Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 65026 [2020-22689]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 199 (Wednesday, October 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 65026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22689]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

October 8, 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 November 13, 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 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.

National Agricultural Statistics Service

    Title: Agricultural Prices.
    OMB Control Number: 0535-0003.
    Summary of Collection: The Agricultural Prices surveys provide data 
on the prices received by farmers and prices paid for production goods 
and services. This information is needed by the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) for the 
following purposes: (a) To compute Parity Prices in accordance with 
requirements of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as amended 
(Title III, Subtitle A, Section 301a, (b) to estimate value of 
production, inventory values, and cash receipts from farming, (c) to 
determine the level for farmer owned reserves, (d) to provide 
guidelines for Risk Management Agency price selection options, (e) to 
determine Federal disaster prices to be paid, (f) establishing USDA's 
net farm income projections by the Economic Research Service and (g) to 
determine the grazing fee on Federal lands. General authority for these 
data collection activities is granted under U.S. Code Title 7, Section 
2204.
    Revisions were made to reflect the following program changes made 
to the Prices Received surveys. The Prices Received survey for sugar 
and the annual Livestock and Crops Survey in Alaska, were both 
discontinued. Some of the States that were conducting monthly milk 
price surveys dropped back to collecting the data quarterly. There are 
no program changes made to the Prices Paid surveys. The remainder of 
the changes are adjustments to the sample sizes and burden minutes.
    Need and Use of the Information: The NASS price program computes 
annual U.S. weighted average prices received by farmers for wheat, 
barley, oats, corn, grain sorghum, rice, cotton, peanuts, pulse crops 
and oilseeds based on monthly marketing. Estimates of prices received 
are used by NASS to determine the value of agricultural production. 
Prices estimates are used by many Government agencies as a general 
measure of commodity price changes, economic analysis relating to farm 
income and alternative marketing policies, and for disaster and 
insurance payments. NASS estimates based on these surveys are used as a 
Principle Economic Indicator of the United States. These price 
estimates are also used to compute Parity Prices in accordance with 
requirements of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as amended 
(Title III, Subtitle A, Section 301(a)).
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 67,025.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion; Monthly; Annually; 
Biennially.
    Total Burden Hours: 32,416.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-22689 Filed 10-13-20; 8:45 am]
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