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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

August 1, 2002.
    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 (a) 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; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are 
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology 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 
Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, 
DC 20250-7602. Comments regarding these information collections are 
best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days of 
this notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by 
calling (202) 720-6746.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB 
control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to 
respond to the collection of information that such persons are not 
required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

    Title: Debt Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 0505-0007.
    Summary of Collection: The Debt Collection Act of 1982 requires 
that any monies that are payable or may become payable from the United 
States under contracts and other written agreements to any person or 
legal entity not an agency or subdivision of a State or local 
government may be subject to administrative offset for the collection 
of a delinquent debt the person or a legal entity owes to the United 
States. Section 10 requires that debtors be provided due process prior 
to the collection of any claims through administrative offset. 
Delinquent debtors wishing to appeal must provide relevant information. 
USDA agencies will collect information using a letter of intent from 
the creditor agencies to delinquent debtors.
    Need and Use of the Information: USDA agencies will collect 
information on delinquent debtors targeted for administrative offset 
who want additional information; wish to enter into repayment 
agreements; or wish to request a review of agencies' determination to 
offset appropriation act. The creditor agencies will not be able to 
comply with the due process provision of the Debt Collection Act or the 
Debt Collection Improvement Act if relevant information is not 
collected.
    Description of Respondents: Individuals or households; Business or 
other for-profit; Farms.
    Number of Respondents: 3,771.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 7,542.

Agricultural Research Service

    Title: Utilization of Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) 
Resources by Personnel at Schools Receiving USDA Funds for Child 
Nutrition Programs.
    OMB Control Number: 0518-NEW.
    Summary of Collection: The Food and Nutrition Information Center 
(FNIC) does not have a means to determine the use of FNIC resources by 
personnel at schools receiving USDA funds for Child Nutrition Programs. 
To collect this information, FNIC proposes to provide attendees of 
selected educated related conferences with a password to access a one-
time, voluntary, electronic FNIC Resources usage survey. The 
information collected in this survey will assist FNIC staff in 
improving the resources provided to meet the needs of the targeted 
audience. The authority to collect this information is CFR, Title 7, 
Volume 1, part 2, subpart K, Sec. 2.65 (92).
    Need and Use of the Information: FNIC will collect information to 
evaluate current FNIC resources and assist in planning and managing 
future projects. Failure to collect this information would inhibit 
FNIC's ability to ensure the resources FNIC provides are in accord with 
resources desired by targeted patron groups, such as personnel in 
schools participating in Child Nutrition Programs.
    Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 50.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: Standard Operating Agreement Governing Intermodal 
Transportation.
    OMB Control Number: 0560-194.
    Summary of Collection: The 49 U.S.C. authorizes the Kansas City 
Commodity Office, Export Operations Division (KCCO/EOD) to collect 
information to determine the eligibility of Intermodal Marketing 
Companies (IMC) to haul agricultural products for the USDA Farm Service 
Agency (FSA). For an IMC to participate in CCC freight, FSA requires a 
certificate of insurance to be filed with KCCO, EOD. IMC's are also 
required to furnish documentation from a rail company verifying that it 
has an ongoing business relationship with at least one rail company. 
The IMC shall complete KCCO's Standard Operating Agreement Governing 
Intermodal Transportation. The Standard Operating Agreement sets out 
operating rules for intermodal shipment, accessorial charges, and the 
terms and conditions of carriage.
    Need and Use of the Information: FSA will collect information by 
mail to establish the Trailer on Flatcar/Container on Flatcar (TORC/
COFC) service needs of the Department of Agriculture, Farm Service 
Agency, the Kansas City Commodity Office, operating as Commodity Credit 
Corporation, for the movement of its freight, and to insure that an IMC

