This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains documents other than rules or

proposed rules that are applicable to the

public. Notices of hearings and investigations,

committee meetings, agency decisions and

rulings, delegations of authority, filing of

petitions and applications and agency

statements of organization and functions are

examples of documents appearing in this

section.

Notices Federal Register

10704 

Vol. 74, No. 47 

Thursday, March 12, 2009 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request; Correction 

March 6, 2009. 

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 Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 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) 720–8958. 

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. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Christmas Cactus 

and Easter Cactus in Growing Media 

from the Netherlands and Denmark. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0266. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. 

7701–7772), the Secretary of Agriculture 

is authorized to prohibit or restrict the 

importation, entry, or movement of 

plants and plant pests to prevent the 

introduction of plant pests into the 

United States or their dissemination 

within the United States. The 

regulations contained in ‘‘SubpartNursery Stock, Plants, Roots, Bulbs, 

Seeds, and Other Plant Products,’’ 

prohibit or restrict, among other things 

the importation of living plants, plant 

parts, and seeds for propagation. 

Christmas cactus and Easter cactus 

established in growing media are now 

allowed to be imported into the United 

States from the Netherlands and 

Denmark under certain conditions. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) requires a 

phytosanitary certificate and a 

declaration stating the plants were 

grown in accordance with specific 

conditions, an agreement between 

APHIS and the plant protection services 

of the country where the plants are 

grown, and an agreement between the 

foreign plant protection service and the 

grower. The information is used as a 

guide to the intensity of the inspection 

that APHIS must conduct when the 

shipment arrives. Without this 

information, all shipments would need 

to be inspected very thoroughly, thereby 

requiring considerably more time. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit; Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 20. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 120. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Peppers from 

Certain Central American Countries. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0274. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. 

7701–7772), the Secretary of Agriculture 

is authorized to carry out operations or 

measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, 

control, prevent, or retard the spread of 

plant pests new to the United States or 

not known to be widely distributed 

throughout the United States. 

Regulations authorized by the PPA 

concerning the importation of fruits and 

vegetables into the United States from 

certain parts of the world are contained 

in ‘‘Subpart Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 

CFR 319.56–1 through 319.56–47). The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) amended the fruits and 

vegetables regulations to allow certain 

type of peppers grown in approved 

registered production sites in Costa 

Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, 

and Nicaragua to be imported, under 

certain conditions, into the United 

States without treatment. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

regulations require the use of 

information collection activities 

including inspections by Central 

American national plant protection 

organization officials, fruit fly trapping, 

monitoring, recordkeeping, box labeling, 

and phytosanitary certificate. Failing to 

collect this information would cripple 

APHIS’ ability to ensure that peppers 

from Central America are not carrying 

fruit flies. 

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 245. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 2,999. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Peppers from the 

Republic of Korea. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0282. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. 

7701–7772), the Secretary of Agriculture 

is authorized to carry out operations or 

measures to detect, eradicate, suppress, 

control, prevent, or retard the spread of 

plant pests new to the United States or 

not known to be widely distributed 

throughout the United States. 

Regulations authorized by the PPA 

concerning the importation of fruits and 

vegetables into the United States from 

certain parts of the world are contained 

in ‘‘Subpart Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 

CFR 319.56–1 through 319.56–47). The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) amended the fruits and 

vegetables regulations to allow the 


cprice-sewell on PRODPC61 with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 47 / Thursday, March 12, 2009 / Notices 10705 

importation of peppers from the 

Republic of Korea under certain 

conditions. As a condition of entry, the 

peppers would have to be grown in 

approved insect-proof, pest-free 

greenhouses and packed in pestexclusionary packinghouses. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Each shipment of pepper from the 

Republic of Korea must be accompanied 

by a phytosanitary certificate of 

inspection with a declaration issued by 

the National Plant Quarantine Service of 

Korea officials stating the peppers were 

grown in greenhouses in accordance 

with the regulations in 7 CFR 319–56– 

42 and found free of certain plant pests. 

Failing to collect this information would 

cripple APHIS’ ability to ensure that 

peppers from Korea are not carrying 

plant pests and would cause millions of 

dollars in damage to U.S. agriculture. 

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 2. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 308. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Importation of Small Lots of 

Seeds Without Phytosanitary 

Certificates. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0285. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Plant Protection Act (PPA) (7 U.S.C. 

7701–7772), the Secretary of Agriculture 

is authorized to prohibit or restrict the 

importation, entry, or movement of 

plants and plant pests to prevent the 

introduction of plant pests into the 

United States or their dissemination 

within the United States. The 

regulations contained in ‘‘Subpart— 

Nursery Stock, Plants, Roots, Bulbs, 

Seeds, and Other Plant Products,’’ 

prohibit or restrict, among other things 

the importation of living plants, plant 

parts, and seeds for propagation. 

The Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) amended 

the nursery stock regulations to allow 

the importation of small lots of seed 

under an import permit with specific 

conditions, as an alternative to the 

current phytosanitary certificate 

requirements. This change was 

necessary because several entities that 

import small lots of seed had difficulty 

obtaining the necessary certificates and 

have been adversely affected by the 

phytosanitary certificate requirement. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine 

program will issue a permit indicating 

the applicable conditions for 

importation if, after reviewing the 

application, the articles are deemed 

eligible to be imported into the United 

States under the conditions specified in 

the permit. Permits would be issued at 

the discretion of APHIS to any importer, 

whether an individual or an 

organization, who would then send the 

permit to the overseas supplier. A 

certificate of inspection in the form of 

a label is required to be attached to each 

carton of the articles and to an airway 

bill of lading or delivery tick 

accompanying the articles. Each seed 

packet must be clearly labeled with the 

name of the collector/shipper, the 

country or origin, and the scientific 

name at least to the genus level, and 

preferably to the species level. Without 

the information APHIS could not verify 

that imported nursery stock does not 

present significant risk of introducing 

plant pests and plant disease into the 

United States. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households; business or 

other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 1,600. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 740. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–5301 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request, Correction 

March 6, 2009. 

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 Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 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) 720–8958. 

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: Consumer Complaint 

Monitoring System—Food Safety 

Mobile Questionnaire. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0133. 

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 

Product Inspection Act (EPIA) (21 

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

mandate that FSIS protect the public by 

ensuring that meat and poultry products 

are safe, wholesome, unadulterated, and 

properly labeled and packaged. FSIS 

tracks consumer complaints about meat, 

poultry, and egg products. FSIS also has 

a Food Safety Mobile that travels around 

the continental United States promoting 

food safety with respect to meal, 

poultry, and egg products. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS will use the information collected 

from the Web portal and the 

questionnaire to look for trends that will 

enhance the Agency’s food safety 

efforts. FSIS will also collect 

information that will assist them in 

planning and scheduling visits of the 

Food Safety Mobile. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households; not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 650. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 139. 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

Title: Voluntary Recalls of Meat and 

Poultry Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0583–0135. 


cprice-sewell on PRODPC61 with NOTICES