83 FR 63825 - Notice of Request for Reinstatement of Approval of an Information Collection; Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 238 (December 12, 2018)

Page Range		63825-63826
FR Document		2018-26862

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request a reinstatement of approval of an information collection associated with the Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2018-0080]


Notice of Request for Reinstatement of Approval of an Information 
Collection; Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Reinstatement 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 reinstatement of approval of an information 
collection associated with the Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis 
Eradication Program.

DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before 
February 11, 2019.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2018-0080.
     Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Send your comment to 
Docket No. APHIS-2018-0080, 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 http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2018-
0080 or in our reading room, which is located in room 1141 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 Cooperative 
State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program, contact Dr. Mark 
Camacho, National Cattle Health Epidemiologist, Surveillance, 
Preparedness, and Response Services, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 920 
Campus Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27606; (919) 855-7249. For more 
detailed information on the information collection, contact Ms. 
Kimberly Hardy, APHIS' Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 
851-2483.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0579-0047.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement of approval of an information 
collection.
    Abstract: The Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.) 
of 2002 is the primary Federal law governing the protection of animal 
health. The law gives the Secretary of Agriculture broad authority to 
detect, control, or eradicate pests or diseases of livestock or 
poultry. The Secretary may also prohibit or restrict import or export 
of any animal or related material if necessary to prevent the spread of 
any livestock or poultry pest or disease.
    Disease prevention and disease surveillance are the most effective 
methods for maintaining a healthy animal population and for enhancing 
the United States' ability to compete in the world market of animal and 
animal product trade. The Veterinary Services (VS) unit of the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service (APHIS) is responsible for administering regulations intended 
to protect the health of the U.S. livestock population.
    Brucellosis is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused 
by bacteria of the genus Brucella. The disease is characterized by 
abortions and impaired fertility in its principal animal hosts. The 
disease infects humans through contact with infected animals or with 
certain body fluids of infected animals. Usually Brucella abortus is 
associated with the disease in cattle or bison, Brucella suis with the 
disease in swine, and Brucella melitensis with the disease in sheep and 
goats. The continued presence of brucellosis in a herd seriously 
threatens the health, welfare, and economic viability of the livestock 
industry. There is no economically feasible treatment for brucellosis 
in livestock.
    The Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program is a 
national program to eliminate this serious disease of livestock. The 
program is conducted under the authority of the various States and 
supplemented by Federal authorities regulating interstate movement of 
infected animals. Regulations in 9 CFR part 78 outline the Cooperative 
State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program. The regulations include 
required surveillance, epidemiological investigation, annual reporting, 
and interstate movement activities that must be documented.
    Minimum program standards known as the Brucellosis Eradication 
Uniform Methods and Rules (UM&R) have been developed cooperatively by 
organizations representing the livestock industry, State animal health 
agencies, and the USDA. State and Federal officials in charge of 
program activities in each State are responsible for continuously 
evaluating the efficiency of local procedures in locating and 
eliminating infected livestock. The minimum standards in the UM&R must 
be met or exceeded throughout the certification period to maintain 
continuous status. Meeting these standards requires information 
collection.
    Information is generally collected by State and Federal animal 
health officials through interviews or reviewing records. In addition, 
the information on some documents may be collected by private 
veterinary practitioners (i.e., test charts, vaccination records, and 
official Certificates of Veterinary Inspection) or blood collection 
personnel on contract (i.e., market cattle slaughter surveillance blood 
collection forms and brucellosis ring testing milk sample collection 
forms). The information is collected at the time each appropriate event 
occurs. In most instances, information is collected when testing or 
vaccinating individual animals or herds, applying official 
identification to animals, or conducting surveillance or 
epidemiological investigation activities. Some events, such as market 
cattle slaughter surveillance, occur daily. Other events, such as on-
farm blood testing and vaccination, occur as part of

