Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 240 / Thursday, December 13, 2012 / Notices 74165 

Summary of Collection: Abstract: The 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

agencies and staff offices (except Forest 

Service) must comply with the 

restrictions set forth in sections 738 and 

739 of the Agriculture, Rural 

Development, Food and Drug 

Administration, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 112–55, as 

amended and/or subsequently enacted), 

which prevents agencies from doing 

business with corporations that (1) have 

been convicted, or had an officer or 

agent of such corporation acting on 

behalf of the corporation convicted, of a 

felony criminal violation under any 

Federal or State law within the 

preceding 24 months, and/or (2) have 

any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 

been assessed, for which all judicial and 

administrative remedies have been 

exhausted or have lapsed, and that is 

not being paid in a timely manner 

pursuant to an agreement with the 

authority responsible for collecting the 

tax liability; unless the agency has 

considered suspension or debarment of 

the corporation and made a 

determination that suspension or 

debarment are not necessary to protect 

the interests of the Government. 

The Forest Service must comply with 

similar restrictions in sections 433 and 

434 of the Consolidated Appropriations 

Act, 2012 (Pub. L. 112–74, as amended 

and/or subsequently enacted). The 

Forest Service restrictions on doing 

business are almost identical to the 

restrictions for other USDA offices and 

agencies; the one difference is that the 

Forest Service restrictions are concerned 

only with felony convictions under 

Federal law, rather than both Federal 

and State law. 

Need and Use of the Information: To 

comply with the appropriations 

restrictions, the proposed information 

collection will require corporate 

applicants and awardees for USDA and 

Forest Service programs to represent 

accurately whether they do or do not 

have any qualifying convictions or tax 

delinquencies which would prevent 

USDA or the Forest Service from 

entering into a proposed business 

transaction with the corporate 

applicant. For non-procurement 

programs and transactions, these 

representations will be submitted on the 

proposed information collection forms 

AD–3030, AD 3031, AD–3030–FS and 

AD–3031–FS. The categories of nonprocurement transactions covered by 

the information collection are: Nonprocurement contracts, grants, loans, 

loan guarantees, cooperative 

agreements, and some memoranda of 

agreement. For procurement 

transactions, compliance with the 

appropriations restrictions has been 

effected through the issuance of 

Agricultural Acquisition Regulation 

Advisory Number 104, issued March 29, 

2012 and available here: http:// 

www.dm.usda.gov/procurement/policy/ 

advisories.htm. Accordingly, the 

information collection is not intended 

for use with USDA or Forest Service 

procurement transactions. This 

information collection, deals only with 

USDA and Forest Service nonprocurement transactions. For more 

specific information about whether a 

particular non-procurement program or 

transaction is included in this list please 

contact the USDA agency or staff office 

or Forest Service office responsible for 

the program or transaction in question. 

The AD–3030 and AD–3030–FS forms 

will effectuate compliance with the 

appropriations restrictions by requiring 

all corporate applicants to represent at 

the time of application for a nonprocurement program whether they 

have any felony convictions or tax 

delinquencies that would prevent USDA 

or the Forest Service from doing 

business with them. Corporations 

include, but are not limited to, any 

entity that has filed articles of 

incorporation in one of the 50 States, 

the District of Columbia, or the various 

territories of the United States. 

Corporations include both for profit and 

non-profit entities. The AD–3031 and 

AD–3031–FS require an affirmative 

representation that corporate awardees 

for non-procurement transactions do not 

have any felony convictions or tax 

delinquencies. The AD 3030/3030–FS 

are required at the time of application 

and the AD 3031/3031–FS are required 

at the time of award. If the application 

and award process are a single step, the 

agency or staff office may require both 

forms to be filed at the same time. 

Collection of this information is 

necessary to ensure USDA agencies and 

staff offices and Forest Service comply 

with the appropriations restrictions 

prohibiting the Government from doing 

business with corporations with felony 

convictions and/or tax delinquencies. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this information collection is 

estimated to average 15 minutes per 

response. 

Frequency of Collection: Other: 

Corporations—AD–3030/3030–FS— 

each time they apply to participate in a 

multitude of USDA non-procurement 

programs; Awardees—AD–3031/3031– 

FS—each time they receive an award in 

USDA non-procurement programs. 

