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Vol. 86, No. 104 

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Notice of an Extension or Revision of 

a Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the intention of the 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Civil Rights (OASCR) to request a 

renewal of a currently approved 

information collection. OASCR will use 

the information collected to collect the 

race, ethnicity, and gender (REG) of all 

program applicants and participants by 

county and State. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by August 2, 2021 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights/Office of 

Compliance, Policy, and Training 

invites interested persons to submit 

comments on this notice. Comments 

may be submitted by one of the 

following methods: 

b Federal eRulemaking Portal: This 

website provides the ability to type 

short comments directly into the 

comment field on this web page or 

attach a file for lengthier comments. Go 

to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the on-line instructions at that site for 

submitting comments. 

b Mail, including CD–ROMs, etc.: 

Send to Docket Clerk, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–3700, Mailstop 9401. 

b Hand- or courier-delivered 

submittals: Deliver to 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–3700, Mailstop 9401. 

Instructions: All items submitted by 

mail or electronic mail must include the 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Civil Rights/Office of Compliance, 

Policy, and Training, Docket No. 0503– 

0022, Comments received in response to 

this docket will be made available for 

public inspection and posted without 

change, including any personal 

information, to http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to background 

documents or comments received, go to 

the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 

Civil Rights, Center for Civil Rights 

Operations, Docket Room at 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250–3700, Mailstop 9401, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Denise A. Banks, Executive 

Director, Center for Civil Rights 

Operations, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250, (202) 401–7654 or 

Denise.Banks@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: 7 CFR part 15 Subpart D—Data 

Collection Requirement. 

OMB Number: 0503–0022. 

Expiration Date of Approval: July 31, 

2021. 

Type of Request: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Currently, Section 14006 of 

the 2008 Farm Bill requires the 

Secretary of Agriculture to annually 

compile for each county and State in the 

United States program application and 

participation rate data regarding socially 

disadvantaged farmers or ranchers for 

each program of USDA that serves 

agricultural producers or landowners. 

This requirement only applies to FSA, 

NRCS, RD, and RMA. These four 

agencies use the voluntary data 

collection form approved by OMB that 

is attached as a cover page to the 

application forms for programs that 

provide services to agriculture 

producers, farmers and ranchers. In 

addition, all remaining USDA agencies 

with conducted programs (Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service, and 

Foreign Agricultural Service) were 

required to develop a strategy for 

collecting voluntary REG data from 

individuals for their respective federally 

conducted programs by utilizing the 

same OMB approved form. Applicants 

and program participants of these 

programs and activities provide this 

data on a voluntary basis. These 

strategies will be reviewed and 

approved by OASCR, who will also 

provide oversight and monitoring of the 

collection of this data through its 

compliance activities. 

If the REG data is not collected on 

applicants and participants in USDA 

federally conducted programs, USDA 

will not be able to collect and report 

demographic data on its applicants and 

program participants. In addition, 

USDA would not be able to determine 

if programs and services are reaching 

and meeting the needs of the public, 

beneficiaries, partners, and other 

stakeholders based on demographic 

data. 

Failure to collect this information will 

also have a negative impact on USDA’s 

outreach and compliance activities. This 

could result in an inability to equitably 

deliver programs and services to 

applicants and producers, and 

ultimately an inability to hold the 

agencies accountable. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average two minutes per 

response. 

Respondents: Producers, applicants, 

and USDA customers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,200. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 40 hours. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed 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 the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

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 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments may be sent to Denise A. 

Banks, Executive Director, Center for 

Civil Rights Operations, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. All 

comments received will be available for 


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public inspection during regular 

business hours at the same address. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. 

Winona Lake Scott, 

Associate Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil 

Rights. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2021–0026] 

Notice of Request for Revision to and 

Extension of Approval of an 

Information Collection; Movement of 

Plants and Plant Products From Hawaii 

and the Territories 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service’s intention to 

request a revision to and extension of 

approval of an information collection 

associated with the regulations for the 

interstate movement of fruits and 

vegetables from Hawaii and the 

Territories. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before August 2, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Enter APHIS– 

2021–0026 in the Search field. Select 

the Documents tab, then select the 

Comment button in the list of 

documents. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Send your comment to Docket No. 

APHIS–2021–0026, Regulatory Analysis 

and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 

3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, 

Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. 

Supporting documents and any 

comments we receive on this docket 

may be viewed at regulations.gov or in 

our reading room, which is located in 

room 1620 of the USDA South Building, 

14th Street and Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading 

room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 799–7039 

before coming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the movement of plants 

and plant products from Hawaii and the 

Territories, contact Mr. Marc Phillips, 

Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist, 

PPQ, APHIS, USDA, 4700 River Road 

Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 

851–2114. For information on the 

information collection, contact Mr. 

Joseph Moxey, APHIS’ Paperwork 

Reduction Act Coordinator, at (301) 

851–2483. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Movement of Plants and Plant 

Products From Hawaii and the 

Territories. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–0346. 

Type of Request: Revision to and 

extension of approval of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Plant Protection Act 

(PPA, 7 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) authorizes 

the Secretary of Agriculture to restrict 

the importation, entry, or interstate 

movement of plants, plant products, and 

other articles to prevent the 

introduction of plant pests into the 

United States or their dissemination 

within the United States. This authority 

has been delegated to the Animal and 

Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS), which administers regulations 

to implement the PPA. 

In 7 CFR part 318, under the 

regulations in ‘‘Subpart A—Regulated 

Articles from Hawaii and the 

Territories’’ (§§ 318.13–1 through 

318.13–17), APHIS prohibits or restricts 

the interstate movement of fruits and 

vegetables into the continental United 

States from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the 

U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands to prevent plant pests and 

noxious weeds from being introduced 

into and spread within the continental 

United States. 

The regulations contain requirements 

for a performance-based process for 

approving the interstate movement of 

commodities that, based on the findings 

of a pest risk analysis, can be safely 

imported subject to one or more 

designated phytosanitary measures and 

for acknowledging pest-free areas. These 

requirements involve information 

collection activities, including limited 

permits, inspections to issue limited 

permits, inspections of production 

areas, transit permits, compliance 

agreements, inspection and certification, 

labeling for fruits and vegetables 

produced in pest free areas, written 

requests for facility approvals, trapping 

and surveillance, and recordkeeping. In 

addition, the activities of packaging, 

marking, identification, and certification 

of sweet potatoes from Hawaii are also 

included. 

We are asking the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve our use of these information 

collection activities, as described, for an 

additional 3 years. 

The purpose of this notice is to solicit 

comments from the public (as well as 

affected agencies) concerning our 

information collection. These comments 

will help us: 

(1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, through use, as 

appropriate, of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, and other collection 

technologies; e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Estimate of burden: The public 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 0.21 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Wholesalers and 

producers of fruits and vegetables; 

growers, shippers, and exporters in 

Hawaii, U.S. Territories, and State plant 

regulatory officials; and irradiation 

facility personnel. 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 283. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses per respondent: 55. 

Estimated annual number of 

responses: 15,673. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 3,286 hours. (Due to 

averaging, the total annual burden hours 

may not equal the product of the annual 

number of responses multiplied by the 

reporting burden per response.) 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

May 2021. 

Mark Davidson, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

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