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Vol. 62, No. 59

Thursday, March 27, 1997

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

March 21, 1997.

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 should be addressed to: Desk

Officer for Agriculture, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affiars,

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), Washington, D.C. 20503 and to

Department clearance Office, USDA,

OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, D.C.

20250–7602. Comments regarding these

information collections are best assured

of having their full effect if received

within 30 days of this notification.

Copies of the submission(s) may be

obtained by calling (202) 720–6204 or

(202) 720–6746.

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.

• Agricultural Marketing Service

Title: Specified Commodities

Imported into the United States Exempt

from Import Requirements, 7 CFR 944,

980, and 999.

OMB Control Number: 0581–0167.

Summary: Importers and receivers

provide specific information on

agricultural commodities, such as

product, variety, place of inspection,

quantity and intended use.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is collected to make sure

that agricultural products exempt from

established grade, size, quality and

maturity requirements are used for

specified exempt purposes.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions..

Number of Respondents: 714.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 303.

• Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Key Personnel

Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0015.

Summary: The contributions of

certain contractor employees may be

critical to the success of work

contracted for by USDA.

Need and Use of the Information:

Contracting officers need to collect

information about changes in contractor

personnel to ensure satisfactory

performance. The contracting officer

needs this information to determine

whether the departure of a key person

from the contractor’s staff could make a

deleterious effect upon contact

performance, and to determine what

accommodation or remedies may be

taken.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; Federal Government; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 200.

• Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Progress

Reporting Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0016.

Summary: In order to administer

contacts for research and development

or for advisory and assistance services,

contracting officers need information

about contractor progress in performing

the contracts.

Need and Use of the Information: If

contracting officers could not obtain

progress report information, they would

have to physically monitor the

contractor’s operations on a day to day

basis throughout the performance

period. The information is used to

compare actual progress and

expenditures to anticipated performance

and contractors representation on which

the award was based.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; Federal Government; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

Monthly, Quarterly.

Total Burden Hours: 3,600.

• Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Maximum

Workweek—Construction Schedule.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0011.

Summary: When USDA contracts for

construction services, both the

contacting office and the contractor

need to establish a work schedule.

Contracting officers put the Maximum

Workweek—Construction Schedule

clause in solicitations and contracts for

construction when the contractor’s

access to the work site may be

restricted.

Need and Use of the Information:

Schedule information allows the office

to assign inspectors or representatives to

the site when the contractor is actually

working on the site.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Federal Government.

Number of Respondents: 600.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting;

on occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 150.

• Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Brand Name or

Equal Provision and Clause.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0014.

Summary: When it issues a formal

solicitation to acquire products, the

contracting office includes a

specification or purchase description in

the solicitation which describes the
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product sought and desired

characteristics of the product.

Need and Use of the Information: The

contracting officer needs information

about the salient characteristics of an

offeror’s product to evaluate whether

the offered product is equal to the

benchmark product.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Federal Government.

Number of Respondents: 74,838.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 7,484.

• Procurement and Property

Management

Title: Procurement: Instruction for the

Preparation of Business and Technical

Proposals.

OMB Control Number: 0505–0013.

Summary: Contracting officers insert

this clause in solicitation for products or

services which will be awarded by

negotiation.

Need and Use of the Information: The

contracting officer needs business

information from the offeror to evaluate

the offeror’s capability and

responsibility. The technical proposal

together with the offeror’s pricing is

needed to select the offeror who will be

awarded a contract.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Not-for-profit

institutions; Federal Government; State,

Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 3,200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 112,000.

• Farm Service Agency

Title: Request for Direct Loan

Assistance.

OMB Control Number: 0560–0167.

Summary: Form FSA 410–1, ‘‘Request

for Direct Loan Assistance,’’ is needed

to collect information for making

eligibility and financial feasibility

determinations on respondents request

for direct new loans and for currently

indebted borrowers, loan servicing/

assistance authorizes under the

Consolidated Farm and Rural

Development Act, and amended.

Need and Use of the Information: The

collected information is used to make

eligibility and financial feasibility

determinations.

Description of Respondents: Farms;

Individuals or households; Business or

other for-profit; Federal Government.

Number of Respondents: 44,200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 45,760.

• Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1944–E, Rural Rental and

Cooperative Housing Loan Policies,

Procedures, and Authorizations.

OMB Control Number: 0575–0047.

Summary: Information collected

includes an application, plans for

community development and

compliance with fair housing laws,

specifications for proposed housing

units and costs associated with the

project.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is used to evaluate the cost

benefits, feasibility, and financial

performance of the proposed project, as

well as the eligibility of the applicant.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Individuals or

households; Not-for-profit institutions;

State, Local or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 1,000.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 56,434.

• Agricultural Marketing Service

Title: Nectarines Grown in

California—Marketing Order No. 916.

OMB Control Number: 0581–0072.

Summary: Information is collected

from growers and handlers to nominate

committee members, conduct referenda,

and specific information related to

product shipped.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is used to regulate the

provisions of Marketing Order No. 916.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit; Farms.

Number of Respondents: 1,131.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 1,085.

• Farm Service Agency

Title: Peanut Quota Regulations for

the 1996 through 2002 crops, 7 CFR

729—Addendum.

OMB Control Number: 0560–0006.

Summary: The information relative to

reports and recordkeeping for Form

FSA–377 as authorized by the Secretary

is used by FSA to obtain a list of

producers requesting an out-of-county

transfer and when a letter, is required to

use the register to obtain the names of

producers for inclusion in the lottery.

Need and Use of the Information:

Without the collection of information,

the affected county FSA offices would

have to monitor the approved transfers

and terminate such approvals when the

transfer limit was reached. This result

would cause producers requesting

transfers to be approved on a first-come,

first-serve basis. USDA has determined

that such process would be unfair and

difficult to administer at the county

level and by regulation has established

a selection by lot as the method for

limiting out-of-county transfers.

Description of Respondents: Farms;

Federal Government.

Number of Respondents: 1,000.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually.

Total Burden Hours: 352,900.

Emergency processing of this

submission has been requested by April

15, 1997.

• Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 3570–B ‘‘Community

Facilities Grant Program.’’

OMB Control Number: 0575–None.

Summary: The information collection

includes an agreement for

administrative requirements and a

statement of inability to obtain credit

from other sources.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is used to fulfill the

requirements for the community

facilities grant program.

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; State, Local or Tribal

Government.

Number of Respondents: 200.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 438.

Emergency Processing of This

Submission Has Been Requested By

March 28, 1997.

• Rural Utilities Service

Title: Certification of Authority.

OMB Control Number: 0572–0074.

Summary: Form RUS 675 provides

names of individuals in cooperatives

who are authorized to sign RUS forms

in connection with requisitioning and

accounting for construction loan funds.

Need and Use of the Information: The

information is used to keep RUS up-todate on any changes in signature

authority and controls the release of

funds only to authorized borrowers

representatives.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 490.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 49.

• Rural Housing Service

Title: 7 CFR 1924–A, ‘‘Planning and

Performing Construction and Other

Development.’’

OMB Control Number: 0575–0042.

Summary: Information is collected to

describe the planned construction and

development work, to describe materials

used in construction or repair, to certify

payments made, to provide drawings

and specifications, and cost estimates.
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Need and Use of the Information: The

information is used by RHS to

determine whether a loan/grant can be

approved, to ensure that RHS had

adequate security for the loans financed

and to provide for sound construction

and development work.

Description of Respondents:

Individuals and households; business or

other for-profit; not-for-profit

institutions; farms.

Number of Respondents: 23,223.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 111,882.

• Food and Consumer Service

Title: School Nutrition Study.

OMB Control Number: 0584–New.

Summary: This proposed study is

designed to examine meals offered by

and characteristics of school nutrition

programs. Data will be collected from a

nationally representative sample of

public elementary, middle and high

schools during the fall of the 1997–98

school year.

Need and Use of the Information: The

data collection and analysis will

provide USDA with an up-to-date

assessment of the progress of the

nation’s schools implementing the

Dietary Guidelines and Recommended

Daily Allowances in school meats.

Description of Respondents: State,

Local, or Tribal Government.

Number of Respondents: 1,581.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting:

One-time only.

Total Burden Hours: 9,482.

