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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Request To
Reinstate an 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 reinstate an
information collection to gather data
related to the production and marketing
of foods directly from farm producers to
consumers or retailers. In addition,
NASS will collect some whole-farm data
to be used to classify and group
operations for summarizing and
publication of results.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by March 31, 2025 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–0259,
by any of the following methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• E-fax: (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:
Joseph J. Prusacki, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. Department of
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SUMMARY:
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Agriculture, (202) 720–2707. 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:
Title: Local Food Marketing Practice
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0535–0259.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to reinstate an information
collection for a period of three years.
Abstract: Interest continues to grow in
support of local agricultural economies
through the purchase of foods from
sources that are geographically close to
the consuming areas, via channels that
are direct from farm to consumer or at
most one step removed. Significant
policy support for local food systems
began with the institution of the USDA
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
Initiative (KYF2) in September 2009.
The KYF2 Initiative was designed to
eliminate organizational barriers to
improve coordination and availability of
resources for the promotion of local
food systems. This initiative is in
response to the consumer and producer
interests. Many community and farm
advocacy groups are requesting changes
in the next major agricultural program
legislation (the Farm Bill) that will
directly target local foods producers,
consumers, and markets. The Local
Food Marketing Practice Survey was
initially conducted in 2015. This
reinstatement will allow NASS to
collect data to measure changes and
growth within the local food industry
on a national basis. The results of
previous surveys can be found at the
following link: https://
www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_
NASS_Surveys/Local_Food/index.php.
In preparation for this next round of
data collection, NASS included a
question in the 2022 Census of
Agriculture to capture data needed to
identify farm operators who sold
products through direct marketing
channels. As a follow-on survey to the
2022 Census of Agriculture, the target
population will focus on respondents
who reported product sales directly to
consumers or to retail outlets that in
turn sold directly to consumers. NASS
intends to use mandatory reporting
authority (Title 7 U.S. Code § 2204g) for
the 2025 Local Food Marketing Practice
Survey.
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Authority: The 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 as amended, 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,
Public Law 104–13 (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
Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title
III of Public Law 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 60 minutes per
response. NASS plans to mail out
publicity materials with the
questionnaires to inform producers of
the importance of this survey. NASS
will also use multiple mailings,
followed up with phone and limited
personal enumeration to increase
response rates and to minimize data
collection costs.
Respondents: Farmers and Ranchers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
65,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 74,000 hours.
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
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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, January 22,
2025.
Joseph J. Prusacki,
Associate Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Request Revision
and Extension of a Currently Approved
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 request revision and
extension of a currently approved
information collection, the Annual
Organic Survey. USDA’s Risk
Management Agency (RMA) typically
funds an organic production and
practices survey in years where the
Census of Agriculture Special Study for
Organics is not conducted. The next
Special Study is planned for 2025
(enumerated in early 2026). With the
completion of the 2022 Census of
Agriculture, NASS will conduct the
Special Study again, return it to its’
original scope of questions and the
mandatory reporting requirement. This
request will also include the 2026 and
2027 voluntary surveys that are funded
by USDA–RMA. A minor revision to
burden hours will be needed to account
for the anticipated data collection plan
for the upcoming surveys along with
adding some cognitive interviews to test
requested changes to the annual
surveys.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by March 31, 2025 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number 0535–0249,
Organic Survey, by any of the following
methods:
• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov.
Include docket number above in the
subject line of the message.
• E-fax: (855) 838–6382.
• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD–
ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper,
lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
SUMMARY:
VerDate Sep<11>2014
16:43 Jan 29, 2025
Jkt 265001
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:
Joseph J Prusacki, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural
Statistics Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, (202) 720–2707. 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:
Title: Organic Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0535–0249.
Type of Request: Intent to Seek
Renewal of an Information Collection.
Abstract: The primary objective of the
National Agricultural Statistics Service
(NASS) is to prepare and issue State and
national estimates of crop and livestock
production, prices, and disposition as
well as economic statistics, farm
numbers, land values, on-farm pesticide
usage, pest crop management practices,
as well as the Census of Agriculture.
Originally, the Organic Survey was
designed to be conducted once every
five years as a mandatory, follow-onsurvey to the 2007 Census of
Agriculture and then every five years
after that. In 2011, the Information
Collection Request was renewed to
include that the survey was changed to
accommodate a cooperative agreement
between NASS and the USDA Risk
Management Agency (RMA).
Specifically, the survey was changed to
a voluntary survey that was to be
conducted annually if funding
permitted, and it would allow for a
rotation of target crops each year. With
the completion of the 2012 Census of
Agriculture, NASS renewed the Organic
Survey again and returned it to its
original scope of questions and the
mandatory reporting requirement. After
the completion of the 2014 Organic
Survey, NASS renewed its cooperative
agreement with RMA to conduct the
shorter questionnaire on an annual
basis.
