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Grade A.’’ Change ‘‘U.S. Grade B or U.S. 

Extra Standard’’ to ‘‘U.S. Grade B.’’ 

United States Standards for Grades of 

Frozen Squash (Summer Type) 

Update address for AMS. Change 

‘‘U.S. Grade A or U.S. Fancy’’ to ‘‘U.S. 

Grade A.’’ Change ‘‘U.S. Grade B or U.S. 

Extra Standard’’ to ‘‘U.S. Grade B.’’ 

United States Standards for Grades of 

Frozen Sweet Potatoes 

Update address for AMS. Change 

‘‘U.S. Grade A or U.S. Fancy’’ to ‘‘U.S. 

Grade A.’’ Change ‘‘U.S. Grade B or U.S. 

Extra Standard’’ to ‘‘U.S. Grade B.’’ 

United States Standards for Grades of 

Frozen Turnip Greens With Turnips 

Update address for AMS. Change 

‘‘U.S. Grade A or U.S. Fancy’’ to ‘‘U.S. 

Grade A.’’ Change ‘‘U.S. Grade B or U.S. 

Extra Standard’’ to ‘‘U.S. Grade B.’’ 

Change references for ‘‘flavor’’ to ‘‘flavor 

and odor’’ to ensure that these 

requirements are consistent throughout 

the document. 

The other grade standards identified 

in the original notice (75 FR 43141), 

namely frozen carrots, frozen whole 

kernel corn, frozen corn on the cob, 

frozen breaded onion rings, frozen peas, 

frozen peas and carrots, frozen French 

fried potatoes, frozen sweet peppers, 

frozen succotash, and frozen tomato 

juice and tomato juice from concentrate 

will be revised at a later date. AMS 

determined that these grade standards 

require additional revisions to take into 

account U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration’s Standards of Identity, 

new styles and pack types, and new 

commercially cultivated varieties (such 

as supersweet corn) which possess 

unique characteristics. AMS will seek 

additional guidance from the industry to 

update these grade standards so that 

they reflect current marketing practices 

and serve the needs of the industry. 

The revisions to these frozen 

vegetable grade standards made in this 

notice provide a common language for 

trade and better reflect the current 

marketing of frozen vegetables. The 

changes are made effective 30 days after 

the date of publication in the Federal 

Register. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627. 

Dated: July 24, 2013. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18221 Filed 7–29–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration 

Designation for the Amarillo, TX; Cairo, 

IL; Baton Rouge, LA; Raleigh, NC; and 

Belmond, IA Areas 

AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: GIPSA is announcing the 

designation of Amarillo Grain Exchange, 

Inc. (Amarillo), Cairo Grain Inspection 

Agency, Inc. (Cairo), Louisiana 

Department of Agriculture and Forestry 

(Louisiana), North Carolina Department 

of Agriculture (North Carolina), and 

D.R. Schaal Agency, Inc. (Schaal) to 

provide official services under the 

United States Grain Standards Act 

(USGSA), as amended. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Eric J. Jabs, Chief, USDA, 

GIPSA, FGIS, QACD, QADB, 10383 

North Ambassador Drive, Kansas City, 

MO 64153. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

J. Jabs, 816–659–8408 or 

Eric.J.Jabs@usda.gov. 

Read Applications: All applications 

and comments will be available for 

public inspection at the office above 

during regular business hours (7 CFR 

1.27(c)). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

December 28, 2012 Federal Register (77 

FR 76453), GIPSA requested 

applications for designation to provide 

official services in the geographic areas 

presently serviced by Amarillo, Cairo, 

Louisiana, North Carolina, and Schaal. 

Applications were due by January 28, 

2013. Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North 

Carolina and Schaal were the sole 

applicants for designation to provide 

official services in these areas. As a 

result, GIPSA did not ask for additional 

comments. 

GIPSA evaluated all available 

information regarding the designation 

criteria in section 79(f) of the USGSA (7 

U.S.C. 79(f)) and determined that 

Amarillo, Cairo, Louisiana, North 

Carolina, and Schaal are qualified to 

provide official services in the 

geographic area specified in the Federal 

Register on December 28, 2012 and as 

corrected in the Federal Register on July 

22, 2013, for the Cairo and Belmond 

geographic areas. This designation 

action to provide official services in 

these specified areas is effective October 

1, 2013 and terminates on September 

30, 2016. 

