[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 240 (Thursday, December 13, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74166-74167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30019]
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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 a revision of a currently approved information collection associated
with the report of acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance
Program (NAP). The Report of Acreage form is being revised for more
efficient data entry in Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of
Agricultural Systems (MIDAS). The producer will also no longer be
required to provide certain additional information with the form that
will likely result in a reduction in the burden hours in this
information collection. This information collection is needed to
administer the program.
DATES: We will consider comments that we receive by February 11, 2013.
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.
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Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, Farm Programs, Production
Emergencies and Compliance Division, CPS, ATTN: Jantrice Williams, 1400
Independence Avenue SW., STOP 0517, Washington, DC 20250-0523.
Also, send comments 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, (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: March 31, 2015.
Type of Request: Revision.
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 floriculture, non-
ornamental nursery, ornamental nursery, ginseng, mushroom, honey, maple
sap, seaoats, seagrass, industrial crops, Christmas tree crops,
turfgrass sod, seed crops, and aquaculture (including ornamental fish).
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, that is 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; 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, that is 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 in 7 CFR part 1437.
The ``Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems''
(MIDAS) is FSA's initiative to improve the delivery of FSA farm program
benefits and services through the re-engineering of farm program
business processes and the adoption of enhanced and modernized
information technology. FSA is not collecting any new information on
the FSA-578. However, the Report of Acreage form is being revised for
more efficient data entry in MIDAS. Producers will no longer be
required to provide certain additional information with the form that
will reduce the burden hours in this information collection. The
producers will only need to report to one county office instead of each
administrative county office due to MIDAS. Therefore, FSA expects a
reduction in the annual total burden hours for collection of the
information.
Respondents: Producers.
Estimated of Respondent Burden: Public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated to average 30 minutes (0.50
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.
Estimated Annual Responses on Respondents: 437,250.
Estimate of Total Annual Burden Hours: 510,125.
We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information
collection to help us to:
(1) Determine whether the continued collection of information is
still necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the FSA,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Assess 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 the
Office of Management and Budget approval.
Signed on November 1, 2012.
Juan M. Garcia,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2012-30019 Filed 12-12-12; 8:45 am]
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