Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Reinstatement, 14593-14594 [2023-04827]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 46 (Thursday, March 9, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14593-14594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04827]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Reinstatement

    The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information 
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and reinstatement 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 April 10, 2023. 
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.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999.
    OMB Control Number: 0581-0186.
    Summary of Collection: The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 
1999 (1999 Act) authorizes the collection and reporting of information 
on the prices and quantities of livestock and livestock products. In 
2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing 
Service (AMS) implemented the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) 
program as required by the 1999 Act [Pub. L. 106-78; 113 Stat. 1188; 7 
U.S.C. 1635-1636(i)]. On September 30, 2015, the Agriculture 
Reauthorizations Act of 2015 (2015 Reauthorization Act) reauthorized 
LMR for an additional five years, until September 30, 2020. The 
Reauthorization was extended through September 30, 2021, in the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and currently extended through 
September 30, 2022, in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022.
    The request for information, as mandated by the 1999 Act and 
amended under the 2015 Reauthorization Act, requires livestock packing 
plants that annually slaughter an average of 125,000 cattle, 100,000 
barrows and gilts, or 200,000 sows and boars; or slaughter or process 
an average of 35,000 lambs to report information as described in the 
1999 Act. In addition, the 1999 Act, as amended under the 2015 
Reauthorization Act, requires importers that annually import an average 
of 1,000 metric tons of lamb meat products to report information as 
described in the 1999 Act.
    Need and Use of the Information: The information collection and 
recordkeeping requirements mandated by the 1999 Act are essential for 
AMS to administer a mandatory reporting program of livestock and 
livestock products. Using the information submitted by packers and 
importers, AMS publishes over 100 daily, weekly, and monthly reports 
covering market transactions for fed cattle, swine, lamb, beef, lamb 
meat, and pork. Collection is accomplished through electronic means, 
and AMS reports the information up to three times daily and once 
weekly. The information collected in order for AMS to meet the 
requirements and intentions of the 1999 Act is only available from the 
entities required to report.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 110.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Weekly; Other (Daily).
    Total Burden Hours: 23,035.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Pecans Grown in Multiple States, Marketing Order No. 986.
    OMB Control Number: 0581-0291.
    Summary of Collection: The marketing order regulates the handling 
of pecans grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, 
Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New 
Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas and is authorized by the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (Act), Secs. 1-19, 48 
Stat. 31, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674. The Act permits regulation of 
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly 
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and to improve returns to 
growers. Section 608(d)(1) of the Act provides the Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) with the authority to request from the regulated 
handlers such information as is deemed necessary to determine the 
extent to which a marketing order has effectuated the declared policy 
of the Act.
    Need and Use of the Information: Collection of this information 
enables the Council to calculate assessments owed by each handler. 
Gaining the authority to collect nationwide data on pecan inventories, 
shipments and foreign deliveries and acquisitions was the primary 
reason the U.S. pecan industry approached AMS for a Federal marketing 
order.
    Description of Respondents: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Number of Respondents: 4,512.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
    Total Burden Hours: 1,587.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-04827 Filed 3-8-23; 8:45 am]
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