Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 69915 [2010-28807]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 69915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28807]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

November 9, 2010.
    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 
regarding (a) 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; (b) the accuracy 
of the agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) 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 should be addressed to: Desk 
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 
fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, 
Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-7602. Comments regarding these 
information collections are best assured of having their full effect if 
received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the 
submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-8958.
    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.
    Title: Food Aid Request Entry System (FARES).
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0225.
    Summary of Collection: The Agricultural Trade Development and 
Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (Title II, Pub. L. 480), Section 
416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, (Section 416(b)), 
Food for Progress Act of 1985, as amended (Food for Progress), and the 
International School Lunch Program, known as the Global Food for 
Education and Child Nutrition Act, authorizes Commodity Credit 
Corporation Export Operations Division and Bulk Commodities Division to 
procure, sell, transport agricultural commodities and obtain discharge/
delivery survey information. Commodities are delivered to foreign 
countries through voluntary agencies, United Nations World Food 
Program, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and the Agency for 
International Development. The program information will be 
electronically captured, requirements validated, and improved commodity 
request visibility will be provided via FARES Web-based application 
technology tool. The FARES is for the customers to submit online to 
process the commodity request electronically and to access the 
information.
    Need and Use of the Information: The Farm Service Agency will 
collect the following information from FARES: The name of the Private 
Voluntary Organization, the program, the types of commodities being 
requested for export, quantities of commodities, destinations of 
commodities, and special requirements for packaging. Without this 
information collection process, the Kansas City Commodity Office would 
not be able to meet the program requirements.
    Description of Respondents: Not-for-profit institutions; Business 
or other-for-profit; Federal Government.
    Number of Respondents: 305.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Other (bi-weekly/bi-monthly).
    Total Burden Hours: 1,708.

Farm Service Agency

    Title: (7 CFR Part 767), Farm Loan Program--Inventory Property 
Management.
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0234.
    Summary of Collection: The Farm Loan Program provides supervised 
credit in the form of loans to family farmers to purchase real estate 
and equipment and finance agricultural production. Authority to 
establish the regulatory requirements contained in 7 CFR 767 is 
provided under section 302 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 1922) which provides 
that ``the Secretary is authorized to make and insure under this title 
to farmers * * *'' Section 339 of the Act (7 U.S.C. 1989) further 
provides that ``the Secretary is authorized to make such rules and 
regulations, prescribe the terms and conditions for making * * * loans, 
security instruments and agreements, except as otherwise specified 
herein, and to make such delegations of authority as he deems necessary 
to carry out this title.''
    Need and Use of the Information: Information collections are 
submitted by applicants to the local agency office serving the country 
in which their business is headquartered. The information is necessary 
to thoroughly evaluate an applicant's request to purchase inventory 
property and is used by the agency to determine an applicant's 
eligibility to lease or purchase inventory property and to ensure 
payment of the lease or purchase amount.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 280.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually; Other (upon request).
    Total Burden Hours: 432.

Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-28807 Filed 11-15-10; 8:45 am]
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