Notice2023-12667
Submission for OMB Review; Reinstatement Comment Request
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Published
June 14, 2023
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Agriculture Department
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 38810]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12667]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Submission for OMB Review; Reinstatement Comment Request
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: (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 these information collections are best assured
of having their full effect if received by July 14, 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 displays
a currently valid OMB control number.
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Title: Irrigation and Water Management Survey (IWMS).
OMB Control Number: 0535-0234.
Summary of Collection: The 2023 Irrigation and Water Management
Survey will mark 44 years of irrigation data collected on water
management practices and water uses in American agriculture. Irrigation
surveys have been conducted since 1974 as supplements to the
quinquennial Censuses of Agriculture. This survey, supplementing basic
irrigation data collected in the census, is conducted on a sample
basis; the survey can provide comprehensive analyses of irrigation,
production, and operator information with less respondent burden and
cost than if this information were gathered as part of a census
collection. The 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey will obtain
data describing the irrigation activities of U.S. farm operations. Some
of these activities are of current National interest, such as the
chemigation, fertigation, and water-conserving uses and practices of
irrigators. The 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey will play
an important part in providing critically needed data to address these
types of issues. The Irrigation Survey is an integral part of the 2022
Census of Agriculture and is conducted every five years under the
authority of the Census of Agriculture Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105-113)
where participation is mandatory. This law requires the Secretary of
Agriculture to conduct a census of agriculture in 2002 and every fifth
year thereafter (prior to 1997 the census was conducted by the
Department of Commerce).
Need and Use of the Information: The primary purpose of this survey
is to provide detail data relating to on-farm irrigation activities for
use in preparing a wide variety of water-related local programs,
economic models, legislative initiatives, market analyses, and
feasibility studies. The Irrigation and Water Management Survey data
are the only data that are complete, consistent, and accurate enough to
be used for bench-marking on-farm irrigation measures over time. The
absence of the Irrigation and Water Management Survey data would
certainly affect irrigation policy decisions. Federal programs,
legislation, and impact studies would instead be subject to greater
uncertainty and error.
Description of Respondents: Farms; business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 35,100.
Frequency of Responses: Reporting: once.
Total Burden Hours: 26,974.
Levi S. Harrell,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-12667 Filed 6-13-23; 8:45 am]
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