[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 240 (Thursday, December 13, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74166-74167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30019]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation

Farm Service Agency


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 a revision of a currently approved information collection associated 
with the report of acreage for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 
Program (NAP). The Report of Acreage form is being revised for more 
efficient data entry in Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of 
Agricultural Systems (MIDAS). The producer will also no longer be 
required to provide certain additional information with the form that 
will likely result in a reduction in the burden hours in this 
information collection. This information collection is needed to 
administer the program.

DATES: We will consider comments that we receive by February 11, 2013.

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit comments on this notice. In your 
comments, include date, OMB control number, volume, and page number of 
this issue of the Federal Register. You may submit comments by any of 
the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.

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     Mail: USDA Farm Service Agency, Farm Programs, Production 
Emergencies and Compliance Division, CPS, ATTN: Jantrice Williams, 1400 
Independence Avenue SW., STOP 0517, Washington, DC 20250-0523.
    Also, send comments 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 Williams, (202) 720-3637.

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: March 31, 2015.
    Type of Request: 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.
    Additionally, eligible crops also include floriculture, non-
ornamental nursery, ornamental nursery, ginseng, mushroom, honey, maple 
sap, seaoats, seagrass, industrial crops, Christmas tree crops, 
turfgrass sod, seed crops, and aquaculture (including ornamental fish). 
Specific information is collected from producers on identification of 
the crop (including type and variety), practices, intended uses, 
planting patterns, and predominant species of forage vegetation 
(including intended method of harvest, that is mechanically 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; shares and identities of all producers sharing in the 
crop at the time a NAP application for coverage was filed; 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 bee colonies belonging to the 
unit); aquaculture production (including the name, type, or variety of 
each aquaculture species in a physical location of acreage on which the 
facility resides such as ponds and waterbeds); ornamental nursery 
(including the size and origin, that is 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 in 7 CFR part 1437.
    The ``Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems'' 
(MIDAS) is FSA's initiative to improve the delivery of FSA farm program 
benefits and services through the re-engineering of farm program 
business processes and the adoption of enhanced and modernized 
information technology. FSA is not collecting any new information on 
the FSA-578. However, the Report of Acreage form is being revised for 
more efficient data entry in MIDAS. Producers will no longer be 
required to provide certain additional information with the form that 
will reduce the burden hours in this information collection. The 
producers will only need to report to one county office instead of each 
administrative county office due to MIDAS. Therefore, FSA expects a 
reduction in the annual total burden hours for collection of the 
information.
    Respondents: Producers.
    Estimated of Respondent Burden: Public reporting burden for this 
collection of information is estimated to average 30 minutes (0.50 
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.
    Estimated Annual Responses on Respondents: 437,250.
    Estimate of Total Annual Burden Hours: 510,125.
    We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information 
collection to help us to:
    (1) Determine whether the continued collection of information is 
still necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the FSA, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (2) Assess the accuracy of the FSA's estimate of burden including 
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
    (3) Enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to 
be collected;
    (4) 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 comments 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 the 
Office of Management and Budget approval.

    Signed on November 1, 2012.
Juan M. Garcia,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2012-30019 Filed 12-12-12; 8:45 am]
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