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and state levels; to implement and
assess forest-land owner assistance
programs; and to answer a variety of
questions with topics ranging from
fragmentation to the economics of
timber production. This is the only
effort to collect in-depth information
about owners of forestland at the
national scale. It provides longitudinal
data to track ownership trends and
allows for comparisons across regions of
the country.
The respondents will be a statistically
selected group of individuals, families,
partnerships, corporations, nonprofit
organizations and other private groups,
tribal groups, and public landowners
that own forestland in the United States.
A well distributed, random set of
sampling points has been established
across the country. At each point,
remotely sensed data, such as aerial
photographs, will be used to identify
forested points. For the forested points,
public records will be used to identify
the owners of record (i.e., the names and
addresses of the landowners who will
be contacted). The target number of
respondents for the base NWOS
implementation is 250 per state.
The NWOS will utilize a mixed-mode
survey technique involving cognitive
interviews, focus groups, selfadministered survey, and telephone
interviews. Cognitive interviews will be
used to test specific questions and
explore new topics or populations of
interest. Focus groups will be used to
provide more in-depth understanding of
the responses and to explore new areas
of inquiry.
The implementation of the selfadministered survey, which will
represent the majority of the responses,
will involve up to four contacts. First,
a pre-notice postcard will be sent to all
potential respondents describing this
information collection and why the
information is being collected. Second,
a survey with a cover letter and pre-paid
return envelope will be sent to the
potential respondents. The cover letter
will reiterate the purpose of this
information collection and provide the
respondents with all legally required
information. Third, a reminder will be
mailed to thank the respondents and
encourage the non-respondents to reply.
Those who have yet to respond will be
sent a new survey, cover letter, and prepaid return envelope. Telephone
interviews will be used for follow-up
with non-respondents. For corporations,
the primary survey instrument will be
electronic, and for all other owners, the
primary survey instrument will be paper
forms with the option for completing
the survey electronically online. We
will use Participatory Action Research
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(PAR) and cognitive interviews to
explore tribal land ownerships.
Forest Service researchers will
coordinate all components of this
information collection. Forest Service
personnel with assistance provided by
cooperators at the Family Forest
Research Center located at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
will conduct the mail portion of the
survey, cognitive interviews, focus
groups, and telephone follow-ups. Data
will be compiled and edited by Forest
Service and Family Forest Research
Center personnel. Forest Service
researchers and cooperators will analyze
the collected data. National, regional,
and state-level results will be publicly
available and electronically distributed.
This information collection will
generate scientifically based,
statistically-reliable, up-to-date
information about the owners of
forestland in the United States. The
results of these efforts will provide more
reliable information on this important
and dynamic segment of the United
States population, thus facilitating more
complete assessments of the country’s
forestland resources and improved
planning and implementation of forestry
programs on state, regional, and
national levels.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households and the private sector
(businesses and non-profit
organizations), tribes, and public
entities.
Estimate of Burden per Response: 25
minutes for families, individuals, and
other private groups with small
holdings; 30 minutes for corporations
with large holdings; 60 minutes for
tribal entities, and 15 minutes for public
entities.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 5,291.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 3,861 hours.
Comment is Invited: Comment is
invited on: (1) whether this collection of
information is necessary for the stated
purposes and the proper performance of
the functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have
practical or scientific utility; (2) the
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the
burden of the collection of information,
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 respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
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techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Linda S. Heath,
Acting Deputy Chief, Research &
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Request To
Conduct a New Information Collection
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the
National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS) to seek approval to conduct a
new information collection to gather
data regarding production practices,
costs and returns, and contractor
expenses. This data is currently being
collected under OMB number 0535–
0218.
SUMMARY:
Comments on this notice must be
received by February 21, 2023 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–
NEW, by any of the following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• eFax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD–
ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper,
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: Richard Hopper, NASS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Room 5336 South Building,
1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250–2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin L. Barnes, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, (202) 720–4333. Copies of
this information collection and related
DATES:
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instructions can be obtained without
charge from Richard Hopper, NASS—
OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 720–
2206 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Agricultural Resource
Management phase 3 Economic
Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0535–NEW.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to create a new information
collection for a period of three years.
Abstract: The Agricultural Resource
Management Survey(s) (ARMS) are the
primary source of information for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture on a
broad range of issues related to:
production practices, costs and returns,
and contractor expenses. Data are
collected on both a whole farm level
and on selected commodities. This
Notice and information collection will
focus on the ARMS phase 3 Economic
Surveys, previously included in the
Agricultural Resource Management and
Chemical Use Surveys Information
Collection Request (OMB Control
Number 0535–0218).
