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14905 

Vol. 80, No. 54 

Friday, March 20, 2015 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

March 16, 2015. 

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 

regarding (a) 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; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) 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 April 20, 2015 

will be considered. Written comments 

should be addressed to: Desk Officer for 

Agriculture, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), New 

Executive Office Building, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Commenters are encouraged to submit 

their comments to OMB via email to: 

OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax 

(202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Copies of the submission(s) may 

be obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. 

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. 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

Title: Milk and Milk Products. 

OMB Control Number: 0535–0020. 

Summary of Collection: The National 

Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) 

primary function is to prepare and issue 

current official state and national 

estimates of crop and livestock 

production, prices and disposition, and 

to collect information on related 

environmental, land values, farm 

numbers, and other economic factors. 

Estimates of milk production and 

manufactured dairy products are an 

integral part of this program. Milk and 

dairy statistics are used by the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) to 

help administer price support programs 

and by the dairy industry in planning, 

pricing, and projecting supplies of milk 

and milk products. The general 

authority for these data collection 

activities is granted under U.S. Code 

title 7, section 2204. The legislative 

actions which affect these surveys are 

the ‘‘Dairy Market Enhancement Act of 

2000,’’ U.S. Code title 7, section 1621, 

and Public Law 106–532 which changed 

the program from voluntary to 

mandatory for reporting the moisture 

content of cheddar cheese plus the price 

and quantity of cheddar cheese, butter, 

non-fat dry milk, and dry whey. 

In April 2012 the authority for 

collecting Dairy Product Prices was 

moved from NASS to the Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

NASS will collect information quarterly 

with the Milk Production Survey. The 

monthly Milk and Milk Products 

surveys obtain basic agricultural 

statistics on milk production and 

manufactured dairy products from 

farmers and processing plants 

throughout the nation. Data are gathered 

for milk production, evaporated and 

condensed milk, dairy products, 

manufactured dry milk and 

manufactured whey products. Estimates 

of total milk production, number of milk 

cow, and milk production per cow, are 

used by the dairy industry in planning, 

pricing, and projecting supplies of milk 

and milk products. The mandatory dairy 

product information reporting requires 

each manufacturer to report the price, 

quantity and moisture content of dairy 

products sold and each entity storing 

dairy products to report information on 

the quantity of dairy products stored. 

Collecting data less frequently would 

prevent USDA and the agricultural 

industry from keeping abreast of 

changes at the State and national level. 

Description of Respondents: Farms; 

Business or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 14,200. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Quarterly; Monthly; Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 10,035. 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

Title: Field Crops Objective Yield. 

OMB Control Number: 0535–0088. 

Summary of Collection: The primary 

function of the National Agricultural 

Statistics Service (NASS) is to prepare 

and issue current official State and 

national estimates of crop and livestock 

production. General authority for these 

data collection activities is granted 

under U.S. Code title 7, section 2204. 

This statue specifies the ‘‘The Secretary 

of Agriculture shall procure and 

preserve all information concerning 

agriculture which he can obtain . . . by 

the collection of statistics . . . and shall 

distribute them among agriculturists’’. 

Data collected provides yield estimates 

for corn, cotton, potatoes, soybeans and 

winter wheat. The yield estimates are 

extremely important because they’re 

used in conjunction with price data to 

estimate production and in making 

policy decisions in agricultural sectors. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

NASS will collect information on 

sample fields of, corn, cotton, potatoes, 

soybeans, and winter wheat. The 

information will be used by USDA to 

anticipate loan receipts and pricing of 

loan stocks for grains. Farmers and 

businesses use the production estimates 

in marketing decisions to evaluate 

expected prices and to determine when 

to sell. 

Description of Respondents: Farms. 

Number of Respondents: 8,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Monthly during growing season. 

Total Burden Hours: 2,820. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

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