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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 2022

This report is being issued by the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) National 

Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) in accordance with Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) Implementation Guidance for Confidential Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title III of Pub. L. No. 115-435, codified in 44 U.S.C. Ch. 35. 

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 2022 (CY 2022). It addresses 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 2022, NAHMS acquired the following data using a NAHMS CIPSEA pledge of 

confidentiality: Swine 2021 Study and Bison 2022 Study.

CIPSEA Data in NAHMS Lab:

NAHMS maintains electronic data collected by NAHMS from the Antimicrobial Use studies

(OMB clearance number 0579-0462), which included Beef and Swine data. NAHMS also

maintains data collected by NASS under CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge for the Equine 2015

(OMB clearance number 0579-0269) study and for the Beef 2017 (OMB clearance number 0579-

0326) study. NAHMS maintains physical paper copies and electronic data collected by NASS for 

the Goat 2019 (OMB clearance number 0579-0354), Feedlot Health 2021 (OMB clearance 

number 0579-0079), Swine 2021 (OMB clearance number 0579-0315), and Bison 2022 (OMB 

clearance number 0579-0420) studies. NAHMS maintains electronic data sets obtained from 

NASS to include Sheep Death Loss 2020, Goat Death Loss 2021, Cattle Death Loss 2021, NASS

Goat data for Goat 2019 non-response bias analysis, and data for Swine 2021, Feedlot 2021, and 

Bison 2022 final sample allocation and weighting.

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 

2022 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.
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• NAHMS employed 12 contractors who were designated as agents in 2022.

o Data Collection and/or Management - 4 agents, cooperators from Colorado 

State University for Swine 2021, Feedlot Health 2021, and Bison 2022.

o Data processing, analysis, or design/planning - 9 agents for Goat 2019, Swine

2021, Feedlot Health 2021, and Bison 2022.

o IT Support – 1 contractor through USDA Marketing & Regulatory Programs 

Information Technology to manage the NAHMS Data Lab and 4 

contractors through USDA Veterinary Services Center for Informatics to 

manage electronic data collection.

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

Federal and State agency employees designated as agents.

• NAHMS designated 33 State employees from 10 state agriculture agencies during

2022 for the Swine 2021 study.

• NAHMS designated 107 Federal employees from APHIS during 2022 for the

current and ongoing NAHMS studies.

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 designated 2 outside researchers as agents in 2022.

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