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Total Burden Hours: 193.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020–18922 Filed 8–27–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410–02–P
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
August 25, 2020.
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: 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and 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 and other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by September 28,
2020 will be considered. 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.
Forest Service
Title: Special Use Administration.
OMB Control Number: 0596–0082.
Summary of Collection: Several
statutes authorize the Forest Service
(FS) to issue and administer
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authorizations for use and occupancy of
National Forest System (NFS) lands and
require the collection of information
from the public for those purposes. The
laws for authorizing the use and
managing these uses of NFS lands
include: The Organic Administration
Act of 1897 (16 U.S.C. 551); Title V of
the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43
U.S.C. 1761–1771); The Act of March 4,
1915 (16 U.S.C. 497); The National
Forest Ski Area Permit Act (16 U.S.C.
497b); Section 28 of the Mineral Leasing
Act (30 U.S.C. 185); The National Forest
Roads and Trails Act (FRTA, 16 U.S.C.
532–538); Section 7 of the Granger-Thye
Act (16 U.S.C. 480d); The Act of May
26, 2000 (16 U.S.C. 460l–6d); The
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement
Act (16 U.S.C. 6801–6814); Act of
September 3, 1954 (68 Stat. 1146; 43
U.S.C. 931c, 931d); Archeological
Resource Protection Act of October 31,
1979 (16 U.S.C.1996); The Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended;
and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964.
Forest Service regulations
implementing these authorities are
found under Title 36, Code of Federal
Regulations, Section 251, Subpart B (36
CFR 251, Subpart B). Information
collected include submission of
applications, execution of forms, and
imposition of terms and conditions that
entail information collection
requirements, such as the requirement
to submit annual financial information;
to prepare and update an operating
plan; to prepare and update a
maintenance plan; and to submit
compliance reports and information
updates.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collected is evaluated by
the FS to ensure that authorized uses of
NFS lands are in the public interest and
are compatible with the agency’s
mission. The information helps each
agency identify environmental and
social impacts of special uses for
purposes of compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act and
program administration. Information is
collected under six categories: (1)
Information required from proponents
and applicants to evaluate proposals
and applications to use or occupy NFS
lands; (2) information required from
applicants to complete special use
authorizations; (3) annual financial
information required from holders to
determine land use fees; (4) information
required from holders to prepare and
update operating plans; (5) information
required from holders to prepare and
update maintenance plans; and (6)
information required from holders to
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complete compliance reports and
information updates.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals or households; Business or
other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; Federal
Government; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Number of Respondents: 153,612.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 150,789.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
August 25, 2020.
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: 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and 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 September 28, 2020.
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
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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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Generic Information Collection
and Clearance of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Control Number: 0581–0269.
Summary of Collection: Executive
Order 12862 directs Federal agencies to
provide service to the public that
matches or exceeds the best service
available in the private sector.
Improving Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) programs requires
ongoing assessment of service delivery,
by which we mean systematic review of
the operation of a program compared to
a set of explicit or implicit standards, as
a means of contributing to the
continuous improvement of the
program.
Need and Use of the Information: The
information collection activity will
garner qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. By
qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between
AMS and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback
to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance will provide useful
information, but it will not yield data
that can be generalized to the overall
population. This type of generic
clearance for qualitative information
will not be used for quantitative
information collections that are
designed to yield reliably actionable
results, such as monitoring trends over
time or documenting program
performance. Such data uses require
more rigorous designs that address: The
target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
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(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
Description of Respondents: Farms;
Business or other for-profit; Not-forprofit Institutions and State, Local or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 100,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 50,000.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: USDA Web Based Supply Chain
Management System (WBSCM).
OMB Control Number: 0581–0273.
Summary of Collection: Section 32 of
the Act of August 24, 1935, as amended
(Section 32 Pub. L. 74–320; 7 U.S.C.
612(c); Sections 6(a) and (e), 13, and 17
of the National School Lunch Act, as
amended, (42 U.S.C. 1751, 1761, and
1766) in addition to several other acts
authorize the Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) Procurement Branches to
prepare and issue announcements for
the purchase and sale of perishable
agricultural commodities. AMS
purchases agricultural commodities for
the Section 32 and 6a & e National
School Lunch Program/Child & Adult
Care Food Program; Nutrition Service
Incentive Program; Food Distribution
Program on Indian Reservations;
Commodity Supplemental Food
Program; The Emergency Food
Assistance Program and Disaster
Feeding in addition to providing
support for commodity markets with
surplus inventory.
Need and Use of the Information:
AMS issues solicitation for offers in
order to solicit bids for commodities for
delivery to domestic nutrition assistance
programs. Vendors respond by making
electronic offers using the secure Web
Based Supply Chain Management
System (WBSCM). Vendors must be
registered, and have an ID and
password, in order to submit bids
electronically through WBSCM via the
internet. The information will change in
response to the needs of the domestic
feeding programs and each solicitation.
