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accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpretation, assistive listening 

devices, or other reasonable 

accommodation to the person listed 

under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section or contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TTY) or USDA through the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. 

USDA programs are prohibited from 

discriminating based on race, color, 

national origin, religion, sex, gender 

identity (including gender expression), 

sexual orientation, disability, age, 

marital status, family/parental status, 

income derived from a public assistance 

program, political beliefs, or reprisal or 

retaliation for prior civil rights activity, 

in any program or activity conducted or 

funded by USDA (not all bases apply to 

all programs). Remedies and complaint 

filing deadlines vary by program or 

incident. 

Equal opportunity practices in 

accordance with USDA’s policies will 

be followed in all appointments to the 

Board. To ensure that the 

recommendations of the Board have 

taken into account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by USDA, 

membership shall include to the extent 

possible, individuals with demonstrated 

ability to represent minorities, women, 

and persons with disabilities. USDA is 

an equal opportunity provider, 

employer, and lender. 

Dated: February 15, 2024. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03679 Filed 2–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Land Between the Lakes Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Land Between the Lakes 

Advisory Board will hold a public 

meeting according to the details shown 

below. The Board is authorized under 

the Charter for the Land Between the 

Lakes Advisory Board and operates in 

compliance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of 

the Board is to advise the Secretary of 

Agriculture on means of promoting 

public participation for the land and 

resource management plan for the 

Recreation Area; of providing 

environmental education; of developing 

an annual work plan for recreation and 

environment education areas in the 

Recreation Area, including the heritage 

program, with the nonappropriated 

amounts in the Land Between the Lakes 

Management Fund; of providing an 

annual forest management and harvest 

plan for the Recreation Area; and to 

establish the Land Between the Lakes 

Management Fund. 

DATES: An in-person and virtual meeting 

will be held on March 27, 2024, 9 a.m.– 

4 p.m., central daylight time (CDT). 

Written and Oral Comments: Anyone 

wishing to provide in-person oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. (CDT) on March 19, 2024. Written 

public comments will be accepted up to 

11:59 p.m. (CDT) on March 19, 2024. 

Comments submitted after this date will 

be provided to the Forest Service, but 

the Board may not have adequate time 

to consider those comments prior to the 

meeting. 

All board meetings are subject to 

cancellation. For status of the meeting 

prior to attendance, please contact the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

in-person at the Land Between the Lakes 

National Recreation Area 

Administration Building located at 100 

Van Morgan Drive, Golden Pond, 

Kentucky 42211. The public may also 

join virtually via Microsoft Teams at: 

https://landbetweenthelakes.us/about/ 

working-together/advisory-board/ or by 

contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Written Comments: Written comments 

must be sent by email to SM.FS.LBL_

AdBoard@usda.gov or via mail (i.e., 

postmarked) to Land Between the Lakes 

National Recreation Area, Attention: 

Christine Bombard, 100 Van Morgan 

Drive, Golden Pond, Kentucky 42211. 

The Forest Service strongly prefers 

comments be submitted electronically. 

Oral Comments: Persons or 

organizations wishing to make oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. CDT, March 19, 2024, and speakers 

can only register for one speaking slot. 

Oral comments must be sent by email to 

SM.FS.LBL_AdBoard@usda.gov or via 

mail (i.e., postmarked) to Land Between 

the Lakes National Recreation Area, 

Attention: Christine Bombard, 100 Van 

Morgan Drive, Golden Pond, Kentucky 

42211. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

McCoy, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), by phone at 270–924–2001 or 

email at SM.FS.LBL_AdBoard@usda.gov 

or Christine Bombard, Board 

Coordinator, at 270–924–2002 or email 

at SM.FS.LBL_AdBoard@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the meeting is to: 

1. Discuss natural resource 

management; 

2. Discuss recreation; and 

3. Discuss environmental education. 

The agenda will include time for 

individuals to make oral statements of 

three minutes or less. Individuals 

wishing to make an oral statement 

should make a request in writing at least 

three days prior to the meeting date to 

be scheduled on the agenda. Written 

comments may be submitted to the 

Forest Service up to 7 days after the 

meeting date listed under DATES. 

Please contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, by 

or before the deadline, for all questions 

related to the meeting. All comments, 

including names and addresses when 

provided, are placed in the record and 

are available for public inspection and 

copying. The public may inspect 

comments received upon request. 

Meeting Accommodations: The 

meeting location is compliant with the 

Americans with Disabilities Act, and the 

USDA provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpretation, assistive listening 

devices, or other reasonable 

accommodation to the person listed 

under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section, or contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TTY) or USDA through the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. 

USDA programs are prohibited from 

discriminating based on race, color, 

national origin, religion, sex, gender 

identity (including gender expression), 

sexual orientation, disability, age, 

marital status, family/parental status, 

income derived from a public assistance 

program, political beliefs, or reprisal or 

retaliation for prior civil rights activity, 

in any program or activity conducted or 

funded by USDA (not all bases apply to 

all programs). Remedies and complaint 

filing deadlines vary by program or 

incident. 

