[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 96 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27216-27217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12998]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Farm Service Agency


Notice of Request for Extension and Revision 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, this 
notice announces the intention of the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to 
request an extension for and revision to an information collection 
currently approved in support of farm reconstitutions.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before July 18, 
1997 to be assured consideration.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR COMMENTS: Contact Loretta Baxa, Agricultural

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Program Specialist, Compliance and Production Adjustment Division, 
USDA/ FSA/CPAD STOP 0517, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, 
D.C. 20250-0517; telephone (202) 720-7602.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    Title: Provisions Applicable to Multiple Programs, Farm 
Reconstitutions.
    OMB Number: 0560-0025.
    Expiration Date: August 31, 1997.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Abstract: The information collected under Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) Number 0560-0025, as identified above, is needed to enable 
the FSA to effectively administer the programs relating to 
reconstitution of farms, allotments, quotas, and acreages governed by 
regulations at 7 CFR part 718.
    Form FSA-155 is used as a request for farm reconstitution initiated 
by the producer who wishes to combine a farm with another farm or 
divide a farm into multiple farming operations. The reconstitution 
process is a required procedure when a producer wishes to increase 
acreage attributed to the farm from leases or change farm acreage 
records as a result of a sale of any part of a farm. The FSA county 
committee must act on all proposed farm reconstitutions and issue their 
approval or disapproval on FSA-155. It is necessary to collect the 
information recorded on FSA-155 to determine farmland, cropland, 
agricultural use land, and changes to contract acreages resulting from 
combination or division of the farming operation.
    Respondents: Farm owners and operators.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 359,921.
    Estimated Number of Reports Filed per person: 1.
    Estimated Average Time to Respond: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 89,980 hours.
    Proposed topics for comments include: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including 
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be 
collected; or (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of 
appropriate automated, electric, mechanical, or other technological 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology. 
Comments should be sent to Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
Washington, D. C. 20503 and to Loretta Baxa, Agricultural Program 
Specialist, Compliance and Production Adjustment Division, USDA/FSA/
CPAD STOP 0517, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-
0517; telephone (202) 720-7602.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on May 12, 1997.
Bruce R. Weber,
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 97-12998 Filed 5-16-97; 8:45 am]
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