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to respond (such as through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses). 

Estimate of burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 2.6 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: NPPO of Peru, 

producers/growers, and importers. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 67. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 14. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 912. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 2,334 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.) 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from Ms. Kimberly 

Hardy, APHIS’ Information Collection 

Coordinator, at (301) 851–2727. 

E-Government Act Compliance 

The Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service is committed to 

compliance with the E-Government Act 

to promote the use of the Internet and 

other information technologies, to 

provide increased opportunities for 

citizen access to Government 

information and services, and for other 

purposes. For information pertinent to 

E-Government Act compliance related 

to this proposed rule, please contact Ms. 

Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information 

Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– 

2727. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 319 

Coffee, Cotton, Fruits, Imports, Logs, 

Nursery stock, Plant diseases and pests, 

Quarantine, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements, Rice, 

Vegetables. 

Accordingly, we propose to amend 7 

CFR part 319 as follows: 

PART 319—FOREIGN QUARANTINE 

NOTICES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 319 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701–7772 and 

7781–7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 

2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

§ 319.56–41 [Amended] 

■ 2. Section 319.56–41 is amended as 

follows: 

■ a. In the introductory text, by adding 

the word ‘‘continental’’ between the 

words ‘‘the’’ and ‘‘United States’’. 

■ b. By removing paragraph (c). 

■ c. By redesignating paragraphs (d) 

through (h) as paragraphs (c) through 

(g), respectively. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

April 2015. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

9 CFR Part 3 

[Docket No. APHIS–2014–0098] 

Petition To Develop Specific 

Ethologically Appropriate Standards 

for Nonhuman Primates in Research 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of petition. 

SUMMARY: We are notifying the public 

that the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service has received a 

petition requesting that we amend the 

Animal Welfare Act regulations to 

specify ethologically appropriate 

standards that researchers must adhere 

to in order to promote the psychological 

well-being of nonhuman primates used 

in research. We are making this petition 

available to the public and soliciting 

comments regarding the petition and 

any issues raised by the petition that we 

should take into account as we consider 

this petition. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before June 30, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

Detail;D=APHIS-2014-0098. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2014–0098, 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-2014-0098 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: Dr. 

Carol Clarke, Research Program 

Manager, USDA, APHIS, Animal Care, 

4700 River Road Unit 84, Riverdale, MD 

20737–1234; (301) 851–3751. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Animal Welfare Act (AWA, 7 U.S.C. 

2131 et seq.), among other things, 

authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture 

(Secretary) to promulgate standards and 

other requirements governing research 

facilities. The Secretary has delegated 

the responsibility for enforcing the 

AWA to the Administrator of the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS). Within APHIS, the 

responsibility for administering the 

AWA has been delegated to the Deputy 

Administrator for Animal Care. 

Regulations and standards 

promulgated under the AWA are 

contained in Title 9 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations, parts 1, 2, and 3 

(referred to collectively below as the 

AWA regulations). Part 3 of the AWA 

regulations contains specific standards 

regarding the humane handling, care, 

treatment, and transportation of species 

of animals covered under the AWA. 

Within part 3 of the AWA regulations, 

subpart D (§§ 3.75–3.92) contains 

standards for the humane handling, 

care, treatment, and transportation of 

nonhuman primates. 

Section 3.81 of the AWA regulations 

requires research facilities that house 

nonhuman primates to develop, 

document, and follow an appropriate 

plan for environmental enhancement 

adequate to promote the psychological 

well-being of nonhuman primates. The 

section further specifies that the plan 

must be in accordance with currently 

accepted professional standards as cited 

in appropriate professional journals or 

reference guides, and as directed by the 

attending veterinarian for the facility. 

The plan must be available to APHIS 

upon request, and in the case of 

research facilities, it must also be 

available to the funding agency. The 

plan must address at a minimum: Social 

grouping, environmental enrichment, 

special considerations, and use of 

restraint devices. Exemptions to the 

plan can be made by the attending 

veterinarian for the facility because of a 

particular animal’s health or condition, 

or in consideration of that animal’s 

well-being. Additionally, the 

Institutional Animal Care and Use 

Committee (IACUC), a committee 

entrusted with ensuring the research 

facility’s compliance with the AWA 

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regulations, may exempt individual 

nonhuman primates from the plan for 

scientific reasons, provided these 

reasons are set forth in a research 

proposal and reviewed by the IACUC. 

On May 7, 2014, APHIS received a 

petition submitted jointly by the New 

England Anti-Vivisection Society, the 

North American Primate Sanctuary 

Alliance, the Laboratory Primate 

Advocacy Group, and the Animal Legal 

Defense Fund requesting that we initiate 

rulemaking to amend the AWA 

regulations. Specifically, the petition 

asks that we amend § 3.81 to require 

that research facilities construct and 

maintain an ethologically appropriate 

environment for nonhuman primates 

housed at the facilities, that is, an 

environment that is appropriate with 

respect to the patterns of behavior 

exhibited by the nonhuman primates in 

their natural state. The petition also asks 

that we amend § 3.81 to specify 

minimum standards that must be met in 

order for an environment to be 

considered ethologically appropriate. 

