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BILLING CODE 3410–KD–P
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
AGENCY:
Notice of Revision of
Confidentiality Pledge under the Title V
of the E-Government Act, Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) and
Title 7, Chapter 55, Section 2276
(Confidentiality of Information).
ACTION:
Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e), and
44 U.S.C. 3501, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is
announcing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its
respondents under CIPSEA and Title 7,
Chapter 55, Section 2276. The revision
is required by the passage and
implementation of provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223), which permit and
require the Secretary of Homeland
Security to provide Federal civilian
agencies’ information technology
systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. More details on
this announcement are presented in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below.
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This revision becomes effective
upon publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. In a parallel Federal
Register notice, NASS is seeking public
comment on this confidentiality pledge
revision.
ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice
may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include the title ‘‘Confidentiality Pledge
Revision Notice’’ in the subject line of
the message.
• Efax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier:
David Hancock, NASS Clearance
Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Room 5336 South Building, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R.
Renee Picanso, Associate Administrator,
National Agricultural Statistics Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, (202)
720–4333, or email HQOA@
nass.usda.gov. Because of delays in the
receipt of regular mail related to
security screening, respondents are
encouraged to use phone or electronic
communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under
CIPSEA; Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
2276; and similar statistical
confidentiality protection statutes, many
federal statistical agencies, including
NASS, make statutory pledges that the
information respondents provide will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents, and
will be used only for statistical
purposes. CIPSEA and Title 7, Chapter
55, Section 2276 protect such statistical
information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any
other non-statistical use and immunize
the information submitted to statistical
agencies from legal process. Moreover,
many of these statutes carry criminal
penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to
$250,000, or up to five years in prison,
or both) for conviction of a knowing and
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willful unauthorized disclosure of
covered information.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the
Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle
B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other
provisions, permits and requires the
Secretary of Homeland Security to
provide federal civilian agencies’
information technology systems with
cybersecurity protection for their
Internet traffic. The technology
currently used to provide this protection
against cyber malware is known as
‘‘Einstein 3A’’. It electronically searches
Internet traffic in and out of federal
civilian agencies in real time for
malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the
Internet packets that contain the
malware signature are shunted aside for
further inspection by Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) personnel.
Because it is possible that such packets
entering or leaving a statistical agency’s
information technology system may
contain confidential statistical data,
statistical agencies can no longer
promise their respondents that their
responses will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their sworn agents.
However, they can promise, in
accordance with provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, that such monitoring can be
used only to protect information and
information systems from cybersecurity
risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the
respondents’ submissions.
Consequently, with the passage of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, the federal statistical
community has an opportunity to
welcome the further protection of its
confidential data offered by DHS’
Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection
program. The DHS cybersecurity
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program’s objective is to protect federal
civilian information systems from
malicious malware attacks. The federal
statistical system’s objective is to ensure
that the DHS Secretary performs those
essential duties in a manner that honors
the Government’s statutory promises to
the public to protect their confidential
data. Given that the Department of
Homeland Security is not a federal
statistical agency, both DHS and the
federal statistical agencies have been
engaged in finding a way to balance
both objectives and achieve these
mutually reinforcing objectives.
Accordingly, DHS and federal
statistical agencies (including NASS), in
cooperation with their parent
departments, have developed a
Memorandum of Agreement for the
installation of Einstein 3A cybersecurity
protection technology to monitor their
Internet traffic and have incorporated an
associated Addendum on Highly
Sensitive Agency Information that
provides additional protection and
enhanced security handling of
confidential statistical data. However,
CIPSEA; Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
2276; and similar statistical
confidentiality pledges promise that
respondents’ data will be seen only by
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The information you provide will be used
for statistical purposes only. Your responses
will be kept confidential and any person who
willfully discloses ANY identifiable
information about you or your operation is
subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.
This survey is conducted in accordance
with the Confidential Information Protection
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statistical agency personnel or their
sworn agents. Since it is possible that
DHS personnel could see some portion
of those confidential data in the course
of examining the suspicious Internet
packets identified by the Einstein 3A
technology, statistical agencies need to
revise their confidentiality pledges to
reflect this process change.
