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7602. 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. 

Animal & Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Poultry Meat and 

Other Poultry Products from Sinaloa 

and Sonora, Mexico 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0144. 

Summary of Collection: The Animal 

Health Protection Act of 2002 (Title X, 

Subtitle E, Sec. 10401–18 of Pub. L. 

107–171) is the primary Federal law 

governing the protection of animal 

health. Disease prevention is the most 

effective method for maintaining a 

healthy animal population and for 

enhancing the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary 

Services’ ability to allow United States 

animal producers to compete in the 

world market of animal and animal 

product trade APHIS currently has 

regulations in place that restrict the 

importation of poultry meat and other 

poultry products from Mexico due to 

the presence of Newcastle Disease (ND) 

in that country. However, APHIS allows 

the importation of poultry meat and 

poultry products from the Mexican 

States of Sinaloa and Sonora because 

APHIS has determined that poultry 

meat and products from these two 

Mexican States pose a negligible risk of 

introducing ND into the United States. 

To ensure that these items are safe for 

importation, APHIS requires that certain 

data appear on the foreign meat 

inspection certificate that accompanies 

the poultry meat and other poultry 

products from Sinaloa and Sonora to the 

United States. APHIS also requires that 

serial numbered seals be applied to 

containers carrying the poultry meat 

and other poultry products. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information to certify 

that the poultry meat or other poultry 

products were (1) derived from poultry 

born and raised in commercial breeding 

establishments in Sinaloa and Sonora; 

(2) derived from poultry that were 

slaughtered in Sinaloa or Sonora in a 

Federally-inspected slaughter plant 

approved to export these commodities 

to the United States in accordance with 

Food Safety & Inspection regulations; (3) 

processed at a Federally inspected 

processing plant in Sinaloa or Sonora; 

and (4) kept out of contact with poultry 

from any other State within Mexico. 

APHIS will also collect information to 

ensure that the poultry meat or poultry 

products from Sinaloa and Sonora pose 

the most negligible risk possible for 

introducing ND into the United States. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 386. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 386. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Fresh Pitaya 

Fruit from Central America into the 

Continental United States. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0378. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701– 

7772), the Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized to carry out operations or 

measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, 

control, prevent, or retard the spread of 

plant pests new to the United States or 

not known to be widely distributed 

throughout the United States. The 

regulations ‘‘Subpart-Fruit and 

Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56–1 through 

319 56–71), prohibit or restrict the 

importation of fruits and vegetables into 

the United States from certain parts of 

the world to prevent the introduction 

and dissemination of plant pests that are 

not widely distributed within the 

United States. The Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 

allows the importation of fresh pitaya 

fruit from Central America into the 

continental United States. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service uses the following activities to 

collect information: Production Site 

Certification, Review and Maintain 

Documents, Registration of 

Packinghouses, Bilateral Workplan, 

Records of Fruit Fly Detections and 

Update Records, Shipping Documents 

Identifying the Places of Production, 

Phytosanitary Certificate with 

Additional Declaration, Production Site 

Registration, and Box Markings. If the 

information is not collected, APHIS’ 

ability to protect the United States from 

exotic insect pest would be severely 

compromised. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 97. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 287. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03912 Filed 2–24–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

February 19, 2015. 

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. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by March 27, 2015 

will be considered. Written comments 

should be addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), New 

Executive Office Building, 725—17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20502. 

Commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via email to: 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. 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. 


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Animal & Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: National Poultry Improvement 

Plan (NPIP). 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0007. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 

8301 et.seq.), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is 

authorized to among other things, 

administer the National Poultry 

Improvement Plan (NPIP or the Plan), 

the primary purpose of which is to 

protect the health of the U.S. poultry 

population. NPIP is a voluntary FederalState-industry cooperative program for 

the improvement of poultry flocks and 

products through disease control 

techniques. The NPIP regulations are 

contained in 9 CFR parts 56, 145, 146 

and 147. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information using 

several forms to continually improve the 

health of the U.S. poultry population 

and the quality of U.S. poultry products. 

If the information were collected less 

frequently or not collected, APHIS 

could not affectively monitor the health 

of the nation’s poultry population. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 18,097. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 104,311. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Control of Chronic Wasting 

Disease. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0189. 

