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52632 

Vol. 86, No. 181 

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

September 16, 2021. 

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 

October 22, 2021. 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. 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

(NASS) 

Title: 2022 Census of Agriculture— 

Substantive Change. 

OMB Control Number: 0535–0226. 

Summary of Collection: General 

authority for these data collection 

activities is granted under U.S. Code 

Title 7, Section 2204 which specifies 

that ‘‘The Secretary of Agriculture shall 

procure and preserve all information 

concerning agriculture which he can 

obtain . . . by the collection of statistics 

. . .’’. The primary objective of the 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

(NASS) is to provide data users with 

timely and reliable agricultural 

production and economic statistics, as 

well as environmental and specialty 

agricultural related statistics. To 

accomplish this objective, NASS relies 

on the use of diverse surveys that show 

changes within the farming industry 

over time. 

This is a request to make a substantive 

change to the currently approved 

Census of Agriculture clearance. In this 

substantive change, NASS provides 

details to the separate data collection of 

agricultural decision makers’ sexual 

orientation and gender identification 

(SOGI) and disability status data that 

was mentioned in the original approval. 

This experimental data collection will 

be called The Farm Producer Study and 

will take place in late 2021. The Farm 

Producer Study will provide 

experimental data that will help 

determine if these questions should be 

included in future data collections, such 

as the 2027 Census of Agriculture. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

Census of Agriculture data, including 

data that may be used to better 

understand the demographics of 

agricultural producers, are an integral 

part of the primary function of the 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

(NASS), which is the collection, 

processing, and dissemination of 

current State, regional, and national 

agricultural statistics. 

Description of Respondents: Farms: 

Individuals or households. 

Number of Respondents: 75,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Once. 

Total Burden Hours: 15,965. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20443 Filed 9–21–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–20–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

[Docket No. NRCS–2021–0003] 

Proposed Revisions to Section 1 of the 

Field Office Technical Guides for 

Several States 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: NRCS is giving notice that it 

is proposing to revise Section 1 of the 

Field Office Technical Guides in 

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, 

California, Caribbean Area, Colorado, 

Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 

Hawaii and Pacific Islands Area, Idaho, 

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, 

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, 

Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, 

Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, 

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New 

Mexico, New York, North Carolina, 

Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, 

Rhode Island, South Carolina, 

Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, 

Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, 

Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The 

proposed changes include hydrology 

indicators for the identification in each 

of these States of farmed wetlands (FW) 

that are not playas, pocosins, or 

potholes. These indicators will be used 

by NRCS to identify FWs while 

completing wetland determinations for 

USDA program eligibility purposes. 

DATES: Comment Date: We will consider 

comments that we receive by October 

22, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this notice. You may 

submit comments through the: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for docket ID NRCS–2021–0003. Follow 

the instructions for submitting 

comments.