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seq.); (2) regulations of the Council on room 1141 of the USDA South Building, a link to Regulations.gov and Environmental Quality for 14th Street and Independence Avenue information on the location and hours of implementing the procedural provisions SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading the reading room). You may request of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3) room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., paper copies of the EA by calling or USDA regulations implementing NEPA Monday through Friday, except writing to the person listed under FOR (7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS’ NEPA holidays. To be sure someone is there to FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part help you, please call (202) 799–7039 refer to the title of the EA when 372). before coming. requesting copies. The EA has been prepared in Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. July 2017. Colin D. Stewart, Assistant Director, accordance with: (1) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Michael C. Gregoire, Pests, Pathogens, and Biocontrol Permits, Permitting and Compliance (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et Acting Administrator, Animal and seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on Health Inspection Service. Coordination, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737– Environmental Quality for [FR Doc. 2017–14694 Filed 7–12–17; 8:45 am] implementing the procedural provisions BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 1231; (301) 851–2327, email: [email protected]. of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) USDA regulations implementing NEPA SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE species of swallow-wort ( Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part nigrum and Vincetoxicum rossicum), 372). Animal and Plant Health Inspection native to Mediterranean regions of Service Europe (V. nigrum) and Ukraine and Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of July 2017. [Docket No. APHIS–2017–0053] southeastern Russia (V. rossicum), were first documented in the in Michael C. Gregoire, Availability of an Environmental the late nineteenth century and are now Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Assessment for the Biological Control widely distributed along the northeast Health Inspection Service. of Swallow-Worts Atlantic coast and in Ontario and [FR Doc. 2017–14695 Filed 7–12–17; 8:45 am] Quebec in Canada, as well as in upper BILLING CODE 3410–34–P AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Midwestern regions of the United Inspection Service, USDA. States. Swallow-worts are long-lived ACTION: Notice of availability and vines that overwinter as seeds or DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE request for comments. rootstalks, and they outcompete native Food and Nutrition Service for resources while often also SUMMARY: We are advising the public forming dense monocultures in a variety that the Animal and Plant Health Agency Information Collection of habitats. Swallow-wort invasions in Activities: Proposed Collection; Inspection Service has prepared a draft primarily upland habitats including, but environmental assessment relative to Comment Request—Special not restricted to, pastures, old fields, Supplemental Nutrition Program for the control of swallow-worts hillsides, shores, flood plains, (Vincetoxicum nigrum and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) roadsides, and forest margins, pose a Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Vincetoxicum rossicum). The major threat to native species diversity environmental assessment considers the (FMNP) Program Regulations— and ecosystem functioning and Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden effects of, and alternatives to, the field negatively affect farming practices, release of a leaf-feeding moth, Hypena livestock, and ornamental landscapes. AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service opulenta, into the continental United The Animal and Plant Health Inspection (FNS), USDA. States for use as a biological control Service (APHIS) is proposing to issue ACTION: Notice. agent to reduce the severity of swallow- permits for the field release of a leaf- SUMMARY: In accordance with the wort infestations. We are making the feeding moth, Hypena opulenta, into the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this environmental assessment available to continental United States to reduce the notice invites the general public and the public for review and comment. severity of swallow-wort infestations. DATES: We will consider all comments APHIS’ review and analysis of the other public agencies to comment on that we receive on or before August 14, proposed action are documented in this proposed information collection. 2017. detail in a draft environmental This collection is a revision of a ADDRESSES: You may submit comments assessment (EA) entitled ‘‘Field release currently approved information by either of the following methods: of the leaf-feeding moth, Hypena collection for the WIC Farmers’ Market • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to opulenta (Christoph) (Lepidoptera: Nutrition Program (FMNP) Regulations http://www.regulations.gov/ Noctuidae), for classical biological for the reporting and recordkeeping #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2017-0053. control of swallow-worts, Vincetoxicum burden associated with the WIC FMNP • Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: nigrum (L.) Moench and V. rossicum Program regulations. Send your comment to Docket No. (Kleopow) Barbarich (: DATES: Written comments must be APHIS–2017–0053, Regulatory Analysis Apocyanceae), in the contiguous United received on or before September 11, and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station States’’ (June 2017). We are making this 2017. 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, EA available to the public for review ADDRESSES: Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. and comment. We will consider all Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Supporting documents and any comments that we receive on or before the proposed collection of information comments we receive on this docket the date listed under the heading DATES is necessary for the proper performance may be viewed at http:// at the beginning of this notice. of the functions of the agency, including www.regulations.gov/ The EA may be viewed on the whether the information shall have #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2017-0053 or Regulations.gov Web site or in our practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the in our reading room, which is located in reading room (see ADDRESSES above for agency’s estimate of the burden of the

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