Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 17372 [2024-05086]

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• DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 48 (Monday, March 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 17372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05086]


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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 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: (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 April 10, 2024. 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 (NASS)

    Title: Fruit, Nuts, And Specialty Crops--Substantive Change.
    OMB Control Number: 0535-0039.
    Summary of Collection: The primary function of the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is to prepare and issue current 
official state and national estimates of crop and livestock production. 
Estimates of fruit, tree nuts, and specialty crops are an integral part 
of this program. These estimates support the NASS strategic plan to 
cover all agricultural cash receipts. The authority to collect these 
data activities is granted under U.S. Code title 7, section 2204(a). 
Information is collected on a voluntary basis from growers, processors, 
and handlers through surveys. Individually identifiable data collected 
under this authority are governed by Section 1770 of the Food Security 
Act of 1985, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, and title III of Public Law 
115-435 (CIPSEA) which requires USDA to afford strict confidentially to 
non-aggregated data provided by respondents.
    The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is requesting a 
substantive change to the Fruit, Nuts, And Specialty Crops information 
collection request (OMB No. 0535-0039) for program changes. Every five 
years NASS conducts a program review following the completion of the 
Census of Agriculture. The program changes balance resources across all 
of the programs included in the annual estimating program, which 
represents over 400 individual reports across multiple Information 
Collection Requests (ICRs). This substantive change is to accommodate 
the field crop program changes that affect this ICR. The methodology, 
publication dates, burden and data collection plan do not change as 
result of these program changes. This change request also includes some 
nonsubstantive changes for the May 2024 Maple Syrup Inquiry. The 
changes to these surveys will not affect burden hours.
    Need and Use of the Information: Data reported on fruit, nut, and 
specialty crops are used by NASS to estimate crop acreage, yield, 
production, utilization, price, and value in States with significant 
commercial production. These estimates are essential to farmers, 
processors, importers and exporters, shipping companies, cold storage 
facilities and handlers in making production and marketing decisions. 
Estimates from these inquiries are used by market order administrators 
in their determination of expected crop supplies under Federal and 
State market orders.
    Description of Respondents: Farms; Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 55,435.
    Frequency of Responses: On occasion; Annually; Semi-annually; 
Quarterly; Monthly; Weekly.
    Total Burden Hours: 28,114.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-05086 Filed 3-8-24; 8:45 am]
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