Information collected has been
consolidated into three processes—a
New Vendor Application, Bid
Solicitation, and Contract Delivery,
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Invoice Submission and Inspection
Results. The data collected from
vendors assists AMS with making a
determination whether a business is
viable and capable of supplying product
to the Federal government.
Description of Respondents: Business
or other for profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 330.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion; Weekly; Monthly;
Quarterly.
Total Burden Hours: 48,376.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Food and Nutrition Service
Agency Information Collection
Activities: National Study of State
Adoption and Use of PandemicElectronic Benefit Transfer During
Covid–19
Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice invites the general public and
other public agencies to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This collection is a new collection to
collect information on the operational
aspects of the Pandemic Electronic
Benefit Transfer program (P–EBT).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
Edward Harper, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA
22314. Comments may also be
submitted via fax to the attention of
Edward Harper at 703–305–2340 or via
email to edward.harper@usda.gov.
Comments will also be accepted through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
https://www.regulations.gov, and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments electronically.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for Office of Management and Budget
approval. All comments will be a matter
of public record.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of this information collection
should be directed to Edward Harper at
703–305–2340.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
August 25, 2020.
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:
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; the accuracy of the agency's
estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of
the information to be collected; and 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 September 28, 2020.
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
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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.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Generic Information Collection and Clearance of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0269.
Summary of Collection: Executive Order 12862 directs Federal
agencies to provide service to the public that matches or exceeds the
best service available in the private sector. Improving Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) programs requires ongoing assessment of service
delivery, by which we mean systematic review of the operation of a
program compared to a set of explicit or implicit standards, as a means
of contributing to the continuous improvement of the program.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collection
activity will garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in
an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Administration's
commitment to improving service delivery. By qualitative feedback we
mean information that provides useful insights on perceptions and
opinions, but are not statistical surveys that yield quantitative
results that can be generalized to the population of study. This
feedback will provide insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an early warning of
issues with service, or focus attention on areas where communication,
training or changes in operations might improve delivery of products or
services. These collections will allow for ongoing, collaborative and
actionable communications between AMS and its customers and
stakeholders. It will also allow feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management. Feedback collected under this
generic clearance will provide useful information, but it will not
yield data that can be generalized to the overall population. This type
of generic clearance for qualitative information will not be used for
quantitative information collections that are designed to yield
reliably actionable results, such as monitoring trends over time or
documenting program performance. Such data uses require more rigorous
designs that address: The target population to which generalizations
will be made, the sampling frame, the sample design (including
stratification and clustering), the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed sample size, the expected
response rate, methods for assessing potential non-response bias, the
protocols for data collection, and any testing procedures that were or
will be undertaken prior fielding the study. Depending on the degree of
influence the results are likely to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic mechanisms that are designed
to yield quantitative results.
Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit;
Not-for-profit Institutions and State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 100,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 50,000.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: USDA Web Based Supply Chain Management System (WBSCM).
OMB Control Number: 0581-0273.
Summary of Collection: Section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, as
amended (Section 32 Pub. L. 74-320; 7 U.S.C. 612(c); Sections 6(a) and
(e), 13, and 17 of the National School Lunch Act, as amended, (42
U.S.C. 1751, 1761, and 1766) in addition to several other acts
authorize the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Procurement Branches
to prepare and issue announcements for the purchase and sale of
perishable agricultural commodities. AMS purchases agricultural
commodities for the Section 32 and 6a & e National School Lunch
Program/Child & Adult Care Food Program; Nutrition Service Incentive
Program; Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations; Commodity
Supplemental Food Program; The Emergency Food Assistance Program and
Disaster Feeding in addition to providing support for commodity markets
with surplus inventory.
Need and Use of the Information: AMS issues solicitation for offers
in order to solicit bids for commodities for delivery to domestic
nutrition assistance programs. Vendors respond by making electronic
offers using the secure Web Based Supply Chain Management System
(WBSCM). Vendors must be registered, and have an ID and password, in
order to submit bids electronically through WBSCM via the internet. The
information will change in response to the needs of the domestic
feeding programs and each solicitation. Information collected has been
consolidated into three processes--a New Vendor Application, Bid
Solicitation, and Contract Delivery, Invoice Submission and Inspection
Results. The data collected from vendors assists AMS with making a
determination whether a business is viable and capable of supplying
product to the Federal government.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for profit; Farms.
Number of Respondents: 330.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Weekly; Monthly;
Quarterly.
Total Burden Hours: 48,376.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-18942 Filed 8-27-20; 8:45 am]
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