83_FR_42623 83 FR 42460 - Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

83 FR 42460 - Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 163 (August 22, 2018)

Page Range42460-42461
FR Document2018-17986

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), invites comments on this information collection for which approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be requested.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 163 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42460-42461]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17986]


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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, the 
Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture (USDA), invites comments on this information collection for 
which approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will be 
requested.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by October 22, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Rural 
Development Innovation Center--Regulatory Team, USDA, 1400 Independence 
Ave., SW, STOP 1522, Room 5162 South Building, Washington, DC 20250-
1522. Telephone: (202) 690-1078. 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 will 
be submitted to OMB for approval.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including

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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, Rural 
Development Innovation Center--Regulatory Team, USDA, STOP 1522, 1400 
Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20250-1522. Email: 
[email protected].
    Title: 7 CFR part 1738, Rural Broadband Loans and Loan Guarantee 
Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0572-0130.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Abstract: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), is authorized by Title 
VI, Rural Broadband Access, of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, 
as amended (RE Act), to provide loans and loan guarantees to fund the 
cost of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and 
equipment for the provision of broadband service in eligible rural 
areas in the States and Territories of the United States. 7 CFR part 
1738 prescribes the types of loans available, facilities financed, and 
eligible applicants, as well as minimum equity requirements to be 
considered for a loan. In addition, 7 CFR part 1738 outlines the 
process through which RUS will consider applicants under the priority 
consideration required in Title VI.
    The term of the loan is based on the expected composite economic 
life based on the depreciation rates of the facilities financed. The 
term of the loan can be as high as 35years. These loans are secured by 
a first lien on the borrower's broadband system. In the interest of 
protecting loan security and accomplishing the statutory objective of a 
sound program of rural broadband service access, Title VI of the RE Act 
further requires that RUS make or guarantee a loan only if there is 
reasonable assurance that the loan, together with all outstanding loans 
and obligations of the borrower, will be repaid in full within the time 
agreed.
    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated as 100 hours per response.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 18.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 4.5.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 7,305 hours.
    Copies of this information collection can be obtained from MaryPat 
Daskal, Rural Development Innovation Center-Regulatory Team, at (202) 
720-7853. 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: August 14, 2018.
Kenneth L. Johnson,
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-17986 Filed 8-21-18; 8:45 am]
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42460 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 163 / Wednesday, August 22, 2018 / Notices SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • Personally identifiable information Estimated annual number of Title: Qualitative Feedback on Agency is collected only to the extent necessary responses per respondent: 1. Service Delivery. and is not retained; Estimated annual number of OMB Control Number: 0579–0377. • Information gathered is intended to responses: 70,000. Type of Request: Extension of be used only internally for general Estimated total annual burden on approval of an information collection. service improvement and program respondents: 17,500 hours. (Due to Abstract: This information collection management purposes and is not averaging, the total annual burden hours activity provides a means for the intended for release outside of APHIS (if may not equal the product of the annual Animal and Plant Health Inspection released, APHIS must indicate the number of responses multiplied by the Service (APHIS) to garner qualitative qualitative nature of the information); reporting burden per response.) customer and stakeholder feedback in • Information gathered will not be All responses to this notice will be an efficient, timely manner, in used for the purpose of substantially summarized and included in the request accordance with APHIS’ commitment to informing influential policy decisions; for OMB approval. All comments will improving service delivery. and also become a matter of public record. By qualitative feedback, we mean • Information gathered will yield Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of information that provides useful qualitative information (i.e. the August 2018. insights on perceptions and opinions, collection will not be designed or Kevin Shea, but not statistical surveys that yield expected to yield statistically reliable Administrator, Animal and Plant Health quantitative results that can be results or used as though the results are Inspection Service. generalized to the population of study. generalizable to the population of [FR Doc. 2018–18137 Filed 8–21–18; 8:45 am] This feedback will provide insights into study). BILLING CODE 3410–34–P customer or stakeholder perceptions, As a general matter, this information experiences, and expectations; provide collection will not result in any new an early warning of issues with service; system of records containing privacy DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE or focus attention on areas where information and will not ask questions communication, training, or changes in of a sensitive nature, such as sexual Rural Utilities Service operations might improve delivery of behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly Information Collection Activity; products or services. This collection considered private. Comment Request will allow for ongoing, generic collaborative and actionable We are asking the Office of Rural Utilities Service, USDA. AGENCY: communications between APHIS and its Management and Budget (OMB) to Notice and request for ACTION: customers and stakeholders. It will also approve our use of these information comments. allow feedback to contribute directly to collection activities for 3 years. the improvement of program The purpose of this notice is to solicit SUMMARY: In accordance with the management. comments from the public (as well as Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the The solicitation of feedback will target affected agencies) concerning our Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the areas such as: Timeliness, information collection. These comments U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), appropriateness, accuracy of will help us: invites comments on this information information, courtesy, efficiency of (1) Evaluate whether the collection of collection for which approval from the service delivery, and resolution of information is necessary for the proper Office of Management and Budget issues with service delivery. Responses performance of the functions of the (OMB) will be requested. will be assessed to plan and inform Agency, including whether the DATES: Comments on this notice must be efforts to improve or maintain the information will have practical utility; received by October 22, 2018. quality of service offered to the public. (2) Evaluate the accuracy of our FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If this information is not collected, vital estimate of the burden of the collection Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Rural feedback from customers and of information, including the validity of Development Innovation Center— stakeholders on APHIS’ services will be the methodology and assumptions used; Regulatory Team, USDA, 1400 unavailable. (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and Independence Ave., SW, STOP 1522, APHIS will only submit a collection clarity of the information to be Room 5162 South Building, for approval under this generic collected; and Washington, DC 20250–1522. clearance if it meets the following (4) Minimize the burden of the Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Email: conditions: collection of information on those who Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov. • The collection is voluntary; are to respond, through use, as SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office • The collection is low-burden for appropriate, of automated, electronic, of Management and Budget’s (OMB) respondents (based on considerations of mechanical, and other collection regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing total burden hours, total number of technologies; e.g., permitting electronic provisions of the Paperwork Reduction respondents, or burden hours per submission of responses. Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires respondent) and is low cost for both the Estimate of burden: The public that interested members of the public respondents and the Federal reporting burden for this collection of and affected agencies have an Government; information is estimated to average 0.25 opportunity to comment on information • The collection is non-controversial hours per response. collection and recordkeeping activities amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 and does not raise issues of concern to Respondents: Individuals and (see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice other Federal agencies; households; businesses and identifies an information collection that • The collection is targeted to the organizations; State, local, or Tribal will be submitted to OMB for approval. solicitation of opinions from governments; and foreign federal Comments are invited on: (a) Whether respondents who have experience with governments. the proposed collection of information the program or may have experience Estimated annual number of is necessary for the proper performance with the program in the near future; respondents: 70,000. of the functions of the agency, including VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:34 Aug 21, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22AUN1.SGM 22AUN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 163 / Wednesday, August 22, 2018 / Notices 42461 whether the information will have Estimated Number of Respondents: Whereas, the Board adopts the practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 18. findings and recommendations of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the Estimated Number of Responses per examiner’s report, and finds that the proposed collection of information Respondent: 4.5. requirements of the FTZ Act and the including the validity of the Estimated Total Annual Burden on Board’s regulations have not been methodology and assumptions used; (c) Respondents: 7,305 hours. satisfied; ways to enhance the quality, utility and Copies of this information collection Now, therefore, the Board hereby does clarity of the information to be can be obtained from MaryPat Daskal, not approve the application requesting collected; and (d) ways to minimize the Rural Development Innovation Center- additional production authority under burden of the collection of information Regulatory Team, at (202) 720–7853. zone procedures within Subzone 119I at on those who are to respond, including Email: MaryPat.Daskal@wdc.usda.gov. the facility of The Coleman Company, through the use of appropriate All responses to this notice will be Inc., located in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, automated, electronic, mechanical, or summarized and included in the request as described in the application and other technological collection for OMB approval. All comments will Federal Register notice. techniques or other forms of information also become a matter of public record. Dated: August 16, 2018. technology. Comments may be sent to: Dated: August 14, 2018. Michele Brooks, Team Lead, Rural Gary Taverman, Kenneth L. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping Development Innovation Center— Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. and Countervailing Duty Operations, Regulatory Team, USDA, STOP 1522, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, [FR Doc. 2018–17986 Filed 8–21–18; 8:45 am] performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for Washington, DC 20250–1522. Email: BILLING CODE P Enforcement and Compliance Alternate Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov. Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board. Title: 7 CFR part 1738, Rural [FR Doc. 2018–18094 Filed 8–21–18; 8:45 am] Broadband Loans and Loan Guarantee DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P Program. OMB Control Number: 0572–0130. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Type of Request: Revision of a [Order No. 2056] currently approved information DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE collection. Additional Production Authority Not International Trade Administration Abstract: The Rural Utilities Service Approved; The Coleman Company, (RUS), is authorized by Title VI, Rural Inc.; Subzone 119I (Textile-Based Broadband Access, of the Rural [A–570–929] Personal Flotation Devices); Sauk Electrification Act of 1936, as amended Rapids, Minnesota (RE Act), to provide loans and loan Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes guarantees to fund the cost of Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign- From the People’s Republic of China: construction, improvement, or Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as Notice of Rescission of Antidumping acquisition of facilities and equipment amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the Foreign- Duty Administrative Review; 2017– for the provision of broadband service Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 2018 following Order: in eligible rural areas in the States and AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, Territories of the United States. 7 CFR Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones International Trade Administration, part 1738 prescribes the types of loans (FTZ) Act provides for ‘‘. . . the Department of Commerce. available, facilities financed, and establishment . . . of foreign-trade eligible applicants, as well as minimum zones in ports of entry of the United SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce equity requirements to be considered for States, to expedite and encourage (Commerce) is rescinding the a loan. In addition, 7 CFR part 1738 foreign commerce, and for other administrative review of the outlines the process through which RUS purposes,’’ and authorizes the Foreign- antidumping duty order on small will consider applicants under the Trade Zones Board to grant to qualified diameter graphite electrodes from the priority consideration required in Title corporations the privilege of People’s Republic of China (China) for VI. establishing foreign-trade zones in or the period February 1, 2017, through The term of the loan is based on the adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border January 31, 2018, based on the timely expected composite economic life based Protection ports of entry; withdrawal of the requests for review. on the depreciation rates of the facilities Whereas, The Coleman Company, DATES: Applicable August 22, 2018. financed. The term of the loan can be as Inc., operator of Subzone 119I, has FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: high as 35years. These loans are secured requested additional production Dennis McClure or John Anwesen, AD/ by a first lien on the borrower’s authority for its facility in Sauk Rapids, CVD Operations, Office VIII, broadband system. In the interest of Minnesota, (B–53–2015, docketed Enforcement and Compliance, protecting loan security and August 12, 2015); International Trade Administration, accomplishing the statutory objective of Whereas, notice inviting public U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 a sound program of rural broadband comment has been given in the Federal Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, service access, Title VI of the RE Act Register (80 FR 49986, August 18, 2015; DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5973 or further requires that RUS make or 80 FR 61792, October 14, 2015; 80 FR (202) 482–0131, respectively. guarantee a loan only if there is 68504, November 5, 2015; 80 FR 74754– amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 reasonable assurance that the loan, 74755, November 30, 2015; 80 FR SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: together with all outstanding loans and 79820, December 23, 2015; 81 FR 8173, Background obligations of the borrower, will be February 18, 2016; 82 FR 27039, June repaid in full within the time agreed. 13, 2017; 82 FR 39982, August 23, 2017) On February 26, 2009, Commerce Estimate of Burden: Public reporting and the application has been processed published in the Federal Register the burden for this collection of information pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s antidumping duty order on small is estimated as 100 hours per response. regulations; and, diameter graphite electrodes from VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:34 Aug 21, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22AUN1.SGM 22AUN1


Document Created: 2018-08-22 00:38:40
Document Modified: 2018-08-22 00:38:40
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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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 October 22, 2018.
ContactMichele Brooks, Team Lead, Rural Development Innovation Center--Regulatory Team, USDA, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, STOP 1522, Room 5162 South Building, Washington, DC 20250- 1522. Telephone: (202) 690-1078. Email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 42460 
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