The sample will consist of all certified
organic operations, operations exempt
from organic certification (value of sales
<$5,000), and operations with acres
transitioning into organic certification
from the most recent published Census
of Agriculture as well as organic
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operations currently on the NASS list
frame. The survey will be conducted in
all States. Some operation level data
will be collected to use in classifying
each operation for summary purposes.
The majority of the questions will
involve production data (acres planted,
acres harvested, quantity harvested,
quantity sold, livestock produced and
sold, value of sale, etc.), and marketing
and production practices.
Depending on annual funding,
approximately 27,000 operations will be
contacted by mail in late November or
early December, with a second mailing
later in the month to non-respondents.
Respondents will be able to complete
the questionnaire by use of the internet,
if they so choose. Telephone and
personal enumeration will be used for
remaining non-response follow-up. If
the survey is funded, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service will
publish summaries in December at both
the State level and for each major
organic commodity when possible. Due
to confidentiality rules, some State level
data may be combined and published at
the regional or national level to prevent
disclosure of individual operation’s
data.
This collection of data will support
requirements within the Agricultural
Act of 2014. Under section 11023 some
of the duties of the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation (FCIC) are
defined as ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL—As soon
as possible, but not later than the 2015
reinsurance year, the Corporation shall
offer producers of organic crops price
elections for all organic crops produced
in compliance with standards issued by
the Department of Agriculture under the
national organic program established
under the Organic Foods Production Act
of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) that
reflect the actual retail or wholesale
prices, as appropriate, received by
producers for organic crops, as
determined by the Secretary using all
relevant sources of information. ‘‘(ii)
ANNUAL REPORT.—The Corporation
shall submit to the Committee on
Agriculture of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of
the Senate an annual report on progress
made in developing and improving
Federal crop insurance for organic
crops, including—‘‘(I) the numbers and
varieties of organic crops insured; ‘‘(II)
the progress of implementing the price
elections required under this
subparagraph, including the rate at
which additional price elections are
adopted for organic crops; ‘‘(III) the
development of new insurance
approaches relevant to organic
producers; and ‘‘(IV) any
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and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings,
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statements of organization and functions are examples of documents
appearing in this section.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Notice of Intent To Request To Reinstate an 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 reinstate an information collection
to gather data related to the production and marketing of foods
directly from farm producers to consumers or retailers. In addition,
NASS will collect some whole-farm data to be used to classify and group
operations for summarizing and publication of results.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by March 31, 2025 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number 0535-
0259, by any of the following methods:
Email: [email protected]. Include docket number
above in the subject line of the message.
E-fax: (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: Joseph J. Prusacki, Associate
Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, (202) 720-2707. 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
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Local Food Marketing Practice Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0535-0259.
Type of Request: Intent to seek approval to reinstate an
information collection for a period of three years.
Abstract: Interest continues to grow in support of local
agricultural economies through the purchase of foods from sources that
are geographically close to the consuming areas, via channels that are
direct from farm to consumer or at most one step removed. Significant
policy support for local food systems began with the institution of the
USDA Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative (KYF2) in September
2009. The KYF2 Initiative was designed to eliminate organizational
barriers to improve coordination and availability of resources for the
promotion of local food systems. This initiative is in response to the
consumer and producer interests. Many community and farm advocacy
groups are requesting changes in the next major agricultural program
legislation (the Farm Bill) that will directly target local foods
producers, consumers, and markets. The Local Food Marketing Practice
Survey was initially conducted in 2015. This reinstatement will allow
NASS to collect data to measure changes and growth within the local
food industry on a national basis. The results of previous surveys can
be found at the following link: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Local_Food/index.php.
In preparation for this next round of data collection, NASS
included a question in the 2022 Census of Agriculture to capture data
needed to identify farm operators who sold products through direct
marketing channels. As a follow-on survey to the 2022 Census of
Agriculture, the target population will focus on respondents who
reported product sales directly to consumers or to retail outlets that
in turn sold directly to consumers. NASS intends to use mandatory
reporting authority (Title 7 U.S. Code Sec. 2204g) for the 2025 Local
Food Marketing Practice Survey.
Authority: The 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
as amended, 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, Public Law 104-13 (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 Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title III of Public Law
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 60 minutes per response. NASS plans
to mail out publicity materials with the questionnaires to inform
producers of the importance of this survey. NASS will also use multiple
mailings, followed up with phone and limited personal enumeration to
increase response rates and to minimize data collection costs.
Respondents: Farmers and Ranchers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 65,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 74,000 hours.
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
[[Page 8514]]
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, January 22, 2025.
Joseph J. Prusacki,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-01962 Filed 1-29-25; 8:45 am]
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