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Vol. 87, No. 72 

Thursday, April 14, 2022 

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 

required 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 May 16, 2022 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. 

Farm Service Agency 

Title: Request for Special Priorities 

Assistance (Agriculture Priorities and 

Allocations System (APAS)). 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0280. 

Summary of Collection: The Request 

for Special Priorities Assistance 

(Agriculture Priorities and Allocations 

System (APAS)) regulation is 

promulgated in 7 CFR 789. This 

information is used to support the 

APAS managed by the United States 

Department of Agriculture, Farm 

Service Agency (FSA). The APAS 

program supports not only national 

defense needs (such as food for combat 

rations), but also emergency 

preparedness initiatives by addressing 

essential civilian needs (food and food 

resources) through the placing of 

priorities on contracts for items and 

services or allocating resources, as 

necessary. Priorities contracts are 

required to be given preference over 

other respective contracts to ensure 

timely delivery of an item that has been 

deemed necessary only in times of 

emergency or to promote the U.S. 

national defense. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Information collected on the form AD– 

2102, Request for Special Priorities 

Assistance for Emergency Preparedness 

form is used to grant a priority rating 

request on contract(s) between the 

government and private parties or 

between private parties for the 

production or delivery of food, food 

resources (including livestock, feed, and 

agriculture seed), fertilizer, and farm 

equipment. The information collected 

on the Request for Special Priorities 

Assistance is limited to: (1) Name, 

address, and contact information of the 

person making the request for priority 

rating of a contract, (2) Name, address, 

and contact information of the vendor 

supplying the item, (3) Items the person 

is requesting for a priority rating on a 

contract, including ‘required by 

shipping dates’ and (4) Explanatory 

section for the person to include 

circumstances requiring this request. 

Failure to collect and maintain the 

data collected on the form will limit or 

eliminate USDA’s ability to prepare for, 

respond to, and conduct emergency 

recovery actions because of an actual or 

impending hazard. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 50. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 25. 

Dated: April 11, 2022. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08017 Filed 4–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2022–0005] 

Concurrence With World Organization 

for Animal Health’s Risk Designation 

for Bovine Spongiform 

Encephalopathy for Ireland 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public of 

our preliminary concurrence with the 

World Organization for Animal Health’s 

(OIE) bovine spongiform 

encephalopathy (BSE) risk designation 

for Ireland. The OIE recognizes Ireland 

as being of negligible risk for BSE. We 

are taking this action based on our 

review of information supporting the 

OIE’s risk designation for Ireland. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before June 13, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2022–0005 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. 

APHIS–2022–0005, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

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 


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