6289 Notices Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 12 Thursday, January 21, 2021 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER www.regulations.gov/ comment. We will consider all contains documents other than rules or #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2020-0035 or comments that we receive on or before proposed rules that are applicable to the in our reading room, which is located in the date listed under the heading DATES public. Notices of hearings and investigations, room 1620 of the USDA South Building, at the beginning of this notice. committee meetings, agency decisions and 14th Street and Independence Avenue The EA may be viewed on the rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency SW, Washington, DC. Normal reading Regulations.gov website or in our statements of organization and functions are room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., reading room (see ADDRESSES above for examples of documents appearing in this Monday through Friday, except a link to Regulations.gov and section. holidays. To be sure someone is there to information on the location and hours of help you, please call (202) 799–7039 the reading room). You may also request before coming. paper copies of the EA by calling or DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. writing to the person listed under FOR Colin D. Stewart, Assistant Director, FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please Animal and Plant Health Inspection Pests, Pathogens, and Biocontrol refer to the title of the EA when Service Permits, Permitting and Compliance requesting copies. [Docket No. APHIS–2020–0035] Coordination, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River The EA has been prepared in Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; accordance with: (1) The National Notice of Availability of an (301) 851–2327; email: Colin.Stewart@ Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Environmental Assessment for usda.gov. (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et Release of Bikasha collaris and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chinese seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on Gadirtha fusca for Biological Control tallow, native to China, is one of the Environmental Quality for of Chinese Tallow most aggressive and widespread implementing the procedural provisions invasive weeds in the Southeastern of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health USDA regulations implementing NEPA Inspection Service, USDA. United States; it grows as a large shrub, or a medium-height but large diameter (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA ACTION: Notice of availability. tree, up to 60 feet tall and 3 feet in Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 372). SUMMARY: We are advising the public diameter with dark green bark and that the Animal and Plant Health hairless leaves. Since its introduction, Done in Washington, DC, this 13th day of Inspection Service has prepared an the weed has been reported primarily in January 2021. environmental assessment relative to 10 States including North Carolina, Mark Davidson, permitting the release of the insects South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Bikasha collaris and Gadirtha fusca for Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Health Inspection Service. biological control of Chinese tallow tree Arkansas, Texas, and California. Tallow [FR Doc. 2021–01124 Filed 1–19–21; 8:45 am] (Triadica sebifera) in the contiguous invasions alter species composition, BILLING CODE 3410–34–P United States. Based on the community structure, and ecosystem environmental assessment and other processes in many native habitats. relevant data, we have reached a Bikasha collaris is a small beetle. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE preliminary determination that the Adults are about 2 millimeters long and release of this control agent will not feed on tallow leaves, young stems, and Animal and Plant Health Inspection have a significant impact on the quality even woody stems. In nature, females Service lay eggs on the soil surface at the base of the human environment. We are [Docket No. APHIS–2020–0122] making the environmental assessment of plants. Larvae hatch and tunnel into available to the public for review and the ground and feed on the roots of Notice of Request for Revision to and comment. tallow plants. Gadirtha fusca is a small Extension of Approval of an moth with adults about 2 centimeters Information Collection; Importation of DATES: We will consider all comments long. Eggs are usually laid individually Gypsy Moth Host Materials From that we receive on or before February on leaves, and early and late instar Canada 22, 2021. larvae feed externally on leaves. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments The Animal and Plant Health AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health by either of the following methods: Inspection Service’s (APHIS’) review Inspection Service, USDA. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to and analysis of the potential ACTION: Revision to and extension of http://www.regulations.gov/ environmental impacts associated with approval of an information collection; #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2020-0035. the proposed release are documented in comment request. • Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: detail in an environmental assessment Send your comment to Docket No. (EA) entitled ‘‘Field Release of the SUMMARY: In accordance with the APHIS–2020–0035, Regulatory Analysis Insects Bikasha collaris (Coleoptera: Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station Chrysomelidae) and Gadirtha fusca notice announces the Animal and Plant 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) for Classical Health Inspection Service’s intention to Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. Biological Control of Chinese Tallow request a revision to and extension of Supporting documents and any Tree in the Contiguous United States’’ approval of an information collection comments we receive on this docket (April 2020). We are making the EA associated with the regulations to may be viewed at http:// available to the public for review and prevent the introduction of gypsy moth VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:44 Jan 19, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21JAN1.SGM 21JAN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 6290 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 12 / Thursday, January 21, 2021 / Notices from Canada into noninfested areas of The regulations are intended to for OMB approval. All comments will the United States. prevent the introduction of gypsy moth also become a matter of public record. DATES: We will consider all comments into noninfested areas of the United Done in Washington, DC, this 13th day of that we receive on or before March 22, States by placing certain inspection and January 2021. 2021. documentation requirements on gypsy Michael Watson, moth host material (i.e., regulated ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant by either of the following methods: articles) imported from Canada. Under Health Inspection Service. the regulations, depending on the place • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to [FR Doc. 2021–01141 Filed 1–19–21; 8:45 am] of origin of the regulated articles and http://www.regulations.gov/ BILLING CODE 3410–34–P their destination in the United States, #!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2020-0112. certain information collection activities • Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: are required such as a phytosanitary Send your comment to Docket No. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE certificate, certificate of origin, written APHIS–2020–0112, Regulatory Analysis statement, compliance agreement, and and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station Animal and Plant Health Inspection emergency action notification. Service 3A–03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, We are asking the Office of Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. Management and Budget (OMB) to [Docket No. APHIS–2019–0076] Supporting documents and any approve our use of these information Environmental Impact Statement for comments we receive on this docket collection activities, as described, for an may be viewed at http:// Predator Damage Management in additional 3 years. Oregon www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail; The purpose of this notice is to solicit D=APHIS-2020-0112 or in our reading comments from the public (as well as AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health room, which is located in Room 1620 of affected agencies) concerning our Inspection Service, USDA. the USDA South Building, 14th Street information collection. These comments and Independence Avenue SW, ACTION: Notice of intent for public will help us: scoping. Washington, DC. Normal reading room (1) Evaluate whether the collection of hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday information is necessary for the proper SUMMARY: The Animal and Plant Health through Friday, except holidays. To be performance of the functions of the Inspection Service is preparing an sure someone is there to help you, Agency, including whether the environmental impact statement please call (202) 799–7039 before information will have practical utility; analyzing alternatives for predator coming. (2) Evaluate the accuracy of our damage management in Oregon. This FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For estimate of the burden of the collection notice proposes issues and alternatives information on the regulations for the of information, including the validity of for consideration in the environmental importation of gypsy moth host material the methodology and assumptions used; impact statement and requests public from Canada, contact Mr. Marc Phillips, (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and comments to further delineate the scope Senior Regulatory Policy Specialist, clarity of the information to be of the alternatives, the environmental PPQ, APHIS, USDA, 4700 River Road, collected; and issues, and other issues of public Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) (4) Minimize the burden on those who concern to be considered. This notice 851–2114. For copies of more detailed are to respond, through use, as also serves to inform the public that the information on the information appropriate, of automated, electronic, U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. collection, contact Mr. Joseph Moxey, mechanical, and other collection Department of the Interior’s Bureau of APHIS’ Information Collection technologies; e.g., permitting electronic Land Management have joined as Coordinator, at (301) 851–2533.