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www.regulations.gov. All comments essential to carry out the intent of the Dated: May 14, 2010. should reference the docket number and Acts and to provide the cotton industry David R. Shipman, page number of this issue of the Federal the type of information they need to Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Register. All comments received will be make sound business decisions. The Service. made available for public inspection at information collected is the minimum [FR Doc. 2010–12032 Filed 5–19–10; 8:45 am] http://www.regulations.gov or at the required. Information is requested from BILLING CODE 3410–02–P Cotton and Tobacco Programs, AMS, growers, cooperatives, merchants, USDA, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., manufacturers, and other government Room 2637–S, Washington, DC 20250 agencies. This includes information on DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE during regular business hours. cotton, cottonseed and cotton linters. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The information collected is used and Plant Health Inspection Shethir Riva, Chief, Research and only by authorized employees of the Service Promotion, Cotton and Tobacco USDA, AMS. The cotton industry is the [Docket No. APHIS-2010-0029] Programs, Agricultural Marketing primary user of the compiled Service, USDA, 1400 Independence information and AMS and other Availability of an Environmental Ave., SW., Room 2637–S, Washington, government agencies are secondary Assessment for a Biological Control DC 20250–0224, telephone (202) 720– users. Agent for 3193, facsimile (202) 690–1718, or e- Estimate of Burden: Public reporting mail at [email protected]. AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health burden for this collection of information Inspection Service, USDA. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: is estimated to average 0.12 hours per ACTION: Title: Cotton Classification and response. Notice of availability and request for comments. Market News Service. Respondents: Cotton Merchandisers, OMB Number: 0581–0009. Expiration Date of Approval: Textile Mills, Ginners. SUMMARY: We are advising the public December 30, 2010. Estimated Number of Respondents: that the Animal and Plant Health Type of Request: Extension and 873. Inspection Service has prepared an Revision of a Currently Approved Estimated Number of Responses per environmental assessment relative to Information Collection. Respondent: 7.27. the control of hemlock woolly adelgid Abstract: The Cotton Classification Estimated Number of Responses: (Adelges tsugae). The environmental and Market News Service program 6,347.50. assessment considers the effects of, and provides market information on cotton Estimated Total Annual Burden on alternatives to, the release of an , prices, quality, stocks, demand and Respondents: 769.80. osakensis, into the supply to growers, ginners, continental United States for use as a Comments are invited on: (1) Whether merchandisers, textile mills and the biological control agent to reduce the the proposed collection of information public for their use in making sound severity of hemlock woolly adelgid is necessary for the proper performance business decisions. The Cotton Statistics infestations. We are making the of the functions of the agency, including and Estimates Act (7 U.S.C. 471–476), environmental assessment available to whether the information will have authorizes and directs the Secretary of the public for review and comment. practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the Agriculture to: (a) Collect and publish agency’s estimate of the burden of the DATES: We will consider all comments annually, statistics or estimates proposed collection of information that we receive on or before June 21, concerning the grades and staple lengths 2010. of stocks of cotton, known as the including the validity of the carryover, on hand on the 1st of August methodology and assumptions used; (3) ADDRESSES: You may submit comments each year in warehouses and other ways to enhance the quality, utility, and by either of the following methods: ∑ establishments of every character in the clarity of the information to be Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to continental U.S., and following such collected; and (4) ways to minimize the (http://www.regulations.gov/ publication each year, to publish at burden of the collection of information fdmspublic/component/ intervals, in his/her discretion, his/her on those who are to respond, including main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS- estimate of the grades and staple length the use of appropriate automated, 2010-0029) to submit or view comments of cotton of the current crop (7 U.S.C. electronic, mechanical, or other and to view supporting and related 471) and (b) Collect, authenticate, technological collection techniques or materials available electronically. publish and distribute by radio, mail, or other forms of information technology. ∑Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: otherwise, timely information of the Comments may be submitted Please send one copy of your comment market supply, demand, location, and electronically through http:// to Docket No. APHIS-2010-0029, market prices of cotton (7 U.S.C. 473b). www.regulations.gov. Comments also Regulatory Analysis and Development, The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 may be sent to Shethir Riva, Chief, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627), authorizes and Research and Promotion, Cotton and River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD directs the Secretary of Agriculture to Tobacco Programs, Agricultural 20737-1238. Please state that your collect and disseminate marketing Marketing Service, USDA, 1400 comment refers to Docket No. APHIS- information, including adequate outlook Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 2010-0029. information on a market-area basis, for DC 20250–0224. All comments received Reading Room: You may read any the purpose of anticipating and meeting will be available for public inspection comments that we receive on the consumer requirements, aiding in the during regular business hours at the environmental assessment in our maintenance of farm income, and same address or through http:// reading room. The reading room is bringing about a balance between www.regulations.gov. located in room 1141 of the USDA production and utilization of All responses to this notice will be South Building, 14th Street and agricultural products. summarized and included in the request Independence Avenue SW., The information collection for OMB approval. All comments will Washington, DC. Normal reading room requirements in this request are become a matter of public record. hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday

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through Friday, except holidays. To be to the public for review and comment. DATES: We will consider all comments sure someone is there to help you, We will consider all comments that we that we receive on or before June 21, please call (202) 690-2817 before receive on or before the date listed 2010. coming. under the heading DATES at the ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Other Information: Additional beginning of this notice. by either of the following methods: information about APHIS and its The EA may be viewed on the ∑Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to programs is available on the Internet at Regulations.gov Web site or in our (http://www.regulations.gov/ (http://www.aphis.usda.gov). reading room (see ADDRESSES above for fdmspublic/component/ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. instructions for accessing main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS- Shirley A. Wager-Page, Chief, Pest Regulations.gov and information on the 2010-0028) to submit or view comments Permitting Branch, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 location and hours of the reading room). and to view supporting and related River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD You may request paper copies of the EA materials available electronically. 20737-1237; (301) 734-8453. by calling or writing to the person listed ∑Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Please send one copy of your comment CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the to Docket No. APHIS-2010-0028, Background EA when requesting copies. Regulatory Analysis and Development, The Animal and Plant Health The EA has been prepared in PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing accordance with: (1) The National River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD to issue permits for the release of an Environmental Policy Act of 1969 20737-1238. Please state that your insect, Laricobius osakensis, into the (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et comment refers to Docket No. APHIS- continental United States for use as a seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on 2010-0028. biological control agent to reduce the Environmental Quality for Reading Room: You may read any severity of hemlock woolly adelgid implementing the procedural provisions comments that we receive on the (HWA) infestations. of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), (3) environmental assessment in our HWA, an introduced insect pest USDA regulations implementing NEPA reading room. The reading room is destructive to forest and ornamental (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA located in room 1141 of the USDA hemlock trees, was first discovered in Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part South Building, 14th Street and Virginia in 1951. HWA now infests 18 372). Independence Avenue SW., States due to the movements of infested Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day Washington, DC. Normal reading room nursery plants as well as non-human of May 2010. hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday modes of dispersal that include birds, through Friday, except holidays. To be Kevin Shea, deer, and wind. HWA feeds at the bases sure someone is there to help you, of hemlock needles, causing them to dry Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant please call (202) 690-2817 before Health Inspection Service. out and resulting in needle loss. This coming. prevents trees from producing new buds [FR Doc. 2010–12024 Filed 5–19–10; 8:45 am] Other Information: Additional for the next year’s growth, and leads to BILLING CODE 3410–34–S information about APHIS and its branch dieback and, often, the eventual programs is available on the Internet at (http://www.aphis.usda.gov). death of the tree. HWA infestation is DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE fatal to eastern hemlocks of all ages, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. regardless of health prior to infestation, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Shirley A. Wager-Page, Chief, Pest with tree mortality occurring between Service Permitting Branch, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 four and ten or more years after River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD infestation, depending on 20737-1237; (301) 734-8453. [Docket No. APHIS-2010-0028] environmental conditions. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Existing HWA management options Availability of an Environmental Background include chemical control and Assessment for a Biological Control silvicultural control, which, in this Agent for Asian Citrus Psyllid The Animal and Plant Health instance, would involve close Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing management of trees on a site-by-site AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health to issue permits for the release of an basis. However, these management Inspection Service, USDA. insect, Tamarixia radiata, into the measures can be expensive, temporary, ACTION: Notice of availability and continental United States for use as a or have non-target impacts. Thus, a request for comments. biological control agent to reduce the permit application has been submitted severity of Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) to APHIS for the purpose of releasing an SUMMARY: We are advising the public infestations. insect, L. osakensis, into the continental that the Animal and Plant Health ACP, a serious pest of citrus, was first United States for use as a biological Inspection Service has prepared an discovered in Florida in 1998. By 2001 control agent to reduce the severity of environmental assessment relative to it had spread to 31 counties within the HWA infestations. the control of Asian citrus psyllid State, primarily due to the movements APHIS’ review and analysis of the (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama). The of infested nursery plants. In that year proposed action are documented in environmental assessment considers the ACP was also accidentally introduced detail in an environmental assessment effects of, and alternatives to, the release into Puerto Rico and Texas. It was (EA) titled ‘‘Proposed Field Release of of an insect, Tamarixia radiata, into the subsequently discovered in Hawaii in Laricobius osakensis (Coleoptera: continental United States for use as a 2006, Guam in 2007, in Alabama, ), a Predatory for biological control agent to reduce the Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Biological Control of Hemlock Woolly severity of Asian citrus psyllid Carolina, and California in 2008, in Adelgid (Adelges tsugae), in the infestations. We are making the portions of one county in Arizona in Continental United States’’ (December environmental assessment available to 2009, and in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2009). We are making the EA available the public for review and comment. 2010.

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