Interested persons may obtain official 

services by contacting these agencies at 

the following telephone numbers: 

Official agency Headquarters location and telephone Designation 

start 

Designation 

end 

Amarillo ............................................ Amarillo, TX (806) 372–8511 .................................................................. 10/1/2013 9/30/2016 

Cairo ................................................ Cairo, IL (618) 734–0689 ........................................................................ 10/1/2013 9/30/2016 

Louisiana .......................................... Baton Rouge, LA (225) 922–1341 .......................................................... 10/1/2013 9/30/2016 

North Carolina .................................. Raleigh, NC (919) 733–4491 .................................................................. 10/1/2013 9/30/2016 

D.R. Schaal ...................................... Belmond, IA (641) 444–3122 .................................................................. 10/1/2013 9/30/2016 

Section 79(f) of the USGSA authorizes 

the Secretary to designate a qualified 

applicant to provide official services in 

a specified area after determining that 

the applicant is better able than any 

other applicant to provide such official 

services (7 U.S.C. 79(f)). 

Under section 79(g) of the USGSA, 

designations of official agencies are 

effective for no longer than three years 

unless terminated by the Secretary; 

however, designations may be renewed 

according to the criteria and procedures 

prescribed in section 79(f) of the 

USGSA. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 71–87k. 

Larry Mitchell, 

Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and 

Stockyards Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–KD–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Colorado Advisory Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a planning meeting of the 

Colorado Advisory Committee to the 


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Commission will convene at 11:00 a.m. 

(MDT) and end at 1:00 p.m. on 

Thursday, August 22, 2013, at City Hall, 

Pikes Peak Conference Room, Suite 200, 

Colorado Springs, CO. The meeting is 

for project planning. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by Monday, September 

23, 2013. Comments may be mailed to 

the Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 999– 

18th Street, Suite 1380 South, Denver, 

CO 80202, faxed to 303–866–1050, or 

emailed to ebohor@usccr.gov. Persons 

who desire additional information may 

contact the Rocky Mountain Regional 

Office at 303–866–1040. 

Persons needing accessibility services 

should contact the Rocky Mountain 

Regional Office at least 10 working days 

before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Rocky Mountain Regional Office, as 

they become available, both before and 

after the meeting. Persons interested in 

the work of this advisory committee are 

advised to go to the Commission’s Web 

site, www.usccr.gov, or to contact the 

Rocky Mountain Regional Office at the 

above phone number, email or street 

address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Chicago, IL, on July 25, 2013. 

David Mussatt, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18210 Filed 7–29–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Current Population 

Survey (CPS) Email Address Collection 

Test Supplement 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before September 30, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at jjessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Kyra Linse, U.S. Census 

Bureau, DSD/CPS HQ–7H108F, 

Washington, DC 20233–8400, (301) 763– 

9280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to request 

clearance for the collection of data 

concerning the November 2013 Email 

Address Collection Test Supplement. 

The Census Bureau and the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics (BLS) sponsor the CPS 

which has been conducted for over 70 

years. 

The Current Population Survey (CPS) 

has been collecting data on household 

employment for decades. Through the 

years, it has made survey improvements 

to keep the data quality and survey 

response rates high. Over the last few 

years, CPS, like many surveys, has seen 

response rates declining slowly. A 

review of paradata has found one of the 

main reasons for this decline is not just 

refusals but also respondent avoidance 

(i.e. the interviewers are unable to make 

contact with the respondent). This has 

led to an effort to think of new ways to 

contact respondents and reduce 

respondent burden so that they may be 

more likely to answer CPS over the 

many months needed. 

One of the solutions recommended 

has been to research the possibility of 

using the Internet as a data collection 

mode as well as a tool to help increase 

response rates. We foresee that in the 

future, we could collect email addresses 

from our respondents. For those that are 

eligible, we could then send an email to 

the respondent with a secure link in 

order for that respondent to complete 

the CPS the next month over the 

internet and in turn, keep up response 

rates while lowering costs of 

interviewing. Internet is not limited to 

just a survey data collection mode. 

These emails could be used for other 

contacts as well. We could allow the 

respondent to set up a time to meet with 

the interviewer at their convenience and 

save on travel costs associated with the 

multiple personal visits. The email 

could also be as simple as a ‘‘Thank 

You’’ with information that lets 

respondents know their participation is 

improving the quality of our data. 

This supplement is the first step in 

the review of the feasibility of this plan. 

It will test the ability of collecting email 

addresses and collecting interest in 

being contacted by email or answering 

the survey through the internet for 

possible future enhancements to CPS. 

II. Method of Collection 

The email address collection will be 

collected by both personal visit and 

telephone interviews in conjunction 

with the regular November CPS 

interviewing. All interviews are 

conducted using computer-assisted 

interviewing. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number: There are no forms. 

We conduct all interviews on 

computers. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

29,500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,475. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The 

only cost to the respondents is that of 

their time. 

Respondents Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 182, 

and Title 29, U.S.C., 1–9. 

IV. Request for Comments 

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 shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (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 respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 


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