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Vol. 79, No. 162 

Thursday, August 21, 2014 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2014–0073] 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Approval of an Information Collection; 

Lacey Act Declaration Requirement; 

Plants and Plant Products 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Extension of approval of an 

information collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request an extension of approval of an 

information collection required by the 

Lacey Act for the importation of certain 

plants and plant products. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before October 20, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

Detail;D=APHIS-2014-0073. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2014–0073, 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-2014-0073 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: For 

information on the Lacey Act 

declaration requirements for plants and 

plant products, contact Mr. Gary 

Lougee, Lacey Act Program Specialist, 

CEC, RPM, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 150, Riverdale, MD 20737; 

(301) 851–2229. 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: Lacey Act Declaration 

Requirement; Plants and Plant Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0349. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: The Lacey Act, as amended, 

makes it unlawful to import, export, 

transport, sell, receive, acquire, or 

purchase in interstate or foreign 

commerce any plant, with some limited 

exceptions, taken, possessed, 

transported, or sold in violation of the 

laws of the United States, a State, an 

Indian tribe, or any foreign law that 

protects plants. The Act also makes it 

unlawful to make or submit any false 

record, account, or label for, or any false 

identification of, any plant covered by 

the Act. 

In addition, section 3 of the Act 

makes it unlawful to import certain 

plants and plant products without an 

import declaration. The declaration 

must contain, among other things, the 

scientific name of the plant, value of the 

importation, quantity of the plant, and 

name of the country in which the plant 

was harvested. For paper and 

paperboard products with recycled 

plant content, the importer is not 

required to specify the species or 

country of harvest with respect to the 

recycled plant product component, but 

is required to provide the average 

percentage of recycled content. If the 

product also contains non-recycled 

plant materials, the basic declaration 

requirements still apply to that 

component of the product imported. 

In addition to the declaration, there is 

a supplemental form that must be 

completed if additional space is needed 

to declare additional plants and plant 

products. Also, records of the import 

declaration and supplemental form 

must be retained for at least 5 years. 

Since the last extension of approval 

for this information collection, APHIS 

has decreased the estimated annual 

number of respondents from 20,352 to 

17,140. However, while the number of 

respondents has decreased, there has 

been an overall increase in the burden 

estimates due to an increase in the 

number declarations completed per 

respondent. 

We are asking the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve our use of these information 

collection activities 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 

0.4840 hours per response. 

Respondents: Importers of certain 

plants and plant products. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 17,140. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 30.375. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 520,629. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 252,019 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. 

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49492 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 162 / Thursday, August 21, 2014 / Notices 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

August 2014. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–19887 Filed 8–20–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Generic 

Information Collection Clearance for 

Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape 

Restoration Projects 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the proposed new 

information collection, Generic 

Information Collection Clearance for 

Large-Scale Collaborative Landscape 

Restoration Projects. 

Participating Agencies 

The following Federal land 

management agencies are included: 

• Department of Agriculture: Forest 

Service, lead agency; 

• Department of the Interior: Bureau of 

Land Management 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before October 20, 2014 to 

be assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to Sandy 

Mack, Southwestern Crown 

Collaborative Liaison Officer, Fort 

Missoula 24, Missoula, MT 59804. 

Comments also may be submitted by 

email to: spmack@fs.fed.us. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through relevant Web sites and 

upon request. For this reason, please do 

not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such as sensitive personal information 

or proprietary information. If you send 

an email comment, your email address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the Internet. Please note 

that responses to this public comment 

request containing any routine notice 

about the confidentiality of the 

communication will be treated as public 

comments that may be made available to 

the public notwithstanding the 

inclusion of the routine notice. 

The public may inspect the draft 

supporting statement and/or comments 

received at Fort Missoula 24, Missoula, 

MT, during normal business hours. 

Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 

406–544–4592 to facilitate entry to the 

building. The public may request an 

electronic copy of the draft supporting 

statement and/or any comments 

received be sent via return email. 

Requests should be emailed to spmack@

fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sandy Mack, 406–544–4592. 

Individuals who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339, twenty-four 

hours a day, every day of the year, 

including holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Generic Information Collection 

Clearance for Large-Scale Landscape 

Restoration Collaborative Projects. 

OMB Number: 0596—NEW. 

Type of Request: New. 

Abstract:. In response to two recent 

Federal Actions, it has become 

necessary to request a Generic 

Information Collection Request (ICR) in 

order to collect information from 

stakeholders who are either involved 

with or live or work in and around, 

large-scale collaborative landscape 

restoration projects. 

Large-scale collaborative landscape 

restoration projects are projects where 

interested parties, such as neighboring 

land owners, State, local, and Tribal 

governments, businesses, and nonprofit 

organizations work with a Federal 

government agency to find common 

ground pertaining to geographically 

extensive land management, often 

across multiple jurisdictions. Examples 

of a large-scale collaborative project 

include, but are not limited to, projects 

performed under the authority of the 

Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 

2009 and during the development of 

Land Management Plans. An example of 

a Forest Landscape Restoration Act 

project is the Southwestern Crown 

Collaborative (SWCC), which is one of 

the 23 current Collaborative Forest 

Landscape Restoration (CFLR) projects 

across the nation. In the SWCC 

collaborators and other partners work 

with the Forest Service to implement 

restoration work and multi-party 

monitoring of the landscape restoration 

treatments across four counties and 

three National Forests. 

The Forest Landscape Restoration Act 

(FLRA) of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303), which 

enabled the Collaborative Landscape 

Restoration program, requires the USDA 

Forest Service (USFS) to monitor socioeconomic impacts of collaborative 

restoration activities within the project 

site. The purpose of contacting 

stakeholders is to get their input and 

feedback on the land management 

practices and the associated socioeconomic impacts. 

Development of Land Management 

Plans (LMP) pursuant to the National 

Forest Management Act of 1976 and the 

2012 Planning Rule (36 CFR Part 219) 

requires a transparent, collaborative, 

and informed planning process. The 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 

the USFS collaboration on large-scale 

projects also extends beyond CFLR and 

Management Plans. Gaining information 

from individuals who work or live in 

the geographic area of collaborative 

large-scale projects provides valuable 

information to partners and land 

management decision makers. 

To ensure the Agency is informed 

about the opinions of participants of 

collaborative processes and public 

members living in or around large-scale 

collaborative projects, the Forest Service 

and the BLM seek to obtain OMB 

approval of a generic clearance to 

collect both qualitative and quantitative 

feedback from stakeholders of largescale landscape restoration projects, 

monitoring activities, and land 

management planning. 

Information will be collected from 

stakeholders of large-scale Federal 

landscape projects, such as State, local, 

and Tribal government representatives, 

community leaders, non-profit 

organizations, interest groups, 

collaborators, partners, residents, local 

businesses, and any other concerned 

parties. 

The information will be collected 

through a variety of ways, including but 

not limited to: 

• Census surveys of partners/

participants of a collaborative project. 

• Mail-in, on-line, and hard copy in 

person surveys. 

• Stakeholder interviews. 

• Stakeholder comment cards/

complaint forms. 

• Small discussion groups. 

• Focus groups. 

• Cognitive laboratory studies, such 

as those used to refine survey questions 

or assess usability of a Web site. 

• Qualitative stakeholder surveys. 

• Quantitative stakeholder surveys. 

• In-person observation testing (for 

example, Web site or software usability 

tests). 

• Targeted requests for information. 

• Telephonic and in-person 

interviews. 

• Other innovative communication 

strategies designed to facilitate 

voluntary provision of information by 

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