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Vol. 75, No. 200 

Monday, October 18, 2010 

ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF 

THE UNITED STATES 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Committee on Administration 

AGENCY: Administrative Conference of 

the United States. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Administrative Conference of the 

United States will host a public meeting 

of the Committee on Administration of 

the Assembly of the Conference on 

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 from 1 

p.m. to 4 p.m. to consider a report 

examining the application of ethics 

rules to employees of government 

contractors. To facilitate public 

participation, the Administrative 

Conference is inviting public comment 

on the report to be considered at the 

meeting, to be submitted in writing no 

later than October 29, 2010. 

DATES: Meeting to be held November 3, 

2010. Comments must be received by 

October 29, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting to be held at 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20036. Submit comments to either of the 

following: 

(1) E-mail: Comments@acus.gov, with 

‘‘Ethics Rules’’ in the subject line; or 

(2) Mail: Ethics Rules Comments, 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reeve T. Bull, Designated Federal 

Officer, Administrative Conference of 

the United States, Suite 706 South, 1120 

20th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20036; Telephone 202–480–2080. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administrative Conference of the 

United States (ACUS) is charged with 

developing recommendations for the 

improvement of Federal administrative 

procedures (5 U.S.C. 591). 

The Conference has engaged a 

Professor of Law at Washington 

University in St. Louis School of Law, 

Kathleen Clark, to research and prepare 

a report regarding whether ethics 

regulations analogous to those 

applicable to government employees 

should apply to government contractors 

and, if so, how such regulations should 

be imposed (the ‘‘Ethics Report’’). A 

copy of the Ethics Report will be 

available at http://www.acus.gov. The 

Committee on Administration has been 

tasked with reviewing this report and 

developing recommendations for 

consideration by the Assembly of the 

Conference. 

From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on November 

3, 2010, the Committee on 

Administration will hold a meeting to 

consider the Ethics Report and 

formulate appropriate recommendations 

in response thereto. This meeting will 

be open to the public and may end prior 

to 4 p.m. if business is concluded prior 

to that time. Members of the public are 

invited to attend the meeting in person, 

subject to space limitations, and the 

Conference will also provide remote 

public access to the meeting. 

Anyone who wishes to attend the 

meeting in person is asked to RSVP to 

Comments@acus.gov. Remote access 

information will be posted on the 

Conference’s Web site, http:// 

www.acus.gov, by no later than October 

29, 2010, and will also be available by 

the same date by calling the phone 

number listed above. Members of the 

public who attend the Committee’s 

meeting may be permitted to speak only 

at the discretion of the Committee Chair, 

with unanimous approval of the 

Committee. The Conference welcomes 

the attendance of the public and will 

make every effort to accommodate 

persons with physical disabilities or 

special needs. If you need special 

accommodations due to a disability, 

please inform the Designated Federal 

Officer no later than 7 days in advance 

of the meeting using the contact 

information provided above. 

Members of the public may submit 

written comments on the report to either 

of the addresses listed above no later 

than October 29, 2010. All comments 

will be delivered to the Designated 

Federal Officer listed on this notice. The 

Designated Federal Officer will post all 

comments that relate to the report on 

the Conference’s Web site after the close 

of the comments period. 

Dated: October 13, 2010. 

Paul R. Verkuil, 

Chairman. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26162 Filed 10–15–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6110–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request New 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

other public agencies to send comments 

regarding any aspect of this proposed 

information collection. This is a new 

collection to develop a Sampling Frame 

of Farm to School efforts. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received on or before December 

17, 2010 to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Katherine 

Ralston, Food Economics Division, 

Economic Research Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1800 M St., 

NW., Room N2163, Washington, DC 

20036–5801. Comments may also be 

submitted via fax to the attention of 

Katherine Ralston at 202–694–5663 or 

via e-mail to kralston@ers.usda.gov. 

Comments will also be accepted through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

All written comments will be open for 

public inspection at the office of the 

Economic Research Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday) at 1800 

M St., NW., Room N2163, Washington, 

DC 20036–5801. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

approval. All comments will be a matter 

of public record. Comments are invited 

on: (a) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

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proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) 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; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Katherine 

Ralston at the address in the preamble. 

Tel. 202–694–5463. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Census Survey of Farm to 

School Initiatives. 

OMB Number: 0536–XXXX. 

Expiration Date: Three years from the 

date of approval. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Abstract 

The Food, Conservation, and Energy 

Act of 2008, also known as the 2008 

Farm Bill, amended the National School 

Lunch Act to allow institutions 

receiving funds through that act and the 

Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to apply a 

geographic preference to the 

procurement of unprocessed locally 

grown or locally raised agricultural 

products. This amendment provides 

local institutions more flexibility and 

increases opportunities for USDA to 

promote local foods in the school meal 

programs. While this part of the 2008 

Farm Bill has yet to be funded, USDA 

has taken action to explore the issue 

through the Farm to School Initiative. 

