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regulation at 15 CFR 2011 subpart B to 

issue specialty sugar certificates, letters 

to importers signed by the Foreign 

Agricultural Service (FAS) Certifying 

Authority, and ensuring that U.S. 

importers comply with the program’s 

requirements. The regulation sets forth 

the terms and conditions under which 

the Certifying Authority in FAS issues 

certificates to importers allowing them 

to enter specialty sugars under the tariffrate quota (TRQ) for refined sugar. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

collected information will be used to: 

(1) Determine whether applicants for the 

program meet the regulation’s eligibility 

criteria; (2) ensure that sugar to be 

imported is specialty sugar and meets 

the requirements of the regulation; (3) 

audit participants’ compliance with the 

regulation; and (4) prevent entry of 

world-priced program sugar from 

entering the domestic commercial 

market instead of domestic specialty 

sugar market. The Certifying Authority 

needs the information to manage, plan, 

evaluate, and account for program 

activities. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 41. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 45. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–31039 Filed 12–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

November 29, 2011. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) 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; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (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 should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.

GOV or fax (202) 395–5806 and to 

Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, 

OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 

20250–7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8958. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Office of Procurement and Property 

Management 

Title: Guidelines for Designating 

Biobased Products for Federal 

Procurement. 

OMB Control Number: 0503–0011. 

Summary of Collection: Section 9002 

of the Farm Security and Rural 

Investment Act (FSRIA) of 2002, as 

amended by the Food, Conservation, 

and Energy Act (FCEA) of 2008, 

provides for a preferred procurement 

program under which Federal agencies 

are required to purchase biobased 

products, with certain exceptions. Items 

(which are generic groupings of 

products) are designated by rulemaking 

for preferred procurement. To qualify 

items for procurement under this 

program, the statute requires that the 

Secretary of Agriculture consider 

information on the availability of items, 

the economic and technological 

feasibility of using such items and the 

life cycle costs of using such items. In 

addition, the Secretary is required to 

provide information on designated 

items to Federal agencies about the 

availability, relative price, performance, 

and environmental and public health 

benefits of such items and where 

appropriate shall recommend the level 

of biobased material to be contained in 

the procured product. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

Office of Procurement and Property 

Management (OPPM) and the Center for 

Industrial Research and Service at Iowa 

State University will interact with 

manufacturers and venders to gather 

such information and material for 

testing, as may be required for 

designation of items for preferred 

procurement by Federal agencies. The 

information collected will be gathered 

using a variety of methods, including 

face to face visits with a manufacturer 

or vendor, submission by manufacturers 

and vendors of information 

electronically to OPPM, and survey 

instruments filled out by manufacturers 

and vendors and submitted to OPPM. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 75. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Other (once). 

Total Burden Hours: 7,800. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–TX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive 

License 

AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Agricultural Research Service, intends 

to grant to DICKEY-john Corporation of 

Auburn, Illinois, an exclusive license to 

U.S. Patent No. 6,691,563, ‘‘Universal 

Dielectric Calibration Method and 

Apparatus for Moisture Content 

Determination in Particulate and 

Granular Materials,’’ issued on February 

17, 2004 and to U.S. Patent Application 

Serial No. 12/782,079, ‘‘Microwave 

Sensor and Algorithm for Moisture and 

Density Determination,’’ filed on May 

18, 2010. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 3, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, 

ARS, Office of Technology Transfer, 

5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Rm. 4–1174, 

Beltsville, Maryland 20705–5131. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June 

Blalock of the Office of Technology 

Transfer at the Beltsville address given 

above; telephone: (301) 504–5989. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Government’s patent rights in 

these inventions are assigned to the 

United States of America, as represented 

by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is in 

the public interest to so license this 

invention as DICKEY-john Corporation 

of Auburn, Illinois has submitted a 

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a license. The prospective exclusive 

license will be royalty-bearing and will 

comply with the terms and conditions 

of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The 

prospective exclusive license may be 

granted unless, within thirty (30) days 

from the date of this published Notice, 

the Agricultural Research Service 

receives written evidence and argument 

which establishes that the grant of the 

license would not be consistent with the 

requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 

CFR 404.7. 