Therefore, NASS is providing this
notice to alert the public to this
confidentiality pledge revision in an
efficient and coordinated fashion. Below
is the revised confidentiality pledge as
it will appear on NASS survey
questionnaires, as well as the revision to
NASS’s confidentiality Web page. A list
of the NASS OMB numbers and
information collection titles that will be
affected by this revision is also included
below.
The revised confidentiality pledge to
appear on NASS questionnaires is
below:
04/30/2019
10/31/2018
07/31/2019
01/31/2019
11/30/2017
01/31/2019
07/31/2018
08/31/2019
10/31/2019
07/31/2018
11/30/2018
03/31/2018
01/31/2019
06/30/2017
12/31/2018
11/30/2018
06/30/2017
07/31/2018
03/31/2017
10/31/2019
08/31/2018
11/30/2019
09/30/2017
04/30/2019
12/31/2017
05/30/2019
07/31/2017
04/30/2018
06/30/2018
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provisions of Title V, Subtitle A, Public Law
107–347 and other applicable Federal laws.
For more information on how we protect
your information please visit: https://
www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/
Confidentiality_Pledge/index.php.
For voluntary surveys the statement,
‘‘Response to this survey is voluntary.’’
Will follow this pledge. For mandatory
surveys the statement, ‘‘Response to this
survey is mandatory.’’ will follow.
The NASS confidentiality pledge Web
page (https://www.nass.usda.gov/About
_NASS/Confidentiality_Pledge/
index.php) will be revised to include a
fifth item explaining that DHS will
monitor the transmission of data for
cybersecurity threats. Item 5 is below:
5. Data are protected from cybersecurity
threats
Per the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, your data are further protected by the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
through cybersecurity monitoring of the
systems that transmit your data. DHS will be
monitoring these systems to look for viruses,
malware and other threats. In the event of a
cybersecurity incident, and pursuant to any
required legal process, information from
these sources may be used to help identify
and mitigate the incident.
Affected information collections:
Information collection title
Cold Storage.
Field Crops Production.
Agricultural Prices.
Egg, Chicken, and Turkey Surveys.
Livestock Slaughter.
Stocks Reports.
Milk and Milk Products.
Vegetable Surveys.
Fruit, Nuts, and Specialty Crops.
Field Crops Objective Yield.
Floriculture Survey.
Agricultural Labor.
List Sampling Frame Survey.
Aquaculture.
Honey Survey.
Mink Survey.
Agricultural Surveys Program.
Agricultural Resource Management and Chemical Use Surveys (ARMS).
Cotton Ginnings.
Census of Agriculture.
Census of Agriculture Content Test.
Nursery Production Survey and Nursery and Floriculture Chemical Use Survey.
CEAP—NRI Conservation Tillage and Nutrient Management Survey.
Generic Clearance of Survey Improvement Projects.
Organic Production Survey.
Residue and Biomass Field Survey.
Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR).
Colony Loss.
Feral Swine Survey.
Organic Certifier Census.
Cost of Pollination Survey.
Local Foods Survey.
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Signed at Washington, DC, November 30,
2016.
Hubert Hamer,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016–29750 Filed 12–9–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Institute of Food and
Agriculture
Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders
Regarding the Food Safety Outreach
Program
National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of Stakeholder Listening
Session and request for stakeholder
input.
AGENCY:
As part of the National
Institute of Food and Agriculture’s
(NIFA) strategy to successfully expand
the Food Safety Outreach Program,
NIFA will host a virtual listening
session. The focus of the listening
session is to gather stakeholder input to
develop the priorities for the Request for
Applications (RFA) in Fiscal Year (FY)
2018. NIFA is particularly interested in
reaching the intended audience,
achieving the most impact, and
identifying suggested priorities in the
third year of the Food Safety Outreach
Program.
DATES: The listening session will be
held on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 from
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Standard
Time (EST). All written comments must
be received by 5 p.m. EST on January
31, 2017 to be considered in the initial
drafting of the FY 2018 Food Safety
Outreach Program request for
applications.
