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Vol. 70, No. 188 

Thursday, September 29, 2005 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

September 23, 2005. 

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: National Animal Identification 

System. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0259. 

Summary of Collection: The Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS) regulates the importation and 

interstate movement of animals and 

animal products and conducts various 

other activities to protect the health of 

our Nation’s livestock and poultry. The 

advent of increased animal disease 

outbreaks around the globe over the past 

decade, especially the recent BSEpositive cow found in Washington State, 

has intensified the public interest in 

developing a national animal 

identification program for the purpose 

of protecting animal health. 

Fundamental to controlling any disease 

threat, foreign or domestic, to the 

Nation’s animal resources is to have a 

system that can identify individual 

animals or groups, the premises where 

they are located, and the date of entry 

to each premises. A national animal 

identification system is being 

implemented by APHIS at present on a 

voluntary basis. It is intended to 

identify all livestock, as well as record 

their movements over the course of their 

lifespan. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

APHIS goal is to create an effective, 

uniform, consistent, and efficient 

system that when fully implemented, 

will allow traces to be completed within 

48 hours of detection of a disease, 

ensuring rapid containment of the 

disease. Successful implementation of 

the animal identification and tracking 

systems will depend on the effective use 

of three primary information collection 

activities: premises and nonproducer 

participants identification records, 

individual animal identification 

transaction records, and group/lot 

transaction records that will be created 

and maintained through various 

industry and Government collaborative 

efforts. 

Failing to collect the needed 

information would make it impossible 

to conduct a timely traceback of animals 

potentially exposed to a disease of 

concern. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

local or tribal government; Farms; 

Business or other for-profit 

Number of Respondents: 250,000. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 255,000. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–19428 Filed 9–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. 05–022–1] 

Notice of Request for Approval of an 

Information Collection; Voluntary ‘‘Do 

Not Sell’’ List of Invasive Plant Species 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: New information collection; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request approval of a new information 

collection activity associated with a 

voluntary ‘‘do not sell’’ list of invasive 

plant species for Florida nurseries. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before November 

28, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• EDOCKET: Go to http:// 

www.epa.gov/feddocket to submit or 

view public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the official 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once you have 

entered EDOCKET, click on the ‘‘View 

Open APHIS Dockets’’ link to locate this 

document. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Please send four copies of your 

comment (an original and three copies) 

to Docket No. 05–022–1, Regulatory 

Analysis and Development, PPD, 

APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700 River Road 

Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Please state that your comment refers to 

Docket No. 05–022–1.