Notice2023-04827
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Reinstatement
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Published
March 9, 2023
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Agriculture Department
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 46 (Thursday, March 9, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14593-14594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04827]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Reinstatement
The Department of Agriculture will submit the following information
collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and reinstatement 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:
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; the accuracy of the agency's
estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of
the information to be collected; and 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 these information collections are best
assured of having their full effect if received by April 10, 2023.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function.
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
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displays a currently valid OMB control number.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0186.
Summary of Collection: The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of
1999 (1999 Act) authorizes the collection and reporting of information
on the prices and quantities of livestock and livestock products. In
2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) implemented the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR)
program as required by the 1999 Act [Pub. L. 106-78; 113 Stat. 1188; 7
U.S.C. 1635-1636(i)]. On September 30, 2015, the Agriculture
Reauthorizations Act of 2015 (2015 Reauthorization Act) reauthorized
LMR for an additional five years, until September 30, 2020. The
Reauthorization was extended through September 30, 2021, in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and currently extended through
September 30, 2022, in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022.
The request for information, as mandated by the 1999 Act and
amended under the 2015 Reauthorization Act, requires livestock packing
plants that annually slaughter an average of 125,000 cattle, 100,000
barrows and gilts, or 200,000 sows and boars; or slaughter or process
an average of 35,000 lambs to report information as described in the
1999 Act. In addition, the 1999 Act, as amended under the 2015
Reauthorization Act, requires importers that annually import an average
of 1,000 metric tons of lamb meat products to report information as
described in the 1999 Act.
Need and Use of the Information: The information collection and
recordkeeping requirements mandated by the 1999 Act are essential for
AMS to administer a mandatory reporting program of livestock and
livestock products. Using the information submitted by packers and
importers, AMS publishes over 100 daily, weekly, and monthly reports
covering market transactions for fed cattle, swine, lamb, beef, lamb
meat, and pork. Collection is accomplished through electronic means,
and AMS reports the information up to three times daily and once
weekly. The information collected in order for AMS to meet the
requirements and intentions of the 1999 Act is only available from the
entities required to report.
Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 110.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting; Weekly; Other (Daily).
Total Burden Hours: 23,035.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Title: Pecans Grown in Multiple States, Marketing Order No. 986.
OMB Control Number: 0581-0291.
Summary of Collection: The marketing order regulates the handling
of pecans grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida,
Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas and is authorized by the
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (Act), Secs. 1-19, 48
Stat. 31, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674. The Act permits regulation of
certain agricultural commodities for the purpose of providing orderly
marketing conditions in interstate commerce and to improve returns to
growers. Section 608(d)(1) of the Act provides the Department of
Agriculture (USDA) with the authority to request from the regulated
handlers such information as is deemed necessary to determine the
extent to which a marketing order has effectuated the declared policy
of the Act.
Need and Use of the Information: Collection of this information
enables the Council to calculate assessments owed by each handler.
Gaining the authority to collect nationwide data on pecan inventories,
shipments and foreign deliveries and acquisitions was the primary
reason the U.S. pecan industry approached AMS for a Federal marketing
order.
Description of Respondents: Businesses or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 4,512.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: On occasion.
Total Burden Hours: 1,587.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-04827 Filed 3-8-23; 8:45 am]
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