ADDRESSES: The listening session will
be hosted using Adobe Connect. On
January 31, 2017, please access the
following Web site, https://nifaconnect.nifa.usda.gov/r271ozhv661/. In
addition, audio conference call
capabilities are accessible at 1–888–
844–9904, participant code 4715738#.
Please submit comments, identified as
NIFA–2017–0002, by any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Email: FSOP@nifa.usda.gov. Include
NIFA–2017–0002 in the subject line of
the message.
Fax: 202–401–4888.
Mail: Paper, disk or CD–ROM
submissions should be submitted to
FSOP; Institute of Food Safety and
Nutrition (IFSN), National Institute of
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Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, STOP 2225, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–2225.
Hand Delivery/Courier: FSOP, IFSN,
National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Room 2458, Waterfront
Centre, 800 9th Street SW., Washington,
DC 20024.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
reference to NIFA–2017–0002. All
comments received will be posted to
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Dawanna James-Holly, (202) 401–1950
(phone), (202) 401–4888 (fax), or
dholly@nifa.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Additional Webinars and Comment
Procedures
Persons wishing to present during the
web-based listening session on Tuesday,
January 31, 2017, are requested to preregister by contacting Dr. Dawanna
James-Holly. Participants may reserve
one 5-minute comment period. More
time may be available, depending on the
number of people wishing to make a
presentation. Reservations will be
confirmed on a first-come, first-served
basis. All other participants may
provide comments during the listening
session if time permits, or by previous
listed means.
Background and Purpose
On January 4, 2011, the Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed
into legislation. The Act amended the
Food and Drug Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.
391 et seq. Section 209 of FSMA added
section 1011, Subsection (d) entitled
‘‘National Food Safety Training,
Education, Extension, Outreach and
Technical Assistance Program’’. In 2015
NIFA and FDA formed a collaboration
to establish the National Food Safety
Training, Education, Extension,
Outreach and Technical Assistance
Competitive Grant Program. In 2016, the
Food Safety Outreach Program at NIFA
expanded the National Food Safety
Training, Education, Extension,
Outreach, and Technical Assistance
Competitive Grant Program. Both
programs award competitive grants to
eligible recipients for projects that
develop and implement FSMA-related
food safety training, education,
extension, outreach, and technical
assistance to owners and operators of
small and medium-sized farms,
beginning farmers, socially
disadvantaged farmers, small processors
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or small fresh fruit and vegetable
merchant wholesalers.
In FY 2016, the Food Safety Outreach
Program at NIFA built upon the national
infrastructure, with a focus on delivery
of customized training to very specific
target audiences. Grant applications
were solicited directly from those in
local communities—to include those
from community-based organizations,
non-governmental organizations, food
hubs, farm cooperatives, extension, and
other local groups. Proposals were
solicited for three project types: (1) Pilot
Projects; (2) Community Outreach
Projects; and (3) Multistate Education
and Training Projects. Pilot Projects
support the development of potentially
high-risk and high-impact food safety
education and outreach programs in
local communities, addressing the needs
of small, specialized audiences from
among the various target groups. Pilot
projects focus on building the capacity
of local groups to identify very specific
needs within their communities, and
implementing appropriately-customized
food safety education and outreach
programs to meet those specific needs.
Community Outreach Projects support
the growth and expansion of already
existing food safety education and
outreach programs currently offered in
local communities. In addition, these
projects enable existing programs to
reach a broader target audience. These
projects enable existing education and
training curricula to be modified to
ensure that they are consistent with new
FSMA rules and to ensure that they
meet the needs of expanded audiences.
Multistate Education and Training
Projects support the development of
multi-county, state-wide or multi-state
programs. These projects support
collaborations among states not
necessarily located within the same
regions, but having common food safety
concerns, or addressing common
commodities.
Since its inception in FY 2015, the
program has awarded over $7 million to
Community Based Organizations,
Cooperative Extension at 1890 and 1862
land-grant institutions, and local food
hubs and established 27 new Food
Safety Education and Outreach Projects.
