Federal Register: March 3, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 42)
DOCID: fr03mr08-26 FR Doc E8-4015
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr03mr08-26
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Farm Service Agency
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before May 2, 2008 to be assured consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered to the extent practicable.
DOCUMENT 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 with revision 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.
SUMMARY:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals,
DOCUMENT BODY 2:
Information Collection: Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop
Disaster Assistance Program
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Description of Information Collection
Title: Report of Acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP).
OMB Control Number: 05600004.
Expiration Date: 09/30/2008.
Type of Request: Extension with 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 and includes floricultural,
ornamental nursery, and Christmas tree crops, turfgrass sod, seed
crops, aquaculture (including species, type, variety, etc.), practices,
intended uses, planting patterns, and predominant species of forage
vegetation (including intended method of harvest, i.e. mechanically [[Page 11384]]
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, is not planted; and shares and
identities of all producers sharing in the crop at the time a NAP
application for coverage was filed. Finally, the information collected
includes the 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 colonies
belonging to the unit); ponds and waterbeds for production of
aquaculture; 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.
The revision is to correct the average time to complete the form
that increases the total number of burden hours in this information collection.
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.
Comments Are Invited on:
(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.
All responses 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 in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2008.
Teresa C. Lasseter,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Jantrice Chappell, Agriculture Program Specialist, (202) 7203637 and jantrice.chappell@wdc.usda.gov.