USDA recognizes the growing interest 

among school districts and communities 

to incorporate regionally and locally 

produced farm foods into school 

nutrition programs supported by USDA. 

USDA school nutrition programs 

include the National School Lunch 

Program (NSLP), the School Breakfast 

Program (SBP), the Special Milk 

Program (SMP), which funds milk for 

students without access to other meal 

programs, and the Fresh Fruit and 

Vegetable Program (FFVP), which funds 

the purchase of fresh fruits and 

vegetables provided as free snacks to 

students in selected schools with the 

States’ highest percentages of students 

certified for free and reduced price 

meals. 

USDA is supporting Farm to School 

efforts through a number of initiatives, 

and continues to look for ways to help 

facilitate this important connection. In 

late 2009, USDA established ‘‘Know 

Your Farmer, Know Your Food,’’ an 

initiative which focuses on the 

importance of understanding where our 

food comes from and how it gets to our 

plates. In response to the growing 

demand for Farm to School activities, 

the ‘‘USDA Farm to School Team’’ was 

developed out of the ‘‘Know Your 

Farmer, Know Your Food’’ Initiative. 

Successful Farm to School efforts 

have the potential to benefit multiple 

stakeholders, including the schools, the 

farmers, and the children. Through 

these efforts, schools are able to bring 

fresh, locally grown foods to school 

meal programs, while local farmers are 

able to attract new business by selling 

fruits and vegetables to schools in their 

area. In addition, activities surrounding 

Farm to School often help children 

learn essential lessons about how farm 

fresh produce is grown and its role in 

a nutritious, healthful diet. Introducing 

local farm products in both the 

classroom and the cafeteria allows 

children to experience the value and 

appeal of a diet rich in fresh fruits and 

vegetables. Many Farm to School 

activities include bringing students to 

farms and farmers into classrooms, as 

well as creating school gardens that both 

teach students about agriculture and 

support the meal program. 

While anecdotal evidence and case 

studies suggest that Farm to School 

activities improve students’ nutrition 

and local economies, more 

representative objective research to 

measure these benefits and identify 

factors associated with success and costeffectiveness are hampered by the lack 

of data. Surveys of school food 

authorities (SFAs) have included 

questions to indicate whether the SFA 

purchases locally, but the surveys have 

not included questions about the nature 

of the activities, and the samples of 

SFAs have not been large enough to 

yield a sufficient sample of SFAs 

implementing Farm to School activities 

for statistical analysis. 

The information to be collected by the 

Farm to School Census Survey is 

necessary to develop a stratified 

sampling frame for more detailed future 

surveys. Currently, the National Farm to 

School Network, through the Urban and 

Environmental Policy Institute at 

Occidental College, maintains the only 

national database of Farm to School 

initiatives. This database is created by 

information entered by programs 

directly on to the National Farm to 

School Network’s Web site, and as a 

result is not a complete representation 

of Farm to School activity in the 

country. The Census Survey will contact 

50 State agriculture departments, 50 

State education departments, 50 State 

Farm to School coordinators, and 50 

State cooperative extension offices to 

develop a list of school districts 

involved in Farm to School activities 

and their contact information. School 

districts identified on this list will be 

contacted to the following collect 

information on key characteristics: 

♦ Contact information, including 

county, school district name and zip 

code. 

♦ School nutrition programs available 

in the SFA or school (NSLP, SBP, SMP, 

and/or FFVP). 

♦ When the efforts started. 

♦ Types of activities: 

Æ Local foods week or harvest of 

the month. 

Æ Use of geographic preference in 

procurement. 

Æ Direct local procurement for 

meals and/or snacks, including snacks 

supported by the Fresh Fruit and 

Vegetable Program. 

Æ Use of commodity dollars for 

locally sourced items through State 

Farm to School program. 

Æ Requests for local sourcing 

through Department of Defense produce 

procurement (DoD Fresh). 

Æ School gardens for snacks, meals 

or other use. 

Æ Curriculum and classroom 

education out of classroom activities, 

farm tours. 

Æ Agriscience programs. 

♦ Number of schools participating. 

♦ Number of children participating, if 

not all. 

♦ Number of farmers/distributors 

supplying local product. 

♦ Most common foods purchased 

locally. 

♦ Requirement of Good Agriculture 

Practices (GAP) certification. 

♦ Level of external grant funding 

received specific for Farm to School 

related efforts. 

Information on other potential 

stratification characteristics will be 

obtained by matching data from the 

Common Core Data to the database of 

SFAs implementing Farm to School 

activities and other geo-coded data. 

Data collection instruments will be 

kept as simple and respondent-friendly 

as possible. Responses are voluntary 

and will be made publicly available 

only with permission of the respondent. 