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routine animal health management. A few events, such as infected-herd 
investigations, occur only a few times a year.
    In addition, the bovine brucellosis program regulations in part 78 
provide a system for classifying States or portions of States according 
to the rate of B. abortus infection present and the general 
effectiveness of a brucellosis control and eradication program. The 
program also provides for the creation of brucellosis management areas 
within a State and for testing and movement mitigation activities 
before regulated animals are permitted to move interstate. This system 
enhances the ability of States to move healthy, brucellosis-free cattle 
and bison interstate and internationally. This management area and 
testing system also enhances the effectiveness of the Brucellosis 
Eradication Program by decreasing the likelihood that infected animals 
will be moved interstate or internationally.
    The creation of brucellosis management areas allows States that 
have found B. abortus in wildlife (which are nonregulated animals) to 
mitigate the risk of transmission and spread of disease while 
maintaining the State's disease-free status in regulated domestic 
livestock. The State must sign a memorandum of understanding with the 
Administrator that describes its brucellosis management plan. The 
brucellosis management plan developed by the State must define the 
geographic brucellosis management area and describe the surveillance 
and mitigation activities that the State will conduct to identify 
occurrence of B. abortus in domestic livestock and wildlife and 
potential risks for spread of the disease.
    We are asking 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 0.25 hours per response.
    Respondents: Commercial livestock farm owners and managers; animal 
agriculture-related business owners and managers; private 
veterinarians; animal agriculture-related agencies and organizations; 
breed registry agencies; agriculture extension agents; fair and 
exhibition officials; owners, operators, and managers of livestock 
markets; owners, operators, and managers of slaughter establishments 
and dairy plants; and State animal health officials and laboratory 
personnel (including wildlife biologists).
    Estimated annual number of respondents: 82,884.
    Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 12.
    Estimated annual number of responses: 955,943.
    Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 241,387 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 6th day of December 2018.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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Notices Federal Register
Vol. 83, No. 238