Equal opportunity practices in 

accordance with USDA’s policies will 


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be followed in all appointments to the 

Board. To ensure that the 

recommendations of the Board have 

taken into account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by USDA, 

membership shall include to the extent 

possible, individuals with demonstrated 

ability to represent minorities, women, 

and persons with disabilities. USDA is 

an equal opportunity provider, 

employer, and lender. 

Dated: February 15, 2024. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03680 Filed 2–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

Notice of Intent To Request Revision 

and Extension of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 this 

notice announces the intention of the 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

(NASS) to request revision and 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection, the Hemp 

Production and Disposition Inquiry. 

Revision to burden hours will be needed 

due to changes in the size of the target 

population, sampling design, number of 

mailings, and/or questionnaire length. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by April 23, 2024 to be assured 

of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number 0535–0270, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Email: OMBofficer@nass.usda.gov. 

Include docket number above in the 

subject line of the message. 

• eFax: (855) 838–6382. 

• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD– 

ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper, 

NASS Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Room 5336 

South Building, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250– 

2024. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand 

deliver to: Richard Hopper, NASS 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Room 5336, South 

Building, 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20250–2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph L. Parsons, Associate 

Administrator, National Agricultural 

Statistics Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, (202) 720–4333. Copies of 

this information collection and related 

instructions can be obtained without 

charge from Richard Hopper, NASS— 

OMB Clearance Officer, at (202) 720– 

2206 or at ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Hemp Production and 

Disposition Inquiry. 

OMB Control Number: 0535–0270. 

Expiration Date of Approval: August 

31, 2024. 

Type of Request: Intent to Seek 

Approval to Revise and Extend an 

Information Collection for 3 years. 

Abstract: The primary objective of the 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

is to prepare and issue State and 

national estimates of crop and livestock 

production, disposition, and prices. The 

2018 Farm Bill requires USDA to 

promulgate regulations and guidelines 

to establish and administer a program 

for the production of hemp in the 

United States. 

As defined in the 2018 Farm Bill, the 

term ‘‘hemp’’ means the plant species 

Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that 

plant, including the seeds thereof and 

all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, 

isomers, acids, salts, and salts of 

isomers, whether growing or not, with a 

delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol 

concentration of not more than 0.3 

percent on a dry weight basis. Delta-9 

tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the 

primary intoxicating component of 

cannabis. Cannabis with a THC level 

exceeding 0.3 percent is considered 

marijuana, which remains classified as 

a schedule I controlled substance 

regulated by the Drug Enforcement 

Administration (DEA) under the 

Controlled Substances Act (CSA). 

Under the Agricultural Act of 2014 

(2014 Farm Bill), Public Law 113–79, 

State departments of agriculture and 

institutions of higher education were 

permitted to produce hemp as part of a 

pilot program for research purposes. 

The authority for hemp production 

provided in the 2014 Farm Bill was 

extended by the 2018 Farm Bill, which 

was signed into law on December 20, 

2018. 

Hemp is a commodity that can be 

used for numerous industrial and 

horticultural purposes including fabric, 

paper, construction materials, food 

products, cosmetics, production of 

cannabinoids (such as cannabidiol or 

CBD), and other products. 

In determining the type of data that 

would need to be collected and the 

frequency of the data collections, NASS 

management attended a joint meeting 

with representatives from the USDA’s 

Economic Research Service (ERS), Farm 

Service Agency (FSA), Risk 

Management Agency (RMA), 

Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), 

and the Office of the Secretary. 

Authority: The data will be collected 

under the authority of the Domestic 

Hemp Production Program, which is 

mandated by the Agriculture 

Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm 

Bill). In addition, the data will be 

collected under the authority of Title 7 

U.S.C. 2204(a). Individually identifiable 

data collected under this authority are 

governed by Section 1770 of the Food 

Security Act of 1985 as amended, 7 

U.S.C. 2276, which requires USDA to 

afford strict confidentiality to nonaggregated data provided by 

respondents. This Notice is submitted in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), and Office 

of Management and Budget regulations 

at 5 CFR part 1320. 

All NASS employees and NASS 

contractors must also fully comply with 

all provisions of the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, Title 

III of Public Law 115–435, codified in 

44 U.S.C. Ch. 35. CIPSEA supports 

NASS’s pledge of confidentiality to all 

respondents and facilitates the agency’s 

efforts to reduce burden by supporting 

statistical activities of collaborative 

agencies through designation of NASS 

agents, subject to the limitations and 

penalties described in CIPSEA. NASS 

uses the information only for statistical 

purposes and publishes only tabulated 

total data. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 15 minutes per 

response. Publicity materials and 

instruction sheets will account for 5 

minutes of additional burden per 

respondent. 

Respondents: Farmers and Ranchers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

8,025. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 2,600 hours. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) 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; 

(b) 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; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 


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