Affected Public: Respondent groups 

include: (1) State agriculture department 

officials, (2) State education department 

officials, (3) State cooperative extension 

officials, (4) State Farm to School 

coordinators, and (5) local Farm to 

School coordinators. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The estimated number of respondents 

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for the sampling frame includes: (1) 50 

State agriculture department 

representatives, (2) 50 State department 

of education representatives, (3) 50 State 

cooperative extension representatives, 

(4) up to 50 State Farm to School 

coordinators, and (5) up to 1,000 local 

Farm to School coordinators. Ninety 

percent of each group is expected to 

respond. Estimates of the percentages of 

respondents who will agree to complete 

the interview are based on previous 

experience with developing the 

currently available database of farm to 

school initiatives. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 20 for State-level 

respondents, 10 for local-level 

respondents. Estimated responses per 

respondent are as follows: Up to 200 

State officials will be asked to identify 

local school districts which participate 

in Farm to School activities and provide 

contact information. An average of 20 

school districts per respondent will be 

identified. An estimated 1,000 school 

districts will be contacted to obtain 

information on 10 key characteristics. 

(Note: identified school districts will 

overlap, so that redundant phone 

information serves as validation). 

Estimated Total Responses: 14,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: We 

estimate the time per response as 0.05 

hours (3 minutes) for State-level 

respondents to provide contact 

information for each school district 

within the state, and 0.25 hours (15 

minutes) per question for local-level 

respondents to provide information on 

each key characteristic, on average. 

These estimates of respondent burden 

are based on experience with previous 

data collection efforts for Farm to 

School initiatives. 

Estimated Total Burden on 

Respondents: 2,700 hours. See the table 

below for the estimated total annual 

burden for each instrument. 

REPORTING BURDEN

Description 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Responses 

per 

respondent 

Total annual 

responses 

Estimated 

average 

number of 

hours per 

response 

Estimated 

total annual 

hours of 

response 

burden 

Request for programs in the state ....................................... 200 20 4,000 .05 200 

Key Characteristics .............................................................. 1,000 10 10,000 .25 2,500 

Total responding burden ............................................... 1,200 ........................ 14,000 ........................ 2,700 

Dated: September 15, 2010. 

Katherine R. Smith, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26083 Filed 10–15–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Commercial 

Use of the Woodsy Owl Symbol 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the currently approved 

information collection, Commercial Use 

of the Woodsy Owl Symbol. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before December 17, 2010 

to be assured of consideration. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to the Forest 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Office of the Conservation Education 

Program, Program Manager National 

Symbols, 1400 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Mail Stop 1147, Washington, DC 

20250–1147. 

Comments also may be submitted via 

e-mail to ivelez@fs.fed.us. The public 

may inspect comments received at the 

Office of Conservation Education 

Program, Room 1C, U.S. Forest Service, 

Yates Building, 201 14th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC. Visitors are urged to 

call ahead to 202–205–5681 to facilitate 

entrance into the building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Iris 

Velez, Program Manager National 

Symbols, Office of Conservation 

Education Program, at 202–205–5681. 

Individuals who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., 

Eastern Standard Time, Monday 

through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Commercial Use of the Woodsy 

Owl Symbol. 

OMB Number: 0596–0087. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

04/30/2011. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Woodsy Owl-Smokey 

Bear Act of 1974 established the 

Woodsy Owl symbol and slogan, 

authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture 

to manage the use of the slogan and 

symbol, authorizes the licensing of the 

symbol for commercial use, and 

provides for continued protection of the 

symbol. Part 272 of Title 36 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations authorizes the 

Chief of the Forest Service to approve 

commercial use of the Woodsy Owl 

symbol and to collect royalty fees. 

Commercial use includes replicating 

Woodsy Owl symbol or logo on items, 

such as tee shirts, mugs, pins, figurines, 

ornaments, stickers, and toys and using 

the image and or slogan of the icon in 

motion pictures, documentaries, 

television magazine stories, and books, 

magazines, and other for-profit paper 

products. 

Woodsy Owl is America’s symbol for 

the conservation of the environment. 

The public service campaign slogans 

associated with Woodsy Owl are ‘‘Give 

a Hoot, Don’t Pollute’’ and ‘‘Lend a 

Hand, Care for the Land.’’ The mission 

statement of the Woodsy Owl’s 

conservation campaign is to help young 

children discover the natural world and 

join in life-long actions to care for that 

world. 

The USDA Forest Service National 

Symbols Program Manager will use the 

collected information to determine if the 

applicant will receive a license or 

renewal of an existing license and the 

associated royalty fees. Information 

collected includes, but is not limited to, 

tenure of business or non-profit 

organization, current or planned 

products, physical location, projected 

sales volume, and marketing plans. 

Licensees submit quarterly reports, 

which include: 

1. A list of each item sold with the 

Woodsy Owl symbol. 

2. Projected sales of each item. 

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