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER please call (202) 799–7039 before and economic viability of the livestock
contains documents other than rules or coming. industry. There is no economically
proposed rules that are applicable to the feasible treatment for brucellosis in
public. Notices of hearings and investigations, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the Cooperative State- livestock.
committee meetings, agency decisions and The Cooperative State-Federal
rulings, delegations of authority, filing of Federal Brucellosis Eradication
petitions and applications and agency Program, contact Dr. Mark Camacho, Brucellosis Eradication Program is a
statements of organization and functions are National Cattle Health Epidemiologist, national program to eliminate this
examples of documents appearing in this Surveillance, Preparedness, and serious disease of livestock. The
section. Response Services, Veterinary Services, program is conducted under the
APHIS, 920 Campus Drive, Suite 200, authority of the various States and
Raleigh, NC 27606; (919) 855–7249. For supplemented by Federal authorities
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE more detailed information on the regulating interstate movement of
information collection, contact Ms. infected animals. Regulations in 9 CFR
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Kimberly Hardy, APHIS’ Information part 78 outline the Cooperative State-
Service Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851– Federal Brucellosis Eradication
[Docket No. APHIS–2018–0080] 2483. Program. The regulations include
required surveillance, epidemiological
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice of Request for Reinstatement of Title: Cooperative State-Federal investigation, annual reporting, and
Approval of an Information Collection; Brucellosis Eradication Program. interstate movement activities that must
Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis OMB Control Number: 0579–0047. be documented.
Eradication Program Type of Request: Reinstatement of Minimum program standards known
approval of an information collection. as the Brucellosis Eradication Uniform
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Methods and Rules (UM&R) have been
Abstract: The Animal Health
Inspection Service, USDA. developed cooperatively by
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.) of
ACTION: Reinstatement of approval of an 2002 is the primary Federal law organizations representing the livestock
information collection; comment governing the protection of animal industry, State animal health agencies,
request. health. The law gives the Secretary of and the USDA. State and Federal
Agriculture broad authority to detect, officials in charge of program activities
SUMMARY: In accordance with the in each State are responsible for
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this control, or eradicate pests or diseases of
livestock or poultry. The Secretary may continuously evaluating the efficiency
notice announces the Animal and Plant of local procedures in locating and
Health Inspection Service’s intention to also prohibit or restrict import or export
of any animal or related material if eliminating infected livestock. The
request a reinstatement of approval of minimum standards in the UM&R must
an information collection associated necessary to prevent the spread of any
livestock or poultry pest or disease. be met or exceeded throughout the
with the Cooperative State-Federal certification period to maintain
Disease prevention and disease
Brucellosis Eradication Program. continuous status. Meeting these
surveillance are the most effective
DATES: We will consider all comments methods for maintaining a healthy standards requires information
that we receive on or before February animal population and for enhancing collection.
11, 2019. the United States’ ability to compete in Information is generally collected by
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments the world market of animal and animal State and Federal animal health officials
by either of the following methods: product trade. The Veterinary Services through interviews or reviewing
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to (VS) unit of the U.S. Department of records. In addition, the information on
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant some documents may be collected by
Detail;D=APHIS-2018-0080. Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is private veterinary practitioners (i.e., test
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: responsible for administering charts, vaccination records, and official
Send your comment to Docket No. regulations intended to protect the Certificates of Veterinary Inspection) or
APHIS–2018–0080, Regulatory Analysis health of the U.S. livestock population. blood collection personnel on contract
and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station Brucellosis is an infectious disease of (i.e., market cattle slaughter surveillance
3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, animals and humans caused by bacteria blood collection forms and brucellosis
Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. of the genus Brucella. The disease is ring testing milk sample collection
Supporting documents and any characterized by abortions and impaired forms). The information is collected at
comments we receive on this docket fertility in its principal animal hosts. the time each appropriate event occurs.
may be viewed at http:// The disease infects humans through In most instances, information is
www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail; contact with infected animals or with collected when testing or vaccinating
D=APHIS-2018-0080 or in our reading certain body fluids of infected animals. individual animals or herds, applying
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room, which is located in room 1141 of Usually Brucella abortus is associated official identification to animals, or
the USDA South Building, 14th Street with the disease in cattle or bison, conducting surveillance or
and Independence Avenue SW, Brucella suis with the disease in swine, epidemiological investigation activities.
Washington, DC. Normal reading room and Brucella melitensis with the disease Some events, such as market cattle
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday in sheep and goats. The continued slaughter surveillance, occur daily.
through Friday, except holidays. To be presence of brucellosis in a herd Other events, such as on-farm blood
sure someone is there to help you, seriously threatens the health, welfare, testing and vaccination, occur as part of

