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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 6 (Friday, January 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1938-1939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00372]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information 
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 on or after the date 
of publication of this notice. Comments are requested regarding: (1) 
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; (2) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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 these information collections are best assured 
of having their full effect if received by February 10, 2025. 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

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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: Quick Response for Cooperator-funded Surveys Generic 
Clearance.
    OMB Control Number: 0535-0264.
    Summary of Collection: The primary objectives of the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) are to prepare and issue 
official State and national estimates of crop and livestock production, 
disposition and prices, economic statistics, and environmental 
statistics related to agriculture and to conduct the Census of 
Agriculture and its follow-on surveys. In addition to the many 
statistical activities directly related to its mission, the National 
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will lend technical expertise to 
other Federal agencies, State governments, land grant universities, and 
other organizations which have a Memorandum of Understanding with NASS. 
These entities will be referred to as cooperators. NASS provides 
support and assistance in the areas of questionnaire & sample design as 
well as analysis of survey results. NASS would like to include data 
collection to its list of services, utilizing the existing Cooperative 
Agreement with the National State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA). 
The data collection activities in this generic clearance request would 
be conducted through cooperative agreements with Federal agencies, 
State departments of agriculture, land-grant universities, or other 
organizations with which NASS has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). 
The surveys will be conducted under a full-cost recovery basis. These 
cooperators have sought out NASS's assistance to provide statistics 
beneficial to agriculture, but are not covered by NASS's annual 
Congressional appropriation. General authority for conducting 
cooperative projects is granted under U.S. Code Title 7, Section 450a 
which states that USDA officials may, ``enter into agreements with and 
receive funds . . . for the purpose of conducting cooperative research 
projects . . .'' This authority has been delegated to NASS. Response to 
all surveys collected under this generic clearance is voluntary.
    NASS benefits from these cooperative agreements by: (1) Obtaining 
additional data to update its list of farm operators; (2) encouraging 
both parties to coordinate Federal survey activities and activities 
funded under a cooperative agreement to reduce the need for overlapping 
data collection and/or spread-out respondent burden; and (3) 
facilitating additional promotion of NASS surveys and statistical 
reports funded by annual Congressional appropriations. Respondents 
benefit from these cooperative agreements by: (1) Having their reported 
data protected by Federal Law (U.S. Code title 18, section 1905; U.S. 
Code title 7, section 2276; and title III of Pub. L. 115-435 codified 
in 44 U.S.C. ch. 35 and other applicable Federal laws, (CIPSEA)); (2) 
having data collection activities for Federal and Cooperative surveys 
coordinated to minimize respondent burden; and (3) having high-quality 
agricultural data that are important to a state or region be collected 
and published.
    Need and Use of the Information: NASS would like to conduct up to 
10 surveys each year in response to requests from cooperators who have 
data needs that cannot be met through NASS's annual Congressional 
appropriations.
    NASS would like to include surveys that would cover topics such as:

--Farm management practices,
--Food safety,
--Workplace safety,
--Conservation and land use practices,
--Chemical use management practices,
--Crop quality,
--Agri-tourism, local foods, or other specific agricultural promotion 
programs.

    The summarized and published information will be analyzed by the 
sponsoring cooperators and stakeholders in agriculture. Results will be 
used to study

--production agriculture as well as
--various programs and policies to determine their impact on 
agricultural producers and consumers.

    Description of Respondents: Private Sector; Businesses or other 
for-profits; Farms.
    Number of Respondents: 225,000.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Annually.
    Total Burden Hours: 111,512.

Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-00372 Filed 1-8-25; 8:45 am]
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