Summary of Collection: The Animal 

Health Protection Act (AHPA) of 2002 is 

the primary Federal law governing the 

protection of animal health. The law 

gives the Secretary of Agriculture broad 

authority to detect, control, and 

eradicate pests or diseases of livestock 

or poultry, and to pay claims arising 

from destruction of animals. Disease 

prevention is the most effective method 

for maintaining a healthy animal 

population and enhancing the Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS) ability to complete in exporting 

animals and animal products. Chronic 

wasting disease (CWD) is a 

transmissible spongiform 

encephalopathy (TSE) of elk, deer and 

moose typified by chronic weight loss 

leading to death. The presence of CWD 

disease in cervids causes significant 

economic and market losses to U.S. 

producers. In an effort to accelerate the 

control and limit the spread of this 

disease in the United States, APHIS 

created a cooperative, voluntary 

Federal-State-private sector CWD Herd 

Certification Program designed to 

identify farmed or captive herds 

infected with CWD and provided for the 

management of these herds in a way 

that reduces the risk of spreading CWD. 

APHIS is combining 0579–0237 into 

this information collection (0579–0189) 

and will retire 0579–0237 upon the 

approval of this renewal of 0579–0189. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS will collect information from 

owners of elk, deer, and moose herds 

who choose to participate in the CWD 

Herd Certification program. They would 

need to follow program requirements for 

animal identification, testing, herd 

management, and movement of animals 

into and from herds. APHIS also 

established requirements for the 

interstate movement of cervids to 

prevent movement of elk, deer, and 

moose that pose a risk of spreading 

CWD. Carrying out this program will 

entail the use of several information 

collection activities: Memoranda of 

understandings; participation requests/

applications; sample collections and lab 

submissions; herd records; cervid 

identification; reports of cervid 

disappearances, escapes, and deaths; 

herd plans; annual reports; consistent 

State reviews; epidemiological 

investigations; appraisal, destruction, 

and payment of indemnity; letter to 

appeal suspension; Interstate 

Certificates of Veterinary Inspection 

(ICVI); and wild cervid ICVI, and 

surveillance data. Failure to collect this 

information would cripple APHIS’ 

ability to effectively sustain its CWD 

control program. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 5,735. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting 

and Recordkeeping: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 383,383. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03907 Filed 2–24–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Request for Information: Software 

Vendors of State and Local 

Management Information Systems 

(MIS) and Other Technology Solutions 

for the National School Lunch and 

School Breakfast Programs 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for information. 

SUMMARY: This is a request for 

information from Management 

Information Systems (MIS) software and 

hardware vendors and developers 

(‘‘vendors’’) to learn about the 

functionality of State and School Food 

Authority National School Lunch and 

School Breakfast Program (NSLP/SBP) 

data management information systems. 

It is not a request for proposal and does 

not commit the Government to issue a 

solicitation, make an award, or pay any 

costs associated with responding to this 

announcement. All submitted 

information shall remain with the 

Government and will not be returned. 

All responses will become part of the 

public record and will not be held 

confidential. 

The United States Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) is seeking 

information that will inform future data 

reporting requirements for the 

Department’s oversight and 

management of NSLP/SBP. The 

Department is aware that all States and 

many school districts have installed and 

implemented MIS or other technology 

solutions to improve State and local 

program management. To better 

understand the availability and 

implementation of these solutions, 

USDA is requesting information from 

vendors about NSLP/SBP data systems 

they offer and have deployed at the 

State and local levels. 

The objectives of this request for 

information (RFI) are to: 

1. Obtain background data to inform 

later research on State and School Food 

Authority (SFA) NSLP/SBP data 

management information systems. 

2. Describe the functionality and 

capabilities of systems currently in use 

by State agencies and SFAs, or available 

to States and SFA for purchase. 

3. Describe the typical costs of system 

development, installation, maintenance, 

and upgrades. 

4. Identify which States and SFAs are 

using particular systems. 

DATES: To be assured of consideration, 

written comments must be submitted or 

postmarked on or before April 27, 2015. 


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