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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 78, No. 206 

Thursday, October 24, 2013 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Document No. AMS–ST–13–0059] 

Plant Variety Protection Board; Open 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice is intended to 

notify the public of their opportunity to 

attend an open meeting of the Plant 

Variety Protection Board. 

DATES: December 9, 2013, 1:00 p.m. to 

5:00 p.m. and December 10, 2013, 8:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m., open to the public. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Water Tower Room of the Hyatt 

Regency Chicago Hotel, 151 East Wacker 

Drive, Chicago, IL 60601. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Maria Pratt, Plant Variety Protection 

Office, Science and Technology 

Programs, Agricultural Marketing 

Service, United States Department of 

Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20250. Telephone 

number (202) 260–8983, fax (202) 260– 

8976, or email: maria.pratt@

ams.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the provisions of section 10(a) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C., Appendix 2), this notice is given 

regarding an upcoming Plant Variety 

Protection (PVP) Board meeting. The 

Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) 

(7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq.) provides legal 

protection in the form of intellectual 

property rights to developers of new 

varieties of plants, which are 

reproduced sexually by seed or are 

tuber-propagated. A Certificate of Plant 

Variety Protection is awarded to an 

owner of a crop variety after an 

examination shows that it is new, 

distinct from other varieties, genetically 

uniform and stable through successive 

generations. The term of protection is 20 

years for most crops and 25 years for 

trees, shrubs, and vines. The PVPA also 

provides for a statutory Board (7 U.S.C. 

2327). The duties of the Board are to: (1) 

Advise the Secretary concerning the 

adoption of rules and regulations to 

facilitate the proper administration of 

the Act; (2) provide advisory counsel to 

the Secretary on appeals concerning 

decisions on applications by the PVP 

Office and on requests for emergency 

public-interest compulsory licenses; and 

(3) advise the Secretary on any other 

matters under the Regulations and Rules 

of Practice and on all questions under 

Section 44 of the Act, ‘‘Public Interest 

in Wide Usage’’ (7 U.S.C. 2404). 

The purpose of the meeting will be to 

discuss the PVP Office’s 2013 

achievements, 2014 work plan and 

outreach plan, ongoing process 

improvements, updates on electronic 

applications/database conversion, plans 

for PVP recognition by other countries, 

the activity of the subcommittee to 

evaluate molecular techniques for PVP 

distinctness characterization and 

proposals for procedure changes. The 

proposed agenda for the PVP Board 

meeting will include a welcome by 

Department officials followed by a 

discussion focusing on program 

activities that encourage the 

development of new plant varieties and 

address appeals to the Secretary. The 

agenda will also include presentations 

on PVP plans for the future, electronic 

PVP application/computer database 

development, and the use of molecular 

markers for PVP applications. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. Those wishing to attend or 

phone into the meeting are encouraged 

to pre-register by December 2, 2013 with 

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Meeting 

Accommodations: The meeting hotel is 

ADA Compliant, and the USDA 

provides reasonable accommodation to 

individuals with disabilities where 

appropriate. If you require 

accommodations, such as sign language 

interpreter, please contact the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Determinations for reasonable 

accommodation will be made on a caseby-case basis. Minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review 30 

days following the meeting at the 

Internet Web site http://

www.ams.usda.gov/PVPO. 

Dated: October 17, 2013. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–24820 Filed 10–23–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2013–0017] 

Notice of Decision To Allow Interstate 

Movement of Sapote Fruit From Puerto 

Rico Into the Continental United States 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our decision to begin allowing the 

interstate movement into the 

continental United States of fresh sapote 

fruit from Puerto Rico. Based on the 

findings of a pest risk analysis, which 

we made available to the public for 

review and comment through a previous 

notice, we believe that the application 

of one or more designated phytosanitary 

measures will be sufficient to mitigate 

the risks of introducing or disseminating 

plant pests or noxious weeds via the 

interstate movement of sapote fruit from 

Puerto Rico. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 24, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David Lamb, Regulatory Policy 

Specialist, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1231; (301) 851–2103. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under the regulations in ‘‘Subpart— 

Regulated Articles From Hawaii and the 

Territories’’ (7 CFR 318.13–1 through 

318.13–26, referred to below as the 

regulations), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

prohibits or restricts the interstate 

movement of fruits and vegetables into 

the continental United States from 

Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin 

Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth 

of the Northern Mariana Islands to 

prevent plant pests and noxious weeds 

from being introduced into and spread 

within the continental United States. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 206 / Thursday, October 24, 2013 / Notices 63449 

1To view the notice and the pest risk analysis, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0017. 

