Nonmaterial Change request

Foreign Quarantine Regulations (42 CFR 71)

(OMB Control No. 0920-0134)

Request for Non-Substantive Change to Currently Approved Data Collection

November 15, 2016

Program Contact

Lee Samuel

Office of Policy and Planning

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1600 Clifton Road, N.E., MS C12

Atlanta, Georgia 30333

Phone: (404) 718-1616

Email: [email protected]

Circumstances of Change Request for OMB 0920-0134

Consistent with the SAFE Port Act of 2006, CDC accepts permit requests and documentation of CDC-regulated imports via the International Trade Data System (ITDS) and the Automated Cargo Environment (ACE). CDC seeks to clarify that the agency plans to accept most of these documents via the Document Imaging System (DIS) and potentially CDC PGA Message Sets if that capacity is developed at a later date. In the event that importers/filers choose to use ITDS/ACE to document the importation of dogs, cats, or African rodents, importers may submit the forms in this collection via DIS.

There will be no changes to information collection instruments. Only the method by which respondents submit their forms would change. Both CDC and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will publicize the fact that imports can now be documented via ACE/ITDS. CDC plans to communicate this change to trade and industry via notification in CBP’s Cargo System Messaging Service (CSMS). CDC is also seeking to publish a notice in the Federal Register notifying importers of these changes and explaining CDC’s notification requirements in ITDS/ACE, including the use of DIS.

Description of Changes

The following collections may be submitted via DIS:

1. 42 CFR 71.51(c)(1), (d) – Valid Rabies Vaccination Certificates
   Importers may submit rabies vaccination certificates may be submitted via DIS or in hard copy.

2. 42 CFR 71.52(d) Turtle Importation Permits
   Importers may submit CDC Turtle Importation Permits via DIS or in hard copy to CBP prior to entry in the United States.

3. 42 CFR 71.56 (a)(2) African Rodents -Request for exemption
   Importers may submit CDC approval via DIS or in hard copy to CBP prior to entry in the United States.

4. 42 CFR 71.32 Statements or documentation of non-infectiousness
   Importers may submit statements or documentation of non-infectiousness via DIS or in hard copy to CBP prior to entry in the United States

5. 42 CFR 71.51(c)(i), (ii), and (iii) exemption criteria for the importation of a dog without a rabies vaccination certificate.
   Importers may submit a copy of their CDC Permit to Import A Dog Unimmunized or Inadequately Immunized Against Rabies by paper or via DIS, to CBP at the time when the dog enters the United States.

CDC does not anticipate that the changes to the mode of submittal of these documents will alter the burden nor volume of responses.

Burden

As a result of this proposed update, CDC does not anticipate any change in burden to this information collection.

Privacy Impact Assessment

These proposed updates to the dog import application will have no effect on the Privacy Impact Assessment provided in the supporting statement for the information collection approved under OMB 0920-0134.