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arranging for the transportation service has both the willingness and 
the capability to meet those needs. Without this information, FSA and 
KCCO could not meet program requirements.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Federal; 
Not-for-profit institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 14.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Other (Once).
    Total Burden Hours: 14.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: Representations for CCC and FSA Loans and Authorization to 
File a Financing Statement.
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0215.
    Summary of Collection: The revised Article 9 of the Uniform 
Commercial Code deals with secured transaction for personal property. 
The revised Article 9 will affect the manner in which the Commodity 
Credit Corporation (CCC) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA), as well as 
any other creditor, perfect and liquidate security interests in 
collateral. FSA operates several loan programs that are affected by the 
revision to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Each of the 
programs requires that loans be secured with collateral. The security 
interest is created and attaches to the collateral when: (1) Value has 
been given, (2) the debtor has rights in the collateral or the power to 
transfer rights in the collateral, and (3) the debtor has authenticated 
a security agreement that provides a description of the collateral. FSA 
will collect information using form CCC-10. The information obtained on 
CCC-10 is needed to obtain authorization from loan applicants to file a 
financing statement and to verify the name and location of the debtor.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information that FSA collects 
will be used to gather or verify basic data regarding the applicant 
which is required on a financing statement and to obtain permission to 
file a financing statement prior to the execution of a security 
agreement. Without obtaining the information from loan applicants, CCC 
and FSA would be unable to perfect a security interest in collateral 
used to secure loans.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Individuals or households; 
Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 207,500.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 120,350.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Endangered Species Regulations and Forfeiture Procedures.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0076.
    Summary of Collection: The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1513 et seq.) directs Federal departments to utilize their 
authorities under the Act to conserve endangered and threatened 
species. Section 3 of the Act specifies that the Secretary of 
Agriculture is authorized to promulgate such regulations as may be 
appropriate to enforce the Act. The regulations contained in 7 CFR 355 
are intended to carry out the provisions of the Act. The Plant 
Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) division of USDA's Animal & Plant 
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for implementing these 
regulations. Specifically, section 9(d) of the Act authorizes 7 CFR 
355.11, which requires a general permit to engage in the business of 
importing or exporting terrestrial plants listed in 50 CFR Parts 17 and 
23. APHIS will collect information using PPQ forms 368, 621, 625, 623, 
and 626.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information on 
the applicant's name and address, whether the applicant is affiliated 
with a business, and the address of all the applicant's business 
locations in order for the applicant to obtain a general permit. Upon 
approval of the permit, any endangered species shipped via mail must be 
sent to an authorized port of entry and must be accompanied by 
appropriate supporting documentation.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 1,400.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 4,738.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: 9 CFR 50 & 77, Tuberculosis.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0084.
    Summary of Collection: Title 21 U.S.C. authorizes the Secretary of 
Agriculture to prevent, control and eliminate domestic diseases such as 
tuberculosis, as well as to take actions to prevent and to manage 
exotic diseases such as hog cholera, African swine fever, and other 
foreign diseases. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
(APHIS) oversees the Cooperative State-Federal Bovine Tuberculosis 
Eradication Program to eliminate bovine tuberculosis, a serious disease 
of livestock. The disease also affects man through contracts with 
infected animals or their byproducts. APHIS works with State and other 
federal organizations to conduct epidemiologic investigations to locate 
bovine tuberculosis and provide a means of controlling it. Information 
is collected using a variety of forms to properly identify, test, and 
transport animals that are infected with or exposed to tuberculosis.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information to 
search for infected herds, maintain identification of livestock, 
monitor deficiencies in identification of animals for movement, and 
monitor program deficiencies in suspicious and infected herds. 
Continued collection of this information is essential for program 
progress aimed at controlling and eradicating bovine tuberculosis.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Farms; 
State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 6,897.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 17,372.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Wood Packing Material from China.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0135.
    Summary of Collection: The United States Department of Agriculture 
is responsible for preventing plant diseases or insect pests from 
entering the United States, preventing the spread of pests not widely 
distributed in the United States, and eradicating those imported pests 
when eradication is feasible. The Plant protection Act authorizes the 
Department to carry out this mission. Section 102 of the Organic Act (7 
U.S.C. 147a) states, in part that the ``the Secretary of Agriculture, 
either independently or in cooperation with the States * * * is 
authorized to carry out operations or measures to detect, eradicate, 
suppress, control, prevent, or retard the spread of plant pests. 
Effective January 1, 2002, the People's Republic of China required that 
Solid Wood Packing Material (SWPM) exported from the United States to 
China be certified as having been heat treated. To be certified, 
coniferous SWPM must be heat treated in the United States. The rule 
changed that requirement to allow Canadian-origin coniferous SWPM to be 
heat treated in Canada. Implementing the laws is necessary in order to 
prevent injurious insect pests and plant diseases from entering the 
United States. Solid wood items used to pack commodities imported from 
China must first be heat treated, fumigated, or treated with 
preservations before they leave China for the United States.
    Need and Use of the Information: The Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service (APHIS) will collect information from the Treatment 
Certificate and

