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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
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March 17, 2017.
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 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 this information
collection received by April 21, 2017
will be considered. Written comments
should be addressed to: Desk Officer for
Agriculture, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), New
Executive Office Building, 725—17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20502.
Commenters are encouraged to submit
their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or
fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail
Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250–
7602. 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
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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.
Risk Management Agency
Title: Area Risk Protection Insurance.
OMB Control Number: 0563–0083.
Summary of Collection: The Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is a
wholly-owned Government corporation
created February 16, 1938 (7 U.S.C.
1501). The program was amended
previously, but Public Law 96–365,
dated September 26, 1980, provided for
nationwide expansion of a
comprehensive crop insurance program.
The Federal Crop Insurance Act, as
amended in later years further expanded
this role of the crop insurance program
to be the principal tool for risk
management by producers of
agricultural commodities. Barley, corn,
cotton, forage production, grain
sorghum, soybeans, oysters, popcorn,
rice and wheat are crops insured under
the Area Risk Protection Insurance
(ARPI) policy.
Need and Use of the Information:
ARPI includes three separate plans of
insurance: (1) Area Revenue Protection
which protects against price declines
and automatically includes Upside
Harvest Price Protection (UHPP) which
protects against price increases; (2) ARP
with the Harvest Price Exclusion, which
excludes UHPP and protects against
price declines but not against price
increases; and (3) Area Yield Protection
which only protects against loss of
yield.
Using a wide range of data elements
producers are required to report specific
data when they apply for ARPI such as
acreage and yields. Insurance
companies accept applications; issue
policies; establish and provide
insurance coverage; compute liability,
premium, subsidies, and losses;
indemnify producers; and report
specific data to FCIC as required in
Appendix III/M13 Handbook.
If producers and insurance companies
did not submit the required data at the
specified time, accurate liabilities,
premium, and subsidies may not be
determined, errors may not be resolved
timely, producers may not receive
accurate indemnities, payments may be
late, crop insurance may not be
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actuarially sound as mandated by the
Act.
Description of Respondents:
Producers and insurance companies.
Number of Respondents: 25,432.
Frequency of Responses: Weekly,
monthly, quarterly, annually, semiannually.
Total Burden Hours: 98,322.
Risk Management Agency
Title: Subpart U-Ineligibility for
Programs under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act.
OMB Control Number: 0563–0085.
Summary of Collection: The Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is a
wholly-owned Government corporation
created February 16, 1938 (7 U.S.C.
1501). The program was amended
previously, but Public Law 96–365,
dated September 26, 1980, provided for
nationwide expansion of a
comprehensive crop insurance program.
The Federal Crop Insurance Act, as
amended in later years further expanded
this role of the crop insurance program
to be the principal tool for risk
management by producers of
agricultural commodities.
Need and Use of the Information: The
purpose of collecting the information is
to ensure persons that are ineligible for
benefits under the Federal crop
insurance program are accurately
identified as such and do not obtain
benefits to which they are not eligible.
Person can become ineligible for
benefits for three reasons: (1) Debt on
unpaid premium or overpaid indemnity
(information provided by AIP; (2) Debt
on unpaid CAT fee (information
provided by AIP); and (3) Debarment/
disqualification/suspension, including
but not limited to judgement, civil fines,
etc. The Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation and AIPs use the
information collected to determine
whether person seeking to obtain
Federal crop insurance coverage are
ineligible for such coverage according to
the statutory/regulatory mandates
identified.
Description of Respondents: Business,
or other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 18.
Frequency of Responses: Monthly,
quarterly, on occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 1,841.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Interagency
Generic Clearance for Federal Land
Management Agencies Collaborative
Visitor Feedback Surveys on
Recreation and Transportation Related
Programs and Systems
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the renewal of an
information collection, Federal Land
Management Agencies (FLMAs)
Collaborative Visitor Transportation
Information Collections.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before May 22, 2017 to be
assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
notice should be addressed to Margaret
Petrella, The Volpe Center (RVT–321),
55 Broadway Street, Cambridge, MA
02142. All responses to this notice will
be summarized and included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval. All comments
will become a matter of public record.
