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system as a management and technical 

process that addresses user 

authentication and authorization 

prerequisites for providing services 

electronically. The eAuthentication 

Service provides an electronic 

alternative to traditional ink signatures. 

The process requires a voluntary onetime electronic self-registration to obtain 

an eAuthentication account for each 

USDA Agency customer desiring access 

to USDA online services and 

applications protected by 

eAuthentication. The information 

collected through the electronic selfregistration process is necessary to 

enable the electronic authentication of 

users and grant them access to only 

those resources for which they are 

authorized. 

Need And Use of the Information: The 

voluntary self-registration process 

applies to USDA customers and 

employees who request access to online 

USDA services and applications that are 

protected by eAuthentication. Users can 

register directly from the 

eAuthentication Web site located at 

www.eauth.egov.usda.gov. The 

information collected through the 

online self-registration process will be 

used to provide an eAuthentication 

account that will enable the electronic 

authentication of users. The user will 

then have access to authorized resources 

without needing to reauthenticate 

within the context of a single Internet 

session. 

Description of Respondents: Farms; 

individuals or households; business or 

other for-profit; not-for-profit 

institutions; federal government; State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 38,604. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 25,453. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–21935 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–KR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. TM–06–01] 

Notice of Meeting of the National 

Organic Standards Board 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, the Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is announcing a 

forthcoming meeting of the National 

Organic Standards Board (NOSB). 

DATES: The meeting dates are 

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 9 a.m. 

to 4:45 p.m.; and Thursday, November 

17, 2005, 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Requests 

from individuals and organizations 

wishing to make an oral presentation at 

the meeting are due by the close of 

business on November 11, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the Channel Inn Hotel, The Captain’s 

Room, 650 Water Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20024. Requests for 

copies of the NOSB meeting agenda, 

requests to make an oral presentation at 

the meeting, or written comments may 

be sent to Ms. Katherine Benham at 

USDA–AMS–TMD–NOP, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., Room 

4008–So., Ag Stop 0268, Washington, 

DC 20250–0200. Requests to make an 

oral presentation at the meeting may 

also be sent via facsimile to Ms. 

Katherine Benham at (202) 205–7808 or 

electronically to Ms. Katherine Benham 

at Katherine.benham@usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine E. Benham, Advisory Board 

Specialist, National Organic Program, 

(202) 205–7806. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

2119 (7 U.S.C. 6518) of the Organic 

Foods Production Act of 1990 (OFPA), 

as amended (7 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) 

requires the establishment of the NOSB. 

The purpose of the NOSB is to make 

recommendations about whether a 

substance should be allowed or 

prohibited in organic production or 

handling, to assist in the development 

of standards for substances to be used in 

organic production, and to advise the 

Secretary on other aspects of the 

implementation of the OFPA. The 

NOSB met for the first time in 

Washington, DC, in March 1992, and 

currently has six committees working 

on various aspects of the organic 

program. The committees are: 

Compliance, Accreditation, and 

Certification; Crops; Livestock; 

Materials; Handling; and Policy 

Development. 

In August of 1994, the NOSB 

provided its initial recommendations for 

the National Organic Program (NOP) to 

the Secretary of Agriculture. Since that 

time, the NOSB has submitted 77 

addenda to its recommendations and 

reviewed more than 269 substances for 

inclusion on the National List of 

Allowed and Prohibited Substances. 

The last meeting of the NOSB was held 

on August 15–17, 2005, in Washington, 

DC. 

The Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) published its final National 

Organic Program regulation in the 

Federal Register on December 21, 2000 

(65 FR 80548). The rule became 

effective April 21, 2001. 

The principal purposes of the meeting 

are to provide an opportunity for the 

NOSB to receive an update from the 

USDA/NOP and hear progress reports 

from NOSB committees regarding work 

plan items and proposed action items. 

The NOSB subcommittees (Crops, 

Livestock, and Handling Committees) 

will also present and propose, to the full 

NOSB, recommendations concerning 

the continued use or prohibition of 

substances being reviewed under the 

OFPA’s sunset provisions for the 

National List. The NOSB will vote on 

these recommendations. 

The OFPA authorized a National List 

of Allowed and Prohibited Substances. 

The Act also provides that no allowed 

or prohibited substance would remain 

on the National List for a period 

exceeding 5 years unless the exemption 

or prohibition is reviewed and 

recommended for renewal by the NOSB 

and adopted by the Secretary of 

Agriculture. This expiration is 

commonly referred to as sunset of the 

National List. The National List was 

implemented on October 21, 2002 

contained over 170 substances. This 

first sunset of the National List triggers 

a review process that must be concluded 

no later than October 21, 2007. If 

renewal is not concluded by that date, 

the use or prohibition of hundreds of 

materials will no longer be valid for the 

organic industry, causing most if not all 

of the organic industry to be in 

noncompliance with the National 

Organic Standards. Because this first 

sunset process involves Federal 

rulemaking, the NOSB and the NOP has 

issued guidance and begun work on the 

National List Sunset process in order to 

avoid expiration of the National List on 

October 21, 2007. 

For further information, see http:// 

www.ams.usda.gov/nop. Copies of the 

NOSB meeting agenda can be requested 

from Ms. Katherine Benham by 

telephone at (202) 205–7806; or by 

accessing the NOP Web site at http:// 

www.ams.usda.gov/nop. 

The meeting is open to the public. The 

NOSB has scheduled time for public 

input for Sunset Review on Wednesday, 

November 16, 2005, from 9:40 a.m. to 

11:45 a.m., and time for public input on 

Pasture for Organic Livestock on 

Thursday, November 17, 2005, from 3 

p.m. to 5 p.m. Individuals and 

organizations wishing to make an oral 

presentation at the meeting may forward 

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mail to Katherine Benham at addresses 

listed in ADDRESSES above. While 

persons wishing to make a presentation 

for Sunset Review and/or Pasture for 

Organic Livestock may sign up at the 

door, advance registration will ensure 

that a person has the opportunity to 

speak during the allotted time and will 

help the NOSB to better manage the 

meeting and to accomplish its agenda. 

