[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 164 (Thursday, August 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43328-43330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21390]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

August 16, 1996.
    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, DC 20503 and to Department Clearance Officer, USDA, 
OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7630. Copies of the 
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-6204 or (202) 720-
6746.

Food and Consumer Service

    Title: Food Stamp Program Store Application(s)
    Summary: The Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended, requires that the 
Agency determine the eligibility of firms and specified programs to 
accept and redeem food stamp benefits and to monitor them for 
compliance and continued eligibility.
    Need and Use of the Information: This information is used for 
determining a firm's eligibility for participation in the program, 
program administration, compliance monitoring and investigations and 
for sanctioning stores found to be violating the program.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-
profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 80,613.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 18,347.

    Title: Federal Collection Methods for Food Stamp Program Recipient 
Claims.
    Summary: This Program is designed to help collect debts owed for 
overissued food stamp benefits.
    Need and Use of the Information: Data is needed to assure unpaid 
claims are properly noted and efforts to collect monies are valid.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals or households; Federal 
Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 327,552.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 
Quarterly; Weekly; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 72,862.

    Title: Study of Direct Certification.
    Summary: Study will collect nationally representative data on the 
status of direct certification usage and assess multiple aspects of it. 
Respondents will be state and local entities involved with the National 
School Lunch Program.
    Need and Use of the Information: Data will be used to inform 
officials on how direct certification is being implemented nationally, 
what seems to work best in various settings, the programmatic and/or 
cost savings resulting from direct certification, and the effect of 
direct certification on student eligibility and participation in the 
National School Lunch Program.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 1,376.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: One-time only.
    Total Burden Hours: 2,307.

Forest Service

    Title: Application for Prospecting Permit.
    Summary: Application information is collected to ensure that a 
complete, concise description of the proposed geophysical activity is 
obtained and thereby ensure timely and effective review and decision-
making in full compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act 
and other requirements given in the National Forest Management Act of 
1976.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information is used by the 
issuing office to ensure a thorough accurate and timely review of the 
proposed plan of operations.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Non-for-
profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 70.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 18.

Rural Housing Service

    Title: 7 CFR 1944-1, ``Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants''.
    Summary: Information is collected from non-profit organizations who 
want to develop a Self-Help program in their area to increase the 
availability of affordable housing.
    Need and Use of the Information: This information is needed by the 
Rural Housing Service to determine if the organization is capable of 
successfully carrying out the requirements of the Self-Help program.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government; 
Non-for-profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 100.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly, 
Monthly, Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 2,640.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: CCC Conservation Contract.
    Summary: These requirements are for the Environmental Quality 
Incentives Program, the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program and the 
Farmland Protection Program.
    Need and Use of the Information: Eligible land owners may apply for 
financial assistance. The agreement or contract must include a 
conservation plan. Federal cost share payments may be made to the land 
user upon successful application of the conservation treatment.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 27,500.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: One time only.
    Total Burden Hours: 43,450.
    Emergency processing of this submission has been requested by 
August 16, 1996.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Provisions Regulating the Quality of Domestically Produced 
Peanuts Handled by Persons not Subject to the Peanut Marketing 
Agreement.
    Summary: Public Law 101-220 amended the Agricultural Agreement

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Act of 1937 to require all peanuts handled by persons who have not 
entered into the Peanut Marketing Agreement to be subject to the same 
quality and inspection requirements as are in effect under the 
agreement.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information is used to verify 
compliance with inspection, quality and disposition requirements. This 
insures that only wholesome peanuts of good quality enter edible market 
channels.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 45.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 
Weekly; Monthly.
    Total Burden Hours: 591.

Rural Housing Service

    Title: 7 CFR--1944-B, Housing Application Packing Grants.
    Summary: The Rural Housing Service make grants to private and 
public non-profit organizations and State and local governments to 
package housing applications in colonies and designated counties.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information collected is 
necessary to assure the organizations participating in this program are 
eligible entities and have participated in application packaging.
    Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 900.

Foreign Agricultural Services

    Title: Sugar to be Imported and Re-exported in Refined Form or in 
Sugar Containing Products or Used for the Production of Polyhydric 
Alcohol.
    Summary: The proposed regulations revise current regulations to 
conform them to our obligation under the North American Free Trade 
Agreement and to implement changes arising out of the adoption of the 
Uruguay Round Agreement Implementation Act.
    Need and Use of the Information: The Licensing Authority will use 
this information to determine whether the equivalent quantity of sugar 
entered will be exported by the entering company or by a manufacturer 
or sugar containing products or used for the production of Polyhydric 
alcohol. Without this information the Licensing Authority would be 
unable to identify who would be responsible for exporting or using 
entered sugar.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 220.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Quarterly.
    Total Burden Hours: 3,866.

