Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
| Published date | 11 March 2024 |
| Record Number | 2024-05086 |
| Citation | 89 FR 17372 |
| Court | Agriculture Department |
| Section | Notices |
Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 48 (Monday, March 11, 2024)
[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 48 (Monday, March 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 17372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05086]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 on or after the date
of publication of this notice. Comments are requested regarding: (1)
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) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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 these information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received by April 10, 2024. 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 www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 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.
National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Title: Fruit, Nuts, And Specialty Crops--Substantive Change.
OMB Control Number: 0535-0039.
Summary of Collection: The primary function of the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is to prepare and issue current
official state and national estimates of crop and livestock production.
Estimates of fruit, tree nuts, and specialty crops are an integral part
of this program. These estimates support the NASS strategic plan to
cover all agricultural cash receipts. The authority to collect these
data activities is granted under U.S. Code title 7, section 2204(a).
Information is collected on a voluntary basis from growers, processors,
and handlers through surveys. Individually identifiable data collected
under this authority are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security
Act of 1985, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, and title III of Public Law
115-435 (CIPSEA) which requires USDA to afford strict confidentially to
non-aggregated data provided by respondents.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is requesting a
substantive change to the Fruit, Nuts, And Specialty Crops information
collection request (OMB No. 0535-0039) for program changes. Every five
years NASS conducts a program review following the completion of the
Census of Agriculture. The program changes balance resources across all
of the programs included in the annual estimating program, which
represents over 400 individual reports across multiple Information
Collection Requests (ICRs). This substantive change is to accommodate
the field crop program changes that affect this ICR. The methodology,
publication dates, burden and data collection plan do not change as
result of these program changes. This change request also includes some
nonsubstantive changes for the May 2024 Maple Syrup Inquiry. The
changes to these surveys will not affect burden hours.
Need and Use of the Information: Data reported on fruit, nut, and
specialty crops are used by NASS to estimate crop acreage, yield,
production, utilization, price, and value in States with significant
commercial production. These estimates are essential to farmers,
processors, importers and exporters, shipping companies, cold storage
facilities and handlers in making production and marketing decisions.
Estimates from these inquiries are used by market order administrators
in their determination of expected crop supplies under Federal and
State market orders.
Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 55,435.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion; Annually; Semi-annually;
Quarterly; Monthly; Weekly.
Total Burden Hours: 28,114.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-05086 Filed 3-8-24; 8:45 am]
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