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Vol. 88, No. 207 

Friday, October 27, 2023 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

[Doc. No. AMS–DA–23–0061] 

Notice of Request for Extension and 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Agricultural 

Marketing Service’s (AMS) intention to 

request approval, from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), for an 

extension of and revision to the 

currently approved information 

collection for report forms under the 

Federal milk marketing order program. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by December 26, 2023 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments concerning 

this notice by using the electronic 

process available at https:// 

www.regulations.gov. All comments 

should reference the document number 

and the date and the page number of 

this issue of the Federal Register. 

Written comments may be submitted via 

mail to the Office of Deputy 

Administrator, Dairy Program, AMS, 

USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, 

Room 2530 South, Stop 0225, 

Washington, DC 20250–0225. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change, including any personal 

information provided, at https:// 

www.regulations.gov and will be 

included in the record and made 

available for the public inspection. 

Please do not include personally 

identifiable information (such as name, 

address, or other contact information) or 

confidential business information that 

you do not want publicly disclosed. 

Comments may be submitted 

anonymously. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janel L. Barsi, Director, Operations and 

Accountability Division, Dairy Program, 

Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Room 2530, 

South Building, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250– 

0230: Email: Janel.Barsi@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Report Forms under Federal 

Milk Orders (From Milk Handlers and 

Milk Marketing Cooperatives). 

OMB Number: 0581–0032. 

Expiration Date of Approval: February 

29, 2024. 

Type of Request: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Federal milk marketing 

order regulations (7 CFR parts 1000– 

1199) authorized under the Agricultural 

Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 

amended (7 U.S.C. 601–674), require 

milk handlers to report in detail the 

receipts and utilization of milk and milk 

products handled at each of their plants 

that are regulated by a Federal order. 

The data are needed to administer the 

classified pricing system and related 

requirements of each Federal order. 

A Federal milk marketing order 

(hereinafter, Order) is a regulation 

issued by the Secretary of Agriculture 

that places certain requirements on the 

handling of milk in the area it covers. 

Each order is established under the 

authority of the Act. The Order requires 

that handlers of milk for a marketing 

area pay not less than certain minimum 

class prices according to how the milk 

is used. These prices are established 

under each Order after a public hearing 

at which evidence is received on the 

supply and demand conditions for milk 

in the market. An Order requires that 

payments for milk be pooled and paid 

to individual farmers or cooperative 

associations of farmers on the basis of a 

uniform or average price. Thus, all 

eligible farmers (producers) share in the 

market wide use-values of milk by 

regulated handlers. 

Milk Orders help ensure adequate 

supplies of milk and dairy products for 

consumers and adequate returns to 

producers. 

The Orders also provide for the public 

dissemination of market statistics and 

other information for the benefit of 

producers, handlers, and consumers. 

Formal rulemaking amendments to 

the Orders must be approved in 

referenda conducted by the Secretary. 

During 2022, 23,108 dairy farmers 

delivered over 151.6 billion pounds of 

milk to handlers regulated under the 

milk orders. This volume represents 67 

percent of all milk marketed in the U.S. 

and 68 percent of the milk of bottling 

quality (Grade A) sold in the country. 

The value of this milk delivered to 

Federal milk order handlers at 

minimum order blend prices was over 

$35.9 billion. Producer deliveries of 

milk used in Class I products (mainly 

fluid milk products) totaled 41.0 billion 

pounds, 27 percent of total producer 

deliveries. 

Each Order is administered by a 

USDA market administrator. The market 

administrator is authorized to levy 

assessments on regulated handlers to 

carry out the market administrator’s 

duties and responsibilities under the 

Orders. Additional duties of the market 

administrators are to prescribe reports 

required of each handler, to assure that 

handlers pay producers and associations 

of producers according to the provisions 

of the Order. The market administrator 

employs a staff that verifies handlers’ 

reports by examining records to 

determine that the required payments 

are made to producers. Most reports 

required from handlers are submitted 

monthly to the market administrator. 

The forms used by the market 

administrators are required by the 

respective Orders that are authorized by 

the Act. The forms are used to establish 

the quantity of milk received by 

handlers, the pooling status of the 

handlers, the class-use of the milk used 

by the handler, and the butterfat content 

and amounts of other components of the 

milk. 