The petition cites standards recently 

adopted by the National Institutes of 

Health (NIH) for chimpanzees used in 

NIH-funded research as a reference 

point for the development of such 

generally applicable minimum 

standards and as evidence of their 

feasibility. 

The petition agrees that the intent of 

§ 3.81 of the AWA regulations is to 

ensure that the environment provided to 

nonhuman primates housed at research 

facilities promotes the psychological 

well-being of the primates. The petition 

suggests, however, that because of 

ambiguities in the current regulations, 

research facilities have broad discretion 

regarding the actual environment 

provided to nonhuman primates at their 

facilities, and can meet the requirements 

in § 3.81 without actually meeting their 

intent. 

The petition states that, by amending 

the AWA regulations in the manner that 

the petitioners suggest, we would 

remove these ambiguities and facilitate 

regulatory compliance. 

We are making this petition available 

to the public and soliciting comments to 

help determine what action, if any, to 

take in response to this request. The 

petition and any comments submitted 

are available for review as indicated 

under ADDRESSES above. We welcome 

all comments on the issues outlined in 

the petition. In particular, we invite 

responses to the following questions: 

1. Should APHIS amend § 3.81 of the 

AWA regulations to require research 

facilities to construct and maintain an 

ethologically appropriate environment 

for nonhuman primates, and specify the 

minimum standards that must be met 

for an environment to be considered 

ethologically appropriate? 

2. What constitutes an ethologically 

appropriate environment for a 

nonhuman primate? Does this differ 

among species of nonhuman primates? 

If so, how does it differ? 

3. Are there any environmental 

conditions that make an environment 

ethologically inappropriate for a 

nonhuman primate? If so, what are 

they? Do they differ among species of 

nonhuman primates? 

4. Does an ethologically appropriate 

environment for nonhuman primates 

used in research differ from an 

ethologically appropriate environment 

for nonhuman primates that are sold or 

exhibited? If so, in what ways does it 

differ? 

5. Who should make the 

determination regarding the ethological 

appropriateness of the environment for 

nonhuman primates at a particular 

research facility: The attending 

veterinarian for the facility, APHIS, or 

both parties? If both parties should 

jointly make such a determination, 

which responsibilities should fall to the 

attending veterinarian and which to 

APHIS? 

We encourage the submission of 

scientific data, studies, or research to 

support your comments and position. 

We also invite data on the costs and 

benefits associated with any 

recommendations. We will consider all 

comments and recommendations 

received. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 2131–2159; 7 CFR 2.22, 

2.80, and 371.7. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

April 2015. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 431 

[Docket No. EERE–2013–BT–STD–0006] 

RIN 1904–AC55 

Energy Conservation Standards for 

Commercial and Industrial Fans and 

Blowers: Availability of Provisional 

Analysis Tools 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Data Availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) has completed a 

provisional analysis of the potential 

economic impacts and energy savings 

that could result from promulgating an 

energy conservation standard for 

commercial and industrial fans and 

blowers. This analysis incorporates 

information and comments received 

after the completion of an analysis 

presented in a notice of data availability 

(NODA) published in December 2014. 

At this time, DOE is not proposing an 

energy conservation standard for 

commercial and industrial fans and 

blowers. This analysis may be used in 

support of the Appliance Standards 

Federal Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ASRAC) commercial and 

industrial fans working group 

negotiations to develop a 

recommendation for regulating 

commercial and industrial fans. DOE 

encourages stakeholders to provide any 

additional data or information that may 

improve the analysis and to present 

comments submitted to this NODA and 

to the NODA published in December 

2014 to the working group. 

DATES: Information is available as of 

May 1, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The analysis for this NODA 

is available at: http://www1.eere.energy.

gov/buildings/appliance_standards/

rulemaking.aspx?ruleid=25. 

Interested persons are encouraged to 

submit comments using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Alternatively, interested persons may 

submit comments, identified by Docket 

number EERE–2013–BT–STD–0006, by 

any of the following methods: 

(1) Email: to CIFB2013STD0006@

ee.doe.gov. Include EERE–2013–BT– 

STD–0006 in the subject line of the 

message. Submit electronic comments 

in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, PDF, 

or ASCII file format, and avoid the use 

of special characters or any form of 

encryption. 

(2) Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Program, Mailstop EE–2J, 

Revisions to Energy Efficiency 

Enforcement Regulations, EERE–2013– 

BT–STD–0006, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Phone: (202) 586–2945. If 

possible, please submit all items on a 

CD, in which case it is not necessary to 

include printed copies. 

(3) Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. 

Brenda Edwards, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Building Technologies Program, 

6th Floor, 950 L’Enfant Plaza SW., 

Washington, DC 20024. Phone: (202) 

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