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79885 

Vol. 89, No. 190 

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Employment 

Records Collection From Implementing 

Partners of Contracts in Afghanistan 

AGENCY: United States Agency for 

International Development (USAID). 

ACTION: Notice of OMB approval. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

emergency review procedures of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), USAID is requesting emergency 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for a new data 

collection survey on employees of the 

Implementing Partners of USAID 

contracts in Afghanistan for the purpose 

of facilitating the Special Immigrant 

Visa (SIV) Chief Of Mission (COM) 

approval process overseen by the 

Department of State. 

DATES: USAID plans to collect this 

information starting from October, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sulieman Hedayat, Afghanistan Partner 

Relocation Task Force’s SIV inbox: 

afghansiv@usaid.gov and 202–712–1914 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.13, the Agency submitted 

a request for emergency approval to 

collect new information on the 

employment records of full-time Afghan 

employees from USAID contractors in 

Afghanistan. 

Description of Proposed Use of 

Information: The information will 

include employee details such as dates 

of employment and contract number, 

which will be used to verify 

employment as part of the COM 

approval step of the SIV application 

process. This information will be 

collected via email through encrypted 

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. 

Estimated Time Burden: The total 

amount of time estimated for this data 

collection is less than 1,000 hours 

(considered at 3 hours per partner for an 

estimated 300 contractors). 

Kevin Brownawell, 

Executive Director, Afghan Partner Relocation 

Task Force, USAID. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22442 Filed 9–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. AMS–LP–23–0027] 

Soybean Promotion, Research, and 

Information Program: Results of 

Soybean Request for Referendum 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The results of the Agricultural 

Marketing Service’s (AMS) Request for 

Referendum indicate that too few 

soybean producers wanted a referendum 

on the Soybean Promotion and Research 

Order (Order) for one to be conducted. 

The Request for Referendum was 

conducted from May 6, 2024, through 

May 31, 2024, at the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service 

Agency County offices. To trigger a 

referendum, 41,336 soybean producers, 

which represents 10 percent of the total 

nationwide soybean producers, needed 

to complete a valid Request for 

Referendum. The total number of 

soybean producers participating in the 

referendum was 229. The number of 

valid petitions received was 207. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jason Julian, Research and Promotion 

Division, Livestock and Poultry 

Program, AMS, USDA, Room 2092–S, 

STOP 0249, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20250–0249; 

Telephone: (202) 731–2149; or Email: 

Jason.Julian@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Soybean Promotion, Research, 

and Consumer Information Act (Act) (7 

U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), every 5 years the 

Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) 

gives soybean producers the 

opportunity to request a referendum on 

the Order. If the Secretary determines 

that at least 10 percent of U.S. producers 

engaged in growing soybeans (not in 

excess of one-fifth of which may be 

producers in any one State) support the 

conduct of a referendum, the Secretary 

must conduct a referendum within one 

year of that determination. If these 

requirements are not met, a referendum 

is not conducted. 

A notice of opportunity to Request a 

Soybean Referendum was published in 

the Federal Register (89 FR 7353) on 

February 2, 2024. To be eligible to 

participate in the Request for 

Referendum, producers or the producer 

entity that they are authorized to 

represent must provide supporting 

documentation showing that they or the 

producer entity they represent paid an 

assessment sometime during the 

representative period between January 

1, 2022, and December 31, 2023. Based 

on data from USDA’s Farm Service 

Agency, there are 413,358 soybean 

producers in the United States. 

A total of 229 producers participated 

in the Request for Referendum. Only 

207 valid requests for a referendum 

were completed by eligible soybean 

producers. This number does not meet 

the requisite number of 41,336. 

Therefore, based on the results, a 

referendum will not be conducted. In 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Act, soybean producers will be provided 

another opportunity to request a 

referendum in 5 years. 

The following are the State-by-State 

results of the Request for Referendum: 

State Valid ballots 

Alabama ................................ 0 

Alaska ................................... 0 

Arizona .................................. 0 

Arkansas ............................... 0 

California ............................... 0 

Colorado ............................... 0 

Connecticut ........................... 0 

Delaware ............................... 0 

Florida ................................... 0 

Georgia ................................. 0 

Hawaii ................................... 0 

Idaho ..................................... 0 

Illinois .................................... 35 

Indiana .................................. 33 

Iowa ...................................... 46 

Kansas .................................. 2 

Kentucky ............................... 7 

Louisiana .............................. 0 

Maine .................................... 0 

Maryland ............................... 4 

Massachusetts ...................... 0 

Michigan ............................... 1 

Minnesota ............................. 27 

Mississippi ............................ 0 

Missouri ................................ 12 

Montana ................................ 0 


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