The forms covered under this 

information collection require the 

minimum information necessary to 

effectively carry out the requirements of 

the Orders, and their use is necessary to 

fulfill the intent of the Act as expressed 

in the Orders and in the rules and 

regulations issued under the Orders. 

The information collected is used only 

by authorized employees of the market 

administrator and authorized 

representatives of the USDA, including 

AMS Dairy Programs’ headquarters staff. 

Estimated of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 


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is estimated to average 0.50 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Milk handlers and milk 

marketing cooperatives. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

679. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

15,980. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 186. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 18,050 (rounded). 

Comments are invited on: (1) 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; (2) 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; (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 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

All comments received on this 

information collection will be 

summarized and included in the final 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record, including any personal 

information provided. 

Erin Morris, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23728 Filed 10–26–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. 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 this information 

collection received by November 27, 

2023 will be considered. 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. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: National Animal Health 

Monitoring System Backyard Animal 

Keeping 2024 Study. 

OMB control number: 0579–XXXX. 

Summary of collection: Under the 

Animal Health Protection Act of 2002 (7 

U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), the Secretary of 

Agriculture is authorized to protect the 

health of livestock, poultry, and 

aquaculture populations in the United 

States by preventing the introduction 

and interstate spread of contagious, 

infectious, or communicable diseases of 

livestock, poultry, and aquatic animals 

and for eradicating such diseases within 

the United States when feasible. This 

authority has been delegated to the 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS). APHIS is the only 

Federal agency responsible for 

collecting data on livestock and poultry 

health. As part of this mission, APHIS 

operates the National Animal Health 

Monitoring System (NAHMS) which 

collects statistically valid and 

scientifically sound data on the 

prevalence and economic importance of 

livestock, poultry, and aquaculture 

diseases and practices. NAHMS’ studies 

have evolved into a collaborative 

government and industry initiative to 

help determine the most effective means 

of preventing and controlling diseases of 

livestock and poultry. NAHMS will 

conduct a national data collection for 

backyard animal keeping through a 

national study, Backyard Animal 

Keeping 2024. 

APHIS will conduct two surveys 

using electronic questionnaires. The 

first survey will obtain national 

estimates of ownership of poultry, pigs, 

rabbits, and goats, and provide baseline 

information on ownership practices. A 

second survey will be performed to 

estimate the prevalence of chicken, pig, 

rabbit, and goat ownership in two of the 

four cities previously studied in the 

NAHMS Poultry 2010 study, as well as 

describe respondents’ beliefs about 

chicken ownership. The study results 

will also be used to learn more about 

backyard animal keeping and food 

security status. 

Need and use of the information: 

Information collected will enable APHIS 

to obtain national estimates of the 

percentage of households that own 

poultry, pigs, rabbits, and goats in urban 

and non-urban areas of the United 

States; describe animal management 

practices, such as information sources 

owners use to learn about animal health, 

access to veterinary care, length of 

ownership, and biosecurity practices 

including those relevant to 

antimicrobial stewardship; for 

households that both own and do not 

own poultry, pigs, rabbits, and goats, 

describe opinions of backyard and 

urban ownership of chickens, and, for 

non-owners only, describe any contact 

with live poultry and intention to own 

any one of these species of interest in 

the future; estimate the prevalence of 

chicken, pig, rabbit, and goat ownership 

in two of the cities surveyed on urban 

chicken ownership in 2012 (Denver, 

Colorado and Miami, Florida), and 

describe respondents’ beliefs about 

chicken ownership to determine 

changes in prevalence and beliefs 

between 2012 and 2024; and conduct a 

preliminary evaluation of the 

relationship between backyard animal 

keeping and food security status. 

Without the aforementioned data 

collection, the United States’ ability to 

collect and analyze information on the 

national prevalence of these species of 

interest and to obtain data on animal 

management practices and biosecurity 

practices would be reduced or 

nonexistent. 

Description of respondents: 

Households or individuals. 

Number of respondents: 112,745. 

Frequency of responses: Reporting: 

Other (one time). 


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