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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(e), and
44 U.S.C. 3501, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is
renewing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its
respondents under CIPSEA and Title 7,
Chapter 55, Section 2276. This renewal
will be valid for three years. The
revision was originally approved by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) on December 1, 2016 under an
emergency request. The original request
was warranted 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 permits and
requires 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: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 21, 2017 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–0260,
by any of the following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• E-fax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD–
ROM submissions to: David Hancock,
NASS Clearance Officer, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Room 5336
South Building, 1400 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250–
2024.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand
deliver to: David Hancock, NASS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Room 5336, South
Building, 1400 Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC 20250–2024.
SUMMARY:
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Renee Picanso, Associate Administrator,
National Agricultural Statistics Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, (202)
720–4333, or email HQOA@
nass.usda.gov. Copies of this
information collection and related
instructions can be obtained without
charge from David Hancock, NASS—
OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 690–
2388 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
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
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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
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
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0535–0249
0535–0251
0535–0254
0535–0255
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0535–0257
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.
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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:
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
10/31/2018
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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/confidentiality.
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.’’ or ‘‘Response to
this survey is required by law.’’ will
follow.
The NASS confidentiality pledge Web
page: https://www.nass.usda.gov/
confidentiality 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.
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Expiration date
0535–0258 .........
0535–0259 .........
11/30/2018
03/31/2019
Information collection title
Cost of Pollination Survey.
Local Foods Survey.
Signed at Washington, DC, December 12,
2016.
R. Renee Picanso,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016–30658 Filed 12–19–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee
Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Committee
Establishment.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of the Census
(Census Bureau) is hereby giving notice
that the Secretary of Commerce has
determined that the establishment of the
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee is necessary and in the
public interest. The Committee will
function solely as an advisory body and
in compliance with provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Copies of the charter will be filed with
the appropriate Committees of the U.S.
Congress and with the Library of
Congress.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tara
Dunlop Jackson, Branch Chief for
Advisory Committees, Customer Liaison
and Marketing Services Office,
tara.t.dunlop@census.gov, Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Room 8H177, 4600 Silver Hill Road,
Washington, DC 20233, telephone 301–
763–5222. For TTY callers, please use
the Federal Relay Service 1–800–877–
8339.
The
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee will advise the Director of
the Census Bureau on the full range of
2020 Census programs including an
incremental transition from current state
to target state, along with
operationalizing methods and new
technology across multiple locations
and time zones to deliver a secure and
successful, cost-effective 2020 Census.
The Committee will advise the Census
Bureau through the 2020 Census
Lifecycle on the identification of new
strategies for improved census
operations and on ways to increase 2020
Census participation and beyond.
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The Committee will address census
policies, methodology, tests, operations,
communications/messaging, and other
activities to ascertain needs and best
practices to improve the 2020 Census
program. The Committee will provide
advice on 2020 Census programs that
will use a complete address list,
generate the largest possible selfresponse, employ administrative records
and third-party data, and reengineer
nonresponse follow-up.
The Committee will review and
provide formal recommendations and
feedback on key operations and the
efficacy of planned and implemented
innovations related to accurately
counting every person living in America
while saving taxpayer money.
[FR Doc. 2016–30606 Filed 12–19–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee
Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Request for
Nominations.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of the Census
(Census Bureau) is requesting
nominations of organizations to the
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee. The Census Bureau will
consider nominations received in
response to this notice, as well as from
other sources. The SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice
provides Committee and membership
criteria.
SUMMARY:
Please submit nominations by
January 19, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please submit nominations
to Tara Dunlop Jackson, Branch Chief
for Advisory Committees, Customer
Liaison and Marketing Services Office,
tara.t.dunlop@census.gov, Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,
Room 8H177, 4600 Silver Hill Road,
Washington, DC 20233, telephone 301–
763–5222.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara
Dunlop Jackson, Branch Chief for
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The
Census Bureau 2020 Advisory
Committee (‘‘Committee’’) is established
in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Title
5, United States Code (U.S.C.),
Appendix 2. The following provides
information about the Committee,
membership, and the nomination
process.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Objectives and Duties
Dated: December 9, 2016.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
DATES:
Advisory Committees, Customer Liaison
Marketing Services Offices, U.S. Census
Bureau, Room 8H177, 4600 Silver Hill
Road, Washington, DC 20233, telephone
(301) 763–5222 or tara.t.dunlop@
census.gov. For TTY callers, please use
the Federal Relay Service 1–800–877–
8339.
1. The Committee will provide formal
review and feedback related to 2020
Census plans and execution to devise
strategies to increase census awareness,
reduce barriers to response, and
enhance the public’s trust and
willingness to respond.
2. The Committee will consider
implications of enumeration strategies,
new technologies, the role of state and
local governments, social media and
marketing, and the outreach and
mobilization needs of historically
undercounted populations.
3. The Committee will address and
provide recommendations on external
factors and policies that may affect 2020
Census plans and identify strategies to
increase Census awareness,
participation and response by the
American public.
4. The Committee will help the
Census Bureau communicate with and
educate diverse audiences on 2020
Census plans and operations.
5. The Committee will provide
recommendations to educate the public
at key 2020 Census decision points,
milestones, and production dates to
ensure maximum self-response and
participation by the public in the 2020
Census.
6. The Committee will devise and
recommend strategies to motivate
people to respond to the 2020 Census
through Internet self-response and other
forms of enumeration, as appropriate
(i.e., paper or by telephone through the
Census Questionnaire Assistance
Program).
7. The Committee will consider the
Census Bureau’s outreach,
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Confidentiality Pledge Revision Notice
AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 renewing a revision to the
confidentiality pledge it provides to its respondents under CIPSEA and
Title 7, Chapter 55, Section 2276. This renewal will be valid for three
years. The revision was originally approved by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) on December 1, 2016 under an emergency request. The
original request was warranted 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 permits and
requires 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: Comments on this notice must be received by February 21, 2017 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number 0535-
0260, by any of the following methods:
Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. Include docket number
above in the subject line of the message.
E-fax: (855) 838-6382.
Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions to:
David Hancock, NASS Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Room 5336 South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC
20250-2024.
Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand deliver to: 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.
Copies of this information collection and related instructions can be
obtained without charge from David Hancock, NASS--OMB Clearance
Officer, at (202) 690-2388 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
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
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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 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/confidentiality.
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.'' or ``Response to
this survey is required by law.'' will follow.
The NASS confidentiality pledge Web page: https://www.nass.usda.gov/confidentiality 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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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............................ 10/31/2018 Organic Certifier Census.
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0535-0258............................ 11/30/2018 Cost of Pollination Survey.
0535-0259............................ 03/31/2019 Local Foods Survey.
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Signed at Washington, DC, December 12, 2016.
R. Renee Picanso,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016-30658 Filed 12-19-16; 8:45 am]
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