83 FR 24967 - Notice of Intent To Renew a Currently Approved Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Library
Agricultural Research Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 105 (May 31, 2018)

Page Range		24967-24968
FR Document		2018-11582

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations, dated August 29, 1995), this notice announces the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) intention to request an extension of a currently approved information collection, Information Collection for Document Delivery Services at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), which expires November 30, 2018.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

National Agricultural Library

Agricultural Research Service


Notice of Intent To Renew a Currently Approved Information 
Collection

AGENCY: National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, 
USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 
L. 104-13) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations, dated 
August 29, 1995), this notice announces the Agricultural Research 
Service's (ARS) intention to request an extension of a currently 
approved information collection, Information Collection for Document 
Delivery Services at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), which 
expires November 30, 2018.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 30, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, ARS, NAL, Digitization and Access 
Branch, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room 305-D, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-
2351.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kay Derr, Librarian, telephone: 301-
504-5879; email: kay.derr@ars.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Information Collection for Document Delivery Services.
    OMB Number: 0518-0027.
    Expiration Date of Approval: November 30, 2018.
    Type of Request: To extend a currently approved information 
collection process.
    Abstract: In its role as both a preeminent agricultural research 
library and a national library of the United States, NAL (part of the 
USDA's ARS) provides loans and copies of materials from its collections 
to libraries and other institutions and organizations. NAL follows 
applicable copyright laws and interlibrary loan guidelines, standards, 
codes, and practices when providing loans and copies and charges a fee, 
if applicable, for this service. To request a loan or copy, 
institutions must provide a formal request to NAL using either NAL's 
web-based online request system or an interlibrary loan request system 
such as the Online Computer Library Center or the National Library of 
Medicine's Docline. Information in these requests includes the name, 
mailing address, email address, and telephone number of the party 
requesting the material. The requestor must also provide a statement 
acknowledging copyright compliance, bibliographic information for the 
material they are requesting, and the maximum dollar amount they are 
willing to pay for the material. The collected information is used to 
deliver the material to the requestor, bill for and track payment of 
applicable fees, monitor the return of loaned material to NAL, identify 
and locate the requested material in NAL collections, and determine 
whether the requesting party consents to the fees charged by NAL.
    Estimate of Burden: Average 1.00 minute per response.
    Description of Respondents: Respondents to the collection of 
information are those libraries, institutions, or organizations that 
request interlibrary loans or copies of material in the NAL 
collections. Each respondent must furnish the information for each loan 
or copying request.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 590.
    Frequency of Responses: Average 7 per respondent.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 69 hours.
    Comments: Comments are invited on (a) whether the proposed 
collection of

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information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the Agency, including whether the information will have a practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who 
are to respond, such as through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques. 
Comments may be sent to Kay Derr at the address listed above within 60 
days of the date of publication. 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.

