[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 153 (Thursday, August 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48411-48412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19016]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Farm Service Agency

Commodity Credit Corporation


Information Collection; Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 
Program

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

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Farm Service Agency and the Commodity Credit Corporation are seeking 
comments from all interested individuals and organizations on an 
extension with a revision of a currently approved information 
collection in support of the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance 
Program (NAP). The information collected is needed from producers to 
determine eligibility for NAP assistance.

DATES: We will consider comments that we receive by October 7, 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 www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Daniel McGlynn, Acting Division Director, 
Production, Emergencies, and Compliance Division, Farm Service Agency, 
USDA, Mail Stop 0517, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 
20250-0517.
    You may 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: Terry Hill, Section Head, Crop 
Disaster Section, Disaster Assistance Branch, (202) 720-3087.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Information Collection

    Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.
    OMB Control Number: 0560-0175.
    Expiration Date: January 31, 2014.
    Type of Request: Extension with a revision
    Abstract: NAP is authorized under 7 U.S.C. 7333 and implemented 
under regulations issued at 7 CFR Part 1437. NAP is administered under 
the general supervision of the Executive Vice-President of CCC (who 
also serves as Administrator, FSA), and is carried out by FSA State and 
County committees. The information collected allows CCC to provide 
assistance under NAP for losses of commercial crops or other 
agricultural commodities (except livestock) for which catastrophic risk 
protection under 7 U.S.C 1508(b) is not available, and that are 
produced for food or fiber.
    Additionally, NAP provides assistance for losses of floriculture, 
ornamental nursery, Christmas tree crops, turfgrass sod, seed crops, 
aquaculture (including ornamental fish), sea oats and sea grass, and 
industrial crops. The information collected is necessary to determine 
whether a producer and crop or commodity meet applicable conditions for 
assistance and to determine compliance with existing rules. Eligible 
producers must annually: (1) Request NAP coverage by completing an 
application for coverage and paying a service fee by the CCC-
established application closing date; (2) file a report of acreage, 
inventory, or physical location of the operation, as applicable for the 
covered crop or commodity; and (3) certify harvested production of each 
covered crop or commodity. When damage to a covered crop or commodity 
occurs, producers must file a notice of loss with the local FSA 
administrative county office within 15 calendar days of occurrence or 
15 calendar days of the date damage to the crop or commodity becomes 
apparent. Producers must also file an application for payment by the 
CCC established deadline, and complete a certification of average 
adjusted gross income and consent for disclosure of tax information 
with the local FSA County office.
    Web modernization projects delivered in fiscal years 2012 and 2013 
enabled NAP applications on the web. The NAP applications were enhanced 
to retrieve data from acreage reporting software to reduce manual data 
entry errors, and prohibit a payment from being issued without an 
acreage report on file. The NAP applications provide a timelier, more 
accurate, and more reliable delivery of benefits to producers. The 
Notice of Loss form was revised for more efficient data entry in the 
Web-enabled environment. Producers are no longer required to provide 
certain additional information with the form and are no longer required 
to file multiple Notices of Loss when multiple crops are affected by 
the same disaster event. Therefore, FSA expects a reduction in the 
annual total burden hours for collection of the information.
    Estimated Burden: Public reporting burden for this information 
collection is estimated to average 1.33 hours per response. The average 
travel time, which is included in the total annual burden, is estimated 
to be 1 hour per respondent.
    Type of Respondents: Producers of commercial crops or other 
agricultural commodities (except livestock).
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 291,500.
    Estimated Annual Number of Forms Filed per Respondent: 3.
    Estimated Total Number of Responses: 1,526,402.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,031,830.
    We are requesting comments on all aspects of this information 
collection to help us to:
    (1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of the functions of FSA, including whether the 
information will have practical utility;
    (2) Evaluate the accuracy of 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 responses to this notice, including name and addresses when 
provided,

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will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All 
comments will also become a matter of public record.

    Signed on July 26, 2013.
Juan M. Garcia,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation, and 
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. 2013-19016 Filed 8-7-13; 8:45 am]
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