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Vol. 87, No. 16 

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. AMS–FTPP–21–0075] 

Notice of Request for Reinstatement 

With Revision of Previously Approved 

Information Collection—United States 

Warehouse Act 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Agricultural 

Marketing Service’s (AMS) intention to 

request approval, from the Office of 

Management and Budget, for a 

reinstatement with revision to the 

previously approved information 

collection under the United States 

Warehouse Act (USWA). 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

March 28, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments 

concerning this proposal. Comments 

must be submitted via the internet at: 

http://www.regulations.gov. All 

comments should reference the 

document number and the date and 

page number of this issue of the Federal 

Register. All comments submitted in 

response to this proposed rule will be 

included in the record and the identity 

of the individuals or entities submitting 

the comments will be made public on 

the internet at the address provided 

above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan 

Schofer, Warehouse and Commodity 

Management Division, Fair Trade 

Practices Program, Agricultural 

Marketing Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Room 2055, South 

Building, STOP 3601, Washington, DC 

20250–3601; Telephone: 202–720–0219; 

Email: dan.schofer@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: United States Warehouse Act 

(USWA). 

OMB Number: 0581–0305. 

Expiration Date of Approval: October 

31, 2021. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement with 

Revision of previously approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: AMS is responsible, as 

required by the USWA, 7 U.S.C. 869 et 

seq., to license public warehouse 

operators that are in the business of 

storing agricultural products, to 

examine such federally licensed 

warehouses and to license qualified 

persons to sample, inspect, weigh, and 

classify agricultural products. AMS 

licenses under the USWA cover 

approximately half of all commercial 

grain and cotton warehouse capacities 

in the United States. The regulations 

that implement the USWA govern the 

establishment and maintenance of 

systems under which documents, 

including documents of title on 

shipment, payment, and financing, may 

be issued, or transferred for agricultural 

products. Some of these systems and 

documents issued may be electronic. 

The regulations are found at 7 CFR 869 

et seq. 

This information collection allows 

AMS to effectively administer the 

regulations, licensing, and electronic 

provider agreements and related 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements as specified in the USWA. 

The forms in this information 

collection are used to provide those 

charged with issuing licenses under the 

USWA a basis to determine whether the 

warehouse and the warehouse operator 

meet application requirements to 

receive a license, and to determine 

compliance once the license is issued. 

For the following estimated total 

annual burden on respondents, the 

formula used to calculate the total 

burden hours is the estimated average 

time per response multiplied by the 

estimated total annual responses. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 0.46 hours per 

response, including the time for 

reviewing instructions, searching 

existing data sources, gathering and 

maintaining the data needed, and 

completing and reviewing the 

collections of information. 

Respondents: Warehouse operators 

and electronic providers participating in 

the USWA program. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

19,011. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 6.337. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 40,587 hours. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) 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; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments may be sent to Dan Schofer 

at the previously mentioned address in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. All comments received will be 

posted without change, including any 

personal information provided, at 

www.regulations.gov and will be 

included in the record and made 

available to the public. Furthermore, a 

summary of all comments received will 

be included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. 

Erin Morris, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01434 Filed 1–24–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

January 19, 2022. 

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 are 


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requested regarding 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; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 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 February 24, 2022 

will be considered. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

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. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Laboratories. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0158. 

Summary of Collection: The Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has 

been delegated the authority to exercise 

the functions of the Secretary as 

provided in the Federal Meat Inspection 

Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et. seq.), the 

Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) 

(21 U.S.C. 451, et. seq.), and the Egg 

Products Inspection Act (EPIA) (21 

U.S.C. 1031 et seq.). These statues 

mandate that FSIS protect the public by 

verifying that meat and poultry products 

are safe, wholesome, unadulterated, and 

properly labeled and packaged. FSIS 

will use one form to collect information 

to help assess laboratories participating 

in the Accredited Laboratory program to 

ensure they meet the required 

standards. 

Need and Use of the Information: Any 

non-federal laboratory that is applying 

for the FSIS Accredited Laboratory 

program will need to complete an 

Application for FSIS Accredited 

Laboratory Program 10,110–2 form. 

State or private laboratories need only 

submit the application once for entry 

into the program. FSIS uses the 

information collected by the form to 

help assess the laboratory applying for 

admission to the FSIS Accredited 

Laboratory program. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 2. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 1. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Records to be Kept by Official 

Establishments and Retail Stores that 

Grind Raw Beef Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0165. 

Summary of Collection: The Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has 

been delegated the authority to exercise 

the functions of the Secretary as 

provided in the Federal Meat Inspection 

Act (FMIA) (21 U.S.C. 601 et. seq.). 

These statues mandate that FSIS protect 

the public by verifying that meat and 

poultry products are safe, wholesome, 

not adulterated, and properly labeled 

and packaged. 

FSIS requires that all grinders or 

choppers of raw beef products, beef 

manufacturing trimmings, or trimmings 

fabricated at retail intended for use in 

raw ground or chopped beef products, 

including retail facilities, are persons 

required by FMIA to keep records which 

will fully and correctly disclose all 

transactions involved in their business 

subject to the Act. If not doing so 

already, these businesses must maintain 

records that disclose the identity and 

supplier of all materials used in the 

preparation of each lot of raw ground or 

chopped beef product. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS requires that all establishments 

and retail stores that grind or chop beef 

products are required to keep these 

records. These records provide critical 

information about how, when, and 

where raw ground or chopped beef 

product was prepared, shipped, 

received, stored, and handled, which 

are essential to illness outbreak 

investigations, recalls, and other agency 

public health activities conducted by 

FSIS. 

In addition, FSIS requires that 

specific information be kept in the 

required records and that retail stores 

maintain store-designed systems that 

allow them to link individual packages 

of raw ground or chopped beef products 

prepared and sold by them to the 

required records. The required records 

must include the following information: 

1. Name, point of contact (name, title, 

email, and facsimile number) telephone 

number, and establishment number of 

the Federal, State, or foreign 

establishment supplying the raw source 

material, 

2. Supplier lot numbers and 

production dates for each raw source 

material used; and, 

3. The names of the supplied 

materials. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 65,911. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping: Weekly, Annually; 

Monthly. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,658,650. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01343 Filed 1–24–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Office of the Chief Financial Officer 

Notice of Intent To Extend and Revise 

a Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Financial 

Officer, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Office of the Chief 

Financial Officer to request the renewal 

of a currently approved information 

collection (OMB No. 0505–0027) for 

suspension and debarment and drugfree workplace certifications. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 28, 2022 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by either of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

website permits short comments in a 

comment field on the web page or file 

attachments for lengthier comments. Go 

to https://www.regulations.gov for 

instructions. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Attention: Tyson P. Whitney, Director, 

Transparency and Accountability 

Reporting Division, Office of the Chief 

Financial Officer, Room 3027–S, Mail 

Stop 9011, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20250; 

tyson.whitney@usda.gov. 

All comments will be available for 

public inspection and posted without 

change, including any personal 


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