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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 regarding the regulations 

for the submission of itineraries, contact 

Dr. Barbara Kohn, Senior Staff 

Veterinarian, AC, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 84, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1236; (301) 851–3751. 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: Animal Care; Submission of 

Itineraries. 

OMB Number: 0579–0361. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: The Animal Welfare Act 

(AWA) (7 U.S.C. 2131 et seq.) authorizes 

the Secretary of Agriculture to 

promulgate rules and standards and 

other requirements governing the 

humane handling, housing, care, 

treatment, and transportation of certain 

animals by dealers, exhibitors, and other 

regulated entities. The Secretary of 

Agriculture has delegated the 

responsibility for enforcing the AWA to 

the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS). 

Regulations and standards established 

under the AWA are contained in 9 CFR 

parts 1, 2, and 3. The regulations in 9 

CFR part 2 establish certain 

responsibilities of regulated persons 

under the AWA. These responsibilities 

include requirements for the licensing 

and registration of dealers, exhibitors, 

and research facilities, standards for 

veterinary care, identification of 

animals, and recordkeeping. APHIS 

requires licensees or registrants who 

intend to exhibit animals away from 

their approved sites to submit itineraries 

in accordance with § 2.126 of the 

regulations. 

On October 1, 2009 (74 FR 50738– 

50740, Docket No. APHIS–2006–0023), 

APHIS proposed to amend § 2.126 to 

require that any exhibitor who is subject 

to the AWA regulations (including, but 

not limited to, circuses, traveling 

educational exhibits, animal acts, and 

petting zoos), and who intends to 

exhibit any animal at any location other 

than the person’s approved site, must 

submit a written itinerary to the Animal 

Care (AC) Regional Director. Under the 

proposed rule, the AC Regional Director 

would have to receive the itinerary by 

email or facsimile no fewer than 2 days 

in advance of any travel and must 

include the following: 

• The name of the person who 

intends to exhibit the animal and 

transport the animal for exhibition 

purposes, including any business name 

and current AWA license or registration 

number and, in the event that any 

animal is leased, borrowed, loaned, or 

under some similar arrangement, the 

name of the person who owns such 

animal; 

• The name, identification number or 

identifying characteristics, species 

(common or scientific name), sex, and 

age of each animal; and 

• The names, dates, and locations 

(with addresses), where the animals will 

travel, be housed, and be exhibited, 

including all anticipated dates and 

locations (with addresses) for any stops 

and layovers. 

These information collection 

activities were provided initial approval 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) under control number 

0579–0361. 

APHIS received comments on the 

proposed itinerary requirements and 

will be addressing those comments and 

any possible changes to the 

requirements, based on those comments, 

in the final rule. However, the initial 

approval for this information collection 

will expire on February 28, 2013. 

We are asking OMB to extend 

approval of the submission of itineraries 

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 0.25 

hours per response. 

Respondents: Exhibitors. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 300. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses per Respondent: 8.66. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses: 2,600. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 650 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 7th day of 

December 2012. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–30130 Filed 12–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Farm Service Agency 

Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop 

Disaster Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation 

and Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) are 

seeking comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

the report of acreage for the Noninsured 

Crop Disaster Assistance Program 

(NAP). The Report of Acreage form is 

being revised for more efficient data 

entry in Modernize and Innovate the 

Delivery of Agricultural Systems 

(MIDAS). The producer will also no 

longer be required to provide certain 

additional information with the form 

that will likely result in a reduction in 

the burden hours in this information 

collection. This information collection 

is needed to administer the program. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by February 11, 2013. 

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 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 


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• Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, 

Farm Programs, Production Emergencies 

and Compliance Division, CPS, ATTN: 

Jantrice Williams, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., STOP 0517, Washington, 

DC 20250–0523. 

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: 

Jantrice Williams, (202) 720–3637. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection 

Title: Report of Acreage for the 

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 

Program (NAP). 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0004. 

Expiration Date: March 31, 2015. 

