82 FR 14673 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 54 (March 22, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 54 (March 22, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-05697 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 22, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 14673-14674] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-05697] ======================================================================== Notices Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section. ======================================================================== Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 54 / Wednesday, March 22, 2017 / Notices [[Page 14673]] DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request March 17, 2017. The Department of Agriculture has submitted the following information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. 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 this information collection received by April 21, 2017 will be considered. Written comments should be addressed to: Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), New Executive Office Building, 725--17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20502. Commenters are encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via email to: [email protected] or fax (202) 395-5806 and to Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250- 7602. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720- 8958. 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. Risk Management Agency Title: Area Risk Protection Insurance. OMB Control Number: 0563-0083. Summary of Collection: The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is a wholly-owned Government corporation created February 16, 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1501). The program was amended previously, but Public Law 96-365, dated September 26, 1980, provided for nationwide expansion of a comprehensive crop insurance program. The Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended in later years further expanded this role of the crop insurance program to be the principal tool for risk management by producers of agricultural commodities. Barley, corn, cotton, forage production, grain sorghum, soybeans, oysters, popcorn, rice and wheat are crops insured under the Area Risk Protection Insurance (ARPI) policy. Need and Use of the Information: ARPI includes three separate plans of insurance: (1) Area Revenue Protection which protects against price declines and automatically includes Upside Harvest Price Protection (UHPP) which protects against price increases; (2) ARP with the Harvest Price Exclusion, which excludes UHPP and protects against price declines but not against price increases; and (3) Area Yield Protection which only protects against loss of yield. Using a wide range of data elements producers are required to report specific data when they apply for ARPI such as acreage and yields. Insurance companies accept applications; issue policies; establish and provide insurance coverage; compute liability, premium, subsidies, and losses; indemnify producers; and report specific data to FCIC as required in Appendix III/M13 Handbook. If producers and insurance companies did not submit the required data at the specified time, accurate liabilities, premium, and subsidies may not be determined, errors may not be resolved timely, producers may not receive accurate indemnities, payments may be late, crop insurance may not be actuarially sound as mandated by the Act. Description of Respondents: Producers and insurance companies. Number of Respondents: 25,432. Frequency of Responses: Weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, semi- annually. Total Burden Hours: 98,322. Risk Management Agency Title: Subpart U-Ineligibility for Programs under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. OMB Control Number: 0563-0085. Summary of Collection: The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is a wholly-owned Government corporation created February 16, 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1501). The program was amended previously, but Public Law 96-365, dated September 26, 1980, provided for nationwide expansion of a comprehensive crop insurance program. The Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended in later years further expanded this role of the crop insurance program to be the principal tool for risk management by producers of agricultural commodities. Need and Use of the Information: The purpose of collecting the information is to ensure persons that are ineligible for benefits under the Federal crop insurance program are accurately identified as such and do not obtain benefits to which they are not eligible. Person can become ineligible for benefits for three reasons: (1) Debt on unpaid premium or overpaid indemnity (information provided by AIP; (2) Debt on unpaid CAT fee (information provided by AIP); and (3) Debarment/ disqualification/suspension, including but not limited to judgement, civil fines, etc. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and AIPs use the information collected to determine whether person seeking to obtain Federal crop insurance coverage are ineligible for such coverage according to the statutory/regulatory mandates identified. Description of Respondents: Business, or other for profit. Number of Respondents: 18. Frequency of Responses: Monthly, quarterly, on occasion. [[Page 14674]] Total Burden Hours: 1,841. Charlene Parker, Departmental Information Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2017-05697 Filed 3-21-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-08-P
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Total Burden Hours: 1,841. on Recreation and Transportation 3. Forest and Rangeland Renewable
Related Programs and Systems. Resources and Planning Act of 1974
Charlene Parker,
OMB Number: 0596–0236. [Pub. L. 93–378 § 3(2,3)] as amended;
Departmental Information Clearance Officer. Expiration Date of Approval: 4. National Forest Management Act of
[FR Doc. 2017–05697 Filed 3–21–17; 8:45 am] November 30, 2017. 1976 [Pub. L. 94–588, §§ 2(3), 6(d)], as
BILLING CODE 3410–08–P Type of Request: Renewal and amended;
revision of currently approved 5. Government Performance and
collection. Results Act of 1993 [Pub. L. 103–62] as
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Abstract: From time to time, amended;
individual or combined units or 6. Executive Order 12862 of
Forest Service subunits of various Federal Land September 11, 1993;
Management Agencies (FLMAs) and/or 7. Executive Order 13571 of April 27,
Information Collection; Interagency FLMA Research Station units need to 2011;
Generic Clearance for Federal Land acquire direct visitor and authorized 8. Executive Act 12996 of March 25,
Management Agencies Collaborative user feedback about site- or area-specific 1996;
Visitor Feedback Surveys on services, facilities, road and/or travel 9. National Park Services Act of 1916;
Recreation and Transportation Related systems, needs, programs, 10. National Wildlife Refuge System
Programs and Systems demographics, management of FLMA Administration Act;
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. lands, and/or other quantitative 11. National Wildlife Refuge System
ACTION: Notice; request for comment. information on FLMA lands in cross- Centennial Act [Pub. L. 106–408];
jurisdictional landscapes. FLMAs 12. The Federal Land Policy and
SUMMARY: In accordance with the include, but are not limited to: USDA- Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976;
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service; National Park Service; 13. General Survey Act of 1824; and
Forest Service is seeking comments Bureau of Land Management; US Fish & 14. National Environmental Policy
from all interested individuals and Wildlife Service; US Geological Survey; Act of 1969.