Many of these projects will work at the
local level to provide training and
technical assistance to small, mid-sized
and hard to reach producers and
processors to address the new
requirements associated with FSMA.
Implementation Plans
All comments and the official
transcript of the listening session, once
available, may be reviewed on the NIFA
Web page, https://nifa.usda.gov/food-
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of Revision of Confidentiality Pledge under the Title V
of the E-Government Act, Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA) and Title 7, Chapter 55,
Section 2276 (Confidentiality of Information).
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SUMMARY: Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e), and 44 U.S.C. 3501, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is announcing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents under CIPSEA and
Title 7, Chapter 55, Section 2276. The revision is required by the
passage and implementation of provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II, Subtitle B,
Sec. 223), which permit and require the Secretary of Homeland Security
to provide Federal civilian agencies' information technology systems
with cybersecurity protection for their Internet traffic. More details
on this announcement are presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section below.
DATES: This revision becomes effective upon publication of this notice
in the Federal Register. In a parallel Federal Register notice, NASS is
seeking public comment on this confidentiality pledge revision.
ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. Include the title
``Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice'' in the subject line of the
message.
Efax: (855) 838-6382.
Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: David Hancock, NASS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 5336 South
Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250-2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. Renee Picanso, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, (202) 720-4333, or email HQOA@nass.usda.gov.
Because of delays in the receipt of regular mail related to security
screening, respondents are encouraged to use phone or electronic
communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under CIPSEA; Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
2276; and similar statistical confidentiality protection statutes, many
federal statistical agencies, including NASS, make statutory pledges
that the information respondents provide will be seen only by
statistical agency personnel or their sworn agents, and will be used
only for statistical purposes. CIPSEA and Title 7, Chapter 55, Section
2276 protect such statistical information from administrative, law
enforcement, taxation, regulatory, or any other non-statistical use and
immunize the information submitted to statistical agencies from legal
process. Moreover, many of these statutes carry criminal penalties of a
Class E felony (fines up to $250,000, or up to five years in prison, or
both) for conviction of a knowing and willful unauthorized disclosure
of covered information.
As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act, among other provisions, permits and
requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide federal civilian
agencies' information technology systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. The technology currently used to provide
this protection against cyber malware is known as ``Einstein 3A''. It
electronically searches Internet traffic in and out of federal civilian
agencies in real time for malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the Internet packets that contain
the malware signature are shunted aside for further inspection by
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel. Because it is possible
that such packets entering or leaving a statistical agency's
information technology system may contain confidential statistical
data, statistical agencies can no longer promise their respondents that
their responses will be seen only by statistical agency personnel or
their sworn agents. However, they can promise, in accordance with
provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, that
such monitoring can be used only to protect information and information
systems from cybersecurity risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the respondents' submissions.
Consequently, with the passage of the Federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015, the federal statistical community has an
opportunity to welcome the further protection of its confidential data
offered by DHS' Einstein 3A cybersecurity protection program. The DHS
cybersecurity
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program's objective is to protect federal civilian information systems
from malicious malware attacks. The federal statistical system's
objective is to ensure that the DHS Secretary performs those essential
duties in a manner that honors the Government's statutory promises to
the public to protect their confidential data. Given that the
Department of Homeland Security is not a federal statistical agency,
both DHS and the federal statistical agencies have been engaged in
finding a way to balance both objectives and achieve these mutually
reinforcing objectives.
Accordingly, DHS and federal statistical agencies (including NASS),
in cooperation with their parent departments, have developed a
Memorandum of Agreement for the installation of Einstein 3A
cybersecurity protection technology to monitor their Internet traffic
and have incorporated an associated Addendum on Highly Sensitive Agency
Information that provides additional protection and enhanced security
handling of confidential statistical data. However, CIPSEA; Title 7,
Chapter 55, Section 2276; and similar statistical confidentiality
pledges promise that respondents' data will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their sworn agents. Since it is possible that DHS
personnel could see some portion of those confidential data in the
course of examining the suspicious Internet packets identified by the
Einstein 3A technology, statistical agencies need to revise their
confidentiality pledges to reflect this process change.
