[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32229-32230]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12692]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0011]


Notice of Request for Revision to and Extension of Approval of an 
Information Collection; Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and Regulations

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revision to and extension of approval of an information 
collection; comment request.

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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 Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and 
regulations.

DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before July 
29, 2013.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0011-0001.
     Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to 
Docket No. APHIS-2013-0011, 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 http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-
0011 or in our reading room, which is located in room 1141 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 regarding the Virus-
Serum-Toxin Act and regulations, contact Dr. Donna Malloy, Section 
Leader, Policy, Evaluation and Licensing, CVB, APHIS, 4700 River Road 
Unit 148, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 851-3426. For copies of more 
detailed information on the information collection, contact Mrs. 
Celeste Sickles, APHIS' Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 
851-2908.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and Regulations.
    OMB Number: 0579-0013.
    Type of Request: Revision to and extension of approval of an 
information collection.
    Abstract: Under the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act (21 U.S.C. 151-159), the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorized to 
promulgate regulations designed to prevent the importation, 
preparation, sale, or shipment of harmful veterinary biological 
products. These regulations are contained in 9 CFR parts 102 to 124.
    Veterinary biological products include viruses, serums, toxins, and 
analogous products of natural or synthetic origin, such as vaccines, 
antitoxins, or the immunizing components of microorganisms intended for 
the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases in domestic 
animals.
    APHIS issues licenses to qualified establishments that produce 
veterinary biological products and issues permits to importers of such 
products. APHIS also enforces requirements concerning production, 
packaging, labeling, and shipping of these products and sets standards 
for the testing of these products.
    To help ensure that veterinary biological products used in the 
United States are pure, safe, potent, and effective, APHIS requires 
certain information collection activities, including, among other 
things, establishment license applications, product license 
applications, product import permit applications, product and test 
report forms, field study summaries, and recordkeeping. These 
information activities have been approved by the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) under control number 0579-0013.
    In addition, in accordance with the regulations in 9 CFR 105.3 and 
115.2, APHIS may notify a veterinary biologics licensee or permittee to 
stop the preparation, importation, and/or distribution and sale of a 
serial or a subserial of a veterinary biological product if, at any 
time, it appears that such product may be worthless, contaminated, 
dangerous, or harmful in the treatment of animals. This notification 
triggers two information collection activities: (1) After being 
contacted by APHIS, veterinary biologics licensees or permittees must 
immediately, but no later than 2 days, send stop distribution and sale 
notifications to any wholesalers, jobbers, dealers, foreign consignees, 
or other persons known to have such veterinary biological product in 
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possession; and (2) veterinary biologics licensees and permittees must 
account for the remaining quantity of each serial or subserial of any 
such veterinary biological product at each location in the distribution 
channel known to the licensee or permittee. These information 
collection activities have been approved by OMB under control number 
0579-0318.
    This notice includes a description of the information collection 
activities currently approved by OMB under numbers 0579-0013 and 0579-
0318. After OMB approves and combines the burden for both collections 
under one collection (number 0579-0013), the Department will retire 
number 0579-0318.
    We are asking OMB to approve our use of these information 
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 reporting burden for this collection 
of information is estimated to average 1.963 hours per response.
    Respondents: U.S. importers, exporters, and shippers of veterinary 
biological products; State veterinary authorities; and operators of 
establishments that produce or test veterinary biological products or 
that engage in product research and development and their wholesalers, 
dealers, jobbers, foreign consignees, or other persons known to have 
any such worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful veterinary 
biological product in their possession.
    Estimated annual number of respondents: 220.
    Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 181.413.
    Estimated annual number of responses: 39,911.
    Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 78,349 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 22nd day of May 2013.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-12692 Filed 5-28-13; 8:45 am]
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