organizations on the renewal of an US Army Corps of Engineers; Presidio Survey respondents would include
information collection, Federal Land Trust and Bureau of Reclamation. This visitors and potential visitors to FLMA
Management Agencies (FLMAs) direct feedback is vital to establish and/ units or subunits, and residents of
Collaborative Visitor Transportation or revise goals and objectives for FLMA communities in or near FLMA units.
Information Collections. recreation-related transportation system Since many of the FLMA surveys are
programs to and within FLMA similar in terms of the populations
DATES: Comments must be received in
recreation sites/opportunities, to inform being surveyed, the types of questions
writing on or before May 22, 2017 to be
land management plans, and to facilitate being asked, the research methodologies
assured of consideration. Comments
interagency coordination across being used, and the database structures
received after that date will be
multijurisdictional landscapes, which and data being utilized, the FLMAs
considered to the extent practicable.
will better meet the needs of the public propose a generic Interagency
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
and the resources under FLMA Information Collections clearance from
notice should be addressed to Margaret OMB to obtain quantitative and/or
Petrella, The Volpe Center (RVT–321), management.
The benefits of an FLMA interagency qualitative visitor/user feedback
55 Broadway Street, Cambridge, MA utilizing collection mechanisms such as
generic Information Collection (IC)
02142. All responses to this notice will surveys, focus groups, and/or
would include significant public and
be summarized and included in the interviews.
agency time and cost savings. If
request for Office of Management and Information collection could occur at
multiple FLMAs in an area or landscape
Budget (OMB) approval. All comments one location, several locations, across
work jointly on one quantitative visitor
will become a matter of public record. FLMA units, across regions, across the
Comments also may be submitted via feedback information collection under a
generic clearance from OMB, there nation, and could be multi-
facsimile to (617) 494–3522 or by email jurisdictional at any of these levels.
to: Margaret.Petrella@dot.gov. would be significant savings in
government time and costs related to Information collection activities could
The public may inspect comments occur once, could occur as iterative
received at 55 Broadway Street, survey development and OMB survey
approval, as well as savings in the costs collections over a limited period of
Cambridge, MA 02142 in Room 3–67 time, or could occur over long periods
during normal business hours. Visitors of survey administration and data
processing. In particular, the public of time at some periodic, planned time
are encouraged to call ahead to 617– interval. Direct visitor feedback could be
494–3582 to facilitate entry to the burden would be diminished as the
public would only need to respond to collected through facilitated focus
building. groups or through surveys or individual
one jointly-sponsored survey, instead of
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: to multiple similar surveys at multiple interviews (qualitative or quantitative),
Margaret Petrella, Social Scientist, U.S. units in an area. with either electronically-recorded or
Department of Transportation, The Under the following authorities, the hand-written responses, via mail-back,
Volpe Center, (617) 494–3582. participating FLMAs are obligated to or via internet, apps, or social media
Individuals who use actively solicit public input to improve electronic surveys (e.g., Quick Response
telecommunication devices for the deaf (QR) codes on Smartphones). Survey or
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
public lands management to better serve
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay the public: interview information could be
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 1. Forest Service Administration collected at pertinent site(s) or access
twenty-four hours a day, every day of Organic Act of 1897 [16 U.S.C. 473–478, point(s) as visitors arrive or complete
the year, including holidays. 479–482, and 551] as amended by the their visit(s) or are in the midst of their
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Transfer Act of 1905 [16 U.S.C. 472, activities; and could be collected pre- or
Title: Interagency Generic Clearance 524, 554]; post-visit.
for Federal Land Management Agencies 2. Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act In general, questions will relate to
Collaborative Visitor Feedback Surveys of 1960 [Pub. L. 86–15, § 3]; visitor experience at one or more
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