[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40446-40447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16052]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2021-0035]


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 
September 27, 2021. You may submit comments by either of the following 
methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov. 
Enter APHIS-2021-0035 in the Search field. Select the Documents tab, 
then select the Comment button in the list of documents.
     Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to 
Docket No. APHIS-2021-0035, 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 regulations.gov or in our reading room, which is located 
in Room 1620 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 on the Virus-Serum-
Toxin Act regulations, contact Ms. Bonnie Coyle, Section Leader, 
Program Information Management and Security, Center for Veterinary 
Biologics, Director's Office, VS, APHIS, 1920 Dayton Ave, P.O. Box 844, 
Ames, IA 50010; (515) 337-6561; email: [email protected]. For 
information on the information collection reporting process, contact 
Mr. Joseph Moxey, APHIS' Paperwork Reduction Act Coordinator, at (301) 
851-2483; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Virus-Serum-Toxin Act and Regulations.
    OMB Control 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 through 
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 seeking 
to import such products into the United States. APHIS also enforces 
regulations concerning production, packaging, labeling, and shipping of 
these products, and sets standards for the testing of these products. 
These regulations ensure that veterinary biological products used in 
the United States are not worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or 
harmful.
    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,

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information needed to issue establishment and product licenses and 
track personnel qualifications; product permits; packaging and 
labeling; requests for materials; shipment authorizations; product and 
test reports; preparation and usage requests; development and field 
study summaries; stop distribution and sale notifications and 
inventories; due diligence petitions; and recordkeeping.
    We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve 
our use of these information collection 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 burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average 0.356 seconds per response.
    Respondents: Veterinary biological product developers and 
producers, foreign government officials, State government officials, 
and private individuals.
    Estimated annual number of respondents: 478.
    Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 911,710.
    Estimated annual number of responses: 435,797,533.
    Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 43,072 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 July 2021 .
Michael Watson,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-16052 Filed 7-27-21; 8:45 am]
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