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Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina,
and Texas). Target population within
these states consisted of farm operations
who have historically produced one or
more of the following crops: Corn,
soybeans, wheat, rice, peanuts or
sorghum (Texas only).
In 2017, this survey will be conducted
in Alabama, Arkansas, California,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas,
to measure the damage to livestock that
is associated with the presence of feral
swine. These States have high feral
swine densities and a significant
presence of cattle, hogs, sheep and/or
goats.
In 2019 the survey was conducted in
12 States: Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.
The operators in 11 of the States will be
selected from operations that recently
produced hay/haylage, tree nuts,
melons, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, or
cotton. In California, operators will be
selected from operations that produced
hay/haylage, tree nuts, grapes, sod,
carrots, lettuce, or strawberries. APHIS
Wildlife Services extrapolated crop
damage estimates to the state-level in 12
states with reportable damage yielded
an estimated crop loss of $272 million/
yr.
The Agriculture Improvement Act
authorizes $75,000,000 for the period of
fiscal years 2019 through 2023. The
funds are to be divided up by the
following—50 percent shall be allocated
to the Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS) to carry out the pilot
program, including the provision of
financial assistance to producers for onfarm trapping and technology related to
capturing and confining feral swine; and
50 percent shall be allocated to the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) to carry out the pilot
program, including the use of
established, and testing of innovative,
population reduction methods.
The APHIS, Wildlife Services’ (WS)
National Wildlife Research Center
(NWRC) is the only Federal research
organization devoted exclusively to
resolving conflicts between people and
wildlife through the development of
effective, selective, and socially
responsible methods, tools, and
techniques. As increased urbanization
leads to a loss of traditional wildlife
habitat, the potential for conflicts
between people and wildlife increases.
Such conflicts can take many forms,
including property and natural resource
damage, human health and safety
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concerns, and disease transmission
among wildlife, livestock, and humans.
The high reproductive rate and
adaptability of feral swine has resulted
in populations that have dramatically
increased in size and distribution. This
invasive animal now occurs across
much of the United States where it
causes a range of agricultural and
environmental damage through
depredation, rooting, and wallowing
activities. Furthermore, feral swine
compete with native wildlife and
livestock for habitats, are carriers of
exotic and endemic diseases, and
transmit parasites to livestock and
humans. Feral swine are considered a
major emerging threat to American
agriculture (Seward et al. 2004). Recent
data show that the proportions of U.S.
counties with agricultural production
that also have feral swine present are
increasing.
General authority for these data
collection activities is granted under
U.S. Code Title 7, Section 2204. This
statute specifies that ‘‘The Secretary of
Agriculture shall procure and preserve
all information concerning agriculture
which he can obtain . . . by the
collection of statistics . . . and shall
distribute them among agriculturists.’’
Need and Use of the Information: The
purpose of the proposed survey is to
develop national and State estimates of
the damage feral swine cause to
agricultural operations, as well as costs
of controls and benefits from feral swine
hunting. These estimates will be used
by APHIS to determine which areas
have the greatest amount of damage and
where to focus efforts at dealing with
the feral swine problem. Financial costs
will be measured because these are
easily comparable across different states
and commodities.
Given the wide range of damages
covered in the survey, and the fact that
we are relying on estimates based on
human memory, there may be
compound problems that are difficult to
quantify or to identify a single cause.
APHIS representatives and NASS
survey methodologists recognize this
and took care to design the
questionnaire to target only damage and
losses directly attributable to feral
swine.
The feral swine survey is designed to
establish crucial baseline levels of
damage to American producers of
economically important livestock
(cattle, hogs, sheep and/or goats). APHIS
seeks to work cooperatively and with
the assistance of other agencies at the
international, Federal, State, Territorial,
Tribal, and local levels, and with the
cooperation of private management
interests, to provide a system for
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allocation of project resources, and to
identify management methods which
may be used to address feral swine
damage.
Description of Respondents: Farms.
Number of Respondents: 18,000.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 9,651.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection
Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
April 22, 2021.
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 or other forms of
information technology.
Comments regarding this information
collection received by May 27, 2021 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
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Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program Case and Procedural
Case Action Review Schedule (FNS–
245) Negative Case Action Review
Schedule.
OMB Control Number: 0584–0034.
Summary of Collection: State agencies
must complete and maintain the FNS–
245 Negative Case Action Review
Schedule for each negative case in their
SNAP Quality Control (QC) sample.
States are required to document any
discussions about individually sampled
cases within the SNAP QC record and
submit to FNS for subsequent review
and auditing purposes. The legal
authority for SNAP QC is in Section
16(c) of the Food and Nutrition Act of
2008, as amended; the legislative
requirement for the recordkeeping
requirements is Section 11(a) of the Act.
Need and Use of the Information: The
FNS–245, Negative Case Action Review
Schedule collects QC data and serves as
the data entry form for negative case
action QC reviews in the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
States submit the FNS –245 to FNS
when States enter into third party
contracts. FNS will use this during
review for audits.
Description of Respondents: State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 53.
Frequency of Responses:
Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 102,001.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) Connection
Resource Sharing Form (FNS 889).
OMB Control Number: 0584–0625.
Summary of Collection: The SNAP-Ed
Library is an online database of SNAPEd-related materials. The SNAP-Ed
Connection Resource Sharing Form
(FNS 889) gives SNAP-Ed instructors, as
well as those who develop nutrition
education materials, the opportunity to
voluntarily share information about
resources that can be used to
administer, develop, implement,
evaluate or showcase SNAP-Ed
programs. SNAP-Ed is authorized under
Section 28 of the Food and Nutrition
Act (FNA) of 2008, as amended through
Public Law 113–79.
