[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29833-29834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-11318]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Marketing Service
[Doc. No. AMS-LPS-16-0032]
Request for Revision to and Extension of a Currently Approved
Information Collection
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing
Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of and revision to the
currently approved information collection ``Livestock, Poultry, Meat,
and Grain Market News Reports'' (0186-0033), which AMS is proposing to
retitle as the ``Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.''
DATES: Comments received by July 12, 2016.
Additional Information or Comments: Interested persons are invited
to submit comments concerning this information collection document.
Comments should be submitted online at www.regulations.gov or sent to
Anjeanette Johnson, Market News Reporter; Livestock, Poultry, and Grain
Market News Division; Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program;
Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400
Independence Ave. SW., Room 2619-S, STOP 0252; Washington, DC 20250-
0252; telephone (202) 692-0086; fax (202) 690-3732; or email
[email protected]. All comments should reference the
docket number (AMS-LPS-16-0032), date, and page number of this issue in
the Federal Register. All comments received will be posted without
change, including any personal information provided, online at
www.regulations.gov and will be made available for public inspection at
the above physical address during regular business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.
OMB Number: 0581-0033.
Expiration Date of Approval: September 30, 2016.
Type of Request: Revision to and extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended, 7
U.S.C. 1621-1627, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide
up-to-the-minute nationwide coverage of prices, supply, demands,
trends, movement, and other pertinent information affecting the trading
of livestock, poultry, meat, eggs, grain, and their related products,
as well as locally produced and marketed products. The market reports
compiled and disseminated by the Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market
News (LPGMN) Division of AMS' Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program
provide current, unbiased, and factual information to all stakeholders
in the U.S. agricultural industry. LPGMN reports assist producers,
processors, wholesalers, retailers, and others to make informed
production, purchasing, and sales decisions. LPGMN reports also promote
orderly marketing by placing buyers and sellers on a more equal
negotiation basis.
LPGMN reporters communicate with buyers and sellers of livestock,
poultry, meat, eggs, grain, local products, and their respective
commodities on a daily basis to accomplish LPGMN's mission. This
communication and information gathering is accomplished through the use
of telephone conversations, facsimile transmissions, face-to-face
meetings, and email messages. The information provided by respondents
initiates LPGMN reporting, which must be timely, accurate, unbiased,
and continuous if it is to be meaningful to the industry. AMS collects
information on price, supply, demand, trends, movement, and other
information of livestock, poultry, meat, grain, eggs, local products,
and their respective commodities. LPGMN uses one OMB approved form, PY-
90: ``Monthly Dried Egg Solids Stocks Report,'' to collect inventory
information from commercially dried egg product plants throughout the
U.S. Cooperating firms voluntarily submit this form to LPGMN primarily
via email and facsimile transmissions.
This collection was previously titled ``Livestock, Poultry, Meat,
and Grain Market News Reports'' (0186-0033), and AMS is proposing to
retitle the collection as ``Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News''
collection.
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Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 0.0600 hours per response.
Respondents: Business or other for-profit and farms.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,990.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 93.
Estimated Total Annual Responses: 279,119.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 16,110.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed 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 the burden of the
proposed collection of information 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 the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the
request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: May 10, 2016.
Elanor Starmer,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-11318 Filed 5-12-16; 8:45 am]
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