The purpose of this collection is to allow pink and red tomatoes grown in approved registered production sites in Costa Rica, El Salavdor, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to be imported into the US without treatment.
Previous burden hours totaled 25,936. There is an adjustment of -25,649 burden hours
and -2,181,692 annual responses for the following reasons: the only country currently shipping tomatoes is Guatemala; the countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama are presently not shipping tomatoes because transportation/fuel costs have gone up as well as production costs in these countries. These reasons are why Guatemala is currently the only country shipping tomatoes and accounts for the decrease of 7,537 hours. Also, the pre-harvest inspections were inadvertently included in the last approval process which accounted for 18,112 hours in the previous submission. There was no paperwork associated with the inspections.
$6,360
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
No
Uncollected
Donna West 301 734-0627
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
SStomatoes.doc
APHIS 79 for 0579-0286.pdf
Importation of Tomatoes from Certain Central American Countries