Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 76164 [2023-24460]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 213 (Monday, November 6, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 76164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24460]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information 
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and approval 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: (1) 
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; (2) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of burden 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 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 December 6, 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 displays 
a currently valid OMB control number.

National Agricultural Statistics Service

    Title: Agricultural Prices.
    OMB Control Number: 0535-0003.
    Summary of Collection: The U.S. Department of Agriculture needs 
estimates of prices received by farmers and prices paid by farmers for 
production goods and services for the following purposes:

--computing Parity Prices in accordance with requirements of the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as amended;
--estimating value of production, inventory values, and cash receipts 
from farming;
--determining the level for farmer-owned reserves;
--providing guidelines for Risk Management Agency price selection 
options;
--determining Federal disaster prices to be paid;
--input into agricultures contribution to the national income and 
product accounts (NIPA);
--use in agricultures contribution to national gross domestic product 
(GDP);
--establishing USDA's net farm income projections by the Economic 
Research Service; and
--determining the grazing fee on Federal lands.

    General authority for these data collection activities is granted 
under U.S. Code Title 7, Section 2204 (a). 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 
agriculturalists.''
    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: 39,525.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Weekly; Monthly; Quarterly; 
Biennially; Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 25,205.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-24460 Filed 11-3-23; 8:45 am]
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