Richard J. Brenner, 

Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2011–30967 Filed 12–1–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–03–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request New 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to send comments 

regarding any aspect of this proposed 

information collection. This is a new 

collection for a generic clearance that 

will allow the Economic Research 

Service to conduct a variety of 

quantitative data collections. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received on or before January 

31, 2012 to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Nathaniel 

Higgins, Resource and Rural Economics 

Division, Economic Research Service, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 355 E 

St. SW., Room 6S-18, Washington, DC 

20472. Comments may also be 

submitted via fax to the attention of 

Nathaniel Higgins at (202) 694–5602 or 

via email to nhiggins@ers.usda.gov. 

Comments will also be accepted through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Nathaniel 

Higgins at the address in the preamble. 

Tel. (202) 694–5602. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All 

written comments will be open for 

public inspection at the office of the 

Economic Research Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday) at 355 E 

St. SW., Room 6S–18, Washington, DC 

20472. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

approval. All comments and replies will 

be a matter of public record. 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 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 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Title: Formative Data Collections for 

Informing Policy Research. 

OMB Number: 0536–XXXX. 

Expiration Date: Three years from the 

date of approval. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Abstract: The anticipated generic 

clearance will authorize research in 

furtherance of an ongoing initiative to 

use insights from behavioral economics 

to provide economic intelligence, 

research, and analysis to inform 

agricultural resource and conservation 

policies, including those related to 

development of markets and incentives 

for environmental services, reduced 

greenhouse gas emissions and 

renewable energy production, and to 

improve food choices and weight 

outcomes, particularly among children 

and low income adults. 

The specific purpose of this generic 

clearance is to allow ERS to develop and 

implement state-of-the-art research 

methodologies to evaluate policies for 

its customers in response to both 

specific requests and in anticipation of 

future need. This generic clearance will 

be particularly useful when ERS is 

tasked with evaluating prospective 

policies. 

ERS envisions using a number of 

research techniques, as appropriate to 

the individual investigation. These 

include laboratory and field techniques, 

exploratory interviews, pilot 

experiments, and respondent debriefing. 

In all cases, participation will be 

voluntary and time commitments will 

be minimal (10–90 minutes). Laboratory 

and field techniques are two 

methodologies based on comparison of 

outcomes over groups that have been 

randomized into different treatments. 

Information obtained from 

randomized comparison studies (lab 

and field techniques) will be used to 

develop and calibrate models of 

behavior. ERS uses behavioral models to 

estimate a variety of policy outcomes, 

for instance the level of farmer 

participation in voluntary conservation 

programs under alternative contract 

terms or changes in the nutritional 

quality of meals chosen when healthy 

items are displayed more prominently. 

Variation in behavioral response can 

have important implications for 

performance measures such as 

economic efficiency and effectiveness, 

and can help predict unintended 

consequences of policy-design options. 

Improved models of behavior will help 

policymakers and program managers as 

they face decisions that affect 

agriculture, nutrition and the 

environment. 

Authority: These data will be collected 

under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a) and 

sec. 501 of the Rural Development Act of 

1972 (7 U.S.C. 2661). Individually 

identifiable data collected under this 

authority are governed by 7 U.S.C. 2276, 

which requires USDA to afford strict 

confidentiality to non-aggregated data 

provided by respondents. This Notice is 

submitted in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 

(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office of 

Management and Budget regulations at 5 CFR 

part 1320. ERS also complies with OMB 

Implementation Guidance, ‘‘Implementation 

Guidance for Title V of the E–Government 

Act, Confidential Information Protection and 

Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)’’, 

72 FR 33362, June 15, 2007. 

Affected Public: Respondents will 

include Individuals and households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents and 

Respondent Burden 

The proposed generic clearance will 

enable a number of separate data 

collections. No data collection is 

estimated to take longer than 90 minutes 

per respondent, including the time 

required for respondents and nonrespondents to review instructions and 

participate in the data collection. 

The estimated number of respondents 

participating in data collections under 

this generic clearance over a three year 

period is 1,800. The maximum total 

estimated response burden for all of 

those participating in the study is 2,300 

hours. 


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