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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 168 / Thursday, September 2, 2021 / Notices
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We are asking the Office of Management and Budget OMB to approve our use of these information collection activities for 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 burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4.882 hours per response.
Respondents: Agricultural producers, animal scientists and technicians, agricultural inspectors, and State animal health officials.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 40,050.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 13.
Estimated annual number of responses: 519,950.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 2,538,300 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 25th day of August 2021.
Michael Watson, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service Adjustment of Appendices Under the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing Regulation Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice announces the transfer of amounts for certain dairy articles from the historical license category Appendix 1 to the lottery nonhistorical license category Appendix 2 pursuant to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulations for the 2021 quota year. In addition, adjustments have been made to the Appendices to reflect changes to United Kingdom UK and European Union EU country allocations for certain tariff rate quotas TRQs and other changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States HTSUS
made by the U.S. Trade Representative in response to the withdrawal of the UK
from the EU and the accession of Croatia to the EU, which will go into effect for the 2022 quota year. Appendices 1 and 2 for the EU27 for Additional U.S. Note 16 to Chapter 4 have also been adjusted to account for a clerical error in last years Appendices 1 and 2 published amounts. This correction does not increase the overall quantity allotted to the EU27 and the UK.
DATES: September 2, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Abdelsalam El-Farra, 202 7209439;
abdelsalam.el-farra@fas.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foreign Agricultural Service, under a delegation of authority from the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, administers the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulation codified at 7 CFR
6.20 through 6.36 that provides for the issuance of licenses to import certain dairy articles under TRQs as set forth in the HTSUS. These dairy articles may only be entered into the United States at the low-tier tariff by or for the account of a person or firm to whom such licenses have been issued and only in accordance with the terms and conditions of the regulation.
Licenses are issued on a calendar year basis, and each license authorizes the license holder to import a specified quantity and type of dairy article from a specified country of origin. The Imports Program, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, issues these licenses and, in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border SUMMARY:

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The regulation at 7 CFR 6.34a states that whenever a historical license Appendix 1 is permanently surrendered, revoked by the Licensing Authority, or not issued to an applicant pursuant to the provisions of 6.23, then the amount of such license will be transferred to Appendix 2. Section 6.34b provides that the cumulative annual transfers will be published by notice in the Federal Register.
Accordingly, this document sets forth the revised Appendices in the table below. The quantities for designated licenses Appendix 3 and Appendix 4
are also included in the table below for completeness.
In addition, the Appendices have been revised to reflect modified EU and UK country allocations under certain TRQs in Chapter 4 of the HTSUS made by the U.S. Trade Representative in response to the withdrawal of the UK
from the EU and to acknowledge the accession of Croatia to the EU. On July 6, 2021, the U.S. Trade Representative announced, inter alia, that: 1 The TRQs allocated to the EU under Additional U.S. Notes 6, 16, 17, and 18
to Chapter 4 will be allocated between the EU and the UK according to the average percentage of in-quota imports for the 20132015 period; and 2 the UK would have access to a specific inquota quantity under these notes.
Specifically, the U.S. Trade Representative announced that, effective with respect to articles entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 2022:
1. Additional U.S. Note 2 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified by: a Inserting Croatia, into the list of countries in alphabetical order; and b deleting the Slovak Republic, Sweden or the United Kingdom and inserting the Slovak Republic or Sweden in lieu thereof.
2. With respect to the published inquota quantity of 96,161 kilograms allocated to the EU 27 for the TRQ in Additional U.S. Note 6 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS, the UK shall have access to a quantity of not less than 14,062
kilograms and the EU 27 shall have access to a quantity of not less than 82,099 kilograms.
3. Additional U.S. Note 16 to Chapter 4 of the HTSUS is modified by: a Inserting United Kingdom into the list of countries in alphabetical order; b inserting a quota quantity of 2,213,374 in the Quantity kg column for the United Kingdom; c deleting the quantity 27,846,224 in the Quantity kg column for the EU27; and d
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