[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9082-9083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2502]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

February 16, 2006.
    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), [email protected] or 
fax (202) 395-5806 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) 720-8958.
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information 
unless the collection of information

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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.

Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service

    Title: Foreign Quarantine Notices.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0049.
    Summary of Collection: The United States Department of Agriculture 
is responsible for preventing plant disease or insect pests from 
entering the United States, preventing the spread of pests and noxious 
weeds not widely distributed in the United States, and eradicating 
those imported pests when eradication is feasible. Under the Plant 
Protection Act (Title IV, Pub. L. 106-224, 114 Stat. 438, 7 U.S.C. 
7701-7772), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit or 
restrict the importation, entry, exportation, or movement in interstate 
commerce of plant pests and other articles to prevent the introduction 
of plant pests into the United States. Implementing the laws is 
necessary to prevent injurious plant and insect pest from entering the 
United States, a situation that could produce serious consequences for 
U.S. agriculture. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
(APHIS) is required to collect information from a variety of 
individuals, both within and outside the United States, who are 
involved in growing, packing, handling, transporting, and importing 
foreign plants, roots, bulbs, seeds, importing foreign logs, lumber, 
other unmanufactured wood articles, and other plant products. APHIS 
will collect this information using a number of forms.
    Need and Use of the Information: APHIS will collect information to 
ensure that plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, foreign 
logs, lumber, other unmanufactured wood articles, and other plant 
products imported into the United States do not harbor plant diseases 
or insect pests that could cause serious harm to U.S. agriculture.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
individuals or households; not-for-profit institutions; farms; State, 
Local or Tribal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 90,781.
    Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 95,641.

Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-2502 Filed 2-21-06; 8:45 am]
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