Need and Use of the Information:
Information collected via this form
enables the SNAP-Ed Connection staff
to review materials for possible
inclusion in the SNAP-Ed Library. By
using this database, SNAP-Ed-funded
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programs can share resources with each
other, reduce duplication of efforts, and
improve program quality.
Description of Respondents: Businessfor-profit; Not-for-profit institutions;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 25.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting:
On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 19.
Intervention Submission Form and
Scoring Tool are to provide a uniform
and transparent method for submission,
review, and scoring of nutrition
education, physical activity promotion,
and obesity prevention interventions
into the SNAP-Ed Strategies and
Interventions: An Obesity Prevention
Toolkit for States (Toolkit). The Toolkit
was developed to assist State agencies
in locating evidence-based interventions
Ruth Brown,
for their implementation of SNAP-Ed
Departmental Information Collection
programming. The Food and Nutrition
Clearance Officer.
Act of 2008, as amended (The Act)
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requires that States use evidence-based
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interventions. These forms allow FNS to
increase the selection of interventions
available in the Toolkit, increase
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
innovation in service delivery using
interventions which reflect up-to-date
Food and Nutrition Service
research, and respond to intervention
developer requests to be included in the
Agency Information Collection
Toolkit. FNS plans to update form FNS–
Activities: Proposed Collection;
885 by rephrasing, modifying, or
Comment Request—Supplemental
combining certain criteria where doing
Nutrition Assistance Program
so will improve user experience, as well
Education (SNAP-Ed) Toolkit
as by including updated scoring criteria
Intervention Submission Form and
that reflect the current body of
Scoring Tool
interventions in the SNAP-Ed Toolkit.
AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service
FNS plans to update form FNS–886 by
(FNS), USDA.
combining, removing, and resequencing
questions based on user feedback to
ACTION: Notice.
improve user experience and reduce
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
burden. FNS also plans to encourage
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
high quality submissions by inserting
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is
more explicit prompts to include
publishing for public comment a
supplementary documentation, adding
summary of a proposed information
more check-box lists for submitters to
collection. This is a revision of a
use to identify the strategies they
currently approved collection.
employed, increasing character limits
on short-answer questions, and inserting
DATES: Written comments must be
a question on evaluation tools used by
received on or before June 28, 2021.
the submitter. In sum, the changes in
ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to:
this proposed revision are intended to
Adron Mason, Food and Nutrition
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, streamline the forms and improve the
end user experience.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
Program, 1320 Braddock Place, 5th
Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314. Comments the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
may also be submitted via fax to the
of the functions of the agency, including
attention of Adron Mason at 703–305–
0429 or via email to SNAP-ed@usda.gov. whether the information shall have
Comments will also be accepted through practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to
proposed collection of information,
https://www.regulations.gov, and follow
including the validity of the
the online instructions for submitting
methodology and assumptions that were
comments electronically.
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
All responses to this notice will be
utility, and clarity of the information to
summarized and included in the request
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
for Office of Management and Budget
the burden of the collection of
approval. All comments will be a matter
information on those who are to
of public record.
respond, including use of appropriate
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
Requests for additional information or
other technological collection
copies of this information collection
techniques or other forms of information
should be directed to Adron Mason at
technology.
SNAP-Ed@usda.gov.
Title: SNAP-Ed Toolkit Submission
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Form and Scoring Tool.
Form Number: FNS–885, FNS–886.
purpose of the SNAP-Ed Toolkit
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
April 22, 2021.
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 or
other forms of information technology.
Comments regarding this information collection received by May 27,
2021 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
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displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Case and
Procedural Case Action Review Schedule (FNS-245) Negative Case Action
Review Schedule.
OMB Control Number: 0584-0034.
Summary of Collection: State agencies must complete and maintain
the FNS-245 Negative Case Action Review Schedule for each negative case
in their SNAP Quality Control (QC) sample. States are required to
document any discussions about individually sampled cases within the
SNAP QC record and submit to FNS for subsequent review and auditing
purposes. The legal authority for SNAP QC is in Section 16(c) of the
Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended; the legislative requirement
for the recordkeeping requirements is Section 11(a) of the Act.
Need and Use of the Information: The FNS-245, Negative Case Action
Review Schedule collects QC data and serves as the data entry form for
negative case action QC reviews in the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP). States submit the FNS -245 to FNS when
States enter into third party contracts. FNS will use this during
review for audits.
Description of Respondents: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 53.
Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion;
Annually.
Total Burden Hours: 102,001.
Food and Nutrition Service
Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Connection
Resource Sharing Form (FNS 889).
OMB Control Number: 0584-0625.
Summary of Collection: The SNAP-Ed Library is an online database of
SNAP-Ed-related materials. The SNAP-Ed Connection Resource Sharing Form
(FNS 889) gives SNAP-Ed instructors, as well as those who develop
nutrition education materials, the opportunity to voluntarily share
information about resources that can be used to administer, develop,
implement, evaluate or showcase SNAP-Ed programs. SNAP-Ed is authorized
under Section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act (FNA) of 2008, as
amended through Public Law 113-79.
Need and Use of the Information: Information collected via this
form enables the SNAP-Ed Connection staff to review materials for
possible inclusion in the SNAP-Ed Library. By using this database,
SNAP-Ed-funded programs can share resources with each other, reduce
duplication of efforts, and improve program quality.
Description of Respondents: Business-for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 25.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 19.
Ruth Brown,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
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