Notice2025-18588
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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September 25, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 184 (Thursday, September 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18588]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following
information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Comments
are requested regarding; 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; the
accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments regarding this information collection received by [Month]
[Date], 2025 will be considered. Written comments and recommendations
for the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30
days of the publication of this notice on the following website
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless the collection of
information displays a currently valid OMB control number and the
agency informs potential persons who are to respond to the collection
of information that such persons are not required to respond to the
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Study of Human Behavior and Attitudes Linked to Human-Deer
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
OMB Control Number: 0579-NEW.
Summary of Collection: Under the Act of March 2, 1931 (7 U.S.C.
8351), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to conduct a program
of wildlife services with respect to injurious animal species and take
any action the Secretary considers necessary in conducting the program.
Additionally, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to conduct
activities to control nuisance mammals and birds (except for urban
rodent control) and those mammals and bird species that are reservoirs
for zoonotic disease. This authority has been delegated to the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services (WS). Two
responsibilities of the Deputy Administrator of WS are to assist
Federal, State, local, and foreign agencies and individuals regarding
wildlife damage and control and conduct research to develop wildlife
damage management methods (7 CFR 371.6).
Need and Use of the Information: APHIS has established a
cooperative agreement with the University of Minnesota to conduct a
survey among members of the public in five States (Illinois, Minnesota,
New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee) that would measure values,
beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors associated with humans' interactions
with white-tailed deer (WTD).
Data collected, analyzed, and interpreted from the Study of Human
Behavior and Attitudes Linked to Human-Deer Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
will be disseminated to a variety of constituents, including the APHIS
WS and open access or subscription-based journals. Additionally, all
data and metadata collected and used in peer-reviewed publications will
be made publicly accessible in a data repository per the USDA
Departmental Regulation 1020-006.
The University of Minnesota will use the data collected to:
<bullet> Quantify the relative risk of ecological and socio-
ecological factors in spillover and persistence of SCV2 in WTD;
<bullet> Identify human behaviors that pose the highest risk of
spillover-spillback and potential management points;
<bullet> Make recommendations for improving surveillance design for
risk-based surveillance and rapid detection of disease emergence (new
strains and SCV2 geographic hotspots and WTD population reservoirs);
<bullet> Develop a methodology for quantifying risk of SCV2
emergence across individual, population, and landscape scales, and for
integrating data across these scales to provide a more comprehensive
risk assessment and surveillance design application; and
<bullet> Make recommendations on intervention strategies that can
be used by management agencies to reduce the risk of transmission among
humans, WTD, and other animals.
Description of Respondents: Individuals or Households.
Number of Respondents: 60,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 7,868.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-18588 Filed 9-24-25; 8:45 am]
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