Comments also may be submitted via
facsimile to (617) 494–3522 or by email
to: Margaret.Petrella@dot.gov.
The public may inspect comments
received at 55 Broadway Street,
Cambridge, MA 02142 in Room 3–67
during normal business hours. Visitors
are encouraged to call ahead to 617–
494–3582 to facilitate entry to the
building.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Margaret Petrella, Social Scientist, U.S.
Department of Transportation, The
Volpe Center, (617) 494–3582.
Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339
twenty-four hours a day, every day of
the year, including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Interagency Generic Clearance
for Federal Land Management Agencies
Collaborative Visitor Feedback Surveys
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on Recreation and Transportation
Related Programs and Systems.
OMB Number: 0596–0236.
Expiration Date of Approval:
November 30, 2017.
Type of Request: Renewal and
revision of currently approved
collection.
Abstract: From time to time,
individual or combined units or
subunits of various Federal Land
Management Agencies (FLMAs) and/or
FLMA Research Station units need to
acquire direct visitor and authorized
user feedback about site- or area-specific
services, facilities, road and/or travel
systems, needs, programs,
demographics, management of FLMA
lands, and/or other quantitative
information on FLMA lands in crossjurisdictional landscapes. FLMAs
include, but are not limited to: USDAForest Service; National Park Service;
Bureau of Land Management; US Fish &
Wildlife Service; US Geological Survey;
US Army Corps of Engineers; Presidio
Trust and Bureau of Reclamation. This
direct feedback is vital to establish and/
or revise goals and objectives for FLMA
recreation-related transportation system
programs to and within FLMA
recreation sites/opportunities, to inform
land management plans, and to facilitate
interagency coordination across
multijurisdictional landscapes, which
will better meet the needs of the public
and the resources under FLMA
management.
The benefits of an FLMA interagency
generic Information Collection (IC)
would include significant public and
agency time and cost savings. If
multiple FLMAs in an area or landscape
work jointly on one quantitative visitor
feedback information collection under a
generic clearance from OMB, there
would be significant savings in
government time and costs related to
survey development and OMB survey
approval, as well as savings in the costs
of survey administration and data
processing. In particular, the public
burden would be diminished as the
public would only need to respond to
one jointly-sponsored survey, instead of
to multiple similar surveys at multiple
units in an area.
Under the following authorities, the
participating FLMAs are obligated to
actively solicit public input to improve
public lands management to better serve
the public:
1. Forest Service Administration
Organic Act of 1897 [16 U.S.C. 473–478,
479–482, and 551] as amended by the
Transfer Act of 1905 [16 U.S.C. 472,
524, 554];
2. Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act
of 1960 [Pub. L. 86–15, § 3];
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3. Forest and Rangeland Renewable
Resources and Planning Act of 1974
[Pub. L. 93–378 § 3(2,3)] as amended;
4. National Forest Management Act of
1976 [Pub. L. 94–588, §§ 2(3), 6(d)], as
amended;
5. Government Performance and
Results Act of 1993 [Pub. L. 103–62] as
amended;
6. Executive Order 12862 of
September 11, 1993;
7. Executive Order 13571 of April 27,
2011;
8. Executive Act 12996 of March 25,
1996;
9. National Park Services Act of 1916;
10. National Wildlife Refuge System
Administration Act;
11. National Wildlife Refuge System
Centennial Act [Pub. L. 106–408];
12. The Federal Land Policy and
Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976;
13. General Survey Act of 1824; and
14. National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969.
Survey respondents would include
visitors and potential visitors to FLMA
units or subunits, and residents of
communities in or near FLMA units.
Since many of the FLMA surveys are
similar in terms of the populations
being surveyed, the types of questions
being asked, the research methodologies
being used, and the database structures
and data being utilized, the FLMAs
propose a generic Interagency
Information Collections clearance from
OMB to obtain quantitative and/or
qualitative visitor/user feedback
utilizing collection mechanisms such as
surveys, focus groups, and/or
interviews.
Information collection could occur at
one location, several locations, across
FLMA units, across regions, across the
nation, and could be multijurisdictional at any of these levels.
