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Vol. 76, No. 219 

Monday, November 14, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Farm Service Agency 

Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop 

Disaster Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation 

and Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) are 

seeking comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

the report of acreage for the Noninsured 

Crop Disaster Assistance Program 

(NAP). This information collection is 

needed to administer the program. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by January 13, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. In your 

comments, include date, OMB control 

number, volume, and page number of 

this issue of the Federal Register. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, 

ATTN: Jantrice Williams, Agriculture 

Program Specialist, CPS, Farm 

Programs, Production Emergencies and 

Compliance Division, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., STOP 0517, 

Washington, DC 20250–0523. 

• Email: Send comment to: 

jantrice.williams@wdc.usda.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 720–4941. 

Comments also should be sent to the 

Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jantrice Williams, Agriculture Program 

Specialist, (202) 720–3637. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection 

Title: Report of Acreage for the 

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 

Program (NAP). 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0004. 

Expiration Date: 01/31/2012. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Abstract: NAP provides financial 

assistance to producers who have 

suffered a production loss of an eligible 

crop or were prevented from planting an 

eligible crop as a result of natural 

disasters. Eligible crops are commercial 

crops or other agricultural commodities 

for which catastrophic risk protection 

under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b) is not available 

and that are produced for food or fiber. 

Additionally, eligible crops also include 

floricultural, ornamental nursery, and 

Christmas tree crops, turfgrass sod, seed 

crops, and aquaculture. Specific 

information is collected from producers 

on identification of the crop (including 

type and variety), practices, intended 

uses, planting patterns, and 

predominant species of forage 

vegetation (including intended method 

of harvest, i.e. mechanically harvested 

or grazed); dates crops were planted or 

planting was completed (including age 

of perennial crops); number of acres of 

each planting of the eligible crop in 

which the producer has a share in the 

administrative county; number of acres 

intended but prevented from being 

planted; zero acres planted when the 

crop for which a NAP application for 

coverage was filed, or is not planted; 

shares and identities of all producers 

sharing in the crop at the time a NAP 

application for coverage was filed; FSA 

farm serial number or location of 

commodities not necessarily associated 

with an FSA farm serial number such as 

colonies of bees for honey production 

(including the number of bee colonies 

belonging to the unit); aquaculture 

production (including the name, type, 

or variety of each aquaculture species in 

a physical location of acreage on which 

the facility resides such as ponds and 

waterbeds); ornamental nursery 

(including the size and origin, i.e. 

container or field grown, of plants 

belonging to the unit); mushroom 

facilities; turfgrass sod (including the 

average number of square yards per acre 

and all unharvested acres); and trees for 

maple sap production (including 

number of eligible trees, average size 

and age of producing trees, and total 

number of taps placed or anticipated for 

the tapping season). NAP operates 

under the regulations at 7 CFR part 

1437. 

Respondents: Producers. 

Estimated of Respondent Burden: 

Public reporting burden for this 

collection of information is estimated to 

average 45 minutes (.75 hour) per 

response. The average travel time, 

which is included in the total burden, 

is estimated to be 1 hour per 

respondent. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 291,500. 

Estimated Annual Number of Forms 

per person: 1.5. 

Estimate of Total Annual Burden: 

619,438. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of this information collection 

and to help us to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

FSA, including whether the information 

will have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the FSA’s 

estimate of burden including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; 

(4) 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. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission for Office of Management 

and Budget approval. 

Signed on November 7, 2011. 

Bruce Nelson, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2011–29290 Filed 11–10–11; 8:45 am] 

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