[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 29 (Monday, February 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 5372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2928]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency


Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved 
Information Collection

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as 
amended, this notice announces the Farm Service Agency's intention to 
request an extension for and revision to a currently approved 
information collection in support of Eminent Domain Acquisitions.

DATE: Comments on this notice must be received on or before April 12, 
1996, to be assured consideration.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR COMMENTS: Contact Earline J. Brown, 
Agricultural Program Specialist, Compliance and Production Adjustment 
Division, USDA, FSA, P.O. Box 2415, Washington, DC 20013, (202) 690-
4501.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Eminent Domain Acquisitions: Reallocating Allotments, 
Quotas, and Bases.
    OMB Number: 0560-0033.
    Expiration of Approval Date: February 29, 1996.
    Type of Request: Extension of a Currently Approved Information 
Collection.
    Abstract: The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
sections 377 and 378, pages 12-6 through 12-8 of the Compilation of 
Statutes, provides for pooling and transferring of allotments for any 
commodity for any land from which the owner is displaced because of 
acquisition of the land by any Federal, State or local agency having 
the power of eminent domain. An acquisition, with respect to land, is a 
taking, under the power of eminent domain by a Federal, State, or other 
agency of: title to land, an impoundment easement on land, or a flowage 
easement on land. An owner is considered displaced from a farm acquired 
under the eminent domain power exercised by the Federal, State, or 
local agency.
    The eminent domain pool is a reverse of allotments, quotas, bases, 
and irrigated acreage maximum (IAM's) for the base years, held for 
displaced owners for transfer to other farms they own or purchase. The 
information is manually recorded on ASCS-177 (Record of Pooled Farm 
Allotment, Quota or CAB and IAM) and ASCS-178 (Application for Transfer 
of Allotment, Quota or CAB and IAM from Pool), by county office 
employees from county office records and from information obtained from 
the displaced owner. The information is used when transferring the 
allotment, quota, base, or IAM's at the displaced owner's request, to 
other land owned or acquired by the displaced owner within 3 years of 
the date of the owner's displacement.
    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average one-half hour per response.
    Respondents: These collections are used by farms and not small 
businesses.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 2.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 3,000 hours.
    Comments regarding (a) whether the proposed collection of 
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions 
of the agency, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) 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 may be sent to the Desk 
Officer for Agriculture, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 and to Earline J. 
Brown, Agricultural Program Specialist, Compliance and Production 
Adjustment Division, Farm Service Agency, USDA, P.O. Box 2415, 
Washington, DC 20013-2415; telephone (202) 690-4501. Copies of the 
information collection may be obtained from Earline J. Brown at the 
above address.
    All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the 
request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of 
public record.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on February 5, 1996.
Bruce R. Weber,
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 96-2928 Filed 2-9-96; 8:45 am]
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