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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 70, No. 209 

Monday, October 31, 2005 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Request for Extension and Revision of 

a Currently Approved Information 

Collection; Payment Eligibility and 

Payment Limitation Determinations 

Under the Noninsured Crop Disaster 

Assistance Program 

AGENCIES: Farm Service Agency and the 

Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the intention of the 

Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to 

request an extension and revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. This information collection 

is used to support payment eligibility 

and payment limitation determinations 

for multiple programs including the 

Conservation Reserve Program, Price 

Support Programs, the Direct and 

Counter-Cyclical Program authorized by 

the Farm Security and Rural Investment 

Act of 2002, and the Noninsured Crop 

Disaster Assistance Program. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before December 30, 2005 

to be assured consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to Farm 

Service Agency, Attn: James Baxa, 

Program Manager, Production, 

Emergencies, and Compliance Division, 

Farms Service Agency, United States 

Department of Agriculture, STOP 0517, 

Room 4752, South Building, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0517. 

Comments also may be submitted via 

facsimile to (202) 720–4941 or by e-mail 

to james.baxa@wdc.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Baxa, Program Manager at (202) 

720–9882, or Diane Sharp, Director of 

Production, Emergencies, and 

Compliance Division at (202) 720–7641. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Payment Eligibility and 

Payment Limitation Determinations 

under the Noninsured Crop Disaster 

Assistance Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0096. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

November 30, 2006. 

Type of Request: Extension and 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection. 

Abstract: The collection of 

information is necessary to determine 

the eligibility of individuals and entities 

as defined at 7 CFR part 1400 for 

payment eligibility and payment 

limitation in multiple programs 

including the Conservation Reserve 

Program, the Price Support Programs, 

the Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program 

and the Noninsured Corp Disaster 

Assistance Program. The regulations at 

7 CFR part 1400 provide for ‘‘actively 

engaged in farming’’ and ‘‘person’’ 

determinations to be made for 

individuals or entities, with respect to a 

particular farming operation, in order to 

determine their payment eligibility and 

payment limitations under the multiple 

programs. Forms CCC–502A, CCC– 

502B, CCC–502C, CCC–502D, CCC– 

502EZ, CCC–501A and CCC–501B are 

used by the respondents. The proposed 

revision is the consolidation of these 

mentioned forms into a single form to be 

used by all respondents. The common 

elements to collect from individuals or 

entities are names, farming interest, 

members, addresses, tax identification 

numbers, location of the lands, 

percentage of leased or owned 

equipments, citizenship types, 

estimated farming labor hours, 

estimated percentage of farming 

management, and designated names in 

receiving payments. The respondents 

are allowed to submit this information 

either through the physical use of the 

form or electronically to the appropriate 

FSA County office-based personnel who 

receive and make the payment 

eligibility determinations. 

Information collection under Titles I 

and II of the Farm Security and Rural 

Investment Act of 2002 are exempted 

from Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

including the Conservation Reserve 

Program, the Price Support Programs, 

the Direct and Counter-Cyclical 

Program. Only the Noninsured Crop 

Disaster Assistance Program is not 

exempt from the requirement of 

Paperwork Reduction Act, so it is 

necessary to describe the information 

collection in this Notice. If the 

information is not collected from the 

respondents, the FSA would not able to 

administer the payment programs 

properly to comply with the regulations. 

Estimate of Burden: Average 56 

minutes per response. 

Type of Respondents: Producers who, 

as owner, landlord, tenant, or 

sharecropper, are involved in the 

farming operations and who would seek 

benefits under the Noninsured Corp 

Disaster Assistance Program. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 125,000. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: One per respondent. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

116,667. 

Comment is invited on: (a) Whether 

this 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 collection on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments should be sent to the Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC 20503 and to James 

Baxa, Program Manager, Production, 

Emergencies and Compliance Division, 

Farm Service Agency, United States 

Department of Agriculture, STOP 0517, 

Room 4752–S, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250. 

Copies of the information collection 

may be obtained from James Baxa the 

above address. 

All comments received in responses 

to this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

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matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission for Office of Management 

and Budget approval. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on October 24, 

2005. 

Michael W. Yost, 

Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency 

and Acting Executive Vice President, 

Commodity Credit Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 05–21593 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Tehama County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Tehama County Resource 

Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in 

Red Bluff, California. Agenda items to 

be covered include: (1) Introductions, 

(2) Approval of Minutes, (3) Public 

Comment, (4) Modoc County Speaker, 

and Tehama County Speaker, (5) SubCommittee Reports, (6) Chairman’s 

Perspective, (7) General Discussion, (8) 

County Update, (9) Next Agenda. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

November 10, 2005 from 9 a.m. and end 

at approximately 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Lincoln Street School, Conference 

Room A, 1135 Lincoln Street, Red Bluff, 

CA. Individuals wishing to speak or 

propose agenda items must send their 

names and proposals to Jim Giachino, 

DFO, 825 N. Humboldt Ave., Willows, 

CA 95988. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bobbin Gaddini, Committee 

Coordinator, USDA, Mendocino 

National Forest, Grindstone Ranger 

District, PO Box 164, Elk Creek, CA 

95939. (530) 968–5329; E-Mail 

ggaddini@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. 