(The continental United States is 

defined in § 318.13–2 of the regulations 

as the 48 contiguous States, Alaska, and 

the District of Columbia.) 

Section 318.13–4 contains a 

performance-based process for 

approving the interstate movement of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, can be safely 

moved subject to one or more of the 

designated phytosanitary measures 

listed in paragraph (b) of that section. 

Under that process, APHIS publishes a 

notice in the Federal Register 

announcing the availability of the pest 

risk analysis that evaluates the risks 

associated with the interstate movement 

of a particular fruit or vegetable. 

Following the close of the 60-day 

comment period, APHIS may begin 

allowing the interstate movement of the 

fruit or vegetable subject to the 

identified designated measures if: (1) No 

comments were received on the pest 

risk analysis; (2) the comments on the 

pest risk analysis revealed that no 

changes to the pest risk analysis were 

necessary; or (3) changes to the pest risk 

analysis were made in response to 

public comments, but the changes did 

not affect the overall conclusions of the 

analysis and the Administrator’s 

determination of risk. 

In accordance with that process, we 

published a notice 1 in the Federal 

Register on April 24, 2013 (78 FR 

24155–24156, Docket No. APHIS–2013– 

0017), in which we announced the 

availability, for review and comment, of 

a pest risk analysis that evaluates the 

risks associated with the interstate 

movement of sapote fruit (Pouteria 

sapota) from Puerto Rico into the 

continental United States. We solicited 

comments on the notice for 60 days 

ending on June 24, 2013. We received 

no comments by that date. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in § 318.13–4, we are 

announcing our decision to begin 

allowing the interstate movement of 

sapote fruit from Puerto Rico into the 

continental United States subject to the 

following phytosanitary measures: 

• Inspection in Puerto Rico; and 

• Movement of the sapote fruit as 

commercial consignments only. 

These conditions will be listed in the 

Puerto Rico Manual, found on the 

Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

import_export/plants/manuals/ports/

downloads/puerto_rico.pdf. In addition 

to those specific measures, sapote fruit 

from Puerto Rico will be subject to the 

general requirements listed in § 318.13– 

3 that are applicable to the interstate 

movement of all fruits and vegetables 

from Puerto Rico. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– 

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 18th day of 

October 2013. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25003 Filed 10–23–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS). 

Title: International Import Certificate. 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0017. 

Form Number(s): BIS–645P. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Burden Hours: 52. 

Number of Respondents: 195. 

Average Hours per Response: 16 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

and several other countries have 

increased the effectiveness of their 

respective controls over international 

trade in strategic commodities by means 

of an Import Certificate procedure. For 

the U.S. importer, this procedure 

provides that, where required by the 

exporting country, the importer submits 

an international import certificate to the 

U.S. Government to certify that he/she 

will import commodities into the 

United States and will not reexport such 

commodities, except in accordance with 

the export control regulations of the 

United States. The U.S. Government, in 

turn, certifies that such representations 

have been made. 

Affected Public: Businesses and other 

for-profit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain benefits. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at JJessup@

doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk 

Officer, by email to Jasmeet_K._Seehra@

omb.eop.gov, or by fax to (202) 395– 

5167. 

Dated: October 18, 2013. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–24867 Filed 10–23–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS). 

Title: Delivery Verification Procedure 

for Imports. 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0016. 

Form Number(s): BIS–647P. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Burden Hours: 56. 

Number of Respondents: 100. 

Average Hours Per Response: 31 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: Foreign 

governments, on occasions, require U.S. 

importers of strategic commodities to 

furnish their foreign supplier with a 

U.S. Delivery Verification Certificate 

validating that the commodities shipped 

to the U.S. were in fact received. This 

procedure increases the effectiveness of 

controls on the international trade of 

strategic commodities. 

Affected Public: Businesses and other 

for-profit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain benefits. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at JJessup@

doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

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