83_FR_33331 83 FR 33194 - Information Collection: Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems

83 FR 33194 - Information Collection: Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 137 (July 17, 2018)

Page Range33194-33195
FR Document2018-15228

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the USDA Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the renewal of a currently approved information collection, Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems (0596-0010), with a revision for a new sampling approach.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 137 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33194-33195]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-15228]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Information Collection: Forest Industries and Logging Operations 
Data Collection Systems

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
USDA Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals 
and organizations on the renewal of a currently approved information 
collection, Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection 
Systems (0596-0010), with a revision for a new sampling approach.

DATES: Comments must be received in writing on or before September 17, 
2018 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date 
will be considered to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this notice should be addressed to: 
USDA, Forest Service, Attn: James Bentley, Southern Research Station, 
Forest Inventory and Analysis, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 
37919. Comments also may be submitted via facsimile to 865-862-0262 or 
by email to: [email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available 
to the public through relevant websites and upon request. For this 
reason, please do not include in your comments information of a 
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or 
proprietary information. If you send an email comment, your email 
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the 
comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the 
internet. Please note that responses to this public comment request 
containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the 
communication will be treated as public comments that may be made 
available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine 
notice.
    The public may inspect comments received at the Southern Research 
Station, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN, during normal business 
hours. Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 865-862-2000 to 
facilitate entry to the building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Bentley, Southern Research 
Station, at 865-862-2056. Individuals who use telecommunication devices 
for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-
877-8339 twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection 
Systems.
    OMB Number: 0596-0010.
    Expiration Date of Approval: December 31, 2019.
    Type of Request: Renewal with Revision.
    Abstract: The Forest and Range Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 
1978 require the Forest Service to evaluate trends in the use of logs 
and wood chips, to forecast anticipated levels of logs and wood chips, 
and to analyze changes in the harvest of these resources from the 
Nation's forest resource. This important survey has been conducted 
since the 1940s, with various adjustments along the ways to accommodate 
new questions or data collection needs. Information provided in this 
data collection can be used to:
     Describe the timber resource and its use in detail;
     Evaluate trends in resource use;
     Forecast future anticipated level of demand on the 
resource; and
     Analyze the ramifications of any changes in timber demand.
    For this renewal, we are proposing a new sample design to guide the 
annual collection of information from primary wood-using mills, 
replacing the periodic approach. This new approach is more efficient 
and cost-effective, and ultimately will generate more accurate, 
comprehensive, and timely information.
    To collect this information, USDA Forest Service or state natural 
resource agency personnel will use three questionnaires. Two 
questionnaires, the Pulpwood Questionnaire and the Logs and Other 
Roundwood Questionnaire, will be paper or electronic. Paper 
questionnaires will be returned in pre-paid postage envelopes, and 
electronic questionnaires returned via email. The third questionnaire, 
the Logging Operations Questionnaire, will be administered in person by 
field personnel collecting tree utilization data at sampled logging 
sites.
    Pulpwood Received Questionnaire: USDA Forest Service personnel will 
use this questionnaire to collect and evaluate information from pulp 
mills in order to monitor the volume, types, species, sources, and 
prices of timber products harvested throughout the United States. The 
data collected will be used to provide essential information about the 
current use of the Nation's timber resources for pulpwood industrial 
products and is not available from other sources.
    Logs and Other Roundwood Received Questionnaire: This questionnaire 
is used by USDA Forest Service or state natural resource agency 
personnel to collect and evaluate information from the other, non-pulp, 
primary wood-using mills, including small, part-time mills, as well as 
large corporate entities. Primary wood-using mills are facilities that 
use harvested wood in log or chip form, such as sawlogs, veneer logs, 
composite panel, posts, and poles, to manufacture a secondary product, 
such as lumber or veneer. USDA Forest Service personnel evaluate the 
information collected and use it to monitor the volume types, species, 
sources, and prices of timber products harvested throughout the United 
States.
    Logging Operations Questionnaire: This questionnaire is used by 
USDA Forest Service and/or state natural resource agency personnel to 
collect and evaluate information from logging operations, to help 
characterize the logging industry and its response to outside 
influences. The information will be used to measure the `health' of the 
logging industry, as well as to provide background information for 
decision-making.
    Affected Public: Individuals and the Private Sector (Businesses and 
Non-Profit Organizations), in particular mill owners, procurement 
foresters, logging operations owners, and loggers will be affected.

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    Estimate of Burden per Response: An average of 30 minutes for the 
Pulpwood Questionnaire for 132 respondents (estimated); an average of 
42 minutes for the Logs and Other Roundwood Questionnaire for 2,875 
respondents (estimated); an average of 11 minutes for the Logging 
Operations Questionnaire for 435 respondents (estimated).
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 3,442.
    Estimated Annual Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 2,147 hours.

Comment Is Invited

    Comment is invited on: (1) Whether this collection of information 
is necessary for the stated purposes and the proper performance of the 
functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have 
practical or scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the Agency's 
estimate of the burden of the collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 
the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; 
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
respondents, including the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or 
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    All comments received in response to this notice, including names 
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record. 
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission request 
toward Office of Management and Budget approval.

