82_FR_49377 82 FR 49173 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

82 FR 49173 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 204 (October 24, 2017)

Page Range49173-49174
FR Document2017-22991

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 204 (Tuesday, October 24, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49173-49174]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22991]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

October 19, 2017.
    The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information 
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 on or after the date 
of publication of this notice. 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 should be addressed to: Desk 
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), New Executive Office Building, 
Washington, DC; New Executive Office Building, 725 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503. 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.
    Comments regarding these information collections are best assured 
of having their full effect if received by November 24, 2017. Copies of 
the submission(s) may be obtained by calling (202) 720-8681.
    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.

Agricultural Marketing Service

    Title: Plan for Estimating Daily Livestock Slaughter under Federal 
Inspection.
    OMB Control Number: 0581-0050.
    Summary of Collection: The Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 (7 
U.S.C. 1621-1627) Section 203(g), directs and authorizes the collection 
and dissemination of marketing information, including adequate outlook 
information on a market area basis, for the purpose of anticipating and 
meeting consumer requirements aiding in the maintenance of farm income 
and to bring about a balance between

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production and utilization. Livestock, Poultry, and Grain market news 
provides a timely exchange of accurate and unbiased information on 
current marketing conditions (supply, demand, prices, trends, movement, 
and other information) affecting trade in livestock, poultry, meats, 
eggs, grain, hay and wool. Administered by the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), this nationwide 
market news program is conducted in cooperation with approximately 28 
State departments of agriculture.
    Need and Use of the Information: AMS will collect information on 
estimation of the current day's slaughter at their plant(s) and the 
actual slaughter of the previous day. The report is used to make market 
outlook projections and maintain statistical data. The up-to-the-minute 
reports collected and disseminated by professional market reporters are 
intended to provide both buyers and sellers with the information 
necessary for making intelligent, informed marketing decisions, thus 
putting everyone in the marketing system in an equal bargaining 
position. Since the government is a large purchaser of meat, a system 
to monitor the collection and reporting of data is needed. Collecting 
this information less frequently would hinder the timely use of this 
data.
    Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit; 
Individuals or households; Farms.
    Number of Respondents: 58.
    Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Weekly; Other: Daily.
    Total Burden Hours: 502.

Charlene Parker,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-22991 Filed 10-23-17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-02-P