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Exporter Document that will provide information that will enable APHIS 
inspectors to focus their attention on those shipments that present the 
most risk of harboring exotic insect pests (i.e., those shipments that 
contain solid wood packing material, as opposed to those shipments that 
do not). Failure to collect this information would cripple APHIS 
ability to ensure that solid wood packing material from China does not 
harbor destructive plant pests.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
Individuals or households; State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 29,000.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 73,950.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: ISA Payment of Indemnity.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0192.
    Summary of Collection: Federal regulation contained in 9 CFR 
Subchapter B governs cooperative programs in control and eradicate 
communicable diseases of livestock from the United States. In 
accordance with 21 U.S.C. 111, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 123, and 134a, 
the Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to promulgate 
regulations and take measures to prevent the introduction into the 
United States and the interstate dissemination within the United States 
of communicable disease of livestock and poultry, and to pay claims 
growing out of the destruction of animals. Disease prevention is the 
most effective method for maintaining a healthy animal population and 
enhancing APHIS' ability to compete in exporting animals and animal 
products. Veterinary Services, a unit within USDA's Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is charged with carrying out this 
disease prevention mission. Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) poses a 
substantial threat to the economic viability and sustainability of 
salmon aquaculture in the United States and abroad. In an effort to 
control ISA in the State of Maine, to prevent further breakouts in that 
State, and to prevent the disease from spreading to other parts of the 
United States, APHIS is publishing an interim rule to provide for the 
payment of indemnity to producers in the State of Maine for fish 
destroyed because of ISA. APHIS will collect information using VS Form 
1-22 ISA Program Enrollment Form and VS Form 1-23 All Species Appraisal 
& Indemnity Claim Form.
    Need and Use of the Information: Each program participant must sign 
an ISA Program Enrollment Form in which they agree to participate fully 
in USDA's and the State of Maine's ISA Program. APHIS will collect the 
owner's name and address, the number of fish for which the owner is 
seeking payment, and the appraised value of each fish. The owner must 
also certify as to whether the fish are subject to a mortgage. Without 
the information it would be impossible for APHIS to launch a program to 
contain and prevent ISA outbreaks in the United States.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
Individuals or households.
    Number of Respondents: 110.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 2,934.

Food and Nutrition Service

    Title: Food Stamp Program--Store Applications.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0008.
    Summary of Collection: The Food Stamp Program (FSP) is designed to 
promote the general welfare and safeguard the health and well being of 
the Nation's population by raising levels of nutrition among low-income 
households. Section 9 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended, (the 
Act) (7 U.S.C. 2011 et. seq.) requires that the Food and Nutrition 
Service (FNS) provide for the submission of applications for approval 
by retail food establishments and meal service programs that wish to 
participate in the FSP. The need to collect information is established 
under the Act to determine the eligibility of retail food stores, 
wholesale food concerns, and food service organizations applying for 
authorization to accept and redeem food stamp benefits, to monitor 
these firms for continued eligibility, to sanction stores for non-
compliance with the Act, and for program management. FNS will collect 
information using forms FNS-252, Food Stamp Application for Tore, and 
FNS 252-2, Application to Participate in the Food Stamp Program for 
Communal Dining Facility/Others.
    Need and Use of the Information: FNS will collect information to 
determine a firm's eligibility for participation in the FSP, program 
administration, compliance monitoring and investigations, and for 
sanctioning stores found to be violating the program. FNS is also 
responsible for requiring updates to application information and 
reviewing that information to determine whether or not the retail food 
store, wholesale food concern, or food service organization continues 
to meet eligibility requirements. Owners Employer Identification 
Numbers (EIN) and Social Security Numbers (SSN) may be disclosed to and 
used by Federal agencies or instrumentalities that otherwise gave 
access to EINs and SSNs. FNS and other Federal Government agencies 
examine such information during compliance reviews, audit review, 
special studies or evaluation efforts.
    Description of Repondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-
profit institutions; Farms; Federal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 20,299.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 9,050.

