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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 August 16, 2021 

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: 7 CFR 3550—Direct Single 

Family Housing Loan and Grant 

Program, HB–1–3550, HB–2–3550. 

OMB Control Number: 0575–0172. 

Summary of Collection: USDA Rural 

Development (RD) is committed to 

helping improve the economy and 

quality of life in rural America. RD’s 

Rural Housing Service (RHS or Agency) 

offers a variety of programs to build or 

improve housing and essential 

community facilities in rural areas. The 

Housing Act of 1949 provides the 

authority for the RHS’ direct single 

family housing loan and grant programs. 

The programs provide eligible 

applicants with financial assistance to 

own adequate but modest homes in 

rural areas. 7 CFR part 3550 sets forth 

the programs’ policies and the 

programs’ procedures can be found in 

its accompanying handbooks 

(Handbook–1–3550 and Handbook–2– 

3550). To originate and service direct 

loans and grants that comply with the 

programs’ statute, policies, and 

procedures, RHS must collect 

information from low- and very lowincome applicants, third parties 

associated with or working on behalf of 

the applicants, borrowers, and third 

parties associated with or working on 

behalf of the borrowers. RHS will collect 

information using several forms. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

RHS will collect information to verify 

program eligibility requirements; 

continued eligibility requirements for 

borrower assistance; servicing of loans; 

eligibility for special servicing 

assistance such as: Payment subsidies, 

moratorium (stop) on payments, 

delinquency workout agreements; 

liquidation of loans; and, debt 

settlement. The information is used to 

ensure that the direct Single Family 

Housing Programs are administered in a 

manner consistent with legislative and 

administrative requirements. Without 

the information RHS would be unable to 

determine if a borrower would qualify 

for services or if assistance has been 

granted to which the customer would 

not be eligible under current regulations 

and statutes. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households; Business or 

other for-profit; Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Number of Respondents: 106,300. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion; Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 284,013. 

Title: Rural Community Development 

Initiative (RCDI). 

OMB Control Number: 0575–0180. 

Summary of Collection: Congress first 

authorized the Rural Community 

Development Initiative (RCDI) in 1999 

with an appropriation of $6 million 

under the Rural Community 

Advancement Program (Pub. L. 106–78, 

which was amended by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 

(Pub. L. 114–113)). The Community 

Facilities Division under the Rural 

Housing Service (RHS) administers this 

grant program. The intent of the RCDI 

grant program is to develop the capacity 

and ability of rural area recipients to 

undertake projects through a program of 

financial and technical assistance 

provided by qualified intermediary 

organizations. Intermediaries may be 

private or public (including tribal) 

organizations. Intermediaries are 

required to provide matching funds in 

an amount equal to the RCDI grant. 

Eligible recipients are nonprofit 

organizations, low-income rural 

communities, or federally recognized 

tribes. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

information will be collected from 

applicants (intermediary organizations 

applying for the grant), grantees 

(intermediary organizations that are 

awarded the grant), recipients (entities 

that receive assistance from the 

intermediary), and beneficiaries (entities 

or individuals that benefit from 

assistance provided by the recipient) by 

RHS staff in the National Office and 

Rural Development field offices. This 

information is used to determine 

applicant and recipient eligibility, 

project feasibility, and to ensure that 

grantees operate on a sound basis and 

use grant funds for authorized purposes. 

The Notice of Solicitation of 

Applications (NOSA), published in the 

Federal Register, provides instructions 

for completing an application. 

Description of Respondents: Not-for 

profit institutions; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 90. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Quarterly; Annually; Third party 

disclosure. 

Total Burden Hours: 4,194. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2021–0021] 

Notice of Availability of an 

Environmental Assessment for 

Release of Ganaspis brasiliensis for 

Biological Control of Spotted-Wing 

Drosophila in the Continental United 

States 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service has prepared an 

environmental assessment relative to 

permitting the release of the insect 

Ganaspis brasiliensis for the biological 

control of spotted-wing Drosophila 

(Drosophila suzukii) in the continental 

United States. Based on the 

environmental assessment and other 

relevant data, we have reached a 

preliminary determination that the 

release of this control agent within the 

continental United States will not have 

a significant impact on the quality of the 

human environment. We are making the 

environmental assessment available to 

the public for review and comment. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before August 16, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2021–0021 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 


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APHIS–2021–0021, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at regulations.gov or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

room 1620 of the USDA South Building, 

14th Street and Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading 

room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202)–799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Colin D. Stewart, Assistant Director, 

Pests, Pathogens, and Biocontrol 

Permits, Permitting and Compliance 

Coordination, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– 

1238; (301) 851–2327; email: 

Colin.Stewart@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) is proposing to issue 

permits for the release of the insect 

Ganaspis brasiliensis in the continental 

United States for the biological control 

of spotted-wing Drosophila (Drosophila 

suzukii). The action is proposed to 

reduce the severity of damage to small 

fruit crops from infestations of spottedwing Drosophila (SWD) in the 

continental United States. 