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 204 / Tuesday, October 24, 2017 / Notices 49173 • Information gathered will not be Frequency: On occasion. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, used for the purpose of substantially Request for Comments: Comments Public Law 104–13 on or after the date informing influential policy decisions. submitted in response to this notice will of publication of this notice. Comments • Information gathered will yield be summarized and/or included in the are requested regarding: (1) Whether the qualitative information; the collections request for OMB approval. Comments collection of information is necessary will not be designed or expected to are invited on: (a) Whether the for the proper performance of the yield statistically reliable results or used collection of information is necessary functions of the agency, including as though the results are generalizable to for the proper performance of the whether the information will have the population of study. functions of the agency, including practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the Feedback collected under this generic whether the information shall have agency’s estimate of burden including clearance provides useful information, practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the the validity of the methodology and but it does not yield data that can be agency’s estimate of the burden of the assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance generalized to the overall population. collection of information; (c) ways to the quality, utility and clarity of the This type of generic clearance for enhance the quality, utility, and clarity information to be collected; and (4) qualitative information will not be used of the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the for quantitative information collections ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who that are designed to yield reliably collection of information on are to respond, including through the actionable results, such as monitoring respondents, including through the use use of appropriate automated, trends over time or documenting of automated collection techniques or electronic, mechanical, or other program performance. Such data uses other forms of information technology; technological collection techniques or require more rigorous designs that and (e) estimates of capital or start-up other forms of information technology address: The target population to which costs and costs of operation, should be addressed to: Desk Officer for generalizations will be made, the maintenance, and purchase of services Agriculture, Office of Information and sampling frame, the sample design to provide information. Burden means Regulatory Affairs, Office of (including stratification and clustering), the total time, effort, or financial Management and Budget (OMB), New the precision requirements or power resources expended by persons to Executive Office Building, Washington, calculations that justify the proposed generate, maintain, retain, disclose or DC; New Executive Office Building, 725 sample size, the expected response rate, provide information to or for a Federal 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. methods for assessing potential agency. This includes the time needed Commenters are encouraged to submit nonresponse bias, the protocols for data to review instructions; to develop, their comments to OMB via email to: collection, and any testing procedures acquire, install and utilize technology OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax that were or will be undertaken prior to and systems for the purpose of (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental fielding the study. Depending on the collecting, validating and verifying Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail degree of influence the results are likely information, processing and Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– to have, such collections may still be maintaining information, and disclosing 7602. eligible for submission for other generic and providing information; to train Comments regarding these mechanisms that are designed to yield personnel and to be able to respond to information collections are best assured quantitative results. a collection of information, to search of having their full effect if received by As a general matter, information data sources, to complete and review November 24, 2017. Copies of the collections will not result in any new the collection of information; and to submission(s) may be obtained by system of records containing privacy transmit or otherwise disclose the calling (202) 720–8681. information and will not ask questions information. All written comments will An agency may not conduct or of a sensitive nature, such as sexual be available for public inspection on sponsor a collection of information behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs, regulations.gov. An agency may not unless the collection of information and other matters that are commonly conduct or sponsor, and a person is not displays a currently valid OMB control considered private. required to respond to, a collection of number and the agency informs Current Actions: Processing information unless it displays a potential persons who are to respond to Information Collection as Fast Track currently valid Office of Management the collection of information that such Generic. and Budget Control Number. persons are not required to respond to Type of Review: Renewal. Dated: October 16, 2017. the collection of information unless it Affected Public: Individuals or Paulette Murray, displays a currently valid OMB control Households; Business or Other For- Supervisory Records Information number. Profit; Not-For-Profit Institutions; Management Specialist, Bureau for Agricultural Marketing Service Farms; Federal Government; State, Management, Office of Management Services, Local, or Tribal Government. Information and Records Division. Title: Plan for Estimating Daily Estimated Annual Number of [FR Doc. 2017–23018 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] Livestock Slaughter under Federal Respondents: 10,000. BILLING CODE P Inspection. Below we provide projected average OMB Control Number: 0581–0050. burden estimates for the next three Summary of Collection: The years: Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 (7 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Average Expected Annual Number of U.S.C. 1621–1627) Section 203(g), Activities: 100. Submission for OMB Review; directs and authorizes the collection Average Number of Respondents per Comment Request and dissemination of marketing Activity: 1,000. information, including adequate outlook Responses per Respondent: 1. October 19, 2017. information on a market area basis, for Annual Responses: 10,000. The Department of Agriculture will the purpose of anticipating and meeting Average Minutes per Response: 10 submit the following information consumer requirements aiding in the minutes. collection requirement(s) to OMB for maintenance of farm income and to Annual Burden Hours: 10,000 hours. review and clearance under the bring about a balance between VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:13 Oct 23, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24OCN1.SGM 24OCN1