    Dated: May 17, 2018.
Chavonda Jacobs-Young,
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are requesting comments on all FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kay
Title: Farm Loan Programs, Direct aspects of this information collection to Derr, Librarian, telephone: 301–504–
Loan Servicing—Special. help us to: 5879; email: kay.derr@ars.usda.gov.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0233. (1) Evaluate whether the collection of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Expiration Date: 08/31/2018. information is necessary for the proper Title: Information Collection for
Type of Request: Extension with a performance of the functions of the Document Delivery Services.
revision. FSA, including whether the information OMB Number: 0518–0027.
Abstract: The Farm Loan Programs will have practical utility; Expiration Date of Approval:
provide loans to family farmers to (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the FSA’s November 30, 2018.
purchase real estate and equipment and estimate of burden including the Type of Request: To extend a
finance agricultural production. 7 CFR validity of the methodology and currently approved information
766, Direct Loan Servicing-Special, assumptions used; collection process.
provides the requirements for servicing (3) Enhance the quality, utility and Abstract: In its role as both a
financially distressed and delinquent clarity of the information to be preeminent agricultural research library
direct loan borrowers. The loan collected; and a national library of the United
servicing options include disaster set- (4) Minimize the burden of the States, NAL (part of the USDA’s ARS)
aside, primary loan servicing (including collection of information on those who provides loans and copies of materials
reamortization, rescheduling, deferral, are to respond, including through the from its collections to libraries and
write down and conservation contracts), use of appropriate automated, other institutions and organizations.
buyout at market value, and homestead electronic, mechanical, or other NAL follows applicable copyright laws
protection. FSA also services borrowers technological collection techniques or and interlibrary loan guidelines,
who file bankruptcy or liquidate other forms of information technology. standards, codes, and practices when
security when available servicing All comments received in response to providing loans and copies and charges
options are not sufficient to produce a this notice, including names and a fee, if applicable, for this service. To
feasible plan. The information addresses when provided, will be a request a loan or copy, institutions must
collections contained in the regulation matter of public record. Comments will provide a formal request to NAL using
are necessary to evaluate a borrower’s be summarized and included in the either NAL’s web-based online request
request for consideration of the special submission for Office of Management system or an interlibrary loan request
servicing actions. and Budget approval.
The numbers of respondents and system such as the Online Computer
responses increased because the loan Richard Fordyce, Library Center or the National Library of
servicing activities increased by 15 Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
Medicine’s Docline. Information in
percent to reflect the current numbers these requests includes the name,
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since the last OMB approval. The mailing address, email address, and
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annual burden hours decreased due to telephone number of the party
removal of travel times from the request. requesting the material. The requestor
The respondents are going to the County must also provide a statement
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
office to do regular and customary (or acknowledging copyright compliance,
normal) business for the Farm Loan National Agricultural Library bibliographic information for the
Programs. material they are requesting, and the
For the following estimated total Agricultural Research Service maximum dollar amount they are
annual burden on respondents, the willing to pay for the material. The
formula used to calculate the total Notice of Intent To Renew a Currently collected information is used to deliver
burden hour is the estimated average Approved Information Collection the material to the requestor, bill for and
time per response multiplied by the track payment of applicable fees,
AGENCY: National Agricultural Library, monitor the return of loaned material to
estimated total annual responses. Agricultural Research Service, USDA.
Estimate of Respondent Burden: NAL, identify and locate the requested
ACTION: Notice and request for material in NAL collections, and
Public reporting burden for this
information collection is estimated to comments. determine whether the requesting party
average 0.374 hours per response, consents to the fees charged by NAL.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Estimate of Burden: Average 1.00
including the time for reviewing Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
instructions, searching existing data minute per response.
L. 104–13) and Office of Management Description of Respondents:
sources, gathering and maintaining the and Budget (OMB) regulations, dated
data needed and completing and Respondents to the collection of
August 29, 1995), this notice announces information are those libraries,
reviewing the collections of the Agricultural Research Service’s
information. institutions, or organizations that
(ARS) intention to request an extension request interlibrary loans or copies of
Type of Respondents: Individuals or of a currently approved information
households, businesses or other for material in the NAL collections. Each
collection, Information Collection for respondent must furnish the
profit farms. Document Delivery Services at the
Estimated Annual Number of information for each loan or copying
National Agricultural Library (NAL), request.
Respondents: 17,174. which expires November 30, 2018.
Estimated Number of Reponses per Estimated Number of Respondents:
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Respondent: 1.869. DATES: Comments must be submitted on 590.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: or before July 30, 2018. Frequency of Responses: Average 7
32,114. ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA, per respondent.
Estimated Average Time per ARS, NAL, Digitization and Access Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Response: 0.374. Branch, 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room Respondents: 69 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on 305–D, Beltsville, Maryland 20705– Comments: Comments are invited on
Respondents: 12,036. 2351. (a) whether the proposed collection of