Type of Request: Revision. 

Abstract: NAP provides financial 

assistance to producers who have 

suffered a production loss of an eligible 

crop or were prevented from planting an 

eligible crop as a result of natural 

disasters. Eligible crops are commercial 

crops or other agricultural commodities 

for which catastrophic risk protection 

under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b) is not available 

and that are produced for food or fiber. 

Additionally, eligible crops also 

include floriculture, non-ornamental 

nursery, ornamental nursery, ginseng, 

mushroom, honey, maple sap, seaoats, 

seagrass, industrial crops, Christmas 

tree crops, turfgrass sod, seed crops, and 

aquaculture (including ornamental fish). 

Specific information is collected from 

producers on identification of the crop 

(including type and variety), practices, 

intended uses, planting patterns, and 

predominant species of forage 

vegetation (including intended method 

of harvest, that is mechanically 

harvested or grazed); dates crops were 

planted or planting was completed 

(including age of perennial crops); 

number of acres of each planting of the 

eligible crop in which the producer has 

a share in the administrative county; 

number of acres intended but prevented 

from being planted; shares and 

identities of all producers sharing in the 

crop at the time a NAP application for 

coverage was filed; FSA farm serial 

number or location of commodities not 

necessarily associated with an FSA farm 

serial number such as colonies of bees 

for honey production (including the 

number of bee colonies belonging to the 

unit); aquaculture production (including 

the name, type, or variety of each 

aquaculture species in a physical 

location of acreage on which the facility 

resides such as ponds and waterbeds); 

ornamental nursery (including the size 

and origin, that is container or field 

grown, of plants belonging to the unit); 

mushroom facilities; turfgrass sod 

(including the average number of square 

yards per acre and all unharvested 

acres); and trees for maple sap 

production (including number of 

eligible trees, average size and age of 

producing trees, and total number of 

taps placed or anticipated for the 

tapping season). NAP operates under 

the regulations in 7 CFR part 1437. 

The ‘‘Modernize and Innovate the 

Delivery of Agricultural Systems’’ 

(MIDAS) is FSA’s initiative to improve 

the delivery of FSA farm program 

benefits and services through the reengineering of farm program business 

processes and the adoption of enhanced 

and modernized information 

technology. FSA is not collecting any 

new information on the FSA–578. 

However, the Report of Acreage form is 

being revised for more efficient data 

entry in MIDAS. Producers will no 

longer be required to provide certain 

additional information with the form 

that will reduce the burden hours in this 

information collection. The producers 

will only need to report to one county 

office instead of each administrative 

county office due to MIDAS. Therefore, 

FSA expects a reduction in the annual 

total burden hours for collection of the 

information. 

Respondents: Producers. 

Estimated of Respondent Burden: 

Public reporting burden for this 

collection of information is estimated to 

average 30 minutes (0.50 hour) per 

response. The average travel time, 

which is included in the total burden, 

is estimated to be 1 hour per 

respondent. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 291,500. 

Estimated Annual Number of Forms 

per Person: 1.5. 

Estimated Annual Responses on 

Respondents: 437,250. 

Estimate of Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 510,125. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of this information collection to 

help us to: 

(1) Determine whether the continued 

collection of information is still 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the FSA, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(2) Assess the accuracy of the 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 comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget approval. 

Signed on November 1, 2012. 

Juan M. Garcia, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2012–30019 Filed 12–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Information Collection Request: Highly 

Erodible Land Conservation and 

Wetland Conservation 

AGENCIES: Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking 

comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

Highly Erodible Land Conservation and 

Wetland Conservation certification 

requirements. This information is 

collected in support of the conservation 

compliance provisions of Title XII of the 

Food Security Act of 1985 (the 1985 

Farm Bill), as amended by the Food, 

Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 

(the 2008 Farm Bill). 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by February 11, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, 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 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Daniel McGlynn, Deputy 

Director, Production, Emergencies, and 

Compliance Division, USDA, FSA, 

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, 


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