[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 42 (Monday, March 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11383-11384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4015]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation

Farm Service Agency


Information Collection: Report of Acreage, Noninsured Crop 
Disaster Assistance Program

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation and Farm Service Agency, USDA.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) 
are seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations 
on an extension with revision of a currently approved information 
collection associated with the report of acreage for the Noninsured 
Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP). This information collection is 
needed to administer the program.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before May 2, 
2008 to be assured consideration. Comments received after that date 
will be considered to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this Notice. In your 
comments, include volume, date and page of this issue of the Federal 
Register. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
    Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, ATTN: Jantrice Chappell, 
Agriculture Program Specialist, CPS, Farm Programs, Production 
Emergencies and Compliance Division, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 
STOP 0517, Washington, DC 20250-0523.
    E-mail: Send comment to: [email protected].
    Fax: (202) 720-4941.
    Comments also should be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jantrice Chappell, Agriculture Program 
Specialist, (202) 720-3637 and [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection

    Title: Report of Acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster 
Assistance Program (NAP).
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0004.
    Expiration Date: 09/30/2008.
    Type of Request: Extension with revision.
    Abstract: NAP provides financial assistance to producers who have 
suffered a production loss of an eligible crop or were prevented from 
planting an eligible crop as a result of natural disasters. Eligible 
crops are commercial crops or other agricultural commodities for which 
catastrophic risk protection under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b) is not available 
and that are produced for food or fiber and includes floricultural, 
ornamental nursery, and Christmas tree crops, turfgrass sod, seed 
crops, aquaculture (including species, type, variety, etc.), practices, 
intended uses, planting patterns, and predominant species of forage 
vegetation (including intended method of harvest, i.e. mechanically

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harvested or grazed); dates crops were planted or planting was 
completed (including age of perennial crops); number of acres of each 
planting of the eligible crop in which the producer has a share in the 
administrative county; number of acres intended but prevented from 
being planted; zero acres planted when the crop for which a NAP 
application for coverage was filed, is not planted; and shares and 
identities of all producers sharing in the crop at the time a NAP 
application for coverage was filed. Finally, the information collected 
includes the FSA farm serial number or location of commodities not 
necessarily associated with an FSA farm serial number such as colonies 
of bees for honey production (including the number of colonies 
belonging to the unit); ponds and waterbeds for production of 
aquaculture; ornamental nursery (including the size and origin, i.e. 
container or field grown, of plants belonging to the unit); mushroom 
facilities; turfgrass sod (including the average number of square yards 
per acre and all unharvested acres); and trees for maple sap production 
(including number of eligible trees, average size and age of producing 
trees, and total number of taps placed or anticipated for the tapping 
season). NAP operates under the regulations at 7 CFR part 1437.
    The revision is to correct the average time to complete the form 
that increases the total number of burden hours in this information 
collection.
    Respondents: Producers.
    Estimated of Respondent Burden: Public reporting burden for this 
collection of information is estimated to average 45 minutes (.75 hour) 
per response. The average travel time, which is included in the total 
burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per respondent.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 291,500.
    Estimated Annual Number of Forms per person: 1.5.
    Estimate of Total Annual Burden: 619,438.
    Comments Are Invited on:
    (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.
    All responses received in response to this notice, including names 
and addresses, when provided, will be a matter of public record. 
Comments will be summarized and included in the submission for Office 
of Management and Budget approval.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2008.
Teresa C. Lasseter,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-4015 Filed 2-29-08; 8:45 am]
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