The ARMS phase 3 Economic Surveys
are the only annual source of
information available for objective
evaluation of many critical issues
related to agriculture and the rural
economy, such as: annual whole farm
finance data, including data sufficient to
construct estimates of income for farms
by: type of operation, loan commodities,
income for operator households, credit,
structure, and organization; marketing
information; and other economic data
on input usage, production practices,
and crop substitution possibilities.
Data from ARMS are used to produce
estimates of net farm income by type of
commercial producer as required in 7
U.S.C. 7998 as amended and estimates
of enterprise production costs as
required in 7 U.S.C. 1441(a) as
amended. Data from ARMS are also
used as weights in the development of
the Prices Paid Index, a component of
the Parity Index referred to in the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
amended. These indexes are used to
calculate the annual federal grazing fee
rates as described in the Public
Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978
and Executive Order 12548 and as
promulgated in regulations found at 36
CFR 222.51, as amended.
In addition, ARMS is used to produce
estimates of sector-wide production
expenditures and other components of
income that are used in constructing the
estimates of income and value-added
which are transmitted to the U.S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Economic Analysis, by the USDA
Economic Research Service (ERS) for
use in constructing economy-wide
estimates of Gross Domestic Product.
This transmittal of data, prepared using
the ARMS, is undertaken to satisfy a
1956 agreement between the Office of
Management and Budget, and the
Departments of Agriculture and
Commerce that a single set of estimates
be published on farm income.
Number of respondents and total
burden include additional sample
methodology and/or sample sizes for
ARMS Phase 3 in order to collect data
from additional historically underserved
producer groups in the ARMS Phase 3
(the Costs and Returns Survey).
Collecting more data from these groups
will support President Biden’s and
USDA’s priority to advance racial
justice, equity, and opportunity by
providing more detailed data and
research on the socioeconomic
characteristics of farmers and ranchers
in the United States to ensure all USDA
policies and decisions are inclusive of
all people the Department serves. This
effort will ensure USDA is able to
provide data about the financial wellbeing and other characteristics for
historically underserved groups.
In this approval request for the next
three years; the ARMS 3 surveys will
overlap with the 2024 Tenure,
Ownership and Transition of
Agricultural Land (TOTAL, OMB
Control Number 0535–0240) which will
be conducted in early 2025. Farm
operators who are selected to complete
the ARMS phase 3 and the TOTAL
survey will have the option of
completing the ARMS 3 questionnaire
and not having to complete the TOTAL
survey. The ARMS phase 3
questionnaire contains the same
essential questions as the TOTAL.
The commodity specific questionnaire
versions that are scheduled to be
conducted in the next three years are
included in the following table.
Crop year
Survey
Target
commodity
2023 ...............
ARMS Phase 3 ..............................................
CRR ................................................................
Soybeans .......................................................
Oats ................................................................
Peanuts ..........................................................
2024 ...............
ARMS Phase 3 ..............................................
Tenure, Ownership and Transition of Agricultural Land (TOTAL).
Broilers 1 .........................................................
2025 ...............
ARMS Phase 3 ..............................................
Reference
year
CRR ................................................................
TBD 2 ..............................................................
Year survey is
conducted
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023
2024
2024
2024
2024
2024
2024
2025
2024
2024
2024
2024
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2025
2026
2026
2026
2026
2026
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could be moved to after 2024 depending on burden with the TOTAL.
be determined.
Authority: These data will be
collected under the authority of 7 U.S.C.
2204(a). Individually identifiable data
collected under this authority are
governed by section 1770 of the Food
Security Act of 1985, 7 U.S.C. 2276,
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which requires USDA to afford strict
confidentiality to non-aggregated data
provided by respondents. This Notice is
submitted in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (at 44
U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office of
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Management and Budget regulations at
5 CFR part 1320.
All NASS employees and NASS
contractors must also fully comply with
all provisions of the Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
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Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title
III of Pub. L. 115–435, codified in 44
U.S.C. Ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS’s
pledge of confidentiality to all
respondents and facilitates the agency’s
efforts to reduce burden by supporting
statistical activities of collaborative
agencies through designation of NASS
agents, subject to the limitations and
penalties described in CIPSEA.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average approximately
110 minutes per respondent.
Respondents: Farmers, ranchers, farm
managers, farm contractors, and farm
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Up to 47,100 respondents will be
sampled each year for the ARMS phase
3 Economic Surveys.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: Up to 76,000 hours each
year.
