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Vol. 88, No. 241 

Monday, December 18, 2023 

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 

required 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 January 17, 2024 

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. 

Farm Service Agency 

Title: Certified Mediation Program (7 

CFR part 785). 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0165. 

Summary of Collection: The Farm 

Service (FSA) is administering the 

Certified Mediation Program as 

mandated by Subtitle A and B of Title 

V of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 

(Pub. L. 100–233), as amended, under 

the USDA Agricultural Mediation 

Program. USDA authorized FSA to 

administer the program. FSA makes 

grants to state-designated entitles that 

provide mediation to agricultural 

producers, their lenders and others that 

are directly affected by the action of 

certain USDA agencies. In mediation, a 

trained impartial mediator helps 

participants review and discuss their 

conflicts, identify options to resolve 

disputes and agree on solutions. 

Need and Use of the Information: FSA 

will collect information to determine 

whether the participants meet the 

eligibility requirements to be recipients 

of grant funds, and secondly, to 

determine if the grant is being 

administered as provided by the 

Agricultural Credit Act. Lack of 

adequate information to make these 

determinations could result in the 

improper administration and 

appropriation of Federal grant funds. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 42. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 2,772. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27672 Filed 12–15–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Farm Service Agency 

[Docket ID: FSA–2023–0017] 

Request for Information on 

Agricultural Foreign Investment 

Disclosure Act (AFIDA) FSA–153 Form 

Modernization and Information 

Collection Request 

ACTION: Notice; and request for 

comment. 

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency and Farm 

Production and Conservation Business 

Center, Department of Agriculture 

(USDA). 

SUMMARY: The Farm Service Agency 

(FSA) is requesting information on 

proposed revisions to the Agricultural 

Foreign Investment Disclosure Act 

Report (FSA–153 form). The FSA–153 

requires updating. Specifically, the 

FSA–153 form needs clarification and 

updating to ensure that foreign owners 

(or long-term lessees) who are required 

to file the FSA–153 form have clear 

instructions and that USDA is collecting 

the most precise and meaningful data, 

so that the report to Congress is as 

accurate and insightful as possible. 

Foreign owners are investors who buy, 

sell, or hold a direct or indirect interest 

in U.S. agricultural land (or who hold 

long-term leases on agricultural land) 

and must report their holdings and 

transactions to USDA on the FSA–153 

form. USDA uses the information on the 

submitted forms to generate the report 

that it submits to Congress. FSA is 

moving towards modernizing the 

collection of information process, 

clarifying and modernizing the FSA– 

153 form, and if funding becomes 

available, creating an electronic 

submission system that will allow 

foreign owners to report by filing 

electronically. In addition, this 

document requests public input for our 

plan to revise not only the information 

request, but ultimately, the regulation 

(which will likely result in further 

modifications at a later date to the FSA– 

153 form). 

DATES: We will consider comments or 

information that we receive by February 

16, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to send 

comments in response to this notice. 

You may submit comments, identified 

by Docket ID: FSA–2023–0017 in the 


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