Food and Nutrition Service

    Title: 7 CFR Part 235 State Administrative Expense Funds.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0067.
    Summary of Collection: Because the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) 
is accountable for State Administrative Expense (SAE) funds by fiscal 
year, State agencies (SAs) are requested to report their SEA budget 
information on that basis. If the State budgets coincide with a fiscal 
year other than that used by the Federal government, the SA must 
convert its State budget figures to amounts to be used during the 
applicable Federal fiscal year for this purpose. Under 7 CFR Part 235, 
State Administrative Expense Funds, there are five reporting 
requirements, which necessitate the collection of information. They are 
as follows: SAE Plan, Reallocation Report, Coordinated Review Effort 
(CRE) Data Base Update, Report of SAE Funds Usage, and Responses to 
Sanctions. SAs also must maintain records pertaining to SEA. These 
include Ledger Accounts, Source Documents, Equipment to SAE. These 
include Ledger Accounts, Source Documents, Equipment Records and Record 
on State Appropriated Funds. FNS will collect information using forms 
FNS-74 and 525.
    Need and Use of the Information: FNS will collect information on 
the total SAE cost the SA expects to incur in the course of 
administering the Child Nutrition Programs (CNP); the indirect cost 
rate used by the SA in charging indirect cost to SEA, together with the 
name of the Federal agency that assigned the rate and the date the rate 
was assigned, breakdown of the current year's SAE budget between the 
amount allocated for the current year and the amount carried over from 
the prior year; and the number and types of personnel currently 
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CNPs. The information is used to determine whether SA intends to use 
SEA funds for purposes allowable under OMB Circular A-87, Cost 
Principles for State and Local Governments; does SA's administrative 
budget provide for sufficient funding from State sources to meet the 
Maintenance of Effort requirement; and is SA's staff adequate to 
effectively administer the program covered by the SA's agreement with 
FNS.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Resondents: 87.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 12,922.

Food and Nutrition Service

    Title: Waivers Under Section 6(o) of the Food Stamp Act.
    OMB Control Number: 0584-0479.
    Summary of Collection: Section 824 of the Personal Responsibility 
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-193 
(PRWORA) establishes a time limit for the receipt of food stamp 
benefits for certain able-bodied adults who are not working. In areas 
where the unemployment rate is over 10 percent or does not have a 
sufficient number of jobs to provide employment for the individuals, 
the Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to waive the provision 
for any group of individuals, upon receiving a State agency's request.
    Need and Use of the Information: Food and Nutrition Service use the 
information provided by State food stamp agencies to evaluate whether 
the statutory requirements for a waiver of the food stamp time limit 
have been met and to determine specifically whether the designated 
areas' unemployment rate is over 10 percent or if there is a lack of 
sufficient jobs available. If the information is not collected, the 
State Food Stamp agencies could not obtain waivers of time limits 
contained in Section 6(o) of the Act.
    Description of Respondents: State, Local or Tribal Government; 
Individuals or household.
    Number of Respondents: 42.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 148.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Phytopthora Ramorum; Quarantine and Regulations.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0191.
    Summary of Collection: The United States Department of Agriculture 
is responsible for preventing plant diseases or insect pests from 
entering the United States, preventing the spread of pests not widely 
distributed in the United States, and eradicating those imported pests 
when eradication is feasible. The Plant Protection Act authorizes the 
Department to carry out this mission. The regulations were amended to 
quarantine portions of California and Oregon because of Phytophthora 
Ramorum (PR) and restrict the interstate movement of regulated and 
articles from quarantined areas. This is necessary to prevent the 
spread of PR to noninfested areas of the United States.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information to 
protect U.S. nursery stock and other plant resources from the potential 
introduction of plant pests into the country. If the information were 
not collected, APHIS ability to verify that imported nursery stock does 
not present a significant risk of introducing plant pests to the U.S. 
would be severely hampered.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
Individuals or households; Farms; Federal Government; State, Local or 
Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 387.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting; On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 1,227.

