contract. RUS Borrowers 

submit requisitions to RUS for funds for 

project costs incurred. Insured loan 

funds will be advanced only for projects 

which are included in the RUS 

approved borrowers workplan or 

approved amendment and in an 

approved loan, as amended. The process 

of loan advances establishes the 

beginning of the audit trail of the use of 

loan funds which is required to 

subsequent RUS compliance audits. 

The RUS Form 595 is used as a 

requisition for advances of funds. The 

form helps to assure that loan funds are 

advanced only for the budget purposes 

and amount approved by RUS. 

According to the applicable provisions 

of the RUS loan contract, borrowers 

must certify with each request for funds 

to be approved for advance, which such 

funds are for projects previously 

approved. When a prospective borrower 

requests and is granted a RUS loan, a 

loan contract is established between the 

Federal government, acting through the 

RUS Administrator, and the borrower. 

At the time this contract is entered into, 

the borrower must provide RUS with a 

list of projects for which loan funds will 

be spent, along with an itemized list of 

the estimated costs of these projects. 

Thus, the borrower receives a loan 

based upon estimated cost figures. 

RUS Form 219, Inventory of Work 

Orders, is one of the documents the 

borrower submits to RUS to support 

actual expenditures and an advance of 

loan funds. The form also serves as a 

connecting link and provides an audit 

trail that originates with the advance of 

funds and terminates with evidence 

supporting the propriety of 

expenditures for construction or 

retirement projects. 

Estimate of Burden: The Public 

reporting burden for this collection of 

information is estimated to average 1.56 

hours per response. 

Respondents: Not-for-profit 

institutions; Business or other for profit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

600. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 15.5. 

Estimated Number of Total 

Responses: 9,320. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 14,570 hours. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, 

Regulations Team, Rural Development 

Innovation Center, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, (202) 720–7853, Fax: (202) 

720–8435 or email: MaryPat.Daskal@

wdc.usda.gov. 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. 

Dated: May 29, 2018. 

Christopher A. McLean, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12414 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 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, as 

amended), the Rural Utilities Service 

(RUS) invites comments on this 

information collection for which RUS 

intends to request approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by August 10, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory 

Team, Rural Development Innovation 

Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP 

1522, Room 5164, South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078. FAX: (202) 

720–8435. Email: Michele.Brooks@

wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR 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 for 

extension. 

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: 

Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory 

Team, Rural Development Innovation 

Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP 

1522, Room 5164, South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078, FAX: (202) 

720–8435. Email: Michele.Brooks@

wdc.usda.gov. 

Title: Substantially Underserved Trust 

Areas. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0147. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: The RUS provides loan, loan 

guarantee and grant programs for rural 

electric, water and waste, and 

telecommunications and broadband 

infrastructure. The SUTA initiative 

gives the Secretary of Agriculture 

certain discretionary authorities relating 

to financial assistance terms and 

conditions that can enhance the 

financing possibilities in areas that are 

underserved by certain RUS electric, 

water and waste, and 

telecommunications and broadband 

programs. The data covered by this 

collection of information are those 

materials necessary to allow the agency 

to determine applicant and community 

eligibility and an explanation and 

documentation of the high need for the 

benefits of the SUTA provisions. 

Program specific application materials, 

which funds are being applied for, are 

covered by the information collection 

package for the specific RUS program. 


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Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 30 hours per 

response. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 1. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 30. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, 

Regulatory Team, Rural Development 

Innovation Center, at (202) 720–7853, 

FAX: (202) 720–8435. Email: 

MaryPat.Daskal@wdc.usda.gov. 

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. 

Dated: May 29, 2018. 

Christopher A. McLean, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12415 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–34–2018] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 230— 

Greensboro, North Carolina; 

Notification of Proposed Production 

Activity; Patheon Softgels 

(Pharmaceutical Products); High Point, 

North Carolina 

The Piedmont Triad Partnership, 

grantee of FTZ 230, submitted a 

notification of proposed production 

activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of 

Patheon Softgels (Patheon), located in 

High Point, North Carolina. The 

notification conforming to the 

requirements of the regulations of the 

FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 

received on May 31, 2018. 

Patheon already has authority to 

produce certain prescription 

pharmaceutical products and soft 

gelatin capsules within Subzone 230C. 

Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), 

additional FTZ authority would be 

limited to the specific foreign-status 

materials/components and specific 

finished products described in the 

submitted notification (as described 

below) and subsequently authorized by 

the FTZ Board. 

Production under FTZ procedures 

could exempt Patheon from customs 

duty payments on the foreign-status 

materials/components used in export 

production. On its domestic sales, for 

the foreign-status materials/components 

noted below and in the existing scope 

of authority, Patheon would be able to 

choose the duty rates during customs 

entry procedures that apply to: Gelatin 

encapsulated ibuprofen capsules (dutyfree). Patheon would be able to avoid 

duty on foreign-status components 

which become scrap/waste. Customs 

duties also could possibly be deferred or 

reduced on foreign-status production 

equipment. 

The materials/components sourced 

from abroad include: Ponceau R4 (food 

coloring—for use only in production for 

export); ibuprofen active 

pharmaceutical ingredients; medium 

chain triglycerides; and, polyethylene 

glycol (duty rate ranges from 8.8ct/kg to 

6.5%). 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is July 

23, 2018. 

A copy of the notification will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 

21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s 

website, which is accessible via 

www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Christopher Wedderburn at 

Chris.Wedderburn@trade.gov or (202) 

482–1963. 

Dated: June 5, 2018. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12496 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–37–2018] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 113—Ellis County, 

Texas; Application for Reorganization 

(Expansion of Service Area); Under 

Alternative Site Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by 

the Ellis County Trade Zone 

Corporation, grantee of Foreign-Trade 

Zone 113, requesting authority to 

reorganize the zone to expand its service 

area under the alternative site 

framework (ASF) adopted by the FTZ 

Board (15 CFR Sec. 400.2(c)). The ASF 

is an option for grantees for the 

establishment or reorganization of zones 

and can permit significantly greater 

flexibility in the designation of new 

subzones or ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites 

for operators/users located within a 

grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context of 

the FTZ Board’s standard 2,000-acre 

activation limit for a zone. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the 

regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 

part 400). It was formally docketed on 

June 4, 2018. 

FTZ 113 was approved by the FTZ 

Board on December 21, 1984 (Board 

Order 283, 50 FR 300, January 3, 1985) 

and reorganized under the ASF on 

September 24, 2010 (Board Order 1708, 

75 FR 61706, October 6, 2010). The zone 

currently has a service area that 

includes Ellis County, Texas. 

The applicant is now requesting 

authority to expand the service area of 

the zone to include Navarro County, 

Texas, as described in the application. 

If approved, the grantee would be able 

to serve sites throughout the expanded 

service area based on companies’ needs 

for FTZ designation. The application 

indicates that the proposed expanded 

service area is adjacent to the Dallas/ 

Fort Worth Customs and Border 

Protection Port of Entry. 

In accordance with the FTZ Board’s 

regulations, Camille Evans of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to evaluate 

and analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the FTZ Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive 

Secretary at the address below. The 

closing period for their receipt is August 

10, 2018. Rebuttal comments in 

response to material submitted during 

the foregoing period may be submitted 

during the subsequent 15-day period to 

August 27, 2018. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 

21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the 

‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ 

Board’s website, which is accessible via 

www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact 

Camille Evans at Camille.Evans@

trade.gov or (202) 482–2350. 

Dated: June 5, 2018. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12497 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

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