[Federal Register: February 28, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 40)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 01-129-1]
Notice of Request for Extension of Approval of an Information
Collection
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Extension 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 an extension of approval of an information
collection in support of the Cooperative State-Federal Bovine
TuberculosisEradication Program.
DATES: We will consider all comments we receive that are postmarked,
delivered, or e-mailed by April 29, 2002.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by postal mail/commercial delivery
or by e-mail. If you use postal mail/commercial delivery, please send
four copies of your comment (an original and three copies) to: Docket
No. 01-129-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD,APHIS, Station
3C71, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state
that your comment refers to Docket No. 01-129-1. If you use e-mail,
address your comment to regulations@aphis.usda.gov. Your comment must
be contained in the body of your message; do not send attached files.
Please include your name and address in your message and ``Docket
No.01-129-1'' on the subject line.
You may read any comments that we receive on this docket in our
reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of the USDA
South Building, 14th Street andIndependence 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) 690-2817 before coming.
APHIS documents published in the Federal Register, and related
information, including the names of organizations and individuals who
have commented on APHIS dockets, are available on the Internet at
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information regarding the
CooperativeState-Federal Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Program,
contact Dr. Joseph Van Tiem, SeniorStaff Veterinarian, National Animal
Health Programs Staff, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 43, Riverdale,
MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-7716. For copies of more detailed information
on the information collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS''
Information CollectionCoordinator, at (301) 734-7477.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Tuberculosis.
OMB Number: 0579-0084.
Type of Request: Extension of approval of an information
collection.
Abstract: The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of
the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture is responsible for, among
other things, preventing the spread of serious communicable animal
diseases from one State to another, and for eradicating such diseases
from the United States when feasible.
In connection with this mission, APHIS participates in the
Cooperative State-FederalBovine Tuberculosis Eradication Program, which
is a national program to eliminate bovine tuberculosis (a serious
disease of livestock) from the United States.
The disease also affects humans through contact with infected
animals or their byproducts.
Our program is conducted under the various States' authorities
supplemented by Federal regulations on the interstate movement of
affected animals. A concerted effort (State andFederal) requires that
we conduct epidemiologic investigations to locate the disease and
provide an effective means of controlling it. Also, this program
includes provisions for the payment of indemnity to owners of animals
that must be destroyed because of tuberculosis.
Implementing our Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Program
necessitates the use of a number of information-gathering documents,
including various forms needed to properly identify, test, and
transport animals that have been infected with tuberculosis, or that
may have been exposed to tuberculosis. We also employ national
epidemiology forms for the purposes of recording, reporting, and
reviewing epidemiological data. Still other documents provide us with
the information we need to pay indemnity to the owners of animals
destroyed because of tuberculosis.
The information provided by these documents is critical to our
ability to locate herds infected with tuberculosis and to prevent the
interstate spread of tuberculosis. The collection of this information
is therefore crucial to the success of our Bovine Tuberculosis
EradicationProgram.
We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve
our use of these information collection activities 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 reporting burden for this collection
of information is estimated to average 0.32 hours per response.
Respondents: State Veterinarians, livestock inspectors, shippers,
herd owners, slaughter establishment personnel.
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Estimated annual number of respondents: 5,032.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 10.64.
Estimated annual number of responses: 53,540.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 17,132.80 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 22nd day of February 2002 .
W. Ron DeHaven,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 02-4803 Filed 2-27-02; 8:45 am]
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