Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 24 / Friday, February 5, 2016 / Notices 6229 

Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

February 2016. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02247 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

February 1, 2016. 

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 

requested regarding (1) 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; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

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 March 7, 2016 

will be considered. Written comments 

should be addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), New 

Executive Office Building, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20502. 

Commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via email to: 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. 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. 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Title: Foreign Market Development 

Cooperator Program (FMD) and Market 

Access Program (MAP). 

OMB Control Number: 0551–0026. 

Summary of Collection: The basic 

authority for the Foreign Market 

Development Cooperator Program 

(FMD) is contained in Title VII of the 

Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, 7 U.S.C. 

5721, et seq. Program regulations appear 

at 7 CFR part 1484. Title VII directs the 

Secretary of Agriculture to ‘‘establish 

and, in cooperation with eligible trade 

organization, carry out a foreign market 

development cooperator program to 

maintain and develop foreign markets 

for United States agricultural 

commodities and products.’’ The Market 

Access Program (MAP) is authorized by 

section 203 of the Agricultural Trade 

Act of 1978, as amended. Program 

regulations appear at 7 CFR part 1485. 

The primary objective of the Market 

Access Program (MAP) is to encourage 

the development, maintenance, and 

expansion of commercial export markets 

for U.S. agricultural products through 

cost-share assistance to eligible trade 

organizations that implement a foreign 

market development program. The 

programs are administered by personnel 

of the Foreign Agricultural Service 

(FAS). 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

collected information will be used by 

FAS to manage, plan, evaluate, and 

account for government resources. 

Specifically, data is used to assess the 

extent to which: Applicant 

organizations represent U.S. commodity 

interests; benefits derived from market 

development effort will translate back to 

the broadest possible range of 

beneficiaries; the market development 

efforts will lead to increases in 

consumption and imports of U.S. 

agricultural commodities; the applicant 

is able and willing to commit personnel 

and financial resources to assure 

adequate development, supervision and 

execution of project activities; and 

private organizations are able and 

willing to support the promotional 

program with aggressive marketing of 

the commodity in question. Without the 

collected information the program could 

not be implemented. 

Description of Respondents: Not-forprofit institutions; State, Local, or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 64. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 85,304. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02208 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Ochoco, Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman 

National Forests; Oregon and 

Washington; Blue Mountains Forest 

Resiliency Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Ochoco, Umatilla, and 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forests, are 

proposing forest restoration and fuels 

reduction on portions of approximately 

1,270,000 acres of National Forest 

System lands. The project area consists 

of selected watersheds amounting to 

200,000 acres on the Ochoco, 520,000 

acres on the Umatilla, and 550,000 acres 

on the Wallowa-Whitman National 

Forests. Proposed thinning and 

prescribed fire treatments encompass 

approximately 580,000 acres across the 

three National Forests. The project area 

lies within the Blue Mountain ecoregion 

in northeast Oregon and southeast 

Washington, encompasses portions of 

thirteen counties, and includes shared 

boundaries with private, tribal, state and 

other federal lands. 

Studies of historical forest conditions 

can be used to help inform natural 

ranges of variation in forest structure, 

composition and density, which are 

assumed to be resilient to disturbance 

and change. Fire suppression and past 

timber management practices in dry 

forests have increased the abundance of 

closed-canopied forest stands 

dominated by smaller diameter, young 

trees than were present historically. 

Increased canopy closure has also 

reduced the amount of forest openings 

and early seral habitat. Fire suppression 

has also caused expansion of conifers 

into aspen stands and historically nonforested areas. Denser forests combined 

with drought conditions in recent years 

have contributed to a record number of 

wildfires, and less resilient forest 

conditions. There is a need to reduce 

fuels and move forests to a more 

resilient structure, composition, density, 

and pattern. 

The purpose of the project is to 

enhance landscape and species 

resilience to future wildfire by restoring 

forests to their natural (historical) range 

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