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routine animal health management. A are to respond, through use, as Regulations, including notice in the
few events, such as infected-herd appropriate, of automated, electronic, Federal Register inviting public
investigations, occur only a few times a mechanical, and other collection comment (83 FR 53212, October 22,
year. technologies; e.g., permitting electronic 2018). The FTZ staff examiner reviewed
In addition, the bovine brucellosis submission of responses. the application and determined that it
program regulations in part 78 provide Estimate of burden: The public meets the criteria for approval.
a system for classifying States or burden for this collection of information
portions of States according to the rate is estimated to average 0.25 hours per Pursuant to the authority delegated to
of B. abortus infection present and the response. the FTZ Board’s Executive Secretary (15
general effectiveness of a brucellosis Respondents: Commercial livestock CFR Sec. 400.36(f)), the application to
control and eradication program. The farm owners and managers; animal establish Subzone 168F was approved
program also provides for the creation of agriculture-related business owners and on December 6, 2018, subject to the FTZ
brucellosis management areas within a managers; private veterinarians; animal Act and the Board’s regulations,
State and for testing and movement agriculture-related agencies and including Section 400.13, and further
mitigation activities before regulated organizations; breed registry agencies; subject to FTZ 168’s 1,955.59-acre
animals are permitted to move agriculture extension agents; fair and activation limit.
interstate. This system enhances the exhibition officials; owners, operators,
Dated: December 6, 2018.
ability of States to move healthy, and managers of livestock markets;
brucellosis-free cattle and bison owners, operators, and managers of Andrew McGilvray,
interstate and internationally. This slaughter establishments and dairy Executive Secretary.
management area and testing system plants; and State animal health officials [FR Doc. 2018–26872 Filed 12–11–18; 8:45 am]
also enhances the effectiveness of the and laboratory personnel (including BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
Brucellosis Eradication Program by wildlife biologists).
decreasing the likelihood that infected Estimated annual number of
animals will be moved interstate or respondents: 82,884. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
internationally. Estimated annual number of
The creation of brucellosis responses per respondent: 12. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
management areas allows States that Estimated annual number of
have found B. abortus in wildlife (which responses: 955,943. [S–173–2018]
are nonregulated animals) to mitigate Estimated total annual burden on
the risk of transmission and spread of respondents: 241,387 hours. (Due to Approval of Subzone Status: BAUER-
disease while maintaining the State’s averaging, the total annual burden hours Pileco Inc., Conroe, Texas
disease-free status in regulated domestic may not equal the product of the annual
livestock. The State must sign a number of responses multiplied by the On October 19, 2018, the Executive
memorandum of understanding with the reporting burden per response.) Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones
Administrator that describes its All responses to this notice will be
(FTZ) Board docketed an application
brucellosis management plan. The summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will submitted by the Port of Houston
brucellosis management plan developed Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, requesting
by the State must define the geographic also become a matter of public record.
subzone status subject to the existing
brucellosis management area and Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of
activation limit of FTZ 84, on behalf of
describe the surveillance and mitigation December 2018.
BAUER-Pileco Inc., in Conroe, Texas.
activities that the State will conduct to Kevin Shea,
identify occurrence of B. abortus in Administrator, Animal and Plant Health The application was processed in
domestic livestock and wildlife and Inspection Service. accordance with the FTZ Act and
potential risks for spread of the disease. [FR Doc. 2018–26862 Filed 12–11–18; 8:45 am] Regulations, including notice in the
We are asking Office of Management BILLING CODE 3410–34–P Federal Register inviting public
and Budget (OMB) to approve our use comment (83 FR 53850, October 25,
of these information collection 2018). The FTZ staff examiner reviewed
activities, as described, for an additional DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the application and determined that it
3 years. meets the criteria for approval.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit Foreign-Trade Zones Board Pursuant to the authority delegated to
comments from the public (as well as
[S–167–2018] the FTZ Board’s Executive Secretary (15
affected agencies) concerning our
CFR Sec. 400.36(f)), the application to
information collection. These comments Approval of Subzone Status: establish Subzone 84Z was approved on
will help us: Schumacher Electric Corporation, Fort
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of December 6, 2018, subject to the FTZ
Worth, Texas Act and the Board’s regulations,
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the On October 17, 2018, the Executive including Section 400.13, and further
Agency, including whether the Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones subject to FTZ 84’s 2,000-acre activation
information will have practical utility; (FTZ) Board docketed an application limit.
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our submitted by the Metroplex Dated: December 6, 2018.
estimate of the burden of the collection International Trade Development
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Andrew McGilvray,
of information, including the validity of Corporation, grantee of FTZ 168,
the methodology and assumptions used; requesting subzone status subject to the Executive Secretary.
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and existing activation limit of FTZ 168, on [FR Doc. 2018–26871 Filed 12–11–18; 8:45 am]
clarity of the information to be behalf of Schumacher Electric BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
collected; and Corporation, in Fort Worth, Texas.
(4) Minimize the burden of the The application was processed in
collection of information on those who accordance with the FTZ Act and

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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Reinstatement of approval of an information collection; comment request.
Dates		We will consider all comments that we receive on or before February 11, 2019.
Contact		For information on the Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program, contact Dr. Mark Camacho, National Cattle Health Epidemiologist, Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response Services, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 920 Campus Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27606; (919) 855-7249. For more detailed information on the information collection, contact Ms. Kimberly Hardy, APHIS' Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 851-2483.
FR Citation		83 FR 63825

83 FR 63825 - Notice of Request for Reinstatement of Approval of an Information Collection; Cooperative State-Federal Brucellosis Eradication Program

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREAnimal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 238 (December 12, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service