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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. The 

Administrative Procedures Act requires 

that Federal agencies give interested 

persons the right to petition for 

issuance, amendment, or repeal of a rule 

(5 U.S.C. 553 (e)). FSIS has regulations 

(9 CFR 392) governing petitions to the 

Agency to issue, amend, or repeal its 

regulations. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

FSIS will use the information associated 

with petitions to assess the merits of the 

petition and to determine whether to 

issue, amend, or repeal its regulations. 

If the information is not collected or 

collected less frequently, it would 

reduce the effectiveness of the meat, 

poultry, and egg products inspection 

program. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 10. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 400. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30347 Filed 12–19–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

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 21, 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. 

Rural Housing Service 

Title: RUS Form 87, Request for Mail 

List Data. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0051. 

Summary of Collection: The Rural 

Utilities Service (RUS) is a credit agency 

of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

The agency makes loans (direct and 

guaranteed) to finance electric and 

telecommunications facilities in rural 

areas in accordance with the Rural 

Electrification Act of 1936, 7 U.S.C. 901 

as amended, (ReAct). RUS Electric 

Program provides support to the vast 

rural American electric infrastructure. 

RUS’ Telecommunications Program 

makes loans to furnish and improve 

telephone services and other 

telecommunications purposes in rural 

areas. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

RUS will collect information using RUS 

Form 87, Request for Mail List Data. The 

information is used for the RUS Electric 

and Telephone programs to obtain the 

name and addresses of the borrowers’ 

officers/board of directors and corporate 

officials, who are authorized to sign 

official documents and/or to make 

official representations concerning 

borrower operations and management. 

RUS uses the information to assure that 

(1) accurate, current, and verifiable 

information is available; (2) 

correspondence with borrowers is 

properly directed; and (3) the 

appropriate officials have signed the 

official documents submitted. Failure to 

collect information from borrowers 

could result in failure to protect the 

government’s security interest when 

determining eligibility and 

administering loan programs. 

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Respondents: 869. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 217. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30341 Filed 12–19–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2023–0050] 

Addition of Black Stem Rust-Resistant 

Barberry Plant Varieties to Regulated 

Articles List 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are adding 33 varieties to 

the list of black stem rust-resistant 

barberry species and varieties. This 

change will allow for the interstate 

movement of these newly developed 

varieties without unnecessary 

restrictions. 

DATES: Varieties were added to the list 

of black stem rust-resistant barberry 

species on December 20, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Allen Proxmire, National Policy 

Manager, Black Stem Rust, Specialty 

Crops and Cotton Pests, Emergency and 

Domestic Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 

USDA, 4700 River Road Unit 133, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; phone: 

(480) 392–8754; email: allen.proxmire@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Black 

stem rust is a destructive plant disease 

caused by a fungus (Puccinia graminis) 

that reduces the quality and yield of 

infected wheat, oat, barley, and rye 

crops. In addition to infecting small 

grains, the fungus lives on a variety of 

alternate host plants that are species of 

the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and 

Mahonia, known as barberry plants. 

The regulations in ‘‘Subpart D—Black 

Stem Rust’’ (7 CFR 301.38 through 

301.38–8, referred to below as the 

regulations), quarantine the 

conterminous 48 States and the District 

of Columbia for black stem rust, and 

govern the interstate movement of 

plants of the genera Berberis, 


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Mahoberberis, and Mahonia, known as 

barberry plants. 

Species and varieties of these plants 

are categorized as either rust-resistant or 

rust-susceptible. Rust-susceptible plants 

pose a risk of spreading black stem rust 

or of contributing to the development of 

new races of the rust, and therefore are 

prohibited from moving interstate into 

or through any protected area listed in 

accordance with § 301.38–3. Rustresistant plants do not pose such risks, 

and therefore may be moved into or 

through protected areas subject to the 

requirements in the regulations. 

In accordance with § 301.38–2(a), the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) maintains a list of 

Berberis species and varieties it has 

found to be rust-resistant at 

www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/ 

planthealth/plant-pest-and-diseaseprograms/pests-and-diseases/barberry/ 

ct_barberry. 