Therefore, NASS is providing this notice to alert the public to
this confidentiality pledge revision in an efficient and coordinated
fashion. Below is the revised confidentiality pledge as it will appear
on NASS survey questionnaires, as well as the revision to NASS's
confidentiality Web page. A list of the NASS OMB numbers and
information collection titles that will be affected by this revision is
also included below.
The revised confidentiality pledge to appear on NASS questionnaires
is below:
The information you provide will be used for statistical
purposes only. Your responses will be kept confidential and any
person who willfully discloses ANY identifiable information about
you or your operation is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both.
This survey is conducted in accordance with the Confidential
Information Protection provisions of Title V, Subtitle A, Public Law
107-347 and other applicable Federal laws. For more information on
how we protect your information please visit: https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/Confidentiality_Pledge/index.php.
For voluntary surveys the statement, ``Response to this survey is
voluntary.'' Will follow this pledge. For mandatory surveys the
statement, ``Response to this survey is mandatory.'' will follow.
The NASS confidentiality pledge Web page (https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/Confidentiality_Pledge/index.php) will be
revised to include a fifth item explaining that DHS will monitor the
transmission of data for cybersecurity threats. Item 5 is below:
5. Data are protected from cybersecurity threats
Per the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are
further protected by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
through cybersecurity monitoring of the systems that transmit your
data. DHS will be monitoring these systems to look for viruses,
malware and other threats. In the event of a cybersecurity incident,
and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these
sources may be used to help identify and mitigate the incident.
Affected information collections:
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Information collection
OMB No. Expiration date title
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0535-0001................... 04/30/2019 Cold Storage.
0535-0002................... 10/31/2018 Field Crops Production.
0535-0003................... 07/31/2019 Agricultural Prices.
0535-0004................... 01/31/2019 Egg, Chicken, and
Turkey Surveys.
0535-0005................... 11/30/2017 Livestock Slaughter.
0535-0007................... 01/31/2019 Stocks Reports.
0535-0020................... 07/31/2018 Milk and Milk Products.
0535-0037................... 08/31/2019 Vegetable Surveys.
0535-0039................... 10/31/2019 Fruit, Nuts, and
Specialty Crops.
0535-0088................... 07/31/2018 Field Crops Objective
Yield.
0535-0093................... 11/30/2018 Floriculture Survey.
0535-0109................... 03/31/2018 Agricultural Labor.
0535-0140................... 01/31/2019 List Sampling Frame
Survey.
0535-0150................... 06/30/2017 Aquaculture.
0535-0153................... 12/31/2018 Honey Survey.
0535-0212................... 11/30/2018 Mink Survey.
0535-0213................... 06/30/2017 Agricultural Surveys
Program.
0535-0218................... 07/31/2018 Agricultural Resource
Management and
Chemical Use Surveys
(ARMS).
0535-0220................... 03/31/2017 Cotton Ginnings.
0535-0226................... 10/31/2019 Census of Agriculture.
0535-0243................... 08/31/2018 Census of Agriculture
Content Test.
0535-0244................... 11/30/2019 Nursery Production
Survey and Nursery and
Floriculture Chemical
Use Survey.
0535-0245................... 09/30/2017 CEAP--NRI Conservation
Tillage and Nutrient
Management Survey.
0535-0248................... 04/30/2019 Generic Clearance of
Survey Improvement
Projects.
0535-0249................... 12/31/2017 Organic Production
Survey.
0535-0251................... 05/30/2019 Residue and Biomass
Field Survey.
0535-0254................... 07/31/2017 Current Agricultural
Industrial Reports
(CAIR).
0535-0255................... 04/30/2018 Colony Loss.
0535-0256................... 06/30/2018 Feral Swine Survey.
0535-0257................... 610/31/2018 Organic Certifier
Census.
0535-0258................... 611/30/2018 Cost of Pollination
Survey.
0535-0259................... 603/31/2019 Local Foods Survey.
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Signed at Washington, DC, November 30, 2016.
Hubert Hamer,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016-29750 Filed 12-9-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-20-P