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(a) whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, technological or
other forms of information technology
collection methods.
All responses to this notice will
become a matter of public record and be
summarized in the request for OMB
approval.
Signed at Washington, DC, December 2,
2022.
Kevin L. Barnes,
Associate Administrator.
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National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To
Revise and Extend a Currently
Approved Information Collection
National Agricultural Statistics
Service, USDA.
AGENCY:
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Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the
National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS) to request revision and
extension of a currently approved
information collection, the Agricultural
Resources Management Survey (ARMS),
phases 1 and 2 as well as Chemical Use
Surveys. All phases of the Agricultural
Resources Management Survey(s) are
included in the current OMB Control
Number 0535–0218, but this
information collection renewal request
will only include the ARMS phases 1
and 2 as well as Chemical Use Surveys.
The ARMS phase 3 surveys will be
moved to a separate information
collection request. Splitting these
surveys across multiple information
collections will allow USDA and
cooperators more flexibility for changes
to best address current trends in the
farming industry. A revision to burden
hours will be needed due to this
separation as well as changes in the size
of the target population, sampling
design, and/or questionnaire length.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 21, 2023 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–0218,
by any of the following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• eFax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD–
ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper,
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: Richard Hopper, NASS
Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Room 5336 South Building,
1400 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20250–2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin L. Barnes, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, (202) 720–4333. Copies of
this information collection and related
instructions can be obtained without
charge from Richard Hopper, NASS—
OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 720–
2206 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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Title: Agricultural Resources
Management Survey and Chemical Use
Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0535–0218.
Expiration Date of Current Approval:
November 30, 2025.
Type of Request: Intent to revise and
extend a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The Agricultural Resource
Management Survey(s) (ARMS) are the
primary source of information for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture on a
broad range of issues related to:
production practices, costs and returns,
pest management, chemical usage, and
contractor expenses. Data are collected
on both a whole farm level and on
selected commodities. Historically, the
ARMS docket contained a screening
phase, a chemical use phase and an
economic phase. This Notice and
information collection will focus on the
ARMS phases 1 and 2—the screening,
production practices, as well as
chemical use surveys.
The combined ARMS surveys are the
only source of information available for
objective evaluation of many critical
issues related to economics, chemical
usage, and cropping practices. Breaking
these surveys into separate OMB
approvals will assist in making timely
updates to questionnaires to keep in
touch with an ever-changing industry.
Cost of Production: A Congressional
mandate exists for the development of
annual estimates of the cost of
producing wheat, feed grains, cotton,
and dairy commodities.
USDA also collects cost of production
data for soybeans, rice, peanuts, hogs,
and beef cow-calf in order to provide
economic information for comparison
among the major farm commodities that
compete for U.S. agricultural resources.
The economic data collection and
publication for the cost of production
surveys will be included under a new,
separate OMB approval.
Chemical Use Surveys: Congress has
mandated that NASS and ERS build
nationally coordinated databases on
agricultural chemical use and related
farm practices; these databases are the
primary vehicles used to produce
specified environmental and economic
estimates. The surveys will help provide
the knowledge and technical means for
producers and researchers to address
on-farm environmental concerns in a
manner that maintains agricultural
productivity.
The commodities that are scheduled
to be included in this approval are in
the following table.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Request To Conduct a New Information
Collection
AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the National Agricultural Statistics
Service (NASS) to seek approval to conduct a new information collection
to gather data regarding production practices, costs and returns, and
contractor expenses. This data is currently being collected under OMB
number 0535-0218.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by February 21, 2023 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number 0535-
NEW, by any of the following methods:
Email: [email protected]. Include docket number
above in the subject line of the message.
eFax: (855) 838-6382.
Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions to:
Richard Hopper, 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: Richard Hopper,
NASS Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 5336 South
Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin L. Barnes, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, (202) 720-4333. Copies of this information
collection and related
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instructions can be obtained without charge from Richard Hopper, NASS--
OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 720-2206 or at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Agricultural Resource Management phase 3 Economic Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0535-NEW.
Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to create a new
information collection for a period of three years.
Abstract: The Agricultural Resource Management Survey(s) (ARMS) are
the primary source of information for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture on a broad range of issues related to: production
practices, costs and returns, and contractor expenses. Data are
collected on both a whole farm level and on selected commodities. This
Notice and information collection will focus on the ARMS phase 3
Economic Surveys, previously included in the Agricultural Resource
Management and Chemical Use Surveys Information Collection Request (OMB
Control Number 0535-0218).