Paragraph (c)(1) of § 301.38–2 

provides that if the Administrator 

determines that an article not already 

listed is resistant to black stem rust, 

APHIS will publish a notice in the 

Federal Register proposing to add the 

article to the list of rust-resistant articles 

for black stem rust and request public 

comment. Following the close of the 

comment period, APHIS will review all 

comments received and will make a 

final determination regarding the 

designation that will be published in a 

second notice in the Federal Register. 

In accordance with that process, on 

March 20, 2024, we published in the 

Federal Register (89 FR 19796–19797, 

Docket No. APHIS–2023–0050), a 

notice 1 proposing to add 32 varieties of 

Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry) 

to the list of black stem rust-resistant 

barberry species and varieties. The 

proposed additions were found, through 

testing by the Agricultural Research 

Service (ARS) of the United States 

Department of Agriculture, to be 

resistant to the fungus (Puccinia 

graminis) that causes black stem rust. 

We solicited comments concerning 

our proposal for 60 days ending May 20, 

2024. We received two comments, both 

from members of the industry involved 

in breeding the varieties addressed in 

this action. 

One commenter asked us to remove 

from the cultivar names all language 

after the nomenclatures that begin with 

‘NCBT’ and ‘SMNBT’. 

We will remove this nomenclature 

from our list of Berberis species and 

varieties we have found to be rustresistant. 

The other commenter stated that 

Berberis thunbergii x B. calliantha 

‘NCBX5’, which was confirmed resistant 

in 2017, was missing from the listing in 

the notice. 

The commenter is correct that we 

mistakenly excluded Berberis thunbergii 

x B. calliantha ‘NCBX5’ from the notice. 

This article was found to be resistant to 

the fungus (Puccinia graminis) that 

causes black stem rust through 

testing by ARS in 2017 and should have 

been included in the notice. We will 

include Berberis thunbergii x B. 

calliantha ‘NCBX5’ in our list of 

Berberis species and varieties we have 

found to be rust-resistant. This article 

will bring the number of additions to 33, 

rather than 32. 

The commenter also stated that, in 

our current list of rust-resistant Berberis 

species and varieties on the APHIS web 

page, the parentage listed for ‘NCBX3’ 

was incorrect. The variety is listed as B. 

thunbergiix calliantha ‘‘NCBX3’, but 

should be listed as Berberis thunbergii x 

media ‘NCBX3’. 

The commenter is correct. We will fix 

this error by correctly listing Berberis 

thunbergii x media ‘NCBX3’ when we 

update our list of rust-resistant Berberis 

species and varieties. 

Therefore, in accordance with the 

regulations in § 301.38–2(c)(1), we are 

announcing our decision to designate 

the following articles as rust-resistant: 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Citral’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Coral Spice’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Crimson Cutie’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘James Blonde’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Lemon Cutie®’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Lemon Glow®’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Mr. Green Genes 

TM’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Purple Plume’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT3’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT4’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT8’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT9’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT10’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT11’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT12’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT13’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘NCBT14’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘Schu20022’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTAA’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTAB’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTAC’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTAJ’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTAK’ 

• Berberis thunbergii ‘SMNBTSSR’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x media ‘NCBX9’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX10’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX11’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX12’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX13’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX14’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX15’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. sieboldii 

‘NCBX16’ 

• Berberis thunbergii x B. calliantha 

‘NCBX5’ 

These articles will be added to the list 

of rust-resistant regulated articles for 

black stem rust at https://

www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-pestsdieseases/black-stem-rust-barberry. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 

7781–7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Section 301.75–15 issued under section 

204, title II, Public Law 106–113, 113 

Stat. 1501A–293; sections 301.75–15 

and 301.75–16 issued under section 

203, title II, Public Law 106–224, 114 

Stat. 400 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of 

December 2024. 

Michael Watson, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2023–0040] 

Notice of Decision To Authorize the 

Importation of Rosemary and Tarragon 

From Ethiopia 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 authorize the 

importation of fresh leaves and stems of 

rosemary and fresh leaves and stems of 

tarragon from Ethiopia into the 

continental United States. Based on 

findings of pest risk analyses, which we 

made available to the public for review 

and comment through a previous notice, 

we have determined 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 

importation of rosemary and tarragon 

from Ethiopia. 

DATES: Imports may be authorized 

beginning December 20, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Gina Stiltner, Senior Regulatory Policy 


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