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information is necessary for the proper this Notice under the heading commodity board (or other equivalent
performance of the functions of the ‘‘Eligibility for Submitting Topics’’ for State entity) may directly submit to
Agency, including whether the further information. [NIFA] for consideration proposals for
information will have a practical utility; If, after NIFA’s evaluation, proposed requests for applications’’ within the
(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s topics are accepted for inclusion, they AFRI Program.
estimate of the burden of the proposed will be incorporated into AFRI Stakeholder feedback gathered in
collection of information including the competitive grants program RFAs. As a previous years informed this Notice and
validity of the methodology and condition of funding grants pertaining the process NIFA is using to implement
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance to a topic, NIFA will require an section 7404. This Notice invites
the quality, utility, and clarity of the agreement with the commodity board to entities established under a commodity
information to be collected; and (d) provide funds equal to the amount NIFA promotion law or State commodity
ways to minimize the burden of the is contributing under the agreed upon boards (or other equivalent State
collection of information on those who topic. entities) to submit topics they are
are to respond, such as through the use This Notice invites topic submissions proposing for inclusion in fiscal year
of appropriate automated, electronic, from commodity boards as defined 2019 AFRI RFAs. Topics must relate to
mechanical, or other technological above, outlines the process NIFA will the established AFRI priority areas,
collection techniques. Comments may use to evaluate the appropriateness of which were authorized in the 2014
be sent to Kay Derr at the address listed these topics for inclusion in AFRI RFAs, Farm Bill and described in 7 CFR
above within 60 days of the date of and describes the commitment required 3430.309 as: Plant health and
publication. All responses to this notice of commodity boards for NIFA to jointly production and plant products; animal
will be summarized and included in the fund competitively selected AFRI health and production and animal
request for OMB approval. All awards within a topic area submitted by products; food safety, nutrition, and
comments will also become a matter of the commodity boards. health; bioenergy, natural resources, and
public record. DATES: Commodity boards may submit environment; agriculture systems and
topics at any time; however, all topics technology; and agriculture economics
Dated: May 17, 2018. and rural communities. The AFRI
Chavonda Jacobs-Young,
received by 5:00 p.m. EDT on July 30,
2018 will be considered for the fiscal priorities are subject to change based on
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service. future Farm Bills, and any changes will
year 2019 AFRI RFAs. Topics submitted
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by eligible commodity board entities be reflected on the NIFA website. A
BILLING CODE 3410–03–P after this date are not guaranteed review summary statement on AFRI is included
for fiscal year 2019, but will be below. To learn more about AFRI
considered for RFAs to be issued in programs, including program priorities,
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE typical award budget amounts, and
future years. Frequently asked questions
about commodity board topics are examples of RFAs, please visit: http://
National Institute of Food and nifa.usda.gov/commodity-boards/.
Agriculture available on the NIFA Website (https://
nifa.usda.gov/commodity-boards- AFRI Program Overview
Solicitation of Commodity Board frequently-asked-questions).
The AFRI program is the largest
Topics and Contribution of Funding ADDRESSES: You may submit topics by agricultural competitive grants program
Under the Agriculture and Food the following method: Website: https:// in the United States and a primary
Research Initiative Competitive Grants nifa.usda.gov/webform/commodity- funding source for research, education,
Program board-topic-submission/ Instructions: and extension projects that bring
The topic submission must be through practical solutions to some of today’s
AGENCY: National Institute of Food and
the website form; emailed topics will most critical societal challenges. AFRI
Agriculture, USDA.
not be accepted. programs impact all components of
ACTION: Notice of opportunity for Required fields are marked. Topics
commodity boards to submit topics and agriculture, including farm and ranch
submitted through this form will not be efficiency and profitability, bioenergy,
contribute funding under the posted to a public site.
Agriculture and Food Research forestry, aquaculture, rural
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: communities, human nutrition, food
Initiative Competitive Grants Program. Mark Mirando; Phone: (202) 401-4336, safety, biotechnology, and genetic
SUMMARY: NIFA is soliciting topics from or Email: commodityboards@ improvement of plants and animals.
eligible commodity board entities nifa.usda.gov. In FY 2019, NIFA plans to solicit
(Federal and State- level commodity SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: applications for AFRI funding
boards, as defined below) that the opportunities in the AFRI priority areas
entities are willing to co-fund equally Background and Purpose authorized in the Farm Bill and
with NIFA. To be considered for This Notice begins the fourth topic described in 7 CFR 3430.309. It is
inclusion in future Agriculture and submission cycle to implement section anticipated these will include the AFRI
Food Research Initiative (AFRI) 2(b)(4)(F) of the Competitive, Special, Foundational and Applied Science
competitive grants program Requests for and Facilities Research Grant Act (7 Program RFA and the AFRI Education
Applications (RFAs), topics must relate U.S.C. 3157(b)(4)(F)), as added by and Workforce Development RFA. The
to the established priority areas of AFRI. section 7404 of the Agricultural Act of annual AFRI Foundational and Applied
Commodity boards are those entities 2014, Public Law 113–79, which Science Program RFA solicits grant
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established under a commodity requires NIFA to ‘‘establish procedures, applications focused predominately, but
promotion law, as such term is defined including timelines, under which an not exclusively, on fundamental
under the Federal Agriculture entity established under a commodity scientific research addressing statutory
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, promotion law (as such term is defined priorities. The AFRI Education and
or a State commodity board or other under section 501(a) of the Federal Workforce Development RFA solicits
equivalent State entity. See the Agriculture Improvement and Reform grant applications for training K–14
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7401(a))) or a State teachers and administrators,

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Dates		Comments must be submitted on or before July 30, 2018.
Contact		Kay Derr, Librarian, telephone: 301- 504-5879; email: [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 24967

83 FR 24967 - Notice of Intent To Renew a Currently Approved Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURENational Agricultural LibraryAgricultural Research Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 105 (May 31, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Library
Agricultural Research Service