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USDA reviewed the Cotton Research 

and Promotion Program major program 

activities and accomplishments, 

including third-party evaluations of 

advertising and marketing activities and 

other functional areas; the results of 

producer and importer awareness and 

satisfaction surveys; and data from the 

Foreign Agricultural Service. USDA also 

reviewed the results of the Cotton 

Board’s 2011 independent program 

evaluation, which assessed the 

effectiveness of the Cotton Research and 

Promotion Program; the strength of 

cotton’s competitive position; the ability 

to maintain and expand domestic and 

foreign markets; increases in the number 

of uses for cotton; and estimates of a 

return on investment for stakeholders 

and qualitative benefits and returns 

associated with the Cotton Research and 

Promotion Program. The review report 

concluded that the 1990 amendments to 

the Act were successfully implemented 

and are operating as intended. The 

report also noted that there is a general 

consensus within the cotton industry 

that the Cotton Research and Promotion 

Program and the 1990 amendments to 

the Act are operating as intended. 

Written comments, economic data, and 

results from independent evaluations 

support this conclusion. 

Although USDA found no compelling 

reason to conduct a referendum 

regarding the 1990 Act amendments to 

the Cotton Research and Promotion 

Order, some program participants 

support a referendum. Therefore, USDA 

will initiate a sign-up period in 

accordance with the Act. During this 

sign-up period, eligible producers and 

importers may sign-up to request such 

a referendum at the county office of the 

Farm Service Agency (FSA), or by 

mailing such a request to FSA. The 

Secretary will conduct a referendum if 

requested by 10 percent or more of the 

number of cotton producers and 

importers voting in the most recent 

referendum (July 1991), with not more 

than 20 percent of such request from 

producers in one state or importers of 

cotton. 

Current procedures for the conduct of 

a sign-up period appear at 7 CFR 

sections 1205.10–1205.30. These 

procedures will be updated as 

appropriate prior to the beginning of the 

sign-up period. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 2101–2118. 

Dated: May 21, 2013. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–12655 Filed 5–28–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0011] 

Notice of Request for Revision to and 

Extension of Approval of an 

Information Collection; Virus-SerumToxin Act and Regulations 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Revision to and 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 a revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection 

associated with the Virus-Serum-Toxin 

Act and regulations. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before July 29, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0011- 

0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2013–0011, 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-2013-0011 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 regarding the Virus-SerumToxin Act and regulations, contact Dr. 

Donna Malloy, Section Leader, Policy, 

Evaluation and Licensing, CVB, APHIS, 

4700 River Road Unit 148, Riverdale, 

MD 20737; (301) 851–3426. 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: Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and 

Regulations. 

OMB Number: 0579–0013. 

Type of Request: Revision to and 

extension of approval of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: Under the Virus-SerumToxin Act (21 U.S.C. 151–159), the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) is authorized to 

promulgate regulations designed to 

prevent the importation, preparation, 

sale, or shipment of harmful veterinary 

biological products. These regulations 

are contained in 9 CFR parts 102 to 124. 

Veterinary biological products 

include viruses, serums, toxins, and 

analogous products of natural or 

synthetic origin, such as vaccines, 

antitoxins, or the immunizing 

components of microorganisms 

intended for the diagnosis, treatment, or 

prevention of diseases in domestic 

animals. 

APHIS issues licenses to qualified 

establishments that produce veterinary 

biological products and issues permits 

to importers of such products. APHIS 

also enforces requirements concerning 

production, packaging, labeling, and 

shipping of these products and sets 

standards for the testing of these 

products. 

To help ensure that veterinary 

biological products used in the United 

States are pure, safe, potent, and 

effective, APHIS requires certain 

information collection activities, 

including, among other things, 

establishment license applications, 

product license applications, product 

import permit applications, product and 

test report forms, field study summaries, 

and recordkeeping. These information 

activities have been approved by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under control number 0579– 

0013. 

In addition, in accordance with the 

regulations in 9 CFR 105.3 and 115.2, 

APHIS may notify a veterinary biologics 

licensee or permittee to stop the 

preparation, importation, and/or 

distribution and sale of a serial or a 

subserial of a veterinary biological 

product if, at any time, it appears that 

such product may be worthless, 

contaminated, dangerous, or harmful in 

the treatment of animals. This 

notification triggers two information 

collection activities: (1) After being 

contacted by APHIS, veterinary 

biologics licensees or permittees must 

immediately, but no later than 2 days, 

send stop distribution and sale 

notifications to any wholesalers, 

jobbers, dealers, foreign consignees, or 

other persons known to have such 

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possession; and (2) veterinary biologics 

licensees and permittees must account 

for the remaining quantity of each serial 

or subserial of any such veterinary 

biological product at each location in 

the distribution channel known to the 

licensee or permittee. These information 

collection activities have been approved 

by OMB under control number 0579– 

0318. 

This notice includes a description of 

the information collection activities 

currently approved by OMB under 

numbers 0579–0013 and 0579–0318. 

After OMB approves and combines the 

burden for both collections under one 

collection (number 0579–0013), the 

Department will retire number 0579– 

0318. 

We are asking OMB to approve our 

use of these information activities, as 

described, 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 

1.963 hours per response. 

Respondents: U.S. importers, 

exporters, and shippers of veterinary 

biological products; State veterinary 

authorities; and operators of 

establishments that produce or test 

veterinary biological products or that 

engage in product research and 

development and their wholesalers, 

dealers, jobbers, foreign consignees, or 

other persons known to have any such 

worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or 

harmful veterinary biological product in 

their possession. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 220. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 181.413. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 39,911. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 78,349 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 22nd day of 

May 2013. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–12692 Filed 5–28–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0030] 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Approval of an Information Collection; 

Federally Recognized State Managed 

Phytosanitary Program 

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 

Federal recognition of a State’s plant 

pest containment, eradication, or 

exclusion program as a Federally 

Recognized State Managed 

Phytosanitary Program. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before July 29, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0030- 

0001. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2013–0030, 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-2013-0030 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 Federally 

Recognized State Managed 

Phytosanitary Program, contact Ms. 

Diane L. Schuble, National Coordinator 

for Official Control, Plant Health 

Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road 

Unit 26, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 

851–2334. 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: Federally Recognized State 

Managed Phytosanitary Program. 

OMB Number: 0579–0365. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

approval of an information collection. 

Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7 

U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) authorizes the 

Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit or 

restrict the importation, entry, or 

interstate movement of plants, plant 

products, or other articles if the 

Secretary determines that the 

prohibition or restriction is necessary to 

prevent a plant pest or noxious weed 

from being introduced into or 

disseminated within the United States. 

This authority has been delegated to the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS). 

As part of this mission, APHIS’ Plant 

Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) 

program responds to introductions of 

plant pests to eradicate, suppress, or 

contain them through various programs 

to prevent their interstate spread. 

APHIS’ plant pest containment and 

eradication programs qualify as ‘‘official 

control programs,’’ as defined by the 

International Plant Protection 

Convention (IPPC), recognized by the 

World Trade Organization as the 

standard-setting body for international 

plant quarantine issues. ‘‘Official 

control’’ is defined as ‘‘the active 

enforcement of mandatory 

phytosanitary regulations and the 

application of mandatory phytosanitary 

procedures with the objective of 

containment or eradication of 

quarantine pests or for the management 

of regulated non-quarantine pests.’’ As a 

contracting party to the IPPC, the United 

States has agreed to observe IPPC 

principles as they relate to international 

trade. However, APHIS will also 

recognize exclusion programs that are 


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