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Notices Federal Register

95732 

Vol. 89, No. 232 

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

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 are 

requested regarding; 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; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 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. 

Comments regarding this information 

collection received by January 2, 2025 

will be considered. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 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 Plant and Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Unified website for 

Biotechnology Regulation; Contact Page. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–NEW. 

Summary: In 1986, the Coordinated 

Framework for the Regulation of 

Biotechnology (Coordinated 

Framework) was published by the Office 

of Science and Technology Policy and 

explained the regulatory roles for the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), and the U.S. Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA), (herein, the 

Agencies) and how Federal agencies use 

existing Federal statutes to ensure 

public health and environmental safety 

while maintaining regulatory flexibility 

to avoid impeding the growth of the 

biotechnology industry. The 

Coordinated Framework was 

subsequently updated in 1992 (57 FR 

6753–6762; February 27, 1992) and 

2017, taking into account advances that 

had occurred in the field of 

biotechnology. 

Within the USDA, the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service’s 

(APHIS’) Biotechnology Regulatory 

Services unit is responsible for ensuring 

that organisms developed using genetic 

engineering, such as genetically 

modified plants, insects, and microbes 

do not pose a plant pest risk. APHIS 

derives its authority to promulgate its 

biotechnology regulations from 

provisions of the Plant Protection Act 

(PPA, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) and the 

Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (VRTA, 21 

U.S.C. 151–159). The EPA is charged 

with protecting human health and the 

environment through ensuring the 

safety of pesticides and other chemicals, 

including those developed using genetic 

engineering. The EPA derives its 

regulatory authority from provisions of 

the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. 136 et 

seq.) and the Toxic Substances Control 

Act (TSCA, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The 

FDA is responsible for protecting the 

public health by ensuring the safety, 

efficacy, and security of human and 

veterinary drugs, biological products, 

and medical devices; and by ensuring 

the safety of our nation’s food supply, 

cosmetics, and products that emit 

radiation, which includes oversight of 

food and feed. FDA derives its 

regulatory authority from provisions of 

the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic 

Act (FFDCA, 21 U.S.C. 301–392). 

Together with the USDA’s Food Safety 

and Inspection Service (FSIS), FDA has 

oversight of certain chemicals modified 

using genetic engineering. FSIS derives 

its regulatory authority from the Federal 

Meat Inspection Act (FMIA, 21 U.S.C. 

601 et seq.) and the Poultry Products 

Protection Act (PPIA, 21 U.S.C. ch.10, 

451 et seq.). 

On September 12, 2022, Executive 

Order (E.O.) 14081, Advancing 

Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing 

Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and 

Secure American Bioeconomy, was 

published and directed the Agencies, 

among other things, to build on the 

Unified website for Biotechnology 

Regulation developed pursuant to E.O. 

13874, Modernizing the Regulatory 

Framework for Agricultural 

Biotechnology Products, June 11, 2019, 

by including on the website the 

information developed under subsection 

(b) of section 8 of E.O. 14081, and by 

enabling developers of biotechnology 

products to submit inquiries about a 

particular product and promptly receive 

a single, coordinated response that 

provides, to the extent practicable, 

information and, when appropriate, 

informal guidance regarding the process 

that the developers must follow for 

Federal regulatory review. 

Need and Use of Information: The 

necessity for this information collection 

arises from E.O. 13874, Section 5, 

Unified Biotechnology Web-Based 

Platform, and E.O. 14081, Section 8(d). 

These provisions seek to ensure that 

innovators can easily navigate the 

Federal regulatory system for products 

of biotechnology by directing USDA, 

EPA, and FDA to jointly establish a 

web-based platform that contains and 

provides links to relevant United States 

Government regulatory information for 

biotechnology products. USDA–APHIS, 

EPA, and FDA will use a web-form on 

the contact page of the Unified website 

to enable site visitors to ask questions, 

make comments, or request a meeting 

with one or all of the sponsoring 

agencies. The web-form will collect 

basic contact information such as the 

name and email address of contact page 

respondents, as well as the respondents’ 

questions or comments and their 

meeting requests. Respondent use of the 

contact page is voluntary. 

Description of Respondents: Business. 

Number of Respondents: 30. 


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Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion; Annual. 

Total Burden Hours: 15. 

