83_FR_27058 83 FR 26946 - Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

83 FR 26946 - Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 112 (June 11, 2018)

Page Range26946-26947
FR Document2018-12415

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as amended), the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) invites comments on this information collection for which RUS intends to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 112 (Monday, June 11, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26946-26947]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12415]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as 
amended), the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) invites comments on this 
information collection for which RUS intends to request approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by August 10, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory 
Team, Rural Development Innovation Center, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP 1522, Room 5164, South 
Building, Washington, DC 20250-1522. Telephone: (202) 690-1078. FAX: 
(202) 720-8435. Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) 
regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) requires that interested members 
of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on 
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 
1320.8(d)). This notice identifies an information collection that RUS 
is submitting to OMB for extension.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 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 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, including through the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology. Comments may be sent to: Michele 
Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory Team, Rural Development Innovation 
Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP 
1522, Room 5164, South Building, Washington, DC 20250-1522. Telephone: 
(202) 690-1078, FAX: (202) 720-8435. Email: 
[email protected].
    Title: Substantially Underserved Trust Areas.
    OMB Control Number: 0572-0147.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Abstract: The RUS provides loan, loan guarantee and grant programs 
for rural electric, water and waste, and telecommunications and 
broadband infrastructure. The SUTA initiative gives the Secretary of 
Agriculture certain discretionary authorities relating to financial 
assistance terms and conditions that can enhance the financing 
possibilities in areas that are underserved by certain RUS electric, 
water and waste, and telecommunications and broadband programs. The 
data covered by this collection of information are those materials 
necessary to allow the agency to determine applicant and community 
eligibility and an explanation and documentation of the high need for 
the benefits of the SUTA provisions. Program specific application 
materials, which funds are being applied for, are covered by the 
information collection package for the specific RUS program.