    Title: Regulations covering CCC's Export Credit Guarantee Program 
(GSM-102) & CCC's Intermediate Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-
103).
    Summary: The GSM-102 and GSM-103 programs of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation (CCC) were developed to expand U.S. exports by making 
available export credit guarantees to encourage U.S. private sector 
financing of foreign purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities on 
credit terms.
    Need and Use of the Information: Collection of information is 
required in order to become an eligible participant in the program.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 365.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 6,499.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Handling of Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, and Tangelos 
Grown in Florida--Addendum.
    Summary: Marketing Order No. 905 authorizes the regulation a 
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly 
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and to improve return to 
growers. Currently the Agricultural Marketing Service is considering a 
proposal to limit the volume of small Florida red seedless grapefruit. 
If this proposal is implemented, new information collection would be 
required.
    Need and Use of the Information: To ensure compliance with volume 
regulation of red seedless grapefruit that would provide the Florida 
citrus industry and the Department of Agriculture with important 
information to ensure fair regulation within the industry.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
    Number of Respondents: 1,176.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion; 
Weekly.
    Total Burden Hours: 204.

Food and Consumer Service

    Title: Disaster Food Stamp Program.
    Summary: The Food Stamp Act provides that program assistance be 
provided to all disaster-affected households who make application and 
are determined eligible for such assistance.
    Need and Use of the Information: This information is needed to 
determine the eligibility of households applying for disaster food 
stamp assistance and for maintaining records regarding the disaster 
food stamp program.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government; 
Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 92,433.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On Occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 51,132.

    Title: Coupon Account and Destruction Report.
    Summary: The Food Stamp Act of 1977 requires an appropriate 
procedure for determining and monitoring the level of coupon 
inventories under the control of issuance agents for the purpose of 
maintaining inventories at proper levels. The procedure also involves 
monitoring coupon deliveries, in-state transfers and return of coupons 
to inventory and exercising control over the destruction of unusable 
coupons.
    Need and Use of the Information: This collection accounts for 
coupons received as payment on recipient claims mutilated or improperly 
manufactured old series coupons for exchange and coupons returned for 
miscellaneous reasons. FCS-471 is the vehicle that transmits unusable 
coupons to a destruction point, and in the documentation for destroyed 
coupons.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government; 
Federal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 10,276.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Monthly.
    Total Burden Hours: 40,331.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Application for Inspection & Certification of Animal 
Byproducts.
    Summary: USDA Veterinary Services provide export certification 
services to U.S. processors desiring to qualify shipment of certain 
animal byproducts for export to foreign countries.
    Need and Use of the Information: Without proper certification 
importing countries will not accept products, and applicant would be 
unable to conduct business with that country.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 20.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On Occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 10.

Forest Service

    Title: Commercial Use of ``Woodsy Owl'' Symbol.
    Summary: Business can be licensed to use the ``Woodsy Owl'' symbol 
for commercial purposes.

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    Need and Use of the Information: Information is needed to collect 
royalty fees and to gauge effectiveness of licenses in meeting 
guaranteed sales objectives.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 10.
    Frequencey of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly.
    Total Burden Hours: 60.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Scrapie Flock Certification, Animal Identification, and 
Indemnification Procedures.
    Summary: Legislation allows the Secretary of Agriculture to 
prevent, control and eliminate domestic diseases such as scrapie, as 
well as to take action to prevent and to mange exotic diseases such as 
hog cholera, and African swine fever.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information is needed to 
assist in disease prevention.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit; 
Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 1,180.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 15,846.

    Title: Horse Protection Regulations.
    Summary: The information collection certifies and licenses 
designated qualified persons and horse industry organizations.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information provides the 
primary means of detacting ``sore'' horses and eliminating them from 
exhibition or showing.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 650.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Quarterly; 
Monthly; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 7,195.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Irish Potatoes Grown in Colorado--Marketing Order 948.
    Summary: Marketing Order was designed to permit regulation of 
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly 
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and improving returns to 
growers.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information is used for 
program compliance.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms.
    Number of Respondents: 592.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 
Biennially; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 578.

Food and Consumer Service

    Title: Federal Collection Methods for Food Stamp Program Recipient 
Claims.
    Summary: This Program is designed to help collect money owed for 
overissued food stamp benefits.
    Need and Use of the Information: Data is needed to assure unpaid 
claims are properly noted and efforts to collect monies are valid.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals or household; Federal 
Government; State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 327,552.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 
Weekly; Quarterly; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 72,862.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), 7 CFR Parts 704 and 
1410.
    Summary: The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) regulations set 
forth the basic policies, program provisions, and eligibility 
requirements for owners and operators to enter into and carry out long-
term CRP contracts with financial and technical assistance and for 
making cost-share and annual rental payments under the program.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information is needed to 
implement and provide program benefits under the current legislation.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 272,500.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; One-time only.
    Total Burden Hours: 34,371.
    Emergency Processing of This Submission Has Been Requested by: 
August 23, 1996.
Larry Roberson,
Deputy Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-21390 Filed 8-21-96; 8:45 am]
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