A government agency is seeking comments on the following information collection for which they have requested or intend to request Office of Management and Budget approval or extension of approval (see notice for specific details):
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued updated versions of its list of Canadian (August 24, 2010) firms eligible to export meat and poultry to the U.S.
The USDA's Economic Research Service has issued a report on Karnal bunt (KB), a wheat disease of limited distribution in the United States, as affected areas are quarantined to limit spread of the disease. Currently, the KB regulatory program allows the USDA to issue phytosanitary export certificates stating that a wheat shipment is from an area where KB is not known to occur. Some in the wheat marketing chain, particularly elevator operators, find the regulatory program burdensome and advocate ending it. A model developed by the ERS was used to analyze the market effects of ending the certification. An average annual loss of 15.1 percent in export markets for U.S. wheat producers would be only partially offset by increased use of lower priced wheat for domestic livestock feed.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice that lists those applying for ocean transportation intermediary licenses as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC) or NVOCC/FF OTI, as follows:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a notice to remind the public of the user fees for fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011) for import- and export-related services that APHIS provides for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors; for certain veterinary diagnostic services; and for export certification of plants and plant products.
The Foreign Trade Zone Board has issued the following notice:
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued two notices that either reissue or revoke an ocean transportation intermediary (OTI) license, as follows:
The State Department announces that the Government of the Republic of Colombia has informed the U.S. Government of its interest in an extension of the Agreement Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from the Pre-Columbian Cultures and Certain Ecclesiastical Material from the Colonial Period of Colombia.
The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period April 1 through June 30, 2010.
The Department of Energy has granted a nationwide limited waiver, effective August 11, 2010, of the Buy American requirements of section 1605 of the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with respect to certain motorized DMX iris units; induction lamps and ballasts; enphase micro-inverters; gas/propane boilers; turbochargers; and heating/cooling upgrade kits that will be used on eligible Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy- Recovery Act funded projects.