Respondents: Corporate applicants 

and awardees for USDA nonprocurement programs, including 

grants, cooperative agreements, loans, 

loan guarantees, some memoranda of 

understanding, and non-procurement 

contracts. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 741,644. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1.75. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

2,255,922. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours on Respondents: 563,980. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–30110 Filed 12–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–KR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2012–0095] 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Approval of an Information Collection; 

Submission of Itineraries 

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 associated with 

the submission of itineraries by 

exhibitors under the Animal Welfare 

Act regulations. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before February 

11, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2012-0095- 

0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2012–0095, 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-2012-0095 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., 


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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 regarding the regulations 

for the submission of itineraries, contact 

Dr. Barbara Kohn, Senior Staff 

Veterinarian, AC, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 84, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1236; (301) 851–3751. 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: Animal Care; Submission of 

Itineraries. 

OMB Number: 0579–0361. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: The Animal Welfare Act 

(AWA) (7 U.S.C. 2131 et seq.) authorizes 

the Secretary of Agriculture to 

promulgate rules and standards and 

other requirements governing the 

humane handling, housing, care, 

treatment, and transportation of certain 

animals by dealers, exhibitors, and other 

regulated entities. The Secretary of 

Agriculture has delegated the 

responsibility for enforcing the AWA to 

the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS). 

Regulations and standards established 

under the AWA are contained in 9 CFR 

parts 1, 2, and 3. The regulations in 9 

CFR part 2 establish certain 

responsibilities of regulated persons 

under the AWA. These responsibilities 

include requirements for the licensing 

and registration of dealers, exhibitors, 

and research facilities, standards for 

veterinary care, identification of 

animals, and recordkeeping. APHIS 

requires licensees or registrants who 

intend to exhibit animals away from 

their approved sites to submit itineraries 

in accordance with § 2.126 of the 

regulations. 

On October 1, 2009 (74 FR 50738– 

50740, Docket No. APHIS–2006–0023), 

APHIS proposed to amend § 2.126 to 

require that any exhibitor who is subject 

to the AWA regulations (including, but 

not limited to, circuses, traveling 

educational exhibits, animal acts, and 

petting zoos), and who intends to 

exhibit any animal at any location other 

than the person’s approved site, must 

submit a written itinerary to the Animal 

Care (AC) Regional Director. Under the 

proposed rule, the AC Regional Director 

would have to receive the itinerary by 

email or facsimile no fewer than 2 days 

in advance of any travel and must 

include the following: 

• The name of the person who 

intends to exhibit the animal and 

transport the animal for exhibition 

purposes, including any business name 

and current AWA license or registration 

number and, in the event that any 

animal is leased, borrowed, loaned, or 

under some similar arrangement, the 

name of the person who owns such 

animal; 

• The name, identification number or 

identifying characteristics, species 

(common or scientific name), sex, and 

age of each animal; and 

• The names, dates, and locations 

(with addresses), where the animals will 

travel, be housed, and be exhibited, 

including all anticipated dates and 

locations (with addresses) for any stops 

and layovers. 

These information collection 

activities were provided initial approval 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) under control number 

0579–0361. 

APHIS received comments on the 

proposed itinerary requirements and 

will be addressing those comments and 

any possible changes to the 

requirements, based on those comments, 

in the final rule. However, the initial 

approval for this information collection 

will expire on February 28, 2013. 

We are asking OMB to extend 

approval of the submission of itineraries 

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 0.25 

hours per response. 

Respondents: Exhibitors. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 300. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses per Respondent: 8.66. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses: 2,600. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 650 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. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of 

December 2012. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–30130 Filed 12–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Farm Service Agency 

Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop 

Disaster Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation 

and Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) are 

seeking comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

the report of acreage for the Noninsured 

Crop Disaster Assistance Program 

(NAP). The Report of Acreage form is 

being revised for more efficient data 

entry in Modernize and Innovate the 

Delivery of Agricultural Systems 

(MIDAS). The producer will also no 

longer be required to provide certain 

additional information with the form 

that will likely result in a reduction in 

the burden hours in this information 

collection. This information collection 

is needed to administer the program. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by February 11, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, OMB control 

number, volume, and page number of 

this issue of the Federal Register. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 


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