    Dated: June 29, 2108.
Carlos Rodriguez-Franco,
Deputy Chief for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 2018-15228 Filed 7-16-18; 8:45 am]
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33194 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 137 / Tuesday, July 17, 2018 / Notices is estimated to average 0.45 hours per upon request. For this reason, please do efficient and cost-effective, and response. not include in your comments ultimately will generate more accurate, Respondents: National plant information of a confidential nature, comprehensive, and timely information. protection organization officials of such as sensitive personal information To collect this information, USDA countries exporting to the United States or proprietary information. If you send Forest Service or state natural resource and businesses. an email comment, your email address agency personnel will use three Estimated annual number of will be automatically captured and questionnaires. Two questionnaires, the respondents: 65. included as part of the comment that is Pulpwood Questionnaire and the Logs Estimated annual number of placed in the public docket and made and Other Roundwood Questionnaire, responses per respondent: 13. available on the internet. Please note will be paper or electronic. Paper Estimated annual number of that responses to this public comment questionnaires will be returned in pre- responses: 855. request containing any routine notice paid postage envelopes, and electronic Estimated total annual burden on about the confidentiality of the questionnaires returned via email. The respondents: 381 hours. (Due to communication will be treated as public third questionnaire, the Logging averaging, the total annual burden hours comments that may be made available to Operations Questionnaire, will be may not equal the product of the annual the public notwithstanding the administered in person by field number of responses multiplied by the inclusion of the routine notice. personnel collecting tree utilization data reporting burden per response.) The public may inspect comments at sampled logging sites. All responses to this notice will be received at the Southern Research Pulpwood Received Questionnaire: summarized and included in the request Station, 4700 Old Kingston Pike, USDA Forest Service personnel will use for OMB approval. All comments will Knoxville, TN, during normal business this questionnaire to collect and also become a matter of public record. hours. Visitors are encouraged to call evaluate information from pulp mills in Done in Washington, DC, this 11th day of ahead to 865–862–2000 to facilitate order to monitor the volume, types, July 2018. entry to the building. species, sources, and prices of timber Kevin Shea, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: products harvested throughout the Administrator, Animal and Plant Health James Bentley, Southern Research United States. The data collected will be Inspection Service. Station, at 865–862–2056. Individuals used to provide essential information [FR Doc. 2018–15230 Filed 7–16–18; 8:45 am] who use telecommunication devices for about the current use of the Nation’s BILLING CODE 3410–34–P the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal timber resources for pulpwood Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 industrial products and is not available twenty-four hours a day, every day of from other sources. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE the year, including holidays. Logs and Other Roundwood Received SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Questionnaire: This questionnaire is Forest Service used by USDA Forest Service or state Title: Forest Industries and Logging Operations Data Collection Systems. natural resource agency personnel to Information Collection: Forest OMB Number: 0596–0010. collect and evaluate information from Industries and Logging Operations Expiration Date of Approval: the other, non-pulp, primary wood- Data Collection Systems December 31, 2019. using mills, including small, part-time AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. Type of Request: Renewal with mills, as well as large corporate entities. ACTION: Notice; request for comment. Revision. Primary wood-using mills are facilities Abstract: The Forest and Range that use harvested wood in log or chip SUMMARY: In accordance with the Renewable Resources Planning Act of form, such as sawlogs, veneer logs, Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 1974 and the Forest and Rangeland composite panel, posts, and poles, to USDA Forest Service is seeking Renewable Resources Research Act of manufacture a secondary product, such comments from all interested 1978 require the Forest Service to as lumber or veneer. USDA Forest individuals and organizations on the evaluate trends in the use of logs and Service personnel evaluate the renewal of a currently approved wood chips, to forecast anticipated information collected and use it to information collection, Forest Industries levels of logs and wood chips, and to monitor the volume types, species, and Logging Operations Data Collection analyze changes in the harvest of these sources, and prices of timber products Systems (0596–0010), with a revision for resources from the Nation’s forest harvested throughout the United States. a new sampling approach. resource. This important survey has Logging Operations Questionnaire: DATES: Comments must be received in been conducted since the 1940s, with This questionnaire is used by USDA writing on or before September 17, 2018 various adjustments along the ways to Forest Service and/or state natural to be assured of consideration. accommodate new questions or data resource agency personnel to collect and Comments received after that date will collection needs. Information provided evaluate information from logging be considered to the extent practicable. in this data collection can be used to: operations, to help characterize the ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this • Describe the timber resource and its logging industry and its response to notice should be addressed to: USDA, use in detail; outside influences. The information will Forest Service, Attn: James Bentley, • Evaluate trends in resource use; be used to measure the ‘health’ of the Southern Research Station, Forest • Forecast future anticipated level of logging industry, as well as to provide Inventory and Analysis, 4700 Old demand on the resource; and background information for decision- daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. • Analyze the ramifications of any making. Comments also may be submitted via changes in timber demand. Affected Public: Individuals and the facsimile to 865–862–0262 or by email For this renewal, we are proposing a Private Sector (Businesses and Non- to: jamesbentley@fs.fed.us. new sample design to guide the annual Profit Organizations), in particular mill Comments submitted in response to collection of information from primary owners, procurement foresters, logging this notice may be made available to the wood-using mills, replacing the periodic operations owners, and loggers will be public through relevant websites and approach. This new approach is more affected. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:07 Jul 16, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17JYN1.SGM 17JYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 137 / Tuesday, July 17, 2018 / Notices 33195 Estimate of Burden per Response: An ways to minimize the burden of the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE average of 30 minutes for the Pulpwood collection of information on Questionnaire for 132 respondents respondents, including the use of Economic Development Administration (estimated); an average of 42 minutes for automated, electronic, mechanical, or the Logs and Other Roundwood Notice of Petitions by Firms for other technological collection Questionnaire for 2,875 respondents Determination of Eligibility To Apply techniques or other forms of information (estimated); an average of 11 minutes for for Trade Adjustment Assistance technology. the Logging Operations Questionnaire AGENCY: Economic Development for 435 respondents (estimated). All comments received in response to this notice, including names and Administration, U.S. Department of Estimated Annual Number of addresses when provided, will be a Commerce. Respondents: 3,442. Estimated Annual Number of matter of public record. Comments will ACTION: Notice and opportunity for Responses per Respondent: 1. be summarized and included in the public comment. Estimated Total Annual Burden on submission request toward Office of Respondents: 2,147 hours. SUMMARY: The Economic Development Management and Budget approval. Administration (EDA) has received Comment Is Invited Dated: June 29, 2108. petitions for certification of eligibility to Comment is invited on: (1) Whether Carlos Rodriguez-Franco, apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance this collection of information is Deputy Chief for Research and Development. from the firms listed below. necessary for the stated purposes and [FR Doc. 2018–15228 Filed 7–16–18; 8:45 am] Accordingly, EDA has initiated the proper performance of the functions investigations to determine whether BILLING CODE 3411–15–P of the Agency, including whether the increased imports into the United States information will have practical or of articles like or directly competitive scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the with those produced by each of the Agency’s estimate of the burden of the firms contributed importantly to the collection of information, including the total or partial separation of the firms’ validity of the methodology and workers, or threat thereof, and to a assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance decrease in sales or production of each the quality, utility, and clarity of the petitioning firm. information to be collected; and (4) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE [06/27/2018 through 07/10/2018] Date accepted Firm name Firm address for Product(s) investigation Centerless Technology, Inc ..... 45 Wells Street, Rochester, 6/27/2018 The firm manufactures steel parts through precision grinding. NY 14611. DeLong’s, Inc .......................... 301 Dix Road, Jefferson City, 6/27/2018 The firm manufactures fabricated structural steel products. MO 65109. Fusion Systems, Inc. d/b/a Fu- 6951 High Grove Boulevard, 7/2/2018 The firm manufactures electro-mechanical devices, control sion OEM. Burr Ridge, IL 60527. systems, and communications equipment as well as asso- ciated racks, cabinets and housings. The firm also pro- vides related assembly services. La Mar Lighting Company, Inc. 485 Smith Street, Farming- 7/3/2018 The firm manufactures fluorescent and light-emitting diode dale, NY 11735. (LED) light fixtures as well as related sensor controls. Any party having a substantial these petitions are submitted is 11.313, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE interest in these proceedings may Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. request a public hearing on the matter. International Trade Administration A written request for a hearing must be Irette Patterson, [A–570–088] submitted to the Trade Adjustment Program Analyst. Assistance Division, Room 71030, [FR Doc. 2018–15203 Filed 7–16–18; 8:45 am] Steel Racks From the People’s Economic Development Administration, BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P Republic of China: Initiation of Less- U.S. Department of Commerce, Than-Fair-Value Investigation Washington, DC 20230, no later than ten (10) calendar days following publication AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, of this notice. These petitions are International Trade Administration, received pursuant to section 251 of the Department of Commerce. daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Trade Act of 1974, as amended. DATES: Applicable July 10, 2018. Please follow the requirements set FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR Jonathan Hill or Patrick O’Connor at 315.9 for procedures to request a public (202) 482–3518 or (202) 482–0989, hearing. The Catalog of Federal respectively; AD/CVD Operations, Domestic Assistance official number Enforcement and Compliance, and title for the program under which International Trade Administration, VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:07 Jul 16, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17JYN1.SGM 17JYN1


Document Created: 2018-07-17 01:39:30
Document Modified: 2018-07-17 01:39:30
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice; request for comment.
DatesComments must be received in writing on or before September 17, 2018 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable.
ContactJames Bentley, Southern Research Station, at 865-862-2056. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800- 877-8339 twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, including holidays.
FR Citation83 FR 33194 
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