SWD is native to East Asia. It was first 

detected in California, Italy, and Spain 

in 2008. It has since established in most 

fruit-growing regions in North America. 

SWD lays eggs inside ripening fruits. 

Feeding by SWD larvae results in the 

degradation of fruits, and the 

puncturing of the fruit skin may also 

provide a gateway for secondary 

bacterial and fungal infections. 

Permitting the release of the G–1 

lineage of Ganaspis brasiliensis is 

necessary to reduce SWD populations in 

non-crop habitats. This would reduce 

the number of SWD that migrate into 

susceptible crops and would thereby 

improve the effectiveness of other SWD 

control tools. Introducing and 

establishing this larval parasitoid will 

uniquely contribute to suppression of 

SWD because it attacks fly maggots 

inside the fruit (while most pesticides 

target only adult flies, and only two 

pupal parasitoids readily attack SWD). 

Classical biological control is a 

potentially useful management strategy 

for an invasive pest species whenever 

effective resident natural enemies are 

lacking in the new distribution range. 

APHIS’ review and analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with the proposed release are 

documented in detail in an 

environmental assessment (EA) titled 

‘‘Field Release of Ganaspis brasiliensis 

(Hymenoptera: Figitidae) for Biological 

Control of Spotted-wing Drosophila, 

Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: 

Drosophilidae), in the Continental 

United States’’ (January 2021). Based on 

our findings in the EA, we are proposing 

to issue permits for the release of the 

insect Ganaspis brasiliensis (G–1 

lineage) as a biological control agent to 

reduce SWD infestations. We are 

making the EA available to the public 

for review and comment. We will 

consider all comments that we receive 

on or before the date listed under the 

heading DATES at the beginning of this 

notice. 

The EA may be viewed on the 

regulations.gov website or in our 

reading room (see ADDRESSES above for 

a link to regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room). You may also request 

paper copies of the EA by calling or 

writing to the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please 

refer to the title of the EA when 

requesting copies. 

The EA has been prepared in 

accordance with: (1) The National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on 

Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 12th day of 

July, 2021. 

Mark Davidson, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

National School Lunch, Special Milk, 

and School Breakfast Programs, 

National Average Payments/Maximum 

Reimbursement Rates 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice announces the 

annual adjustments to the national 

average payments, the amount of money 

the Federal Government provides States 

for lunches, afterschool snacks, and 

breakfasts served to children 

participating in the National School 

Lunch and School Breakfast Programs; 

to the maximum reimbursement rates, 

the maximum per lunch rate from 

Federal funds that a State can provide 

a school food authority for lunches 

served to children participating in the 

National School Lunch Program; and to 

the rate of reimbursement for a half-pint 

of milk served to non-needy children in 

a school or institution that participates 

in the Special Milk Program for 

Children. The annual payments and 

rates adjustments for the National 

School Lunch and School Breakfast 

Programs reflect changes in the Food 

Away From Home series of the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers. The annual rate adjustment 

for the Special Milk Program reflects 

changes in the Producer Price Index for 

Fluid Milk Products. Further 

adjustments are made to these rates to 

reflect higher costs of providing meals 

in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, 

and the Virgin Islands. The payments 

and rates are prescribed on an annual 

basis each July. Overall, reimbursement 

rates this year for the National School 

Lunch, Breakfast Programs and the 

Special Milk Program either remained 

the same or increased compared to last 

year. 

Special Note: For the school year 

beginning July 1, 2021 and ending June 

30, 2022, school food authorities 

operating the National School Lunch 

Program Seamless Summer Option 

under Food and Nutrition Serviceissued nationwide waivers #85 

(Nationwide Waiver to Allow the 

Seamless Summer Option through 

School Year 2021–2022) and #86 

(Nationwide Waiver to Allow Summer 

Food Service Program Reimbursement 

Rates in School Year 2021–2022) may 

receive the reimbursement rates 

prescribed for the Summer Food Service 

Program (85 FR 86901) in lieu of the 

reimbursement rates established in this 

notice. The Summer Food Service 

Program reimbursement rates made 

available to these school food 

authorities will similarly be updated 

effective January 1, 2022 through a 

future notice published in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: These rates are effective from 

July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. 

Kevin Maskornick, Branch Chief, 

Program Monitoring and Operational 

Support Division, Child Nutrition 

Programs, Food and Nutrition Service, 

United States Department of 

Agriculture, 1320 Braddock Place, Suite 


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