Individuals or organizations will be 

given approximately 5 minutes to 

present their views. All persons making 

an oral presentation are requested to 

provide their comments in writing. 

Written submissions may contain 

information other than that presented at 

the oral presentation. 

Written comments may also be 

submitted at the meeting. Persons 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting are asked to provide 30 copies. 

Interested persons may visit the 

NOSB portion of the NOP Web site 

http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop to view 

available documents prior to the 

meeting. Approximately 6 weeks 

following the meeting interested 

persons will be able to visit the NOSB 

portion of the NOP Web site to view 

documents from the meeting. 

Dated: October 31, 2005. 

Lloyd C. Day, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 05–22045 Filed 11–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. 05–026N] 

Nominations for the Howard E. 

Bauman Award 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service (FSIS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS), a public 

health regulatory agency committed to 

ensuring that the nation’s commercial 

supply of meat, poultry, and egg 

products is safe, wholesome, and 

correctly labeled and packaged, is 

soliciting nominations for the Howard 

E. Bauman Award. The award was 

created to recognize one or more 

persons who have shown longstanding 

commitment, leadership, and service to 

improving food safety. The Agency is 

interested in receiving nominations of 

persons who have positively affected 

food safety and public health. 

DATES: Submit nominations by 

December 5, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: The nomination form is 

available at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

FSISForms/4450–1.pdf. Send 

nominations to Ms. Faye Smith, Special 

Assistant to the Deputy Administrator, 

FSIS, Room 331–E, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250–

3700. Mailed nominations must be 

postmarked no later than December 5, 

2005. You may also fax nominations to 

Ms. Smith at (202) 690–0550. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Smith at the address above or by 

telephone at (202) 720–7025. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Howard E. Bauman Award is 

named to honor Dr. Howard E. Bauman, 

who was widely recognized for his 

pioneering efforts to develop the Hazard 

Analysis and Critical Control Point 

(HACCP) food safety system. HACCP is 

a preventative system that is designed to 

reduce the occurrence and numbers of 

pathogenic microorganisms on foods, 

particularly meat and poultry products, 

reduce the incidence of foodborne 

illness associated with consumption of 

those products, and provide a 

framework for modernization of the 

meat and poultry inspection system. 

Since its full implementation in 2000, 

HACCP has been the foundation of the 

inspections that are performed daily by 

FSIS inspection program personnel at 

approximately 6,300 Federal meat and 

poultry establishments in the United 

States. The Howard E. Bauman Award 

is the highest food safety honor 

presented by FSIS. The non-monetary 

award was first presented posthumously 

in 2002 to Dr. Bauman. His daughter 

accepted the award on his behalf. In 

2004, the award was presented to Dr. 

Dell Allen of Cargill, Incorporated, for 

his innovations and contributions to the 

meat and poultry industry in the area of 

food safety. 

Eligibility Criteria 

To be eligible for nomination, the 

candidate must meet the following 

criteria: 

• Citizenship. Any U.S. citizen or 

citizens may be nominated. 

• Improving Food Safety. The 

nominee’s contribution must have 

significantly improved food safety and 

public health or have advanced the state 

of science toward that goal. The 

improvement need not be limited to the 

arena of meat, poultry, and egg 

products. The achievement may be of 

service to all citizens and should be 

described in terms meaningful to the lay 

person. 

• Longstanding Commitment, 

Leadership, and Service. The nominee 

overcame challenges or collaborated 

with others to achieve the food safety 

improvement described above. 

• Length. The narrative portion of the 

submitted nomination should not 

exceed two typed, single-spaced pages 

on standard 8.5x11 size paper using a 

font size of at least 12, in a style similar 

to Times New Roman style, and a oneinch margin. No bibliographies, news 

releases, or other documentation should 

be submitted with the completed form. 

• Nominator. Any person or 

organization may nominate a person or 

persons for the award. Nominations 

submitted anonymously will not be 

considered. Nominations for the award 

will be reviewed by the Nomination 

Review Committee appointed by the 

Under Secretary for Food Safety and the 

Administrator of FSIS. The committee 

will rank all nominations that meet the 

basic criteria and forward its 

recommendations to the Under 

Secretary and Administrator. They will 

make the final determination of the 

recipient of the 2005 Howard E. Bauman 

Award, who will then be notified in 

writing. A ceremony will be held to 

present the 2005 award. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that the public, and in particular 

minorities, women, and persons with 

disabilities are aware of this notice, 

FSIS will announce it on-line through 

the FSIS Web page located at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 

2005 Notices_Index/. 

FSIS also will make copies of this 

Federal Register publication available 

through the FSIS Constituent Update, 

which is used to provide information 

regarding FSIS policies, procedures, 

regulations, Federal Register notices, 

FSIS public meetings, recalls, and other 

types of information that could affect or 

would be of interest to constituents and 

stakeholders. The update is 

communicated via Listserv, a free e-mail 

subscription service consisting of 

industry, trade, and farm groups, 

consumer interest groups, allied health 

professionals, scientific professionals, 

and other individuals who have 

requested to be included. The update 

also is available on the FSIS web page. 

Through Listserv and the web page, 

FSIS is able to provide information to a 

much broader, more diverse audience. 

In addition, FSIS offers an electronic 

mail subscription service that provides 

an automatic and customized 

notification when popular pages are 

updated, including Federal Register 

publications and related documents.