[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29833-29834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-11318]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Marketing Service

[Doc. No. AMS-LPS-16-0032]


Request for Revision to and Extension of a Currently Approved 
Information Collection

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice announces the Agricultural Marketing 
Service's (AMS) intention to request approval from the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of and revision to the 
currently approved information collection ``Livestock, Poultry, Meat, 
and Grain Market News Reports'' (0186-0033), which AMS is proposing to 
retitle as the ``Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.''

DATES: Comments received by July 12, 2016.
    Additional Information or Comments: Interested persons are invited 
to submit comments concerning this information collection document. 
Comments should be submitted online at www.regulations.gov or sent to 
Anjeanette Johnson, Market News Reporter; Livestock, Poultry, and Grain 
Market News Division; Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program; 
Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 
Independence Ave. SW., Room 2619-S, STOP 0252; Washington, DC 20250-
0252; telephone (202) 692-0086; fax (202) 690-3732; or email 
[email protected]. All comments should reference the 
docket number (AMS-LPS-16-0032), date, and page number of this issue in 
the Federal Register. All comments received will be posted without 
change, including any personal information provided, online at 
www.regulations.gov and will be made available for public inspection at 
the above physical address during regular business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.
    OMB Number: 0581-0033.
    Expiration Date of Approval: September 30, 2016.
    Type of Request: Revision to and extension of a currently approved 
information collection.
    Abstract: The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, as amended, 7 
U.S.C. 1621-1627, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 
up-to-the-minute nationwide coverage of prices, supply, demands, 
trends, movement, and other pertinent information affecting the trading 
of livestock, poultry, meat, eggs, grain, and their related products, 
as well as locally produced and marketed products. The market reports 
compiled and disseminated by the Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market 
News (LPGMN) Division of AMS' Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program 
provide current, unbiased, and factual information to all stakeholders 
in the U.S. agricultural industry. LPGMN reports assist producers, 
processors, wholesalers, retailers, and others to make informed 
production, purchasing, and sales decisions. LPGMN reports also promote 
orderly marketing by placing buyers and sellers on a more equal 
negotiation basis.
    LPGMN reporters communicate with buyers and sellers of livestock, 
poultry, meat, eggs, grain, local products, and their respective 
commodities on a daily basis to accomplish LPGMN's mission. This 
communication and information gathering is accomplished through the use 
of telephone conversations, facsimile transmissions, face-to-face 
meetings, and email messages. The information provided by respondents 
initiates LPGMN reporting, which must be timely, accurate, unbiased, 
and continuous if it is to be meaningful to the industry. AMS collects 
information on price, supply, demand, trends, movement, and other 
information of livestock, poultry, meat, grain, eggs, local products, 
and their respective commodities. LPGMN uses one OMB approved form, PY-
90: ``Monthly Dried Egg Solids Stocks Report,'' to collect inventory 
information from commercially dried egg product plants throughout the 
U.S. Cooperating firms voluntarily submit this form to LPGMN primarily 
via email and facsimile transmissions.
    This collection was previously titled ``Livestock, Poultry, Meat, 
and Grain Market News Reports'' (0186-0033), and AMS is proposing to 
retitle the collection as ``Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News'' 
collection.

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    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of 
information is estimated to average 0.0600 hours per response.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit and farms.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,990.
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 93.
    Estimated Total Annual Responses: 279,119.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 16,110.
    Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed 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 the burden of the 
proposed collection of information 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 the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.
    All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the 
request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public 
record.

    Dated: May 10, 2016.
Elanor Starmer,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-11318 Filed 5-12-16; 8:45 am]
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