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National Animal Health Monitoring System Report to the Office of Management and 

Budget 

On Implementation of 

The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002

Calendar Year 2020

This report is being issued by the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) in 

accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Implementation Guidance for Title 5 

of the E-Government Act, the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act 

of 2002 (CIPSEA) (72 Federal Register 33362, June 15, 2007). CIPSEA establishes strong 

confidentiality protections for information acquired by the NAHMS for exclusively statistical 

purposes. Among other things, CIPSEA strictly limits who may have access to protected data, 

sets strict fines and penalties for knowing and willful disclosures of confidential information to 

unauthorized persons, and explicitly exempts protected statistical information from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

As directed by OMB, this report covers calendar year 2020 (CY 2020), addressing which 

NAHMS statistical projects have issued CIPSEA confidentiality pledges in the collection of data 

from respondents and the conditions under which the NAHMS has designated agents for access 

to confidential data for statistical activities. 

NAHMS Use of the CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge

During CY 2020, NAHMS acquired the following data using a NAHMS CIPSEA pledge of 

confidentiality: none

CIPSEA Data in NAHMS Lab:

During CY 2020, NAHMS maintained physical paper copies and electronic data collected by 

NAHMS from the Antimicrobial Use studies (OMB clearance number 0579-0462), which 

included Beef and Swine data. NAHMS also maintained data collected by National Agricultural 

Statistics Service (NASS) under CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge for the Equine 2015 (OMB 

clearance number 0579-0269), Beef 2017 (OMB clearance number 0579-0326) studies, and Goat 

2019 (OMB clearance number 0579-0354). Additionally, NAHMS maintained electronic data 

sets obtained from NASS to include Sheep Death Loss 2020, NASS Goat data for Goat 2019 

non-response bias analysis, NASS Swine data for Swine 2021 final sample allocation, and NASS 

Feedlot data for Feedlot 2021 final sample allocation.

NAHMS Use of the Agents Provision in CIPSEA

Statistical agencies and organizational units are authorized to designate agents under CIPSEA. 

Please provide the number of individual agents your agency designated during calendar year 

2020 in the following categories: 

1. Contractors: the total number of contractor employees designated as agents, separately by 

whether their primary access is for 1) data collection or management; 2) data processing, 

analysis, or design/planning; or 3) IT support. 

• NAHMS employed three contractors who were designated as agents in 2019.
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o Data Collection and/or Management - 3 agents, cooperators from Colorado 

State University for Goats 2019. 

o Data processing, analysis, or design/planning - 3 agents for Goats 2019. 

o IT Support - none 

2. Federal or State Agencies: the number of different agencies and the total number of 

Federal and State agency employees designated as agents. 

• No state employees were designated during 2020. 

• No Federal employees, outside of NAHMS were designated during 2020. 

3. Researchers: the number of individual researchers the agency has designated as agents, 

separately by whether they accessed the information on-site at the agency headquarters, 

or off-site at the researcher’s institution or an agency controlled external site, such as a 

research data center or data enclave. 

• NAHMS did not designate any outside researchers as agents in 2020. 

4. NAHMS did not make use of the data sharing provisions under subtitle B.