Donald Hulcher,

Deputy Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–7806 Filed 3–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–01–M

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

[Docket No. 97–022–1]

Intent to Issue Veterinary Biological

Product Licenses

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: We are advising the public

that the Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service intends to issue

veterinary biological product licenses to

Rhone Merieux, Inc., for four veterinary

vaccines intended for use in dogs. This

proposed action is consistent with the

conclusions of a risk analysis that

formed the basis of an environmental

assessment and finding of no significant

impact prepared prior to the

authorization of field trials for those

vaccines. With this notice, we are

stating our intention to issue veterinary

biological product licenses for those

vaccines after 14 days from the date of

this notice unless new substantial issues

bearing on the effects of the action

contemplated here are brought to our

attention.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the environmental

assessment and finding of no significant

impact prepared for the field testing of

the products may be obtained by writing

to the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the

docket number of this notice when

requesting copies. Copies of the

environmental assessment and finding

of no significant impact (as well as the

risk analysis with confidential business

information removed) are also available

for public inspection at USDA, room

1141, South Building, 14th Street and

Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except holidays. Persons wishing to

inspect those documents are requested

to call ahead on (202) 690–2817 to

facilitate entry into the reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Jeanette Greenberg, Technical WriterEditor, Center for Veterinary BiologicsLicensing and Policy Development, VS,

APHIS, USDA, 4700 River Road Unit

148, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231;

telephone (301) 734–5338; fax (301)

734–8910.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are

advising the public that the Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

intends to issue veterinary biological

product licenses to Rhone Merieux, Inc.,

Establishment License No. 298, for four

veterinary vaccines intended for use in

dogs. These vaccines each contain a

canarypox-vectored canine distemper

fraction. The true names and product

codes of the four vaccines are as

follows:

(1) Canine Distemper-Adenovirus

Type 2-Coronavirus-ParainfluenzaParvovirus Vaccine, Modified Live

Virus, Canarypox Vector, Leptospira

Bacterin (Code 46J9.R1);

(2) Canine Distemper-Adenovirus

Type 2-Parainfluenza-Parvovirus

Vaccine, Modified Live Virus,

Canarypox Vector, Leptospira Bacterin

(Code 4639.R1);

(3) Canine Distemper-Adenovirus

Type 2-Coronavirus-ParainfluenzaParvovirus Vaccine, Modified Live

Virus, Canarypox Vector (Code

1591.R1); and

(4) Canine Distemper-Adenovirus

Type 2-Parainfluenza-Parvovirus

Vaccine, Modified Live Virus,

Canarypox Vector (Code 13D1.R1).

The products numbered (1) and (3)

above were field tested directly. The

products numbered (2) and (4) above

contain the same components as (1) and

(3), respectively, except that they lack

the Canine Coronavirus fraction;

therefore, they are being licensed based

on data generated for the products

numbered (1) and (3).

With this notice, APHIS states its

intention to issue veterinary biological

product licenses for these products after

14 days from the date of this notice

unless new substantial issues, bearing

on the effects of the action contemplated

here, are brought to APHIS’ attention.

This proposed action is consistent

with the conclusions of a risk analysis,

which formed the basis for the

environmental assessment (EA)

supporting authorization of a field trial

using these vaccines. Since the issues

raised by authorization of a field trial

and by issuance of a product license are

identical, and since the field trial data

have supported the conclusions of the

original EA and finding of no significant

impact (FONSI), APHIS has concluded

that the EA and FONSI generated for the

field trial are also applicable to the

proposed licensing actions. Therefore,

APHIS does not intend to issue a

separate EA to support issuance of

product licenses. Based on our original

FONSI, reconfirmed here, we have

determined that an environmental

impact statement need not be prepared.

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 151–159.

Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of

March 1997.

Donald W. Luchsinger,

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service.

[FR Doc. 97–7809 Filed 3–26–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P

Forest Service

Changes in Mammoth Creek Minimum

Streamflow Requirements and Point of

Measurement, and Changes in Place of

Use

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an

environmental impact statement.

SUMMARY: The Forest Service,

Department of Agriculture, will prepare

an environmental impact statement

(EIS) for the proposed amendment to the

existing Master Operating Agreement

establishing minimum streamflow

requirements for Mammoth Creek, and

Point of Measurement. The Forest

Service, Inyo National Forest, Mono

County, California, is acting as joint lead

agency on the project, together with the