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    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average 30 hours per response.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 30.
    Copies of this information collection can be obtained from MaryPat 
Daskal, Regulatory Team, Rural Development Innovation Center, at (202) 
720-7853, FAX: (202) 720-8435. Email: [email protected].
    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 29, 2018.
Christopher A. McLean,
Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-12415 Filed 6-8-18; 8:45 am]
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26946 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2018 / Notices Regulations Team, Rural Development expenditures for construction or provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Innovation Center, U.S. Department of retirement projects. Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires Agriculture, STOP 1522, 1400 Estimate of Burden: The Public that interested members of the public Independence Ave. SW, Washington, reporting burden for this collection of and affected agencies have an DC 20250–1522. Telephone: (202) 690– information is estimated to average 1.56 opportunity to comment on information 1078, Fax: (202) 720–8435 or email: hours per response. collection and recordkeeping activities Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov. Respondents: Not-for-profit (see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice Title: Advance of Loan Funds and institutions; Business or other for profit. identifies an information collection that Budgetary Control and Other Related Estimated Number of Respondents: RUS is submitting to OMB for Burdens. 600. extension. OMB Control Number: 0572–0015. Estimated Number of Responses per Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Type of Request: Extension of Respondent: 15.5. the proposed collection of information currently approved collection. Estimated Number of Total is necessary for the proper performance Abstract: The Rural Utilities Service Responses: 9,320. of the functions of the Agency, administers the electric loan and loan Estimated Total Annual Burden on including whether the information will guarantee program authorized under the Respondents: 14,570 hours. have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 Copies of this information collection the Agency’s estimate of the burden of U.S.C. 901 et seq.) In order to protect can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, the proposed collection of information and ensure the Government’s security Regulations Team, Rural Development including the validity of the interest in loans, and in exercise of due Innovation Center, U.S. Department of methodology and assumptions used; (c) diligence, electric borrowers furnish Agriculture, (202) 720–7853, Fax: (202) ways to enhance the quality, utility and information to RUS regarding the 720–8435 or email: MaryPat.Daskal@ clarity of the information to be condition, financial or otherwise, wdc.usda.gov. All responses to this collected; and (d) ways to minimize the related to expenditure of loan funds. notice will be summarized and included burden of the collection of information This Information Collection is necessary in the request for OMB approval. All on those who are to respond, including to comply with applicable provisions of comments will also become a matter of through the use of appropriate the RUS loan contract. RUS Borrowers public record. automated, electronic, mechanical, or submit requisitions to RUS for funds for other technological collection Dated: May 29, 2018. project costs incurred. Insured loan techniques or other forms of information funds will be advanced only for projects Christopher A. McLean, technology. Comments may be sent to: which are included in the RUS Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory approved borrowers workplan or [FR Doc. 2018–12414 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] Team, Rural Development Innovation approved amendment and in an BILLING CODE P Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, approved loan, as amended. The process 1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP of loan advances establishes the 1522, Room 5164, South Building, beginning of the audit trail of the use of DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Washington, DC 20250–1522. loan funds which is required to Telephone: (202) 690–1078, FAX: (202) subsequent RUS compliance audits. Rural Utilities Service 720–8435. Email: Michele.Brooks@ The RUS Form 595 is used as a wdc.usda.gov. requisition for advances of funds. The Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Title: Substantially Underserved Trust form helps to assure that loan funds are Areas. advanced only for the budget purposes Rural Utilities Service, USDA. AGENCY: OMB Control Number: 0572–0147. and amount approved by RUS. Notice and request for ACTION: Type of Request: Revision of a According to the applicable provisions comments. currently approved information of the RUS loan contract, borrowers collection. must certify with each request for funds SUMMARY: In accordance with the Abstract: The RUS provides loan, loan to be approved for advance, which such Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as guarantee and grant programs for rural funds are for projects previously amended), the Rural Utilities Service electric, water and waste, and approved. When a prospective borrower (RUS) invites comments on this telecommunications and broadband requests and is granted a RUS loan, a information collection for which RUS infrastructure. The SUTA initiative loan contract is established between the intends to request approval from the gives the Secretary of Agriculture Federal government, acting through the Office of Management and Budget certain discretionary authorities relating RUS Administrator, and the borrower. (OMB). to financial assistance terms and At the time this contract is entered into, conditions that can enhance the DATES: Comments on this notice must be the borrower must provide RUS with a financing possibilities in areas that are received by August 10, 2018. list of projects for which loan funds will underserved by certain RUS electric, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: water and waste, and be spent, along with an itemized list of the estimated costs of these projects. Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory telecommunications and broadband Thus, the borrower receives a loan Team, Rural Development Innovation programs. The data covered by this based upon estimated cost figures. Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, collection of information are those RUS Form 219, Inventory of Work 1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP materials necessary to allow the agency Orders, is one of the documents the 1522, Room 5164, South Building, to determine applicant and community daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES borrower submits to RUS to support Washington, DC 20250–1522. eligibility and an explanation and actual expenditures and an advance of Telephone: (202) 690–1078. FAX: (202) documentation of the high need for the loan funds. The form also serves as a 720–8435. Email: Michele.Brooks@ benefits of the SUTA provisions. connecting link and provides an audit wdc.usda.gov. Program specific application materials, trail that originates with the advance of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office which funds are being applied for, are funds and terminates with evidence of Management and Budget’s (OMB) covered by the information collection supporting the propriety of regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing package for the specific RUS program. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:19 Jun 08, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11JNN1.SGM 11JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2018 / Notices 26947 Estimate of Burden: Public reporting choose the duty rates during customs for operators/users located within a burden for this collection of information entry procedures that apply to: Gelatin grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context of is estimated to average 30 hours per encapsulated ibuprofen capsules (duty- the FTZ Board’s standard 2,000-acre response. free). Patheon would be able to avoid activation limit for a zone. The Estimated Number of Respondents: 1. duty on foreign-status components application was submitted pursuant to Estimated Number of Responses per which become scrap/waste. Customs the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as Respondent: 1. duties also could possibly be deferred or amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the Estimated Total Annual Burden on reduced on foreign-status production regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR Respondents: 30. equipment. part 400). It was formally docketed on Copies of this information collection The materials/components sourced June 4, 2018. can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, from abroad include: Ponceau R4 (food FTZ 113 was approved by the FTZ Regulatory Team, Rural Development coloring—for use only in production for Board on December 21, 1984 (Board Innovation Center, at (202) 720–7853, export); ibuprofen active Order 283, 50 FR 300, January 3, 1985) FAX: (202) 720–8435. Email: pharmaceutical ingredients; medium MaryPat.Daskal@wdc.usda.gov. and reorganized under the ASF on chain triglycerides; and, polyethylene All responses to this notice will be September 24, 2010 (Board Order 1708, glycol (duty rate ranges from 8.8ct/kg to summarized and included in the request 75 FR 61706, October 6, 2010). The zone 6.5%). for OMB approval. All comments will currently has a service area that Public comment is invited from also become a matter of public record. includes Ellis County, Texas. interested parties. Submissions shall be Dated: May 29, 2018. addressed to the Board’s Executive The applicant is now requesting Christopher A. McLean, Secretary at the address below. The authority to expand the service area of closing period for their receipt is July the zone to include Navarro County, Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 23, 2018. Texas, as described in the application. [FR Doc. 2018–12415 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] A copy of the notification will be If approved, the grantee would be able BILLING CODE P to serve sites throughout the expanded available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Secretary, service area based on companies’ needs Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room for FTZ designation. The application DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, indicates that the proposed expanded 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, service area is adjacent to the Dallas/ Foreign-Trade Zones Board Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the Fort Worth Customs and Border [B–34–2018] ‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s Protection Port of Entry. website, which is accessible via In accordance with the FTZ Board’s Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 230— www.trade.gov/ftz. regulations, Camille Evans of the FTZ Greensboro, North Carolina; For further information, contact Staff is designated examiner to evaluate Notification of Proposed Production Christopher Wedderburn at and analyze the facts and information Activity; Patheon Softgels Chris.Wedderburn@trade.gov or (202) presented in the application and case (Pharmaceutical Products); High Point, 482–1963. record and to report findings and North Carolina Dated: June 5, 2018. recommendations to the FTZ Board. The Piedmont Triad Partnership, Andrew McGilvray, Public comment is invited from grantee of FTZ 230, submitted a Executive Secretary. interested parties. Submissions shall be notification of proposed production [FR Doc. 2018–12496 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of Secretary at the address below. The BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P Patheon Softgels (Patheon), located in closing period for their receipt is August High Point, North Carolina. The 10, 2018. Rebuttal comments in notification conforming to the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE response to material submitted during requirements of the regulations of the the foregoing period may be submitted FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was Foreign-Trade Zones Board during the subsequent 15-day period to received on May 31, 2018. August 27, 2018. [B–37–2018] Patheon already has authority to produce certain prescription A copy of the application will be Foreign-Trade Zone 113—Ellis County, available for public inspection at the pharmaceutical products and soft Texas; Application for Reorganization gelatin capsules within Subzone 230C. Office of the Executive Secretary, (Expansion of Service Area); Under Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), Alternative Site Framework additional FTZ authority would be 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, limited to the specific foreign-status An application has been submitted to 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, materials/components and specific the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the finished products described in the the Ellis County Trade Zone ‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ submitted notification (as described Corporation, grantee of Foreign-Trade Board’s website, which is accessible via below) and subsequently authorized by Zone 113, requesting authority to www.trade.gov/ftz. the FTZ Board. reorganize the zone to expand its service For further information, contact Production under FTZ procedures area under the alternative site Camille Evans at Camille.Evans@ daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES could exempt Patheon from customs framework (ASF) adopted by the FTZ trade.gov or (202) 482–2350. duty payments on the foreign-status Board (15 CFR Sec. 400.2(c)). The ASF Dated: June 5, 2018. materials/components used in export is an option for grantees for the Andrew McGilvray, production. On its domestic sales, for establishment or reorganization of zones the foreign-status materials/components and can permit significantly greater Executive Secretary. noted below and in the existing scope flexibility in the designation of new [FR Doc. 2018–12497 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] of authority, Patheon would be able to subzones or ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ sites BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:19 Jun 08, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11JNN1.SGM 11JNN1


Document Created: 2018-11-02 11:59:01
Document Modified: 2018-11-02 11:59:01
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesComments on this notice must be received by August 10, 2018.
ContactMichele Brooks, Team Lead, Regulatory Team, Rural Development Innovation Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, STOP 1522, Room 5164, South Building, Washington, DC 20250-1522. Telephone: (202) 690-1078. FAX: (202) 720-8435. Email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 26946 
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