The ARMS phase 3 Economic Surveys are the only annual source of
information available for objective evaluation of many critical issues
related to agriculture and the rural economy, such as: annual whole
farm finance data, including data sufficient to construct estimates of
income for farms by: type of operation, loan commodities, income for
operator households, credit, structure, and organization; marketing
information; and other economic data on input usage, production
practices, and crop substitution possibilities.
Data from ARMS are used to produce estimates of net farm income by
type of commercial producer as required in 7 U.S.C. 7998 as amended and
estimates of enterprise production costs as required in 7 U.S.C.
1441(a) as amended. Data from ARMS are also used as weights in the
development of the Prices Paid Index, a component of the Parity Index
referred to in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.
These indexes are used to calculate the annual federal grazing fee
rates as described in the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 and
Executive Order 12548 and as promulgated in regulations found at 36 CFR
222.51, as amended.
In addition, ARMS is used to produce estimates of sector-wide
production expenditures and other components of income that are used in
constructing the estimates of income and value-added which are
transmitted to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, by the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) for use in
constructing economy-wide estimates of Gross Domestic Product. This
transmittal of data, prepared using the ARMS, is undertaken to satisfy
a 1956 agreement between the Office of Management and Budget, and the
Departments of Agriculture and Commerce that a single set of estimates
be published on farm income.
Number of respondents and total burden include additional sample
methodology and/or sample sizes for ARMS Phase 3 in order to collect
data from additional historically underserved producer groups in the
ARMS Phase 3 (the Costs and Returns Survey). Collecting more data from
these groups will support President Biden's and USDA's priority to
advance racial justice, equity, and opportunity by providing more
detailed data and research on the socioeconomic characteristics of
farmers and ranchers in the United States to ensure all USDA policies
and decisions are inclusive of all people the Department serves. This
effort will ensure USDA is able to provide data about the financial
well-being and other characteristics for historically underserved
groups.
In this approval request for the next three years; the ARMS 3
surveys will overlap with the 2024 Tenure, Ownership and Transition of
Agricultural Land (TOTAL, OMB Control Number 0535-0240) which will be
conducted in early 2025. Farm operators who are selected to complete
the ARMS phase 3 and the TOTAL survey will have the option of
completing the ARMS 3 questionnaire and not having to complete the
TOTAL survey. The ARMS phase 3 questionnaire contains the same
essential questions as the TOTAL.
The commodity specific questionnaire versions that are scheduled to
be conducted in the next three years are included in the following
table.
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Year survey is
Crop year Survey Target commodity Reference year conducted
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2023........................ ARMS Phase 3............ CRR..................... 2023 2024
Soybeans................ 2023 2024
Oats.................... 2023 2024
Peanuts................. 2023 2024
2023 2024
2024........................ ARMS Phase 3............ Tenure, Ownership and 2024 2025
Transition of
Agricultural Land
(TOTAL).
Broilers \1\............ 2024 2025
2024 2025
2024 2025
2024 2025
2025........................ ARMS Phase 3............ CRR..................... 2025 2026
TBD \2\................. 2025 2026
2025 2026
2025 2026
2025 2026
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\1\ Broilers could be moved to after 2024 depending on burden with the TOTAL.
\2\ To be determined.
Authority: These data will be collected under the authority of 7
U.S.C. 2204(a). Individually identifiable data collected under this
authority are governed by section 1770 of the Food Security Act of
1985, 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to afford strict
confidentiality to non-aggregated data provided by respondents. This
Notice is submitted in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (at 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office of Management and Budget
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320.
All NASS employees and NASS contractors must also fully comply with
all provisions of the Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical
[[Page 78637]]
Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title III of Pub. L. 115-435, codified
in 44 U.S.C. Ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS's pledge of confidentiality
to all respondents and facilitates the agency's efforts to reduce
burden by supporting statistical activities of collaborative agencies
through designation of NASS agents, subject to the limitations and
penalties described in CIPSEA.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average approximately 110 minutes per
respondent.
Respondents: Farmers, ranchers, farm managers, farm contractors,
and farm households.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Up to 47,100 respondents will be
sampled each year for the ARMS phase 3 Economic Surveys.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: Up to 76,000 hours
each year.
Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected;
and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, technological or other forms of information
technology collection methods.
All responses to this notice will become a matter of public record
and be summarized in the request for OMB approval.
Signed at Washington, DC, December 2, 2022.
Kevin L. Barnes,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2022-27773 Filed 12-21-22; 8:45 am]
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