49174 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 204 / Tuesday, October 24, 2017 / Notices production and utilization. Livestock, the validity of the methodology and Loss collection with the honey Poultry, and Grain market news assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance production surveys included in this provides a timely exchange of accurate the quality, utility and clarity of the docket. NASS is also revising the title of and unbiased information on current information to be collected; and (4) this collection to Honey and Honey Bee marketing conditions (supply, demand, ways to minimize the burden of the Surveys. prices, trends, movement, and other collection of information on those who Need and Use of the Information: information) affecting trade in livestock, are to respond, including through the NASS will collect information on the poultry, meats, eggs, grain, hay and use of appropriate automated, number of colonies, honey production, wool. Administered by the U.S. electronic, mechanical, or other stocks, and prices from beekeepers with Department of Agriculture’s technological collection techniques or five or more honey bee colonies and Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), other forms of information technology from a sampling of beekeepers that have this nationwide market news program is should be addressed to: Desk Officer for less than five colonies. The survey will conducted in cooperation with Agriculture, Office of Information and provide data needed by the Department approximately 28 State departments of Regulatory Affairs, Office of and other government agencies to agriculture. Management and Budget (OMB), New administer programs and to set trade Need and Use of the Information: Executive Office Building, Washington, quotas and tariffs. Without the AMS will collect information on DC; New Executive Office Building, 725 information agricultural industry would estimation of the current day’s slaughter 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. not be aware of changes at the State and at their plant(s) and the actual slaughter Commenters are encouraged to submit national level. of the previous day. The report is used their comments to OMB via email to: Description of Respondents: Farms. to make market outlook projections and OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax Number of Respondents: 19,025. maintain statistical data. The up-to-the- (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental Frequency of Responses: Reporting: minute reports collected and Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail Annually. disseminated by professional market Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– Total Burden Hours: 10,274. reporters are intended to provide both 7602. buyers and sellers with the information Comments regarding these Charlene Parker, necessary for making intelligent, information collections are best assured Departmental Information Collection informed marketing decisions, thus of having their full effect if received by Clearance Officer. putting everyone in the marketing November 24, 2017. Copies of the [FR Doc. 2017–22990 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] system in an equal bargaining position. submission(s) may be obtained by BILLING CODE 3410–20–P Since the government is a large calling (202) 720–8681. purchaser of meat, a system to monitor An agency may not conduct or the collection and reporting of data is sponsor a collection of information needed. Collecting this information less unless the collection of information COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS frequently would hinder the timely use displays a currently valid OMB control of this data. number and the agency informs Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting Description of Respondents: Business potential persons who are to respond to of the Montana Advisory Committee or other for-profit; Individuals or the collection of information that such AGENCY: Commission on Civil Rights. households; Farms. persons are not required to respond to Number of Respondents: 58. the collection of information unless it ACTION: Announcement of meeting. Frequency of Responses: Reporting; displays a currently valid OMB control Weekly; Other: Daily. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, number. pursuant to the provisions of the rules Total Burden Hours: 502. National Agricultural Statistics Service and regulations of the U.S. Commission Charlene Parker, on Civil Rights (Commission), and the Departmental Information Collection Title: Honey and Honey Bee Surveys. OMB Control Number: 0535–0153. Federal Advisory Committee Act Clearance Officer. (FACA), that a planning meeting of the Summary of Collection: The National [FR Doc. 2017–22991 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Montana Advisory Committee to the BILLING CODE 3410–02–P primary function is to prepare and issue Commission will convene at 11:00 a.m. State and national estimates of crop and (MDT) on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, livestock production, products, prices via teleconference. The purpose of the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and disposition. General authority for meeting is continue to plan to hear Submission for OMB Review; these data collection activities is granted testimony on border town Comment Request under U.S. Code Title 7, Section 2204. discrimination issues in Montana. Domestic honeybees are critical to the DATES: Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at October 19, 2017. pollination of U.S. crops, especially 11:00 a.m. (MDT). The Department of Agriculture will fruits, some nuts, vegetables and some ADDRESSES: To be held via submit the following information specialty crops. Africanized bees, teleconference: collection requirement(s) to OMB for colony collapse disorder, parasites, Conference Call Toll-Free Number: 1– review and clearance under the diseases, and pesticides threaten the 877–419–6600, Conference ID: 5627103. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, survival of bees. Programs are provided TDD: Dial Federal Relay Service 1– asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Public Law 104–13 on or after the date by federal, State and local governments of publication of this notice. Comments 800–977–8339 and give the operator the to assist in the survival of bees and to above conference call number and are requested regarding: (1) Whether the encourage beekeepers to maintain bee collection of information is necessary conference ID. colonies. for the proper performance of the With this renewal NASS is FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: functions of the agency, including incorporating the two surveys Evelyn Bohor, ebohor@usccr.gov, 303– whether the information will have (operations with fewer than 5 colonies 866–1040. practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the and operations with 5 or more colonies) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members agency’s estimate of burden including conducted under the 0535–0255 Colony of the public may listen to the VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:13 Oct 23, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24OCN1.SGM 24OCN1


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