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Division, AMS, USDA, Room 2535–S,

P.O. Box 96456, Washington, DC 20090–

6456, (202) 720–9915; for marketing

orders—Barbara Schulke, Marketing

Order Administration Branch, Fruit and

Vegetable Division, AMS, USDA, Room

2523–S, P.O. Box 96456, Washington,

DC 20090–6456, (202) 720–4607.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AMS

administers certain marketing programs

that require industry members, such as

producers, handlers, and importers, to

pay assessments to fund the programs.

Persons or commercial entities under

these programs are required by law to

report their production, handling, or

importing of the regulated commodity

and to remit the applicable assessment

to an industry board or committee under

AMS supervision.

Whenever and wherever feasible, all

agencies of the U.S. Department of

Agriculture (USDA) must use, or request

another Federal agency to use,

administrative offset in accordance with

31 U.S.C. 37616 and 4 CFR 102.3 to

collect debts due to the United States

through the USDA or its

instrumentalities. The debt need not be

reduced to a judgment or be undisputed.

The offset will be effective 31 days after

the debtor receives a Notice of Intent to

Collect by Administrative Offsets, or

when a stay of offset expires, unless

AMS determines that immediate action

is necessary under 7 CFR 3.26.

Furthermore, consistent with the

requirements of 31 U.S.C. 3711(f), 4 CFR

102.3(c), and 5 U.S.C. 522a, AMS may

report to credit reporting agencies all

commercial debts and all delinquent

consumer debts owed to the USDA or its

instrumentalities.

This debt collection procedure affects

marketing agreements and orders

covering fruits, vegetables, and specialty

crops under the Agricultural Marketing

Agreement Act of 1937, as amended;

and under research and promotion

programs authorized under a variety of

statutes, as amended. These statutes are

the Beef Promotion and Research Act of

1985; the Cotton Research and

Promotion Act; the Dairy Production

Stabilization Act of 1983; the Egg

Research and Consumer Information

Act; the Fluid Milk Promotion Act of

1990; the Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh

Cut Greens Promotion and Consumer

Information Act of 1993; the Honey

Research, Promotion, and Consumer

Information Act; the Lime Research,

Promotion, and Consumer Information

Act of 1990; the Mushroom Promotion,

Research, and Consumer Information

Act of 1990; the Pork Promotion,

Research, and Consumer Information

Act of 1985; the Potato Research and

Promotion Act; the Soybean Promotion,

Research, and Consumer Information

Act; and the Watermelon Research and

Promotion Act.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5514; 7 U.S.C. 601–

674, 2101–2118, 2611–2627, 2701–2718,

2901–2911, 4501–4513, 4601–4612, 4801–

4819, 4901–4916, 6101–6112, 6201–6212,

6301–6311, 6401–6417, 6801–6814; 12 U.S.C.

1150; 31 U.S.C. 3701, 3711, 3716–3719,

3720A, 3728; 26 U.S.C. 61; 4 CFR 102, 105.2,

105.4; and 5 CFR 550, subpart K.

Dated: March 1, 1995.

Lon Hatamiya,

Administrator.

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Forest Service

Ecosystem Management Workshop

Planning Group

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

SUMMARY: The Ecosystem Management

Workshop Planning Group, composed of

only federal members, will have its first

meeting in Washington, DC, on March

17, 1995, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The

Planning Group wishes to solicit public

input from interested individuals for the

planning and implementation of a

proposed ecosystem management

workshop. The workshop is being

designed to bring together technical,

social, economic, and policy experts to

develop the framework for the

sustainable use of natural resources. The

actual date of the workshop

‘‘Developing a National Framework for

Ecosystem Management’’ has yet to be

decided, but is proposed to be held

between October 1 and December 15,

1995. Participation in the workshop

planning process is open to the public.

Persons who wish to participate can do

so by attending a Planning Group

meeting or by filing written statements

with the Executive Secretary of the

Planning Group before or after each

Planning Group meeting.

DATES: The Ecosystem Management

Workshop Planning Group will meet

Friday, March 17, and Friday, March 24,

and every other Friday after March 24,

1995, until the workshop is held.

ADDRESSES: Each meeting will be held at

the office of the Forest Service’s

International Forestry Staff, Franklin

Court Building, Suite 5500–W, 1099

14th Street NW., Washington, DC.

Send written comments to Robert C.

Szaro, Executive Secretary, Ecosystem

Management Workshop Planning

Group, USDA Forest Service, Research

Staff, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC

20090–6090.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For information about this notice

contact Robert C. Szaro, telephone: (202)

205–1697.

Please call (202) 205–0884 prior to

each Planning Group meeting for

confirmation of meeting time and for

additional information about the

meetings.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest

Service is seeking public input in the

areas of: Scientific consensus regarding

the specific components of ecosystem

management; the relationship of

ecosystem management to sustaining

ecosystems and maintaining biological

diversity; the past, present, and future

relationships of people to ecosystems;

and issues related to implementing

ecosystem management.

Goals for the workshop include

establishing a scientific foundation for

ecosystem management and developing

definitive recommendations for its

implementation.

The second meeting of the Ecosystem

Management Workshop Planning Group

will be held on March 24, 1995.

Successive meetings will be held on

every other Friday thereafter until the

workshop is held.

Dated: March 1, 1995.

Jack Ward Thomas,

Chief.

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Agency Form Under Review by the

Office of Management and Budget

DOC has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance the following proposal for

collection of information under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).

Agency: Bureau of the Census.

Title: 1994 Survey of Women–Owned

Businesses.

Form Number(s): WB–1.

Agency Approval Number: 0607–

0765–EXPEDITED REVIEW.

Type of Request: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Burden: 65,000 hours.

Number of Respondents: 130,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The Bureau of the

Census will conduct the 1994 Survey of

Women–Owned Businesses (WOB) to

determine the size of the women–owned

subset of sole proprietorships,

corporations, and partnerships. The
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WOB is designed to collect data on the

ownership characteristics of a sample of

businesses to determine which are

owned by women. Additionally, the

survey will gather information on the

viability and growth of these businesses.

Federal, state, and local governments

use WOB statistics as a framework for

assessing and directing programs

designed to promote the activities of

women–owned businesses.

Affected Public: Business or other for–

profit organizations.

Frequency: One-time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez,

(202) 395–7313.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Gerald Tache ́, DOC

Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 482–

3271, Department of Commerce, room

5312, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent to

Maria Gonzalez, OMB Desk Officer,

room 10201, New Executive Office

Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: March 1, 1995.

Gerald Tache ́,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

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