Rural Housing Service

    Title: 7 CFR Part 3565, ``Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program'' 
and its Supporting Handbook.
    OMB Control Number: 0575-0174.
    Summary of Collection: On March 26, 1996, the Housing Opportunity 
Program Extension Act of 1996 was signed. One of the provisions of the 
Act was the authorization of the section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental 
Housing Program (GRRHP), adding the program to the Housing Act of 1949. 
The purpose of the GRRHP is to increase the supply of affordable rural 
rental housing through the use of loan guarantees that encourage 
partnerships between the Rural Housing Service (RHS), private lenders 
and public agencies. RUS will approve qualified lenders to participate 
and monitor lender performance to ensure program requirements are met. 
RHS will collect information from lenders on the eligibility cost, 
benefits, feasibility, and financial performance of the proposed 
project.
    Need and Use of the Information: RHS will collect information from 
lenders to manage, plan, evaluate, and account for Government 
resources. The GRRHP regulation and handbook will provide lenders and 
agency staff with guidance on the origination and servicing of GRRHP 
loans and the approval of qualified lenders. RHS will use the 
information to evaluate a lender's request and make a determination 
that the interests of the government are protected. Failure to collect 
information could have an adverse impact on the agency ability to 
monitor lenders and assess program effectiveness and effectively 
guarantee loans.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-
profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 50.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Quarterly; Monthly; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 1581.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: Standard Rules Tender Governing Motor Carrier 
Transportation.
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0195.
    Summary of Collection: Public Law 104-88 authorizes the Export 
Operation Division (EOD) to collect information to determine motor 
carrier compliance with Kansas City Commodity Office (KCCO) 
requirements, to determine eligibility of motor carriers to haul 
agricultural products for the USDA. A motor carrier shall complete 
KCCO's Standard Rules Tender Governing Motor Carrier Transportation and 
file its rates with EOD. The Standard Rules Tender set the operating 
rules for the motor carrier to determine motor carrier compliance, 
accessorial charges, and the terms and conditions of carriage. Carriers 
are selected based on their rate and service levels. The information 
enables KCCO to evaluate the rates to obtain transportation services to 
meet domestic and export program needs.
    Need and Use of the Information: FSA will collect information to 
establish the motor carrier's qualifications, and carriage rates and 
conditions. Without this information FSA and KCCO could not obtain 
transportation services to meet program requirements.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit, Not-for-
profit institutions; Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal 
Government.
    Number of Respondents: 99.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Once.
    Total Burden Hours: 99.

Agricultural Research Service

    Title: Utilization of Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) 
Resources by Personnel at Schools Receiving USDA Funds for Child 
Nutrition Programs.
    OMB Control Number: 0518-NEW.
    Summary of Collection: The food and Nutrition Information Center 
(FNIC) does not have a means to determine the

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use of FNIC resources by personnel at schools receiving USDA funds for 
Child Nutrition Programs. To collect this information, FNIC proposes to 
provide attendees of selected educated related conferences with a 
password to access a one-time, voluntary, electronic FNIC Resources 
usage survey. The information collected in this survey will assist FNIC 
staff in improving the resources provided to meet the needs of the 
targeted audience. The authority to collect this information is CFR, 
Title 7, Volume 1, Part 2, Subpart K, Sec. 2.65 (92).
    Need and Use of the Information: FNIC will collect information to 
evaluate current FNIC resources and assist in planning and managing 
future projects. Failure to collect this information would inhibit 
FNIC's ability to ensure the resources FNIC provides are in accord with 
resources desired by targeted patron groups, such as personnel in 
schools participating in Child Nutrition Programs.
    Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions.
    Number of Respondents: 200.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 50.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: CWD in Cervids; Payment of Indemnity.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0189.
    Summary of Collection: Federal regulations contained in 9 CFR 
Subchapter B govern cooperative programs to control and eradicate 
communicable diseases of livestock from the United States. In 
accordance with 21 U.S.C. 111-113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 123, and 134a, 
the Secretary of Agriculture has the authority to promulgate 
regulations and take measures to prevent the introduction into the 
United States and the interstate dissemination within the United States 
of communicable diseases of livestock and poultry, and to pay claims 
growing out of the destruction of animals. Disease prevention is the 
most effective method for maintaining a health animal population and 
enhancing our ability to complete in exporting animals and animal 
products. Veterinary Services, a unit within USDA's Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service (APHIS), is charged with carrying out this 
disease prevention mission. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a 
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of elk and deer typified 
by chronic weight loss leading to death. The presence of chronic 
wasting disease in cervids causes significant economic and market 
losses to U.S. producers. APHIS will collect information using VS Form 
1-23 Appraisal & Indemnity Claim Form.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect the owner's 
name and address, the number of animals for which the owner is seeking 
payment, and the appraised value of each animal. The owner must also 
certify as to whether the animals are subject to a mortgage. If there 
is a mortgage, the form must be signed by the owner and each person 
holding a mortgage. Failure to collect this information would make it 
impossible for APHIS to launch its program to accelerate the 
eradication of chronic wasting disease from the United States.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 10.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 10.

Sondra A. Blakey,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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