Committee discussion is limited to 

Forest Service staff and Committee 

members. However, persons who wish 

to bring matters to the attention of the 

Committee may file written statements 

with the Committee staff before or after 

the meeting. Public input sessions will 

be provided and individuals who made 

written requests by November 7, 2005 

will have the opportunity to address the 

committee at those sessions. 

Dated: October 25, 2005. 

James F. Giachino, 

Designated Federal Official. 

[FR Doc. 05–21610 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Business-Cooperative Service 

Guarantee Fee Rates for Guaranteed 

Loans for Fiscal Year 2006; Maximum 

Portion of Guarantee Authority 

Available for Fiscal Year 2006 

AGENCY: Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As set forth in 7 CFR 

4279.107(b) and 4280.126(c), Rural 

Development (the Agency) has the 

authority to charge an annual renewal 

fee for loans made under the Business 

and Industry (B&I) Guaranteed Loan 

Program and the Renewable Energy and 

Energy Efficiency Improvements 

(REEEI) Guaranteed Loan Program. 

Pursuant to that authority, the Agency is 

establishing the renewal fee rate at onefourth of 1 percent for the B&I 

Guaranteed Loan Program and oneeighth of 1 percent for the REEEI 

Guaranteed Loan Program. These rates 

will apply to all loans obligated in fiscal 

year (FY) 2006 that are made under the 

cited programs. As established in 7 CFR 

4279.107 and 4280.126, the amount of 

the fee on each guaranteed loan will be 

determined by multiplying the fee rate 

by the outstanding principal loan 

balance as of December 31, multiplied 

by the percent of guarantee. 

As set forth in 7 CFR 4280.126(a), 

each fiscal year the Agency shall 

establish the initial guarantee fee rate 

for loans made under the REEEI 

Guaranteed Loan Program. Pursuant to 

that authority, the Agency is 

establishing the initial guarantee fee rate 

at 1 percent for loans made in FY 2006. 

As set forth in 7 CFR 4279.107(a) and 

4279.119(b)(4), each fiscal year the 

Agency shall establish a limit on the 

maximum portion of B&I guarantee 

authority available for that fiscal year 

that may be used to guarantee loans 

with a B&I guarantee fee of 1 percent or 

guaranteed loans with a guarantee 

percentage exceeding 80 percent. 

Allowing the guarantee fee to be 

reduced to 1 percent or exceeding the 80 

percent guarantee on certain B&I 

guaranteed loans that meet the 

conditions set forth in 7 CFR 4279.107 

and 4279.119 will increase the Agency’s 

ability to focus guarantee assistance on 

projects which the Agency has found 

particularly meritorious, such as 

projects in rural communities that 

remain persistently poor, which 

experience long-term population 

decline and job deterioration, are 

experiencing trauma as a result of 

natural disaster, or are high impact as 

defined in 7 CFR 4279.155(b)(5). 

Not more than 12 percent of the 

Agency’s quarterly apportioned B&I 

guarantee authority will be reserved for 

loan requests with a guarantee fee of 1 

percent, and not more than 15 percent 

of the Agency’s quarterly apportioned 

guarantee authority will be reserved for 

guaranteed loan requests with a 

guaranteed percentage exceeding 80 

percent. Once the above quarterly limits 

have been reached, all additional loans 

guaranteed during the remainder of that 

quarter will require a 2 percent 

guarantee fee and not exceed an 80 

percent guarantee limit. 

Written requests by the Rural 

Development State Office for approval 

of a guaranteed loan with a 1 percent 

guarantee fee or a guaranteed loan 

exceeding 80 percent must be forwarded 

to the National Office, Attn: Director, 

Business and Industry Division, for 

review and consideration prior to 

obligation of the guaranteed loan. The 

Administrator will provide a written 

response to the State Office confirming 

approval or disapproval of the request. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 31, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick 

Bonnet, Special Projects/Programs 

Oversight Division, Rural BusinessCooperative Service, USDA, STOP 3221, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–3221, telephone 

(202) 720–1804. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

action has been reviewed and 

determined not to be a rule or regulation 

as defined in Executive Order 12866 as 

amended by Executive Order 13258. 

Dated: October 21, 2005. 

Peter J. Thomas, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 05–21588 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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