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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 60, No. 240

Thursday, December 14, 1995

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Information Collection Submitted to

the Office of Management and Budget

for Review Under the Paperwork

Reduction Act

December 4, 1995.

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 these information collections

are best assured of having their full

effect if received within 30 days of this

notification. Comments should be

addressed to: Desk Officer for

Agriculture, Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Office of

Management and Budget (OMB),

Washington, D.C. 20503 and to

Department Clearance Officer, USDA,

OIRM, Ag Box 7630, Washington, D.C.

20250–7630. Copies of the

submission(s) may be obtained by

calling (202) 720–6204 or (202) 720–

6746.

Rural Utilities Service

• Title: Review Rating Summary.

Summary: RUS Form 300, Review

Rating Summary, provides ratings of

borrower facilities so that the Rural

Utilities Service (RUS) can monitor

system operations, maintenance, and

planning review.

Need and Use of the Information: A

periodic operations and maintenance

review, using the RUS Form 300 in

accordance with RUS Bulletin 161–5 is

an effective means for RUS to determine

whether the borrowers’ systems are

being properly operated and

maintained, thereby protecting the loans

collateral. The review is also used to

rate facilities and can be used for

appraisal of collateral.

Description of Respondents: Business

or other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 280.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting—

Once every 3 years.

Total Burden Hours: 1,120.

Federal Crop Insurance Corporation

• Title: 7 CFR Parts 402, 401, 443 and

457—Catastrophic Risk Protection Plan

and Related Requirements.

Summary: This submission revises

collections previously cleared to now

incorporate provision or policy changes

relative to proposed rules at 7 CFR Parts

401, 443, and 457 announcing

prevented planting coverage changes for

the 1996 crop year.

Need and Use of the Information: The

data is used to determine program

eligibility for crop coverage and

prevented planting coverage.

Description of Respondents: Farms.

Number of Respondents: 1,750,015.

Frequency of Responses: Reporting—

Annually.

Total Burden Hours: 2,668,750.

Emergency processing of this

submission has been requested by

December 15, 1996.

Larry Roberson,

Deputy Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–30427 Filed 12–13–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–01–M

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service

[Docket No. 95–062–1]

Availability of Environmental

Assessments and Findings of No

Significant Impact

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: We are advising the public

that 14 environmental assessments and

findings of no significant impact have

been prepared by the Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service relative to the

issuance of permits to allow the release

into the environment of nonindigenous

biological control agents. The

environmental assessments provide a

basis for our conclusion that the release

into the environment of the biological

control agents will not present a risk of

introducing plant pests into the United

States or disseminating plant pests

within the United States and will not

have a significant impact on the quality

of the human environment. Based on its

findings of no significant impact, the

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service has determined that

environmental impact statements need

not be prepared.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the environmental

assessments and findings of no

significant impact are available for

public inspection at USDA, room 1141,

South Building, 14th Street and

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,

except holidays. Persons wishing to

inspect those documents are requested

to call ahead on (202) 690–2817 to

facilitate entry into the reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Matthew H. Royer, Chief Operations

Officer, Biological Assessment and

Taxonomic Support, PPQ, APHIS, 4700

River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD

20737–1236, (301) 734–8896. For copies

of the environmental assessment and

finding of no significant impact, write to

Ms. Deborah Knott at the same address.

Please refer to the title of the

environmental assessment when

ordering copies.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

Federal Plant Pest Act as amended (7

U.SC. 150aa et seq.) and the Plant

Quarantine Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.

151 et seq.) (the Acts), the U.S.

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has

broad authority to regulate the

importation, interstate movement, and

release into the environment of

organisms in order to prevent the

dissemination of plant pests into the

United States or interstate. The Animal

and Plant Health Inspection Service

(APHIS) regulates plant pests under

regulations promulaged pursuant to the

Acts and contained in 7 CFR part 330

(referred to below as the regulations).

The regulations require, among other

things, that a permit be obtained for the

movement of a plant pest into or

through the United States or interstate.

The regulations and Acts also allow the

Department to include in the permit

conditions to prevent the dissemination

of plant pests.

Under the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C.

4321 et seq.), APHIS typically prepares

an environmental assessment before

issuing a permit for the release in the

United States of nonindigenous

organisms.