Information collection activities could
occur once, could occur as iterative
collections over a limited period of
time, or could occur over long periods
of time at some periodic, planned time
interval. Direct visitor feedback could be
collected through facilitated focus
groups or through surveys or individual
interviews (qualitative or quantitative),
with either electronically-recorded or
hand-written responses, via mail-back,
or via internet, apps, or social media
electronic surveys (e.g., Quick Response
(QR) codes on Smartphones). Survey or
interview information could be
collected at pertinent site(s) or access
point(s) as visitors arrive or complete
their visit(s) or are in the midst of their
activities; and could be collected pre- or
post-visit.
In general, questions will relate to
visitor experience at one or more
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Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules
or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings
and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency
statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
March 17, 2017.
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
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 this information collection received by April
21, 2017 will be considered. Written comments should be addressed to:
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), New Executive Office
Building, 725--17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20502. Commenters are
encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via email to:
OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental
Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250-
7602. 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.
Risk Management Agency
Title: Area Risk Protection Insurance.
OMB Control Number: 0563-0083.
Summary of Collection: The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
(FCIC) is a wholly-owned Government corporation created February 16,
1938 (7 U.S.C. 1501). The program was amended previously, but Public
Law 96-365, dated September 26, 1980, provided for nationwide expansion
of a comprehensive crop insurance program. The Federal Crop Insurance
Act, as amended in later years further expanded this role of the crop
insurance program to be the principal tool for risk management by
producers of agricultural commodities. Barley, corn, cotton, forage
production, grain sorghum, soybeans, oysters, popcorn, rice and wheat
are crops insured under the Area Risk Protection Insurance (ARPI)
policy.
Need and Use of the Information: ARPI includes three separate plans
of insurance: (1) Area Revenue Protection which protects against price
declines and automatically includes Upside Harvest Price Protection
(UHPP) which protects against price increases; (2) ARP with the Harvest
Price Exclusion, which excludes UHPP and protects against price
declines but not against price increases; and (3) Area Yield Protection
which only protects against loss of yield.
Using a wide range of data elements producers are required to
report specific data when they apply for ARPI such as acreage and
yields. Insurance companies accept applications; issue policies;
establish and provide insurance coverage; compute liability, premium,
subsidies, and losses; indemnify producers; and report specific data to
FCIC as required in Appendix III/M13 Handbook.
If producers and insurance companies did not submit the required
data at the specified time, accurate liabilities, premium, and
subsidies may not be determined, errors may not be resolved timely,
producers may not receive accurate indemnities, payments may be late,
crop insurance may not be actuarially sound as mandated by the Act.
Description of Respondents: Producers and insurance companies.
Number of Respondents: 25,432.
Frequency of Responses: Weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, semi-
annually.
Total Burden Hours: 98,322.
Risk Management Agency
Title: Subpart U-Ineligibility for Programs under the Federal Crop
Insurance Act.
OMB Control Number: 0563-0085.
Summary of Collection: The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
(FCIC) is a wholly-owned Government corporation created February 16,
1938 (7 U.S.C. 1501). The program was amended previously, but Public
Law 96-365, dated September 26, 1980, provided for nationwide expansion
of a comprehensive crop insurance program. The Federal Crop Insurance
Act, as amended in later years further expanded this role of the crop
insurance program to be the principal tool for risk management by
producers of agricultural commodities.
Need and Use of the Information: The purpose of collecting the
information is to ensure persons that are ineligible for benefits under
the Federal crop insurance program are accurately identified as such
and do not obtain benefits to which they are not eligible. Person can
become ineligible for benefits for three reasons: (1) Debt on unpaid
premium or overpaid indemnity (information provided by AIP; (2) Debt on
unpaid CAT fee (information provided by AIP); and (3) Debarment/
disqualification/suspension, including but not limited to judgement,
civil fines, etc. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and AIPs use
the information collected to determine whether person seeking to obtain
Federal crop insurance coverage are ineligible for such coverage
according to the statutory/regulatory mandates identified.
Description of Respondents: Business, or other for profit.
Number of Respondents: 18.
Frequency of Responses: Monthly, quarterly, on occasion.
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Total Burden Hours: 1,841.
Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-05697 Filed 3-21-17; 8:45 am]
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