Rachelle Ragland-Greene, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28350 Filed 12–2–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Spatial, Address, and 

Imagery Data Program 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on Tuesday, 

July 2, 2024, during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

Title: Spatial, Address, and Imagery 

Data Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1008. 

Form Number(s): Feedback Form. 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

request for a revision of a currently 

approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 

• Census Bureau Contact with 

Respondents: 1,500 (500/year). 

• Census Bureau Acquisition of 

Respondent Geographic Data and 

Content Clarification: 750 (250/year). 

• Feedback: 75 (25/year). 

Average Hours per Response: 

• Census Bureau Contact with 

Respondents: 1 hour. 

• Census Bureau Acquisition of 

Respondent Geographic Data and 

Content Clarification: 1.5 hours. 

• Feedback: 1 hour. 

Burden Hours: 2,700 hours. 

• Census Bureau Contact with 

Respondents: 1,500 hours. 

• Census Bureau Acquisition of 

Respondent Geographic Data and 

Content Clarification: 1,125 hours. 

• Feedback: 75 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The Spatial, 

Address, and Imagery Data (SAID) 

Program is one of many voluntary 

geographic partnership programs that 

collects data to update and maintain the 

U.S. Census Bureau’s geographic 

database, known as the Master Address 

File/Topologically Integrated 

Geographic Encoding and Referencing 

(MAF/TIGER) System. The MAF/TIGER 

System is vital for the Census Bureau to 

collect, process, tabulate, and 

disseminate data. 

The geographic framework within the 

MAF/TIGER System enables the Census 

Bureau field personnel to navigate to the 

appropriate locations for data collection. 

It enables the Census Bureau to define 

geographic boundaries, including 

census blocks, and accurately link 

demographic data from surveys and the 

decennial census to census blocks, 

locations, and areas, such as counties, 

cities, and school districts for data 

tabulation and dissemination. 

The SAID Program supports the 

Census Bureau’s ongoing demographic 

surveys and 2030 Census planning 

efforts by continuing to improve address 

coverage, collect and update street 

centerlines, and enhance the overall 

quality and integrity of the MAF/TIGER 

System after major census update 

programs have concluded. The SAID 

Program provides the Census Bureau 

with a continuous method to obtain 

current, accurate, and complete address, 

street centerline, and imagery data. 

Since its inception, the SAID Program 

has allowed the Census Bureau to 

update addresses and street centerlines 

across the country. Moving forward, the 

SAID Program will continue to acquire 

addresses, street centerlines, and 

imagery in areas identified with housing 

unit growth or change or where the 

Census Bureau has inadequate coverage 

or data, to continue updating and 

improving the MAF/TIGER System. 

The Census Bureau is adding a 

feedback component to its geographic 

partnership programs to improve the 

administration of the respective 

program and potentially reduce the 

future burden. Participants may be 

asked to provide their feedback on 

materials, method(s) of data collection, 

manner of communications, and the 

usability of the program applications 

and tools. 

The SAID Program follows the 

process below: 

• The Census Bureau invites partners 

in targeted areas to participate each 

fiscal year, including Tribal, State, 

county, and local governments; Federal 

agencies; and other authoritative 

organizations. 

• Partners are asked to provide a 

current address list with associated 

location points and attributes, a street 

centerline file, and/or imagery data for 

their jurisdiction that is no more than 

two years old. 

• Partners upload the requested data 

files using the Secure Web Incoming 

Module (SWIM) or equivalent file 

transfer module, deliver large imagery 

datasets on hard drives, or the Census 

Bureau acquires the files/data through 

direct download. If the data file size is 

too large to submit through SWIM, a 

hard drive will be sent to the participant 

for file upload and sent back to the 

Census Bureau. 

• The Census Bureau validates, then 

updates the MAF/TIGER System with 

the address and street centerline data 

provided by partners and uses the 

provided imagery for quality control 

and change detection. 

• The Census Bureau uses these 

updated addresses, streets, and imagery 

to support Census Bureau field 

operations, decennial census operations, 

ongoing demographic survey response 

collection, and data tabulation. 

• The Census Bureau provides 

partners feedback regarding the data 

they supplied. 

Affected Public: Tribal, State, county, 

and local governments, and 

organizations as well as other Federal 

agencies. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 6, 16, 141, 

and 193. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0607–1008. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28269 Filed 12–2–24; 8:45 am] 

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