[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 219 (Monday, November 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 70407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29290]
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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 219 / Monday, November 14, 2011 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Commodity Credit Corporation
Farm Service Agency
Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation and Farm Service Agency, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA)
are seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations
on an extension of a currently approved information collection
associated with the report of acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program (NAP). This information collection is needed to
administer the program.
DATES: We will consider comments that we receive by January 13, 2012.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this notice. In your
comments, include date, OMB control number, volume, and page number of
this issue of the Federal Register. You may submit comments by any of
the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, ATTN: Jantrice Williams,
Agriculture Program Specialist, CPS, Farm Programs, Production
Emergencies and Compliance Division, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., STOP
0517, Washington, DC 20250-0523.
Email: Send comment to: [email protected].
Fax: (202) 720-4941.
Comments also should be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jantrice Williams, Agriculture Program
Specialist, (202) 720-3637.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of Information Collection
Title: Report of Acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program (NAP).
OMB Control Number: 0560-0004.
Expiration Date: 01/31/2012.
Type of Request: Extension.
Abstract: NAP provides financial assistance to producers who have
suffered a production loss of an eligible crop or were prevented from
planting an eligible crop as a result of natural disasters. Eligible
crops are commercial crops or other agricultural commodities for which
catastrophic risk protection under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b) is not available
and that are produced for food or fiber. Additionally, eligible crops
also include floricultural, ornamental nursery, and Christmas tree
crops, turfgrass sod, seed crops, and aquaculture. Specific information
is collected from producers on identification of the crop (including
type and variety), practices, intended uses, planting patterns, and
predominant species of forage vegetation (including intended method of
harvest, i.e. mechanically harvested or grazed); dates crops were
planted or planting was completed (including age of perennial crops);
number of acres of each planting of the eligible crop in which the
producer has a share in the administrative county; number of acres
intended but prevented from being planted; zero acres planted when the
crop for which a NAP application for coverage was filed, or is not
planted; shares and identities of all producers sharing in the crop at
the time a NAP application for coverage was filed; FSA farm serial
number or location of commodities not necessarily associated with an
FSA farm serial number such as colonies of bees for honey production
(including the number of bee colonies belonging to the unit);
aquaculture production (including the name, type, or variety of each
aquaculture species in a physical location of acreage on which the
facility resides such as ponds and waterbeds); ornamental nursery
(including the size and origin, i.e. container or field grown, of
plants belonging to the unit); mushroom facilities; turfgrass sod
(including the average number of square yards per acre and all
unharvested acres); and trees for maple sap production (including
number of eligible trees, average size and age of producing trees, and
total number of taps placed or anticipated for the tapping season). NAP
operates under the regulations at 7 CFR part 1437.
Respondents: Producers.
Estimated of Respondent Burden: Public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated to average 45 minutes (.75 hour)
per response. The average travel time, which is included in the total
burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per respondent.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 291,500.
Estimated Annual Number of Forms per person: 1.5.
Estimate of Total Annual Burden: 619,438.
We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information
collection and to help us to:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the FSA, including whether
the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the FSA's estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(4) 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.
All comments received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public record.
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission for Office
of Management and Budget approval.
Signed on November 7, 2011.
Bruce Nelson,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2011-29290 Filed 11-10-11; 8:45 am]
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